TheLadders.com Signs Exclusive Partnership with CFO.com

NEW YORK (August 16, 2006) - CFO Publishing and TheLadders.com, the world's leading online service for $100,000+ jobs, today announced an exclusive one-year partnership agreement. The co-branded alliance with CFO.com, the premier online media vehicle for senior financial and business executives, combines two distinctive companies for the benefit of finance industry executives everywhere.

The agreement brings TheLadders.com's comprehensive list of $100k+ senior level positions together with CFO.com's timely financial information to provide financial, business and IT executives with relevant opportunities and enhanced recruitment tools to successfully manage and grow their businesses and their careers.

"Our partnership with TheLadders.com is an extension of the commitment we've made to provide our audience with the latest news, tools and trends," said Andreas Droste, General Manager, CFO Publishing. "CFO.com helps readers define the rapidly changing landscape. With TheLadders.com, savvy finance professionals are now in-the-know on the latest career opportunities."

The partnership with CFO Publishing is the third exclusive alliance between TheLadders.com and a major publishing company's online property. TheLadders.com announced a similar partnership with BusinessWeek Online in March 2006, which also caters to an audience of business leaders and decision makers. TheLadders.com became the exclusive partner for the Wall Street Journal's executive career Web site, Career Journal.com, in January 2006.

"Bringing these two sites together makes sense on so many levels," said Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO of TheLadders.com. "We both provide relevant career information that finance professionals couldn't easily find anywhere else. Now they can find all of the information they need in one place. Any executive tapping into CFO.com for daily news insights and TheLadders.com for access to the best finance jobs is poised for amazing career success."

About CFO Publishing
CFO magazine and CFO.com are owned by CFO Publishing, an Economist Group business. With a rate base of 450,000, CFO is the leading business publication for C-level and senior financial executives. It reaches an international audience of corporate leaders with its website and global group of magazines, including CFO IT, CFO Europe, CFO Asia and CFO China. For more information, visit http://www.cfo.com.

In addition to its primary member-based site, the Company operates vertical job search Web sites for sales, marketing, finance, human resources, law, technology, and operations. All sites feature daily job updates as well as industry-specific weekly e-newsletters. For corporate and executive recruiters, TheLadders.com delivers the same highly personalized experience. TheLadders for Recruiters (www.recruitladder.com) enables them to easily post $100k+ job openings at no charge. The Company further differentiates itself from other online job boards that fall prey to fraudulent job postings by implementing human mediated search, ensuring all job postings are fully qualified before being published to members.

More information about TheLadders.com can be accessed at www.theladders.com.

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TheLadders.com
646-453-1913
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