SpinVox Hires Anandh Maistry to Head Asia Pacific Operations

Joins from Avaya to further extend reach of SpinVox global speech cloud services.

SpinVox, the global leader in voice to content messaging, today announced it has appointed Anandh Maistry as vice president and general manager, APAC.

Maistry will be based in Sydney, Australia and joins SpinVox from Avaya, a global leader in business communications applications, systems and services, where he held the position of vice president global accounts, system provider and systems integration organizations Asia Pacific, based in Sydney.

He was previously president and managing director of Avaya Greater China based in Beijing, having been previously vice president channels and business development, Asia Pacific, based in Singapore.

Prior to joining Avaya, Maistry was CEO of Touchbase Asia Pacific, for the London-based privately-held global technology services company, specializing in contact centres and corporate networks.

He joined Touchbase from Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, a pioneer of contact centre solutions for the enterprise, e-business and service provider markets, where he was vice president channels and market development, Asia Pacific.

According to SpinVox co-founder and CEO, Christina Domecq, “SpinVox has been expanding fast on five continents, having already concluded deals with 16 carriers worldwide. We’ve established a firm base in Australia thanks to our relationship with Telstra and the announcement last week that Optus will shortly deploy our speech to text services. Against this background, Maistry is uniquely qualified to now lead our drive into the rest of the Asia Pacific region.”

He is a graduate of Sydney University, UTS Sydney and Harvard Business School.

For more information about SpinVox visit www.spinvox.com.

About SpinVox:

SpinVox® is the world’s largest privately-held speech technology company, providing the only voice to text messaging services which are used daily by millions of people and whose user base has grown over twenty-fold in the last 12 months.

Through significant innovations in voice and network technologies which are protected by over 60 patents worldwide, SpinVox has converged the two most natural forms of communication – voice and text – to create the fastest-growing form of messaging: Voice-to-Content™.

SpinVox services are available directly on www.spinvox.com and through leading carriers and through new media, Unified Communications and other service providers globally.

Implemented as a carrier-class cloud service, SpinVox is proven to be able to easily create value from everyday user behaviour using voice and deliver rapid and easy implementation of low input, sustained high reward services.

At the heart of SpinVox is its ground-breaking Voice Message Conversion System™ (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process. Developed by the Cambridge, UK- based SpinVox Advanced Speech Group; VMCS now serves users across five continents in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian.

SpinVox is now live with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Sasktel, Rogers Wireless, Telus, Telstra, Vodacom South Africa, Vodafone Spain, Movistar Chile, Skype and Livejournal.

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