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NetGift ManagementEd Fadel, Chief Executive OfficerEd Fadel was one of the founders of NetGift in 1998 and continues to provide the company with its long-range vision of being the industry standard for gift registries on the Internet. Though only 37, Ed has already achieved a long history of successes in creating and running businesses. In 1987, Ed founded CD Superstore with partner Paul Mayer and the company quickly grew to over $35 million in sales with over 300 employees. In 1994, CD Superstore was sold for $17.5 million to Borders Group, at the time a subsidiary of K-Mart and now the $2 billion parent company of Waldenbooks and Borders Books. Ed operated the company for over a year as one of three divisions of Borders Group, experiencing the IPO process and the operations of a public company. In 1998, Ed and Paul Mayer founded Fusion Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital fund and full services business incubator. Fusion Ventures provided seed money for NetGift and helped recruit other investors, as well as providing valuable services to get the company started. Ed can be reached at efadel@netgift.com. back to the top Tom Skelton, Chief Operating Officer Tom Skelton joined NetGift Registry as Chief Operating Officer in November 1999. Prior to NetGift, Tom has been serving as COO or CEO for application software companies for the past 12 years. Most recently he served as President and CEO of Cambar Software, an application software company, based in Charleston, SC, providing supply chain execution software to Fortune 2000 companies both domestically and internationally. Prior to Cambar, Tom served as as COO of Manugistics, Inc., a NASDAQ listed company and a leader in the area of supply chain planning. Tom was a member of the management team as they took the company from a loss laden time-sharing services company with $14 million in revenue to a leader in supply chain planning company with more than a billion market cap. Tom can be reached by e-mail at tom@netgift.com. back to the top Rudy Pataro, Chief Technology Officer Rudy Pataro is an accomplished information technology professional, until recently the Director of Internet Systems for the Borders Group, Inc. At Borders, he managed all technology design, implementation, and maintenance for a high-volume, multimedia, multi-tier, real-time e-commerce system. This included management of a multi-million dollar technology budget that included personnel, software, and hardware expenditures. Prior to Borders, Rudy was director of software development at Compuflo, Inc., a company involved in the development of computational fluid dynamics; and at Chrysler Corporation where he lead an engineering staff responsible for all in-house computational mechanics software development. Rudy holds his BS from Lehigh University and his MS from the University of Michigan. Email Rudy at rudy@netgift.com. back to the top Jock Johnston, Vice-President, Business Development Jock Johnston has more than a decade of strategic marketing, start-up, business development and management expertise. As founder of the sports media company College Sports Network (CSN), Jock served in various management positions including CEO. CSN published print and web sports periodicals for major college conferences like the Atlantic Coast Conference. Jock's career in television news and entertainment includes producing segments for the "Larry King Live Show", on-the-air sports reporting for a Los Angeles based TV station, and independent production of instructional videos. Jock received his BS in Marketing Management from Tulane University. You can contact Jock at jock@netgift.com. back to the top Crash Gregg, Vice President, e-Commerce, roduct Development Working for Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Glaxo-Wellcome and Nortel, Crash brings to NetGift a diverse background of experience in areas such as marketing, e-commerce, web development, networking, and graphic design. With knowledge gained from positions including Director of Marketing, GUI Design Manager and President of a local web development firm, Crash helps position NetGift as the foremost turnkey gift registry solution on the Internet. Crash received his BA with a concentration in Marketing from North Carolina State University. Contact Crash at crash@netgift.com. back to the top Grainger McKoy, Co-founder and Director, Strategic Relationships Grainger McKoy brings over 10 years of business development experience and has direct experience working with large retail partners. Grainger founded and was CEO of Interactive People Systems, a developer and marketer of multi-media kiosks for retailers. Interactive People Systems' largest installation was with Best Buy where it provided all Best Buy stores with music video sampling kiosks. Grainger holds a BS in Finance with a minor in Accounting from Clemson University. You can contact Grainger at graingerm@netgift.com. back to the top
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