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Casper Raises $1.6 Million from Investors Including Lerer Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners

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New York, NY (PRWEB) February 25, 2014

Casper, the company delivering a better sleep experience with better designed mattresses and a superior delivery system, today announces the close of a $ 1.6 million dollar seed round. Led by Lerer Ventures, the round also includes investments from Norwest Venture Partners, Crosslink Partners, Vaizra Investments, and Correlation Ventures.

Casper’s founding team is a mix of e-commerce professionals and design engineers who share a vision to boost creativity, productivity, and health through an improved sleep experience. Philip Krim, co-founder and CEO, sold over 40,000 beds online through an e-commerce company he started as a sophomore at the University of Texas. Jeff Chapin, co-founder and product lead, worked on R&D and design for Sealy while at IDEO in Boston.

Casper, launching in late Spring, will initially offer a single mattress construction. The mattress is designed and engineered with comfort in mind: it contours to the body, reduces pressure, eliminates sinking in and overheating, but also provides excellent bounce-back – a welcome addition for mattress activities other than sleep. By eliminating costs associated with retail partnerships, distribution, and storage, Casper is able to reinvest in the product.

“We’ve made a concerted effort to focus on the elements that actually affect sleep – you would be shocked at the games retailers and manufacturers play solely for marketing purposes with no added benefit to the consumer,” says Krim. “It’s a liberating opportunity to make a bed from scratch, solely on our own terms.”

“I have been sleeping on a Casper for the last couple of months and I can only say that the sleep is awesome,” says Ben Lerer, Managing Director at Lerer Ventures. “The entire team is perfectly suited to take their vision of what people need for a better night’s sleep and transform the entire category.”

“Mattress shopping is a viewed by a large percentage of the market as one of the more difficult and frustrating shopping experiences, only surpassed by the experience of buying a used car,” said Josh Goldman, general partner at Norwest Venture Partners. “Casper is focused on fixing this archaic process that consumers endure today by bringing a high quality product to the $ 12.4B mattress market at an extremely disruptive price point. We have the utmost confidence that the leadership and design expertise of this team will deliver some much-needed transparency to the sleep industry.”

Casper products will be available in the coming months at http://www.caspersleep.com. The company is currently accepting applicants for their beta testing program.

About Casper

Casper is rewriting the rules of the mattress industry by providing a universally comfortable sleep experience. With better sleep comes more productivity and creativity. Casper’s mattress is a responsive one – designed to contour to your body, reduce pressure, ensure you won’t sink in or overheat, but also provide excellent bounce-back – perfect for mattress activities other than sleep. By eliminating storage and retail partners, Casper’s superior mattresses cost a third of the closest retail equivalent. Please visit http://www.caspersleep.com/ and follow us on Twitter @caspersleep.

About Lerer Ventures

Lerer Ventures is a New York-based, seed stage venture capital fund led by managing directors Kenneth Lerer, Eric Hippeau, Ben Lerer and Jordan Cooper. LV invests in founders in the earliest stages of a startup’s life, seeking out entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and unwavering ambition. Its portfolio includes BuzzFeed, Warby Parker, Thrillist, Birchbox, Percolate, Sailthru, Fullscreen, Songza, Chartbeat, RebelMouse, Refinery29 and many more.

About Norwest Venture Partners

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a multi-stage venture capital and growth equity investment firm that has partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years. The firm manages over $ 3.7 billion in capital and has funded more than 500 companies since inception. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., NVP has subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India and Herzelia, Israel. NVP makes early to late-stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including: technology, information services, business services, financial services, consumer products/services and healthcare. For more information, please visit http://www.nvp.com and follow NVP on Twitter @NorwestVP.







Grow Africa Partners Double Investment Plans for Agriculture to $7.2 billion

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Grow Africa Partners Double Investment Plans for Agriculture to .2 billion
The second most referenced constraint is a lack of alignment between (and within) public sector institutions and the private sector, which slows down, or deters, investments and project execution. “The 2013 Grow Africa report shows good progress on …
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Murphy Oil Management Discusses Q1 2014 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
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Check (formerly Pageonce) Partners with Alltel Wireless to Deliver Mobile Bill Payment to Its Customers

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Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) June 04, 2013

Today, Check announced a partnership with Alltel Wireless, a subsidiary of Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc., to provide Alltel customers with the ability to pay and track their bills on their smartphone. The service is now available across all smartphones offered by Alltel.

