HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CommentSold, the leading digital commerce solution that enables retail businesses to unlock sales growth through live and social selling, today announced that it has appointed Andy Olek as Chief Legal Officer. Olek has expertise in fast-growth software, advertising, marketplace and e-commerce businesses and will oversee the legal affairs of the live selling company, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, intellectual property and licensing, privacy, and compliance. He has particular experience in scaling fast-growth companies to rapidly add new products, services and geographies.
“At this phase in CommentSold’s growth, it is important that we have the right internal legal infrastructure in place to support the many product and organizational initiatives we have planned,” said Brandon Kruse, founder and CEO of CommentSold. “We are excited to add Andy to our team, as he is a seasoned executive with 20-plus years of experience who brings a strategic lens to legal and regulatory affairs.”
Before joining CommentSold, Olek was General Counsel at WeddingWire and its successor, The Knot Worldwide, for over 9 years. There, he founded the legal team that oversaw multiple acquisitions, obtained a large private equity investment and took the company’s larger public competitor private in a merger. Before joining The Knot, Olek held in-house legal roles at Blackboard and Merkle and was a corporate and intellectual property attorney at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. He began gaining leadership experience early in his career, while serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy.
Olek is a registered patent attorney and holds a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, an M.A. from the University of Maryland, an M.S. in Information Technology from the University of Maryland and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
About CommentSold
CommentSold provides the complete technology infrastructure retail businesses need to operate and grow their businesses. The digital platform simplifies inventory and order management, payments, invoicing, labeling, packaging and fulfillment processing for business owners, and enables live and social selling on social media, mobile apps and websites. The company was named for “comment selling,” which refers to retailers posting on social networks and enabling shoppers to purchase items in real time by typing “sold” in the comments of a post. Led by entrepreneur Brandon Kruse and based in Huntsville, Alabama, CommentSold currently powers e-commerce operations, including live and social selling, for more than 7,000 companies. For more information, please visit CommentSold.com.
