Corbis Promotes Three Executives, Positions Company for Strong, Continued Growth in Digital Visual Content Market.Business Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000 Strategic excellence in diverse areas of visual content company rewarded Corbis(R), the leading provider of digital photography and fine art images on the Internet (www.corbis.com), today announced the promotion of three executives--Leslie Hughes, Ingvar Petursson, and David Rheins--to senior management positions. With responsibilities in the areas of licensing, technology, consumer products, and business development, the three executives have enabled Corbis to achieve more than 40 percent organic growth in the digital visual content market in the past year. "I am honored to announce the well-deserved promotions of three strong leaders who have helped to build a powerful management team," said Steve Davis For other people with this name, see . Steve Davis, OBE, (born August 22, 1957, Plumstead, London[3]) is an English professional snooker (and to a lesser extent pool) player. He won 6 Snooker world titles during the 1980s. , 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. and president, Corbis. "Through their strategic excellence, Leslie, Ingvar, and David have firmly established the Corbis brand and maintained our leadership and momentum as an industry pioneer." Leslie Hughes has been promoted to senior vice president, Corbis, and president, Corbis Images. She most recently served as vice president and managing director of Corbis Images, with responsibility for Corbis' worldwide professional image licensing business. Under her leadership, Corbis Images has become the leading stock photography provider on the Internet--with more than two million digital images available--and one of the fastest-growing stock photography agencies worldwide. Hughes came to Corbis in 1997 from The Image Bank, formerly a subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak Company. She holds an undergraduate degree “First degree” redirects here. For the BBC television series, see First Degree. An undergraduate degree (sometimes called a first degree or simply a degree from Colorado College and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University Southern Methodist University, at Dallas, Tex.; United Methodist; coeducational; chartered 1911. The school's facilities include laboratories for electron microscopy and stable isotopes, a museum of paleontology, and a graduate research center. . Ingvar Petursson has been named senior vice president, technology and operations. In this role, he is responsible for the digital media operations and technology development for Corbis worldwide. Prior to joining Corbis, Petursson served as senior vice president and chief technology officer for The Regence Group, and he developed world-class technology teams as chief information officer at McCaw Cellular and AT&T Wireless Services. Petursson received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. and an MBA from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . David Rheins has been promoted to senior vice president, Internet Ventures, from his previous position as vice president of Corbis' consumer division. In his new role, he will continue to manage the development of Corbis' consumer offerings, designed to bring fine art and photography to consumer audiences through the Internet, and will oversee corporate Internet business development. Rheins joined Corbis in 1997, bringing more than 15 years of experience in traditional media to the development of Corbis' innovative consumer strategy. He previously served as senior vice president of advertising at iVillage, and has also held senior positions at Spin, Cosmopolitan, and Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person magazines. Rheins holds undergraduate degrees in English and journalism from Indiana University Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ. . About Corbis Corporation Corbis Corporation is the definitive destination for photography and fine art in the digital age. With 65 million images--2.1 million on line--it is the leading provider of digital images to both the consumer and creative professional markets. The company provides imagery to creative professionals in magazine, book, and newspaper publishing, advertising and graphic design, and Internet and new media publishing. Corbis is also the world's leading news photography agency. Its consumer image products include e-cards, personal-use digital images, and framed and unframed prints and posters. The company uses its extensive Internet technology to allow customers to quickly and conveniently access and purchase images. Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in 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 , London, Los Angeles, and Paris, the privately owned company has approximately 900 employees worldwide. For more information about Corbis and its products and services, call 1-800-260-0444, 425/641-4505, fax 425/746-1618, or visit the Web site at www.corbis.com. Corbis, Corbis Images, and The Place for Pictures on the Internet, are registered trademarks of Corbis Corporation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion