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Joel Manby Former Saab CEO
Posted by Craig Ross (more from Craig Ross) on Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:53:26
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

Webvertising Appoints New Board Member; Former CEO of Greenlight.com and
Saab, USA, Joel Manby Joins the Webvertising Team 

Wed Feb 27 08:00:00 2002 GMT 

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2002-- 
Webvertising Inc. announced today the appointment of Mr. Joel Manby to
the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Manby became a Director of
Webvertising in December, 2001.
'We are extremely excited about having Joel on our board to help us
guide Webvertising through the very exciting growth opportunities the
company faces,' said Dougal Cameron, Chairman of Webvertising's Board of
Directors. 'His experience in other ventures is very relevant to the
kinds of things we are trying to accomplish at Webvertising. We are
focusing on the growth of our iHotelier division and on opportunities
presented by what we think is the beginning of a new paradigm in
Internet applications that will do for other Web and e-commerce
applications, what our OneScreen patent-pending technology has done for
online reservations.'
Mr. Manby is also the Chairman of the Board for Silver Dollar City
Incorporated, a privately held entertainment company with operations in
five states. From March of 2000 until February of 2001, Mr. Manby was
the CEO of Greenlight.com in San Francisco, a Silicon Valley start-up
funded by Kleiner Perkins, Amazon.com and Asbury Automotive (the largest
privately held dealer group in the country). Joel helped the company
launch Amazon, while raising $29 million in capital in the middle of the
dot-com meltdown. Greenlight was sold to its largest competitor,
CarsDirect, in February of 2001. From 1985 until February 2000, Mr.
Manby worked for General Motors ending with his last four years as the
CEO of GM's division, Saab USA. Mr. Manby attended Harvard Business
School on a GM scholarship and received his Master of Business
Administration in 1985. Prior to this, he had worked 2 years at General
Motors. Mr. Manby attended undergraduate at Albion College.
'It's great to be involved with a company like Webvertising at this
stage in their growth. I am looking forward to working with the rest of
the team to achieve the company's goals,' Joel Manby commented about his
appointment to Webvertising's Board of Directors.

About Webvertising

Founded in 1994, Webvertising is an Internet professional services firm
that applies strategy, smart technology and value creation through
design to help growing companies benefit from the creative use of
technology. From their home offices in Houston, Webvertising services
clients around the world. Webvertising is also the parent company of
iHotelier, a fully integrated hotel representation company offering a
suite of electronic distribution solutions for the hospitality industry
that includes the patent-pending OneScreen user interface, customized
Web-based CRS, GDS connectivity, online reservation management, Internet
marketing, and PMS interfaces.

http://www.webvertising.com
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