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Acision Appoints Mark Williams as Senior Vice President & General Manager for Asia-Pacific
SINGAPORE, August 31 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--
- New GM Focuses on Growth and Business Development in Asia by Extending
Acision's Market Reach
Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the
appointment of Mark Williams as Senior Vice President and General Manager of
the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Acision's Singapore office, Williams will
take responsibility for aggressively driving growth in the region.
Starting his career at Telstra, Williams has more than 30 years
experience working with communications service providers, including 20 years
in business and sales leadership roles. Williams joins Acision from Amdocs,
where he headed up global sales in 2009. Prior to this, Williams was senior
vice president for Amdocs' Asia Pacific region where, under his leadership,
he played an instrumental role in taking the company back to strong
profitability. Williams also held the position of VP for Australia and New
Zealand when he joined Amdocs four years ago, leading the team that was
successful in winning major business in the Telstra OSS transformation
program.
Prior to Amdocs, Williams spent nine years at Ericsson Australia where he
held various leadership roles including being the key account manager for
Telstra, VP services for ANZ and VP for the global service delivery centres
in the Asia Pacific region. Mark also held a position as inaugural country
manager of Sony Ericsson in Australia following the merger of Ericsson and
Sony's mobile handset businesses.
David King, chief operating officer for Acision, commented: "Mark has
extensive experience in building profitability into businesses and driving up
sales. His expertise and relationships in the Asian communications market are
second to none and by heading up our team in this region, Mark will help
Acision achieve further growth by exploiting market opportunities."
"In this role, I am determined to ensure Acision sustains its leadership
in Asia but also grows its market share by developing existing partnerships
with local carriers, creating new strategic relationships and delivering
sales across Acision's propositions in messaging, mobile broadband, mobile
marketing and charging. Acision is uniquely positioned to offer solutions
from messaging to mobile marketing to grow existing and new revenue streams
for their customers," said Mark Williams, GM for Acision, Asia Pacific.
SOURCE: Acision
Acision is the world's leading messaging company, providing communication
solutions for over 300 network operators and service providers globally.
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