Involver Hires Enterprise Software Veteran Don Beck as New President & CEO

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sep 06, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
Involver, Inc. announced Don Beck as the company’s new CEO today.
Mr. Beck has a 30-year career of success in enterprise-level software
sales and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales at IBM, J. D. Edwards,
Adobe and Postini. He now turns his expertise to the social marketing
sector, where he will lead Involver’s push to the leadership position
in their category.

Company co-founder and former CEO Rahim Fazal will continue as
Chairman of the Board, and as Involver’s Chief Strategist. “We’re at
an inflection point,” said Fazal. “We’ve seen massive revenue growth
and customer acquisition over the past six months, and we’re bringing
on the perfect leader to help us ramp even faster.”

See Rahim’s blog post selecting Don:

http://inv.lv/qYCSah

Don drove Postini’s sales growth and leadership, culminating in its
sale to Google in 2007; and led Adobe’s North American dominance as
VP of Sales, driving partnerships, MA, and managing the enterprise
sales organization.

Involver has grown 400% during the past six months. Over 500,000 fan
pages run Involver applications, and the company currently adds 3000
new customers every day. To accept the Involver CEO position, Beck
leaves his position as SVP GM of Worldwide Field Operations at
Webroot Software, a global Internet security provider.

“Involver is a hot company on the brink of greatness,” said Beck. “My
experience helping organizations on similar trajectories will help us
accelerate our growth even faster. The social media landscape is the
perfect place to build this kind of company — quickly — and our
immediate focus will be delivering even more value to customers, as
we grow into a market leadership position.”

Involver makes software applications and a management platform that
use the company’s proprietary social markup language, Involver
SML(TM). The first language of its kind in the world, SML allows
businesses and creative agencies to customize Facebook and create
marketing campaigns across the social web at a fraction of the
development costs.

“We are particularly excited about Don because he’ll bring in top
talent to help us achieve our goals,” said Fazal. “We’ve got a great
track record of hiring elite talent, and Don fits perfectly.” In
August, Fazal also successfully recruited software industry veteran
Steven Walske to join Involver’s Board of Directors.

About Involver
Involver is the solution of choice for the world’s
biggest brands trying to connect with customers on social networks.
Over half a million brands and agencies — including Nike, Facebook,
Cisco, and the NFL — use Involver to power their marketing efforts
to a combined audience of over a billion people.

Involver pioneered the first social app suite on Facebook and is now
leading the industry with SML (Social Markup Language), which allows
front-end developers to achieve pixel-perfect application
development. Involver’s Audience Management Platform acts as a
marketer’s system of record, bringing everything from app management
and wall response/moderation to publishing updates and analytics into
a single intuitive interface.

Involver is a Facebook Preferred Developer and a technology provider
for Facebook’s internal marketing team, with applications like the
Involver Leaderboard and Stories. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA,
with Offices in Austin, TX, and New York, NY, Involver was founded in
2007. Investors include Bessemer Ventures, Cervin Ventures and WTI.
Learn more at
www.involver.com .

        
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