ALM Taps New CTO as Veteran SCOTUS Reporter Retires | People on the Move

[caption id="attachment_161551" align="alignright" width="150"] Jimi Li[/caption] ALM Media, the New York-based B2B media and intelligence firm serving the legal and financial services industries, announced the addition of Jimi Li to its executive ranks as chief technology officer. Li arrives at ALM from Valence Marketing Infrastructure, the martech consulting firm he co-founded in 2018, and brings prior experience as VP of digital platforms at News Corp. subsidiary News America Marketing, head of e-commerce at Coach and L'Oréal and IT Leader at GE Capital. "Jimi has proven expertise in digital information infrastructure and product development," said Bill Carter, ALM's president and CEO, in a statement. "I expect he will quickly contribute to revenue growth in our three business units: information services, marketing services and events." [caption id="attachment_161549" align="alignright" width="150"] Tony Mauro[/caption] Elsewhere within the company, journalist Tony Mauro—whose four-decade career reporting on the U.S. Supreme Court has spanned the entire tenures of justices O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy and Souter—announced his retirement from day-to-day reporting, effective Monday. Following earlier stops at Gannett News Service and USA Today, Mauro joined ALM in 2000 as a reporter for Legal Week, becoming the Supreme Court correspondent for The National Law Journal upon the merger of the two publications in 2009. He has written numerous books on the Supreme... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

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