MeetMe Appoints Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering
October 06 2015 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
MeetMe, Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET), a public market leader for social
discovery, today announced that it has added two software industry
veterans to its executive team. Jonah Harris has been named Chief
Technology Officer and Sandeep Chand has been named Senior Vice
President of Engineering.
Harris most recently served as the Vice President of
Architecture at MeetMe and has been with the company since 2008.
Harris brings deep experience will all aspects of MeetMe’s
architecture, as well as particular strengths in leveraging data to
improve the user experience. Harris will report to Geoff Cook,
MeetMe’s Chief Executive Officer, and will work with Cook to create
a long-term technical vision to support MeetMe’s business
objectives.
Chand, who has most recently served as Vice President of
Engineering at AWeber Systems, Inc., brings significant expertise
managing all aspects of the software development life cycle and
aligning the company’s technical assets to deliver its business
goals. Chand will report to Harris to foster a culture of rapid
innovation, best engineering process practices, and quality
control.
“We believe MeetMe’s future depends on the quality of the
connections we facilitate for our users and our ability to glean
actionable insights from Big Data,” said Cook. “I am excited to
work with Jonah to create leading-edge discovery features and
algorithms, as we build a world-class technology team. I am
likewise thrilled to welcome Sandeep to the company. I believe his
extensive industry experience and leadership capacity will prove
invaluable as we rapidly grow.”
About MeetMe, Inc.
MeetMe® is the leading social network for meeting new people in
the US and the public market leader for social discovery (NASDAQ:
MEET). MeetMe makes it easy to discover new people to chat with on
mobile devices. With approximately 80 percent of traffic coming
from mobile and more than one million total daily active users,
MeetMe is fast becoming the social gathering place for the mobile
generation. MeetMe is a leader in mobile monetization with a
diverse revenue model comprising advertising, native advertising,
virtual currency, and subscription. MeetMe apps are available on
iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone in multiple languages,
including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German,
Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Russian, Japanese, Dutch,
Turkish and Korean. For more information, please visit
meetmecorp.com.
Cautionary Note Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding whether Mr.
Harris will create a long-term technical vision to support MeetMe’s
business objectives, whether Mr. Chand will foster a culture of
rapid innovation, best engineering process practices, and quality
control, whether MeetMe’s future depends on the quality of the
connections we facilitate for our users and our ability to glean
actionable insights from Big Data, whether we will create
leading-edge discovery features and algorithms, whether we will
build a world-class technology team, whether Mr. Chand’s experience
and leadership capacity will prove invaluable, and whether will be
grow and if so at what pace. All statements other than statements
of historical facts contained herein are forward-looking
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about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect
our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy
and financial needs. Important factors that could cause actual
results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements
include the risk that our applications will not function easily or
otherwise as anticipated, the risk that we will not launch
additional features and upgrades as anticipated, the risk that
unanticipated events affect the functionality of our applications
with popular mobile operating systems, any changes in such
operating systems that degrade our mobile applications’
functionality and other unexpected issues which could adversely
affect usage on mobile devices. Further information on our risk
factors is contained in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2014 and the Current Report on Form 8-K filed
with the SEC on June 3, 2015. Any forward-looking statement made by
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