Deja News CEO Joins Board of VaultReports.com.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 1999-- DejaNews 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. Tom Phillips, former Starwave and ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network executive and co-founder of Spy magazine, Joins Board of Directors of Silicon Alley's VaultReports.com VaultReports.com continues to strengthen its position as a leading electronic recruiting company by doing some impressive recruiting of its own: today VaultReports.com names Tom Phillips, CEO of online powerhouse Deja News, to its Board of Directors. Phillips brings years of new media and publishing experience to VaultReports.com. In 1985, Phillips co-founded the cutting-edge Spy magazine, whose rapier wit and satire of the rich and famous made the magazine an icon of the 80's. After selling Spy in 1991, Phillips joined Seattle-based Starwave, where he built all of the company's online services. With Disney's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DIS) purchase of an interest in Starwave, Phillips became president of the affiliated ABC News Internet Ventures and ESPN Internet Ventures. Phillips currently heads up Deja News, the leading online discussion network, which provides free access to some 80,000 online discussion forums. He holds a BA in applied mathematics from Harvard 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 Stanford Business School. "I look forward to helping VaultReports.com fortify its position as the first nationally-known brand for careers," said Phillips. "VaultReports.com is uniquely positioned to leverage its extensive library of 'insider' career content and rapidly attract job seekers to its electronic headhunting service, VaultMatch." The appointment of Phillips as director comes on the heels of several major achievements for VaultReports.com. Last month, the company registered its 50,000th job seeker for its VaultMatch recruiting service. The company was also recently profiled by Forbes, which called Vault's content a "fun read [with] edgy details." This month, VaultReports.com is included as one of only two career Web sites in Yahoo! Internet Life's elite ranking of the "Best of the Best Web Sites for '98." Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. licenses the name of Yahoo! (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 :YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), the global Internet company. About VaultReports.com Rated "4 stars (out of 4)" by Yahoo! Internet Life, VaultReports.com is a leading Internet career-research and recruiting service for job seekers. Based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , VaultReports.com provides a proprietary service called VaultMatch(tm) (http://www.vaultreports.com/vaultmatch), an online recruiting tool that matches young, professional job seekers with corporate employers and headhunters. Augmenting VaultMatch(tm) is VaultReports.com's award-winning collection of Vault Reports Employer Profiles, Vault Reports Industry Guides, and Vault Reports-Houghton Mifflin career books. VaultReports.com also licenses its award-winning career content to leading web sites such as Yahoo!, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , and Wall Street Journal Interactive. VaultReports.com was founded in 1996 by Samer Hamadeh, Mark Oldman, and H.S. Hamadeh, recent graduates of Stanford and Wharton. |
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