today announced that Joe Naylor has been promoted to President. Mr. Naylor had been Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Product Development since he joined WebMessenger in 2005. Further solidifying the management team, WebMessenger announced that Dan Coole has joined the company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and Amir Hudda has been appointed to the Board of Directors.

Mr. Naylor’s focus will be on extending WebMessenger’s leadership position in the burgeoning real-time enterprise mobile communications market. As President he will oversee the development of new solutions for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm mobile devices, and drive strategic business relationships with enterprise customers, global telecommunications carriers, OEMs and resellers.

“Enterprise mobile communications is a rapidly expanding market that WebMessenger is uniquely positioned to exploit given its 15-year track record,” said Val Babajov, founder and CEO for WebMessenger. “Joe was instrumental in transforming WebMessenger from a professional services company into a market-leading real-time collaboration and mobile messaging technology provider. Dan is a veteran mobile communications sales and marketing executive who generated significant revenue securing contracts with device manufacturers and telecommunications carriers while overseeing business development for OZ Communications. Amir is a world-class entrepreneur who has started, run and sold a number of tech companies. We are tremendously excited to announce these appointments and we have no doubt that each will help to accelerate the company’s growth.”

Mr. Naylor joined WebMessenger in 2005 to help the company transition from an engineering to a product company focused on enterprise mobile instant messaging. In this role Mr. Naylor launched a number of WebMessenger products and was prominent in securing and managing strategic partnerships with key players in the mobile collaboration and messaging space, including IBM, Nokia, Research In Motion, Sprint, Sybase, and Symbian. Prior to WebMessenger, Mr. Naylor was Vice President of Corporate Product Development for J2 Global Communications, where he designed, developed, launched and managed the eFax Corporate Internet fax services targeting the enterprise market. Mr. Naylor received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for WebMessenger, Mr. Coole, a 20-year mobile industry veteran, will lead all WebMessenger sales channels, including direct-to-enterprise, OEMs/Resellers and on-line sales through webmessenger.com. Previously, Mr. Coole was Vice President of Sales and Global Partnering for OZ Communications, a leading provider of consumer mobile messaging solutions, where he was responsible for the company’s device application business, as well as key partnering, product planning, and strategic development activities. Prior to OZ, Mr. Coole played key roles in market, product, and technology development for Ericsson and Mitsubishi Electronics. Mr. Coole earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and a Master's in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.

As a board member, Mr. Hudda will help secure and manage strategic partnerships, targeting companies that can leverage WebMessenger’s technology assets to advance their own business and product roadmap objectives. Most recently, Mr. Hudda served as CEO for Apptix. In two and a half years at Apptix, he transformed the company from a $6M business focused on selling hosted exchange services exclusively through channel partners to a global business with a $40M annual recurring run rate that largely sold its comprehensive suite of email, collaboration and voice solutions directly over the web to SMBs. In the last 13 years Mr. Hudda has raised almost $100M in financings through leading venture capitalists as well as U.S. and Norwegian investment banks. He has also completed six M&A transactions valued at approximately $175M. Mr. Hudda holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a B.E. in Computer Engineering from PICT, University of Pune, India.

“Our focus will continue to be helping enterprises leverage their investments in Microsoft LCS/OCS and Group Chat, IBM Lotus Sametime and other enterprise collaboration platforms by extending the productivity gains made on the desktop out to mobile devices,” said Mr. Naylor. “In addition, our new carrier-class presence and mobile real-time communications platform enables the deployment of large-scale, geographically redundant wireless messaging services, and our Message Alerts product now allows enterprises to ensure efficiency and control of multiple communications channels for their mobile workforce. Through relationships with global carriers, OEMs and resellers, we will provide partners with recurring revenue-generating, value-added mobile enterprise software and services offerings.”

Information Source:    Business Wire