BigStar Announces New Board of Directors Members Jeff Soinski, CEO of Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and Daniel John Woods, CTO of CapitalThinking.com, to Join Board.Business, Advertising, Finance, E-Commerce, Technology and Internet Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2000 BigStar Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq:BGST BGST Bradley Gunnery Skills Test ), which runs the bigstar.com Shop-A-Tainment(TM) site and Advaya, the online direct marketing solutions company, has added two members to the company's board of directors, it was announced today by chief executive officer David Friedensohn. Joining the board will be Jeff Soinski, 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. of advertising agency Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and Daniel John Woods John Woods may refer to:
"As we look forward to contributions from Mr. Soinski and Mr. Woods, we would also like to thank former board members Marlene McDaniel and Will Lansing for their contributions," said Friedensohn. "Both Jeff, an experienced leader in the advertising and marketing fields, and Dan, a software development expert, make great additions to the company and we are enthusiastic about working with them as we continue to grow bigstar.com and Advaya." McDaniel, CEO of Women.com, and Lansing, CEO of NBCi.com, both served on the BigStar board for over a year. Prior to joining Mad Dogs, Soinski served as president and CEO of ViroTex Corporation, an early stage pharmaceutical development company operating initially in the consumer healthcare space, which he sold to Atrix Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq:ATRX ATRX Alpha-Thalassemia/Mental Retardation Syndrome, Nondeletion Type, X-Linked ). He has both advertising agency and client experience, having worked with such agencies as BBDO BBDO Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn BBDO Bringing Biogeographic Data Online and Chiat Day, as well as corporate experience in developing new products for Nabisco. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Soinski is a recipient of the American Marketing Association's New Product of the Year award. Woods served as vice president and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of TheStreet.com prior to joining CapitalThinking.com. Woods, who also managed the application development of Pathfinder for Time Inc. New Media, has worked as a consultant at Citibank, JP Morgan and Hewitt Associates developing financial analysis systems, fourth generation language (language) fourth generation language - (4GL, or "report generator language") An "application specific" language, one with built-in knowledge of an application domain, in the way that SQL has built-in knowledge of the relational database domain. interpreters and benefit management systems. The co-author of A Developer's Guide to the Java Web Server A Web server from Sun that ran under Solaris and NT. It supported Java servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology. Version 2.0 was the final release of the product, which was created to provide an upgrade path to servlet processing (Servlet API 2.1) for prior Java Web Server customers. , Woods completed a bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is the only journalism school in the Ivy League; it awards the Pulitzer Prize and duPont-Columbia Award; co-sponsors the National Magazine Award and publishes the Columbia Journalism Review. . About BigStar Entertainment BigStar Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq:BGST) operates bigstar.com (AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. keyword: BigStar), a leading Shop-A-Tainment(TM) destination site, based on internal analysis of traffic, sales and other metrics. Bigstar.com is exclusively dedicated to filmed entertainment products and sells more than 70,000 titles of videos and digital video discs (DVDs). BigStar's offering of more than 8,000 movie trailers is among the largest on the Internet. Advaya Inc., a division of BigStar, is a digital direct marketing service that serves businesses and companies that want to communicate directly with their customers online. The company provides a variety of e-marketing services and products to its customers including Advaya Direct 3.0 SM., a personalized, targeted e-messaging and e-mail service. Through its proprietary Web-based software tool, Advaya enables clients to manage subscriber databases and build, schedule, test, send and analyze targeted messages to their users. This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to the future events or the future financial results of BigStar Entertainment. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in BigStar Entertainment's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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