London, January 28th 2015
SIMBERRY appoints Laurent MANSO as Chief Technical Officer
SIMBERRY, the vendor independent call termination specialist, today announced the appointment of Laurent Manso as its CTO.
In his role as the new Chief Technical Officer, Laurent Manso will be leading the R&D, customer service, presale and projects departments.
Laurent has been working on business and applications development for GSM gateways since 2000, and is a well-‐known worldwide expert in the SIM server technologies market.
He was a co-‐founder of iQsim, and held the position of CTO from 2009 until September 2014. During this time, he designed the IRON Suite SIM SERVER for Call and SMS solution while leading the pre-‐sales & projects teams.
Laurent held the position of Director of Pre-‐sales & Projects at Quescom between 2000 and 2009, increasing all the necessary experience and know how over the Call Termination Market. Prior to his time at Quescom, he was a developer in the GSM-‐UMTS network department at Alcatel-‐Lucent.
Laurent is a graduate of EHEI and has a masters degree in Information Systems.
Commenting on his appointment, SIMBERRY’s VP of Sales, Thomas Sorgalla, on behalf of board members, stated: "We are extremely happy and proud to win an industry expert such as Laurent Manso joining us in this new adventure. SIMBERRY and all the termination market will very much benefit from his broad experience and ideas. Laurent’s extensive knowledge and expertise in the call termination market will help SIMBERRY reach the next level on its way to become THE vendor independent solution provider for call termination business”.
Commenting on his appointment, Laurent Manso said: "I am very excited about this new challenge! The SIMBERRY offering of all kinds of managed services makes this company unique and, most of all, brings to the market what was missing until now. All GSM gateway users will be able to benefit from our offering.”
About SIMBERRY
The European company was founded in May 2014, with the goal of offering innovative and vendor independent managed services for the voice termination market. In June 2014, SIMBERRY acquired the GSM gateway division of TELES AG in Berlin.
The SIMBERRY services enable Service Providers to increase the efficiency of their call termination business and support a wide range of GSM termination equipment available on the market.
SIMBERRY has offices in Europe, the United States and Central America.
For further information, visit the SIMBERRY website at www.simberry.com