Carrigan Steps Down from IDG Chief Exec Role

Bob Carrigan, the CEO of media, events and research group IDG Communications Worldwide, is stepping down from his position at the end of September, when he will be replaced by company veterans Michael Friedenberg and David Hill.

Founded in 1964, IDG (International Data Group) is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and its IDC subsidiary (International Data Corporation) employs more than 1,000 analysts covering technology and trends in more than 110 countries.

Carrigan has spent his 26-year career at IDG, except for the four-year period between 1999 and 2003 when he served as SVP e-Commerce and Advertising at Internet start-up, Spinner - an IDG portfolio company that was acquired by AOL. After returning to IDG in 2003 as President-CEO of the company's Computerworld, he was promoted to CEO of IDG Communications US in 2005, and has held his current position since 2008.

He will be replaced by Friedenberg, who currently serves as President-CEO of IDG Enterprise and will become CEO of IDG Communications US; and Hill, a 28-year veteran of IDG, who is currently President-CEO of IDG International Publishing Services, and will take on the role of President of IDG Communications. Both will report to IDG founder and Chairman Patrick McGovern.

From the end of September, Carrigan will continue as a member of the CEO Advisory Board at IDG Ventures USA, and he will join the IDG Board of Directors.

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