MONTEREY--- SHOP.COM Names Vince Hunt Chief Technology Officer
SHOP.COM, the destination comparison shopping engine that merchandises to women and leverages the multi-merchant features of its patented OneCart technology, today announced that Vince Hunt, executive vice president of engineering, has been given the expanded role of chief technology officer.
As a founding member of the SHOP.COM management team, Hunt has spent nearly a decade leading the engineering organization that invented the company’s patented OneCart technology, the cornerstone of its highly-scalable and flexible e-commerce platform. As CTO, Hunt will continue to oversee all of SHOP.COM’s web development and systems staff, as well as play an integral role in the ongoing evolution of the award-winning site’s industry defining architecture. He will also play a highly-strategic role in the development of site features aimed at supporting the company’s rapid expansion of merchant advertising options and unique consumer marketing initiatives
“Vince’s unequalled abilities in designing, planning, creating, and flawlessly maintaining complex software from the ground up have been instrumental in helping us evolve into a destination shopping engine,” said Ken Goldstein, chairman and CEO of SHOP.COM, to whom Hunt reports. “His well trained teams respond to his leadership with record time development schedules and 99.9% uptime for our businesses. Vince displays all of the requisite qualities of a great CTO and has a terrific sense of market focus that adds a rare dimension of vision we all admire in world class executives. It is that humanity, that customer-centric view of the world, that will allow us to continue to innovate and provide the most compelling shopping experiences to our customers.”
“SHOP.COM has evolved in the past year and a half from being an amazing technology company to broadening its perspective and becoming an extremely creative marketing and highly efficient sales-focused company,” said Hunt. “It is gratifying for me to see the extensive functionality our brilliant developers have built over the years now being used by our truly talented marketing, sales and business development teams to address the needs of our customers – specifically women – with features and offers no other platform can support the way we can. My job gets more fun all the time because it is all about teamwork, sharing ideas, exceeding the expectations of customers, and growing our business to always greater success.”
Hunt has more than 20 years of experience in executive and technical positions. Before helping found SHOP.COM, he was vice president of Altura Software, a leading software tool development company. He has also held various technical roles for Apple Computer, Crosswise Corporation and Touch Communications, Inc. Hunt holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
About SHOP.COM
SHOP.COM is the destination comparison shopping engine that merchandises to women and leverages the multi-merchant features of its patented OneCart technology. Designed with the busy woman in mind, SHOP.COM offers an authoritative selection of products from well-known brand name merchants and high quality specialty retailers. Privately-held, SHOP.COM is a California-based company with offices in New York City and London. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SHOP.COM.