LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Evite
(www.Evite.com), the leader in digital invitations and social
planning since 1998, announced the appointment of Victor Cho as Chief Executive Officer of the
company starting immediately. Cho will lead Evite into a new phase
of development that will redefine the brand and the party planning
space. Prior to joining Evite, Cho spent over four years as the
president and CEO of Kodak Gallery, where he led a holistic,
multi-year turn-around of Kodak's global photo-sharing network.
Before Kodak, he headed marketing and commerce at Intuit where he
grew web channel revenue from $300
million to over $1 billion in
four years.
"We are excited to welcome someone of Victor's caliber to Evite.
His experience scaling and repositioning several eCommerce
organizations will enable him to build on Evite's existing strength
in digital invitations," stated Greg
Maffei, president and CEO of Liberty Interactive
Corporation, Evite's parent company. "Evite was founded in 1998 and
has built an enduring brand with over 25,000 digital invitations
sent every hour and we look forward to capitalizing on this
ubiquity."
Earlier in his career, Cho served as the senior vice president
of operations and strategy at iVillage, and spent seven years at
Microsoft in the 1990's, where he was responsible for developing
early Internet and software-as-a-service businesses within the
company's consumer products division. He earned his Bachelor of
Science degree from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1993 and currently resides in San
Francisco.
"Evite is a name that's synonymous with digital invitations, and
going forward we will advance the customer experience and deliver
innovative new mobile-centric products and services that empower
party planners and guests," said Victor
Cho, CEO of Evite. "I am incredibly excited to lead Evite
into a new phase of growth by delivering products and services that
make special events truly effortless for our customers."
Evite is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty (Nasdaq:
LINTA, LINTB, LVNTA, LVNTB) attributed to its Liberty Interactive
Group. Evite, along with BuySeasons, Inc., previously formed
Liberty Interactive Group's Celebrate Interactive subsidiary. In
connection with Liberty's recently completed spin-off of its
subsidiary Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc., Liberty reattributed
BuySeasons to its Liberty Ventures Group.
About Evite
With over 32 million registered users,
Evite (www.evite.com) is the leading digital invitation and social
event planning brand. Evite's free, easy-to-use invitation designs
kick off more than 7 million parties and gatherings every year.
With 25,000 invitations sent every hour, and party-planning tools
that handle hundreds of millions of RSVPs annually, Evite is
responsible for more celebrations than any other online brand.
Launched in 1998, Evite is headquartered in Los Angeles and is a wholly owned operating
business of Liberty Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ: LINTA,
LINTB).
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