Quiconnect expands team, appointing staff to drive wireless broadband application and interconnectivity development

Quiconnect expands team, appointing staff to drive wireless broadband application and interconnectivity development

September 27, 2006 – Quiconnect, a specialist systems integrator offering interconnectivity services and applications in the wireless broadband sector, announces today a series of new senior technical and commercial staff appointments which add considerable breadth and depth of expertise, as the company expands.

Quiconnect supplies tools, technologies and services to enable Service Providers and Network Operators to offer their customers the ability to roam reliably on different mobile broadband networks, along with competitively priced, branded user experiences across these multiple networks, platforms and applications.

From a technical delivery perspective, Jen Redmon has been appointed as director of customer engineering – a role which involves liaising between sales, marketing and technical staff to ensure service delivery, as well as working with customers to facilitate brand extension. Jen is an expert in all wireless broadband technologies, having worked at both large organisations such as Texas Instruments and Bosch Telecom, and start-up companies Spectrapoint, Callahan Broadband Wireless, Wirefree Systems and Tatara Systems in the USA, Asia and Europe.

Next, Luke Vinogradov joins Quiconnect as senior manager for new product development responsible for all new product and solution initiatives, from initial business case creation to the technical delivery which follows. An experienced manager of online content products and platforms, Luke has held senior positions at Telstra Corporation, Australia’s leading telco, where he developed and launched its BigPond Movies DVD rental and movie download services, and held key roles in mobile content. Prior to that Luke held roles with SMS Management and Technology, and Deutsche Bank in London where he was a senior researcher in the Investment Banking division.

Rob Myers has been appointed as senior manager of partnerships and alliances with a remit to identify and create agreements with a range of commercial and strategic partners operating in the wireless broadband sector. A MBA qualified marketing-led business manager with over 15 years experience working in the IT and telco industries, Rob has held a variety of senior roles including channel manager, global carrier services at Cable and Wireless; head of enterprise and carrier services at Inmedia Communications Limited, the satellite services division of Kingston Communications Plc; and group business development manager at Bandwidth Technologies International Group (BTIG), a vertically integrated satellite communications solutions provider.

To augment the marketing team, Carley Elsdon has joined as senior marketing manager. A global marketing professional, Carley has 10 years experience spanning Fortune 500 companies as well as business start ups in both Europe and the USA. Prior to joining Quiconnect, Carley was USA marketing director at Systimax Solutions, a division of CommScope which designs, manufacturers and markets end-to-end connectivity solutions for enterprise networks, as well as acting marketing director (North American region) at Avaya Inc’s connectivity solutions division.

Completing the new team, Stéphane Perret joins the company as mobile access engineering manager. Stéphane will work from a technical perspective with Luke Vinogradov to develop and implement new Wi-Fi related products and services. Stéphane has a MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble and has worked for the past 5 years on wireless networking technologies and mobility projects for both Hewlett Packard and SUN Microsystems.

Quiconnect recently moved into new offices in central London to cater for its commercial expansion, having also recently hired additional sales, operations and support personnel.

Andrew Schultz, Quiconnect’s head of marketing and strategy, says, “Our approach to making public Wi-Fi access easy for consumers has attracted huge interest from the global telco community as simplified usage means greater revenue possibilities for Service Providers and Network Operators. BT, Sprint, Orange and a host of commercial hotspot operators are now all working with us which is a testament to our approach and value. These new appointments mean that we have the technical and commercial personnel bandwidth to capitalise on our innovation, can service and delight customers, and meet our growth aspirations.”

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About Quiconnect

Quiconnect is a specialist provider of systems integration and interconnectivity management solutions for telecommunications carriers in the wireless broadband sector. Through its carrier-grade interconnection management platform, Quiconnect connects discrete commercial IP networks worldwide to create multiple custom-tailored virtual networks, uniquely configured and branded for individual carriers. It provides unique technologies to simplify and securely automate user connections to these virtual networks, provides monitoring and support tools, manages accounting records, and provides financial settlement services in partnership with established clearing houses.

Quiconnect provides custom tools, technology and services to manage interconnections for multiple bilateral roaming and access agreements – ensuring end-to-end integrity, reducing costs, and enabling a consistent carrier-branded user interface across multiple networks, platforms and applications.

Headquartered in London UK, Quiconnect was founded in 2001 and operates offices in Grenoble, France and San Diego USA. For more information, visit www.quiconnect.com.