AmericasBaby.com, Inc. Appoints Top-Level Executives.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1999-- CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , Executive Producer and Vice President of Marketing Join Management Team AmericasBaby.com, Inc., the parent company of BabyFurniture.com and BabyGifts.com, today announced the appointment of Raymond Murphy, VP/chief financial officer; Max Zapson, Sr. VP/chief technology officer; John Haskin, VP/ marketing; and Marjan Ghara, executive producer. BabyFurniture.com and BabyGifts.com are leading e-commerce sites in the baby products category, with the largest inventory of name-brand baby products. As CFO, Raymond Murphy is responsible for overseeing the financial direction and business affairs of AmericasBaby.com. Murphy brings to the company extensive experience in strategic business planning and business negotiations, along with additional expertise in financial analysis, initial public offerings, information technology implementation and auditing. Murphy joins AmericasBaby.com from fashionmall.com, where he served as vice president of finance and oversaw the company's IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. . Prior to fashionmall.com, he was CFO of Country Road Clothing and spent 13 years at Ernst & Young, LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol . Max Zapson, CTO, joins AmericasBaby.com from Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH), founded in 1850, is a diversified, global financial services firm. It is a participant in investment banking, equity and fixed income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. , where he was also chief technology officer. He will be responsible for managing and developing all technology for AmericasBaby.com. Prior to working at Lehman Brothers, Zapson worked at AT&T Solutions and Deloitte & Touche Consulting where he provided strategic e-commerce consulting to Fortune 500 firms. Zapson also held senior technology roles at Continental Asset Management and Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. . As executive producer, Marjan Ghara will set the site's overall strategy and will be responsible for the architecture, content and creative development. She joins AmericasBaby.com from the Chase Manhattan Bank The Chase Manhattan Bank, now part of JPMorgan Chase, was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955. The bank is headquartered in New York City. where she was a senior member of the Internet division. She has extensive experience with the implementation of Internet and e-commerce technologies and large-scale site designs. Prior to the Chase Manhattan Bank, she spent five years with Towers Perrin Towers Perrin is a global professional services firm. It was established 1 March 1934 as Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby. The umbrella name of Towers Perrin was adopted in 1987. . With over 10 years experience in marketing and advertising, John Haskin has been appointed vice president of marketing, in charge of positioning the company's brands and managing all online and offline marketing activities. Haskin joins AmericasBaby.com from the Digital Communications Transmitting text, voice and video in binary form. See communications. unit of J. Walter Thompson Walter Thompson refers to:
"This is an incredible team, and they all chose this company as the way to make their mark on the Web," said Preston Bealle, president/CEO of AmericasBaby.com. "We're growing very fast and we need senior people of this caliber to be the leaders in the online baby products category." About AmericasBaby.com, Inc. AmericasBaby.com, Inc. is an Internet-based retailer of baby furniture and baby gifts through its BabyFurniture.com and BabyGifts.com Web sites, respectively, providing the ultimate shopping experience for baby products online. With more than 2,700 SKUs, BabyFurniture.com offers an extensive selection of competitively priced baby products on the Web - carrying every major brand, including Graco, Cosco, Combi, and Evenflo. BabyFurniture.com currently generates 3,000,000 monthly page views and has 500,000 users a month. BabyFurniture.com is undergoing a site redesign that will be live in October. |
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