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dozen employees at the
company.
Bentley played a central role
in helping to expand Sedo's global footprint outside of Germany,
in particular by launching (together with Sedo Co-founder
and President Ulrich Essmann) Sedo's Boston-based
U.S. subsidiary company Sedo.com, LLC in
2004. Bentley served as CEO of Sedo.com
for two years before returning to Germany to assume his
current role.
Bentley also played a key
role in shaping Sedo's successful domain parking product,
forging one of the industry's first parking partnerships
with Google, and managing the launch of Sedo's
premium brand for domain professionals, SedoPro.
Bentley said, “It has been
an incredibly rewarding experience to participate in
Sedo’s |
Matt
Bentley
will leave Sedo August 1 |
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worldwide growth and witness
the company’s emergence as a dominant player in the
market. I’m definitely going to miss working with the
many great people there, but the time was right for me to
find a new challenge. Sedo is a strong organization,
and I expect to see the company continue to thrive at the
forefront of the domain industry.” |
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Sedo CEO and
co-founder Tim Schumacher said, “Together with
Sedo’s founders, Matt has played an important role in
helping Sedo become the recognized, global domain
marketplace leader it is today. Matt will no doubt
continue to be a tremendous asset to Sedo in his new
advisory role. We thank him for his years of
dedication and wish him success in his future
endeavors.”
Bentley has
not yet announced what his next career move will be but,
on a personal note, I will add that I have no doubt that
he will continue to be exceptionally successful in
whatever he chooses to do. In covering the industry for DN
Journal, I have gotten to know Matt very well over the
past five years and he is without question one of the
sharpest young executives I have ever met in this or any
other business.
(Posted
July
29,
2008) |
