Pluggd Hires Chief Marketing Officer

Pluggd Hires Chief Marketing Officer

SEATTLE, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Pluggd announced today the appointment of Cornelius Willis, a technology executive with extensive experience in digital media and platform marketing, to lead the company's business development, marketing and advertising sales efforts.

Said CEO Alex Castro, "We've got very ambitious plans for Pluggd, and Cornelius' experience launching companies and developing ecosystems is really going to accelerate our growth."

Cornelius' work in digital media began at Microsoft as a technical evangelist and product manager, launching the Multimedia PC consumer platform. His career at Microsoft spanned 10 years, including serving as product manager for the popular Visual Basic programming system and serving as Microsoft's first director of platform marketing. Cornelius left Microsoft to build the content commerce start-up Qpass (recently acquired by Amdocs), where he drove partnerships with Dow Jones/Factiva, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times as the company's vice president of sales and marketing. More recently, he was vice president of developer marketing for BEA Systems, and co-founder and vice president of marketing for SourceLabs, creator of the wildly successful SWiK.net open source community.

Cornelius is a graduate of Stanford University.

About Pluggd

Pluggd was founded in February 2006 to make it easier for people to discover, enjoy and share Internet audio and video programming. The company's patent-pending technologies and HearHere search feature make it easy for consumers to find precisely what they want within an Internet broadcast. With radio and television increasingly turning to the Internet for distribution, Pluggd also makes it uniquely possible to connect advertisers with new audiences. In addition, the company's website boasts one of the largest collections of audio programming on the Internet, everything from ESPN to independent podcasts. Pluggd is located in Seattle and is run by a team with strong backgrounds in digital media, consumer Internet, and search technologies. For more information, and a chance to sample HearHere, visit www.pluggd.com.

Source: Pluggd

CONTACT: Carol Lucas of Pluggd, +1-425-443-3978, or carol@pluggd.com

Web site: http://www.pluggd.com/

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