TheLadders Hires Vice President of Product

NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, TheLadders, a mobile career network, announced the appointment of Theodore "Teddy" Cha as the technology company's Vice President of Product. He will be responsible for product strategy and delivery for the company. Cha will be based in the corporate headquarters in New York City.

"Teddy's strategic insight, along with his top-notch product management skills, makes him the best candidate for helping us build a successful and seamless portfolio of products," said Alex Douzet, CEO and Co-founder of TheLadders, to whom Cha will report directly. "Teddy will be instrumental in guiding our team to develop tools that will help professionals around the country reach their goals."

Before joining TheLadders, Teddy was the Vice President of Product at Signpost, a high-growth software as a service startup providing marketing automation and customer relationship management for local businesses. Teddy has been leading software product teams and driving startup growth since 1999, beginning at iKena (acquired by Net2Phone), GiantBear (acquired by InfoSpace), Register.com, the Gerson Lehrman Group, and Clearwell Systems (acquired by Symantec).He began his career on the foreign exchange desk at Goldman Sachs.

"TheLadders has built a tremendous service for professionals," said Cha. "The company's team is dedicated to helping people improve their careers and we believe a better career network and product can change lives. It's inspiring."

Teddy received an undergraduate degree from MIT, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and worked for Bain & Company as a strategy consultant.

About TheLadders

With over 6 million members, TheLadders is the premier mobile career network, committed to finding the right person for the right job since 2003. The only company with a free, mobile-to-mobile career community, TheLadders expanded its services in fall 2011 from job matching for high-earning professionals to all career-driven professionals. In doing so, more than 70,000 employers and recruiters that use TheLadders to source qualified candidates now have access to professionals at all levels. TheLadders is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit TheLadders Blog and TheLadders.com. Your career is our job™.

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