RAY SCHULTZ-Editorial Director
Ray Schultz is editorial director for Penton Media’s Marketing Media Strategies group. He is responsible for Direct, Multichannel Merchant, Promo and Chief Marketer. Ray started covering direct marketing as a reporter in 1981, and later served as editor of both Direct and DM News. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, National Lampoon and Soho Weekly News.
212-204-4228
ray.schultz@penton.com

CHARLES VIETRI-Managing Editor
Charles Vietri has been DIRECT’s managing editor since September 1999. He joined the magazine in July 1997 as copy editor after working in a similar position at DM News. He has been an editor for 23 years.
212-204-4230
charles.vietri@penton.com

BETH NEGUS VIVEIROS-Executive Editor
Beth Negus Viveiros is executive editor of DIRECT. She has been with the magazine since 1995 in a number of roles, including senior writer, managing editor and ancillary products editor. A graduate of University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Beth is the former editor of 1to1 magazine and a former associate editor with DM News. She began her career as a reporter for the Warren Times-Gazette in Rhode Island. Other writing/editing credits include Insurance Conference Planner, ToyFare, Laundry News, Medical Meetings, Dasoku, Corporate Meetings & Incentives, the Sakonnet Times and the Bristol Phoenix. She has given presentations at events for several marketing industry groups, including the DM Club of New York and the New England Direct Marketing Association. Beth resides and works in the Boston area.
617-916-2762
beth.negus@penton.com

LARRY RIGGS-Senior Editor
Senior Editor Larry Riggs has been covering the direct marketing industry for 15 years. He was managing editor of DM News for nearly eight years and helped bring it from a bi-monthly to a weekly. He joined DIRECT in 1995. His regular beats include business-to-business and the postal service, but he covers all aspects of direct marketing. A business reporter for more than 20 years, he has written about everything from the music and radio broadcasting businesses to discount retailing and industrial sales and marketing. A 1980 graduate of S.U.N.Y.@ Stony Brook, he is fluent in French and spent a semester in Paris. His French fluency was an asset in the early 1990s when many American direct marketers began expanding into Europe.
212-204-4226
larry.riggs@penton.com

RICHARD LEVEY-Senior Writer
Senior writer Richard H. Levey has been a member of DIRECT’s editorial staff since April 1997. His beats include database marketing and customer relationship management. He also coordinates the magazine’s three industry benchmarking research surveys, and co-created and manages a consumer attitudinal research project with Yankelovich Partners. Richard created and writes "Loose Cannon," a weekly column that presents an irreverent look at the direct response marketing industry, for DIRECT Newsline. Before joining DIRECT, Levey was a market research project director at Simmons Market Research Bureau, a copy editor and paste-up man at Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, and a circulation analyst at Brant Art Publications. He graduated from Emory University with a B.A. in history and English in 1989. In his spare time Richard compiles "Marcy Tweed’s Unabashedly Liberal Political Scorecard and Rat Sheet," a biennial compendium of congressional foibles. He is also writing a novel geared toward children, which he hopes will be his first published book.
212-204-4220
richard.levey@penton.com

BRIAN QUINTON-Senior Editor
Senior editor Brian Quinton joined DIRECT’s editorial staff in September 2004 and now covers all aspects of e-commerce and online marketing, including e-mail campaigns, search engine marketing, Internet retailing and interactive advertising. Before coming to DIRECT, Brian wrote for five years about IP networks and telecommunications for a sister Primedia publication, Telephony, and served as editor-in-chief of Upstart magazine, covering networking start-up companies. He has worked in trade journalism for 20 years, has served as a business writer/ editor for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Ericsson, and Verizon, and has freelanced for publications on corporate law, health/medicine and computing. Brian attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and holds degrees from New York University and Colgate University. He is based in Chicago, where he puts up with the icy winters in order to enjoy the killer summers.
312-840-8445
brian.quinton@penton.com

JIM EMERSON-List Editor
List editor Jim Emerson oversees Direct Listline, DIRECT's daily e-newsletter for the mailing list industry. He joined the staff full-time in 2004, after a decade freelancing for various direct marketing industry publications. Jim was also formerly managing editor of Catalog Business and a reporter for DM News. As a freelancer, he has written numerous publications, including the National Real Estate Investor, California Real Estate Journal, Multi-Housing News, Berkeley Daily Planet and Bay Area Reporter. He was a staff writer for Crittenden Publishing, covering commercial and residential real estate finance and development topics, and has also worked for the New Haven Register and the Asbury Park Press. He graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the University of Bridgeport, CT. Jim is based in the San Francisco area; his hobbies include reading, hiking and gardening.
510-704-8475
jim.emerson@penton.com