First Winner Selected for Monster ASU Entrepreneurial Alumni Award

MAYNARD, Mass., - Monster(R), the global online careers and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc., have announced Sitewire Marketspace Solutions has been selected to receive the inaugural Monster ASU Entrepreneurial Alumni Award at the 2005 Spirit of Enterprise Awards on Tuesday, September 27.

The award recognizes innovative companies founded by ASU graduates. The first recipient, Sitewire Marketspace Solutions, handles Web site design and development in addition to providing a host of Internet marketing consulting and analytical services.

Sitewire Marketspace Solutions was founded in 1999, by Arizona State University graduates, Bret Giles and Margie Traylor, and has grown to include 26 employees. The company offers a pay-for-performance business model, where clients pay only for successful business transactions that the company brings them. Committed to giving back to the community, each year Sitewire selects not-for-profit agencies in need of its marketing or technology expertise and provides extensive pro-bono work.

We are proud to select Sitewire as our first winner of the Monster Entrepreneurial Award. Sitewire’s vision, success, attention to customer service and focus on giving back to the community made them stand out from an impressive crowd, said Brian Graham, Senior Vice President, Field Sales at Monster. We are also excited to be a new member of the community, and to support the work of the annual Spirit of Enterprise Awards in recognizing and encouraging small business and entrepreneurial excellence.

We are honored to have Monster join us as a sponsor of the ASU Spirit of Enterprise Awards, said Mary Lou Bessette, Director of the Center for Advancement of Small Business at Arizona State University. It is wonderful to see leaders from the business, political and non-profit sectors coming together to recognize the importance of entrepreneurialship and small business.

Later this year, Monster will open a telesales office in Tempe to serve as a hub for the company’s West coast satellite offices as well as some of its Midwest offices. The Tempe office will support various Monster divisions, and will include sales and training departments.