PROVO, Utah, March 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ancestry.com,
Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM), the world's largest online family history
resource, today announced the promotion of Eric Shoup to Senior Vice President of Product.
Eric leads product management and design for the Ancestry.com
global platform among other managerial responsibilities. In
this new position, Eric will report to Tim
Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer, Ancestry.com, Inc.
"Eric has been instrumental in enhancing the tools we provide
our growing subscriber base, including new search, collaboration
and sharing capabilities," said Sullivan. "We are confident
that under his leadership and creative direction, we can execute on
our growth strategy and further enhance our position as the most
comprehensive resource for family history research globally."
Since joining Ancestry.com, Eric has improved the Company's
product and design functions by successfully integrating new and
existing talent from across the company, increasing emphasis on
user research and developing and executing our strategy to deliver
site improvements to better serve subscribers. He joined the
Company in August 2008.
"This is an exciting time for genealogy, as mainstream audiences
increasingly take interest in family history research," said
Eric Shoup. "I look forward to
continuing to improve our product platform to expand our business,
delight our members and help new users find early success in this
hobby."
Eric brings more than 15 years of product and general management
experience to Ancestry.com. Prior to joining the Company, Eric was
at eBay for over five years, where he largely focused on growing
its eBay Stores product and ProStores business unit. In
addition, Eric assembled and led eBay's global mobile product team.
Prior to eBay, Eric was a Director of Product Management at
Commerce One, a leading provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.
Previously, he worked at US Interactive designing and
managing consumer e-commerce and marketing Web sites for
established companies such as Lexus and Wellcome Supermarkets
(Hong Kong).
About Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM) is the world's largest online
family history resource, with over one million paying subscribers.
The company has digitized and put online over four billion records
over the past 13 years. Ancestry users have created over 14 million
family trees containing nearly 1.5 billion profiles. Ancestry.com
has local Web sites directed at nine countries, including its
flagship Web site at http://www.ancestry.com.
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SOURCE Ancestry.com