edo Interactive adds Marketing exec

edo Interactive, the digital payments and marketing platform provider, today announced the appointments of Jay Graves as CTO. In its release today, Graves co-founded database marketing agency SmartDM here, and after 12 years sold it to Little Rock data behemoth Acxiom Corporation. Graves was most recently with Merkle Inc., a marketing-services provider, where he was vice president of product development. Unmentioned in the edo release was the fact that Graves for a time was CEO of locally based Hobby Lobby International. He is shown at left with one of HL's products. In August, edo raised $8.5MM from Clayton Associates and others. Earlier VNC coverage here.