Geeknet Appoints Robert A. Bowman to Board of Directors
11 Febbraio 2010 - 4:32PM
PR Newswire (US)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Geeknet,
Inc. (NASDAQ:LNUX), the online network for the global geek
community, today announced that Robert A. Bowman has joined the
company's Board of Directors, effective February 8, 2010. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091104/SF04925LOGO) "Bob is a
tremendous addition to our team," said Scott L. Kauffman, President
and Chief Executive Officer, Geeknet. "His deep experience with
name brand online media and ecommerce sites is precisely what we
need at this point in Geeknet's evolution." Mr. Bowman currently
serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Major League
Baseball Advanced Media LP, the interactive media company of Major
League Baseball. MLBAM operates the official League site, MLB.com,
as well as each of the 30 individual team sites. Mr. Bowman joined
MLBAM from Outpost.com, a leading global Internet retailer of
high-end consumer technology products, where he served as President
and Chief Executive Officer from October 1999 to November 2000. Mr.
Bowman has been an investor in more than a dozen Internet start-up
companies and is the creator of howtoguru.com, a sports
instructional site, and icontact.com, a private, e-commerce site
that proactively offers live customer service representatives to
shoppers over the Internet. Prior to his involvement in the
Internet industry, Mr. Bowman was President and Chief Operating
Officer of ITT. He joined ITT in 1991 as Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer of ITT Sheraton, the Boston-based
global hotel network. In 1992 he was named Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer of the parent company before being
named President and Chief Operating Officer in 1995. Before joining
ITT Mr. Bowman served as Treasurer for the State of Michigan from
1983 to 1991, worked as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs
& Company from 1979 to 1981, and served in the US Department of
the Treasury as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for
Domestic Finance. He is a director of Blockbuster Inc., Take-Two
Interactive Software, Inc., and The Warnaco Group, Inc. "I am
pleased to be joining the Geeknet team and look forward to helping
grow the business," said Bowman. "Geeknet has a great set of assets
and I'm eager to contribute to an organization that is a real
innovator in online media and ecommerce. About Geeknet, Inc.
Geeknet is the online network for the global geek community. Our
sites include: SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, Ohloh and
freshmeat. We serve an audience of more than 40 million users* each
month and provide the tech-obsessed with content, culture,
connections, commerce, and all the things that geeks crave. Want to
learn more? Check out geek.net. *(Source: Google Analytics and
Omniture - December 2009) Geeknet is a trademark of Geeknet, Inc.
SourceForge, Slashdot, ThinkGeek, Ohloh, and freshmeat are
registered trademarks of Geeknet, Inc. in the United States and
other countries. All other trademarks or product names are property
of their respective owners.
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http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Geeknet, Inc. CONTACT:
Investor Relations, Todd Friedman, , or Stacie Bosinoff, , both of
The Blueshirt Group, +1-415-217-7722; or Media, Tracey Parry of
Airfoil Public Relations, +1-650-691-7302, , all for Geeknet, Inc.
Web Site: http://geek.net/
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