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Innovative Mobile Telecoms Business Developer Mike Moghaddas Joins Antix Labs Board
3rd February 2009: Reading, England – Mike Moghaddas has joined Antix’s Board of Directors working alongside Chairman Juan Montes and Francis Charig, the company’s Chief Executive.
Mike Moghaddas’ pedigree spans companies that include Sony International, Sony Ericsson and Voice Signal and he offers a wealth of experience in strategic innovation and successfully taking groundbreaking solutions to market.
Moghaddas joined Sony International in January 2000 as Head of Business Development where, having set up the application, services and content strategy, he built and ran the team to execute it. He also rolled out the first Java phone (SO503) outside Japan, and was part of the team that put together the product and application strategy for a joint venture between Sony and Ericsson. Moghaddas then moved to Sony Ericsson as Head of Music, Movies and DRM where he created the Walkman phone strategy which delivered over €4 Billion in revenues to the business by 2006. He became the youngest member of the Sony Ericsson Joint Venture and Turn Around team ahead of a move to Voice Signal Inc. As Vice President of Business Development, Moghaddas was instrumental in establishing Voice Signal as the market leader in voice recognition technology, embedded in over 200 million mobile phones with continued growth. The company was acquired in August 2007 by Nuance Corp (for $300M) and is now part of a global organization.
Mike is Managing Partner at management consultant Neeroo Consulting, VP of Business Development for KeyCriteria Holding and a serial entrepreneur holding a number of selective, non-executive positions.
Mike Moghaddas comments, “I have known Francis and admired his team for a long time; the attraction of working with Antix is that it currently has the best gaming and application platform available in the mobile industry, a platform prepared to support fully a convergent industry, working on PCs, mobiles, TVs and any other digitally connected device. I am extremely happy to be able to support Francis and his team through its successful journey.”
Francis Charig, Chief Executive comments, “Antix is constructing a first class board of many talents who understand the dynamics relevant to Antix’s growth and can contribute to its success. As with Juan Montes, our newly appointed Chairman, Mike’s background and personality make him a perfect fit as we drive the company’s development.”
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About Antix Labs, Ltd. (Antix):
Antix has developed the Antix Game Player incorporating a consumer-focused distribution file format and service that makes games even more viral than music and video whilst still protecting the rights and the revenues of the developers. It enables consumers to copy, share, challenge and play with others not only via a service provider’s network but also off-network by means of wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. Antix connects consumers across feature phones and smartphones, tablets, TVs, set top boxes, PCs and other devices even when a provider’s network is inaccessible, intermittent, slow or full as is the reality in home and on mobile across most of the world. The company offers the Game Player, corresponding tools, certification mechanism, optional white-label store and an optional game warehouse necessary to deploy a complete service offering. The Antix Game Service is being used as a core gaming component by major operators, broadcasters, device manufacturers and retailers across the globe. Headquartered in the Reading Enterprise Centre in Reading, England and with offices in America and Asia, Antix was founded by Francis Charig, its current Chief Executive and a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
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