Perlego Names Frank J. Costa New CEO.Industry Veteran Brings More Than 25 Years of Experience to Leading Mobile Device Management Provider GIG HARBOR, Wash. -- Perlego Systems, Inc., the leading provider of hosted Mobile Device Lifecycle Management solutions, today announced that Frank J. Costa has joined its executive team as Chief Executive Officer (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. ). "The Perlego Board of Directors unanimously selected Frank based on his impressive history of leading young companies to the next level," said Kendra VanderMeulen, Chairwoman of the Perlego Board of Directors. "Frank's strong leadership skills, ability to work with entrepreneurs and passion for operational excellence will be key assets for Perlego as it continues down a path of high growth." Costa has more than two decades of technology industry experience and a strong track record of growing emerging companies into successful market leaders. Prior to joining Perlego, he held executive positions with Active Voice Corporation, Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. Corporation and Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking . As CEO of Active Voice, a leading provider of Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (IP)-based unified messaging Having access to e-mail, voice mail and faxes via a common computer application or by telephone. For example, unified messaging may send faxes and digitized voice mail to a mail server that turns them into e-mail attachments. solutions for the enterprise, Costa grew the company from $45M in revenue to a successful $300M (approximate) acquisition by Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration in Finance, Business Policy and International Business from the University of Chicago. "I am thrilled to be joining the company at this exciting stage in its growth," said Costa. "Mobile device management is a really, really difficult problem, creating a huge market opportunity for the company that solves it. That company is Perlego, and I look forward to working with this talented team to continue delivering comprehensive device management solutions to our carrier, enterprise and mobile application customers." Perlego's founding CEO, Todd Ostrander, will now assume the role of Chief Strategy Officer, focusing his efforts on building the company's market opportunity through strategic business relationships with existing and future customers and partners. "Frank is joining our team at a perfect time and I look forward to working with him to grow the company," said Ostrander. "His experience and expertise significantly strengthen our ability to execute as we broaden the market for mobile device lifecycle management." About Perlego Systems Perlego's world-class Mobile Device Lifecycle Management Solutions make it easy for partners to deliver valuable content to device users, update installed software, restore, data wipe, remotely control and backup devices, all through hosted, state-of-the-art, over-the-air technology. Perlego is the only provider of proven, hosted solutions for cross-platform, carrier-agnostic mobile communications device management. Taking only minutes to deploy, yet providing carrier-class functionality, the Perlego suite of utilities starts to deliver a return on investment immediately. For more information please visit www.perlego.com, email info@perlego.com, or call 253-857-0860. |
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