Recognizing the increasingly important role of mobile commerce, Alltel was interested in finding a top-notch solution that would help customers with bill payment and management. Their search ended with Check, the leading mobile bill payment service in the US. Alltel customers can now track everything through one app: Check – Bills & Money.

“Prior to Check, people would suffer through the headache of navigating dozens of websites to pay their bills,” said Guy Goldstein, CEO of Check. “Check simplifies everything into a single mobile app and takes the work out of paying bills.”

“We are excited to help partners, such as Alltel, provide a great mobile bill pay experience to their customers without the cost of building the technology themselves.”

“With the rapid adoption of smartphones, mobile payments is the fast-growing way to pay consumer bills”, said Gwenn Bezard, co-founder and research director of Aite Group. “Billers that provide a simple and convenient way to view and pay bills with a mobile device stand to improve customer satisfaction and increase their opportunities to interact with customers. Alltel’s partnership with Check demonstrates the firm’s understanding of the importance of providing a superior customer experience, and the economic benefits of providing a great mobile bill pay capability.”

Alltel customers can download the Check app for free from the Alltel App Shop, Google Play Store and the iTunes App Store. Features of the Check app include visibility into all transactions and bill details, including access to monthly bill statements in PDF, real-time bill due alerts, and the ability to make and schedule payments.

About Check

Launched in 2008 and now used by 8+ million customers, Check – Bills & Money is a top-rated finance app, winning the Android Editor’s Choice Award 2012, Apple’s Best of the New Year 2013 and named CNNMoney’s “Cadillac of Money Management Apps”. Privately held and based in Palo Alto, California, Check is funded by Morgenthaler Ventures, Pitango Ventures, and Silicon Valley angel investors. For more information, visit http://www.check.me.

About Alltel Wireless

Allied Wireless Communications Corporation (AWCC), doing business as Alltel Wireless, is a wireless telecommunications provider serving customers in six states. Headquartered in Little Rock, AR., AWCC is a subsidiary of Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. For more information, please visit http://www.alltelwireless.com.

Contact

Raksha Varma, raksha(at)check(dot)me







Startup Ideas to Exits from YC Partners and Alumni – Pioneer Festival 2013

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STARTUP IDEAS TO EXITS FROM YC PARTNERS AND ALUMNI Michael Seibel, SocialCam/Justin.tv Tikhon Bernstam, Scribd/Parse Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors an…

Art Center College of Design Partners With Caltech, Teams With Idealab to Launch First Design-Focused Incubator in Southern California

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(PRWEB) June 26, 2013

Pasadena, CA: Art Center College of Design and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) today announced the launch of The Design Accelerator, an incubator aimed at helping startups grow by merging great design, cutting-edge technology and business strategy to create innovation. The Accelerator initially will be housed within Idealab, which is well known for creating and operating pioneering companies in its own right.

“In today’s economy, artists and designers play a vital role as creative leaders and catalysts for innovation and change,” said Art Center President Lorne M. Buchman. “Integrating technology, design and business, The Design Accelerator creates an opportunity for Art Center and Caltech alumni to expand on what they learned as students and provides a stimulating space for their concepts to become viable businesses.”

The Accelerator is an integral part of Art Center’s 2011–2016 Strategic Plan. Understanding students’ concerns about employment prospects following graduation, The Accelerator fills a critical gap by giving students and alumni the opportunity to develop their concepts into sustainable and commercial ventures—a bridge between academic and professional life.

Fred Farina, Caltech’s chief innovation officer, adds, “We know that making connections across different areas fuels innovation, and that’s why we’re excited about this collaboration. The combination of our complementary but very different perspectives in a startup team promises powerful results.”

The Design Accelerator benefits from its prime location in Pasadena, Calif., which has become a hotbed of innovation and entrepreneurship with vibrant creative, technology and business communities, enriched by the presence of Art Center, Caltech, angel investors and venture capitalists.

“By virtue of their respective international leadership positions in design and technology, Art Center and Caltech are ideally positioned to establish a groundbreaking model with tremendous influence in the business and higher education sectors,” said Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard.

After an extensive application process, The Accelerator has selected promising early stage, design-driven technology companies from the Art Center and Caltech communities to participate in the intensive three-month program. During that period, the fledgling companies will be located in the Pasadena offices of Idealab, a technology-focused incubator.

