Arthur Young: How has your work history prepared you for the challenges of this position?
Scot Melland: While at Ameritech Development Corp. I led business planning and alliances in the Internet arena, during the early days of the Internet's growth. As a Consultant at McKinsey, I worked closely with Fortune 2,000 corporations developing strategies to boost core revenue streams and operational inefficiencies. During the high growth period of the Internet, I built Cendant's Interactive Services group to in excess of 85 million dollars in revenue. The strategy included branding a collection of properties aimed at commercial and consumer audiences.

Arthur Young: During your first year at Dice, Inc. what functional segments of the company were targeted for improvement?
Scot Melland: Some of our goals were to raise awareness of the brand, leverage intellectual capital, package the knowledge base and business intelligence, fiscal management and upgrade the sales and customer services functions.

Arthur Young: Please drill down, for us.
Scot Melland: Dice, Inc. collects valuable data around regional hiring levels. This information is carried by investor and general media. Recently Dice, Inc.signed several partnerships. For instance, IBM and Novell are integrating their career sites with Dice. The value proposition for these partners includes recognition of the importance and value of their architecture to the development community (candidate and firm). Dice, Inc. has initiated a relationship with ITAA an association. The relationship extends our brand and creates a channel of business intelligence between, the entities. 'Microscopic' attention to the costs structures to
Reduce overall operational and marketing waste.

Arthur Young: What's next, for Dice, Inc.
Scot Melland: Dice, Inc. is expanding technology jobs into areas such as medical and pharmaceutical technology as well as security and biotechnology. Dice is also working closely with the engineering community. . Dice, Inc is launching a new version for improved 'look and feel', adding 'passive' candidate access, search agents and additional productivity features. We are also closely watching industry consolidation to assess, the opportunities .

.