Partnet Appoints New Program Manager/Director of Marketing to Expanding Team
November 18, 2008
Salt Lake City, UT -- Partnet, Inc., the industry expert in online marketplaces for government, today announced that it has hired Debra Fryar as Program Manager and Director of Marketing. In this role, Fryar is responsible for all marketing-related activities — both strategic and tactical — with focus on the federal market. Fryar adds more than 30 years of government expertise to the expanding Partnet team.
“Partnet's success depends on the quality and expertise of our employees,” said Don Brown, President and CEO of Partnet. “Debra Fryar is a 30-year veteran of the federal government and an expert in eGovernment system development and deployment. Through her work as Program Manager of the Department of Defense (DOD) EMALL program, the government's largest online marketplace and a Partnet customer, she has proven herself as a leader in implementing eGovernment solutions. We are excited to welcome Debra Fryar to the team.”
Fryar has over 30 years of government leadership experience specializing in data and project management. Prior to joining Partnet, Fryar spent 10 years managing DOD EMALL, an enterprise-wide eGovernment application serving over 40,000 users with 40 million items and a sales volume of more than $3 billion. Under Fryari's leadership, DOD EMALL received the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award. Fryar retired from 31 years of federal service in 2008, receiving the Defense Logistics Agency Distinguished Career Award.
“As Program Manager for DOD EMALL, I had the privilege of working alongside Partnet for 10 years,” said Fryar. “I was impressed by the company's knowledge and professionalism in establishing this major online system. I now look forward to helping Partnet expand its growing reputation as the government's premier provider of online marketplace solutions.”
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Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Partnet, Inc. is the #1 provider of comprehensive, flexible, and targeted online marketplace solutions in the government arena. Partnet delivers the power of an extensive, proven, and time-perfected capability suite; the freedom to quickly and easily meet a customer's mission-critical web application requirements; and the certainty of over 15 years of government experience.