Andrew J. Buchholtz focuses on consumer and trade magazine publishing, expositions, yellow page directory publishing and other consumer media transactions. Mr. Buchholtz joined VSS in 1995 and was promoted to Managing Director in 2000. During his tenure, Mr. Buchholtz has worked on the successful sale of the Zuckerman Group's Fast Company magazine to Gruner + Jahr USA, the sale of National Directory Company to the Yell Group Limited, the sale of the Devon Publishing Group to Lynx Private Equity, the sale of Time Warner's Little, Brown Professional Publishing Group, Inc. to Wolters Kluwer US Corporation, and the formation of a 50-50 joint-venture between Liberis Publications of Greece and Edipresse, S.A. of Switzerland, as well as numerous other transactions. Mr. Buchholtz previously served as Vice President of Business Development at PRIMEDIA Special Interest Publications.

Mr. Buchholtz graduated from Boston University magna cum laude with a BA in Economics and an MBA in Management