FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- eDiets.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIET), leveraging the power of technology to bring diet, fitness and healthy lifestyle solutions to everyone, has appointed Laura Klein as the Company's Chief Information Officer effective immediately. Bringing over 8 years of senior business experience to eDiets.com , Ms. Klein served as the CIO and VP of IT at Sheridan Healthcare Inc., as well as holding significant technological roles at Elencee LLC, Green2Go.com and Sun Microsystems.
At eDiets, Ms. Klein will be responsible for the company's technology strategy and operations. Reporting to her will be database, quality assurance, infrastructure and development functions. Ms. Klein will report directly to eDiets CEO and President, Steve Rattner.
"We're eager to welcome Laura to eDiets' executive management team and look forward to expanded corporate online growth with her on board," says eDiets President and Chief Executive Officer, Steve Rattner. "Laura's technical and logistical skills, as well as her substantive health and wellness background will be invaluable to our core business model." Prior to joining eDiets.com, Ms. Klein served as the Chief Information Officer, VP of IT and Security Officer at Sheridan Healthcare Inc., a leading outsourcing provider of healthcare services for hospitals and medical facilities. Between 2001 and 2002, she was President of Elencee LLC, a marketing and website development company located in Fort Lauderdale. In this capacity, Ms. Klein developed new marketing strategies for Sheridan Healthcare, while managing both the web development and marketing teams. Prior to her role as President at Elencee LLC, Ms. Klein was a Software Trainer for Sheridan Healthcare Inc., a System Administrator for Green2Go.com and a Java Programming Instructor at Sun Microsystems.
Ms. Klein holds an Executive Program MBA degree with a concentration in healthcare from the University of Miami, as well as a BS degree in Biology from North Carolina State University and an MS degree in Food and Nutrition from the University of Georgia.
About eDiets eDiets.com, Inc. is a leading provider of personalized nutrition, fitness and weight-loss programs. eDiets currently features its award-winning, fresh- prepared diet meal delivery service as one of the more than 20 popular diet plans sold directly to members on its flagship site, http://www.ediets.com/ . The company also provides a broad range of customized wellness and weight management solutions for Fortune 500 clients. eDiets.com's unique infrastructure offers businesses, as well as individuals, an end-to-end solution strategically tailored to meet its customers' specific goals of achieving a healthy lifestyle. For more information, please call 310-954-1105 or visit http://www.ediets.com/ Safe Harbor Statement Statements which are not historical in nature are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties which could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those which may be expressed or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, that we will not be able to obtain sufficient and/or acceptable outside financing (when and if required), changes in general economic and business conditions; changes in product acceptance by consumers; a decline in the effectiveness of sales and marketing efforts; loss of market share and pressure on prices resulting from competition; significant investments in our technology platform, marketing plans, and product development to remain competitive with other online providers of healthy living and weight loss plans, many of which may be found to offer superior and more varied features than our plans and may also be offered for free; volatility in the advertising markets; any delay, disruption, or suspension of our supply of prepared meals from our vendor; changes in consumer preferences and discretionary spending; product liability and other risks from the sale of ingested products; regulatory actions affecting our marketing activities; and the outcome of litigation pending against us. For additional information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties associated with eDiets.com's business, reference is made to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are current only as of the date on which such statements are made. The Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements. DATASOURCE: eDiets.com, Inc.
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