Fatbrain.com Promotes Dennis Capovilla to President and Chief Operating Officer.Business Editors 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)--Dec. 21, 1999 Fatbrain.com(TM) (Nasdaq:FATB FATB Florida Association of Ticket Brokers ), the Internet's most comprehensive bookstore for professionals, today announced it has named Dennis Capovilla, age 39, to the newly-created position of president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . Capovilla will report to Chris MacAskill, who continues as chief executive officer. In his new role, Capovilla will lead the day-to-day operations of the company and drive growth of the business-to-business strategy. MacAskill will focus on extending the strategic direction of the company into new areas. The company also announced that chief financial officer Don Alvarez will leave Fatbrain.com to pursue other opportunities. Alvarez will be replaced on an interim basis by Janet Hall, senior director of finance. "During the past two and a half years, Dennis has led the development of our e-commerce business to hundreds of corporate accounts and forged numerous key strategic alliances. His successful track record makes him the ideal candidate to expand upon past successes and ensure operational excellence moving forward. We also thank Don Alvarez for his substantial contributions to Fatbrain.com's growth over the past two and a half years, and we are pleased to have such a strong internal financial team led by Janet Hall," said MacAskill. Capovilla joined Fatbrain.com in June of 1997 as vice president of sales and business development. During the last two years he has spearheaded partnerships with industry leaders, global corporations and Fortune 1000 firms including Microsoft, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. and Hewlett-Packard Company. Capovilla has driven the company's sales, business development, customer service and product management strategies. Prior to joining Fatbrain.com, Capovilla was director of Apple Computer's Americas Imaging Division & Worldwide Printer Supplies, a $500 million business, including color inkjet printers, scanners and digital cameras. A five-year veteran of Apple, Capovilla also held several worldwide managerial marketing positions. Prior to joining Apple, Capovilla spent ten years with Xerox Corporation (company) XEROX Corporation - http://xerox.com/. See also XEROX PARC, XEROX Network Services. in various management positions. Capovilla earned a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies in marketing from the University of Santa Clara, and did graduate work at Santa Clara's Leavey School of Business The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University was founded in 1923 and accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business twenty years later. . Hall joined Fatbrain.com in September of 1997, after serving more than five years in the audit and assurance practice of Deloitte & Touch. Hall earned a Masters in Business Administration 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 a Bachelor of Science in finance and accounting from the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . About Fatbrain.com Fatbrain.com(TM), the Internet's most comprehensive bookstore for professionals, is the first e-commerce provider to deliver secure digital publishing through its eMatter initiative. Recently named the number two fastest-growing public company in Silicon Valley, Fatbrain.com offers a world-class selection of books, training materials and documentation for professionals in business and finance, technology, other industries and now the general interest category. Through its corporate intranet bookstore program, Fatbrain.com is accessible from the desktops of more than 1.75 million employees at customer sites. Fatbrain.com offers discounts of up to 40 percent, and all in-stock orders placed by 4 PM PT ship the same business day. Visit Fatbrain.com on the Web at http://www.fatbrain.com. Fatbrain.com is a trademark of Fatbrain.com, Inc. All company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion