"As The Deal forges a dedicated division for conferences and events, we are fortunate to have Allan Cunningham leading the department's expansion," said Kevin Worth, president and CEO of The Deal, LLC.

Cunningham comes to The Deal with proven sales and marketing management expertise in product and event development and business-to-business sales, specifically in the alternative investment and technology sectors. Before joining The Deal, he was the director of sales and marketing at Dow Jones & Co. responsible for the company's private equity and venture investment event business.

Cunningham came to Dow Jones & Co. when the company acquired Technologic Partners where he was a managing director setting strategic sales and marketing direction for newsletters and conference products. Prior to Technologic Partners, Cunningham worked at Datamonitor plc, where he evolved the company's sales team and developed higher margin customized product and service sales strategies.

For nearly a decade, Cunningham worked at Institute for International Research (IIR Group) starting in a sales role and progressing to senior management positions across single and multiple business units. He was lastly division president for IIR Group's American Institute and secondly it's International Faculty of Finance in London and New York. While at IIR Group, Cunningham launched the International Faculty of Finance division in the U.S. and returned operating profitability to the American Institute.

The Deal LLC is a diversified media company that is the authoritative voice of the deal economy. We serve the global deal community - corporate and financial dealmakers, advisers and institutional investors - by providing business and financial news and information that offers fresh insights on the deal economy, a set of interrelated activities, focused on dealmaking of all kinds, whose purpose is to generate corporate growth in a continually changing global market. We offer a comprehensive line of print and electronic product and services for both readers and advertisers, including The Deal, The Daily Deal, TheDeal.com, Corporate Dealmaker, Tech Confidential, Corporate Control Alert, Auction Block, Bankruptcy Insider, Deal Focus and VCDeal.com. Investors in The Deal, a privately held company, include majority owner U.S. Equity Partners, a private investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co. LP, and Rustic Canyon Ventures, one of the largest venture capital funds in Southern California.