Leading Online Technology Innovator Terry Jones, Joins Dynamite Data as Board Advisor

Dynamite Data, an industry leader for big data and retail channel intelligence, announced today, that leading online technology innovator and executive, Terry Jones has joined the company as a board advisor. Jones will leverage his over 40 years of leadership in online technology and e-commerce modernization to help guide Dynamite Data as the fundamental provider of retail channel intelligence, delivering unprecedented access to the most comprehensive, timely and actionable insights for global retail merchants and manufactures.

Founded by engineers who collectively have over 80 years of technology experience, Dynamite Data is disrupting the $12 billion retail business intelligence market looking to leverage the company’s sophisticated extraction techniques to optimize pricing competition and integrity while managing product stock, assortment, demand and paid search.

Dynamite Data provides retailers and manufacturers unsurpassed data collection and manipulation that gathers, analyzes and distributes online pricing, inventory, and rating and review information straight from 450 million online buy pages at more than 3,000 online merchants worldwide, without relying on feeds.

Dynamite Data’s clients include the leading global manufacturers and retailers that achieve annual aggregate revenues of more than $100 billion.

Since the early ‘70s, Terry Jones has worked in executive leadership positions with online service providers within the travel industry, growing business operations around the world leading to his founding of Travelocity.com where he served as past president and chief executive officer, and also previously as chief information officer for Sabre, Inc. His current positions include chairman of Kayak, Inc. (NASDAQ: KYAK) and managing principal for Essential Ideas. Terry also serves on various boards, committees and investment organizations in the U.S.

“Adding Terry to our collective intelligence is a pinnacle moment for us as a company,” said Diana Schulz, CEO of Dynamite Data. “Terry’s influence in the industries we serve is second to none and comes at an ideal time given the success of our industry offerings on behalf of leading retail clients and the enormous growth we have experienced this year,” Diana continued.

“Joining Dynamite Data’s board of advisors is a natural strategic fit. Dynamite Data is an innovator in the retail market, enhancing business practice by incorporating price transparency and algorithmic pricing models similar to what leaders in the travel industry have undergone to remain competitive,” said Terry Jones. “Over the years I have been fortunate to develop a keen understanding for business opportunity in the marketplace and it is clear to me that Dynamite Data has what is takes to transition to even higher levels.”

About Terry Jones

Terry Jones founded Travelocity.com. He led the company as President and was Chief Executive Officer from its founding until May 2002. Previously, Jones served as Chief Information Officer at Sabre Inc. In his 24 years at Sabre, Jones held various executive positions including President of Computer Services, Vice President of Applications Development and Vice President of Product Development. Prior to Sabre, Jones joined American Airlines in 1978 as Director of Product Development when American Airlines acquired Agency Data Systems, a Florida-based mini-computer accounting systems company. He became president of the division when it moved to Dallas/Fort Worth.

A graduate of Denison University in Granville, Ohio, Jones entered the travel industry in 1971 as a travel agent with Vega Travel in Chicago. He later served five years as a vice president of Travel Advisors, a company specializing in business travel to Eastern Europe and the USSR, with offices in Chicago and Moscow.

Jones is managing principal of Essential Ideas, a consultancy he co-founded to help companies in their transition to the digital economy. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Kayak.com, and is on the boards of Smart Destinations, Inc., Luxury Link, Rearden Commerce and the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. He is also a special venture partner with General Catalyst Partners.

About Dynamite Data

Dynamite Data’s technology provides retail channel intelligence for merchants, manufacturers and consumers, offering access to the most comprehensive, timely and actionable insights. Through its proprietary algorithm, Dynamite Data offers unsurpassed data collection techniques that gather and distribute overwhelming pricing, inventory, and ratings and review information from over 450 million buy pages at more than 3,000 online merchants worldwide. Retail giants and Fortune 500 companies value Dynamite Data for the comprehensiveness, accuracy and timeliness of its data, as well as for its scalable services—all of which continue to outshine competitors. For more information, please visit, www.dynamitedata.com.

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