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SyncVoice Communications Adds Key Executives to Build Market for Hybrid Communications Management
Industry Veterans to Spearhead Enterprise Effort
COSTA MESA, Calif. - July 19, 2006 - SyncVoice Communications, a leading provider of unified management solutions for hybrid communications, today announced three new additions to its executive team. Mike Ortega joined the company as senior vice president of sales, Kaveh Mahjoob is the new vice president of engineering and Carolyn Lewis is the director of product management. This news follows the company's recent $4 million Series A financing from Clearstone Venture Partners and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, underscoring SyncVoice Communications' growth and traction in the emerging market for unique communication solutions. The team augmentation will accelerate the adoption of SyncVoice Communications' VXTracker product to existing markets and greatly expand the company's presence with enterprise customers.
SyncVoice Communications is targeting a billion dollar market of enterprise customers in North America struggling with network hybridization and the fundamental financial, security and management vulnerabilities hybridization incurs. Only VXTracker can scale and unite large organizations' voice networks for optimum performance, reporting and management control. Key experience within large organizations and serving enterprise customers are a few of the many benefits the new trio of executives brings to SyncVoice Communications.
"Our team is dedicated to providing the best unified management solutions to handle disparate networks, regardless of vendor, network topology or level of convergence," said SyncVoice Communications CEO Kerry Shih. "The addition of Mike, Kaveh and Carolyn is an integral part of our commitment to providing superior service to our customers and further expansion of our presence as a key enterprise communication network solution."
Mike Ortega, the new senior vice president of sales, joins SyncVoice Communications with more than 27 years of managerial and sales expertise. Mr. Ortega was formerly corporate vice president of worldwide sales for InterNAP Network Services. Mr. Ortega was in charge of all sales before and after InterNAP's IPO and helped position the company as an industry leader in high performance managed IP services. Mr. Ortega is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Kaveh Mahjoob brings more than 16 years of experience in analytics and communications to his new role as vice president of engineering at the company. Prior to joining SyncVoice Communications, Mr. Mahjoob served as president of B.I. Resources, a business intelligence consulting firm he founded. Mr. Mahjoob holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and an MBA in management.
Carolyn Lewis oversees all marketing and product management activities for SyncVoice Communications in her role as director of product marketing. Ms. Lewis brings over 20 years of experience in telecommunications product development. Prior to joining SyncVoice Communications, Ms. Lewis was manager of software development at Cisco Systems, where her most recent success was the development and delivery of Cisco's first SMB-focused service offering. Ms. Lewis received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has completed graduate work in systems management and telecommunications.
"This talented group of individuals will capitalize on market momentum and drive future SyncVoice Communications' growth and success," said Mr. Shih. "The company will greatly benefit from their expertise as we lead the evolution of unified management solutions for hybrid communications."
About SyncVoice Communications
SyncVoice Communications is the leader in unified management solutions for hybrid communications. Voice over IP has accelerated the hybridization of customer networks in terms of convergence, number of vendors and disparate networking technologies leaving voice as one of the largest, unmanaged pieces of IT infrastructure. SyncVoice Communications is the first company to offer management of hybrid communications as a platform that delivers the same level of control, holistic visibility and correlated analytics regardless of the evolutionary state of the network. SyncVoice Communications' flagship product, VXTracker, is used by over 250 customers and reduces the risk and total cost of ownership of today's evolving communications. SyncVoice Communications is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California USA and has sales offices throughout North America. For more information, visit www.syncvoice.com/.