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SIMtone Corporation appoints Dr. Francesco De Leo to its European Advisory Board
Vevey, Switzerland (September 8, 2008) – SIMtone Corporation, a privately held company delivering the next cloud computing paradigm, today announced the appointment of an industry veteran, Dr. Francesco De Leo Ph.D, to its European Advisory Board. Dr De Leo will provide strategic guidance to help SIMtone deliver its end-to-end cloud computing platform to leading network and telecommunications operators throughout Europe.
Dr. De Leo is currently Vice-Chairman of Tellas Athens – the second largest fixed line operator in Greece. He is also the CEO Advisor for Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A, the third largest mobile carrier and second largest fixed line telecommunications provider in Italy. Prior to joining WIND, he held numerous leadership roles with Telecom Italia.
Dr. De Leo is a member of the C4 International Advisory Board of Cap Gemini. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Media Tenor which collaborates in the field of media analysis with the World Economic Forum. In 1999, he was elected as one of the Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. Dr. De Leo received a BA in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization from UCLA, the Anderson School of Management.
“We are very pleased to welcome Francesco to our European Advisory Board,” said Mario Dal Canto, Chairman of the Board and CEO of SIMtone Corporation. “He has decades of experience and a tremendous amount of insight in the telecommunication industry, and will play a key role in helping SIMtone shape its strategy with network operators in the progressive European market.”
SIMtone’s carrier-grade cloud computing software technology consists of three core components – a Universal Service Provisioning platform, the Virtual Service Platform, and a series of zero-touch terminals called SNAPs. Together, these components provide network operators and their business customers with a complete platform to quickly build and ubiquitously deliver highly scalable, secure and very low-cost cloud computing services such as virtual desktops, DaaS, SaaS applications, and other Web services to anyone, anywhere, on-demand and on-the-fly.
About SIMtone Corporation
The SIMtone Corporation makes cloud computing universally simple. The company has developed and commercialized the patented SIMtone Universal Cloud Computing Platform that allows network operators and businesses to host, manage and quickly provision any cloud-hosted services, and ubiquitously deliver them to zero-touch terminals that can be standalone, low cost hardware appliances, or software terminals usable via browsers or on PCs, thin clients and mobile devices. With the SIMtone, cloud services such as virtual desktops, DaaS/SaaS, PC remote access or Web services, are simple and very inexpensive to host and manage for businesses and providers, and become usable without a computer, on-demand and on-the-fly, simply and safely, by everyone, everywhere. SIMtone Corporation’s North American headquarters are based in Durham, North Carolina and SIMtone International headquarters are based in Vevey, Switzerland. SIMtone is a privately-held company backed by Motorola Ventures, Brightstar Corporation and Kodiak Venture Partners. For more information, please visit: www.SIMtone.net.