A new leadership team is to be in charge at domain marketplace and monetization provider
Sedo, it was announced recently. The changes take place in first quarter 2013 and include "the planned departure" of three co-founders – Ulrich Essmann, Ulrich Priesner and Marius Würzner – alongside the departure of Chief Sales Officer, Liesbeth Mack-de Boer.
Replacing the outgoing executives are Dirk Ochotzki, who joins the executive team as Head of Operations, Simonetta Batteiger, Head of Product Management (Trading) and Joel Ghebaly, who becomes Head of Product Management (Traffic Monetization).
"I would like to thank the departing founders and management members for the last 12 years, in which Sedo has matured from a fast growing start-up to the world’s largest domain marketplace with more than 140 employees serving our global customer base," suggested Sedo Holding AG’s CEO, Tobias Flaitz. "With changing market requirements and increasing competition, Sedo enters the next stage in its growth with changes at the management level that will let the company continue to cater to today’s client expectations."
"By the nature of the domain business, Sedo has always been an evolving organization, and embracing change is part of the company’s DNA," suggested Sedo.com, LLC’s President and co–founder, Ulrich Essmann. "Today we are very proud to pass on management responsibility to longtime team members who will enable Sedo to capitalize on its tremendous growth opportunity and bright future."
With Mr. Flaitz in place as CEO, the company will continue to "market innovative domain solutions that help companies and entrepreneurs capitalize on their online real estate potential" while continuing to offer innovative solutions, such a suite of services designed to promote new gTLDs, which the company launched October 10, 2012.
