724 Solutions Appoints Mobile Industry Veteran to Senior Management Team.Mobile Operator Executive Rounds out Experienced Senior Team SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif. -- 724 Solutions, a leading provider of next generation mobile data solutions enabling seamless communications in an IP-based world, today announced that Steve Ramsey has joined the senior management team with responsibility for all aspects of the company's engineering activities. Steve joins 724 Solutions with over eighteen years of technology experience, including thirteen years in senior level technology roles directing the design, management and deployment of next generation data technologies within the mobile industry. Most recently, he was Head of Mobile Applications & Content Services Domain at Vodafone UK. "Steve's extensive experience in the mobile industry, particularly with the deployment and management of mobile data infrastructure, will provide critical perspective and leadership to our engineering efforts," said John Sims John Sims (1749–1831) was a taxonomist who classified various species of plants. He was the first editor of The Botanical Magazine after the founder, William Curtis.[1] References 1. ^ John Sims, 1749–1831. Darwin Project. , Chief Executive Officer of 724 Solutions. "In addition to his industry experience, Steve is a great leader and motivator, and I am looking forward to working with him closely to execute the company's vision of the Unwired Lifestyle(TM)." The company also announced other recent appointments within its senior management team, including: * Ian Pattison Ian Pattison is a Scottish writer who lives in Glasgow. His main success in writing has seen the birth of Rab C Nesbitt, for which Ian has written 8 television series. He has written a novel about the fictional Mr. Nesbitt's life: A Stranger Here Myself. was promoted to Chief Technology Officer. Ian has a distinguished career with over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. experience in distributed high-availability computing for telecommunications networks. He was a founding employee of TANTAU Software Inc, a company acquired by 724 Solutions in 2001. * Farooq Ali was promoted to Vice President, Product Management. Farooq has over seventeen years of extensive product management and mobile networking experience. * Brad Rickman was appointed to Vice President, Sales - North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Asia. Brad has sixteen years experience in the mobile industry with both mobile network operators and mobile technology suppliers. * Charles Deng was appointed as General Manager of 724 Solutions China. Charles, a native of China, has a distinguished technology career, including ten years in the mobile data industry, both in the U.S. and China. * Matt Dunnett was promoted to Vice President, Sales - EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. . Matt has over fifteen years of demonstrated success in sales and business development within the mobile and IT industries. * Ben Scott Benjamin James Matthew Scott (born August 4, 1981) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. Born in Isleworth, Middlesex, Scott started his career at Middlesex, moving to Surrey for one season, before moving back to Middlesex in 2004. was appointed to Chairman of the Board of Directors. Ben, a telecom industry veteran, has served as a director since July 2004. His experience includes Chief Executive Officer roles at IXC (1) (IntereXchange Carrier) An organization that provides interstate (long distance) communications services within the U.S., which includes AT&T, MCI, Sprint and more than 700 others. See LATA. (2) (IXC Communications Inc., Austin, TX, www. Communications, PrimeCo and AT&T Canada, as well as Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Bell Atlantic's U.S. Wireless business (now part of Verizon Wireless). "Since completing the privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned of the company in August of last year, we have taken steps to strengthen our senior management team and hone our focus on the company's vision of enabling the Unwired Lifestyle through the provision of mobile data solutions that make seamless communication without barriers a reality," added Sims. "The mobile industry is rapidly moving towards IP-based and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. services, but it is critical to the mobile operators' return-on-investment models that these new services be deployed in such a way as to include all subscribers, not just those that happen to purchase or download some new device or client technology. Our solutions for seamless communications answer this challenge." About 724 Solutions 724 Solutions delivers intelligent any-to-any service message and traffic handling solutions built upon a common carrier-grade architecture that allows mobile network operators and virtual network operators to rapidly deploy flexible and open next generation IP-based network and data services. The company's solutions enable the Unwired Lifestyle (TM), 724's vision of seamless communication without barriers; a vision of how subscribers will use mobile data services to enhance and enrich their professional and private lives with services relevant to their specific needs, with user communities preserved across generations of technology and with data services as reliable and ubiquitous as voice services. 724 Solutions is a global company headquartered in Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara is a city in California, United States. It is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 92,325. and with development centers in Canada, Switzerland and India. 724 Solutions is privately owned by Austin Ventures. For more information, please visit www.724.com. |
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