Steve Schultz has joined Pageonce, the award-winning personal finance assistant, as its new chief operating officer. A demonstrated leader in the consumer finance category, Schultz brings with him a wealth of experience in product development, strategic partnerships, and business and content strategy.
Working as a Chief Operating Office, Schultz will now be leading Pageonce strategy, distribution partnerships and business development. He will also help guide the company's strategic development into consumer finance.
Prior to joining Pageonce, Schultz was working with Yahoo where he was head of Yahoo Finance, the #1 financial news Website, and Yahoo Real Estate businesses.
"Steve's leadership and experience are an invaluable asset to Pageonce as we continue to develop innovative products and increase market share within the personal finance category," Pageonce CEO and founder Guy Goldstein, said.
During his tenure at Yahoo, Yahoo Finance doubled its market share attracting more than 40 million unique visitors according to Comscore. The company’s business and content strategy, business development and strategic partnerships which included relationships with Intuit (News - Alert), Fidelity Investments, Dow Jones, ScottTrade, Bankrate and Bloomberg.com, were all led by Schultz.
He was also responsible for Yahoo Finance's original content strategy, oversaw the site's push into mobile applications, and entered partnerships with dozens of new content providers. Schultz, with Yahoo Real Estate, helped lead the site from the #10 to the #2 real estate destination on the Web, was named one of the 100 most influential leaders in the real estate industry by Inman News in 2009, and architected a strategic partnership with Zillow.com in 2010.
"Pageonce shares my focus on developing and delivering forward-thinking personal finance products that fit the needs of today's on-the-go consumers. Today that means focusing first on mobile." Schultz, said. "Given the company's proven track record for technology and security, explosive growth numbers and ability to provide personal finance services to consumers across all platforms and devices, Pageonce is poised to take a leadership role in the consumer finance sector”.
In related news, the release of Pageonce Bills has been announced by Pageonce, a mobile personal finance service in the U.S. with over two million iPhone (News - Alert), Blackberry, Android and Windows Mobile customers.
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