Summit Professional Networks
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| Industry | Media, Conference planning |
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| Fate | Acquired by ALM |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Erlanger, Kentucky |
Key people | Steve Weitzner, President and CEO |
| Products | Magazines, Events, and Internet media |
Number of employees | 300+ |
| Website |
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Summit Professional Networks is a business-to-business (B2B) media and information company serving the insurance, investments, employee benefits, global mining and professional services markets. The company was formed in 2006 through acquisitions of media assets. Summit Professional Networks currently owns assets purchased from many media companies, including The National Underwriter Company, Thomson Media, Bloomberg, Adams Business Media, Wicks Business Information, Agent Media, and WiesnerMedia. The company publishes 16 magazines and 150 reference titles. It also operates 20 websites and hosts a dozen conferences.[1]
Summit employs over 300 employees working in ten different locations across the United States. The company is split up into four divisions: Media, Event, Reference, and Data. Summit Business Media is a privately owned company that exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2011, as ownership was assumed by its major creditors, including EOS Partners and GE Capital.[2]
In February 2012 Summit named Steve Weitzner as the new president and CEO. Weitzer previously served as CEO of Ziff Davis Enterprise for four years before coming to Summit and has more than 30 years of experience in the B2B media industry.[3] In 2013, the name was changed from Summit Business Media to Summit Professional Networks.[4]
In 2015, Summit was acquired by ALM.[5]
Board Members
• Charlie McCurdy, former CEO of Canon Communications and current CEO of GLM Holdings
• David Nussbaum, current F+W Media chairman and CEO
• Jason Young, former Ziff-Davis CEO
• Jean Clifton, former EVP and CFO of Penton Media and CEO of Reader's Digest
Key Executives
• Steve Weitzner, President and CEO
• Brian Magnotta, Chief Information Officer
• Peter Westerman, Chief Audience Officer
• Jonathan Moore, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Event Division
• Richard Kravitz, Vice President and Managing Director, Professional Publishing Division
Company Divisions
Media
The Media Division consists of four market groups: Life & Health, Property & Casualty, Investment Advisory, and Professional Services. Each sector produces a variety of publications.
The Life & Health Group publishes Life Insurance Selling, National Underwriter Life & Health, ProducersWEB.com, Senior Market Advisor and LifeHealthPro.com. The online home for the life and health group, LifeHealthPro.com, is an online source for life and health insurance advisors, designed to provide elements needed to run a practice and increase bottom line.[6] ProducersWEB.com provides online content, information, and services to the insurance and financial services industry.
The Employee Benefits Group publishes Benefits Selling, BenefitsPro.com, and FreeErisa. BenefitsPro.com provides information for benefits brokers, managers, and retirement advisors. FreeErisa.com is an employee benefits and retirement resource.
The Property & Casualty Group publishes American Agent & Broker, Claims, National Underwriter Property & Casualty, Tech Decisions, and PropertyCasualty360.com. PropertyCasualty360.com provides property and casualty news, analysis, trends, and industry activity that allows professionals to understand and react to market challenges.[7]
The Investment Advisory Group publishes AdvisorOne.com, Investment Advisor, and Research. AdvisorOne.com is an online source of news, analysis, market data, tools, and networking opportunities for advisors to transform their business.[8]
The Professional Services Group publishes Credit Union Times, Futures, InsideCounsel, and Treasury & Risk. InsideCounsel provides tools for general counsel to manage legal departments and understand business risks.[9] Credit Union Times is a source for breaking news and analysis for credit union leaders.[10] Treasury & Risk provides updates on trends, best practices, and tools for the future of finance and treasury.[11] Futures provides news, analysis, education, trading strategies and ideas for futures, commodities, options, forex (currency) and stock traders.[12]
Events
The Events Division hosts a dozen conferences each year for the insurance, banking, legal, professional, mining and natural resources customers. These are hosted in various locations across the United States and internationally.
Conferences for the Insurance, Banking, Accounting, Financial Services, and Professional Services Industries:[13]
Super Conference: A conference for in-house counsel.
Bank & Capital Markets Tax Institute: A source for tax information for professionals in banking and financial services industries.
Treasury & Risk Alexander Hamilton Awards and Best Practices Summit: An award that recognizes excellence and innovation in treasury management.
Advisor Summit: Designed for independent advisors seeking practical guidance for growth.
Executive Conferences for the Property-Casualty and Life Insurance Industries: Forum for C-Level executives to explore opportunities and challenges in the life and property-casualty insurance industry.
America’s Claims Event: A conference and expo for claims professionals seeking solutions to modernize claims processing.
Benefits Selling Expo: An educational and networking event for employee benefits brokers and agents.
Life Settlement Summit: Examines settlement trends, regulatory developments and strategic opportunities.
Retirement Income Symposium: Provides practical, innovative solutions to challenges and provide advisors clear, actionable strategies that they can utilize to address their clients’ needs.
Mining International Investment Conferences:[14]
Mining Indaba: The world’s largest mining trade show, held in Cape Town, SA for mining companies, financiers, and government agencies.
Hard Assets: Conferences in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco for investors in junior mining companies.
References
The Reference Division offers hundreds of different titles and services including tax and financial planning, property and casualty tools and resources, training, and sales management systems.[15]
Data
The Data Division includes: Marketing Data Group including Agent Media Data, a database of life, health and annuity producers; Kirschner’s, an agent source book with a 250,000 p/c agent list by state; Judy Diamond Associates, the leading provider of health, wealfare and pension data for financial services and corporate markets; and FreeErisa.
References
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- ↑ Summit Business Media Reorganizes, Changes Name
- ↑ Alpert, Lukas I. (2015-01-05). "Legal Publisher ALM to Acquire Summit Professional Networks". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
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