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Dipiti Community Search Site Announces Addition of Advisors
Business Wire, April 23, 2008
Silicon Valley Veterans' Experience Includes Early-Stage Advisory Roles with Google and PayPal
SEATTLE -- Dipiti(TM), a consumer web site that connects people seeking help with urgent life issues to valuable online community resources, today announced two new strategic advisors: Ken Schroeder and Bob Bozeman, Silicon Valley veterans with deep early stage, high technology venture experience.
Bob Bozeman brings over 30 years of experience in operations management, venture capital investment, and mergers and acquisition advisory. He currently serves as an advisor to early stage companies in the technology industry. Bozeman was a General Partner at Angel Investors, LP, where its investment successes included Google, PayPal, Ask Jeeves, AvantGo, Brightmail and RedEnvelope.
Ken Schroeder is a seasoned executive with more than 20 years of proven success identifying, building and leading high technology organizations. He is currently the president and principal consultant of TechVenture Management--providing executive coaching and strategic consulting services. Previously, Schroeder served as President and CEO of Resonate, Inc., an Internet infrastructure company, where he led the company from startup to a public offering in 2001. As interim CEO at Crosslogix, Inc., a security software firm, he led the sale of the company to BEA Systems. Ken's experience also includes senior management roles with Lotus and General Electric.
"Dipiti is discovering hard to find, extremely valuable online communities and making them easily available to consumers seeking help with serious life issues," said Bob Bozeman, Dipiti's new strategic advisor. "The company is building an exciting, clearly differentiated business that meets a large and well defined consumer need."
"The company has the business strategy and management in place to build an improved search experience for answers to urgent life issues on the Web, and Bob and I look forward to lending our insight to help them accomplish that," commented Ken Schroeder, Dipiti's new strategic advisor.
"Dipiti's team extends beyond its employees," said Dipiti CEO Dave Rice. "We're excited and honored to benefit from Bob and Ken's rich experience in building successful online solutions--they are great assets to Dipiti."
Dipiti, which does the hard work of making the wealth of information in online communities easily accessible to average Web users through human-filtered search, recently announced its public launch. With Dipiti, consumers quickly find answers and support for important life matters, including health, legal, money and pet care. The company is currently connecting consumers to 40 million conversations and 275 million comments on message boards and expert discussion forums across the web.
About Dipiti
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Dipiti is an Internet infomediary connecting online consumers with the hidden value of online community content: communities and professionals addressing important life matters including health, legal, money and pet care. Dipiti makes this Web 2.0 content easily accessible through human-filtered search that identifies, qualifies, and organizes message boards, directories and expert discussion forums providing consumers with a trusted source for information they need. For more information, email press@dipiti.com, call 206-436-1999 or visit www.dipiti.com.
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