Two new Vice-Presidents join Reader’s Digest

Montreal, August 9th  2011 - Reader’s Digest is delighted to welcome to its Senior Management Team Ray Philipose as the new Vice President Integrated Solutions and Digital and Marie-Josée Tessier as the new Vice President Consumer Marketing. 

Ray's experience in digital product development and advertising sales strategy will bring tremendous value and is perfectly aligned with the organization’s strategy of growth for its multi-brand, multi-platform advertising sales and digital businesses. Ray has been certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Queen's University. He brings more than 12 years of experience in digital media, both in strategic and operational roles. He was most recently at Canwest Digital as Vice President, Strategy and Product Development, and prior to that, he was Director of Media Operations at Sympatico / MSN.

As Vice President Consumer Marketing, Marie-Josée brings close to 20 years of experience in marketing and has utilized her talents on both the client and agency sides of business for a variety of leading national brands including Fido, Molson Coors and the National Bank of Canada. Having graduated from Concordia University, Marie-Josée’s exceptional contributions in the industry have earned her several national and international awards. She brings to the organization a unique combination of experience in branding, product management, partnership development, strategic recommendations and relationship marketing that aptly positions her to lead the Marketing team.

“We are extremely proud to have this caliber of talent join Reader’s Digest,” stated Tony Cioffi, President and CEO of Reader’s Digest Association. “Our business evolves quickly and our strategy to develop a multi-brand, multi-platform approach has already proved us right. With Ray and Marie-Josée, we will be even more prepared for the next development phase of our business.”

About Reader’s Digest
Reader’s Digest is a leading Canadian multi-brand media and marketing company that educates, entertains and inspires, connecting audiences throughout Canada. It publishes five magazines, including Reader’s Digest and Sélection, Canada's most read magazines with 6.8 million readers a month. In 2008, it launched Best Health, a healthy lifestyle magazine for Canadian women and More of Our Canada, a companion magazine to the very popular Our Canada magazine. Along with being a premier publisher of books, music and video products, it operates a network of branded websites in Canada, including readersdigest.ca, selection.ca, ourcanada.ca, besthealthmag.ca, plaisirssante.ca, allrecipes.ca, allrecipes.qc.ca and tasteofhome.com.