ImageX.com Announces Vice President of Business Development
Leslie Kain Brings 15 Years of Business Development and Marketing Leadership to ImageX.com
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2000--ImageX.com Inc. (Nasdaq:IMGX - news), a leading business-to-business Internet market maker for printed business materials, today announced that Leslie Kain has joined the ImageX.com management team as vice president of business development.
In her new position, Kain will focus on building strategic relationships and other business development activities that support ImageX.com in meeting its core business and growth objectives. Kain's 15 years of business development experience and solid track record of success will help ImageX.com shape strategic direction and build revenue-generating programs and teams.
``Leslie is a world-class business development leader with a strategic vision for penetrating markets and building programs for growth,' said Rich Begert, president and chief executive officer of ImageX.com. ``Leslie's background in enterprise solutions and her partnerships in the e-business and customer relationship management areas will help position ImageX.com as a mainstream corporate solution.'
Before joining ImageX.com, Kain led business development and channel sales efforts at Carleton Corp., an Oracle company that is a developer of data quality and mainframe data extraction software for customer-focused data warehousing applications. During her first year at Carleton, Kain built the company's partner business for its new product line from zero to $3 million and signed more than 10 partners. In addition, Kain defined partner programs; managed the source-to-close partnership sale process, including contract negotiations and maintained responsibility for post-contract account management, channel sales, co-op marketing programs, and programs that facilitated direct sales in successful joint sales efforts with partners.
Prior to taking on a leadership role at Carleton, Kain served as senior director of business alliances at International Software Group and strategic management consultant for the Concord Corp. Kain has also held a variety of management positions in business development at Digital Equipment Corp.
About ImageX.com
ImageX.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:IMGX - news) is a leading business-to-business Internet market maker for printed business materials. ImageX.com offers an end-to-end solution that streamlines the procurement process for business printing customers, their employees and other end users of printed products, printing manufacturers and raw material suppliers to the printing industry. The company provides e-commerce solutions that improve the way businesses acquire marketing communications materials, ranging from business cards to high-end printed materials.
ImageX.com's nationwide Web-based services include the Corporate Online Printing Center, the Small Business Printing Center, PrintBid.com, an online bidding system for over 3,800 print buyers and more than 4,000 printers, PaperDeals.com, a live eMarket site for fine commercial paper stock, and PrintPlace.com, an online vertical marketplace for the graphic arts community.
The Corporate Online Printing Center offers a customized online catalog of printed materials for companies with more than 100 employees, streamlining processes and helping them to control their brands more effectively. The Small Business Printing Center provides quick and easy access via the Internet to a wide range of personalized printed materials, based on standardized templates, at competitive prices. PrintBid.com is an online bidding service for customized print jobs that links print buyers with printers. PaperDeals.com is a live eMarket site for fine commercial paper stock, offering a forum to link buyers with sellers. PrintPlace.com is an online vertical marketplace that provides content, community and commerce for the graphic arts industry. PrintPlace.com offers products and services to buyers, sellers and vendors throughout the graphic arts supply chain, including procurement, print management, bidding services, auctions, exchanges and workflow management systems.
Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., ImageX.com has sales offices in 18 major markets nationwide, including Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and other cities. ImageX.com's customers include Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Bell Atlantic Mobile, Amazon.com, CB Richard Ellis, CIBC World Markets, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Merck & Co., New Energy Ventures, Visio and Waddell & Reed. More information on the company and the services offered can be found at imagex.com or by calling 800/959-7845. |
