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issuu Appoints Erik Juhl as Vice President of Engineering to Help Grow and Scale the Companyissuu, a modern media company that helps creators and brands publish and distribute professional-level digital publications, today announced Erik Juhl has joined the company as vice president of engineering to drive growth and help scale the company. He will be responsible for the technology organization, managing and expanding the global engineering and operations organization. Juhl will drive development strategy and manage issuu teams across mobile, desktop, web, and scalable backend services in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Silicon Valley. Juhl has extensive prior experience across industries leading high performing engineering teams. He previously served as the director of development at Unity Technologies, the creator of an end-to-end development platform used to create rich interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences. He has also served as executive director of engineering at Warner Bos. Entertainment Group. He led the creation of enterprise class SaaS (News - Alert) solutions in the financial services industry while at First American Title. "Erik's experience in accelerating growth with platform businesses is significant," said Joe Hyrkin, CEO of issuu. "issuu has reached sustainable profitability through its core publishing platform business, which has 100M+ unique visitors per month and 33M+ publications on the platform, and Erik will be instrumental in driving issuu's next phase of growth." "I've been following issuu for years and believe the company has a tremendous opportunity ahead to extend its position as the world's leading digital publishing platform," said Juhl. "I feel well positioned to help issuu achieve its next level of growth - particularly given my experience with platform businesses, like Unity, which is also used by millions of individuals globally. I'm looking forward to working with Joe and the extremely talented team at issuu." About issuu issuu is a modern media company that helps creators and brands publish and distribute professional-level digital publications around areas of passion - going deep into verticals, from fashion, lifestyle, feminism, music and much more. issuu attracts over 100 million unique visitors per month and has over 33 million publications on its platform. Every day, more than 20,000 publications are uploaded, including magazines, newspapers, portfolios, catalogs, corporate literature, DIY guides, community programs and more. issuu is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA (News - Alert), with offices in Copenhagen, Berlin and New York City. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170727005090/en/ |
