AccuWeather Names Four Key Appointments to Executive Team, Supporting Record-Level Global Expansion

AccuWeather expands leadership team to meet growth demands as the world’s largest and fastest-growing weather company.

AccuWeather Global Weather Center – August 28, 2015 – AccuWeather, Inc., the global leader in weather information and digital media, has announced key promotions to its executive team, adding four leadership appointments: Vincent McDonald has been named Chief International Strategy Officer; John Dokes has been named General Manager of the AccuWeather Network; Steven Smith has been named President of Digital Media; and Chris Patti has been named Chief Technology Officer.

“Over the past year, AccuWeather has achieved unprecedented growth, including an unmatched increase in digital audience, a ground-breaking new JV partnership in China, and launch of the highly successful 24/7 AccuWeather Network,” said Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder, President, and Chairman of AccuWeather. “Through their leadership contributions, our expanded executive team will continue our successful global expansion and meet the significant demand for weather with Superior Accuracy™ exclusively from AccuWeather.”

As Chief International Strategy Officer, Vincent McDonald will oversee AccuWeather’s global expansion, building and expanding enterprise-wide partnerships in addition to guiding the company’s international resources and presence to better serve its worldwide audience. In the past year, AccuWeather has opened several new international offices, added unique global forecasting capabilities, and increased its number of forecasting languages to further localize and personalize weather communications. AccuWeather also signed a historic Joint Venture with the Chinese government's commercial weather arm to expand weather information and forecasting operations throughout China. McDonald will also continue in his leadership responsibilities as AccuWeather’s Chief Human Resources Officer.

John Dokes will play a vital role in guiding the development and expansion of the AccuWeather Network as its General Manager, continuing to strengthen the only “All Weather, All the Time” national HD weather network through innovative programming and proprietary forecast offerings to serve its growing audience. Dokes will also continue in his role as AccuWeather’s Chief Marketing Officer to oversee all strategic branding and marketing for the company.

In his new position, Steven Smith, President of Digital Media, will guide all components of digital media worldwide for AccuWeather, including industry-leading digital advancements and innovation, revenue generation, advertising, and partnerships. The company continues to experience record-setting growth in digital users via AccuWeather.com, demonstrating AccuWeather’s brand trust and momentum. AccuWeather partners with the world’s leading digital device manufacturers, provides the #1 weather mobile website in the United States and projected globally, and now serves over 12.5 billion data requests every day – impressive results that Smith will build upon in furthering AccuWeather’s growth.

Appointed to Chief Technology Officer, Chris Patti will lead technology planning and infrastructure at AccuWeather, including strategic oversight of AccuWeather’s expansive and proprietary global weather data, management of the cloud, APIs, and web serving, quickly and effectively scaling data and resources to meet demand. Localized and customized by platform, AccuWeather now serves over 200 countries in over 100 different languages and dialects with plans for additional expansion.

Demonstrating the company’s digital leadership and innovation, AccuWeather recently launched AccUcast™, the only interactive tool to offer live, crowdsourced weather maps that provide user-submitted, current weather conditions in a global animation display. The company has also expanded global coverage of the unique, patented AccuWeather MinuteCast®, the only minute-by-minute forecast to offer 120 minutes of free precipitation forecasts for users’ exact GPS or street address locations.

About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.comEvery day over a billion people worldwide rely on AccuWeather to help them plan their lives, protect their businesses, and get more from their day. AccuWeather provides hourly and Minute by Minute™ forecasts with Superior Accuracy™ with customized content and engaging video presentations available on smart phones, tablets, free wired and mobile Internet sites via AccuWeather.com, connected TVs, and Internet appliances, as well as via radio, television, newspapers and the new AccuWeather Network cable channel. Established in 1962 by Founder, President, and Chairman Dr. Joel N. Myers – a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society who was recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur Magazine’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs – AccuWeather also delivers a wide range of highly-customized enterprise solutions to media, business, government, and institutions, as well as news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites. AccuWeather’s CEO, Barry Lee Myers, is an award winning leader in global weather information issues and one of the world’s most recognized advocates for cooperative relationships between government weather agencies and the weather industry. He is a leader in the digital weather information space.

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