Industry Leaders from CompuServe and Prodigy Now Head Online Auction boxLot.com; Barry F. Berkov, Lester S. Briney Bring High-Level Leadership to Growing e-Commerce Site.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 1999-- Barry F. Berkov has been named 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. and Lester S. Briney vice president and chief technical officer of boxLot.com, the online auction site favored by buyers and sellers as easy to use with excellent support and a flair for the unusual. Barry and Les joined boxLot.com because of its compelling value proposition for various e-commerce businesses. What started as one of the first companies to provide an interactive auction site on the Web, boxLot.com is now emerging as a major force in the burgeoning and broader world of online auction services. The company recently announced a customized, co-branded auction site with leading online network theglobe.com (Nasdaq:TGLO TGLO Turbine Generator Lube Oil (submarines) ) for their 10.2 million subscribers. BoxLot is the only auction site to use renowned stamp, coin, and collectible experts hosting online, thereby enhancing and informing their e-commerce community. "Barry has a proven track record in information technology businesses and will be integral in helping boxLot.com become not only an established leader in the auction space, but in other online e-commerce markets which our company will be acquiring," said chief executive officer Frederick A. Cary. "Adding Les's high-level, high-technology experience creates an ideal synergy to reach an online auction market estimated to be $52 billion dollars by year 2003." Berkov brings more than 25 years of business and general management experience, much of it with the world's leading IT companies. At Xerox Corp., he advanced through a series of business information related positions during a seven-year period, followed by five years at CompuServe Inc., where he served as vice president of marketing services when the firm was a provider of financial databases and business-decision products. He left CompuServe in 1982 to become an independent consultant but was persuaded in 1984 to return as vice president of business development. He subsequently was promoted to senior vice president of product marketing/business support and development, where he managed more than 3,000 products and services for CompuServe and pioneered private-label information services See Information Systems. for companies such as Novell, Microsoft, Lotus, and Ziff-Davis, and spearheaded CompuServe's entry into the European market. From 1990-95, Berkov served as executive vice president of the CompuServe Information Services division with global profit-and-loss responsibility and a 1,200-employee staff. From 1996 until joining boxLot.com, he was an independent business management, product development, and marketing consultant on technology issues for Ziff Davis Ziff Davis Inc. (ZD) is an American magazine publisher and Internet Information company. It was founded in 1927 in Chicago by William B. Ziff, Sr. and Bernard G. Davis. Throughout most of its history, it was a publisher of hobbyist magazines, often ones devoted to expensive, , McKesson/HBOC and other major firms. Berkov holds a bachelor of arts degree in government from Pomona College Pomona College: see Claremont Colleges. in California and a master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. in business administration from the University of Dallas The University of Dallas is a Catholic institution. It seeks to educate its students to develop the intellectual and moral virtues, to prepare themselves for life and work, and to become leaders in the community. . Briney has more than 25 years of high-level experience with the world's leading high-tech companies. His first professional experience was with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , where he remained for 16 years, rising through a series of research, development, sales and management positions. He left IBM to start a company that built pre-PC telecommunications computers. After the PC's introduction foretold fore·told v. Past tense and past participle of foretell. the company's future, he joined Prodigy Services Co. at its inception. There he spent 10 years developing the network infrastructure and architecture of the Prodigy system as executive director of architecture, technology, communications and member software development. Then, as a vice president at SystemSoft Corp., he created a product that utilizes expert systems technology and Internet servers to automatically solve problems users encounter with their PCs. Prior to joining boxLot.com he was CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. at Electronic Retailing Systems International Inc., where he developed a wireless 20,000-plus-node network for displaying prices in supermarkets and drugstores. Headquartered in San Diego, boxLot.com is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. originally founded by two dedicated collectors from Vermont who share their users' passion for fabulous finds, remarkable deals and sharing what they've learned. To support better its significant growth, boxLot.com has upgraded its bandwidth and server capacity by moving its servers to Exodus, the host site for such online giants as Buy.com, eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY), Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), USA Today and Fujitsu. The company's Internet site is www.boxlot.com, and can also be accessed from auctions.theglobe.com. |
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