WorldVitalRecords.com Announces New President and VP of Marketing

The following announcement was written by WorldVitalRecords.com:

Steve Nickle and Jim Ericson bring new vision and strong leadership to WorldVitalRecords.com.

Provo, UT, October 08, 2008 -- WorldVitalRecords.com, an online genealogy service of FamilyLink.com, Inc., announced a new leadership team with Steve Nickle as the company’s new president, and Jim Erickson as Vice President, Marketing. Paul Allen will remain as CEO.

“I believe WorldVitalRecords.com is in a unique position to make a difference in the world of genealogy because of its dedicated and passionate employees to its unique perspective on how to partner with the rest of the genealogy community,” said Steve Nickle, President, WorldVitalRecords.com.

Nickle comes to the company with more than 20 years of executive and management leadership. He spent the first half of his career in financial services after earning a Financial Planning degree from BYU. The second half of his career has been spent primarily as an executive in small and medium-sized companies, including two Vice President roles at MyFamily.com -- Vice President of Global Content Acquisition and Electronic Production, and Vice President of Marketing. Nickle also served on the advisory board of New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS). He has been involved in the genealogy space for the past seven years.

“One of our goals is to become the world’s largest gateway to family and individual discovery and expression,” Nickle said. “With the current state of the economy, the desire to return to core values of family and connectedness is becoming more and more compelling to people. At WorldVitalRecords.com, we want to facilitate our customer’s desire to connect to their family and family roots.”

Ericson has served in many leadership positions including VP Marketing for Agilix, and Move Networks (a leading provider of Internet television services that provides streaming for ABC, ESPN, Fox, CW TV and Televisa). Erickson has also had genealogy experience as the director of marketing and product manager at Ancestry.com. In this position, he launched Ancestry Family Tree, oversaw the development of MyFamily.com, and launched Ancestry’s affiliate program.

“What impressed me most with FamilyLink and the opportunity to work at WorldVitalRecords is the caliber of the team Paul Allen has assembled here,” said Jim Ericson, VP Marketing, WorldVitalRecords.com. “I have a high level of respect for the entire team and have had the pleasure of working with many of these people before. I have confidence in our ability to do great things together to make a difference in the lives of our customers.”

Ericson is passionate about the values, traditions, and knowledge of families, and having that information shared from one generation to the next.

“Family history and genealogy provide a great sense of identity and help us better understand ourselves. I also enjoy the close connection people have with one another within the genealogy community, which you don’t often find in other communities," Ericson said.

The additions of Nickle and Ericson to the executive team FamilyLink.com is demonstrating its deep commitment to the area of family history research and discovery. The company promises to continue to expand its popular WorldVitalRecords.com service.

Comments

[Nancy]

The first order of business should be to get a decent search engine.
Theirs is terrible.

[jp]

amen to that...what a waste of 50 or 60 dollars. I havn't received one newsletter/email from them for months and have tried to email them no one answers.
I am very disappointed.