Idealab CEO Bill Gross sits on the boards of both Art Center and Caltech and is thrilled to be part of their partnership. “Having started more than 100 companies,” Gross said, “Idealab is excited to help bring The Design Accelerator to life, further growing the Southern California startup community. We look forward to sharing with young entrepreneurs the lessons we’ve learned from 17 years of starting companies.”

Businesses are selected for The Accelerator based on their ability to demonstrate the value of human-centered design in support of advanced technologies, and the potential to disrupt the marketplace. Startups in the first class include a foldable electric bike company, a healthcare company focused on using 3D scanning and printing to provide custom-fit medical products and a web-based company that allows consumers to custom design their own household products.

Leading The Design Accelerator are co-founders Mark Breitenberg and Erik Hovanec. Breitenberg is the special assistant to the president of Art Center College of Design and was hired by President Buchman to develop the initiative. He was formerly the provost at California College of the Arts and was president of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design until 2011. Hovanec has extensive startup experience. He has been the CEO of LeisureLink, Inc. and was an early executive at both Green Dot Corp. and GoTo.com/Overture Services, Inc. He also advises and is an investor in early stage companies in Los Angeles.

“Great design creates emotional bonds and a seamless experience between technology and users,” said Breitenberg. “Both startups and the venture community are beginning to recognize the competitive advantage that design brings to business.”

The Design Accelerator is the first among Southern California incubators to focus on design. According to Hovanec, “We are focused on using the power of great design to create market disruption, and we believe that markets reaward disruption. It’s the same phenomenon we see with Apple’s smart phones or Pinterest’s website.”

Teams in The Accelerator’s immersive environment will be provided with seed capital from a related investment fund, as well as professional mentorship in design and technology drawn from the world-class faculties of Art Center and Caltech. Mentors in marketing and business strategy from the local community have also joined the initiative. The companies will employ low-cost startup methods and have access to Art Center’s preeminent rapid prototyping and 3D modeling facilities. The goal by the end of the three-month term is that each startup will be positioned to raise larger rounds of funding from angel, strategic or venture capital investors.

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a world-renowned science and engineering research and education institution, where extraordinary faculty and students seek answers to complex questions, discover new knowledge, lead innovation, and transform our future.

Caltech’s scientific, engineering, and technological contributions have earned national and international recognition, including the 32 Nobel Prizes awarded to its faculty and alumni. Caltech offers a rigorous science and engineering curriculum for approximately 1,000 undergraduates and 1,300 graduate students. Caltech’s 124-acre campus is located in Pasadena, California. The Institute also manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA, and owns and operates large-scale research facilities such as its world-renowned seismological laboratory and a global network of astronomical observatories that includes the Palomar Observatory and the W. M. Keck Observatory. Caltech is an independent, privately supported university.

Art Center College of Design is a global leader in art and design education. Art Center offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide variety of art and design disciplines, as well as public programs for all ages and levels of experience. Renowned for its ties to industry and professional rigor, Art Center is also the first design school to receive the United Nations’ Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status, providing students with opportunities to create design-based solutions for humanitarian and nonprofit agencies around the world. During the College’s 80-year history, Art Center’s alumni have had a profound impact on popular culture, the way we live and important issues in our society.

The Design Accelerator and its seed-stage investment fund are for-profit entities created by Art Center College of Design in partnership with Caltech.

Images: High-resolution video and images are available for download from this online gallery: http://www2.artcenter.edu/designoffice/TDA/.







Elevate Ventures Partners with Southwest Indiana Region Community Stakeholders to Launch Regional Entrepreneurship Action Plan

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Indianapolis, IN (PRWEB) July 12, 2013

Elevate Ventures, a private venture development organization that assists and invests in high-growth, high-potential early and second-stage companies, announced a partnership with key community stakeholders to launch the Elevate Ventures Regional Entrepreneurship Action Plan (REAP) in Southwest Indiana. The first phase, also known as Quick Start, will provide local entrepreneurial resources and access to the firm’s funds under management. Elevate Ventures manages over $ 80 million in funds through its 21st Century Research & Technology Fund, its Indiana Angel Network Fund, its Community Development Fund and its recently launched Diversity Fund.

The introduction of this program will make several vital resources available to the region’s entrepreneurial community, including investment capital for high-potential, high-growth companies, the local placement of Elevate Ventures Entrepreneurs-In-Residence, participation in a statewide investor network, and the offering of Economic Gardening services to local second-stage companies.

