Chihoe Hahn Named President and Chief Executive Officer of Chipshot.com.Business Editors and Sports/Retail Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2001 Chipshot.com, a leading custom golf club manufacturer and e-tailer of golf merchandise, today announced that Chihoe Hahn has been named president and chief executive officer of the company. He will be responsible for the management and growth of Chipshot.com, a company recently reorganized following the purchase of assets of Chip Shot Golf Corporation by Austin-based Eco Associates, an affiliate of Interfase Capital. In December 1996 Hahn founded GolfClubTrader.com, the first company to develop consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and trading operations in the golf industry, and served as president and chief executive officer until May 1999, when the company was acquired by CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. Sportsline.com. Hahn served as director of golf merchandising while at Sportsline. Previously, Hahn served as general counsel, vice president of NetsWork Inc., a Pleasanton, Calif.-based cabling and networking company, and earlier was a principal in the consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a of Planned Financial Solutions. He practiced corporate and securities law as an attorney at the 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 City-based law firm of Chadbourne & Parke, and later at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. Hahn holds a B.A. degree with honors from Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was , and earned an M.A. degree in political theory at Columbia University. He also received a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law The New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. in 1992. Chipshot.com, currently based in Sunnyvale, Calif., will relocate to Austin, Texas, at the end of March 2001. The company anticipates assembling a headquarters staff of up to 25 employees comprised of new hires and transferees from California. About Chipshot.com Chipshot.com is a leading Internet-based retailer of custom-built, tour-quality golf clubs as well as a full complement of golf accessories and apparel. Visit http://www.chipshot.com. Chipshot(tm) is the property of Chipshot.com. |
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