Enable Holdings, formerly uBid Holdings, appointed Bob Geras to its Board of Directors. Co-founder of Sixpence Inns, which was acquired by Motel 6, and President and sole owner of LaSalle Investments for 30 years, Geras is a Founding Director of the Illinois Venture Capital Association and is involved with a number of venture funds, such as K-B Partners, Dunrath Capital Partners, Ceres Venture Fund, and the Illinois Accelerator Fund. Enable Holdings Inc.'s multi-channel asset-recovery solution includes online auction platform uBid.com.
Moneybookers hired Felix Leuschner to drive global money transfers. As Moneybookers' Director Global Money Transfer, Leuschner will be responsible for advancing the growth of its peer-to-peer (P2P) money transfer business. While over half of Moneybookers' five million account holders already use its payment system for email-based remittances, the company is looking to aggressively expand growth in the volume of annual transactions. Prior to his new role at Moneybookers, Leuschner was the founder and Co-CEO of a successful virtual goods marketplace for online gaming. Moneybookers' worldwide payment network combines unlimited, digital money transfer with over 50 payment options in more than 200 countries.
