Simon Gazikian joins CommProve with over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry in various senior sales and senior management positions.

“I’m convinced that CommProve’s product approach is unique and revolutionary and will change operators view of their networks,” said Gazikian. “The four layer approach of CommProve’s Insight Complete provides full insight into revenue loss, network KPIs, detailed signaling and root cause analysis. To address less than satisfactory performance, the solution is unique in also providing the ability to troubleshoot and provide intelligent trouble resolution advice.”

“Simon has outstanding leadership and sales management skills, and we are pleased to have him on board to drive CommProve sales,” said Lars Pedersen, CEO of CommProve. “We look forward to Simon bringing his experience to CommProve.”

Prior to joining CommProve, Simon Gazikian was Vice President, head of the Business Services Business Unit at Sagem Wireless, CEO at Tedemis and Vice President Sales at Esmertec. He holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from INSA, France, a Master of Science (DEA) in Process Automation from University Claude Bernard, France and a MBA from the University Paris-la Sorbonne, France.

Since 1996, technology industry executives, investors, and strategists have valued the Red Herring 100 lists as an instrument for discovering and advocating the most promising private ventures from around the world. The Red Herring 100 Europe award highlights the exciting startups from the European business sphere.

“We are very pleased to win such a prestigious award. It’s a further confirmation of our strategy and business model as well as the unique value we bring to mobile operators,” said Lars Pedersen, CEO of CommProve. “CommProve's vision is to provide mobile operators with a business, customer and network centric (BCN) end-to-end wireless network monitoring solution to defend their revenues. The Red Herring Award is a testament to CommProve's strong technology and product innovation as well as quality of service in the field of network monitoring solutions.”

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

"This year was especially difficult," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. CommProve shows great promise therefore deserves to be among the Finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring Europe award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far."

“We are proud to be selected for such a prestigious award,” said Lars Pedersen, CEO of CommProve. “It confirms our continuous engagement of being at the forefront of technology to provide operators with a true end-to-end wireless network monitoring solution enabling them a profound insight into their networks and services.”

The Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Europe Conference in Paris, May 25-27, 2010. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on May 27 at the event.  

Dublin, May 12, 2010 – CommProve, the top innovation provider of network monitoring and business solutions for mobile operators, today announced the silver sponsoring and the participation at MECOM 2010 trade show and conference being held in Abu Dhabi from May 17 to 19.

CommProve’s Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Alliances, Mark Hoogerbrugge will present a paper covering the financial impacts for mobile operators of improving roaming and mobile broadband services.

Manage inbound and outbound roamers and interconnect costs

Roaming is a major profit generator for operators. Capturing inbound roamers effectively and providing them good quality of service is crucial in gaining the full revenue potential of these high margin subscribers.

Ensuring outbound roamers successfully gain access to roaming partners when abroad is essential.

CommProve’s Roamer Insight provides a full picture of all performance indicators relating to inbound roamers, outbound roamers and interconnect usage, maximising the operator’s bottom line results.

Does your network deliver the right mobile broadband performance?

Mobile broadband continues to challenge many operators because of its high growth rates and performance issues. New mobile broadband applications are destined to be a major revenue source for operators. However, profitable launch of applications is extremely challenging as many variables influence the overall performance.

CommProve’s Mobile Broadband Insight provides full visibility on all network layers together with user-plane monitoring allowing operators to detect revenue lost and at risk, cost reduction opportunities and performance improvement priorities.

“We are delighted to be silver sponsor at MECOM where we are given the opportunity to talk at the Technology summit about how much money operators are losing on roaming and mobile broadband issues,” says Lars Pedersen, CEO of CommProve.

The presentation “how much money are you leaving on the table” will be held at 2.15pm UTC on May 19^th. Speaker: Mark Hoogerbrugge, Vice President Marketing and Strategic Alliances.

CommProve will exhibit at MECOM, Abu Dhabi, Stand C31.

Visit us - our team is looking forward to talking to you.

In his new role Joe White will be responsible for developing and managing distribution channels for CommProve reporting to Rob Jones, Vice President of Sales.

“I’m thrilled to welcome Joe White to our sales team” Rob Jones said. “We recognize the need to establish strong distribution partnerships in support of our customer base, and Joe's skills and experience in establishing and managing distribution channels will be invaluable in allowing us to reach and support new markets."

Joe said: “I am very excited at the opportunity to join such a unique company as CommProve, a company that is investing in both its award winning innovative products/solutions and most importantly in people, a formula that can only further strengthen and grow its position in the mobile network market.”

Joe White is a highly experienced Channel Manager with over 20 years experience and a proven track record of developing strategic Channel Partner Programs for leading manufacturers from the Telecoms/Communications/Security/IT industry, including over 12 years with a leading T&M and System provider.

CommProve will exhibit at MECOM, Abu Dhabi, Stand 4F37. Visit us - our team is looking forward to talking to you. 

“I’m delighted to welcome Emanuele Vespignani to our sales team” Rob Jones said. “The addition of Emanuele Vespignani, who has over 15 years of experience in the telecommunication sector, allows us to focus our sales effort in Southern Europe and Latin America.

Lars Pedersen, CEO of CommProve said: “We look forward to what Emanuele Vespignani’s knowledge and experience can offer our existing and future customers.”

“CommProve has a fantastic set of business intelligence solutions and platforms to guarantee a world-class quality of service for mobile operators” Emanuele Vespignani said. “I am excited of being able to help mobile operators minimize their revenue at risk by providing innovative and highly effective Business Intelligence solutions. Commprove already has several active customers in Southern Europe and Latin America; building on those successes together with the new portfolio will be exciting and can significantly add to the bottom line of those operators.”

Emanuele Vespignani joined CommProve from IBM where he was leading the sales effort within their Telecommunications Solutions into the Southern European market. He has over 15 years experience at IBM, Micromuse and other major international companies.

The location of Guildford is very important to CommProve because most UK operators are based in the area and it gives CommProve a good bridge-head into the rest of Europe.

“As a part of our ongoing global expansion, CommProve is pleased to open its office in Guildford. The location of the UK office, allows us to better serve our extensive operator client base,” said Lars Pedersen, CEO of CommProve. “CommProve will continue to expand its global reach, with new office locations being planned around the globe.”

CommProve’s new office is located at:

Parallel House

32 London Road

Guildford

GU1 2AB

UK

Direct line: +44 1483 230460.

About CommProve

CommProve is a top innovation provider of network monitoring and business solutions for wireless operators. Our solutions enable mobile operators and system integrators a full view on customers, services and network issues. Based on three high performance platforms NetLedge, QuantiQa and IntelliQa, CommProve Insight Solutions provide mobile operators a sophisticated end to end insight into handsets, core network, mobile broadband, VIP, roamer, radio and location. CommProve has deployed extensive monitoring systems in countries on all continents.

Since its foundation in 1996, CommProve has been a privately held company with headquarters in Ireland and offices in the UK, Italy, Brazil and USA. For additional information please visit www.commprove.com

CommProve will exhibit at MECOM, Abu Dhabi, Stand 4F37. Visit us - our team is looking forward to talking to you.