John E. Koerner Joins FineTooth® Board of Directors

John E. Koerner elected to FineTooth board.

Austin, TX (PRWEB) (PRWEB) November 9, 2006 -- FineTooth® (www.finetooth.com) today announced that John E. Koerner, III has been elected to the FineTooth board of directors.

Currently president of Koerner Capital Corporation, John earned a B.S., a J.D., and an M.B.A from Tulane University. From 1976 to 1995, he was president and co-owner of Barq's Inc. and its subsidiary, The Delaware Punch Company. These two companies marketed, both nationally and internationally, soft drinks bearing the corporate names. During his tenure he was named "Executive of the Year" by Beverage Industry magazine. Barq's was sold to The Coca-Cola Company in July, 1995, whereupon Koerner founded Koerner Capital Corporation. Koerner was chairman of the Tulane University Board from 1998-2003 and in 1995 was chairman of the Dean's Council at the A.B. Freeman School of Business, where he has lectured as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship for a number of years. John is a past chair of the New Orleans Business Council and serves on a number of business boards including Legg Mason, Encelle, Selltis and St. Charles Pharmaceuticals.

"John has a long history of building a personal relationship between consumers and a brand," said Jamie Lagarde, President and COO of FineTooth. "With his business acumen and entrepreneurship expertise, we know he will be a strong addition to our board."

For further information, contact FineTooth at info @ finetooth.com.

About FineTooth

Based in Austin, Texas, FineTooth enables companies to effectively manage both buy-side and sell-side contracts via an on-demand, Web-based solution. FineTooth has applied over a decade of experience in text mining and linguistic search technologies to identify and extract the important business information in contracts, thereby eliminating manual abstraction. The solution helps clients track their obligations and entitlements resulting in tighter spend-management, better regulatory compliance, improved risk management and maximized revenue. FineTooth currently manages over 50 million documents for clients around the world.

For additional information on FineTooth, please visit http://www.finetooth.com.

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