Robert L. Krakoff has been named chairman...

Robert L. Krakoff has been named chairman and chief executive of Reed Publishing USA Cahners Publishing Co., a Newton, Mass.-based trade show organizer and publisher of 69 trade magazines, including the show business publications Variety and Daily Variety. Krakoff, 56, had been president and chief operating officer of Reed Publishing and Cahners. He succeeds Ronald G. Segel, who died Aug. 30 of lung cancer. Terrence M. McDermott, president of Cahners Magazine Co., takes over the president and chief operating officer position held by Krakoff.