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Avenue100 competes with businesses that provide lead generation products or services into the educational services
markets and ones that develop web properties and interactive marketing programs to optimize yield in the recruiting field.
The largest lead generation competitors include Quinstreet, EducationDynamics and CollegeBound.
The magazine industry is highly competitive, both within itself and with other advertising media, including Internet-based
media, that compete for audience and advertising revenue.
Executive Officers
The executive officers of the Company, each of whom is elected annually by the Board of Directors, are as follows:
Donald E. Graham, age 64, has been Chairman of the Board of the Company since September 1993 and Chief
Executive Officer of the Company since May 1991. Mr. Graham served as President of the Company from May 1991
until September 1993 and prior to that had been a Vice President of the Company for more than five years. Mr. Graham
also served as Publisher of The Washington Post from 1979 until September 2000 and as Chairman of the Post from
September 2000 to February 2008.
Veronica Dillon, age 60, became Senior Vice President in June 2008 and the Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary of the Company in January 2007. Ms. Dillon began her career with the Company in February 1991 as
corporate counsel at Kaplan, Inc. She was subsequently named General Counsel at Kaplan in June 1995 and then
served as Kaplan’s Chief Administrative Officer beginning in December 2003.
Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., age 63, became Vice Chairman of the Company and Chairman of The Washington Post in
February 2008. Mr. Jones joined The Washington Post in 1980 as Vice President and counsel. In 1995, he became
President and General Manager and was named Associate Publisher in January 2000. In September 2000, he
succeeded Donald Graham as Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of The Washington Post.
Hal S. Jones, age 57, became Senior Vice President–Finance of the Company in November 2008 and Chief Financial
Officer in January 2009. He had most recently been Chief Executive Officer of Kaplan Professional, responsible for
Kaplan’s professional businesses in financial services, real estate, technology and engineering in the United States and
the United Kingdom. Mr. Jones has spent 20 years at The Washington Post Company and Kaplan, serving in a variety of
senior management positions with a focus on finance, auditing and accounting.
Ann L. McDaniel, age 54, became Senior Vice President–Human Resources of the Company in June 2008 and was
formerly Vice President–Human Resources since September 2001. She also serves as Managing Director of Newsweek,
Inc., a position she assumed in January 2008. Ms. McDaniel had previously served as Senior Director of Human
Resources of the Company since January 2001 and before that held various editorial positions at Newsweek.
Gerald M. Rosberg, age 63, became Senior Vice President–Planning and Development of the Company in June 2008
and was formerly Vice President–Planning and Development since February 1999. He had previously served as Vice
President–Affiliates at The Washington Post, a position he assumed in November 1997. Mr. Rosberg joined the
Company in January 1996 as the Post‘s Director of Affiliate Relations.
Wallace R. Cooney, age 47, became Vice President–Finance and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company in June
2008. Mr. Cooney joined the Company in 2001 as Controller and prior to that had been with Gannett Co., Inc. and
Price Waterhouse LLP.
Employees
The Company and its subsidiaries employ approximately 21,500 persons on a full-time basis.
Worldwide, Kaplan employs approximately 15,000 persons on a full-time basis. Kaplan also employs substantial
numbers of part-time employees who serve in instructional and administrative capacities. During peak seasonal periods,
Kaplan’s part-time workforce exceeds 19,000 employees. In Canada, 39 Kaplan employees are represented by a
union.
Cable ONE has approximately 2,341 full-time employees, none of whom is represented by a union.
WP Company has approximately 2,058 full-time employees. About 1,137 of that unit’s full-time employees and
about 308 part-time employees are represented by one or another of five unions. Collective bargaining agreements are
currently in effect with locals of the following unions covering the full-time and part-time employees and expiring on the
dates indicated: 945 editorial, newsroom and commercial department employees represented by the Communications
Workers of America (June 7, 2011); 29 machinists represented by the International Association of Machinists
(January 10, 2011); 16 photoengravers-platemakers represented by the Graphic Communications Conference of the
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