We put out a press release this morning announcing that Jordan Glazier, a former General Manager at eBay, has joined EVDB, Inc. as our new CEO. This is FANTASTIC news! Jordan is someone I worked with when I was at eBay, and it was an amazing alignment of planets and stars that we were able to bring him on board to strengthen the management team and help us get the business to the next level.
Here's the press release:
EVDB Inc. Names Jordan Glazier as Chief Executive Officer
Former eBay Executive to Focus on Accelerating Growth and Enhancing the Popularity of Eventful.com, the Leading Online Events Site
SAN DIEGO, April 26 -- EVDB Inc., which operates Eventful.com, the leading online events site, today named Jordan Glazier as CEO. Previously, Mr. Glazier was the general manager of eBay's Computers, Consumer Electronics and Business & Industrial businesses. Mr. Glazier brings considerable leadership, general management, and consumer marketing expertise to the EVDB team.
Eventful.com enables users to discover local happenings, from rock concerts and sporting events to fund-raisers, children's activities and book clubs, anywhere in the world. Users can search by geography, venue, performer, event type, date and other parameters to easily find events of interest. Users can also sign up for alerts to be notified when their favorite performers and events come to town.
In addition, users can easily add events to the site for free, which provides a powerful way to promote events that they want to share with others. Eventful.com's latest feature enables users to "demand" performances in their local market, which is a great way for entertainers, authors and others to know where to schedule their next gigs. Not surprisingly, Eventful.com has attracted a dedicated community of users in the 7 months since the launch of the service.
EVDB is a leading developer of web 2.0 functionality, providing the underlying data platform that allows other web sites, bloggers and individuals to interact with the database, syndicate the Eventful.com data, receive feeds of the event listings and input events, venues, and related information.
"Jordan's entrepreneurial experience and his successes in building several billion-dollar businesses at eBay give us great optimism for the future growth and success of our company," said Brian Dear, Founder of EVDB and Chairman of the Board of Directors. "Jordan's vision, passion and operational expertise are integral to continue building Eventful.com as the foremost provider of event-related information in the world."
"I'm thrilled to join Brian and the rest of the Eventful.com team to accelerate growth and profitability while creating the most fulfilling experience for our community of users and partners," said Glazier. "Eventful.com fits perfectly with my personal philosophy ... 'life is short, make it eventful'."
About EVDB and Eventful.com
San Diego-based EVDB Inc. operates Eventful.com, the leading online events site that enables users to discover and promote local happenings throughout the world. EVDB (which stands for 'Events and Venues Database') utilizes Web 2.0 technology in developing its search engine and web services platform for global event and venue data. Investors include: Draper Fisher Jurvetsen of Menlo Park, California; eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network, EDventure Holdings founder Esther Dyson, PersonaLogic founder Tom Sammon, half.com founder Josh Kopelman, Trusonic CTO Daniel O'Neill and Tribe Networks founder Mark Pincus.
Additional information is available at http://EVDB.com and http://Eventful.com .
