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SteelHouse appoints Ross Levinsohn to board

Advertising software company SteelHouse has appointed former Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn to its board of directors.

Mr. Levinsohn has more than three decades of media, digital media, and technology experience, with past CEO posts at Yahoo, Fox Interactive Media, and Guggenheim Digital Media. He is also a co-founder and partner at Whisper Advisors, and a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group.

Mr. Levinsohn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the American University, where he is also a member of the board of trustees. He sits on the boards of several public and private media and technology companies, including Tribune Media, Zefr, Dex Media, YouTube multichannel network DramaFever, and Scout Media.

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