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KickApps Appoints Key Product Development Executives to its Well-Respected Management Team
KickApps Appoints Key Product Development Executives to its Well-Respected Management Team |
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Former AOL Managers Join Leading Social Media Company NEW YORK (April 10, 2007)— KickApps Corporation today announced the appointment of Mike Sommers as Senior Vice President of Product Management in the company’s NYC office and Cameron Shaw as Vice President of Product Management who will work for the company primarily on the west coast. “Mike and Cameron are highly talented technology professionals who also have a real understanding and passion for social media experiences on the Web,” said Alex Blum, CEO of KickApps. “Their broad experience and expertise will be a great addition to our team as we continue to extend the industry’s most comprehensive community-building platform.” Mike Sommers has over 12 years experience building Internet products. Most recently he was VP of Product Development for AOL Search. Prior to that role Sommers was responsible for developing AOL’s first multimedia search products, including AOL Video Search, Podcast Search and Audio Search. In 7 years at AOL, Sommers also managed a variety of products including the AOL Toolbar, AOL Deskbar, AOL Desktop Search, You’ve Got Pictures, AOL Alerts & Reminders, AOL Greetings and Digital City. Cameron Shaw joins KickApps with a decade of knowledge in online entertainment and small business products. He was the product lead for AOL’s first music subscription service and laid the groundwork for that company’s digital transaction platform. Shaw also led integration of the Apple iTunes catalog across the AOL network. Most recently, he led the release of the UnCut Video user-generated video site. Shaw’s other major product accomplishments include the launch of Netscape Small Business portal.
About KickAppsSelected by BusinessWeek readers as Best of the Web 2008, KickApps provides brands, enterprises and web publishers with solutions that enable social, interactive, dynamic, distributed and data-informed web experiences. KickApps solutions consist of a suite of hosted social and media applications and services that are used by some of the world’s largest websites and brands to grow & engage their online audiences and foster deeper relationships with customers. Clients include: Budget Travel, H&R Block, U2, CW Television, Guinness World Records, Special Olympics, HBO, Cinemax, Cox Television, the Phoenix Suns, the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers and thousands of other sites. For more information, visit www.kickapps.com and www.kickdeveloper.com. KickApps Public RelationsMichael Chin212-730-4558 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it |

