FineTooth Appoints Jay B. Johnston to its Board of Directors

FineTooth Appoints Jay B. Johnston to its Board of Directors

Austin, TX (PRWEB) October 20, 2006 -- FineTooth® (www.finetooth.com) today announced that Jay B. Johnston has been elected to the FineTooth board of directors.

Jay currently serves as chairman of QuesTek Innovations, LLC, a privately held company that designs and markets high tech materials. From 1975 through 1999, he held numerous positions at Abbott Laboratories, most recently corporate vice president for Diagnostic Assays and Systems. His other positions with Abbott Laboratories included president of Dainabot Co. Ltd. and vice president Asia Pacific. Jay has experience in general management, product development, technology management, strategic marketing and business development. He holds an MBA in General Management from Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and an AB degree in Public Administration from Dartmouth College.

“Jay is a strong addition to our board,” said Jamie Lagarde, President and COO of FineTooth. “He has outstanding experience in innovation and product development, and we’re looking forward to having him on the team and we will definitely benefit from his experience”

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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