Joining the FrontDoor.com team is Kelly Roark, who will act as vice president, interactive sales and development. Most recently Roark served as vice president of industry development for real estate search engine Trulia.com, where she was responsible for marketing and business development outreach to the real estate community. Prior to that, she was vice president of sales and marketing for Inman News. Now she will continue to grow partnerships and outreach opportunities for agents and brokers through FrontDoor.com which boasted 1.5 million listings just three months post-beta launch.

Roark joins the FrontDoor.com team led by Vikki Neil, vice president of real estate for Scripps Networks. Neil brought her years leading Scripps newspaper division's online sales and product strategies for real estate, employment and auto categories and experience working with Walt Disney's Internet Group in product development to Scripps Networks where she spearheaded the creation and launch the new real estate site. Also bringing years of experience are print and marketing expert Rich Lacy, who serves as the site's director and vice president of FrontDoor.com, and Simon Piper who adds a unique international viewpoint from his experience at uSwitch in London as the site's director of business development.

"The FrontDoor.com launch has been a rousing success for us and thanks to this great team we see continued success ahead," says Deanna Brown, president of Scripps Networks Interactive. "HGTV already has a loyal audience in the online home space that is millions strong; now, we are able to open the door for them to quality real estate listings combined with quality multi-media content and a community experience through FrontDoor.com."

Scripps Networks Interactive
The award-winning Web sites created and supported by Scripps Networks Interactive have attracted a monthly average of more than 14 million unique visitors in 2007 (Jan-Oct) and are category leaders in the food, home and living space online. The Scripps Networks Interactive properties -- Web sites HGTV.com, FoodNetwork.com, DIYnetwork.com, FineLiving.com, GACTV.com, Recipezaar.com in addition to the new FrontDoor.com-- are not only extensions of Scripps Networks leading lifestyle brands, providing users programming information and additional instructional content, but also exciting destinations for original content, engaging video and powerful interactive tools.