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Dan Burkhart Joins Flock as Vice President of Marketing
Flock continues to strengthen management team with addition of former eBay Marketing leader
Mountain View, CA - September 13, 2007 - Flock, the innovative social web browser, today announced the appointment of Dan Burkhart as Vice President of Marketing. He will be based at Flock’s Mountain View headquarters and be responsible for leading all aspects of the company’s marketing programs.
Dan came to Flock from eBay, where he led eBay's Global Buyer Engagement team to build a set of products enabling user contributed content, identity creation and topic-based interactions. Dan also spent four years running key functional areas of eBay’s internet marketing group, responsible for Portals and Partners, Affiliates, and Natural Search. Prior to his tenure at eBay, Dan worked for two startups and was a Sr. Director of Business Development for NBC Internet, where he played a key role in building the company from $20MM to $120MM in revenue.
"Dan brings deep understanding of community-based social models on the web, and a clear passion for the elements that help them flourish," said Shawn Hardin, CEO of Flock. "As we head into the launch of our 1.0 social browser this fall, Dan's expertise in consumer Internet marketing and management is an excellent complement to the dynamite team already assembled"
Flock has added several key executives in 2007, ahead of the consumer release of the Flock 1.0 social browser. In addition to Mr. Burkhart, recent additions include:
- Clayton Stark, Vice President of Engineering. Prior to joining Flock, Stark was responsible for directing the development of the Netscape 8.x browsers for AOL, while holding the position of Chief Operating Officer at Mercurial Communications.
- David Westendorf, Vice President of Partnerships and Business Development who most recently ran the worldwide partnerships group for Kodak Gallery.
- Geoff Rayner, Chief Financial Officer. Rayner has executive experience with Credit Suisse First Boston and eHospitalSystems.
Flock 1.0 will be out this fall. In the meantime, a beta version of the browser is available now at http://www.flock.com.
About Flock
Flock is The Social Web Browser. It’s the browser, evolved for people. It is free to download and use. Flock simplifies and extends the use of social and web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser. When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites. Flock is a privately held company, was founded in 2005, and is located in Mountain View, California.


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