Sean Griffey was named President of FierceMarkets in late 2008. In this role, he sets the strategic direction and has overall responsibility for the performance of the company.

Sean joined Fierce in 2005 to help the company meet the challenges created by rapid growth. As the Chief Operating Officer he was responsible for overseeing the Finance, IT, and Shared Services operations, and also served as publisher of the Life Science group.

Prior to joining FierceMarkets, Sean spent nearly ten years as a strategic consultant for A.T. Kearney and PricewaterhouseCoopers. In this role, he participated in a broad spectrum of strategy, operations, and M&A engagements for senior executive clients in the telecommunications, financial services, industrial, and media & entertainment sectors. Sean has an M.B.A. from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Economics from Penn State University.

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Maurice drives the growth of FierceMarkets through innovation in the areas of audience acquisition, technology development and marketing solutions, with a particular focus on building the company's lead generation capabilities and performance marketing revenues. In addition, he oversees the company's three fast-growing publishing groups of Healthcare, Enterprise IT and Finance.

Before joining FierceMarkets, Maurice served as VP, Internet Publishing, for PostNewsweek Tech Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of the The Washington Post Company dedicated to the government technology market. In this role, he led the company's Internet business growth through the creation of new products and strategic management of ad operations, business development, technology and content. Prior to his time with PostNewsweek, Maurice spent 6 years in Europe working in B2B media and coordinating the successful launch of Poland's first Standard & Poor's-rated mutual fund, Skarbiec Kasa.

Maurice earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in International Relations and German from Tufts University. He is self-taught to fluency in Polish, German and French.

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An expert in B2B digital media sales, Ryan has been with the company since 2003. He helped grow our successful wireless and telecom division, consulting clients on integrated campaigns utilizing our newsletter, web, event and custom products.

Ryan is in charge of managing and growing the FierceMarkets sales operation, and helps the sales team build campaigns and products that serve our clients' needs. Ryan graduated from Penn State with a B.S. in Finance and International Business. He lives in Durham, NC with his wife Kate and yellow lab Maggie and in his free time, enjoys playing basketball and golf.

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Jason oversees FierceMarkets' sales organization and helps foster key client relationships and industry partnerships. Since joining the company in December 2001, he has pioneered our successful selling system, built our ten-person sales team from the ground up, and helped develop several of our most successful brands and revenue sources.

Prior to joining FierceMarkets, Jason sold IT solutions for CDW and recruited college marketing teams for VarsityBooks.com. He began his career at a radio station in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he developed innovative marketing solutions for advertisers.

A graduate of Grand Valley State University with a B.S. in Marketing, Jason is active in his local alumni association and plays on a Congressional softball league team.

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Heather Cox brings more than eight years of strategic communications experience to the FierceMarkets team. Since joining the company in February 2005, she has lead the expansion of our events business while also managing our PR efforts.

Previously, Heather was with the DC office of Porter Novelli, a global PR and communications firm, where she worked on a number of high-profile healthcare and pharmaceutical accounts. Prior to that, she spent a number of years working with both private and public sector clients planning events and building strategic communications campaigns. She received a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Sociology from St. Lawrence University.

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