
CAMBRIDGE, MA August 15, 2007
iSkoot today announced that Paul Reddick, former
VP of Business Development and Product Innovation at
Sprint Nextel, has been appointed to serve on the iSkoot
advisory board.
"I'm really looking forward to joining the iSkoot
team," said Reddick. "iSkoot brings a unique product
offering that turns the growing VoIP business from
a value-destroying threat into a real voice-minute
growth opportunity for the mobile industry in the
process bringing great new intuitive capabilities to
customers of both mobile and VoIP communities."
"We're very excited to be welcoming Paul aboard.
He's a true innovator in the mobile media industry,
and we're confident that the experience and vision
he brings to our team will be invaluable as iSkoot
continues to grow." said Jacob Guedalia, iSkoot CEO.
In his ten years at Sprint Nextel, Reddick held VP
positions in Business Development, Product Development,
Innovation and Strategy and earned global renown for
his foresight into mobile entertainment trends. His
role at Sprint spanned developing external alliances,
exploring new product and service opportunities, leading
Sprint Nextel's application developer program, founding
Sprint Nextel's corporate venture capital business,
and overseeing mobile entertainment initiatives. Prior
to joining Sprint Nextel, Reddick was in management
consultant with McKinsey and Company, Inc., He holds
an MBA from Stanford University.
About iSkoot
San Francisco-based iSkoot brings leading internet services like Skype to mobile handsets around the world, delivering rich consumer experiences with minimal impact on operator networks.
iSkoot launched the first and only carrier-grade, carrier-deployed Skype-for-Mobile application in 2006, and now powers the Mobile World Congress award-winning 3 Skypephone currently sold in eight countries on three continents.
iSkoot takes advantage of the voice-optimized circuit-switched network for delivery of voice communications, in keeping with its mission to engineer elegant and operator-friendly solutions to the challenge of bringing resource-intensive internet services to mobile handsets.
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