Burst Media Grows Executive Management Team.New Executives Bring Extensive New Media Online Advertising and Management Expertise BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Burst Media, a leading provider of advertising representation, services and technology to independent Web Publishers, announced appointments to several key management positions. Burst Media has appointed Susan Villare as Chief Financial Officer, David Cooperstein as Chief Marketing Officer and Donald Byrnes as Managing Director of the Burst Network Division. The addition of these industry veterans will help Burst Media adapt to the dynamic nature of the online advertising industry by leveraging each executives' expertise. "The online advertising industry has and will continue to undergo seismic change in 2007," said Jarvis Coffin, 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 Burst Media. "David and Don's business acumen coupled with their deep understanding of the Internet and media will add another dimension to our management team. Susan's financial expertise will be instrumental in setting Burst on a solid foundation for ongoing growth in this competitive marketplace." Susan Villare joined Burst Media in February 2007 as its Chief Financial Officer. She will be responsible for the company's strategic financial leadership. Most recently, she served as the CFO See Chief Financial Officer. of MatrixOne, Inc., a NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on listed company listed company n → compañía cotizable listed company n → société cotée en Bourse listed company list n → , where she played an instrumental role in the company's acquisition by Dassault Systems. While at MatrixOne, Villare also served as Vice President of Financial Planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against and Operations. She also held management positions at Genrad, Inc (a NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange company) and started her career at Price Waterhouse. In his new role, David Cooperstein will spearhead all marketing and branding initiative for Burst Media's three worldwide business units - Burst Network, Burst Direct, and AdConductor[TM]. Prior to joining Burst, Cooperstein held the role of Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Boston-based Gather.com, where he helped develop the leading social networking site A Web site that provides a virtual community for people interested in a particular subject or just to "hang out" together. Members create their own online "profile" with biographical data, pictures, likes, dislikes and any other information they choose to post. for adults. Previously, Cooperstein was Research Director in the retail and telecom industry at market leading analyst firm Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
Bringing more than 20 years of advertising and media experience to Burst, Donald Byrnes will be responsible for driving new business development for the Burst Network business unit. Prior to joining Burst, Byrnes held executive positions at leading advertising and media companies. He spent several years as the CEO of three divisions of Carat North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , the media agency. Earlier in his career, he served as Executive Vice President of Ziff Davis. Byrnes began his career in sales and held various sales management positions at Penton Publishing, EF Hutton 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) , and was a national accounts manager for IDG's ComputerWorld. About Burst Media An online media and technology company founded in 1995, Burst Media (www.burstmedia.com) is a leading provider of advertising representation, services and technology to Independent Web Publishers. Burst Media levels the playing field for independent web publishers and allows advertisers to reach finely segmented, engaged consumers -- in a clutter-free environment -- through an extensive number of interest-based sub-channels. Through its Burst Network and Burst Direct offerings, the company represents the broadest and deepest number of interest-based websites online. Burst also markets its ad management platform, AdConductor [TM], which empowers content web sites, online ad networks, and web portals to manage the complete process of ad sales and service. Burst Media is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with offices throughout the United States and in London, UK. For more information, visit www.burstmedia.com or call 781.272.5544. |
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