HABA Hires Thakkar to Run E-Commerce
HABA USA announced it has hired Vishal Thakkar, a consultant with nearly 10 years of experience designing and creating websites for a variety of companies, as its new e-commerce manager for its online sales site, www.Maukilo.com.
Owned by HABA, a 70-year-old German toy company, Maukilo.com is able to offer more than 1,500 HABA items, the widest selection of HABA products in the United States. Maukilo rounds out its assortment with additional brands, most of which are European, and all of which are said to meet the company’s motto: “Buy once. Play forever.”
New Hires for Dependable Solutions
Dependable Solutions, Inc., (DSI) announced the addition of Ned Carnic as senior programmer and Antonella Rossi as marketing manager, both based in the company’s headquarters in El Segundo, California.
Carnic gives DSI additional programming resources to help with the company’s application programming team in the continued development of web applications, database, and MS SQL reporting tools. He joins a team of experienced programmers at DSI and has spent 23 years working in the software development industry, including six as a hardware engineer.
Rossi joins DSI as marketing manager to help coordinate the advertising, trade shows, and direct seminar campaigns including London, Los Angeles, and New York seminars and the London Brand Licensing Europe show. With her European background, international work experience, and ability to speak multiple languages, Rossi is vital to DSI’s efforts to reach out to new clients.