BoatsDirect.com Names Geoffrey Infeld Director of Business Development.Business Editors SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2000 BoatsDirect.com, the leading online new boat retailer, announced today that Geoffrey Infeld has been appointed director of business development. BoatsDirect.com is the first Internet-based boat retailer that enables consumers to review, research, price, finance, insure, order, purchase and arrange delivery of a new boat. Infeld was previously director of business development at AutoWeb.com, where he led the company's revenue-generating programs for online auto insurance, financing, extended warranty The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and related ancillary Subordinate; aiding. A legal proceeding that is not the primary dispute but which aids the judgment rendered in or the outcome of the main action. A descriptive term that denotes a legal claim, the existence of which is dependent upon or reasonably linked to a main claim. automotive services. He successfully developed and negotiated relationships with Citibank, Nations Bank, GE Financial Assurance, State Farm, Quicken A popular financial management program for PCs and Macs from Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.intuit.com). It is used to write checks, organize investments and produce a variety of reports for personal finance and small business. , Infinity infinity, in mathematics, that which is not finite. A sequence of numbers, a1, a2, a3, … , is said to "approach infinity" if the numbers eventually become arbitrarily large, i.e. , Saturn and Sears. He also played a key role with the investment community leading up AutoWeb's initial public offering in March 1999. While Infeld was at AutoWeb, annual revenues increased from $300,000 to over $30 million. "Geoff is an accomplished Internet strategist strat·e·gist n. One who is skilled in strategy. Noun 1. strategist - an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) strategian market strategist - someone skilled in planning marketing campaigns , a strong executive and a pioneer with a proven ability to develop successful e-commerce business models," said Dan Jennings, president and chief executive officer. "He is an outstanding addition to the BoatsDirect.com team. Our initial expectations for BoatsDirect.com are being exceeded on a number of fronts and we are now focused on the full-scale launch of the business." "BoatsDirect.com has created an exciting solution that addresses the clear and vocal customer need for a quality, Internet-based purchasing experience for boating enthusiasts," said Infeld. "Having helped pioneer a faster, better, easier way to enable consumers to buy cars and trucks, I am delighted to have this opportunity to bring a new and innovative Web-based solution to the boating industry." Infeld was previously general manager and a co-founder of Autoscape Inc., the nation's first successful online car buying service, which was acquired by AutoWeb in January 1997. Prior to that he was an independent consultant for Consumers Car Club (www.Carclub.com) ) and Toland Marketing Inc., an automotive marketer. From 1992 to 1995, he was regional director for Vehicle Information Network and a founding member of 1-800-CAR-SEARCH. Infeld is a 1990 graduate of the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . About BoatsDirect.com BoatsDirect.com is the leading Internet retailer for new boats. The company's objective, product-neutral Web site provides low prices and a full-service purchasing environment that enables consumers to research, price, finance, insure, order, purchase and arrange delivery of a new boats. BoatsDirect.com is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif. |
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