New Spark Media Announces Appointment of Sean Dollinger as President and CEO

TORONTO, April 20, 2019 /CNW/ - The Board of Directors of New Spark Media Inc. ("New Spark" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Dollinger as President and CEO, effective today.

"We are thrilled to welcome Sean to lead New Spark," said Jonathan Held, outgoing CEO and continuing member of the Board of New Spark.  "Sean brings a wealth of experience and expertise in technology start-ups.  One of the biggest challenges businesses have is connecting effectively with the end user.  We believe what we can do with this platform, under Sean's leadership, will be revolutionary."

"I am excited to join New Spark's team for the opportunity to grow its client base in the U.S. market. I look forward to leading this company and taking it to the next level," said Mr. Dollinger. "New Spark's content management platform is well-positioned to be a leader in the user engagement space."

Mr. Dollinger is the former CEO of Namaste Technologies, Inc.  "I wish Namaste every success and will be pleased to continue to support its management team in my advisory role," said Dollinger.

About New Spark Media Inc.

New Spark Media Inc. is a technology company which offers a reliable, scalable, secure and easy to integrate solutions to optimize and gauge user engagement through its suite of analytics.  New Spark's user-generated content curation platform allows users to share media across a variety of community platforms, while providing an easy way to moderate and collect metadata on the activity.  New Spark has clients throughout North America, Europe and Australia, who use these tools to source, curate and publish user generated content on their community sites, contests pages and social media platforms.  www.newspark.ca.

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SOURCE New Spark Media Inc.

Mike Dai, [email protected], 647-888-9806; Sean Dollinger, [email protected], 604-355-6100