Chris Locke Joins ePrize as Chief Financial Officer

DETROIT, MI--(Marketwired - Oct 2, 2013) - ePrize, a global leader in digital, mobile, social and live-event consumer engagement, today announced that Chris Locke has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Locke most recently served as CFO at SingleHop, an infrastructure-as-a-service business that experienced rapid expansion into new sales channels during his tenure.

"ePrize has distinguished itself as an established company committed to disrupting marketing technology, and that's what attracted me to the position," said Locke. "ePrize's growth represents the importance of scalable enterprise marketing technology platforms to the marketplace. I'm looking forward to working with the company and contributing to the success of its next iteration."

With five acquisitions since 2011, ePrize has distinguished itself as a leading provider of multi-channel marketing technology. ePrize's holistic solutions focus on creating rich consumer engagements that combine social programs with in-store experiences through a customer's mobile device. Its offerings include promotions, loyalty programs, and CRM campaigns, all of which can be carried out across digital channels all the way to point of sale.

"As we expand our cloud-based marketing platform in 2014, we will see explosive growth in the restaurant and retail industries using our ground-breaking engagement strategies and tools," said Matt Wise, CEO of ePrize. "The addition of Chris and his expertise in the SaaS market and restaurant industry will further accelerate our expansion. He has a proven track record of growing businesses that focus on the intersection of marketing, rewards and technology, and we're excited to have him on the team."

As CFO of SingleHop, Locke was responsible for building out the accounting and finance team as well as helping to lead SingleHop's geographic expansion into Europe and sales expansion into new channels. Prior to SingleHop, he was the CFO of Rewards Network, a publicly traded company, for more than seven years, where he helped architect the turnaround of the business, the growth of the company's marketing services platforms and was a key contributor to a take-private transaction. Locke has held CFO, COO, CIO and strategic planning positions at several other startups and privately held corporations. He began his career in public accounting and holds a B.S. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Finance with a concentration in Accounting.

About ePrize
ePrize is a global leader in digital engagement. The company's multi-channel solutions enable the world's largest brands to create a dialogue with consumers on web, social, and mobile, and integrated with point of sale systems. All campaigns can be executed from a unified technology platform. Fortune 500 brands and world-class agencies rely on ePrize's creative, technology and legal services. ePrize has created promotional campaigns, CRM programs and loyalty solutions in 44 countries for clients like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, The Gap, Lenovo, NHL, Yahoo!, P&G and AT&T. Headquartered in Detroit, ePrize also has offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, and Seattle. ePrize has acquired five companies in the last two years. See our press page on eprize.com for details or text CRM to 35350 for mobile demos and alerts.