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AIRWIDE SOLUTIONS EXPANDS ITS EUROPEAN STRUCTURE
Reading, UK, May 3, 2005 - airwide solutions, a leading global provider of innovative messaging and content delivery management solutions, today announced that it is extending its strategic sales team in Europe through the appointment of Juergen Aurand, Sales Director Central Europe and Mike Dunn, Sales Director Northern Europe.
Juergen Aurand and Mike Dunn will be responsible for developing our customer relationships and building brand awareness throughout Central and Northern Europe. Additionally, Mike Dunn has the responsibility for developing the company's partner accounts at a strategic level including; Ericsson, Atos Origin, Cap Gemini and HP. The team will continue to support and bring innovative messaging solutions to our existing customers, which includes T-Mobile- and Vodafone Group.
"We are delighted that we now have two new and extremely talented people working with us to ensure we continue our path to leadership in the European market," said Martin Williams, Vice President EMEA Sales and Business Development, airwide solutions.
Over the last year there has been significant growth in terms of subscriber and messaging services across Europe. The demand for innovative messaging and content delivery from airwide solutions, particularly in Germany, Czech Republic and the United Kingdom, has driven airwide solutions to expand our presence in this market.
"airwide solutions already has a strong European customer base in place and investing in extra resources will enable the company to continue its strategic growth in this market, as well as provide further support for our existing customers," Williams commented.
Aurand and Dunn both have considerable experience in the mobile services industry, with Aurand joining airwide solutions from Openwave and Dunn from Mobile Enterprise. The new team will be working to demonstrate new growth strategies to mobile operators across Europe and to establish airwide solutions as a definitive leader.
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About airwide solutions
airwide solutions, headquartered in Reading, UK, was founded on July 26, 2004 following the acquisition of Schlumberger Messaging Solutions (MSG) by Taral Networks. The company provides innovative messaging and content delivery management solutions to over 75 wireless operators, content providers and aggregators around the world. airwide solutions has a rich tradition of innovation. airwide solutions sent the first commercial SMS (Short Message Service) in 1992 and deployed the first A2P (Application to Person) MMS push gateway in 2004. Core products include: SMSC, MMSC, MMS push and router gateways, Value-Added-Services (VAS) management and Intelligent Networking Applications. airwide solutions has regional offices in Canada and Australia
For further information:
Nicole Gruslin
airwide solutions
Email: nicole.gruslin@airwidesolutions.com
Telephone: +1 (450) 646 4163
Europe:Tanya Pedashenko or Molly McDonagh
Email: tpedashenko@golinharris.com or mmcdonagh@golinharris.com
Telephone: +44 207 067 0630 or +44 207 067 0624
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