TM Forum Appoints New President.

MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- The TeleManagement Forum, the world's leading organization dedicated to addressing the management challenges for new generation communications and content services, announced today that Martin Creaner has been appointed president of the organization. His appointment comes shortly after the Forum board announced a major expansion of the organization's role to embrace the rapidly expanding arena of converged media, entertainment and communications services. Creaner's primary role will be to drive the TM Forum to address the challenges of converged services and continue the Forum's rapid expansion both internationally and across new industry sectors.

"We are rapidly seeing the rise of new service and content players that have additional management needs to those of fixed and mobile communications," said Creaner, "and while we continue to be the premier industry association for the telecoms OSS/BSS industry, we are broadening our agenda to embrace the needs of the newer media, internet and content companies. Recently joined members, such as Virgin, Cox and Time Warner, show that they value TM Forum as the place to solve their end-end service challenges."

Creaner has been with the TeleManagement Forum since 2001 as chief technology officer (CTO), and has been responsible for a major expansion of the technical work of the Forum, including the successful launch of the mass market standards initiative, Prosspero. He will retain his role as CTO for the time being. Prior to joining the Forum, Martin held a number of executive positions with BT and with Motorola, where he led the 2.5G and 3G OSS solutions development activities.

"Martin is a highly effective leader who can deal with complex issues across a wide range of member's needs. We are excited that he will be helping to spearhead our growing relevance to the media, cable and web services sectors." said Keith Willetts, Chairman and CEO of the TM Forum. "He will be an even greater asset to the organization in his new role."

About the TeleManagement Forum

The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) is a consortium of 570 members in 63 countries that provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the management and operation of information and communications services. The Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical programs and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through the "Lean Operator" initiative for 21st century automated business processes, the Forum helps its members manage change and develop, procure and deploy operational and business support systems that will work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. It provides process and software frameworks as part of its New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) program and specific 'plug and play' standards through it's Prosspero initiative. These guidelines, along with extensive industry benchmarking, provide service providers with the direction and specific roadmap to achieve business efficiency and operational flexibility - the hallmarks of the Lean Operator.

The TM Forum has 570 members in 63 countries, including service providers, equipment suppliers, software solution suppliers and systems integrators. For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs and TeleManagement World, please visit www.tmforum.org.