Archive for February, 2009

Alan Coad Joins the iSkoot Executive Entourage

iSkoot has just gone and gotten ourselves one rock star of a sales guy. As we announced in our press release on Tuesday, industry veteran Alan Coad just signed on as our new Senior VP of Global Carrier Sales.
Alan Coad, iSkoot

Alan’s been in the business of growing telecoms-oriented software/IT services companies for over 18 years, doing both the start-up thing (Aldiscon back in the day, SpinVox most recently) and bigger multinational corporate gigs (he founded Logica’s South American operations, headed worldwide Sales & Operations for its Global Telecoms products division, and eventually took over Logica’s worldwide Communications sector P&L).

He’s got a track record that’s tailor-made to deliver success for iSkoot, and our team is incredibly excited to have Alan aboard - So much so that we just unleashed him on the industry at Mobile World Congress. Perhaps you spotted our newest all-star executive in the wild? :)

Welcome to the iSkoot fam, Alan!

iSkoot: Part of the “Powerhouse” Package

iSkoot for Skype got a sweet little nod from Mashable a few weeks back, earning rank as one of the top “15 Free Tools to Turn Your BlackBerry into a Communications Powerhouse.”

That’s right. Powerhouse. Nice!

iSkoot on BlackBerry Curve

Mashable’s Sean Aune points out that BlackBerry isn’t just the province of hardcore enterprise users anymore. It’s more accessible than ever, and with new users gravitating towards the handiest PDA around for pure and simple personal use, the biggest trend on the device, Sean explains, has been “easing communication.”

So what other communication tools does Sean list along iSkoot signature mobile Skype solution for BlackBerry? AIM, GoogleTalk, Facebook, Flickr, and Twitterberry to name a few.

For the complete list, check out Sean’s post here.

Thanks for the mention, Sean!