CAKE by Accelerize Expands Executive Team

NEWPORT BEACH, California, May 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Accelerize (OTCQB: ACLZ) (OTCBB: ACLZ) and its digital marketing software division CAKE, today announced the appointment of Paul Dumais as Senior Vice President of Product and Garth Harris as Vice President of Client Services. Paul and Garth were appointed to drive customer retention, innovate product offerings and increase revenues.

Paul Dumais Joins CAKE 

With over 20 years of executive management and software development experience, Mr. Dumais joins CAKE as the Senior Vice President of Product. He is responsible for developing and implementing the over-arching product vision and communicating the product roadmap both internally and externally. In addition, Paul will work closely with Product Engineering to make informed product decisions quickly and consistently to provide advancements to CAKE's SaaS solution.

Prior to joining CAKE, Mr. Dumais held executive roles at a number of technology companies, both public and private. He most recently served as Vice President Product Development at Scalable Network Technologies, a privately held high-performance network simulation software provider. In addition, he also led a team to develop an integrated publishing, marketing and ecommerce platform at Mom Inc. (ModernMom.com). Before that, Mr. Dumais was the Chief Technology Officer of uWink, where he oversaw the development of software and custom hardware for restaurant operations, in-table touch screen ordering and multi player casual games. Prior to uWink, he worked at Seed Advertising, designing, developing and operating its digital marketing platform with integrated ad server, click tracking and real-time reporting dashboards. He was also a Senior Engineer at Apple for eight years where he worked on operating systems, networking and emulation products.

Garth Harris Appointment  

 As Vice President of Client Services, Garth is responsible for the impact the onboarding, training, account management, technical support and service teams have on CAKE's customer retention and client success. His current objective is to ensure the initial onboarding of clients from their transition to sales, training and ultimately account management is seamless, efficient and beneficial to all of CAKE's clients. In addition, Garth oversees the Professional Services Division and spearheads new feature proposals, custom product builds and customer communication for all paid services.

Prior to his appointment as Vice President, Garth served in a number of roles since joining CAKE in 2010, including Product Trainer, Training Manager and Client Services Manager. During his tenure, Mr. Harris was promoted to Director of Client Services and relocated to CAKE's UK office to grow the customer retention team and implement training processes to promote high-touch customer support. Since transitioning back to CAKE's headquarters, Garth was promoted to Senior Director of Sales Engineering.

"We are thrilled to have Paul and Garth in their new positions," said Santi Pierini, CAKE President and Chief Operating Officer of Accelerize. "They both bring extensive backgrounds in product development, customer relations and leadership skills that make them perfect fits to lead our Product and Client Services teams. They will be essential members of our executive team to further innovate our product and increase efficiencies across the board."

About CAKE by Accelerize 

CAKE, a division of Accelerize Inc., provides a cloud-based solution to track and analyze the performance of digital marketing return on investment, in real-time. Bringing clarity to multi-channel marketing campaigns, we empower advertisers, agencies, publishers and networks from more than 30 countries worldwide with the insight to make intelligent marketing decisions. CAKE by Accelerize is headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif. with operations in London and New Delhi. For more information, visit http://www.getCAKE.com.

About Accelerize 

Accelerize Inc. (OTCQB: ACLZ) (OTCBB: ACLZ) offers marketing technology solutions that revolutionize the way advertisers leverage their digital advertising data. For more information, visit http://www.accelerize.com.

Use of Forward-looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements from Accelerize Inc. within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and federal securities laws. For example, when Accelerize describes plans to innovate its product, increase revenues, increase efficiencies, and uses other statements containing the words "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will" and similar expressions, Accelerize is using forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of Accelerize only, and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: changes in technology and market requirements; our technology may not be validated as we progress further; we may be unable to retain or attract key employees whose knowledge is essential to the development of our products and services; unforeseen market and technological difficulties may develop with our products and services; inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications; or, loss of market share and pressure on pricing resulting from competition, which could cause the actual results or performance of Accelerize to differ materially from those contemplated in such forward-looking statements. Except as otherwise required by law, Accelerize undertakes no obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. For a more detailed description of the risk and uncertainties affecting Accelerize, reference is made to Accelerize's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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SOURCE Accelerize Inc.

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