SAN FRANCISCO – LookSmart, Ltd. (NASDAQ:LOOK), the search advertising network and management company, today announced the promotion of Jonathan Ewert to Senior Vice President and General Manager, Advertising Networks with additional responsibility for developing new businesses in vertical managed networks. Ewert had served as the company’s General Manager, Advertising Networks since September 2007. The company also announced the promotion of responsibility for its AdCenter platform license business to Michael Schoen, Vice President and General Manager, Advertising Platforms. Schoen had served as LookSmart’s Vice President, Product since September 2007.
“We are very pleased to promote Jonathan Ewert to Senior Vice President and to promote Michael Schoen to general management responsibilities,” commented Ted West, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Jonathan has demonstrated a tremendous record of leadership of our Advertiser Networks, and I am confident that his industry background and business development skills will serve LookSmart well as we seek to grow our existing network and create additional vertical managed networks in partnership with leading publishers. Michael has successfully managed the company’s relationship and growth with IAC’s Ask Sponsored Listings. We are pleased to recognize this, and we expect that Michael will build on that success with other platform license customers.”
About LookSmart, Ltd.
LookSmart (NASDAQ:LOOK) is a premier search advertising network and management company. A trusted provider of quality search advertising products and services to text advertisers, LookSmart offers targeted pay-per-click search and contextual advertising via its proven Search Advertising Network. For publishers seeking to create their own vertical advertising networks, LookSmart also licenses and manages its award-winning AdCenter platform. Dedicated to the quality of text advertising, LookSmart is one of the five founding members of the IAB Click Measurement Panel. For more information call 415-348-7500.
