airwide solutions Expands Its Leadership Team.LONDON -- airwide solutions, a global leader in providing secure messaging and device management solutions, today announced that it has appointed John M. Weaver as chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. (COO). Weaver will have responsibility for the Engineering, Customer Delivery and Support, Quality and IT organizations worldwide. In addition he will lead corporate strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and operational performance across the company. Weaver brings more than 25 years of experience in the telecom and computer industries leading business creation, business growth, and operational excellence. Kevin Wood, 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. , airwide solutions, welcomes Weaver's appointment: "airwide solutions is delighted to announce John Weaver as our new COO. John brings the skills and experience to enable us to further improve the performance of our business operations. The expansion of the management team reinforces airwide's commitment to providing its customers with the highest level of industry expertise and knowledge to continue to deliver on our commitments." Commenting on his appointment, Weaver said: "airwide solutions is already a successful company with even greater opportunities ahead. I am extremely happy to be on board and I look forward to working with the team to help airwide achieve its full potential." Weaver joins the company from Comverse Network Systems where he was most recently executive VP and general manager. He started as an executive with Boston Technology, grew with the company from under $90M to over $300M and led the U.S. side of the successful merger with Comverse Network systems. His prior experience includes a number of roles with Digital Equipment Corp. About airwide solutions airwide solutions is a global leader in providing secure messaging and device management solutions to over 70 wireless operators worldwide. airwide solutions was founded on July 26, 2004, following the merger of Schlumberger Messaging Solutions (MSG MSG: see glutamic acid. ) and Taral Networks. airwide solutions has a rich tradition of innovation. airwide solutions sent the first commercial SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. (Short Message Service) in 1992 and deployed the first A2P A2P Application to Person A2P ATLASS II+ (Application to Person) MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. push gateway in 2004. Core products include: SMSC SMSC Short Message Service Center SMSC Standard Microsystems Corporation (New York) SMSC Spiritual Moral Social Cultural (education) SMSC Stephenville Medical and Surgical Clinic , MMSC, tools to improve Premium Messaging delivery and Device Management solutions. airwide solutions has regional offices in England, Canada, Australia and the United States. Please visit www.airwidesolutions.com for more information. |
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