PicScout Appoints Amy Love as VP of Marketing and Business Development

September 2, 2009 - Silicon Valley, CA - PicScout™, the market leader in worldwide image services, has appointed Amy Love as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Ms Love will assume global responsibilities and oversee all US operations. Ms Love brings a wealth of functional marketing, business development, operations and strategic leadership experience to the swiftly growing company.

Most recently, Ms Love was a partner at Mar Vistas Consulting where she provided strategic planning, marketing and business development leadership for venture-backed entities and emerging Silicon Valley companies. Ms Love also served as the CEO for the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives. Earlier in her career, Ms Love established herself in the publishing industry by founding REAL SPORTS magazine, a national consumer sports magazine which earned the position as the authority in women’s sports.

“Having Amy on our team allows us to continue with our goal of providing the market with cutting-edge image services while expanding on our global market leadership position across multiple service and product solutions,” says PicScout CEO and co-founder Offir Gutelzon.

“The opportunities for PicScout to expand its service platform and product portfolio in the marketplace are enormous,” states Love, “I’m looking forward to leveraging my functional marketing experience to expand our global presence by delivering solutions for our eco-system partners, including stock agencies, professional photographers, creative professionals and advertising agencies.”

Previous marketing assignments for Ms Love include Vice President of Sales and Marketing, North America and International at NAVTEQ; she also devised and engaged an integrated marketing, sales and distribution strategy for a major Hollywood studios home video business while at Booz Allen. Ms Love currently holds the position of Associate Professor, Marketing at San Jose State University; she earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and earned two BBAs from Texas Tech University.