18.06.2008 13:43:00

Salesgenie.com Appoints Pravin Kumar Vice President of Products and Technology and Rod Butters Vice President of Marketing

Salesgenie.com (an infoGROUP™ company) (NASDAQ: IUSA), the leading provider of online solutions for sales effectiveness management today announced the appointment of Pravin Kumar as Vice President of Products and Technology and Rod Butters as Vice President of Marketing. Kumar will be responsible for managing all product development and operations of Salesgenie.com, a software as a service (SaaS) offering that provides a new approach to sales effectiveness through lead management. Butters will be responsible for overseeing all components of marketing as Salesgenie.com extends its new model for online sales effectiveness management to provide greater capabilities for the mid-tier and enterprise markets. Both will report to Mark Israelsen, President of Salesgenie.com and are based in company’s headquarters in San Carlos, California. "I am very excited to bring these two industry veterans on board,” said Israelsen. "For the last two years the company has been extremely successful in targeting the needs of small business owners, independent sales agents, and enterprise account executives to help them grow their business, resulting in rapid growth for Salesgenie. Our goal is to drive further growth by extending these benefits into the enterprise. The leadership and experience of Mr. Kumar and Mr. Butters will be instrumental in building out the product offering, our channels to market, and our organization to meet the enterprise needs.” Kumar joins Salesgenie.com with more than 20 years of experience in engineering and product management. Most recently he held the position of Vice President, Products at Ketera Technologies where he drove rapid expansion of its SaaS product line. He has also held senior management roles at SAP Global Marketing, Hotdispatch, and CrossWorlds. Kumar holds a BSEE from University of Maryland at College Park. "A SaaS approach to sales lead management provides tremendous opportunities for delivering new value to the market,” said Kumar. "Few solutions offer such an intriguing ability to satisfy the needs of both the individual user and the enterprise in their quest for sales growth. Expanding on the success of Salesgenie.com to bring more of these capabilities to the enterprise will be an exciting challenge and one that should generate significant new opportunities for the company.” Butters joins Salesgenie.com with more than 20 years of experience spanning marketing and strategy, sales, and product development. Most recently he was SVP of Marketing at Tidal Software, where he helped position the company as a leader in automation for IT operations. Prior to that, Butters served as president of worldwide marketing, sales, and service at Aspect Communications. He has also served as a vice president at Oracle Corporation in the Application Server division. He holds a B.A. and M.S. from the University of Oregon. "The Salesgenie.com solution enables new levels of sales effectiveness by leveraging the incredible base of information from infoGROUP with a new model for consolidation and delivery of qualified prospect information,” said Butters. "This solution will continue to grow to bring these new capabilities to consumer marketing, enterprise sales, and partner relationship management. I have the exciting goal of leveraging these capabilities to expand our reach into the market as part of the growing ecosystem of SaaS solutions designed to help businesses build deeper connections with their markets.” About Salesgenie.com Salesgenie.com (www.salesgenie.com), an infoGROUP company (NASDAQ: IUSA), is a leading provider of online solutions for sales effectiveness management. Sales effectiveness starts with effective lead management and Salesgenie.com provides fast, targeted online access to the highest quality source in the industry of business and consumer data. The Salesgenie.com Customer Analyzer & Prospect Builder helps find the best prospects possible, matching the best customers a business has today. Salesgenie’s easy to use online service also includes a built-in Contact Manager, Business Credit Reports, and Mapping, making sales calls more productive for small business owners, independent sales agents, and enterprise account executives. To get a free trial including 100 free sales leads go to www.salesgenie.com or call 1-888-999-0580. About infoGROUP infoGROUP (www.infoGROUP.com) (NASDAQ: IUSA), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer databases for sales leads & mailing lists, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and infoGROUP has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own 12 proprietary databases under one roof. The infoGROUP database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites. Nearly 4 million customers use infoGROUP’s products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoGROUP headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500. To know more about Sales Leads, click www.infoGROUP.com. To get a 72-hour free trial and 100 free sales leads, click www.salesgenie.com. Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, recent changes in senior management, the successful integration of recent and future acquisitions, fluctuations in operating results, failure to successfully carry out our Internet strategy or to grow our Internet revenue, effects of leverage, changes in technology and increased competition. More information about potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results is included in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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