Mformation Names Mark Effinger Vice President of Global Services and Support
Edison, New Jersey, USA – April 17, 2008 - Mformation® Technologies Inc., the leading mobile device management company, today announced the appointment of seasoned telecommunications executive Mark Effinger as Vice President of Global Services and Support. Mr. Effinger will be responsible for leading and expanding Mformation’s global professional services and support organization.
“Mformation is entering a period of accelerated growth as device management deployments at tier-1 mobile operators around the globe continue to grow,” said Mark Edwards, CEO of Mformation. “Mark’s extensive experience building and leading multi-national teams will be of great value to us as we continue to collaborate with our partners and customers to deliver the most innovative and advanced device management solutions available anywhere.”
“I am excited to be joining a high-growth, innovative technology company with such impressive market leadership and technology vision for the future,” said Effinger. “I look forward to serving key customers currently using the Mformation solution in mission-critical production deployments, as well as working with new customers who will be adopting and deploying Mformation’s advanced device management solutions in the coming years.”
Mark Effinger joins Mformation from Telcordia, a leading global provider of telecommunications network software and services, where he was most recently Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Engineering, responsible for global field technical support and sales engineering. Effinger joined Telcordia in 1986 after having started with the Bell System in 1984 at Wisconsin Bell Telephone Company (now part of AT&T). At Telcordia, he also held roles in software development, quality assurance & testing, systems engineering, strategy, and project management, and served as Chief OSS Architect. Mr. Effinger holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Milwaukee School of Engineering and a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California.
About Mformation
Mformation Technologies Inc. is the leading global provider of mobile device management (MDM) technology, offering a complete solution that enables mobile operators to rapidly accelerate their data revenues and reduce support costs. Mformation's award-winning MFORMATION SERVICE MANAGER™ suite is the most complete, flexible and integrated mobile device management software solution in the industry, providing solutions for OMA DM-based provisioning and configuration, FOTA management, smartphone application management, diagnostics, security management, enterprise management and customer experience management.
MFORMATION SERVICE MANAGER™ received the 2007 GSM Association’s award for “Best Service Delivery Platform” and was a finalist for the 2008 CTIA E-Tech award in the 4G-Service Management category. Mformation's platform has been licensed to leading operators in Asia, Europe and the US including Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Telefónica and Vodafone. Mformation is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey with offices around the globe. Mformation is a privately held company funded by Battery Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Intel Capital [NASDAQ: INTC], North Bridge Venture Partners, QuestMark Partners, Visa International and Wasatch Advisors Inc.
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