Andrew Playford

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  Andrew Playford, Vice President, Finance and Corporate Treasurer
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  Andrew Playford, Vice President, Finance and Corporate TreasurerAndrew Playford manages all financial aspects of Cometa Networks, including Planning, Accounting and Corporate Finance.
  
  Prior to joining Cometa Networks, Mr. Playford served as CFO of SmartRay Network, Inc., a company he co-founded in early 1999.SmartRay was a venture-backed platform provider for vendors of real-time data that was acquired in a $36 million deal in August 2000 by LifeMinders, Inc.
  
  Prior to his work with SmartRay, Mr. Playford was Vice President of Operations at Think New Ideas, Inc. a NASDAQ marketing and technology services company.There he reported directly to the CEO, and he was instrumental in the acquisition and integration of acquired businesses that helped the company grow its consolidated revenues from $10 million to $50 million in a two-year period.Think New Ideas, Inc., merged with Answer Think (NASDAQ: ANSR) in a $230 million deal in 1999.
  
  Playford started his career with five years at Price Waterhouse in London.He also spent a year in the Internal Audit group of Colgate Palmolive in New York before commencing his career in the technology sector.
  
  Playford holds a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and he is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England & Wales.
  
  Executive BiosGary R. Weis, President and CEOJeff Damir, Senior Vice President, Sales and Business Development Joan M. Corley, Senior Vice President, NetworksAndrew Playford, Vice President, Finance and Corporate Treasurer

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  Andrew Playford is a South African who lives in Chicago, USA. Most recently he was the founder and CEO of Signature Days, an online experience gift company. Andrew previously lived in New York where he successfully co-founded SmartRay Networks, a real time alerting platform for mobile networks. After graduating from the University of Cape Town, South Africa (1990) with a Bachelors degree in Business Science, he went to London, joined Price Waterhouse and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA).

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  Andrew Playford - Andrew Playford was born and raised in Zimbabwe, Africa. At 19, Andrew Playford enrolled at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Andrew Playford received his B. Business Science in 1990 and traveled to Britain to earn a professional qualification as a member of the Institute of Chartered... read more..

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  Andrew Playford, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Signature Days, went personally bankrupt trying to save the firm, I have been told.

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  has never been more feasible or accessible," said Andrew Playford CEO and Founder of Signature Days.

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  "We are building a premier online portal devoted to providing consumers with life-changing experiences," said Signature Days CEO Andrew Playford, 38.

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  Hi, my name is Andrew Playford and I am the founder of Signature Days.
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  The extra bit of creativity ensures that those who receive the gifts will remember the events for a long time," said Signature Days founder and CEO Andrew Playford.
  
  The idea isn't new.Playford picked it up from similar catalog and phone-in companies in the United Kingdom.
  
  "I wanted to make the process streamlined by using technology, and incorporate experiences in several cities," said Playford, 38, who has put an initial $500,000 of his own money into the venture.
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  Playford, who grew up in Zimbabwe, moved to Chicago two years ago after cutting his teeth on the dot-com heyday in New York City and Silicon Valley.
  
  Playford left New York for the U.K., but discovered that the climate was harsh for startups.He returned to the United States, to Silicon Valley, in 2002 and helped launch Cometa Networks, which started rolling out thousands of Wi-Fi hot spots.
  
  Cometa, despite backing from AT&T, Intel and IBM, and investors Apax Partners and 3i, shut down a year ago because the company wasn't gaining subscribers fast enough to keep it viable.
  
  Playford figured out that he wanted to start his business without venture capital, at least in the beginning.
  
  "I wanted to do this my way -- slowly and methodically, and to create an organic business that I could run for a long time," rather than having venture investors pushing to sell it quickly, he said.
  
  Playford has incurred no debt in setting up the business, and he hopes to break even by mid-2006.
  
  He also has set up a team of trusted advisers, including Heidi Messer, LinkShare's co-founder and president; Robin Murray, managing director at 3i Capital, and Ted Schell, former Cometa chairman and a managing director at Liberty Associated Partners.
  
  Playford likes his chances in Chicago."It's not so easy to get lost," he said.
  
  Rick Summer, an analyst at Morningstar, said Playford might face a big expense in attracting enough users to make the site profitable.
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  Andrew Playford

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  Signature Days was founded in 2004 by CEO Andrew Playford and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

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  Local company founder Andrew Playford launched Signature Days after recognizing a growing nationwide preference for life-enriching activities over material goods.Playford's approach is supported by the findings of a 2004 Unity Marketing study, which indicates that Americans of all ages derive the greatest personal satisfaction from experiential luxuries.
  
  "Our customers work hard all year and want to enjoy their time off doing cool things or making memories with the people they love," said Playford.

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  We'll be running an interview with Andrew Playford, Signature Days' CEO, in a future issue of DM News.
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  Todd, Jatinder, Andrew and I were in.

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