First launched in October 2011 in Northern Indiana, the REAP is a four-year program designed to stimulate economic activity and to facilitate the emergence and development of high-potential companies into high-performing businesses. Through the REAP, Elevate Ventures staff, in partnership with local business leaders, economic development organizations, and other local stakeholders, will provide assistance and capital to identified early-stage and second-stage companies that have the intent and capacity to grow their business.

“Through REAP, Elevate Ventures will provide a fast track for entrepreneurs in this region by offering key services such as business analysis, advisory services and resources to succeed long-term and help companies move past many of the initial challenges they might face,” stated Carl Chapman, Vectren Corporation’s President and CEO. “Our region has been steadily building a network of stakeholders and partners to provide the foundation for growth environments just as it has with many other regional initiatives; and, we are ready to launch REAP to provide momentum in helping the businesses located here to arrive at success sooner,” stated Becky Skillman, President of Radius Indiana.    Vectren Corporation and Radius Indiana are REAP funding stakeholders.

Bob Myer, an Evansville area resident, angel investor, and a director at Elevate Ventures, will be an acting Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the region. Elevate Ventures plans on hiring two additional Entrepreneurs-In-Residence.

The program offered by Elevate Ventures has had great success in the northern regions of Indiana, where it was first implemented. Results include an increase in the number of funding applications from the region, a greater number of companies obtaining funding from Elevate Ventures and private investors, and significant increases in employment and revenue growth for participants in the Economic Gardening program.

Among many stakeholders who are eager to see these services come to the region, few are more enthused than Greg Wathen, President & CEO of the Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana.

“We are in a position to catalyze the resources already existing in the region,” said Wathen, when asked about the potential impact of the REAP. “Elevate Ventures and the services its team offers will help us do that. We’ve already had several years of traction, and this is one of those critical steps that could truly ignite unprecedented growth in our community. We’re very excited to see how this program will benefit Southwest Indiana businesses.”

For more information on the programs and services offered by Elevate Ventures, visit http://www.elevateventures.com. To apply for funding or services, visit http://www.elevateventures.com/apply.

About Elevate Ventures

Elevate Ventures is a private venture development organization that nurtures and develops emerging and existing high-potential businesses into high-performing, Indiana-based companies. Elevate Ventures accomplishes this by providing access to capital, rigorous business analysis and robust advisory services that connect companies with the right mix of resources businesses need to succeed long-term. As a not-for-profit organization, Elevate Ventures is able to offer unbiased, in-depth perspective and recommendations. To learn more about Elevate Ventures, its team and its funds under management, visit http://www.elevateventures.com.

About the Southwest Region REAP Stakeholders

Southwest Region stakeholders who provided funding to support the REAP include Bingham Greenbaum Doll LLP, City of Evansville, Economic Development Coalition of Southwest Indiana, Fifth Third Bank, Freedom Bank, German American Bancorp, Indiana Economic Development Corporation, Jasper Engines & Transmissions, Koch Enterprises, Memorial Hospital & Healthcare Center, Menke Charitable Foundation, Old National Bank, Radius Indiana, Regional Impact Fund, Ron Romain, Seufert Construction and Supply and Vectren Corporation.

Counties included in the Southwest Region REAP are Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox, Lawrence, Martin, Orange, Perry, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and Warrick.







Ken Wallace Films Partners with Visual Effects Artists to Develop Crowdfunding Campaign for The Amazing Adventures Of Victoria Clarke

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 01, 2013

As movie studios tighten their grip on development, Hollywood producers must search for creative ways to bring their ideas to life, and many see internet crowdfunding as the future of independent story development. Film and Video projects are the most successfully funded category on Kickstarter, with over 25,000 having raised more than $ 107 million dollars to date. Producer Kendrick Wallace is developing one such project, The Amazing Adventures of Victoria Clarke (http://www.victoriaclarkeadventures.com), as both a feature film and as an original series to be pitched to high-end content providers looking for tent-pole material for their networks.

“The successful crowdfunding of some very high-profile projects has empowered creative people with movie ideas to go directly to the audiences to get their stories told. I feel that ultimately it is more rewarding to interact directly with the people who are interested in your project. By having a dialog with fans of the genre, and by really listening to what they want, my hope is that they will feel invested personally in the success of the project and will be willing to support it by spreading the word in social media, and of course by contributing on funding sites such as Kickstarter,” said Kendrick Wallace, Producer and Creator.

