MyLife Appoints Industry Veteran Paul Onnen as Chief Technology Officer

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - May 4, 2009) - MyLife™, the Web's single best source for people search, today announced the appointment of innovative industry technologist Paul Onnen as Chief Technology Officer. Onnen, whose experience developing strategic technology solutions includes best-in-class industry leaders such as Expedia, Cisco, WebMD, and Nordstrom.com, will be responsible for leading MyLife's technology operations as the company enters a period of rapid growth.

Onnen brings to MyLife extensive experience in directing, developing and executing innovative software, hardware and Web-based products and services for leading organizations. His recognized expertise in emerging Internet technologies will work to further position MyLife, formerly Reunion.com, at the forefront of the burgeoning people search market.

"As the demand for MyLife's robust and comprehensive people search platform continues to grow, we need to continue to scale our technology infrastructure and ability to service our partners, existing members, and millions of new customers each month," said Jeffrey Tinsley, MyLife's CEO and founder. "Paul has world-class strategic leadership experience and an impressive background in developing innovative technologies that enable companies to achieve challenging business and profitability objectives. I'm thrilled to work with Paul and am confident his addition to our executive team will help extend our position as the leader in people search."

Onnen was recently executive vice president of technology at Expedia Inc. where he was in charge of technology and IT operations for Expedia.com, Hotels.com, NewTrade, eLong, and Hotwire. Prior to Expedia, Onnen was director of advisory services for Cisco Systems. There he led high-level strategic business consulting engagements with several of Cisco's top 100 worldwide accounts. Before Cisco, Onnen served as the chief technology officer of WebMD Health and was in charge of recruiting to create and implement a new technology strategy for the world's largest consumer and physician health portals. Prior to WebMD, Onnen was the chief technology and information officer at Nordstrom.com where he oversaw all technological development and execution of Nordstrom.com.

"I'm excited about the potential of MyLife's people search platform and scaling their operations to keep pace with the huge growth the company's experiencing," Onnen said. "MyLife has proven to be an innovative company fulfilling a unique market need, as evidenced by their quarter-over-quarter growth and profitability. I see tremendous opportunity to create even more industry-first technologies and services in the months ahead."

In addition to acknowledgement as one of the Top 25 Most Influential CTOs in the country by CTO Magazine, Onnen was named CTO of the Year in the Retail Sector by InfoWorld. Onnen earned his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

About MyLife

With its proprietary people search technology and access to hundreds of millions of profiles from across the web, MyLife.com is the single best source for finding everyone in your life and staying connected. MyLife has more than 50 million members and is growing at a rate of more than 2 million new members per month. The new company was founded by entrepreneur Jeffrey Tinsley, former CEO of GreatDomains.com and Reunion.com. To build on and expand its proven revenue generating model, MyLife has received $25 million in funding from Oak Investment Partners. For more information, please visit http://www.mylife.com.

Contact Information: Media Contact January Machold Blanc & Otus, PR for MyLife 415-856-5127