| | Bishop’s expertise and leadership qualities will be instrumental to the company as we continue to expand our services portfolio to include custom e-business development |
Kansas City, KS (September 15, 2004) – LaGarde®, a global leader in e-business solutions, is pleased to announce the hire of Shawn Bishop as Director of Research and Development. This key addition to the management team positions LaGarde to provide expanded client customization services for its market leading StoreFront suite of products (www.storefront.net).
As Director of Research and Development, Bishop will lead all software development, quality assurance, and custom development activities for LaGarde’s award-winning StoreFront product line. He brings over eight years of software development, business analysis, database management, and consulting experience to LaGarde in the financial, consumer products, and defense sectors. Before joining LaGarde, Bishop was a consultant for Avanade, a Microsoft certified partner, where he led software development projects for a variety of clients.
Prior to Avanade consulting, he directed business requirements and software development activities for the United State Air Force on the Cheyenne Mountain project. “Bishop’s expertise and leadership qualities will be instrumental to the company as we continue to expand our services portfolio to include custom e-business development,” said Bob LaGarde, founder and CEO of LaGarde. “We have seen a natural maturing and sophistication occur with our core SMB online merchants, coupled with a rapid expansion of enterprise level clients utilizing StoreFront products..
This has resulted in greater demand for highly personalized e-commerce sites and full-service offerings.” About LaGarde: Founded in 1996, LaGarde is a leading global provider of e-business solutions for small to enterprise level businesses. LaGarde’s comprehensive StoreFront software and service products offer robust, feature-rich solutions to develop, deploy, and maintain e-business sites that deliver enterprise functionality at an affordable price point.
The StoreFront platform powers nearly 50,000 web stores in over 70 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.StoreFront.net or call 800-943-5823. ### LaGarde, StoreFront and StoreFront Now are either registered trademarks or trademarks of LaGarde Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
