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Steve Reich Joins LeisureLink Inc.


Veteran Executive Added to Growing Management Team

PASADENA, Calif. -- LeisureLink Inc. today announced that veteran sales and marketing executive Steve Reich Noun 1. Steve Reich - United States composer (born in 1936)
Stephen Michael Reich, Reich
 has joined the management team as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Reich is the second senior executive to join the company in 2006.

"Steve will energize en·er·gize  
v. en·er·gized, en·er·giz·ing, en·er·giz·es

v.tr.
1. To give energy to; activate or invigorate: "His childhood
 the sales and marketing process at LeisureLink," said Erik Hovanec, President and 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. . "His experience will be invaluable in creating a professional, highly effective team that will further accelerate LeisureLink's growth," he said. Hovanec joined the company in early 2006, and is overseeing dramatic growth at LeisureLink Inc.

Steve has over 15 years of sales & operations experience in both public and private technology companies. He has held executive positions with Digital Insight Corporation (symbol DGIN DGIN Digital Insight Corp (stock symbol) ) and Treasury Services Corporation. As SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please)
SVP Senior Vice President
SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party)
SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
SVP Social Venture Partners
SVP St Vincent de Paul
 Sales and Marketing, Steve was responsible for helping to position Digital Insight as the leading Internet banking ASP solution while driving sales from $4 million to $55 million in less than 3 years. While at Treasury Services, Steve was responsible for building the sales organization and increasing sales from $4 million to $35 million in a five-year period. Treasury Services was sold to Oracle Corporation for $120 million.

Steve will provide critical leadership to LeisureLink in developing and managing the sales- and marketing-related activities of the company. He will be responsible for sales to property managers, as well as managing relationships with existing clients. "LeisureLink is positioned to dramatically change the industry," said Reich. "Vacation rentals are a hidden jewel of the travel business, and will clearly take market share away from hotels as we aggressively market them across all electronic channels," he said. "I'm delighted to join the LeisureLink team at such an exciting moment," said Reich.

Steve will also be working with major industry trade groups such ARDA Noun 1. ARDA - an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology
Advanced Research and Development Activity
, VRMA VRMA Vacation Rental Managers Association
VRMA Vocational Rehabilitation Maintenance Allowance
VRMA Virginia Retail Merchants Association
VRMA Vehicle Restraint Manufacturers Association (UK) 
, C.A.R.E., and NACHO, to advance the vacation rental industry as a whole. He will also oversee the company's relationships with its clients, and with key strategic partners in vacation rental management software and services industries.

"The strong management team we are building at LeisureLink is critical to the company's success," said Jim Armstrong, Managing Director of Clearstone Venture Partners Clearstone Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on IT investing with offices in Santa Monica, CA, Menlo Park, CA, and Mumbai, India. Founded in 1997, as Idealab Capital Partners, Clearstone is responsible for the early-stage funding of many successful  and a member of LeisureLink's Board of Directors. "We will continue to add senior executives such as Steve and Erik, as we become a dominant distribution channel for the vacation rental industry," he said.

About LeisureLink

LeisureLink was founded in June of 2002 with the goal of making vacation rental properties widely available through online travel sites and traditional travel agents. LeisureLink not only delivers broad distribution, but also provides revenue management tools that maximize property managers' profitability in all market conditions and seasons. Our clients include vacation rental, timeshare, and condohotel properties.

About Clearstone Venture Partners

Clearstone Venture Partners provides venture capital for technology innovators. With offices in Santa Monica and Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 37°29' North, longitude 122°9' East. Menlo Park had 30,785 inhabitants as of the 2000 U.S. Census. , Clearstone has $650 million of committed capital to invest across the horizon of technology markets, including software, enterprise infrastructure, storage, communications, security, wireless, semiconductors, advanced optics and both consumer & business Internet. The firm's investors include investment entities of JP Morgan, CalPERS, CalSTERS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and The State of Michigan. Clearstone has a proven history of leadership in financing and building high-growth technology start-ups, having backed segment-leading companies, including PayPal, United Online, Overture, and PeopleSupport.
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