BroadSoft Expands Executive Team to Support Rapid Growth and Demand For Flagship Product, BroadWorks Growing Customer Base and Interest in Award Winning Next-Generation Telephony Services Fuels Expansion of Company
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sep 6, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BroadSoft, Inc., the leading provider of service delivery systems for next-generation telephony services, announced today the company is expanding with new executive appointments. Industry veteran, Ian Maile joins the company as Vice President, Engineering, and Michael Tinsley assumes the position of Vice President, Finance and Administration. At the same time, BroadSoft co-founder, Scott Hoffpauir, Vice President of Engineering since 1998, now moves into the strategic role of Chief Technology Officer for the company.
BroadSoft's BroadWorks(TM) enhanced delivery system enables service providers to rapidly enter new markets and immediately generate new revenues with easy-to-use, differentiated local exchange services over packet-based networks as well as the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN). BroadWorks includes a rich set of business options such as call waiting, voice mail, conferencing, auto-attendant and follow-me-anywhere services, and can interoperate with other network elements and business applications for a rich set of integrated services without lengthy and expensive proprietary development.
"We are very pleased to announce the additions of Ian and Michael to our executive team," said Michael Tessler, founder, president and CEO of BroadSoft. "Their industry experience and expertise will help BroadSoft as we continue to grow to meet the market demand for BroadWorks and the need for enhanced telephony services. We also welcome Scott's move into this new strategic role. As a company co-founder, Scott was instrumental in the development of our award-winning product line, BroadWorks, and has contributed immeasurably to the growth of the company."
Maile comes to BroadSoft with more than fifteen years of engineering expertise, most recently at Motorola's Ground Systems Division where he was Director of Engineering. Maile led the development efforts at Motorola for MMDS fixed wireless systems. Previously, he was Director of Engineering at Celcore, where he administered the company's AMPS product development and testing and played a key role in the design, development, and international deployment of Celcore's AMPS and GSM switches. He has also held senior technical positions with GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT) and Stromberg Carlson, which later merged with Siemens. Maile received his Bachelors of Science degree in Statistics and Operational Research at Exeter University, England.
"BroadSoft is truly delivering on the convergence of the Internet and telephony," Maile said. "The flexibility and ease of use of the BroadWorks service delivery system is extremely impressive. I am looking forward to working with BroadSoft's exceptional engineering team as we further the development and enhancement of the product to meet market requirements."
Tinsley joins BroadSoft with a wide range of financial management experience at emerging growth companies in the communications field. Most recently, he served as Chief Financial Officer for Scientific Research Corporation, a research and engineering firm specializing in defense communication systems. Previously, he was Vice President of Treasury for Digital Lightwave, where he was responsible for all of the company's SEC reporting requirements. He has also served as Vice President of Finance for BTG, where he managed the financial integration of three acquisitions and played a key role in the company's initial public offering. Tinsley is a certified public accountant and holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration and Accounting from Murray State University.
"I am looking forward to working with BroadSoft as it continues its exceptional growth record," said Tinsley. "BroadSoft's impressive record for raising capital from some of the leading venture firms in the country, as well as recruiting top professionals in all areas, has positioned the company for success."
About Broadsoft
BroadSoft, Inc., is the leading provider of service delivery systems for next-generation telephony services. BroadWorks, the company's flagship product, allows integrated communications providers (ICPs) to rapidly and economically design and deploy web-enabled enhanced telephony services to their customers. A founding member of the International Softswitch Consortium (http://www.softswitch.org), BroadSoft is privately held and funded by Bessemer Venture Partners, BroadBand Office, Charles River Ventures, Columbia Capital Corporation, Comdisco Ventures and Crescendo Ventures. As the recipient of numerous awards since its launch, BroadSoft was recently recognized as a "Hot Start-Up" by America's Network and Telecommunications magazines, two of the leading telecommunications industry publications. BroadSoft was founded in 1998 and is located near Washington, DC, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and at broadsoft.com.
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