SmartNumbers strengthens management team with new Vice President of Sales

London, England. April 2005

SmartNumbers, the leader provider of advanced business telephone on demand has today announced that James Foley has joined the company in the position as Vice President of Sales.  James Foley joins the company after more than 15 years of successful sales leadership in the UK and United States at business solutions leaders Hyperion and Motive Communications.  At Hyperion, James was Sales Director for their West Coast operations, and before that was Director of Channel Operations. At Motive, James was also Director of Sales with responsibilities for both direct and channel business. Both of these organisations went from start-up through successful IPO and eventually became the dominant players in their respective markets.

At SmartNumbers, James Foley will be responsible for growing all direct and channel revenue, with a focus on meeting the demand for business solutions based on converged services.

"This is a very important time to be joining SmartNumbers", said James Foley. "The company has the endorsement of a large number of market-leading customers, very strong distribution channels and a compelling solution platform already in place.  I hope to continue our strategy of attracting a top-tier distributors, and other solutions partners, and through them serve the needs of their customers. The market for Converged Services is only just beginning and with over 5,000 companies already using SmartNumber's platform for converged services, this provides an ideal opportunity for SmartNumbers to consolidate its leadership position."

"We are delighted to welcome James to SmartNumbers", said Geoffrey Paterson, CEO of SmartNumbers. "As the telephony market evolves from a requiring technical and infrastructure services towards a requirement to provide value-added business solutions, we are very pleased to bring onboard someone of James' calibre and experience.  Since the key to convergence is about meeting the business needs of customers with enhanced communication and collaboration services, it is important that SmartNumbers continues to evolve to meet these needs. Recruiting James to lead our sales organisation is a statement to our customers that we care deeply about their demands for value-added solutions to their critical business issues. To our distributors, this appointment reaffirms our commitment to providing solutions and services that will enable our distributors and their customers to take the journey to convergence together."