Date Posted: 5/2/2007
Kintera Names Scott Crowder as Chief Technology Officer
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kintera® Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA - News) today announced that Scott Crowder has joined its executive management team as chief technology officer. A high-tech industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience, Crowder will be responsible for end-to-end product development at Kintera, spearheading the company's product management, engineering, quality assurance and IT operations.
Prior to joining Kintera, Crowder served as chief operating officer at Entriq, where he was responsible for developing services including content management, security, e-commerce, CRM and application hosting for the world's largest media companies. In this function, Crowder oversaw Entriq's engineering, IT and network operations, product management, professional services, project management, and customer service functions.
Crowder previously served as vice president of product operations at Inktomi. While at Inktomi, Crowder established a professional services practice that deployed IP technologies, resulting in license and service revenue accruals exceeding $40 million annually. In this role, he led a team of system integrators, software developers, technical consultants, technical writers and training personnel.
"Scott Crowder's reputation and accomplishments are well-recognized within the San Diego development community. As a result, we look forward to attracting top development talent to the company and leveraging his team-building skills throughout Kintera's development functions," said Richard LaBarbera, Kintera's CEO. "In addition, his proven track record of driving product innovation from conception to delivery will help greatly further Kintera's technology leadership in the nonprofit software arena."
Prior to Inktomi, Crowder served as senior vice president, technology services at Akamai. In this role, he led the team that built the first globally distributed broadband content delivery network (CDN) for streaming media, and evolved emerging technology into a significant revenue generating business. Crowder oversaw engineering, operations, product management, and network operations for the company's globally distributed network.
Crowder also served as director of advanced product support at Sprint, leading a team that provided worldwide end-to-end product support for Sprint customers using switched digital services, ISDN, video conferencing and advanced application products. His responsibilities included engineering, operations, product development and customer care.
"Kintera has a unique market opportunity, and I look forward to enhancing the company's end-to-end product development process and results," said Crowder. "Kintera technology has greatly contributed to the nonprofit sector's rapid growth in fundraising and community-building since 2000, and I intend to provide even more opportunities for the sector to expedite that growth by leveraging the right technology in the right ways."
About Kintera, Inc.
Kintera®, Inc. (NASDAQ:KNTA - News) provides software as a service to help organizations quickly and easily reach more people, raise more money and run more efficiently. The Kintera Sphere®
technology platform empowers The Giving Experience(TM), and features a social constituent relationship management (CRM) system, enabling donor management, e-mail and communications, Web sites, events, advocacy programs, wealth screening and accounting.
For more information about Kintera software and services, visit www.kintera.com.
Kintera, Kintera Sphere, and The Giving Experience, are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Kintera, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to historical information, this press release contains forward-looking statements (including, without limitation, express or implied statements regarding the growth in the market for software solutions designed for nonprofit organizations) that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date hereof. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: our limited operating history; our history of losses; our dependence on increased acceptance by nonprofit organizations of online fundraising; lengthy sales cycles for major customers; our need to manage growth; our ability to market new products and enhancements; risks associated with accounting for and processing large amounts of donations; the rapidly changing technologies and market demands; and other risks identified in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
Contact:
Kintera Inc.
Erin Leventhal, 858-795-8979
erin.leventhal@kintera.com
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Source: Kintera, Inc.
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