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Freewebs Continues Expansion of Executive Team, Adds Rick Robinson As Vice President of Products and Programming

Posted on: Monday, 17 July 2006, 09:00 CDT

Freewebs.com, the Internet's leading free do-it-yourself Website host, today announced that Rick Robinson has joined the company as vice president of products and programming.

Robinson brings to Freewebs 10 years of experience with AOL, where he served as the vice president of member experience, as well as helping launch AOL's Digital City local network, the AOL Wireless group, and AOL Community Products.

At Freewebs Robinson will lead a team focused on making advanced Web presence development simple and create new methods for people to interact with one another online, as well as bring Freewebs members worldwide visibility through content programming and promotion.

"Freewebs is experiencing tremendous growth right now, and to support that growth we're developing a talented and experienced executive team," said Shervin Pishevar, President and COO of Freewebs. "Rick is a critical addition, whose knowledge, energy and experience will help us to continue providing users with new, exciting, and high-quality products."

Founded in 2001, Freewebs.com is the free, do-it-yourself Website builder that guarantees that anyone with an Internet connection and something to share can easily create a complete, high-quality Website through its versatile publishing platform. Freewebs offers its members a complete personal digital hub that includes Web pages, blogs, profile pages, photo sharing, video and more, unified in a single Web presence. The company now boasts more than 10 million users around the globe and is now the second-largest Web host in the world as measured by page views.

"I feel lucky to be a part of the Freewebs team during a period of such rapid growth," said Robinson. "The company is well on its way toward a vision of being able to provide both a complete, high-quality Web presence to anyone who wants one and a vibrant audience of members with whom to interact; I'm committed to helping realize that vision."

About Freewebs

For everyone with an Internet connection and something to share, Freewebs.com is the free, do-it-yourself Web site builder that guarantees anyone can easily create and share a complete, high-quality Web site through its versatile web publishing platform. Today, more than 10 million individuals, groups, organizations and small businesses worldwide use Freewebs to create and host comprehensive Web sites that include blogs, photos, videos, music, e-commerce and more. Founded in 2001, Freewebs is privately held and based in Silver Spring, Md.

Source: Business Wire

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