Ontela Appoints Chase Franklin to Board of Directors.Qpass Co-Founder Joins All-Star Board to Launch the Next Wave of Mobile Imaging Technology SEATTLE -- Ontela, an innovator in mobile imaging technologies, announces the appointment of Chase Franklin to its board of directors. The addition of this well-known industry leader will provide Ontela with insight and guidance as it grows and expands. "Franklin's experience with taking early stage companies and developing them into profitable enterprises will be pivotal in bringing our PicDeck mobile imaging platform to market," said Dan Shapiro, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Ontela. "He joins an incredibly strong and dynamic board that will help guide our success in an underdeveloped space." "Ontela brings an innovative solution to the maddeningly frustrating process of transferring photos from mobile camera phones. Its elegant approach of automatically moving images from the mobile camera phone to a PC and online photo sharing site A Web site used to store and share photos. Users upload their pictures to the site, which are stored on the server and made available to friends and family via personal Web pages. Prints and other accessories can be ordered, which is the motivation for publishing the site. will have a significant impact on the mobile data market," said Mr. Franklin, "I'm excited about working with Ontela's senior management team as they begin the market deployment of their PicDeck platform." Franklin is the chief of strategy for content and media at Amdocs, the leader in providing software and services to enable the world's largest telecommunications, cable and satellite companies to achieve integrated customer management Integrated customer management (or its acronym, ICM) is a business strategy for improving support by sharing information between discrete departments. ICM brings together three business principles: alignment, agility, and customer-centricity. . He co-founded Qpass, Inc. which grew from a startup to become the global leader in digital commerce solutions with more than 350 employees worldwide before its sale to Amdocs. Prior to Qpass, Franklin spent more than a decade at Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, in product development and strategic management positions. He spearheaded many of Microsoft's earliest e-commerce strategy and business development initiatives in the interactive television and MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). divisions, including interactive advertising, online retailing, secure payments and other network commerce service businesses. Franklin holds three patents relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the design of various Microsoft and Qpass technologies or applications. He earned a double Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies in mathematics and economics from Western Washington University Western Washington UniversityWWU or Western) is one of six state-funded, four-year universities of higher education in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located in Bellingham and offers bachelor's and master's degrees. . Ontela's board of directors includes Chairman Tom Huseby, managing partner, SeaPoint Ventures; Jeff Williams, managing director, Hunt Ventures; Enrique Godreau III, managing director, Voyager Capital; and Dan Shapiro CEO and cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found of Ontela, Inc. About Ontela Ontela provides technology infrastructure to wireless carriers and image service providers that allow their customers to unlock the photos in their camera phones. Founded by veterans from Microsoft, Real Networks and Expedia in 2005, Ontela, Inc., is an innovator in mobile imaging headquartered in Seattle, Wash. The company's patent-pending technologies install in under 60 seconds and move images from camera phones to PCs, online albums, and imaging services with just a shutter click. For more information, please visit www.ontela.com, or contact: Suzanne McGee Fusion PR, for Ontela 212-651-4223 Suzanne.McGee@fusionpr.com |
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