PRNewswire Names New CEO

PRNewswire has named Ninan Chacko as the company’s next CEO, to coincide with the planned retirement of current CEO Charles Gregson.

Chacko was previously Chief Commercial Officer of Worldspan, a travel information, e-commerce and technology service provider. According to PRWeek, Chacko said continuing growing MultiVu’s multimedia news release (MNR) offerings and overall global company expansion will be two primary areas of focus.

Chacko will report directly to David Levin, Chief Executive Officer of United Business Media, PR Newswire’s parent company.

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