Category: Telecom
Momail marks its next stage and recruits senior executive from Microsoft to lead the expansion. Stockholm, September 11, 2008 – Momail announced today that Kenneth Lundin has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. Founder and CEO Roger Grönberg will focus on product and tier one partner development as Chief Software Architect and technology champion leaving Kenneth to run the business and to serve on Momail's Board of Directors. Kenneth brings to Momail all the experience of a great and long career in the global software and telecom industry. He is a 10 year Microsoft veteran who led the Windows expansion into Asian emerging markets as well as the Asian launch of Windows Vista. Recently, he was responsible for the Microsoft mobility business in Western Europe.
“Momail is already a great company with highly innovative technology and products, extremely skilled and dedicated employees, and a very fast growing customer base. The Momail team has done a tremendous job in the launch of the Momail mobile service in many markets, and I'm excited about the opportunity to lead Momail on its next and successful phase”, says Kenneth Lundin. Momail has already attracted critical acclaim winning awards like Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 and named one of five vendors in “Cool Vendors in Mobile and Wireless, 2008” report by business analysts Gartner. The Momail service is already available in 14 countries and in eight different languages, and another 20 countries are in beta. Momail is also the market leader in device support, today available on more than 1100 different mobiles. Momail is set for success, driven by its unique technical solution fit for the increasing mail and media mobile traffic. “We are thrilled to have managed to get a top resource as Kenneth onboard. As we turn the next page of the Momail business journey Kenneth’s skills of the global telecom and software industry will help Momail secure many new partners and consumers mobile email users globally”, says Roger Grönberg. Momail is mobile email the way it should be. It is easy to setup, easy to use, has many useful and smart functions and is free of charge. The company utilizes a patent pending technique, MMOPE (Mobile Message Optimization & Protection Engine), to optimize every email to the mobile phone on which it will be shown. Uniquely in the market, all content is optimized for the handset model to which it will be sent, thus the size of incoming emails and attachments may be reduced up to 99,9 percent. In addition, documents and pictures are scaled, rotated and converted in real-time. The combination of these features provides consumers with the fastest, smartest and most cost-effective mobile email solution on the market today.