CrowdPicks.com Names Ed Shada as President

Online, April 29, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Crowdpicks.com has announced today that Ed Shada will join the company in the role of President, effective immediately. In his new role, Shada will be responsible for aligning CrowdPicks.com's resources to achieve the company's strategic vision and will have day-to-day responsibility for directing and managing sales and marketing.

Mr. Shada previously was co-founder and subject matter expert for Puremarkets.com , one of the first online equipment finance marketplaces launched in April of 2000. Mr. Shada also brings with him over 20 years leadership and start-up experience in the finance industry for Westpac Banking Corp., Advanta Financial Corp, and Clayton Brown & Associates.

Mr. Shada has assembled a marketing team to promote the website and drive new users and subscribers to the website. "The powerful filtering tools on CrowdPicks.com are unique and unmatched by any sports website I have seen", states Mr. Shada, "Since the CrowdPicks members make sports predictions by score, it allows for an extraordinary level of data analysis for our subscribers."

CrowdPicks is incorporated in Nebraska, was co-founded by Jeff Murnane and Cassius Almeida, two former TD Ameritrade executives. CrowdPicks.com is a sports crowdsourcing, social network where the fans are the experts and they compete head-to-head for an opportunity to prove it. While the site is free to play, users can subscribe for premium services such as the picks data filtering tools and "IntelliPicks", the official picks from CrowdPicks created through the collective intellect of the top pickers. Members can also share in the CrowdPicks.com revenue if their picks data is sold to the premium member base. To date CrowdPicks.com has had 2.2 million picks entered.