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PACTOLUS EXPANDS SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM
Jeff Gibson Named Vice President of Engineering; Kenneth Osowski Appointed Vice President of Marketing & Product Management
WESTFORD, Mass., March 19, 2001 -
Pactolus Communications Software, a leading provider of XML-based enhanced service solutions for SIP-enabled networks announced the addition of two industry veterans. The company has named Jeff Gibson as vice president of engineering, and Kenneth Osowski as vice president of marketing & product management.
Jeff Gibson brings highly relevant software architecture design, enhanced services domain expertise, and large carrier experience to Pactolus. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Gibson was director of software development at SEMA Telecomms/Priority Call in Wilmington, MA. At Priority Call, Mr. Gibson was responsible for the development of new database and platform architectures on multiple operating systems in support of a full line of enhanced services products including prepaid wireless, one number, prepaid calling card, unified communications and call routing. Prior to this, Mr. Gibson was director of architecture at Glenayre Electronics Corporation/ODC in Norwood MA. At ODC, he was responsible for development of a new enhanced services platform architecture including a full Service Creation Environment and monitoring toolset. Before ODC, Mr. Gibson was manager of architecture for AT&T Wireless Services of Seattle. Mr. Gibson holds a M.S. in Physics from The University of Waterloo in Canada.
Kenneth Osowski, who brings extensive marketing experience from the telecommunications and computer industries, will be responsible for the company's marketing, marketing communications, and product management organizations. Osowski's most recent experience in the enhanced services market was at IPeria, Inc. where he was vice president of marketing and business development. As one of IPeria's first employees, Osowski was responsible for developing the company's business plan, market entry strategy, and product positioning. Before joining IPeria, Osowski was regional director at Boston Technology, Inc. (now part of Comverse Network Systems) where he was responsible for sales to CLEC, RBOC, and large institutional customers. Prior to this sales position, in a senior product management role at Boston Technology, he managed the successful introduction of the company's CO ACCESS 500/600, Access NP platform, and AccessMAX Service Creation Environment. Osowski holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Franklin & Marshall College and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
"The addition of these two team members will add a great deal of depth to our senior management team. Both have been involved in very large scale enhanced services deployments from their previous work experience," said Dave Horton, CEO and co-founder of Pactolus. "We believe Jeff and Ken's proven service provider experience will be assets in helping our customers to be successful."
About Pactolus Products
The Pactolus RapidFLEX TM Application Server and Service Creation Environment (SCE) is an open, extensible, Unix-based software platform that delivers high value, carrier-class enhanced services to converged networks. The RapidFLEX SCE enables service providers to create their own XML-based applications through a graphical, software component interface that can be directly deployed on a RapidFLEX Application Server. Pactolus offers several SCE-built, pre-packaged, trunk-side services including prepaid calling card, conference calling, and toll free number services for deployment in SIP-enabled networks.
About Pactolus Communications Software
Pactolus Communications Software, is a leading supplier of XML-based enhanced service platforms, applications and service creation solutions for next-generation communications networks. Pactolus' RapidFLEX application server and eXtensible Telephony Markup Language (XTML) bring the Internet's service delivery model to next-generation enhanced communications services. With XTML, Pactolus enables service providers to rapidly create and deploy value-added business-to-business and residential enhanced services that are customized to meet each subscriber's specific needs. More information about Pactolus is available at www.pactolus.com .
For more information contact:
Gordon A. Arthur
Vice President of Business Development
Pactolus Communications Software
508-620-5519 x 219
garthur@pactolus.com
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