BravoGifts.com Announces Key Sales and Technology Appointments to Senior Management Team; Leading Executives Bring Distinctive Leadership Experience to Online Business Gift Leader.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000 Online business gifts leader BravoGifts.com (http://www.bravogifts.com) today announced the appointments of Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith (born December 16, 1969 in Rathcoole, County Dublin), now more commonly referred to by her married name, Michelle de Bruin, is an Irish former swimmer. as vice president of global sales, Dr. Charles Yang as CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and vice president of engineering, and Lynnly Labovitz as vice president and Web site general manager. These recent additions to BravoGifts.com's executive team solidify the company's efforts to build the sales and technology teams. Michelle, Charles and Lynnly are expected to play key roles in BravoGifts.com's continued growth as the online business gifts leader. Michelle Smith comes to BravoGifts.com as vice president of sales with more than 20 years of sales experience in the incentive and promotions industry. Prior to joining BravoGifts.com, Michelle served as president of the corporate sales division of Premium Incentives, a full-service premium incentive and promotional marketing firm. Before her time with Premium Incentives, Michelle was National Director of U.S. Operations for Hudson's Bay Loyalty Management -- a division of Hudson's Bay Company Hudson's Bay Company, corporation chartered (1670) by Charles II of England for the purpose of trade and settlement in the Hudson Bay region of North America and for exploration toward the discovery of the Northwest Passage to Asia. , Canada's most experienced full-service incentive program provider. Prior to joining Hudson's Bay Loyalty Management, Michelle spent more than 7 years as the divisional manager for Macy's Corporate Sales and Services, the corporate incentive gift and awards division of Macy's. Michelle brings a strong record of achievement in development and growth of loyalty management and corporate incentive programs, as well as sales to national accounts. Michelle is responsible for the overall corporate sales strategy and building and management of a direct sales team at BravoGifts.com. Dr. Charles Yang brings exceptional e-commerce and technology experience to BravoGifts.com. As CTO and vice president of engineering for BravoGifts.com, Charles is Charles I, duke of Lower Lorraine Charles I, 953–992?, duke of Lower Lorraine (977–91); younger son of King Louis IV of France. He claimed the French throne when his nephew, Louis V of France, died (987) without issue, but he was set aside in responsible for the site's overall e-commerce technology. Prior to joining BravoGifts.com, Charles was the director of Gap On-line where he successfully managed the recruiting, planning, designing, and development of several end-to-end e-commerce sites including www.gap.com, www.babygap.com, and www.gapkids.com. Before his tenure at Gap Inc., Charles was manager, department of Web applications for Canon Information System Inc. where he managed, architected and designed an integrated Internet Commerce System. Prior to joining Canon, Charles was manager, department of windows applications for PIXERA Corp. where he gained extensive experience with digital image processing Digital image processing is the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images. Digital image processing has the same advantages over analog image processing as digital signal processing has over analog signal processing — it allows a much wider . Lynnly Labovitz joins BravoGifts.com as vice president and Web site general manager with more than 15 years of strategy and management experience. Lynnly will work closely with the BravoGifts.com technology teams to guide site design and functionality. Most recently Lynnly was providing consulting services to e-commerce start-ups including Petopia.com where she was acting vice president of the site. Lynnly also previously held management positions at Sapient sa·pi·ent adj. Having great wisdom and discernment. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sapi Corporation, where she was Engagement Director, and at CKS CKS Checks CKS Center for Korean Studies (UC Berkeley) CKS Center for Knowledge Societies CKS Carajas, Para, Brazil - International / Brasilia Brazil (Airport Code) CKS Crankshaft Sensor Partners where she was director of Web strategy &online services. Prior to CKS Partners, Lynnly worked at Vivid Studios, where she directed various online projects for Microsoft, Silicon Graphics and Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. . Before her time at Vivid Studios, Lynnly held numerous strategic and management positions at leading design and interactive agencies including Landor Associates Landor Associates is a San Francisco-based brand and creative design consultancy. Founded by Walter Landor in 1941, Landor pioneered many of the research, design and consulting methodologies that are now standard in the branding industry. , Foote, Cone &Belding, and Studio Archetype archetype (är`kĭtīp') [Gr. arch=first, typos=mold], term whose earlier meaning, "original model," or "prototype," has been enlarged by C. G. Jung and by several contemporary literary critics. . &uot;In order to expand our market leadership, we have brought in seasoned sales and technology executives to accelerate our position as the ultimate resource for unique business gift products, services and features -- addressing business gift-giving occasions throughout the year,&uot; said Allyson Campa, president and 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 BravoGifts.com. &uot;Michelle has many years of experience developing comprehensive and unique incentive and award programs, while Charles and Lynnly bring an extensive technical history of building outstanding e-commerce experiences. With the support of these talented professionals, BravoGifts.com is better positioned to become the only destination corporate gift-buyers will ever need for all of their business gift-giving needs.&uot; About BravoGifts.com BravoGifts.com is the first e-commerce site tailored exclusively to the needs of the business gift market. BravoGifts.com offers the best selection of brilliant business gifts found in any one place, business gift advice and etiquette, unique gift selection tools, and many special corporate services Activities that combine or consolidate certain enterprise-wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners. . The company's broad collection of brand name and specialty business gifts range from executive toys and gadgets, to golf and weekend getaways, theater and sports tickets, and gourmet foods. Founded in 1999, the company has headquarters in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and recently received a number one ranking over other online gift sites in the Ease of Use category in the Gomez Advisors' Internet Gift Scorecard. More information can be obtained by visiting http://www.BravoGifts.com, or by calling 415/934-3800. |
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