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Daylife Taps Ex-Salon CEO Neimeth To Handle Sales, Business Development

News aggregator Daylife is making some additions to its executive team as it looks to build on the partnership it forged with Getty Images last year. The New York-based company has hired former Salon CEO Chris Neimeth and Marc Hedlund, who was the former head of Wesabe, a community site centered around personal financial advice that is winding down most of its services at the end of the month.

Neimeth, who was Salon Media Group’s CEO from 2006 to 2008, will serve as Daylife’s chief commercial officer, where he’ll run sales, marketing, client services, business development, finance, and administration. He started his career at Grey Advertising in the early 1990s and founded the ad agency’s digital arm, Grey Interactive. Nieman left to become an SVP for New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Digital during the company’s entry into the internet space. He was at the NYT for four years. Just before taking the Salon post, Neimeth was president of Partner Marketing for IAC (NSDQ: IACI) between 2001 and 2005.

Hedlund will be Daylife’s chief product officer, overseeing engineering, operations, and product development of the company’s platform and SmartMedia suite. He was with San Francisco-based Wesabe for four years. In a post on the company’s homepage, Hedlund said that while it will be discontinuing its accounts tab and all the personal finance tools it offers, one of its customers has agreed to fund the community aspects of the site and keep it going.

Before coming to Wesabe, Hedlund was entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media and CEO of Popular Power. He also started Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm.

In addition to Neimeth and Hedlund, Daylife said it is looking to staff up across the board this summer. Both execs will report to Daylife CEO Upendra Shardanand.

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