President of Emitations.com to Share Knowledge of ‘Bling’ at GIA Conferences

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. –July 26, 2007 – Every year the world’s largest institute of gemological research and learning (GIA) hosts a career fair creating the opportunity for hundreds of highly qualified jewelry industry job hunters to meet-face-to-face with top firms such as Tiffany & Co. and the Zales Corporation. Mai will speak on a panel titled “Business Start Ups” in which she will explain how she went from selling a three-strand choker on e-Bay and working out of her closet to becoming the CEO of a well respected e-commerce business.

This year Emitations.com president, and board member of the Women’s Jewelry Association, Au-Co Mai will coach and speak about the Internet jewelry business at the scheduled events. Emitations.com specializes in re-creating celebrity jewelry and top trends using sterling silver and cubic zirconia jewelry. Although the diamonds are not real, the results are: Emitations.com was recently ranked fourteenth in the jewelry category of Internet Retailer's Top 500 Guide.

The GIA Career Fair will be held on Friday, July 27 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York concurrently with the JA New York show. A Second Career Fair will be held on Friday, Oct. 19, at GIA’s Robert Mouawad Campus in Carlsbad, California. The GIA’s Jewelry Career Fair was founded by GIA and The Jewelers 24 Karat Club of Southern California. The prime sponsor for the New York Career Fair is The Nielsen Jewelry Group, and the primary sponsor of the Carlsbad event is the JCK International Publishing Group. For more information, please visit http://careerfair.gia.edu.

ABOUT EMITATIONS.COM http://www.emitations.com is an online jewelry retailer dedicated to providing customers with the latest trends in celebrity and runway jewelry at affordable prices with exceptional customer service. Extensive research is done on the latest fashion from New York to Los Angeles, making Emitations.com the industry's online retailing authority of the hottest, celebrity trends in jewelry and accessories. Their merchandise has appeared on “The View,” “The Today Show”, and in Glamour and People magazine.