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Former Computer Associates Executive Joins SquareTrade Management Team
SquareTrade Appoints Karen Hagewood to General Counsel
San Francisco- May 10, 2000 - SquareTrade, the Internet's leading online dispute resolution service, today announced the appointment of Karen Hagewood as General Counsel. Ms. Hagewood immediately assumes responsibility as SquareTrade's legal counsel and brings her extensive background in international legal matters, software licensing, development and strategic planning to the online dispute resolution service.
"A legal counselor of Karen's caliber will be invaluable as we build trust between buyers and sellers in online transactions," says SquareTrade Chief Executive Officer Steve Abernethy. "We are thrilled that Karen joins our team as we move forward in providing protection tools to a broadening range of consumer and business marketplaces."
Prior to joining SquareTrade, Hagewood was vice president, general counsel and secretary of ACCPAC International, Inc. a majority-owned subsidiary of Computer Associates, Inc. Previously, Hagewood served as director and corporate counsel of worldwide sales and distribution for Nellcor Puritan Bennett, a medical device manufacturing and distribution company. Before Nellcor, she served as senior corporate counsel and assistant secretary at Hitachi Data Systems, a distributor of Hitachi mainframe computers. Hagewood received her juris doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law and her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
About SquareTrade
SquareTrade provides the Internet's leading online dispute resolution service. Fair, accessible and Web-based, SquareTrade's critical Internet infrastructure gives buyers and sellers the confidence they need prior to a transaction when conducting consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business e-commerce transactions. SquareTrade offers a structured and unbiased multi-step process to guide disputing parties to resolution, which is conducted completely online.
Founded in 1999, SquareTrade has an expanding network today comprised of more than 150 trained mediators and arbitrators. SquareTrade's advisory board of leading experts in cyberlaw and alternative dispute resolution include Roger Fisher, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School, Founder/Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and author of "Getting to Yes"; David Johnson, Partner, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C. and ex-Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Ken McEldowney, Executive Director, Consumer Action; Jonathan Zittrain, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School; and Ethan Katsh, Co?Director,
Center for Dispute Resolution and Information Technology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Its offices are based in San Francisco, CA. For more information, employment opportunities or to contact SquareTrade representatives,
visit the Website at www.squaretrade.com.
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