Claudia Flowers

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On August 16, 2007, Questex Media Group announced that Claudia Flowers will join the company as executive vice president of corporate development effective August 27, 2007. In this role, Ms. Flowers will be responsible for corporate development activities, which include acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. She will be based in Questex's New York office.

Prior to joining Questex, Claudia Flowers was executive vice president of American Business Media, the association for business information companies. In this position, Ms. Flowers was responsible for bringing in over 170 new member companies growing total membership by over 50%. She also was responsible for the professional development group and expanding the reach of the association globally.

Ms. Flowers is a veteran of the business media industry, having held senior-level executive positions at The McGraw-Hill Companies, The Thomson Corporation, and Wolters Kluwer Health.

Before joining ABM, Ms. Flowers was CFO for the Medical Research Group, a division of Wolters Kluwer, a global subscription-based information services company which provides information tools for professionals in print and online.

Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, she was V.P. and Associate Managing Director for The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc., where she participated in numerous M&A deals and oversaw the investment bank's advertising and marketing efforts. Prior to that, she was V.P. of Finance for The Thomson Corporation. Ms. Flowers spent a large part of her career at The McGraw-Hill Companies, where she rose to V.P. of Operations for the Information Technology & Communications Group.

A former chairman of ABM's Strategic Finance and Operations Committee and member of the Business Press Educational Foundation and Marketing Committees, Claudia Flowers holds a B.A. degree from Fordham University. She completed the Advanced Leadership Forum at the Media Management Center at Northwestern University.