San Francisco, CA - March 15, 2004 - iMobileInternet.com, a leading provider of Interim Management and Market Consultancy Services, announced today that Grover Righter has been named the General Manager of the Americas operations. Mr. Righter will focus on the rapidly growing market for new mobile services for consumers and enterprise customers, with an initial focus on North America and expansion into South America within the next 24 months. Mobile services start-up and spinn-off companies in the Americas will benefit greatly from Mr. Righter's extensive expertise and track record of rapid growth in the mobile market.
Grover Righter has held executive positions in marketing and product development at AT&T, Kabira, Geoworks, Novell, Interix, and SCO. He has significant experience in mobile telecoms, financial services, networking, government and security-centric solutions. At Kabira, Grover was a member of the managment team that serviced more than 70 GSM and CDMA mobile operators in the delivery of new services. He also directed the J2EE solution launch with Sun in 2003, which helped drive sales into major customers in the USA, Europe and Asia. His development teams designed the secure enterprise object directory at Novell and he headed the Java server technologies initiative at Geoworks, resulting in major sales to global telecom system providers. Grover is actively involved in the JCP, IETF, IEEE and ITU technical standards. He has degrees in mathematics and computer engineering and has completed the International Business Marketing program at INSEAD.
About iMobileInternet.com
iMobileInternet.com is a team of mobile-market business and technology professionals that has been involved in some of the world's largest mobile roll outs. We work with start ups and spin offs that are innovating in the consumer mobile services, mobiel device and enterprise mobility spaces.
Everyone on our core staff has spent more than two decacdes on the firing lines as senior executives in mobile operators, equipment providers, handset manufacturers, integrators and software companies that service the mobile space.
We have experts that cover North America, Latin America, EMEA, Asia and Africa. Our team members serve as either consulting management or interim management for our customers. Our business offerings include:
Mr. Righter will immediately begin an assignment as Interim Executive Management at ClearApp, a Series A start-up funded by Partech and 3i. Intitial go-to-market programs will focus on J2EE application performance management for mobile telecoms, financial services and related consumers of BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere.