The Eagle Has Landed: Openmind Networks Opens North American Office

PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 23, 2008 – Alex Duncan, CEO of Openmind Networks today announced the opening of a sales office to serve the messaging needs of wireless carriers in the North American market. As the recognized market leader in the supply of messaging solutions to the North American wholesale carrier market, the timing is right to open a dedicated sales office for the wireless carrier market.

Bill Ezell has been appointed VP North American sales. Bill is a successful sales and marketing professional and business leader with 28 years experience in high technology markets. Bill is also the CEO and founder of CSG (Client Success Group) which was established to help organizations evaluate, build and sustain revenue growth practices utilizing the unique methodologies, tools, and business development services which CSG provides for organizations of all sizes.

Commenting on the opening of the office and appointment of Bill Ezell, Alex Duncan observed that "the North American office is just the next logical step in a growing global presence for Openmind Networks. Establishing a dedicated sales presence will be our gateway to the North American marketplace. Building on the success of our wholesale carrier business, an office in North America gives us the opportunity to be closer to our clients and also respond quickly to the needs of the wireless carriers."



“I am delighted to join Openmind Networks and represent a team of renowned messaging industry experts whose suite of telecom products handles billions of messages on a daily basis,” said Ezell. “Openmind Networks, with its next generation messaging system for wireless carriers, has long been recognized as a leader in the industry, and I am already demonstrating its potential to the wireless carrier community in North America.”

Openmind Networks, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and with sales and support offices in Czech Republic, Dubai, Germany and the United States of America is the emerging leader in Next Generation Messaging Systems. Our flagship product, Traffic Control, with a suite of product extensions (Profile, Protect and Adapt), is a multi-protocol messaging router supporting SMS, MMS, IM and IMS.  Openmind Networks has one of the most highly knowledgeable teams in the messaging industry and has extensive experience of deploying systems throughout the world in all wireless technologies. Customers in four continents use Openmind Networks products to provide services to hundreds of millions of wireless subscribers.

Traffic Control has been designed by Openmind Networks to provide intelligent inter- and intra-operator message routing for SMS, MMS and IMS services in a telecom network. Openmind Networks has developed a suite of product extensions that extend the underlying capabilities of Traffic Control to address key business areas including spam and privacy protection, personalized service support and adaptation to standard compliant application servers.