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Lewis onboard at elata
Virgin Group IT Services Director Gareth Lewis has become a non-executive director of elata.
Virgin Group IT Services Director Gareth Lewis has become a non-executive director of elata Lewis brings with him extensive experience in the telecomms sector
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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He was recently appointed as Group IT Services Director at Virgin Group where he is responsible for the strategic alignment of IT within the organisation.
Prior to this, he held the position of Global Programme Director of Mobile Business with the Virgin Group where he was responsible for driving the development of new Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), while ensuring synergy across existing operations.
"The decision to appoint Gareth to this role comes at a time when elata is growing rapidly and developing important customer and partner relationships, whilst expanding the elata senses product portfolio", said Gavin Freed, CEO at elata.
"Gareth's previous experience will prove invaluable and we look forward to capitalising on his impressive depth of knowledge to assist elata in scaling its operations to meet customer demands".
Gareth Lewis said: "I am delighted to be joining a highly innovative company such as elata at this very exciting time in the mobile data services market.
elata is one of the few companies in the market that can offer mobile operators the chance to secure much-needed revenue growth through the delivery of functional and timely enabled wireless services such as Java and MMS".
Prior to joining Virgin, Lewis was a partner in the Telecommunications Practise at KPMG Consulting where he oversaw the implementation of KPMG Consulting's telecomms systems integration practice across Europe.
He has also held senior posts with Unisys and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Lewis joins elata's other non executive director, Mark Farmer, who is well known in the industry for his work with several successful telecomms software businesses including Cramer Systems and Metrica.
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