Redknee Appoints VP Global Sales
New appointment will focus on growing Redknee’s direct global sales channel.

MISSISSAUGA, ON —1 August 2003—Redknee Inc. the market leader in open architecture wireless solutions, announced today the appointment of Chris Newton-Smith as Vice President Global Sales to lead its global direct sales teams. Chris Newton-Smith brings a strong knowledge of marketing, sales, technology and services to his new role. He most recently served as the Managing Director and VP Sales for Redknee's European operations.

Chris Newton-Smith will be heading a global team focused on sales for Redknee’s valued added solutions and technologies in the global wireless carrier market. "Wireless carriers across world are now beyond the point of considering Redknee's products, they have been deploying it for past 48 months," said Chris Newton-Smith, Vice President of Global Sales at Redknee. "As more carriers migrate their service infrastructure to Redknee's platforms, they expect the best technology coupled with unbeatable service and support. I'm excited to be taking on this new role within Redknee to lead the Global Sales team at such an important moment in the evolution of open service architecture."

"Redknee is a global company with deep roots in the global wireless carrier market. It is very important for us to have a strong presence across each continent," said Lucas Skoczkowski, COO, Redknee. "Chris Newton-Smith has a track record of successful entrepreneurship, most recently as Managing Director and VP Sales of Redknee EMEA, where he quickly established Redknee as the number one service infrastructure vendor in the EMEA region. With him we'll expand our leading role globally."

Chris brings to his new role with Redknee a broad working knowledge of the wireless industry. His experience ranges from research and consultancy roles within start-up companies through to multi-billion dollar organizations. Before joining Redknee, Chris held positions in Marketing, Product Management, Software Development, and Technology Evaluation at Research In Motion (RIM), Encana, and UBS AG. He has a Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Management degree from McMaster University and is a member of the IEEE.

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/.