Redknee Appoints CTO
New appointment will focus on growing demand for next generation wireless products
MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO - JULY 3, 2003 - Redknee Inc, the market leader in open architecture wireless solutions, announced today the appointment of Bohdan Zabawskyj to the position of Chief Technical Officer (CTO). In his new role as CTO of Redknee, Mr. Zabawskyj will be responsible for formulating and communicating Redknee's strategic direction to the company's customers. In particular, Mr. Zabawskyj will ensure that Redknee’s valued added solutions and technologies fulfill the immediate to mid-term requirements of Redknee’s customers while providing an extensible path to meet their long term business needs."Bohdan and his team of strong technical and engineering leaders have consistently demonstrated to Redknee their ability to create and manifest real intellectual value,” said Duncan Ratcliffe, President & CEO of Redknee. "Bohdan will continue that leadership as one of the most respected technical leaders and a worldwide evangelist of strategic and emerging wireless architectures and technologies. He brings a strong history of advocacy to Redknee growing customer base and strategic insight that will enable Redknee to continue as one of the world's leading mobile wireless software service infrastructure companies."
Bohdan has served as the Head of Product Evolution (2000 - 2003). Prior to joining Redknee in 2000, Mr. Zabawskyj was responsible for formulating several strategic and regulatory initiatives on various service development and interconnection related issues at Clearnet Communications prior to its acquisition by Telus Mobility. Prior to his position at Clearnet Communications, Mr. Zabawskyj was responsible for evaluating the evolution of the personal and terminal mobility environment for Bell Mobility. Today he is a frequent speaker and panelist on open service architecture software and open services business models. Mr. Zabawskyj has a B.A.Sc (Honours) and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and McGill University respectively and is an MBA candidate specializing in Information Technology at Athabasca University.
Redknee's commercially deployed suite of service applications includes Messaging, Mobility, Payment, and Data/Call Control solutions. Redknee solutions integrate seamlessly with existing mobile networks, and accelerate the development and adoption of revenue-generating mobile network services through 3GPP/2 Open Services Access and Open Mobile Alliance Web-Services based architectures.
About Redknee:
Redknee is a leading global provider of innovative communication software products, solutions and services. Redknee's award-winning solutions enable operators to monetize the lifetime value of each subscriber transaction while personalizing the subscriber experience to meet mainstream, niche and individual market segment requirements. Redknee's revenue generating solutions provide advanced converged billing, rating, charging and policy for voice, messaging and new generation data services to over 60 network operators in over 50 countries. Established in 1999, Redknee Solutions Inc.(RKN : AIM) is the parent of the wholly-owned operating subsidiary Redknee Inc. and its various subsidiaries. References to Redknee refer to the combined operations of those entities. For more information, visit http://www.redknee.com/.
