Barnes & Noble Names Jamie Iannone Executive Vice President, Shopping, Barnes & Noble.com & Barnes & Noble Digital.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), the world's largest bookseller, today announced that it has named Jamie Iannone Executive Vice President, Shopping, Barnes & Noble.com (http://www.bn.com) & Barnes & Noble Digital. Mr. Iannone will be responsible for meeting the buying needs, and shaping the shopping decisions, of visitors to Barnes & Noble.com. Among other things, his focus will be on optimizing the online shopping experience for the millions of Barnes & Noble customers, as well as managing various new business opportunities and other strategic initiatives. Mr. Iannone will report directly to William Lynch Captain William Lynch (1742 – 1820) of Pittsylvania County, Virginia practiced lynching circa 1780. It is believed that lynching and Lynch law are named after him. He is not the William Lynch who allegedly made the William Lynch Speech in 1712, as the date on this apocryphal , President of Barnes & Noble.com. Mr. Iannone joins Barnes & Noble from eBay, where he held roles of increasing responsibility and most recently was the company's Vice President of Global Search, the largest single investment area at eBay. Previously, he was the Vice President of Buyer Experience, responsible for all aspects of the customer experience. He first joined eBay in 2001 and has held a variety of senior positions from product marketing to merchandising and vertical categories. Prior to working at eBay, Mr. Iannone held positions at Microsoft, Primedia Ventures, and Booz Allen & Hamilton. "We're excited to have Jamie join the team," said William Lynch, President of Barnes & Noble.com. "Jamie is a talented executive who brings a wealth of Internet and digital technology experience to Barnes & Noble. Customers consistently rate Barnes & Noble as the nation's number one bookselling brand, and Barnes & Noble.com as a top place to shop online. I'm confident Jamie will drive further enhancements to our customers' experience, and help deliver innovative new products and services as we grow the business." Mr. Iannone graduated as the Pyne Prize Scholar from Princeton University Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Schools and Research Facilities with a degree in engineering and management and received his MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. Graduate School of Business. Social Media Links: Follow B&N on Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. : http://twitter.com/BNBuzz Become a fan of our Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/barnesandnoble Subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/BNStudio B&N Book clubs: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookclubs/index.asp About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 777 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble is the nation's top bookseller brand for the sixth year in a row, as determined by a combination of the brand's performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent; the top bookseller in quality for the second year in a row and the number two retailer in trust, according to the EquiTrend[R] Brand Study by Harris Interactive[R]. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites. General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com. |
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