dotMobi Strengthens Senior Management Team with Appointment of Two Senior Executives
12/09/2007 19:21
PR Newswire
DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, September 12 /PRNewswire/ --
dotMobi, the consortium behind the only Internet address created
specifically for mobile phones, has appointed Trey Harvin, longtime Internet
and technology veteran, as CEO of dotMobi and David Ryder as VP of Marketing
and Sales. In their respective roles, Harvin and Ryder will be charged with
building on the success of dotMobi to date and taking the company forward
with more innovative products for expanding the use of the mobile web.
Over the past year, Dublin-based dotMobi has launched its developer
portal and associated tools -- dev.mobi, site.mobi and ready.mobi -- and has
also seen approximately 700,000 .mobi domains registered.
With more than three million indexed pages of dotMobi content currently
available, the world's biggest brands including BMW, The Sun newspaper,
Disney, Paramount, Maxim magazine, Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Microsoft and Google
have launched .mobi sites, prompting .mobi development in key industry
sectors such as travel, media, real estate, automobiles and entertainment.
"With this strong foundation, dotMobi is entering a new and exciting
growth phase," said Trey Harvin, CEO of dotMobi. "In the next two quarters we
will focus on growing mobile services for the development community and the
enterprise with the launch of key products such as the our device database
and search services."
Neil Edwards, who was the founding CEO of dotMobi and who grew the
company from a fledgling concern to a vital part of the mobile Web
infrastructure, will pursue opportunities closer to his family in the United
States.
Jerry Easom, Chairman of the dotMobi Board, said, "On behalf of the
Board, I thank Neil for his strong efforts in bringing dotMobi to life. Over
the past two years, he has worked closely with the 14 investor members of the
Board to create a simple way for consumers around the world to find and
access content on their mobile phones. His work has helped grow the global
use of mobile Internet significantly. We are also happy to welcome Trey
Harvin and David Ryder to the senior management team to continue the good
work."
Harvin will assume responsibilities as CEO immediately, having worked
closely with Edwards to ensure a smooth transition. Among his initial
projects will be a launch of an open database service designed to assist
developers in building mobile content and a new, leading-edge mobile content
database.
Harvin, previously a senior executive and management consultant at
several wireless and Internet start-up technology companies, served as Vice
President of Business Operations at leading internet company VeriSign. He
also was Vice President of Product Development at Network Solutions as well
as Network Solutions' Chief of Staff.
Ryder has extensive mobile experience as VP Operations and Sales of the
ESPN Mobile division as well as several senior management roles at British
Telecom, specializing in Marketing, Product Development and Technology across
fixed, mobile and Internet.
About dotMobi
dotMobi (the informal name of mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd.), a consortium
based in Dublin, Ireland with offices in Washington, DC and Beijing, is
leading the growth of Internet use from mobile phones with the .mobi domain
name. Unique among domain name providers, dotMobi ensures that services and
sites developed around .mobi are optimized for use by mobile devices.
On-the-go consumers can have confidence that an Internet site or service will
work on their mobile phones when using a .mobi address.
dotMobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network & device
manufacturers, and internet content providers, including Ericsson, GSM
Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung
Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM, Visa and Vodafone.
dotMobi is also a sponsor of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative.
For more information on dotMobi domains and registration information,
visit http://dotmobi.mobi . Visit the dotMobi blog at http://blog.mobi .
For more information, please contact:
Vance Hedderel
dotMobi
+1-703-485-5563
vhedderel@mtld.mobi
Sasha Manners
Edelman Europe for dotMobi
+44-207-344-1504
sasha.manner@edelman.com
Danielle Siemon
A? Edelman for dotMobi (US)
+1-650-762-2947
danielle.siemon@edelman.com
Web site: http://dotmobi.mobi
http://blog.mobi
Vance Hedderel of dotMobi, +1-703-485-5563, vhedderel@mtld.mobi, or Sasha Manners of Edelman Europe for dotMobi, +44-207-344-1504, sasha.manner@edelman.com, or Danielle Siemon of A? Edelman for dotMobi (US), +1-650-762-2947, danielle.siemon@edelman.com