Kevin Tubbs Appointed Director of Business Development at CBOSS Association

sf-online.ru, May 19, 2004

Kevin Tubbs was appointed director of business development at CBOSS. The appointment is consistent with the Association’s international development strategy, aimed at maximizing the geographic expansion of CBOSS business.

Mr. Tubbs’ field of competence will cover the issues of promoting the CBOSS products and solutions on the international market. Kevin Tubbs has considerable expertise in this sphere: from 1999 to 2003, he led the rtBilling promotion program at Hewlett-Packard. rtbilling is a real-time billing system, a complex solution which was added to the CBOSS portfolio upon acquisition of the business from Fujitsu Corporation in early 2004. Hewlett-Packard resells the solution to mobile operators worldwide.

Commenting on his appointment, К. Tubbs said: “I believe the recent acquisition of rtBilling along with the current impressive CBOSS product line, will enable CBOSS to provide complex convergent solutions which are in great demand on the present-day market. This is the target I intend to achieve by developing a global promotion through partner channels such as agreement with Hewlett-Packard. My 18 years of experience in НР in a wide range of positions throughout my career will help me facilitate our collaboration”.

Before joining CBOSS Association, Mr. Tubbs served as Deal Manager in the European Regional Center of the ЕМЕА division of Hewlett-Packard (Grenoble, France). Prior to that, he held various positions in НР, Compaq, Tandem, and McDonnell Douglas. Mr. Tubb’s total seniority in the IT sector is 28 years.

For Reference:

CBOSS Association is an international corporation headquartered in Moscow, is the largest software developer in Russia, and a leader of Russian IT for the telecom market segment.

CBOSS Association key business lines are: development of original software, system integration, provision of complex integrated hardware/software solutions that include hardware platform and system software, end-user training, consulting, implementation and support.

The unrivaled functionality and reliability of CBOSS solutions is chosen by the largest operators in Russia and abroad. The number of CBOSS installations amounts to 745. The solutions are successfully operated by 141 customers in 19 countries on 4 continents. CBOSS technologies serve about 40M subscribers.

CBOSS partners are the world’s largest corporations: Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Excel Switching Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, Intel, Brooktrout, Avaya Communications, Microsoft, and Xerox.