ShareThis Brings Silicon Valley Tech Veteran Nanda Kishore on as Chief Technology Officer

ShareThis, the universal sharing platform that makes it simple and easy to share any online content (www.ShareThis.com), announced today that Nanda Kishore has been appointed to serve as the Company’s Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Kishore will be responsible for leading the overall direction and development of the company’s consumer, publisher and backend technologies and enhancing the scalability, analytics aggregation and content delivery of the ShareThis platform.

Most recently, Nanda Kishore was General Manager, Product Ads at Amazon.com with overall responsibility to develop a new advertising based product for Amazon merchants. Among his accomplishments, Kishore helped found, lead, and develop the technologies behind startups TheFind.com, where he served as CEO and BridgeSpan, where he served as President of products and technology. Previously, Kishore was the Vice President of Engineering at NetDynamics, an early e-commerce infrastructure pioneer.

“We’re excited to have Nanda join our team to help strengthen the technology platform which ShareThis is built on for all users including consumers, publishers and developers,” said Tim Schigel, CEO of ShareThis. “Nanda’s experience in leading and developing the key technologies behind several successful online companies will help ShareThis continue to advance the ShareThis platform and scale alongside our rapidly growing consumer and publisher adoption rates.”

“ShareThis is the social media power house that’s driving and enhancing the way people interact online by enabling users to discover new online content and communities, publishers to transform their sites based on unique social analytics and developers to generate new online networks through its technical flexibility,” said Nanda Kishore, CTO of ShareThis. “I’m looking forward to building upon the already strong ShareThis platform and taking the community experience for all groups who use ShareThis to the next level.”

Kishore holds a bachelor’s of technology degree from I.I.T. Madras, India, a master’s degree in computer and system sciences from Louisiana State University and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University.

About ShareThis

ShareThis lets people easily share the things they find online, in the most convenient way possible. ShareThis consolidates address books and friend lists, so that anything can be shared immediately, without even leaving a webpage.

ShareThis’s veteran management team comprises industry leaders with experience gained from leading companies within international media, marketing and technology companies including: Advertising.com Amazon, AOL, IAC, Nielsen and Yahoo. Tim Schigel, the co-founder & CEO, spent nearly 10 years at Blue Chip Venture Company, investing in companies such as Advertising.com, @plan, CCBN, MarketWire, Nielsen Buzzmetrics and Third Screen Media. Visit www.sharethis.com for more information.

Contacts

For ShareThis
Julie Smith, 917-923-0570
Julie {at} sharethis(.)com
or
Chase Colasonno, 212-905-6052
Chase {at} outcastpr(.)com