Kendrick Wallace has been working in Hollywood feature films for the past 20 years, and has produced visual effects on numerous high-profile movie projects, most recently Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter®. This is his first attempt at developing a project using social media and crowd-sourced funding.

“It is important to me to set up a Kickstarter Campaign that has the greatest chance of success possible. For me, that means creating awareness and excitement with the fan base for this genre of movie. I’ve been spending countless hours on social media spreading the word, but I’m just one person and I can’t do it all.”

In order to create exciting images that will fire up the fans, Ken turned to his peers in the visual effects community, and reached out to artists with an interest in steampunk stories and imagery. One of the first to help was award winning visual effects company Rodeo FX in Montreal, Quebec. (http://www.rodeofx.com)

“It is always hard to ask for favors, but I believe strongly in the potential of the project, and luckily people who see what I’ve done so far immediately ‘get it’ and they are excited to help. That’s how it was with Rodeo FX. I had worked with them on Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter®, and I knew they had some amazing and talented artists there. The timing happened to be good for one of their top artists to do some work on Victoria between bigger projects.”

The result of these collaborations is a series of photos and conceptual art pieces that visually support the scripted material so that investors have a clear picture of Ken’s creative vision for the project. Victoria Clarke tells the story of a female British agent, undercover in 1920s Hollywood as a B-Movie actress. The daughter of wealthy British industrialists, the independent and resourceful Victoria sets out on secret missions to destroy weapons being developed by powerful forces in post WWI Europe. The project has a fun, sexy and retro feel, with strong Steampunk and Dieselpunk influences.

“Victoria is a female cross between Batman® and Sherlock Holmes®, but set in Hollywood during the 1920s. She is playing at being a bad actress because she really has no intention of having a successful career in Hollywood–she’s just hiding out. She has a family fortune and access to this amazing steampunk-style technology, but because of political enemies in Britain she can’t return home. She is waging her own private battle against a brewing evil in Europe,” Ken explains.

As a filmmaker and science fiction fan, the concept of Victoria Clarke grew from Ken’s love of movies from the golden age of Hollywood, as well as his fascination with the steampunk concept of alternative futurism. His goal was to combine the two genres into a classic adventure story that would showcase the best of both worlds. Victoria has a strong female lead, epic scale and Raiders of the Lost Ark® style action.

The next stage in the Victoria Clarke is to prepare an informative and entertaining Kickstarter campaign site.

“While I have been working on growing the social media audience through our website, Facebook and Twitter pages, I’ve also been taking a great amount of care to build a Kickstarter site with the right amount of information, entertainment, and rewards for contributors. It is important that people are excited about being a part of this project.”

The Amazing Adventures of Victoria Clarke Kickstarter campaign is scheduled to go live in May 2013.

If you would like to be notified about the latest Victoria Clarke developments email info(at)victoriaclarkeadventures(dot)com with the subject line KICKSTARTER.

For more information about the Victoria Clarke project visit http://www.victoriaclarkeadventures.com.







Logical Operations Partners with the National Institute for Social Media (NISM …

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Dev Ittycheria Joins OpenView Venture Partners

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Boston, MA (PRWEB) November 13, 2013

OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage venture capital firm focused on providing technology companies with deep operational support, today welcomes enterprise software expert Dev Ittycheria as the firm’s third Managing Director. Ittycheria joins the firm after a successful track record of building and scaling world-class software companies as a founder, CEO, senior executive, investor, and board member. He will concentrate on helping identify and invest in the best expansion-stage technology companies.

“We are thrilled to welcome Dev to the OpenView team,” said Scott Maxwell, OpenView’s Founder and Senior Managing Director. “His strong background in entrepreneurship, combined with his deep operational experience and his knowledge of cloud, SaaS, and enabling IT infrastructure, will make Dev a very valuable addition to the firm.”

Prior to joining OpenView, Ittycheria was a venture partner at Greylock Partners, where he spent time learning the venture business at the leading early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Earlier, Ittycheria was the president of BMC Software, where he and his team radically transformed a maturing business to outperform the competition on all meaningful financial metrics. Before that, as the co-founder, president, and CEO, Ittycheria built BladeLogic, a next-generation systems management company, into one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies of the last decade. The company went public in 2007 and was acquired by BMC in 2008. Ittycheria was also previously a co-founder and CEO of one of the first venture-backed cloud computing companies.

