Ofoto Expands Executive Team; Industry Veterans Expand Leadership of Premier Online Photography Service.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2000 Ofoto, Inc., the premier online photography service, announced the expansion of the executive team, to expand offerings and services. The new hires at Ofoto include: Lee Kirkpatrick, Chief Financial Officer; Robert Carroll, Vice President of Web Products; and, Kat McCabe, Vice President of Corporate Affairs. "With the recent additions to the Ofoto executive team, the company is positioned to continue to innovate and lead the online photography category," said James Joaquin, 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, Ofoto, Inc. "Ofoto is committed to the highest-quality photography and superior customer service. With this management team, we now have the best business people to continue Ofoto's dominance of online photography." Lee Kirkpatrick brings seventeen years of finance experience to the Ofoto team. He has experience in guiding online service companies and has rapidly built F&A departments on four different occasions. Lee has held Chief Financial Officer positions at iOwn.com, Hyperparallel, Inc., and Quotron Systems Inc. Lee also spent nine years at Reuters America, holding various financial management positions. Robert Carroll brings many years of technology expertise to his role at Ofoto. Most recently, Robert was Vice President/Design and Technology Services of ZDNet, heading up ZDNet's central product development and overseeing core design and technologies for over 60 sites and 400,000 pages. Prior to ZDNet, Robert was a founding team member of Global Network Navigator Global Network Navigator - (GNN) A collection of free services provided by O'Reilly & Associates. The Whole Internet Catalog describes the most useful Net resources and services with live links to those resources. The GNN Business Pages list companies on the Internet. (GNN GNN - Global Network Navigator ), an Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. and the first commercial Web site. Following the acquisition of GNN by America Online See AOL. in 1995, he continued as Director of Programming for the pioneering Internet venture. Robert is Robert I, duke of Normandy Robert I (Robert the Magnificent), d. 1035, duke of Normandy (1027–35); father of William the Conqueror. He is often identified with the legendary Robert the Devil. also a founder of father.com, a Web site for empowering fathers and their families, and an advisor to girlgeeks.com, a career, training, and mentoring community for women in technology. Kat McCabe brings extensive legal experience to Ofoto, helping the team structure and execute its business plans and partnerships. Kat joins Ofoto from the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden office of Fenwick & West LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , a Silicon Valley-based law firm representing startup and high-growth technology companies. At Fenwick, Kat represented software companies and Internet-based businesses, structuring and negotiating distribution, joint development and ecommerce relationships, as well as counseling her clients on protection of intellectual property, consumer privacy and general corporate matters. About Ofoto, Inc. Founded in July 1999, Ofoto, Inc. (www.ofoto.com) is the premier online photography service offering a way for millions of people to use the Internet to transform photography into the fastest, easiest and most enjoyable experience possible. Ofoto delivers a world-class service to its customers and partners providing secure online photo storage, film and digital processing Digital processing is the process of altering digital data in any form. The most common situations where digital processing is involved are computer graphics and digital audio processing. , the highest quality silver-halide prints, and photo display and storage merchandise. Ofoto online photography services are available from www.ofoto.com or through the Ofoto partner sites including: Corbis, Excite@Home, Getty Images, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, PhotosToGo and Sony. A team of fotogenic business veterans run Ofoto, Inc. with experience from companies such as America Online, Apple Computer, Critical Path, CyberCash, Williams-Sonoma, Polaroid and StarMedia. Ofoto is privately funded by The Barksdale Group, Benchmark Capital Benchmark Capital is a venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of some very successful startups, including eBay. In 1995, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which became worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999 and resulted in one of Silicon Partners and a small group of nearly angelic investors. |
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