Timothy Barefield Named Chief Executive Officer of GiftCertificates.com; New CEO Has Been Member of Company's Executive Team since 2000.SEATTLE -- GiftCertificates.com(TM), the nation's leading purveyor (World-Wide Web) Purveyor - A World-Wide Web server for Windows NT and Windows 95 (when available). http://process.com/. E-mail: <info@process.com>. of gift certificates for corporate incentive programs and consumer gifts, today announced that Timothy Barefield has been named chief executive officer of the company. Barefield replaces Michael Ahern There are several people named Michael or Mike Ahern:
"Michael did an outstanding job of helping to grow our company to its current position as a leader in the gift certificate industry," said Winston J. Churchill, board chairman of GiftCertificates.com. "We wish him well in his future endeavors and look forward to him continuing to share his industry and strategic knowledge as a key member of our board. "Tim has been a key member of our executive team for several years and has provided leadership for virtually all operational areas of the company during this period. We're certain that this transition will be as seamless as possible." Barefield joined the company in March of 2000 and has been the company's Executive Vice President of Corporate Sales and Business Development since May 2002. He had previously served as Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. . Prior to joining GiftCertificates.com, Barefield held senior management positions at Swissotel, a global Swiss luxury hotel chain, and Accor North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , the U.S. arm of a French hotel chain. The company also announced that Mike Andrews
"We are excited to have Mike join the team to lead our corporate sales effort," Barefield said. "His knowledge, experience and leadership will help us achieve the growth potential that exists for us in the corporate incentive space." GiftCertificates.com is a private company that was founded in 1997 with the financial support of venture capital and private equity firms including SCP (1) (Service Control Point) A node in an SS7 telephone network that provides an interface to databases, which may reside within the SCP computer or in other computers. Private Equity Partners, W.R. Berkley Corporation, Pilgrim Baxter Hybrid Partners LP, Gotham LP and Mellon Ventures. The company had revenues of more than $95-million in 2003. About GiftCertificates.com GiftCertificates.com(TM) provides gift certificates and related products and services to corporations and consumers. The company's sales organization works with nearly 20,000 corporate customers in all major industries to implement customer and employee acquisition, incentive, loyalty, reward and retention programs. The company's best-selling SuperCertificate(R) product can be redeemed at GiftCertificates.com for original merchant gift certificates, including national and local retailers such as Amazon.com, Macy's, Eddie Bauer(R) and The Sharper Image(R); and for travel services such as American Airlines(R) and Marriott(R) Hotels, Resorts & Suites; personal services personal services n. in contract law, the talents of a person which are unusual, special or unique and cannot be performed exactly the same by another. These can include the talents of an artist, an actor, a writer, or professional services. including Merry Maids and TruGreen ChemLawn; and popular restaurants such as Hard Rock Cafe Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of casual dining restaurants. It was founded in 1971 by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton, and their first Hard Rock Cafe opened near Hyde Park Corner in London, in a former Rolls Royce car dealerships showroom close to Hyde Park, where in 1979 they began to and The Capital Grille. GiftCertificates.com, founded in 1997, is headquartered in Seattle and has a distribution facility in Omaha, Neb. |
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