TORONTO, Aug. 15, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Impact E-Solutions Corp (www.impactesolutions.com) (Pink Sheets:IESO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Steven Lewis to its Strategic Advisory Board.
Mr. Lewis is the President and co-owner of XMC Sports and Entertainment (www.brandedxmc.com), the CEO of Great White North Communications Inc. (www.gwndragonboat.com) and the Executive Director of Festival Arcadia Toronto (www.festivalarcadia.com). Previously, he was a Partner at Heenan Blaikie LLP, Canada's largest sports and entertainment law firm. He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1988 and obtained his MBA from York University's Schulich School of Business in 1990, where he was class president. In 1992, he was called to the Bars of the Province of Ontario and the State of New York.
Mr. Lewis specializes in all aspects of sports and entertainment transactional negotiations with a focus on branded entertainment properties, sponsorship marketing deals, film production and strategic acquisitions. His clients have included Twisted Pictures, Amberwood Entertainment, Constantin Film Development Corporation, Senator Entertainment, Serendipity Point Films, Don Carmody Productions and Sony Entertainment.
Mr. Lewis is a frequent speaker and has presented to the Beverly Hills Bar Association's Entertainment Law Section, Ryerson Polytechnic University's School of Image Arts, the Banff World Television Festival, the National Screen Institute's Features First Program and the American Conference Institute's Entertainment Finance Forum. Mr. Lewis is also the author of "Branded Entertainment and Product Integration: A Revolution in its Infancy" published in the American Bar Association's Sports and Entertainment Lawyer, Winter 2006.
Michael Smith, President of IESO stated, "The addition of Steven Lewis to our Strategic Advisory Board provides us with greater insight into the areas of sport and entertainment -- areas which present significant opportunity and growth for us. Impact will benefit greatly from Steven's involvement with our company."
Steven Lewis responded, "I have been involved with the Impact/Get Tickets group for six months through the strategic alliance formed between Get Tickets and XMC. What I have experienced to date has me genuinely excited to be even more deeply involved at the Impact level. Michael and his Impact team are an impressive group that I anticipate positive things from in the future."
About Get Tickets E-Solutions Canada Inc. (www.gettickets.ca)
The Get Tickets model is to provide simple and cost effective on-line self-ticketing and event management tools that empower event owners and venues with the control to create, manage, edit and audit their own sales live on the net -- adding value and reducing costs vs. traditional methods.
About Impact E-Solutions Corporation
Impact E-Solutions (www.impactesolutions.com) (Pink Sheets:IESO) has a strategic plan to capitalize on the present and future way in which businesses, associations, artists & entertainers, venues and consumers communicate, create partnerships and develop revenue generating activities and transactions within the online universe.
Impact E-Solutions' mission is to innovate -- bringing the power, ease of use and massive reach of the internet together with constantly evolving software solutions to deliver better products, customized services and unique business solutions. Today, Impact E-Solutions is offering highly advanced, scalable e-ticketing solutions to clients in North America and the Caribbean with a deeper commitment to provide our products and solutions to clients and consumers on a Global scale.
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