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McGraw-Hill Home Interactive Appoints John Koronaios as New Vice President of Sales Koronaios builds strong sales force as children's multimedia titles near fall ship dates
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. August 27, 1996: McGraw-Hill Home Interactive (MHHI) today announced that John Koronaios has been appointed as vice president of sales and worldwide distribution. Koronaios' responsibilities include establishing the MHHI sales force, developing partnerships with retailers and distributors and creating a strong distribution network both nationally and internationally. Koronaios' sales efforts are for McGraw-Hill Home Interactive's four new children's multimedia titles, Dr. Sulfur's Night Lab™, The Fennels Figure Math™, Pony Express Rider™, and Pyramid: Challenge of the Pharaoh's Dream™. These titles will be available on store shelves in November '96 for Windows 95®, and in the first quarter of 1997 for the Apple®Macintosh®.
"Koronaios' extensive sales and retail channel expertise with consumer multimedia products positions us to develop an effective distribution network for our titles," said Bill Nisen, president of McGraw-Hill Home Interactive. "Koronaios will focus on major computing and retail software distributors and consumer electronics stores, allowing MHHI to gain a strong presence in these outlets."
Koronaios joins MHHI from IBM Multimedia Studio, where he served as vice president of sales. In this role, he was responsible for all aspects of sales operations and developed a concise network of sales managers and rep organizations for the IBM consumer software division. Prior to this, he was vice president of sales for Sony Electronic Publishing Company, where he managed sales for all PC CD-ROM and video game products and worked with Sony Computer Entertainment helping to launch the Sony PlayStation. Koronaios has also held positions at Capcom USA, Inc. (Nintendo Division), Timeworks, Inc. and Wherehouse Entertainment, Inc.
MHHI has recently moved from 255 Shoreline Drive, Suite 650 in Redwood City, Calif. 94065 to 601 Gateway Blvd., So. San Francisco, Calif.
94080. Its new contact numbers are 415/829-6200 (phone) and 415/615-9085 (fax).
Established in 1995, McGraw-Hill Home Interactive (http://www.mhhi.com) is based in South San Francisco, Calif. The division is dedicated to publishing original consumer multimedia titles that equally emphasize education and entertainment in core subject areas such as science, math, social studies and language arts. MHHI's titles, targeted to children 8 to 14, engage their imaginations and stimulate their minds with entertaining narratives, while making parents comfortable with the educational value and proven experience of McGraw-Hill. McGraw-Hill Home Interactive is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. The McGraw-Hill Companies, founded in 1888, is a leading information services organization serving worldwide markets in education, business, finance, the professions and government. Revenues in 1995 exceeded $2.9 billion.
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