Daniel Amparan Promoted to Managing Director of Pyramid Research

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid Research announced today the promotion of Daniel Amparan, a veteran telecom research and service-provider business-development executive, to Managing Director of the leading telecom market analysis and consulting company focused on emerging markets around the world.  Pyramid Research, along with Heavy Reading, comprise the research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network.

Formerly Vice President of Business Development for Pyramid Research, Daniel will now be responsible for managing Pyramid to better leverage its expertise in advising global organizations in the communications, media and technology industries on growth and emerging-market and service opportunities.  Prior to joining Pyramid, Daniel played a leading role in the international expansion of Telmex where he worked in its International and Corporate Development Divisions.  Daniel also has years of management consulting and global investment banking experience, having worked for McKinsey and Co. in Mexico City and Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.

Light Reading also announced that Todd Marquez has been promoted to Group Director of Cable and Mobile, and will be responsible for driving Light Reading's industry, association, and carrier relationships into the cable and mobile spaces. Previously Marquez was Publisher/Cable and before Light Reading was publisher of CED Magazine.

"The promotions of Daniel and Todd to their new positions are critical moves to help Light Reading focus on the amazing growth opportunities in the communications media and research business in the US and in emerging markets around the world," said Joe Braue, Executive Vice President of the Light Reading Communications Network. "Daniel and Todd will be bringing together our research, online, and event capabilities to give carrier executives the vital content they need and provide access to these key service provider leaders to the industry that serves them."

For more information about Light Reading Communications Network or Pyramid Research, please visit www.lightreading.com and www.pyramidresearch.com.

About Pyramid Research

Pyramid Research (www.pyr.com) offers practical solutions to the complex demands our clients face in the telecommunications, media and technology industries. Our analysis is uniquely positioned at the intersection of emerging markets, emerging technologies and emerging business models, powered by the bottom-up methodology of our market forecasts for over 100 countries - a distinction that has remained unmatched for more than 25 years. As the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network, Pyramid Research works with Heavy Reading, providing the communications industry's most comprehensive market data, trusted research and insightful technology analysis.

About Light Reading Communications Network (www.lightreading.com)

Founded in 2000, the Light Reading Communications Network is the world's leading research-led integrated media company serving the global communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for technological and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading's research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the most comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces nearly 20 targeted communications events including TelcoTV, and TelcoTV Asia, Ethernet Expo New York and Ethernet Europe, and The Tower Summit @ CTIA, as well as focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives in the US, Europe, India, and China. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About UBM TechWeb (www.ubmtechweb.com)

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its three core businesses – media solutions, marketing services and paid content – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web & Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively engage in UBM TechWeb's communities and information resources monthly. UBM TechWeb brands includes: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and Enterprise Connect; award-winning online resources such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and market-leading magazines InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, and Advanced Trading. UBM TechWeb is a UBM company, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

About United Business Media Limited (www.ubm.com)

UBM (LSE: UBM) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities – from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists – with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.ubm.com/.

SOURCE Light Reading Communications Network