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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 2442R Velti PLC 18 August 2010 \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\nFor Immediate Release\n\n\n August 18, 2010\n\n\n\n\n \n\nVELTI ADDS KEY STRATEGIC ROLES\n\nSally Rau Joins as Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel;\nIan Arthurs Named VP, Customer Development\n \nSan Francisco, Calif. - Velti (LSE:VEL), a leading global provider of mobile marketing and advertising technology, today announced two key additions to its management team: Sally Rau joins as Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel, and Ian Arthurs as VP, Customer Development.\n \nSally Rau joins Velti from DLA Piper, one of the world's leading legal services providers with 3,500 lawyers located in 30 countries and 69 offices throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. She brings over twenty-five years of experience as a corporate and securities lawyer. As a partner at DLA, Sally focused on public company representation, corporate governance, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions-and also served as lead outside counsel for Velti. During her tenure at DLA, Sally represented a number of high technology and emerging growth companies in public and private offerings, mergers and acquisitions transactions, and general corporate governance and securities laws matters.\n \nPrior to DLA Piper, Sally served as General Counsel at Cronos Containers Ltd., based in London. As Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel at Velti, she will focus on the company's day to day administration, corporate governance, legal and global compliance matters. Sally holds a J.D. from the University of Oregon and an A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley.\n \nIan Arthurs joins Velti after three years at Google, where he led sales and account management for Travel and Retail verticals. Ian's global teams delivered and optimized innovative online marketing strategies for high growth clients, and in doing so helped define Google's US AdWords service model. Ian has over ten years of marketing experience in top-tier consumer brand management and strategy consulting. As VP of Customer Development at Velti, Ian will lead vertical proposition development, U.S. account management, and U.S. ad operations. He has an MBA from Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, and an M.A. from University o...