Art.com Expands Sales & Marketing Team With Eye on Developing New Markets.Entertainment & Business Editors/High Tech Writers RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2002 Red Hat and 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) Alum Named Channel Program Manager Art.com, the world's premier online marketplace for prints, posters, photographs, and custom framing, has strengthened its ongoing commitment to extend business into new and existing markets by hiring Heather Vacek as Channel Program Manager. Vacek brings to Art.com experience in marketing programs and strategy development with a range of technology and consumer focused companies. Vacek, who comes to Art.com from her previous post as Director of Marketing at Home Director, an IBM home networking spin-off, will build on the company's highly successful sales and marketing programs. Her duties at Art.com include developing new business channels Business channels are TV channels that concentrate on business news. List of channels
"Heather has a solid background in consumer markets and managing customer-facing programs. We are very excited about the talents she brings to the company and how that will help our business continue to develop," said Tom Lotrecchiano, Art.com V.P. of Sales & Marketing. "As Art.com continues our growth and leadership in the art and framing industry, Heather's marketing experience and strategic insight will make a great contribution to our success." At Home Director, Vacek oversaw all marketing activities, and was instrumental in implementing a marketing plan focused on return on investment, achieving a 75 percent reduction in marketing expenses while maintaining sales growth. Prior to joining Home Director, she was Program Manager for Partner Marketing at Red Hat, executing marketing plans with Oracle, IBM, and Dell, and was responsible for creating a company-wide branding assessment. Prior to joining Red Hat, Vacek held engineering and marketing positions of increasing responsibility over eight years at IBM. "It is great to be able to join Art.com at this exciting stage in the company's development," said Vacek. "I am very impressed with the company's success to-date, and am thrilled to be part of such a dedicated and creative team." Vacek received her MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration , a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. in Evanston, Illinois Evanston is a city on Lake Michigan in Cook County, Illinois directly north of Chicago, east of Skokie, and south of Wilmette. The city was first settled in 1836, and has a total population of 74,239[1]. Evanston is part of Chicago's affluent North Shore region. . About Art.com Art.com is the world's premier online marketplace for prints, posters, photographs, and custom framing. Now ranked among the top 100 trafficked e-commerce sites in the world, Art.com is the leading online company in a growing $16 billion art and framing industry. Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , the company was founded in 1994 and now employs more than 150 people. For more information about Art.com, visit www.art.com or call (919)-831-0015. |
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