Gabriella Karni named president of Hotbar.com
Tel Aviv -- Jan. 31, 2000-- Hotbar.com, the leading provider
of browser enhancement software for "Skinning" the Microsoft Explorer Browser, has
named Gabriella Karni as company president.
Karni, a co-founder in the company, established Hotbar.com with partner Oren Dobronsky
in mid-1999. Karni is a licensed psychotherapist with a Masters Degree in Educational
Psychology (suma com laude) from Tel Aviv University, specializing in the study
of Giftedness, Creativity and Intelligence. She has maintained a private practice
and has regularly taught psychology at Levinsky Teachers College for the past eight
years.
"Gaby has played an instrumental role in the development of the product and the
company," said Hotbar.com Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Oren Dobronsky.
"Her professional background allows her to identify what Internet surfers are looking
for in their continuous quest for personalizing the surfing experience. These elements
of humanity have been integrated into the Hobtar.com browsing experience."
Prior to joining Hotbar.com, Karni served as Vice President of Israel Board Ltd.,
from 1997 to 1999. The Israel Board specialized in managing its own e-Community
portal, reaching an active membership of 35,000 local users. As Vice President,
she was responsible for managing all aspects of the company's creative and financial
operations.
From 1992 to 1995 Karni co-founded and served as the CEO and CFO for Gesher El Ltd.,
an Israel-based medical services company. It was at Gesher El where Karni first
integrated both her knowledge of business and psychology. Her inventive practices
of uniting the physical and psychological world into a hybrid form of enterprise
enabled Karni to achieve optimum results.
"Psychology helps us to give answers to basic human needs and this is what Hotbar
is all about," said Karni. We help the user personalize his or her experience by
offering a way for them to add color and life to the browser toolbar through various
types of background images. We address a basic human need for visual delight, fun,
simplicity and for sharing. This is why the web community responds so warmly to
Hotbar.com."
ABOUT HOTBAR.COM, INC.
Hotbar.com Inc., a privately-held company with 40 employees based in Tel Aviv, Israel,
was founded in 1999 by Chief Executive Officer Oren Dobronsky and President Gabriella
Karni.
The company's dynamic, personalized Internet browser software plug-in allows Web
surfers a more enjoyable and efficient browsing experience. For more information,
please visit hotbar.com
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