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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
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Escrow.com
Moving U.S. Office from Southern California to
San Francisco - Reports Other Major Changes
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There
have been a lot of changes
at Escrow.com
since the company was acquired by Australia's
Freelancer.com
last year. After expanding their
management team and giving the
company's website a major makeover,
Escrow.com has also just announced major
change in their physical
location. They are moving their U.S.
office from its long time home
in Southern California (in
Orange County, southeast of Los
Angeles) to downtown San
Francisco where Vice President of Sales
Danny Raja will head the
office.
Danny
joined Escrow.com in April
after serving as a Senior Sales
Executive at both Box and Yammer.
General Manager Jackson Elsegood and
Keith Gettle, who has been promoted to Operations
Manager, will be working closely
with Danny on Escrow.com’s major partnerships.
Their new San Francisco office at 180
Montgomery Street is one of four
new Escrow.com offices with others
located in Vancouver, Canada,
Sydney, Australia and
Manila, in the Philippines.
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Danny
Raja
Escrow.com VP of Sales
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Escrow.com's
new U.S. office at 180 Montgomery
Street in downtown San Francisco.
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Matt
Barrie, Chief Executive at
Escrow.com parent for
the Freelancer Limited
Group (ASX:FLN), said,
"San Francisco is the
logical best location for the
headquarters for Escrow.com,
being closest to partners,
as well as allowing for
further expansion in customer
support, payments and major
account management.” (Escrow.com’s
relocation to San Francisco is
subject to approval by the
Commissioner of Business
Oversight in California).
At
the same time they announced
their move to San Francisco,
Escrow.com provided an update
on several other changes
made since Freelancer acquired
the business. A press
release noted,
"The backend infrastructure for Escrow.com has been upgraded and migrated to
Amazon AWS. Support hours have been extended and customer support is now multilingual (commencing in
Chinese). New transaction types including domain name |
Matt
Barrie
CEO, Freelancer Limited Group |
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holding transactions have been launched and the payments management team has been greatly expanded (headed by group CFO
Neil Katz). In addition, the Escrow.com compliance team has grown significantly under Group VP Compliance
Greg Robinson
(formerly with Paypal and
Colonial First State).
Escrow.com
added that those changes
helped the company pass 1
million registered users
this year. Gross payment volume for Escrow.com
in 2015 exceeded US $430
million, growing at almost double the five-year compound annual growth rate
(CAGR), with total payment volume to date reaching
US $2.9 billion. |
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(Posted
July 12, 2016)
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