Saville appoints Tony Bethell vice president of European, Middle Eastern and African sales and marketing.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1997-- Will head second European office New office will support telecom service providers in competitive European market Saville Systems (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SAVLY) opened a new European office in London where Tony Bethell, the company's vice president of European, Middle Eastern and African sales and marketing will lead its expansion into these growing telecommunications markets. London is Saville's second major European office. The company's other office, located in Galway, Ireland, is a development center that employs over 100 software professionals. Bethell brings to Saville more than 12 years of high-tech and management experience in the European market with SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. Europe, a leading enterprise application software company, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) UK Ltd. At Saville he will help emerging and existing telecom service providers win larger market share using Saville's Convergent Billing Platform (CBP CBP competitive protein binding. )(tm). Saville CBP enables service providers to offer their customers competitive service packages, including local, long distance, cable, wireline and wireless. The system also provides the convenience of one-stop shopping with one invoice, and integrated customer care for all services. By providing customers with everything they need from one company, Saville CBP helps service providers grow customer loyalty and reduce customer churn. Saville's entry into the European and Middle East markets began with major implementations at AT&T UK, Global One, Energis, a leading UK competitive service provider, EnerTel, a new competitive service provider entering the Dutch market, and most recently, Baraq I.T.C. in Israel. "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 and deregulation Deregulation The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry. Notes: Traditional areas that have been deregulated are the telephone and airline industries. opened the doors to competition in these telecom markets. In a short timeframe, more than 200 licenses have been issued to competitive providers who are all vying for a share of the lucrative competitive market," said John Kiley For the baseball player, see . John Kiley (died 1993) was the organist at Fenway Park from 1953 to 1989 and contemporaneously for Boston Garden as well. He is credited with having discovered the Boston Garden's resident singer Rene Rancourt. , senior vice president of sales and marketing at Saville. "As we continue to work closely with telecom providers, Tony's expertise in building significant solution-oriented sales and support organizations will be a valuable asset to our customers. Developing customer relationships and providing customers with a convergent billing and customer care solution to meet their needs in building and maintaining market share is consistent with our growth strategy." Saville's new office is located at Asmec Centre, Eagle House, The Ring, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1HB, and can be reached at 44 1344-382-082. Tony Bethell, vice president, European, Middle Eastern and African sales and marketing Bethell joined Saville from SSA Europe, a leading provider of business enterprise information systems to the industrial sector, where he was general manager of the UK and Benelux regions. In a short time he helped the UK operations realize a major turnaround in revenue. He also developed long-term business partnerships with companies such as IBM, DPMG DPMG Deputy Postmaster General DPMG Digital Product Management Group (Electronic Publishing) DPMG Diagnostic Pathology Medical Group, Inc (Sacremento, CA) and Coopers & Lybrand. During his eight-year career at SSA, Bethell held several other regional manager positions where he continuously met and exceeded sales and profitability goals. Prior to SSA, Bethell was a marketing executive with IBM UK Ltd. Bethell's success led to four promotions during his four years with the company. Bethell holds an Honours Degree Noun 1. honours degree - a university degree with honors honours academic degree, degree - an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study; "he earned his degree at Princeton summa from the University of Surrey The University of Surrey is a public university in Guildford, England. It received its charter on 9 September 1966, and was situated near Battersea Park in south-west London. The institution was known as Battersea College of Technology before gaining university status. . About Saville Systems Founded in 1982, Saville Systems is the leading provider of convergent billing and customer care solutions for the telecommunications industry. Saville is a publicly held company, traded on the Nasdaq (US) market under the symbol SAVLY, and employs over 900 professionals worldwide. For more information, Saville can be reached at www.savillesys.com, or call (+1) 617-270-6500. CONTACT: Christine LeCompte Beaupre & Co. Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Inc. (603) 436-6690 lecompte@beaupre.com or John Hart Saville Systems (617) 270-6500 jhart@savillesys.com or Martin Morgan Saville Systems (011) 353-915-26611 mmorgan@savillesys.com |
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