Background on Liz Stott and Penton Media
Liz LaPorte Stott graduated from Miami University (Oxford, OH) in 1982 with a B.S. in Business Administration & Marketing. With 25 years of publishing/media experience serving clients in the High Tech, Medical and Industrial Manufacturing markets, she is passionate about creating imaginative marketing programs that position her clients as Thought Leaders and help them generate top notch Sales Results.
After building a sales foundation in the office equipment business, Liz moved on to her passion for advertising and its' powerful, positive impact on business. Launching her ad sales career with Chilton Company, she spent 14 years in serving the high-tech electronics market in New England. Since 1997, she has been with Penton Media, representing a portfolio of engineering publication audiences - Machine Design, Motion System Design, Medical Design and Energy Efficiency & Technology. Her collaborative, energetic approach and knowledge of traditional and new (online, social networking, etc) media as well as content-based educational marketing, helps her create and suggest marketing for her clients that are unique, strategic and sales-results oriented.
Founded in 1886, Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. Penton's objective is to connect and enhance business communities, helping the customers we serve to grow through our market-leading media products and services.
The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 96 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Penton has 30 office locations and employs more than 1,600 editors, publishers, sales representatives, marketers, and other professionals.
Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors.