Marketgateway - The Marketgateway Enterprise Team

a highly qualified enterprise team...

MARKETGATEWAY is a CEO Praxis, Inc. venture. CEO Praxis is recognized nationally for its work in the development and commercialization of innovative practices and tools for helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and economic development organizations quantify and execute strategies to create enterprise opportunities. CEO Praxis is a five-time award winner in the Small Business Innovation Research program, a 1995 inductee into the Academy of Technology Entrepreneurs and Innovators and a 1997 winner of the Small Business Administration's National Tibbetts Award for contributions to the Small Business Innovation Research program.

CEO Praxis has assembled a highly qualified enterprise team to build and operate MARKETGATEWAY. In addition to CEO Praxis, the team includes Dr. Gerald Udell, Xynergy Interactive Web Design and LoboDirect ISP, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Dr. Gerald Udell is Executive Director of the Center for Business and Economic Development and Professor of Marketing at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. He is also Senior Partner of the Innovation Institute. Dr. Udell developed PEVAP and is the Director of the Wal-Mart Innovation Network (WIN) and Support American Made, two entrepreneurial support programs sponsored by Wal-Mart. Combined, the two programs are presently evaluating over 1,200 new products and ventures per year. PEVAP was developed in 1993 especially for Support American Made.

Xynergy Interactive Web Design is a digital media company located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. LoboDirect is an Internet database company also located in Santa Fe. Together, the companies specialize in graphical and multimedia databases which are searchable by the user. The companies have considerable experience in working with entrepreneurs, government agencies and hoteliers to make large amounts of information easy to use, navigate and update on the web. Xynergy is leading the design and development of the graphical interface of the network while LoboDirect is leading the design and development of the database.