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Those
joining Donuts in the new Calabasas office are:
Bob
Samuelson – Vice
President Sales & Marketing – Most
recently with Adobe Systems, Samuelson brings
more than a decade of experience in the Internet
and domain name industries.
Alina
Syunkova – Director
Sales & Marketing USA, Affinity Partnerships
– Fluent in English and Russian, Syunkova
most recently led coordination efforts between
ICANN’s staff and Board of Directors.
Michele
Jourdan - Director
Sales & Marketing USA, Affinity Partnerships
– A seasoned PR and marketing
professional, Jourdan helped develop and lead
ICANN’s new gTLD outreach effort.
Also
hired to expand Donuts
Inc's
U.S. and international reach were:
·
Matt
Bamonte - Director
Sales & Marketing USA, Registrar Channel (Wilmington,
Del.) – Bamonte joins Donuts from the
Corporation Service Company, where he led
successful domain name marketing campaigns.
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Amy Repp
– Director
Sales & Marketing Europe, Affinity
Partnerships (London) – Repp brings
extensive experience in customizing and managing
new gTLD applications in previous roles.
·
Jenny White
- Director
Sales & Marketing Europe, Registrar Channel (London)
– White brings more than a decade of domain
name industry experience both from an
operational perspective as well as registrar
relations.
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Donuts
Co-Founder and Executive Vice
President of Sales and Marketing Dan
Schindler
said, "New
gTLDs are the next evolutionary step in
online identity and represent the largest
expansion of the namespace since the
commercial phase of the Internet. Donuts
will ensure end users worldwide are
informed about the benefits available to
them. Our team of industry experts is
already at work with our partners around
the world.”
For
newcomers not familiar with Donuts, the
company was founded
last year by a group of
well-known domain industry veterans backed
by over $100 million in investment
capital. The company describes itself as
"a domain name registry that is
widening competition and choice in
Internet identities through hundreds of
new top-level domain name choices,
securely operated in multiple languages
and character sets. Donuts is
headquartered in Bellevue, Washington
with offices in Southern California and Washington,
D.C. |
Dan
Schindler,
Donuts Co-Founder &
Executive VP, Sales & Marketing |
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