StepStone Announces the Appointment of Bucky Couch as Managing Director, Americas For StepStone's Solutions Business

StepStone (OSE:STP) today announced the appointment of Mr. Bucky Couch as their Managing Director, Americas, reporting into Matthew Parker, Group Managing Director for StepStone’s Solutions business. Mr. Couch will be responsible for operations within StepStone’s US, Canadian, and Latin American businesses, with a specific focus on sales and Customer Success. The existing ExecuTRACK business in the US will continue to be managed by Scott Silen who will now report into Mr Couch. StepStone has offices in New York City, Orlando, Florida, and Austin, Texas. Prior to joining StepStone, Mr. Couch was President and Founder of the Customer Success Group where he focused on helping companies create competitive advantage through the delivery of superior customer experience. StepStone has been a customer of the Customer Success Group, where Mr Couch helped develop StepStone’s Customer Success strategy and function. Prior to this, he was co-founder of e-recruitment pioneer, Hire.com, an Austin, Texas-based company that was acquired by Authoria, Inc. in 2005. Mr. Couch has over 30 years experience in financial, operations, and customer roles and was twice nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He will be based in StepStone’s Austin, Texas office. Matthew Parker commented, "We are absolutely thrilled to have Bucky joining us in this senior role. His unrivalled experience in these markets and his experience of working with the senior management team at StepStone over the previous four years will be a huge asset in ensuring the success of our Americas business” Mr. Couch stated, "I have worked with StepStone as a partner for over four years and have been most impressed with the aggressive growth – they are unquestionably poised on the verge of greatness and I’m looking forward to driving the business to take advantage of the opportunities within the U.S., Canada, and Latin America”, Note to Editors About StepStone StepStone was founded in Norway in 1996 and pioneered the development of online recruitment. Today, StepStone is a leading provider of total talent management services and technology solutions. StepStone's public career websites cover 13 European countries, providing high-quality candidates to recruiters quickly and effectively through individually focused campaigns. StepStone recently completed the acquisition of ExecuTRACK, a global leader in strategic Talent Management, which extends StepStone's product and service offerings to support total talent management - from recruitment to on-boarding, training, career and succession planning, performance management and more. Thousands of organisations including Aviva, BBC, Amey, Royal Bank of Scotland, AXA, British Airways, Xerox and Fiat use StepStone's products and services to help them recruit qualified staff globally. StepStone was the only European-headquartered vendor to be recognised as a ‘leader’ by Gartner, Inc’s recent "Magic Quadrant for E-Recruitment Software, 2006” report. For more information see: www.stepstone.com