In addition to identifying new investments at OpenView, Ittycheria will also leverage his operational and leadership skills to help the firm scale for the next level of growth.

“I’m very excited to join OpenView,” said Ittycheria. “It’s a dynamic firm that has done a terrific job of differentiating itself in the industry because of its sharp focus on expansion-stage technology companies and unique team of full-time, value-add consultants. I believe OpenView is extremely well positioned to dominate an important investment category over the coming years.”

Ittycheria’s arrival continues the ongoing expansion of OpenView’s investment team. In August, the firm also welcomed Mackey Craven as an Associate from Bessemer Venture Partners, followed by Blake Bartlett, who joined as a Vice President from Battery Venture Partners in November. The team’s growth underscores the firm’s strong belief in the future of enterprise SaaS businesses.

Founded in 2006, OpenView raised its third fund in March 2012 and has since invested in five new SaaS companies. This week, the firm also launched a completely redesigned version of its website, available at http://www.openviewpartners.com.

About OpenView Venture Partners

OpenView Venture Partners is an expansion-stage venture capital fund based in Boston that is focused on high-growth software, Internet, and technology-enabled companies. Through its staff of seasoned operating executives, who collectively bring several decades of technology and management experience to the firm, OpenView is able to help portfolio companies quickly optimize their product, go-to-market, and organizational and operational functions. Founded in 2006, the firm invests globally and has approximately $ 445 million in total capital under management.







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Command Partners Continues to Build for Future Digital Marketing and PR Success

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Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) February 12, 2013

At Command Partners, the goal is to build a strong team from the ground up. By promoting two current members, Joe Recomendes and Jessica Chesney, and adding Alison Phalen, Command Partners aims to continue their growth and stellar reputation.

Joe Recomendes, the former Director of Online Marketing, will take on the role of Chief Operating Officer. Recomendes is now responsible for managing Command Partners’ day-to-day operating activities and overseeing all phases of account progress. Also, he will remain a trusted contributor in all marketing and public relations aspects of the agency. It is Recomendes’ duty to ensure Command Partners is on track to continue their journey towards success.

“I absolutely trust Joe to oversee the day-to-day operations so that I have the time to focus on expanding the agency,” says Managing Partner and CEO Amish Shah. “Between his positive attitude, knack for organization, and excellent leadership, Joe’s strong influence will keep Command Partners operating to our maximum potential. We couldn’t ask for a better COO.”

Jessica Chesney, previous Client Success Manager, is now promoted to Digital Marketing Coordinator. She will ensure all aspects of Command Partners’ public relations and digital marketing are running smoothly. Chesney will manage and build media relations, handle press releases, have a strong voice in strategic development, and oversee that all digital marketing plans are executed successfully.

“I learned a lot as Client Success Manager, but I’m excited and ready to take on more responsibility for this agency I love,” says Chesney. Her rapid growth and successes made it quite clear that Chesney’s hard work and contagious positive energy proves to be a perfect fit for Command Partners.

Alison Phalen, Command Partners’ newcomer, has been hired to fill Chesney’s previous role of Client Success Manager. Phalen, a recent advertising graduate from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, has a strong passion for social media and is excited to expand her horizons. Phalen states, “I know I have big shoes to fill (referring to Chesney), but I plan to work hard and show that this country girl knows a thing or two!”

After impressive success in 2012, Command Partners looks to build and improve their reputation in 2013. They aim to continue and expand their excellent track record with digital marketing campaigns.

“We have seen a dramatic shift in marketing strategies to develop two-way relationships, and an increasing need to create different and alluring content that engages prospective consumers across multiple platforms,” says President and Managing Partner Roy Morejon.

With the changes and additions to their Marketing and Public Relations Department, the strong team at Command Partners will continue to position themselves as industry leaders.

To see what Command Partners’ Marketing and PR department can do for your business, contact them at http://www.commandpartners.com or call them at 704-910-5727.

About Command Partners

Command Partners is a digital media agency that focuses on driving online visibility and lead generation including social media marketing, search engine optimization, public relations and strategic advisory services. Command Partners works with clients ranging from high-tech startups and e-commerce brands to Fortune 500 companies. The agency is located in Charlotte, North Carolina and works with clients around the globe.