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Develops social shopping tools for merchants.
Year Established: | 2008 |
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Address: | Minneapolis, MN 55403 |
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Mail: | contact@alvenda.com |
Company URL: | http://www.alvenda.com |
David Naumann
Director PR & Communications
Alvenda Inc.
1201 Marquette Ave South
Suite 150
Minneapolis MN 55403
Phone: (612) 746 3092
Fax: (612) 643-3479
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Wade Gerten – Chief Executive Officer
Wade is Alvenda’s co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. Wade was most recently the Vice President of Product Strategy for Oracle Retail. Best Buy, Walmart, Tesco, Nordstrom, Carrefour and over 200 other leading global retailers accelerated their business growth with merchandise optimization solutions developed under Wade Gerten’s leadership during his 10 year tenure at Retek and Oracle Retail. Wade helped grow Retek from 20 employees in 1995 to the largest retail-specific enterprise software company. Retek was acquired by Oracle in 2005 for $630 million.
Brian Howe – Chief Strategy Officer
Brian Howe is Alvenda's co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer. Brian was most recently the head of marketing for Target.com where he managed Target’s marketing for its online and direct businesses. During his six-year tenure at Target, Brian increased online revenue by 15x and helped Target.com become a top three online retailer. Previously, Brian helped Fingerhut.com expand to become the fourth largest online retailer in North America. Brian heads up Alvenda's merchant programs ensuring clients maximize incremental revenue and profits.
Jamie Thingelstad – Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer
Jamie plays a dual role at Alvenda as our Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer. Previously, Jamie was the CTO of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, the consumer division of Dow Jones & Company, and CTO of MarketWatch. Jamie was also the founding CTO of BigCharts. BigCharts was a pioneer in delivering real-time financial information via the web.
Danny Patterson – Vice President of Creative Services
Danny is Alvenda's Vice President of Creative Services. Danny is an Adobe Community Expert, a Flex Developer Champion, has published over 40 articles on RIA technologies and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. He recently wrote the book titled "Advanced ActionScript 3.0 with Design Patterns" and he's one of the authors of "Flash 8 ActionScript: Training from the Source," both published by Adobe Press. Danny builds highly customized and convenient shopping experiences for Alvenda's merchants.
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Lou Abramowski – Director of Product Management
Lou is Alvenda’s co-founder and Director of Product Management. Previously, Lou was a client partner for Ogilvy Interactive-Lacek, a leading advertising agency, where he developed rich Internet applications for large advertisers. Lou works with Alvenda's merchants to create highly interactive branded shopping experiences that result in happy consumers and high conversion rates. With his work, merchants can create social shopping experiences for Facebook that drive loyalty and sales.