George Northup President of Memeo

Memeo, Inc. announced George Northup has been appointed president. Northup brings nearly 30 years of executive experience helping build companies in the e-commerce and software sectors. George will be based in San Jose and will focus on scaling operations for Memeo as the company continues to experience rapid growth.

 
Prior to joining Memeo, Northup was president and CEO at AuctionDrop, Inc., During his career, Northup has been involved in the building of four companies with cumulative revenues in excess of $1 billion. He has held a variety of executive positions at companies including, LiveCapital, Inc., Online Resources Corporation, Inc., Intellicall, Inc. and SMS Data Products Group, Inc. George started
his career at Deloitte & Touche.

“George’s strong background in building mid-stage companies and overseeing successful exit strategies comes at a perfect time for our rapidly expanding business,” said Hong Bui, Memeo founder and CEO. “We are excited to have George on board as our customer base is growing rapidly, our revenue model is robust and we have a very strong foundation of partners who see value in our products. We’re looking forward to his contributions as we continue with a very strong 2009.”

This appointment follows Memeo’s record growth and revenues during 2008, having shipped more than 20 million licenses of Memeo Backup, AutoSync and Share across 150 countries and in 10 languages.

“As other companies in the technology space continue to struggle through the current economy, I believe that Memeo has the technology and talent to succeed,” said George Northup, president at Memeo. “I’m excited to be joining Memeo during this stage of its growth.”