December 3, 2012 - Hackensack, N.J. — Buyers Laboratory LLC (“BLI” or the “Company”) today announced that its Board of Directors has completed a leadership succession plan. The Company is pleased to announce that John A. Lawler will become Chief Executive Officer of BLI, effective December 3, 2012. Michael Danziger and Mark Lerch, the current CEO and COO, respectively, will become Senior Advisors to the Company and remain significant shareholders and members of the Board of Directors.
John Lawler is an experienced information services executive, having previously served as President and CEO of Martindale-Hubbell, the leading provider of information regarding legal and government professionals, and in a range of senior executive positions at Dun & Bradstreet, including serving as Vice-President of Global Product and Business Development and Vice President of Dun & Bradstreet Japan. Most recently, John served as President of Scantron Corporation, a leading provider of education technology products, and as President and CEO of Triumph Learning, a leading provider of supplemental education materials.
Michael Danziger stated, “Mark and I are quite excited that John will be joining BLI as CEO. John has broad leadership experience across a range of information services businesses and has delivered strong results and enhanced the product offerings, strategy and operations of each business he has led. He also brings a wealth of international experience to BLI, having led and developed businesses around the world. We look forward to working closely with John on the growth and development of BLI over the coming years.”
Paresh Vaish, Chairman of the Board of BLI and a Partner at SFW, stated, “We are very pleased that John is joining BLI as CEO and a Co-Owner with Michael, Mark and SFW. John brings great experience and leadership skills to the Company from his years as a global business leader in the information sector. We look forward to working closely with John to continue to develop BLI from the very strong base that Michael, Mark and the BLI team have built over the years. We also thank Michael and Mark for their service to BLI and in developing and executing on the leadership succession plan, and look forward to continuing to work with them in their new roles.”
John Lawler stated, “I am delighted to be joining BLI. The Company is clearly the leading provider of high value information to the digital imaging and document management sector and has a long history of providing great value to its customers around the globe. I look forward to working with the BLI team, SFW, and Michael and Mark to further grow and develop this already strong franchise business.”
About SFW Capital Partners
SFW Capital Partners is the leading private equity firm investing with management in mid-sized companies providing analytical tools and related services, including instruments, information and software, and outsourced analytical services. As a team, the partners of SFW have supported some of the most successful and well-regarded companies in its target markets. For more information, please visit www.sfwcap.com.
About Buyers Laboratory
Buyers Lab is the world’s leading independent provider of analytical information and services to the digital imaging and document management industry. In addition to publishing the industry’s most comprehensive and accurate test reports on document imaging devices, each representing months of exhaustive hands-on testing in BLI’s US and UK laboratories, the Company has been the leading source of competitive intelligence for industry professionals on copiers, printers, fax machines, scanners, duplicators, wide-format devices and multifunctional products, and related software, consumables and document management solutions. The Company’s database includes nearly 15,000 products globally and it has a long-standing reputation for being the industry’s most trustworthy and complete source for analytical information.
For more information on Buyers Laboratory, business consumers should visit www.buyerslabadvisor.com. All others should go to www.buyerslab.com, call (201) 488-0404, or e-mail info@buyerslab.com.
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