David Kieselstein

JANUARY 30, 2012 – Penton Media announced that David Kieselstein, previously Chief Executive Officer of TNS North America, has been named Chief Executive Officer of Penton Media. "Since 2008, Mr. Kieselstein has served as Chief Executive Officer of TNS North America, a division of WPP and the world’s largest custom market research company,which provides high-quality market research insights to Fortune 500 clients in virtually all industries. During his tenure at TNS, he embarked on a full transformation of the company’s operations, which resulted in a significant improvement in profitability across TNS’ broad offering, including innovation, brand and communications, retail and shopper, and stakeholder management practices. He also drove a significant increase in employee satisfaction to the highest level of all TNS regions globally.

"From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Kieselstein led Dun & Bradstreet’s Small Business Division, the company’s largest and fastest growing division. While at D&B, Mr. Kieselstein integrated three distinct operations into a single, customer-centric business unit, and he launched several new product suites that accelerated overall performance. He also served as a member of the company’s Global Leadership Board.

"Kieselstein spent the majority of his career at with Time Warner where he served in a range of key leadership roles. As Chief Executive of the Parenting Media Group, he repositioned the Parenting brand, resulting in 30% revenue growth and the unseating of the long time category leader within 18 months. In addition, Parenting was awarded the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the industry’s top honor. As President and Chief Executive of the Personal Finance Media Group, Kieselstein created a partnership with CNN that resulted in the creation of CNNMoney, one of the world’s most successful personal finance web properties. Earlier in his career, he also held a number of marketing management positions at FORTUNE Magazine, and launched Time Inc.’s centralized direct marketing and database division. Mr. Kieselstein holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he serves on their Alumni Board. He received his BA in Economics from Binghamton University. ""