Gig Tracker - News Briefs

Industry Standard, The, Feb 19, 2001 by Meredith Alexander

New York's Automatic Media, the company formed from the merger last year of Web publications Feed, Suck.com and Alt.Culture, has added two new execs. Michael Kolbrener became CTO, leaving Ivy Mortgage, a subsidiary of Staten Island Savings Bank, where he was CIO. Marie Graves joined as VP of ad sales. She had been VP of business development at art auction site Sothebys.com.

Cheri Roach, VP of information systems at Gulfstream Aerospace, jetted off to become CIO of ONI Systems, an optical telecom equipment company in San Jose, Calif. Roach had worked for seven years at the Savannah, Ga., luxury jet company.

Paul LaFontaine became president and CEO of Antirion, a wireless software firm in Denver, after a three-year stint as VP of the wireless division of Los Angeles-based Ticketmaster. Antirion recently changed its name from Click Wireless.

Durk Stelter moves up at eVoice, stepping from his VP of operations role to COO of the voicemail services company in Menlo Park, Calif. As VP, Stelter established ties with regional phone companies, helping spread eVoice's phone-answering service throughout the country.

Peoplestreet, a Cambridge, Mass., company that makes electronic business cards, is adding two new high-level execs. The company named Lisa Robbins, former managing director and CIO for Deutsche Bank's global institutional services division, as senior adviser for business services. Jack Harvey becomes VP of strategic alliances. He held the same title at Clickzlearn.com, an electronic learning company in Bellevue, Wash.

Iventurelab, a technology research and development company in Pittsburgh, picked Miles Wallace as president and managing director. Wallace had worked for 10 years at Federated Investors, a mutual fund investment management company in Pittsburgh, where he was a VP.

Also noteworthy: Boston-based Digital Media on Demand hired Jefferson Macklin as COO of the digital-content encryption, distribution and rights-management company. MackI-lim left Boston Web development firm Furnace Labs, where he was a partner. ... L90, a Los Angeles online marketing company, landed R. Michael Leo as executive VP of business development. Leo was founder and former chief sales officer of digital marketing company Avenue A of Seattle.