LIVERMORE, Calif., Aug. 23, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- iMiners, Inc., providers of an innovative, customized press release categorization service, announced that Michael C. O'Brien has been named the company's Vice President of Sales.
Mr. O'Brien spent the past nine years with industry pioneer Shareholder.com. During his tenure he spent time in sales and sales management, including the last three years as the Vice President of Sales, where he was tasked with completely overhauling and rebuilding the sales department. This included hiring Account Executives in key geographic regions, building a strong strategic partnership program, and building an Inside Sales organization. Mr. O'Brien led the Shareholder.com sales team to record results leading to a successful acquisition by The NASDAQ Stock Market in January, 2006.
"I am excited to join iMiners, Inc. in this critical phase of the company's history. iMiners innovative PR modules are poised to be quickly implemented by leading companies concerned about transparency and providing timely, pertinent information to their stakeholders." Mr. O'Brien joins iMiners as the company's innovative PR services begin to be adopted by public companies. Launched in 2007 PR Interactive, PR Analytics, and PR Comps are an innovative new suite of services that enable investors to more quickly get access to pertinent information, while at the same time giving an investor relations or public relations officer detailed analytics and impact that specific releases have on a company's stock price, as well as the overall success of their press release campaigns. The service has already been implemented by NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq:NVDA) and Sigma Designs, Inc. (Nasdaq:SIGM).
Jnyaneshwar Prabhu, president and founder, iMiners, stated, "Mike's sales and management experience, coupled with his knowledge of the Investment and IR industry are unmatched. His ideas and startup experience will greatly benefit iMiners and our clients going forward."
About iMiners, Inc.
iMiners, Inc. provides an innovative, customized press release categorization service that enables investors to quickly find pertinent information about any company. The iMiners.com portal currently has an archive of over 240,000 categorized press releases, issued since Apr 1st 2006, from over 6,500 companies. Each release is categorized into 12 main categories, and 87 sub-categories for quick retrieval. The PR Interactive module is ready to be installed immediately for all public companies. For more information, please visit www.iminers.com
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