TeleSym Announces New Senior Vice President/Sales and Marketing; Ken Myer Is Named to the Position, Bringing Two Decades of High-Tech Executive Experience to TeleSym.SEATTLE -- TeleSym, producer of award-winning, high-quality and secure mobile VoIP VoIP Mobile or 'Mobile Voice over Internet Protocol' is the application of Voice over IP technology to mobile handsets. VoIP Mobile requires a mobile handset that supports, at minimum, high speed IP communications. solutions, today announced that Ken Myer will assume the role of senior vice president of sales and marketing, effective immediately. Myer brings to TeleSym more than 20 years of high-technology executive experience. Myer was most recently vice president of the publicly traded Active Voice Corp., where he led worldwide marketing, sales, technical services and customer services teams as Active Voice launched its unified communication product line into the Fortune 2500 market. The success of the launch helped pave the way for an eventual buyout by Cisco in 2001, for $300 million. Bob Hart, president and 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 TeleSym, commented on the appointment: "Ken Myer is a talented, proven industry executive who is well qualified to manage TeleSym's sales and marketing activity. We believe there is tremendous opportunity to help companies address the issues surrounding mobile VoIP. Given the strong growth potential in this category, we are pleased to appoint an executive of Ken's caliber to this position." Prior to Active Voice, Myer spent 15 years with 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) Corp., where he held a number of executive positions, including general manager of the Northwest and Intermountain Region, national executive for the Computer Services Data processing (timesharing, batch processing), software development and consulting services. See service bureau, SaaS and ASP. Industries, and CFO See Chief Financial Officer. for IBM Northwest. Myer holds an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration and Master's of Speech Communication from the University of Washington. He is involved in Northwest education and technology non-profit communities, and is a current board member of Esna Technologies of Toronto, and the Technology Alliance, where he recently served as board president. About TeleSym TeleSym(R) is focused on the growing Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) marketplace. The company's SymPhone(TM) system delivers the highest quality voice communications on laptops, PCs, and Pocket PC mobile devices over any broadband IP network. SymPhone is an enterprise-class solution that supports key telephony standards such as SIP (Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. ). In addition, the system is designed to be inter-operable with the full range of PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN). and network environments in the enterprise. TeleSym is building on the opportunity created by three converging technologies: the shift of voice telephone traffic to IP networks; the rapid adoption of wireless LANs and Wi-Fi; and new, more powerful mobile devices and phones. For more information please visit www.telesym.com. |
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