Yodlee Appoints Three New Senior Executives.Business Editors REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2004 Industry Veterans Peter Hazlehurst, Aditya Palande and Steve Barham Join Rapidly-Growing Aggregation Technology Leader Yodlee, Inc. today announced the appointment of three new senior executives -- Peter Hazlehurst as Senior Vice President of Engineering; Aditya Palande as Vice President of the Data Team; and Steve Barham as Senior Director of Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. -- in a move to bring new leadership to three critical areas of the business to meet accelerated market growth for aggregation-powered solutions. "Aggregation technology is no longer just a 'one-page, one-password' account view; it is powering a host of financial solutions -- from Personal Financial Management (PFM) to Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment See EBPP. (EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment) Sending invoices to customers over the Internet. When payment is due, an e-mail is sent with a link to a Web page that contains the billing information and the payment services that are supported. ), Real-time Authentication for online transactions, Financial Advisor solutions, and more -- for many of the world's leading financial institutions and portals," said Anil Arora, 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. of Yodlee. "The addition of experienced veterans like Peter, Aditya and Steve to our team will enable us to execute on our vision to deliver substantial new capabilities to the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. market that drive new revenue for our customers. I'm thrilled to have such strong, proven leadership for our engineering, data, and professional services organizations." As the pioneer and leading provider of account aggregation Account aggregation is a method that involves compiling information from different accounts, which may include bank accounts, credit card accounts, investment accounts, and other consumer or business accounts, into a single place. technology, Yodlee today provides personalized access to over 8,000 account data sources and supports nearly five million consumers and over 100 leading financial services providers, including AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Chase, Citibank, Fidelity, Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. , MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , Wachovia, and Yahoo!. With its expansion into additional market sectors, including EBPP, Wealth Management, Risk Management, and Personal Finance, Yodlee is also growing its staff and leadership to continue its commitment to product innovation and customer service. As Senior Vice President of Engineering, Peter Hazlehurst will be responsible for all of Yodlee's product engineering activities and quality management initiatives worldwide, including the company's India operations. He is a technology visionary with 13 years of product engineering and leadership experience. Most recently, Hazlehurst was director of product development at Nokia Enterprise Solutions, where he was responsible for all product engineering, management, and research and development operations for the Nokia Access Mobilizer Unit. Prior to Nokia, Hazlehurst held positions as founder and senior executive with several enterprise software companies and his thoughts have been published in numerous publications, including BAI's Retail Delivery and Windows in Financial Services magazines, as well as author of the book Using Sybase System An earlier family of SQL development tools from Sybase that included SQL Server, SQL Toolset (design, development and control) and Client/Services Interfaces (distributed database architecture). It is no longer supported. See SQL Server. XI. "Yodlee has created a unique and powerful technology that will, I believe, ultimately touch nearly every online user," said Hazlehurst. "The potential uses of this technology are endless, and I'm very excited to be leading the engineering efforts to help bring ever-increasing value and functionality to our customers through a disciplined, process-oriented development process. The market will see continued and accelerated innovation in the coming months and year, as aggregation takes new forms and functions within financial services." Aditya Palande is Vice President of the Data Team, overseeing Yodlee's unique data infrastructure, operations, and tools, which securely gather, cleanse, normalize normalize to convert a set of data by, for example, converting them to logarithms or reciprocals so that their previous non-normal distribution is converted to a normal one. and present personal account data from thousands of data sources to power Yodlee's product solutions: OnCenter (PFM), BillDirect (EBPP), AdvisorView (Wealth Mgmt), and Instant Account Verification (Risk Mgmt). Yodlee's data gathering techniques have received multiple patents -- the only patents awarded in the aggregation industry. Palande was most recently vice president of engineering, chief technology officer and founder of Altius, Inc., a web development software company specializing in financial services, where he architected, designed and implemented a software security product for authentication using biometrics. He also served as Interim CEO at Altius, and previously, Sublimate sublimate /sub·li·mate/ (sub´li-mat) 1. a substance obtained by sublimation. 2. to accomplish sublimation. sub·li·mate v. 1. , Inc. Prior to Altius, Palande held senior technical positions at Fusion One, Inc. and Hewlett Packard. "The complexity, efficiency, and scalability of Yodlee's underlying data infrastructure is unparalleled," said Palande. "I'm really enjoying working with Yodlee's data experts to expand the data model and extend the architecture to support innovative new products, like BillDirect and AdvisorView, to provide the richest data set available, for any Yodlee-powered application, in a secure and reliable model, which our customers expect." As Senior Director of Professional Services, Steve Barham is responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction in the effective planning, deployment and utilization of Yodlee products and services. In addition, Steve oversees the consulting team that enables customers to leverage Yodlee's deep product knowledge and technology expertise to build custom solutions. Barham's scalable deployment methodology will allow Yodlee to successfully deliver against increased sales and growing market demand. Prior to Yodlee, Barham was co-founder and senior vice president of mPower, Inc., the first e-finance ASP to offer online investment advice to consumers, which raised over $100 million in venture financing before being acquired by Morningstar in 2003. He also held additional executive level positions within mPower, overseeing client services, sales and marketing. "Yodlee's leadership position in the marketplace and strategic relationships with the country's largest and most influential banks, brokerages and portals is an incredible advantage and opportunity," said Barham. "I'm tremendously excited to be joining such a dynamic company at a time when the market and product demands are growing exponentially. I look forward to a strong partnership with our clients to help them create and measure the ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). of aggregation technology." About Yodlee Yodlee is the trusted leader in enabling financial service providers (FSPs) to develop and deliver superior financial products and services, increasing customer profitability. Yodlee's unique aggregation technology powers and enhances a multitude of online financial offerings, including Personal Finance applications (OnCenter Suite), EBPP solutions (BillDirect), Wealth Management applications (AdvisorView), and Risk Management applications (Instant Account Verification). Yodlee operates in the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Japan, and has amassed more than four million users, over $180 billion aggregated across its network, and more than 150 clients, including the world's top financial institutions and portals: AOL, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Citibank, CUNA Cuna Chibchan-speaking Indian people who once occupied the central region of what is now Panama and the neighbouring San Blas Islands and who still survive in marginal areas. In the 16th century they lived in federated villages under chiefs who wielded considerable power. , Fidelity, Wachovia, J.P. Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, MSN and Yahoo! Yodlee is headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. and can be reached at www.yodlee.com. |
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