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Mobileway, the global leader in providing advanced mobile messaging and data solutions, today announced the appointment of Russ Shaw as Chief Executive Officer.
Russ Shaw, 40, brings an impressive record of achievements to Mobileway. Until recently he held the post of Managing Director for the UK’s leading cable operator, ntl, leading a team of 1,100 employees in promoting, delivering and servicing broadband Internet, digital interactive television, and telephony services to customers in Greater London. Prior to ntl, Russ was Senior Vice President at Charles Schwab Europe and during this time was instrumental in the introduction of the retail stockbroker to e-commerce, the launch of several investment products and growth across several European Markets. Russ also spent ten years at American Express in a variety of marketing, sales, operations, and brand management roles covering Europe, Asia and Latin America.
“Russ has achieved a great deal of success in his career to date and he has a great passion for our business,” commented Janice Roberts, General Partner of Mayfield and Chairman of the Mobileway Board. “When we, as a Board, began our search for the new CEO, our aim was to find a new style of leadership to drive the company’s future growth. What impressed us most about Russ Shaw is his obvious talent for performance, management orientation, people skills and marketing. Russ has a very strong participative style of management ideally suited to Mobileway’s international organisation, and has experience of incorporating new business models and leveraging the latest exciting technologies and their application,” said Janice Roberts, General Partner of Mayfield and Chairman of the Mobileway Board.
Russ succeeds Patrice Peyret who will remain on the Board of Mobileway and who takes up the new post of Chief Services Architect responsible for defining Mobileway’s future technology strategy and direction.
Commenting on his new appointment, Russ Shaw stated, “The mobile messaging market is a great business to be in right now, the take up of text-based messaging has been phenomenal and the transition from person-to-person messaging to adoption as a viable channel to market for many companies has been both swift and lucrative. With the onset of multi-media capabilities, the growth potential for companies with a strong foothold in this market is enormous and looks to remain that way for a number of years to come. Mobileway is undoubtedly one of these companies, it is so exciting to be coming on board at this time and the opportunities facing the company in both the short and long term are fantastic. I have already been impressed by the passion and dedication of the Mobileway team across the globe, and feel privileged to be given the chance to build on the successes already achieved and continue to lead the company to even greater accomplishment in the future.”
American-born Russ holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BSc from Washington University in St Louis, a CPA license in the State of California, and lives in London with his British wife and three children.
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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 world’s 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 effective 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 across the globe with regional headquarters in London, Paris, Singapore and Silicon Valley. Mobileway is funded by 3i, Citigroup, InvestCorp, Mayfield, Nexit Ventures and Vertex Management.
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 Communications
Mobileway
Tel: +33 141449582
Stephanie.delabriolle@mobileway.com
