DOVER, NH -- (Marketwire) -- 08/27/09 -- Sell My Timeshare NOW, a global leader in the online advertising and marketing of timeshare resales, is expanding its senior management with the addition of new hire, Chris Ownby as Chief Technology Officer. Ownby's responsibilities will include managing Sell My Timeshare NOW's IT department and extensive website improvement, development and interface projects.

Chris Ownby comes to the Dover, NH-based timeshare resale and timeshare rental advertising company from Sapling Systems, where he was the CTO and the Vice President of Product Development. Prior to joining Sapling Systems, Chris Ownby managed the development of Harcourt Assessment's online platform, which provided formative and summative testing for the United States' K through 12 education system. He is the past Director of Application Development at CreditReport.com, the market leader in providing B2C and B2B online, highly secure credit services and was a founder of Trapdoor Net Systems, an internet software development company that was successfully acquired in 2002.

Sell My Timeshare NOW CEO Jason Tremblay says, "We are pleased to have Chris lead our talented IT team. He has more than 20 years' experience in the software development industry and his skill in building and managing both small and large technical teams and architecting large service-oriented enterprise systems is going to help us take Sell My Timeshare NOW to higher levels of performance and service. Our goal is to truly differentiate our company from others in our industry; Chris will play an important role in helping us achieve that goal as we enhance and improve the functionality of our website."

Ownby, who holds a BA from California State University at Fullerton, has written and lectured on the future of software, the software industry, and on the role of the internet. He is currently working on a book about how to run a successful software business.

About: SellMyTimeshareNOW.com provides internet advertising and marketing solutions for timeshare owners seeking to sell timeshare or rent timeshare, while providing an extensive inventory of timeshare resales and timeshare rentals for the secondary market. For the second consecutive year, Sell My Timeshare NOW has made the prestigious Inc. 5000 List, ranking 21 among the top 100 privately held US real estate companies.

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