Tuesday, October 28, 2008

OnForce recruits alums from Monster, EMC, PC Connection

By Mass High Tech Staff

OnForce Inc., a website operator that connects IT and consumer electronics service providers and service seekers nationwide, has hired former executives from Monster.com, EMC and PC Connection.

Maria Battaglia was named senior vice president of marketing at the Lexington-based company; Edward McGovern was named senior vice president of sales and business development; and George D’Errico was named vice president of marketplace operations. Battaglia and McGovern will report directly to Peter Cannone, CEO, and D’Errico will report to Paul Nadjarian, SVP of product, according to the company.

Battaglia came to OnForce from youth sports social networking site Weplay.com. Prior to Weplay, she was a vice president at Maynard-based Monster Worldwide Inc. (Nasdaq: MNST). McGovern was most recently in the enterprise division of Hopkinton-based information infrastructure company EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC). D’Errico served most recently as senior director of product management, purchasing & supply chain operations for Merrimack, New Hampshire-based PC Connection Inc. (Nasdaq: PCCC).

OnForce operates like an online auction for IT service technicians serving mostly residential and small-business IT service seekers across the United States. The company lists IT service technicians organized by category and region and also provides an online work-order form for service seekers. Technicians offer everything from installations and upgrades to training and break-fix work.