Friday, January 25, 2013

Rover.com Names Trio Of Execs

Rover.com, the online marketplace for dog owners and sitters headed by Gregg Gottesman, has hired a trio of executives, saying it has named Scott Porad as Senior Vice President of Product Development, Susan Koehler as Chief Marketing Officer and Kristen Forecki as Director of Customer Experience. Porad was previously CTO of Cheezburger Network, and also worked on drugstore.com and ESPN.com; Koehler has previously served at Microsoft, Dial Corporation and Warner Lambert Corp; Foracki was previously at Amazon.com, serving as a Senior Product Manager. Rover.com offers up an online marketplace which helps dog owners find dog sitters for their pets. Rover.co is backed by Madrona Venture Group, CrunchFund, and others.