Former Google Executive Vince Monical Joins PowerReviews® Board of Directors

PowerReviews®, the leading provider of customer reviews and social commerce solutions for retailers and brands, announces that former Google executive Vince Monical has joined its Board of Directors. Monical brings more than fifteen years of Internet and ecommerce experience, including senior roles at Google.

“Vince is an Internet veteran and I am excited to have him as part of our Board of Directors,” says Pehr Luedtke, CEO of PowerReviews. “Through his experiences running Google Analytics and Checkout, Vince brings tremendous understanding of how to help retailers and brands improve the metrics that matter.”

Monical was most recently Director of Mobile and Emerging Platforms at Google, where he led strategy and oversight for the next wave of Google’s products. As Director of Google's Commerce and Analytics, he built and managed relationships with hundreds of Fortune 1000 advertisers. Prior to Google, Monical was Founder and Co-CEO of Flutter.com, a sports exchange trading platform, and at Bain & Company.

“PowerReviews is an innovative company with industry leading products, a world-class customer base, and a great team,” says Monical. “I look forward to helping the company with its next phase of growth.”

About PowerReviews®

PowerReviews is the leading provider of customer reviews and social commerce solutions to retailers and brands. The company's innovative tag-based approach to collecting, organizing, structuring and analyzing user-generated content significantly boosts product sales and customer engagement. Recognized as the customer reviews Solution Leader in the Internet Retailer Top 500 survey, PowerReviews works with over 850 retailers and brands on over 2700 websites, including Staples, Drugstore.com, Gardener’s Supply, Diapers.com, Callaway and Jockey. In addition to its Enterprise solution, PowerReviews offers an on-demand solution for small- and medium-sized businesses called PowerReviews Express ( www.powerreviewsexpress.com). PowerReviews also operates a product reviews and recommendation site for consumers, called Buzzillions.com ( www.buzzillions.com). PowerReviews blog is at www.blogs.powerreviews.com.