Kirusa names Atanu Mandal as Managing Director
India
New Providence, NJ, and New Delhi, India, Wednesday, July 6,
2011: Kirusa, the world’s leading vendor of
Voice SMS and a leading developer of Mobile Social Media
and Value
Added Services today announced the appointment of Atanu Mandal
as Managing Director, Kirusa India.
Atanu started Cellnext Solutions, the first Indian Mobile
VAS company in 2000 before continuing his journey in ACL Wireless
as President with overall charge of sales, service delivery,
and product development, and then at Unified Telecom as Director
till end of 2010, serving in top leadership positions and steering
these companies into a position of strength within the Industry.
Prior to this, he worked in various key positions with telecom
operators during 1995-2000. He has served as the Head of Strategy & Planning
for Escotel (now Idea Cellular), as CFO for Modi Telstra (now
Bharti Airtel) and as CMO for Essar Cellphone (now Vodafone)
during his stint with telecom operators.
Atanu Mandal commented on his appointment by stating, “Kirusa’s
expertise and leadership in mobile services has lead to its
presence across the globe and I am looking forward to being
closely involved in Kirusa’s vision of becoming the world's
leading vendor of mobile social media and value added services.” He
further added, “We are looking forward to conceptualize
and launch several new applications that can lead to significantly
higher monetization from Kirusa’s platform installations
across the globe.”
Atanu holds an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmadabad and a B.Tech. degree in electrical & electronics
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
He has served as a Chairman of Mobile VAS committee of the
Internet & Mobile Association of India (IMAI) during 2010-2011.
Dr. Inderpal Singh Mumick, CEO of Kirusa, said on the occasion, “We
welcome Atanu to the Kirusa executive team. He shares our passion
for Mobile services and we are confident that Atanu will bring
the right mix of proven leadership, experience and acumen to
the role." He further added, "His extensive telecom
background and vision for the potential of social media and
value added services complements the efforts Kirusa is making
in defining a leadership position in India."
About Kirusa
Kirusa is one of the leading global developers
of Mobile Social Media and Value Added Services; enabling mobile
subscribers
to ‘reach out’ to their family and friends. Kirusa’s
solutions include the hugely successful Kirusa Voice SMS
service, the world’s most advanced “Voice SMS” solution
that has been selected by more than thirty carriers around
the world. Kirusa Voice SMS enables mobile subscribers to
send messages by speaking. Kirusa has pioneered a suite of
applications that facilitate mobile subscribers to interact
through voice, including the Call-n-Tweet application which
helps users update their twitter status using voice. Kirusa
provides an open platform with APIs to enable third parties
to offer mobile applications services to mobile subscribers.
Used by mobile subscribers millions of times daily, Kirusa
solutions are built on its patented and patent pending technology
and its highly reliable and scalable open multimodal platform.
Kirusa has been recognized as one of top 100 technology companies
by Silicon India, and one of top 25 emerging technology companies
by Smart Techie magazine. Headquartered in New Jersey and
led by an experienced team of wireless telecom executives
and technologists, Kirusa has offices in three continents,. ‘Kirusa
Voice SMS,’ is a trademark of Kirusa, Inc. For more
information, please visit www.kirusa.com.
Media Contact
Kirusa
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