August 25, 2014 – ORLANDO, FL – IZEA, Inc. (OTCQB:IZEA), the pioneer and market leader in sponsored social, today announced the appointment of LeAnn Hitchcock as Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Hitchcock began working with IZEA as a consultant in November 2011, where she was responsible for SEC compliance, filings and coordinating the audit process with IZEA’s independent auditors. She was named IZEA’s interim CFO in June 2013.
“LeAnn’s deep experience in the public sector and her history with IZEA will help us to continue our growth,” stated Ted Murphy, Chairman and CEO of IZEA. “She has been instrumental to IZEA’s success over the past four years, and she will play an integral role in our organization as we move forward.”
Prior to working with IZEA, Ms. Hitchcock worked as the Chief Financial Officer of NBI Juiceworks in 2010 and in 2009 as the SEC Compliance Officer of Workstream Inc., a SaaS company that provides enterprise management solutions for employee tracking. From 2002 to 2009, Ms. Hitchcock worked at Galaxy Nutritional Foods as its Chief Financial Officer and later its SEC Compliance Officer where she successfully repositioned the debt structure of the company, created and filed all SEC reports and worked to sell and privatize the company through a tender offer in 2009.
In 1997, Ms. Hitchcock became the Chief Financial Officer of FoodMaster International, an international dairy food company that operated dairy production facilities throughout the former Soviet Union. She oversaw the financial training, management, accounting and consolidation of over 12 entities until its successful sale to a French dairy company in 2004.
Ms. Hitchcock started her career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen and PriceWaterhouse Coopers with a strong emphasis on public companies. Ms. Hitchcock holds a double major in Accounting and Business Administration from Palm Beach Atlantic University and a Masters in Accounting from Florida State University.
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