BoardSuite® Corp. (www.boardsuitecorp.com), the freemium SaSS–based board portal, today announced the appointment of Melanie Kurzuk as Chief Marketing Officer responsible for leading BoardSuite's worldwide branding and driving the company's product, sales and marketing initiatives.
Kurzuk is an innovative leader who brings 20 years of demonstrated success in progressively senior roles in B2B within the media and information services industry. She has a deep knowledge of corporate governance, capital markets, disclosure, and investor relations. Prior to her appointment at BoardSuite, Kurzuk was Senior Vice President of News and Information Technology at CNW Group (formerly Canada NewsWire).
"Melanie has extensive strategic and operational insight on mandated and trusted services that companies require to meet regulatory obligations. She will be invaluable in our business strategy to acquire these types of services for integration to the flagship board portal," said Oscar A Jofre Jr., Founder, President and CEO of BoardSuite. "In addition, she has a propensity to SaSS-based applications as she led the successful launch of a cloud offering in her last mandate."
"BoardSuite presents a bona fide opportunity to make a significant footprint globally," said Kurzuk. "Our focus is to expand and enhance BoardSuite's content, functionality and business services of its core offering to make the board portal the defacto standard for good corporate governance and regulatory compliance for small and medium enterprises and not-for-profit organizations."
Kurzuk has overall responsibilities for partnership and channel marketing initiatives, product planning and positioning and execution of customer acquisition and retention strategies for BoardSuite's free flagship portal and its premium services under the freemium model.
About BoardSuite® Corp.
BoardSuite redefined the board portal for small and medium enterprises and not-for-profit organizations by providing a freemium SaSS-based solution to manage real-time access to corporate documents, collaboration tools and a marketplace of business services.
The on-demand board portal empowers directors, officers and advisors to better manage risk, liability and compliance from a single point of entry within a secure, hosted application, resulting in effective and transparent corporate governance.
BoardSuite has received notable recognition within the online industry for its achievements. In July 2009, BoardSuite was selected as one of Canada's leading Web 2.0 pioneers by KPMG and Backbone magazine at the PICK20' Awards, the only national roundup of Canada's up and coming Web 2.0 pioneers who are leading the 2.0 evolution of the Web. And, in August 2009, BoardSuite was named by IDC as one of Canada's Top Cloud Computing Solutions To Watch calling it a disruptive innovation in the board portal industry.
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