Enable Holdings, Inc. Names Patrick L. Neville Chief Executive Officer
12 Février 2010 - 2:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
CHICAGO, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enable Holdings, Inc
(OTC Bulletin Board: ENAB), (the "Company"), one of the leading
asset recovery solution providers for products of the world's most
trusted brands, with operating subsidiaries uBid, Inc.,
Red.Tag.com, RedTagLive!, Dibu Trading Corporation and Commerce
Innovators, announced today Patrick L. Neville, has been named its
Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Neville is a proven leader and
turn-around specialist in the areas of merchandising and apparel.
Mr. Neville will also join Enable Holdings' Board of Directors. Mr.
Neville will join the Company effective March 1, 2010 and replace
Timothy E. Takesue, who has been serving as the Company's Interim
Chief Executive Officer since December 22, 2009. Mr. Takesue will
return to his position of Executive Vice President of Asset
Management, effective February 11, 2010. Mr. Neville is a
successful entrepreneurial leader who has developed, re-engineered
and rolled out revised business models in merchandising companies,
and is particularly skilled in developing and managing the
implementation of turn-around and growth strategies. He
successfully participated in the sale of numerous businesses, under
his leadership, after having steered them to achieve profitable
growth. Prior to joining the Company, from 1997 to 2008, Mr.
Neville was President, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of
Beautyfirst/Purebeauty of Wichita, Kansas. At
Beautyfirst/Purebeauty, Mr. Neville spear-headed strategic planning
and had management responsibility for approximately 2,200
employees, operating more than 120 stores, across the United
States, with annual sales exceeding $120,000,000. He successfully
oversaw the sale of Beautyfirst/Purebeauty. Since 2008, Mr. Neville
has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Paradigm
Advisory Group LLC in Wichita, Kansas. Paradigm provides advisory
services with emphasis on crisis management, executive office
coaching and restructurings to E-commerce, wholesale, retail and
manufacturing companies ranging from start-ups to those with
revenues exceeding $500,000,000. "I am excited to be a part of the
management team of Enable Holdings as I believe its existing
management has successfully steered the Company through challenging
times and has adopted several measures that have positioned the
Company for attractive growth potential," Mr. Neville stated. "The
Company has well-established corporate and consumer relationships
demonstrated by the activity in both its online and offline
channels of distribution, despite the current economic slowdown.
The Company has successfully restructured many aspects of its
operations and I look forward to being part of the team to continue
to drive profitable growth." According to Steve Sjoblad, Chairman
of the Board of Directors of Enable Holdings, Inc, "Mr. Neville has
extensive hands-on operational and turn-around experience in the
field of merchandising which complements the existing management.
We are pleased to have him accept the position of Chief Executive
Officer of the Company." Mr. Neville has also served as a member of
the Board of Directors to the Chicago Apparel Center, Men's Retail
Association, National Retail Federation, L.B.A. National Buying
Group, and he is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the
International Salon Spa Business Network. About Enable Holdings,
Inc and its subsidiaries The Company, through its operating
subsidiaries uBid, Inc., Red.Tag.com, RedTagLive, Dibu Trading
Corporation and Commerce Innovators, offers business-to-consumer
and business-to-business online and offline marketplaces in the
United States. The Company connects companies, with excess
inventory solution needs, with products that include brand names to
corporate and consumer customers. It provides multi-channel asset
recovery solutions that includes online auction platform uBid.com,
fixed-price online commerce solution RedTag.com, offline excess
inventory solution RedTag Live!, business-to-business solution Dibu
Trading Corporation, and upcoming private auction software solution
Commerce Innovations. The Company's comprehensive solution set
efficiently matches corporate sellers and buyers (that are both
corporate and consumers) through its various commerce solutions.
The Company has helped thousands of businesses sell over $2 billion
of excess inventory over the past ten years and has saved consumers
hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. Through its
diverse, and complementary, channels of distribution, the Company's
marketplace employs a combination of auction style and fixed price
formats which offers its sellers a comprehensive asset recovery
solution. SEC Filings and Forward-Looking Statements Additional
information about the "Company" is available in the Company's
annual report in Form 10-K and latest quarterly financial report in
Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Certain statements made in this release are forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements are based on the
then-current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and
forecasts about the business of the Company and markets in which
the Company operates. These statements are not guarantees of future
performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, which
are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results
may differ materially from what is expressed or implied by these
forward-looking statements. Factors which may affect the forward
looking statements identified above and the Company's business,
financial condition and operating results generally include the
effects of adverse changes in the economy, reductions in consumer
spending, declines in the financial markets and the industries in
which the Company and its partners operate, adverse changes
affecting the Internet and e-commerce, the ability of the Company
to develop and maintain relationships with strategic partners and
suppliers and the timing of its establishment or extension of its
relationships with strategic partners, the ability of the Company
to timely and successfully develop, maintain and protect its
technology and product and service offerings and execute
operationally and the ability of the Company to attract and retain
qualified personnel. The Company expressly disclaims any intent or
obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as
otherwise specifically stated by the Company. DATASOURCE: Enable
Holdings, Inc. CONTACT: Mike Martinez of Enable Holdings, Inc.,
+1-773-272-5000 Web Site: http://www.enableholdings.com/
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