DALLAS, TX — April 14, 2008 — Epsilon, 21st-century marketing services company, today announced the appointment of Sally Cates as Executive Vice President, Strategic Communications. Cates will oversee company-wide strategic communications, public relations and thought leadership, reporting to Steve Cone, Chief Marketing Officer at Epsilon.
"Sally has extensive experience designing and executing strategic communications programs at major corporations. She has a proven ability to lead high-profile initiatives, communicating targeted messages to key constituencies," said Cone. "Sally will be instrumental in telling the Epsilon business story during this period of exciting transformation and growth for our company."
Prior to joining Epsilon, Cates was Managing Director, Head of External Communications for Thomson Financial, a leading financial information and technology company. Before that, Cates worked at Citigroup for 11 years, most recently as Managing Director and Head of Global Communications at Citigroup Wealth Management.
About Epsilon
Epsilon is the industry's leading marketing services firm. Ad Age ranks
Epsilon #1 U.S. Marketing Services Firm and #1 U.S. Direct Marketing
Agency. Services include strategic consulting, database and loyalty
technology, proprietary data, predictive modeling and a full range of
creative and interactive services including brand and promotional
development, web design, email deployment, search engine optimization
and direct mail production. In addition, Epsilon is the world's largest
permission-based email marketer. Epsilon is an Alliance Data company.
For more information, visit www.epsilon.com or call 1.800.309.0505.
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