MIVA Small Business Promotes James Harrell to Vice President & General Manager
Top Performance Marketing Network Chooses Harrell to Lead E-Commerce Division in San Diego
SAN DIEGO– April 13, 2006 – MIVA, Inc., (NASDAQ: MIVA), a leading independent Performance Marketing Network, today announced the promotion of James Harrell to vice president and general manager of its MIVA Small Business Division.
“James has more than eight years of e-commerce experience and engineering management, and his promotion represents a significant step forward to the evolving future of MIVA,” said Peter A. Corrao, chief executive officer of MIVA Corporation. “MIVA and MIVA Small Business intend to expand our e-commerce offerings and platform, and James is a critical ingredient in delivering against that strategy,” said Corrao.
“MIVA Small Business has positioned itself well to provide e-commerce solutions that are flexible, reliable and easy-to-use,” said James Harrell, vice president and general manager of MIVA Small Business Division. “I plan to work very closely with our partners in the development of strong e-marketing services, further solidifying the Company’s market leadership.”
Most recently, James was the director of software development at MIVA Small Business where he was a prime driver in guiding the growth of services and software solutions to end users. Prior to joining MIVA Small Business, James was chief technology officer and a founding partner of Copernicus Business Systems, one of the premier MIVA Merchant software development partners that was subsequently purchased by MIVA Small Business in 2005. While under James’ reign, Copernicus Business Systems grew to a profitable e-commerce start-up with a sales growth of more than 250 percent in one year of operation. James has also helped build business initiatives at start-ups to Fortune 500 companies such as ChanneLogics, Motorola and Georgia Tech Research Institute.
Concurrent with James’ promotion, the Company announced it was relocating its offices within the San Diego, Calif., metropolitan area, enabling the MIVA Small Business team to widen its recruiting initiatives and enhance its business operations.
MIVA, Inc.
U.S. Contact
Michelle Craft
(239) 561-7229
[email protected]
Racepoint Group, Inc.
Doug Fraim
(781) 487-4622
[email protected]
or
MIVA Small Business Contact
Gina Laws
(858) 731-4172
[email protected]
About MIVA®, Inc.
MIVA is a leading independent Performance Marketing Network dedicated to helping businesses grow. Our new media platform facilitates performance marketing for partners (publishers), advertisers and consumers (end-users). Our primary focus is on providing our partners with a complete set of innovative solutions enabling the acquisition, retention and monetization of their online audiences. As an independent provider, MIVA’s primary focus is not to promote a branded destination search engine or portal that actively competes with our distribution partners for end-users. For our advertisers, we provide solutions to manage, optimize and measure return on investment from keyword-targeted and context-related performance marketing programs. We generate traffic and leads to our advertisers through our network of publisher partners. Our integrated e-commerce merchant solutions allow online stores to capitalize on leads by offering robust online storefront, shopping cart, shipping and payment capabilities.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that are based upon current expectations and involve certain risks and uncertainties within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words or expressions such as "plan," "intend," "believe" or "expect'" or variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, some of which are beyond our control and difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements, including (1) our ability to successfully execute upon our corporate strategies, , (2) our ability to participate in the growth opportunities available in our market, and (3) our ability to attract and retain qualified key personnel,. Additional key risks are described in MIVA's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Form 10-K for fiscal 2005. MIVA undertakes no obligation to update the information contained herein.
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Top Performance Marketing Network Chooses Harrell to Lead E-Commerce Division in San Diego
SAN DIEGO– April 13, 2006 – MIVA, Inc., (NASDAQ: MIVA), a leading independent Performance Marketing Network, today announced the promotion of James Harrell to vice president and general manager of its MIVA Small Business Division.
“James has more than eight years of e-commerce experience and engineering management, and his promotion represents a significant step forward to the evolving future of MIVA,” said Peter A. Corrao, chief executive officer of MIVA Corporation. “MIVA and MIVA Small Business intend to expand our e-commerce offerings and platform, and James is a critical ingredient in delivering against that strategy,” said Corrao.
“MIVA Small Business has positioned itself well to provide e-commerce solutions that are flexible, reliable and easy-to-use,” said James Harrell, vice president and general manager of MIVA Small Business Division. “I plan to work very closely with our partners in the development of strong e-marketing services, further solidifying the Company’s market leadership.”
Most recently, James was the director of software development at MIVA Small Business where he was a prime driver in guiding the growth of services and software solutions to end users. Prior to joining MIVA Small Business, James was chief technology officer and a founding partner of Copernicus Business Systems, one of the premier MIVA Merchant software development partners that was subsequently purchased by MIVA Small Business in 2005. While under James’ reign, Copernicus Business Systems grew to a profitable e-commerce start-up with a sales growth of more than 250 percent in one year of operation. James has also helped build business initiatives at start-ups to Fortune 500 companies such as ChanneLogics, Motorola and Georgia Tech Research Institute.
Concurrent with James’ promotion, the Company announced it was relocating its offices within the San Diego, Calif., metropolitan area, enabling the MIVA Small Business team to widen its recruiting initiatives and enhance its business operations.
MIVA, Inc.
U.S. Contact
Michelle Craft
(239) 561-7229
[email protected]
Racepoint Group, Inc.
Doug Fraim
(781) 487-4622
[email protected]
or
MIVA Small Business Contact
Gina Laws
(858) 731-4172
[email protected]
About MIVA®, Inc.
MIVA is a leading independent Performance Marketing Network dedicated to helping businesses grow. Our new media platform facilitates performance marketing for partners (publishers), advertisers and consumers (end-users). Our primary focus is on providing our partners with a complete set of innovative solutions enabling the acquisition, retention and monetization of their online audiences. As an independent provider, MIVA’s primary focus is not to promote a branded destination search engine or portal that actively competes with our distribution partners for end-users. For our advertisers, we provide solutions to manage, optimize and measure return on investment from keyword-targeted and context-related performance marketing programs. We generate traffic and leads to our advertisers through our network of publisher partners. Our integrated e-commerce merchant solutions allow online stores to capitalize on leads by offering robust online storefront, shopping cart, shipping and payment capabilities.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that are based upon current expectations and involve certain risks and uncertainties within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words or expressions such as "plan," "intend," "believe" or "expect'" or variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, some of which are beyond our control and difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements, including (1) our ability to successfully execute upon our corporate strategies, , (2) our ability to participate in the growth opportunities available in our market, and (3) our ability to attract and retain qualified key personnel,. Additional key risks are described in MIVA's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Form 10-K for fiscal 2005. MIVA undertakes no obligation to update the information contained herein.
®Registered trademark of MIVA, Inc.