FOSTER CITY, Calif., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Rearden Commerce, creator of the first on-demand personal assistant and the first on-demand platform for services, announced today the appointments of three new senior executives to its management team. These three executives, hailing from senior-management positions at salesforce.com and eBay, have deep on-demand and e-commerce experience and will play a critical role in helping build widespread adoption of the Rearden Personal Assistant and the company's on-demand services platform.

"Rearden Commerce's unique market opportunity and platform leadership continues to attract the best and brightest as we embark on another year of breakthrough success in 2008," said Patrick Grady, founder and CEO of Rearden Commerce. "We are thrilled to be adding the tremendous talents and invaluable experience of Kendall Collins, Paul Kilmartin and Heather Brooks to our management team. All three bring extremely relevant, hands-on experience helping successful Internet companies scale for hypergrowth, making them valuable new additions to our team."

Kendall Collins, Vice President, Marketing & General Manager, B2B

As VP, Marketing and GM, B2B of Rearden Commerce, Kendall Collins will be responsible for managing the company's marketing strategy and operations, in addition to driving rapid growth of the B2B business. Collins brings to Rearden Commerce more than 12 years of product and corporate marketing experience at leading Internet and software companies. Most recently, Collins was the senior vice president of corporate and product marketing at salesforce.com. As a senior member of salesforce.com's management team, Collins helped grow the company from 500 to over 2,500 employees in the last four years, launch more than a dozen new product lines, and firmly establish the software-as-a-service market. Collins was a key player in driving the company's growth beyond SFA into new application markets as well as platform-as-a-service through the AppExchange marketplace, Force.com platform, and Apex programming language.

Prior to salesforce.com, Collins held leadership roles with Siebel Systems, Oracle, and A.T. Kearney. Collins holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia.

Paul Kilmartin, Vice President, Network Operations

In his role as VP, Network Operations, Paul Kilmartin is responsible for managing the company's technology infrastructure and IT operations. Kilmartin's background includes more than 20 years of experience in information technology management. He joined Rearden Commerce after eight years with eBay, where he managed several different operational teams for both eBay and PayPal, including Systems Administration, Database Administration, Capacity Planning, Data Center Management and Infrastructure Architecture. Kilmartin was named eBay Fellow in 2004, for his leadership in the areas of scalability and availability design and procedure.

Prior to eBay, Kilmartin was co-founder and senior executive with Phaedo Consulting, a systems administration supplementation firm. He has held leadership roles with Landmark Software, the Mitre Corporation, and CCH Washington Service bureau. Kilmartin holds a Masters degree in information systems from George Mason University and a Bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Virginia Tech.

Heather Brooks, Vice President, Program Management and Quality Assurance

As Rearden Commerce's new VP, Program Management and Quality Assurance, Heather Brooks will focus on managing the company's product release process and quality assurance program. Before joining Rearden Commerce, Brooks held a variety of leadership positions at eBay, including roles in operations, program management and product development. Most recently, Brooks was senior director of the PayPal New Ventures and Consumer Technology Group at eBay. In this role, she was a key player in building the PayPal product, managing the technology and release planning functions from the ground up, and growing the PayPal engineering team from 50 to 200 people in two years.

Prior to her work with PayPal, Brooks held key roles on eBay's Program Management and Planning Team and helped build the performance and capacity planning function within the company. Brooks has also held management positions in finance, business development and engineering at Halliburton and Exxon. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Ottawa and a Masters degree in business administration from York University.

Rearden Commerce(TM)

Rearden Commerce provides the ultimate personal productivity tool: an innovative on-demand personal assistant that simplifies life, helping people quickly find the services and goods they need based on what they like, where they are, and what they are doing. The Rearden Personal Assistant is based on the Rearden Commerce Platform, which connects users instantly with the world's largest ecosystem of more than 137,000 trusted merchants and third-party applications providers. The Rearden Personal Assistant also helps thousands of companies save money by consistently guiding employees to preferred suppliers offering negotiated discounts and helping them make smarter purchase decisions. With Rearden Commerce, the power of the intelligent Web is finally realized. Rearden Commerce is headquartered in Foster City, CA. For more information, visit http://www.reardencommerce.com/.

CONTACT: Marian Hughes, +1-708-246-0083, mhughes@tieronepr.com, or Kim
Amsbaugh, +1-650-815-1724, kamsbaugh@tieronepr.com, for Rearden Commerce

Web site: http://www.reardencommerce.com/