Circle.com Names Kendall Allen General Manager of San Francisco Office; Appointment Comes on Heels of Several New Business Wins.Business/Technology Editors BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2000 Circle.com (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 :CIRC), a leading international provider of Internet professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , has promoted Kendall Allen to General Manager of its 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 office. Previously Vice President of Marketing Services, Allen is charged with elevating an already robust, three-practice Circle.com office providing creative (design/content), marketing, and technology services. Reporting to 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. Robert T. Wilke, Allen will further prepare the San Francisco office for increased growth and marketplace presence in 2001. "Circle.com San Francisco has recently experienced a dramatic uptick in new business," Wilke said, "winning contracts with companies like Applied Biosystems, Chandon Estates, eLance, and Nuance in this year's third quarter alone. Much of that success can be attributed to Allen's grasp of what it takes to drive a client's online business." "We take great pleasure in announcing Kendall's promotion to General Manager, San Francisco," said Roger Black, Allen's former supervisor and Chief Creative Officer at Circle.com. "Kendall shares Circle.com's commitment to creating a new kind of consulting firm that goes beyond the old definitions of an ad agency or design firm or engineering shop. She will help to create the premiere Internet strategy firm in the Bay Area - and one that is able to execute its consulting advice with real, lasting, and measurable results." Allen's eight years experience on both the client and agency sides of the Internet industry give her a unique and invaluable perspective. Her first-hand knowledge of client goals is complemented by a proven track record of building successful online businesses. Prior to joining Circle.com in February 2000, Allen worked at Excite@Home, where she was charged with the co-creation of the Publisher Services operation within their Digital Marketing division. Before signing on with Excite@Home, Allen was the Director of Client Services for USWeb/CKS (now marchFIRST) Marketing Practice. In that position she and her staff revived a flagging Audience Development practice as part of the roll out of the agency's Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) service offering. She provided senior marketing and strategic consultation to such clients as SC Johnson and Ask Jeeves as well. In 1993, Allen joined the first wave of the Internet revolution, signing on as one of six founding staff members at Thrive Online. While there, her marketing savvy helped double site traffic, earning Thrive (now part of Oxygen Network) a place as the #1 consumer health site on the Web. About Circle.com http://www.circle.com Circle.com (NASDAQ: CIRC) is an Internet professional services provider that creates complete end-to-end Web enabling solutions for its Fortune 1000 and emerging Internet-based clients worldwide. Circle.com, through its 13 offices and over 550 associates worldwide, specializes in Internet-based marketing and customer relationship management systems. Circle.com is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland and is a division of Havas Advertising (NASDAQ: HADV). 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