Louis Cofini Joins TheLadders.com as Vice President of Sales
Experienced Executive to Develop and Build Global Sales Team
NEW YORK (October 31, 2005) - TheLadders.com, the world´s leading $100,000 jobs Web site, today announced that Lou Cofini has joined the company as Vice President of Sales. In this role, Cofini will be responsible for designing, building, and managing the global sales team that will interact with senior HR executives and search firms.
Throughout his 18-year career, Cofini has played an integral role in all stages of company development, including high growth situations, successful IPO's, and attaining market leadership. These situations have given him a broad base of experience in the software and human capital management industries. He was most recently Executive Vice President at Taleo Corporation, the leading provider of talent management solutions. Prior to joining Taleo, Cofini was President and CEO of White Amber, a human capital management software firm. Cofini increased revenue at White Amber by forty percent, and successfully executed the sale of the company to Taleo.
"In just two years, over 7,000 recruiters have benefited from their use of TheLadders.com to source candidates. Lou will play an integral role in bringing our services to even more corporations," stated Marc Cenedella, president and CEO of TheLadders.com. "Lou has succeeded in every stage of his career, and we´re excited to have him bring his extensive sales and management experience to our company."
Cofini also enjoyed success as a member of the sales and sales management teams of Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, Portal Software, and CSG Systems.
"I´m very excited to join the great team at TheLadders.com," commented Cofini. "This company is revolutionizing the way recruiters find top level talent, and I look forward to educating companies on how we can help fill those types of positions."
About TheLadders.com
Headquartered in New York, TheLadders.com, Inc. is a privately held company offering online job search services to recruiters and job seekers in the $100k employment market. Ex-HotJobs.com executive Marc Cenedella founded TheLadders.com in 2003 to address the unique job seeking and recruiting requirements in this market sector. Investors include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners and prominent private investors such as Kevin Ryan, Former CEO, DoubleClick, Tom Matlack, Megunticook Management, and Robert Chefitz, NJTC Venture Fund.
In addition to its primary member-based sites, www.theladders.com and www.upladder.com, the Company operates vertical job search Web sites for sales (www.salesladder.com), marketing (www.mktgladder.com), finance (www.financeladder.com), human resources (www.HRladder.com), law (www.lawladder.com), technology (www.technologyladder.com) and operations (www.opsladder.com). All sites feature daily job updates as well as industry-specific weekly e-newsletters. For corporate and executive recruiters, TheLadders.com delivers the same highly personalized experience.
TheLadders for Recruiters (www.recruitladder.com) enables them to easily post $100k job openings at no charge. The Company further differentiates itself from other online job boards that fall prey to fraudulent job postings by implementing human mediated search, ensuring all job postings are fully qualified before being published to members.More information about TheLadders.com can be accessed at www.theladders.com.
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