Aggregate Knowledge Names Steve Pantelick Chief Financial Officer.Former Kodak Gallery CFO See Chief Financial Officer. and Blockbuster Senior Executive Brings Strong Track Record of Global Financial and Operational Leadership to Drive Growth, Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , and Operational Excellence at Aggregate Knowledge SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Aggregate Knowledge Inc., the leader in the new category of online discovery, today announced that industry veteran Steve Pantelick has joined as chief financial officer. Pantelick, the former Kodak Gallery CFO (formerly Ofoto Inc.) will oversee and lead the Aggregate Knowledge's finance, operations, and strategic planning teams. "Steve has an incredibly strong track record in driving growth and scaling global operations Global Operations is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by both Crave Entertainment and Electronic Arts. It was released in March of 2002, following its public multiplayer beta version which contained only the Quebec map. within leading Internet companies. His deep experience and trusted leadership will be a significant addition to the Aggregate Knowledge executive team," said Paul Martino Paul Martino is CEO and founder of Aggregate Knowledge. Paul is also a co-founder of social networking site Tribe.net. Paul describes Aggregate Knowledge's mission: "To deliver the best content to people based on the aggregate behavior of everyone who has gone before them. , Aggregate Knowledge CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder. "Steve will help us plan for new opportunities, drive our growth and execution plan, and build a world-class Discovery company. We are very excited to have Steve join Aggregate Knowledge." Prior to joining Aggregate Knowledge, Pantelick was CFO for Kodak Gallery. During his tenure from 2004 to May 2007 he helped lead Kodak Gallery's rapid growth as the world's leading online digital printing service, serving more than 50 million members. In addition to his financial responsibilities, Pantelick was responsible for Kodak Gallery's operations including digital print production, merchandise fulfillment, customer service, MIS and legal. Prior to Kodak Gallery, Pantelick was the CFO of broadband wireless start-up SkyPilot Network. From 1997 to 2001, he held a number of senior executive positions at Blockbuster Inc. and helped take the Company public in 1999. At Blockbuster, Pantelick served as chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of the Company's New Media Division, senior vice president of strategic planning, senior vice president of finance responsible for the Company's U.S. financial operations and vice president of worldwide planning. Prior to Blockbuster, Steve spent seven years with Cadbury Schweppes plc in a number of senior finance roles, which included five years in Europe. Steve earned an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Founded in 1900, Tuck is the oldest graduate school of business in the world. at Dartmouth and an A.B. degree from Harvard University. "Aggregate Knowledge is the leader in creating a new category of online experience called Discovery. Through our leadership position, Aggregate Knowledge has the opportunity to fundamentally change the way people discover information, buy products, and find the things they want on the Internet," said Pantelick. "I look forward to building a world-class organization that will deliver outstanding value to our large base of brand name customers and online users." In April 2007, Aggregate Knowledge announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B round to extend its leadership in the Online Discovery market. This round was lead by DAG Ventures and Kleiner Perkins. The Series B round was a follow up to the December 2006 Series A round of $5 million by Kleiner Perkins. Aggregate Knowledge is powering Discovery for over 60 million unique visitors per month for its growing portfolio of customers. Those customers include major online publishing companies and retailers, such as the WashingtonPost.com and Overstock.com. About Aggregate Knowledge Aggregate Knowledge offers the industry's first online Collective Discovery Services that emulate the way people naturally discover and shop for products and information offline. Built on top of a sophisticated, super computing architecture, Aggregate Knowledge harnesses the behavior of users to fundamentally change the way people navigate and engage online. Aggregate Knowledge delivers significant revenue enhancement revenue enhancement An increase in revenues, especially by way of increased taxes. Revenue enhancement includes reducing taxpayer deductions and eliminating tax credits. to site owners by providing real-time, collective merchandising and navigation capabilities. Aggregate Knowledge was recently acknowledged as an AlwaysOn Media 100 winner as well as selected by The Wharton School's Kevin Werbach and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington's as a Supernova Top Connected Innovator. Funded by premier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures, the company's management team includes veterans from Blockbuster, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Kodak, Mercury, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun, and Tribe.net. Aggregate Knowledge, the Aggregate Knowledge logo, Aggregate Knowledge Discovery, and Collective Discovery are trademarks of Aggregate Knowledge Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both. All other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. All statements regarding plans, directions, and intent of Aggregate Knowledge are subject to change without notice. |
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