Norman, OK. - January 12, 2010 - Responding to growing demand for its iMap® innovative weather mapping solutions for local media businesses, meteorological science leader Weather Decision Technologies (WDT) has appointed Vincent Perez, a 25 year Broadcast sales veteran to be the company's new Director of Business Development/New Media. As such, he will be responsible for expanding WDT's profile among local television, radio and newspaper/magazine publishing sales accounts across the continental United States for online, on-air and on-the-go mobile weather solutions.
Vince will work with existing customers in the television and radio industry and will focus on empowering local media organizations to benefit from iMap, WDT's dynamic, ad-based interactive mapping solutions.
"Vince brings a successful track record having worked in both radio and television sales management with companies such as McGavren Guild Radio, ABC, CBS, Entercom and Clear Channel," said Mike Eilts, CEO of WDT. "More recently, Vince was VP/Director of Sales for an Internet Media Exchange company, 3clickdirectories.com, that he co-owned and has held senior management positions with MyWeather, Inc., and HipCricket, the mobile marketing company. We are very excited about the expertise Vince brings to WDT," said Eilts.
"I am delighted to be joining WDT at a time when its iMap solution for local media businesses is really taking off," said Perez. "There is no other product out there that offers the same rich array of powerful solutions for local media, displayed on a dynamic, location-sensitive, ad revenue-generating, interactive map."
Vince currently resides in Milwaukee and is a Chicago native.