CommTouch Appoints Vice President of Marketing.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 1999-- CommTouch Software, Inc. (www.commtouch.com) a provider of partner-branded, web-based email Web-based email or webmail is a term referring to an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through an application such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, Mozilla's Thunderbird or Apple's Mail. has appointed Rip Gerber vice president of marketing. Gerber will be responsible for all marketing activities associated with CommTouch and the Company's brand portfolio, including the ZapZone Network(SM), BizToGo(TM) and ProntoMail(TM). "With his strong marketing background and experience, most recently in the direct email marketing field, Rip was the ideal candidate for us," said CommTouch president, Isabel Maxwell. "Rip's skills will undoubtedly help build the expanding CommTouch brand and we are thrilled to have him onboard as CommTouch leads the email charge into the next millenium." Gerber brings to CommTouch more than fourteen years experience in customer service and on-line communications. Formerly president and founder of @once Inc., an email direct marketing company, Gerber also founded Pantheon Consulting Group, where he advised Silicon Valley communications and Internet companies on strategic planning and venture capital. Prior, he held senior management roles with Deloitte & Touche, American Express and Firestone. About CommTouch CommTouch is a leading global provider of private-label email messaging services, offered exclusively through the Web sites of major Internet portals, small specialty Web sites, ISPs and small businesses. CommTouch email services are designed for superior performance and rapid scalability, offering websites the opportunity to brand the email user interface in fourteen of the world's major languages. The company partners with internationally recognized consumer-driven organizations, including Excite (Nasdaq:XCIT), McGraw Hill's Business Week magazine (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MHP MHP Multimedia Home Platform (consumer electronics) MHP Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (Turkish: National People's Party) MHP Mobile Home Park (district) MHP Maximum Human Performance ), Discovery Channel Online, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (NYSE:NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform ), Ziff-Davis (NYSE:ZD), Talk City, LookSmart, Netopia (Nasdaq:NTPA NTPA National Tractor Pull Association NTPA New Trades Processing Architecture NTPA Naval Technical Proficiency Assist ), Hachette Multimedia, Universal Studio, The Headbone Zone, News Corp. (NYSE:NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) ), People's Daily ChinaByte and the Hollinger Group's Jerusalem Post. Additional information about CommTouch may be obtained at: www.commtouch.com. Founded in 1991, CommTouch is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California and has a major research & development center in Ein Vered, Israel. |
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