CNET Names Robin Wolaner Executive Vice President

Posted on October 22, 1997

CNET, Inc. announced that it has named Robin Wolaner, founder of Parenting Magazine and former President and CEO of Sunset Publishing, Executive Vice President in charge of CNET's technology publishing operation, a newly created position. Wolaner will be responsible for the overall operations and management of CNET's network of Web sites and services devoted to computing and technology.

Halsey Minor, Chairman and CEO of CNET, stated, "Robin is associated with some of the publishing world's greatest successes. With her track record of innovation and intelligence in management, product and business development, Robin will be an enormous asset to CNET. We are looking forward to having her on our team as we move to establish CNET's leading network of sites as major media properties."

Most recently, Wolaner has been Chairman of Online Partners, an Internet affinity group marketing company, and an advisor to other early-stage companies on electronic publishing ventures. Prior, she was President and CEO of Sunset Publishing Corporation, a unit of Time Publishing Ventures, where she was responsible for the turnaround of the 98 year old magazine and book company, doubling its profitability. Wolaner introduced the company's first electronic products, including a gardening CD-ROM which produced over one million dollars in profits.