JHG-Townsend Executive VP Elizabeth Estes-Cooper to Moderate Panel on Building Customer Relationships with Technology at National Sports Forum

JHG-Townsend, a results-driven communications group that effectively combines traditional marketing and PR services with new digital media, today announced that Elizabeth Estes-Cooper, JHG-Townsend’s executive vice president of strategic planning, will moderate a panel titled, "IPTV, SEO, SEM: Making $$ And Sense Of It All" at the National Sports Forum held in Memphis, Tennessee. Estes-Cooper is an 18-year veteran of the media business and previously served as the director of News/Talk/Sports Radio for Clear Channel Colorado where she managed network radio programming for 11 news/talk/sports stations.

The panel will address how new technologies, coupled with current shift in consumer behavior, are changing the way enterprises connect with fans and customers. This session will look at technologies such as IPTV, search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), pay-per-click (PPC), wireless application protocol (WAP) and mobile platforms and discuss the opportunities these technologies present to company brands to help them effectively connect with the consumer, increase revenues and create new sponsorship opportunities. Estes-Cooper will moderate the panel that includes: Scott Norwood, VP of Sponsorships at MLB.com; Kevin Kenworthy, COO and executive vice president of Programming & Marketing at TTC Companies; and Dan Flanegan, CEO of Brand Anywhere and former president of Soapbox Mobile.

WHAT:	Panel session "IPTV, SEO, SEM: Making $$ And Sense Of It All"
WHEN:	Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 2:45 to 4:15pm EDT
WHERE:	The Peabody Hotel, Continental Room, Memphis, Tenn.
WHO:	Elizabeth Estes-Cooper, executive VP of strategic planning of JHG-Townsend

The National Sports Forum is the largest annual gathering of top team sports marketing, sales, promotions and event entertainment executives throughout the broad spectrum of teams and leagues in North America. The event takes place on January 28-30 at The Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. For more information, please go to: www.sports-forum.com/

About JHG-Townsend
San Diego-based JHG-Townsend represents a new model of marketing and public relations agency in a digital world. JHG-Townsend empowers businesses with strategies that are reality-based, forward-looking, and both business-to-business and consumer-focused. The group combines traditional communications with new media, such as Web-based services, digital public relations, interactive and mobile to create breakthrough marketing programs. From strategy to execution, from marketing research to evaluation, and from creative brainstorming to creative campaigns, JHG-Townsend offers a complete set of communications and marketing services to business clients in the following industries: technology, media and entertainment, sports and consumer marketing. JHG-Townsend clients include QUALCOMM, MediaFLO USA and MediaFLO Technologies, National University, Toshiba, Vidacare, Comcast, Continuous Computing, Sequoia Communications, Covario, Tessera Technologies and many more.

JHG-Townsend is here for business, here for their clients’ success. For more information, visit www.jhg.com or call 1.858.457.4888.