18.06.2008 13:43:00
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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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