Experience, Inc. Appoints Akamai's Paul Sagan and TechTarget's Greg Strakosch to its Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2003 Industry Pioneers Bring Decades of Media, Information and Technology Expertise to Leading Online Recruiting Company Experience, Inc., the leading provider of university career networks, today announced that it has appointed Paul Sagan, president of Akamai Technologies Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a company that provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. , Inc., and Greg Strakosch, 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. of TechTarget, to its Board of Directors. Sagan and Strakosch each bring more than 20 years of industry experience with leading and fast-growing companies. "We are excited to welcome Paul and Greg to our Board of Directors, and we look forward to learning from their wide range of expertise with emerging companies and proven track records of successful leadership," said Jennifer Floren, president and CEO of Experience, Inc. "Their guidance and incredible depth of knowledge will be tremendous assets to the company as we further strengthen Experience's position in the online recruiting market." Paul Sagan currently serves as president of Akamai Technologies, a leading Internet services provider that enables companies to extend and control their e-business infrastructures through the world's largest globally distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. platform. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Medialink Worldwide, Inc. Previously, Sagan was senior advisor In some countries, a Senior Advisor is an appointed position by the Head of State to advise on the highest levels of national and government policy. Sometimes a junior position to this is called a National Policy Advisor. to the World Economic Forum, where he consulted on information technologies to the largest multi-national corporations, and was president and editor of Time Inc. New Media, where he was responsible for developing the company's online and electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. businesses. He was a founder of Road Runner road runner: see cuckoo. Road Runner thrives on outwitting Wile E. Coyote. [Comics: “Beep Beep the Road Runner” in Horn, 105] See : Cunning Road Runner , the high-speed cable modem service, and Pathfinder, one of the first Web properties that pioneered Internet advertising. Greg Strakosch is co-founder and CEO of TechTarget, a targeted IT media company that has revolutionized technology marketing and is among the fastest growing private companies in Massachusetts. Strakosch has been recognized by BtoB magazine in their "Who's Who in Business Media" and was a finalist for the 2002 Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award. Prior to starting TechTarget, Strakosch served as president of the technology division at United Communications Group (UCG UCG United Church of God UCG Underground Coal Gasification UCG University College Galway UCG Unified Communications Group (Microsoft) UCG Universal Command Guide for Operating Systems (Guy Lotgering book) ), a leading provider of business-to-business information. Before joining UCG, Strakosch led Reliability Ratings, a successful media company he founded and sold to UCG. Strakosch started his career at EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. Corp., where he held senior sales and marketing positions. About Experience Founded in 1996, Experience is the leading provider of e-recruiting software and services that connect universities and employers with college-educated candidates. Currently, Experience's software platform supports more than 500 university career centers and alumni associations, 3 million registered candidates, 100,000 employers, and offers 400,000 job and internship opportunities. Based in historic Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, Massachusetts, Experience is venture-backed by Polaris Venture Partners, Isabella Capital LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Benefit Capital Management Corporation, Diamond Capital and a number of other private investors. For more information, visit www.experience.com. |
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