San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 29, 2005
SAN MATEO, Calif., November 29, 2005—Jigsaw Data Corporation, the online global marketplace for buying, selling and trading business contact information, announced that it has appointed Ethan Prater as vice president of product marketing. Ethan will apply his experience in developing products for the consumer and enterprise communities at Yahoo! and IGN Entertainment to expand the features and services offered by the Jigsaw marketplace.
“The Jigsaw database has been growing exponentially since our launch a year ago through the collective contributions of our member community,” said Jim Fowler, CEO and co-founder of Jigsaw. “Ethan’s background in collaboration and online communities will help us to identify new opportunities and to build an even better product that will provide our members, who are mostly sales, marketing and HR professionals, with a competitive advantage.”
Ethan Prater joins Jigsaw from Yahoo!, where he was director of product marketing for advertising sales, responsible for integrating contact and consumer purchase data with advertising targeting and analytics. Prior to Yahoo!, he worked as director of sales operations & client services at IGN Entertainment, the market leader in web content, community, and subscriptions for males aged 18-34. Ethan has also held positions in enterprise product management at DoubleClick and NetGravity.
Ethan holds a bachelor’s degree in German literature from Yale University and an MBA in marketing and operations management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
"Jigsaw is leveraging the power of online communities to provide a service that is fundamentally changing the way we access business data,” said Ethan Prater, vice president of product marketing for Jigsaw. “I look forward to helping Jigsaw challenge the status quo and empowering our members to shake up the data business.”
About Jigsaw
Jigsaw (http://www.jigsaw.com) is an online marketplace where members buy, sell and trade business contact information. Jigsaw offers a directory of business contacts that shortens the time required of sales, marketing and HR professionals to find the contacts they need. The database is built and maintained by the global membership, resulting in the most up-to-date corporate directory in existence. Jigsaw Data Corporation is located in San Mateo, Calif., and is funded by El Dorado Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners.
Contact:
Alice Khounta
Antenna Group Public Relations (for Jigsaw)
415-977-1916
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