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MOBILE MESSAGING LEADER MOBILEWAY ADDS 2 INDUSTRY LUMINARIES TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ex Ericsson & Motorola Executive, and ex Lycos/Bertelsmann Executive Join Mobileway Board
26 November 2002 San Francisco
Capping a record year of quadrupled revenues, after having exceeded 100 private connections to wireless networks, and signed its 250th customer, Mobileway, the global leader in managing and monetizing mobile transactions, today announced the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors.
The two new board members are Bo Hedfors and Tony Philipp.
Bo Hedfors brings to the Board more than 34 years of global telecommunications experience in both wireline and wireless. Prior to establishing his own Chicago-based telecom/internet consulting practice in April this year, Bo was Executive Vice President of Motorola and President of its global wireless infrastructure business based in Chicago. Before joining Motorola in 1998, Bo Hedfors spent 30 years with Ericsson in a range of different management positions including President of Honeywell Ericsson Development Co. in Anaheim, California from 1984-1986, Chief Technology Officer of LM Ericsson in Bo’s native Sweden 1990-1993, and as President & CEO of Ericsson Inc in Dallas, Texas from 1994-1998. Bo currently serves on a number of boards including that of Openwave Systems Inc in California, SwitchCore AB, Virtutech AB and Castell Media AB in Sweden, and also chairs the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in Chicago.
Tony Philipp, founder of iTransEuro, a company designed to help US and European companies expand their Internet business throughout Europe, currently serves as the President and EVP Business Development for leading document-clustering company, Vivisimo in Europe. Tony was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Lycos Europe having joined the company in 1996 and during this time was instrumental in forming the Joint Venture between Lycos and Bertelsmann building upon the relationships with powerful licensing partners such as AOL, Netscape, Microsoft, Freeserve, Grolier, Burda, and Reuters - Lycos Bertelsmann is now the dominant Internet Pan European Navigation Service. Tony also serves as an advisor and sits on the board of several US and European technology companies and is a member of the Independent Directors Program of 3i plc.
Patrice Peyret, CEO of Mobileway Inc. commented, “I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Bo Hedfors and Tony Philipp to our Board, and welcome the skills and experience which they will bring to our company. This is an exciting time for Mobileway, we continue to strengthen our leadership in the field of global messaging and play a key role in enabling ever richer content and media to be delivered to the hands of mobile users across the globe.”
Bo Hedfors commented “Personally I am moving up the wireless value chain. Being associated with Mobileway fits that profile as the company has great knowledge and technology to deliver end user oriented deployment services for wireless data applications globally”.
“Mobileway is perfectly positioned to facilitate the transition from the Wired Web to the Wireless Web. Mobileway’s services allows Media companies to effectively monetize their content, locally and globally”, says Tony Philipp, founder of iTransEuro.
Bo Hedfors and Tony Philipp join with Janice Roberts – General Partner of the Mayfield Fund, Robin Murray - Partner of the 3i Group, Allan Green – Chairman of Investment firm Candel & Partners, and, Patrice Peyret to make up a 6-strong Board of Directors for Mobileway Inc.
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About Mobileway Mobileway is the leader in managing & monetizing mobile transactions across the globe. With more than 100 direct connections to mobile carriers, and the worl’ds largest number of “billing-on-behalf” agreements with carriers for premium content, Mobileway has unrivalled reach to 90% of mobile users throughout the World, guaranteeing cost effective, secure deployment of mobile applications to professional and personal mobile users.
With lifestyle services and applications for mobile information, communication, marketing, entertainment, commerce and enterprise, Mobileway increases the value of mobile data for content providers, operators and corporations alike. Incorporated in Delaware USA, Mobileway has offices located throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.mobileway.com.
For more information about Mobileway contact:
Stephanie de Labriolle
Director of Marketing & Corp Comms
Mobileway
Tel: +33 141449582
Stephanie.delabriolle@mobileway.com
Elizabeth Attenburrow
International PR Manager
Mobileway
Tel: +44 7958 006 016
Elizabeth.attenburrow@mobileway.com
