As the first employee, Crair built Sprint PCS to a $200 million run rate with over 1,100 employees within 3 years.
"Bruce brings significant expertise and a winning track record in leading high technology companies," said Heath Clarke, Interchange CEO. "He possesses over 20 years of senior management experience in both public and private companies. We believe Bruce will be instrumental in taking our company to the next level."
Most recently, Crair was co-founder and COO of ZeroDegrees Inc., an Internet company that provided online social networking services to business professionals. The company was purchased by IAC/InterActiveCorp in 2004 and Crair remained active in the company until April 2005. Prior to ZeroDegrees, Crair served as CEO of Technology Transformation, a management consulting company. From 1999 to 2001, Crair was president and COO for eVoice Inc., an integrated IP telephony services company, which was purchased by America Online in 2001. Prior to eVoice, Crair served as president and COO of Micro General, a public spin-off of Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
Crair received his . degree in physics from the United States Naval Academy and an .A. in corporate strategy and international business from the University of California, Berkeley.
About Interchange
Interchange Corp. (NASDAQ:INCX) utilizes proprietary search technologies to enable consumers to find and connect with businesses in seven countries and five languages. The company serves local and national . Internet search markets with its ePilot(TM) search service and Local Direct(TM) search and advertising platform, and the wireless . local-search market with its recently released SMS LOCAL(TM) service (beta). Interchange's European subsidiary, Inspire Infrastructure, serves various European Internet, wireless and operator-assisted local-search markets. Interchange generates revenues principally from paid-search advertising. Interchange specializes in local-search and recently acquired the domain name in order to develop a worldwide local-search destination site. The company plans to unite its various Internet and wireless local-search technologies under the brand, which is expected to be launched in the second half of 2005.
The company currently has headquarters in Laguna Hills, with its European headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information on Interchange, please visit: .com.
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