to-Screen messaging, has appointed Rich Cohen as vice president, market strategy and solutions.

Cohen joins SpinVox with a distinguished career that includes being awarded patents - including U.S. patent 5,193,110 (with 3 other inventors) for a multimedia messaging server architecture that has generated more than $1 billion in revenue.

He previously spent nearly a decade running his own consulting firm where client engagements included: Comverse Network Systems; AT&T Openwave and General Electric.

Prior to establishing his own business, Cohen was director of product management at Software.com which he joined after being director of innovative projects at Art Technology Group. Previously, he served as director of strategic consulting at Boston Technology (now part of Comverse) where in a seven year career he was responsible for designing the first voice mail applications deployed on public telephone networks in North America and Japan. He has advised network operators in more than 20 countries on the development and rollout of value-added services.

“For two decades, Rich has managed the creation and promotion of internet and telecommunications services that make a positive difference in people’s lives,” says Christina Domecq, SpinVox co-founder and CEO. “Millions of people around the world regularly use products and services that he has championed, designed and marketed, including messaging, community-building and content publishing.”

“He was instrumental in establishing voicemail and seeing it through to the end of its natural life,” she continues, “so we’re delighted to have him on board as a key member of the team driving the next paradigm shift in voice – delivering voice content to screens.”

Cohen is a graduate of Williams College (Williamstown MA) and of both Brown and Harvard Universities.

About SpinVox

SpinVox® brought together the two most popular methods of communication – voice and text – and created a new category of messaging called Voice-to-Screen™. Its award-winning service is now making everyday communication simpler and more powerful, creating new recurring revenues for wireless, landline, cable and VOIP carriers as well as service providers and web partners. SpinVox has already launched its service with Alltel, Cincinnati Bell, Rogers Wireless, Sasktel, Telstra, Telus, Vodafone Spain, Vodacom South Africa and Six Apart and announced a deal with Skype. As a managed service provider any network or service can rapidly and cost-effectively implement SpinVox.

At the heart of SpinVox is its Voice Message Conversion System™ (VMCS), which works by combining state-of-the-art speech technologies with a live-learning language process. VMCS is being rolled-out across four continents in four languages - English, French, Spanish and German.

Information Source:    Business Wire