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Nielsen Business Media CEO Krakoff Passes Away at 71

NEW YORK Bob Krakoff, president and CEO of Adweek parent Nielsen Business Media, died suddenly last Thursday in his apartment in Boston. He was 71. Krakoff spent more than 30 years building a distinguished career leading successful publishing and exposition businesses. He joined Nielsen Business Media in August 2006 from his post as chairman and CEO of Blantyre Partners, a strategic management and investment company working in association with The Blackstone Group in the area of business-to-business media.

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