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Invictus Medical Names Kelly Rodriques to Board

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SAN ANTONIO (PRWEB) February 27, 2014

Invictus Medical, the San Antonio-based medical device company dedicated to providing newborns with healthy developmental milestones, today announced that Kelly Rodriques has been named to its Board of Directors.

Rodriques is a nationally respected business executive and advisor with an extensive background in investment management and venture capital, and a history of founding companies, creating jobs, and increasing value for shareholders. He currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of PENSCO, Inc., and PENSCO Trust Company in San Francisco. With more than $ 10 billion in assets under custody, PENSCO is a retirement account custodian specializing in alternative assets.

“Kelly Rodriques not only is an accomplished executive, but a widely respected and sought-after advisor who represents the greatest principles of leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship and who has achieved success across an incredibly diverse set of business ventures,” said Tom Roberts, Invictus Medical President, CEO and Board Member. “We are honored to have him as a director of our company and proud to have an entire board with such depth and breadth of experience at every level of business.”

Prior to joining PENSCO in 2010, Rodriques worked as Chief Executive Officer of Totality Corporation, now a software and services unit within Verizon. He also was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Novo, an Internet marketing and media company sold to Publicis Groupe in 2001. Additionally, he served as Operating Partner of Ignition Growth Capital, where he focused on investing in early- and mid-stage growth companies. Rodriques currently serves as a board member to mobile financial services pioneer mFoundry. He also is a previous board advisor to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

“The companies I have founded or led have been diverse in nature, but similar in that they had great people excited to be part of something special,” said Rodriques. “Invictus has that same ‘something special’ – in addition to being fundamentally, financially, and operationally well positioned. That is what I always look at first – the people. Tom Roberts and the leadership team at Invictus Medical and my fellow directors on the board possess three traits that help build great businesses. First, they are doing what they love; second, they know their priorities; and third, they think big. There is great potential for Invictus and those across the marketplace will benefit from it.”

Invictus Medical’s Board of Directors also includes Chairman Steve Dufilho, an accomplished financial services and health care CEO with deep board and governance experience; Lynne Nauss, a well respected global health care and medical device executive; Tom Roberts, President and CEO of Invictus Medical; and, Eric Eisbrenner, Chief Financial Officer of Invictus Medical.

Rodriques graduated from Fresno State University, where, among other accomplishments, he was a world-class collegiate pole vaulter. He competed in the U.S. Track and Field National Championship and in the 1986 World Games in Helsinki, Finland.

Rodriques is married and lives with his wife and three children in Marin County, California, where he is actively involved in youth sports.

Invictus Medical’s technology interest focuses on combating deformational plagiocephaly (DP), a cranial deformity exhibited in infants resulting from repeated external pressure to one area of the head. In addition to being a cosmetic issue, according to a study published in Pediatrics in 2013, DP has been associated with heightened risk for developmental delays in infants and toddlers.

The company anticipates initially marketing its product to pediatric hospitals and NICUs. The company expects to submit its 510k application to the FDA in the first half of 2014 and estimates launching its first product within the year. Invictus Medical closed its seed round of funding in 2013 at 100 percent of target, has raised more than $ 2 million to date, and began its Series A funding in the first quarter of 2014.

About Invictus Medical

Invictus Medical is a San Antonio, Texas-based medical device company that aims to ensure that children are able to attain their developmental milestones. As evidenced by their award-winning innovations, Invictus Medical has been at the forefront of pediatric care since its founding in 2012. Invictus Medical is a privately held company. For more information about Invictus Medical or investor relations, please call Kevin Belgrade at (210) 275-7009.







CrowdSource Names Erin Steinbruegge as Chief Operating Officer

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Swansea, Illinois (PRWEB) April 11, 2013

CrowdSource, an industry leader in managed crowdsourcing solutions, announced today the appointment of Erin Steinbruegge as Chief Operating Officer. Steinbruegge joins CrowdSource’s executive leadership team and will oversee day-to-day operations, including: product development, engineering, workforce management and marketing. This is the second time Steinbruegge has joined Stephanie Leffler, CrowdSource Co-Founder and CEO, in managing a high-growth business. From 2005 to 2007, Steinbruegge led marketing operations for MonsterCommerce, Leffler’s e-commerce company that was acquired by NetworkSolutions in 2006.

“Erin possesses the right combination of vision and execution; I am thrilled to work with her again and know she will help us take CrowdSource to the next level,” said Stephanie Leffler. “Erin’s track record of success and extensive experience building and leading passionate teams that deliver strategic solutions to enterprise clients will help us capitalize on the rapidly-growing market for scalable content solutions. She’s someone who will make an immediate impact.”

Launching and leading startups focused on digital products is a familiar environment for Steinbruegge. After leaving Network Solutions, she founded the Loud Few, a St. Louis-based digital marketing agency that was acquired by advertising agency Moosylvania in 2011. As Partner and Chief Digital Officer of Moosylvania, Steinbruegge headed the agency’s digital operations, leading the agency to two of its most successful years in history and more than tripling the size of its digital team. She is also the founder of iScream Social, a content marketing application by Moosylvania that is currently in beta.

“CrowdSource’s technology is both innovative and disruptive in positive ways, which immediately captivated me,” said Steinbruegge. “I am honored and inspired to lead a team that is solving one of marketers’ biggest challenges right now, which is how to produce quality content at scale. We’re changing the way people work, literally.”

About CrowdSource:

CrowdSource is the industry leader in a multi-billion dollar market, providing clients with on-demand access to a scalable workforce. CrowdSource specializes in content solutions for Fortune 500 online retailers, publishers and media companies. By using a distributed workforce, clients receive high-quality, cost-effective results at unprecedented speed. For more information, visit http://www.CrowdSource.com.







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Daily Crowdsource Names CrowdSource a Company to Watch

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Swansea, Illinois (PRWEB) February 23, 2012

According to “CrowdCensus,” under the leadership of CEO Stepanie Leffler and Vice President of Sales Ken Stoddart, Crowdsource.com is the newest qualifying CSP [Crowdsourcing Service Provider] in this fairly new space and has attacked the market with quick growth, robust scalability, and a solid vision to increase their market share. Their leadership and past corporate experience combined with their vision for continued growth make this CSP the most interesting company to watch in the coming year.

By focusing on quality control through testing, plurality and a dedicated internal quality control team, CrowdSource offers clients high-quality, cost-effective results. The “CrowdCensus” report states, Their aggressive crowd curating efforts also help ensure high quality, which The Daily Crowdsource considers another major factor for future success in microtasking CSPs.

Due to Leffler’s clear vision for the company, the Daily Crowdsource views CrowdSource as a frontrunner in the fast-growing industry. The four-year-old company is on pace to increase revenue by 1100% in 2012 based on preliminary first quarter 2012 sales. Because we are solving major business problems using a crowd-based model for some of the worlds largest companies, we are experiencing explosive growth, noted Leffler.

About CrowdSource

CrowdSource provides full-service crowdsourcing solutions to accomplish labor-intensive tasks with unprecedented speed and superior quality. By providing pre-qualified groups of skilled workers, breaking complex tasks into microtasks and employing quality-controls, CrowdSource eliminates the most common problems associated with scaling labor intensive tasks.

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