March 30, 2010 (FinancialWire) — The McGraw-Hill Cos. (NYSE: MHP) has appointed Keith Fox as president of McGraw-Hill Construction, a provider of design and construction information in North America. Fox was most recently was president of BusinessWeek.

Fox served as president of BusinessWeek from 2007 until its sale in December 2009. Prior to leading BusinessWeek, Fox was president of McGraw-Hill Professional.

He joined the corporation in 2000 as senior vice president of Marketing and Business Development for BusinessWeek. Prior to joining McGraw-Hill, Fox was vice president of new media at the Reader's Digest Association, where he launched gifts.com and readersdigest.com. He has held positions at Unilever and Booz Allen Hamilton.

McGraw-Hill Construction serves more than one million customers in the global construction industry through Dodge, Sweets, Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, GreenSource, and 10 regional publications.

New York-based McGraw-Hill brands include Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, and J.D. Power and Associates. The corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries.

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