Netherlands headquartered mobile messaging and payments carrier Silverstreet today announced the appointment of Mr. James Bayhack as its Business Development Manager.
Mr. Bayhack will be based in Cape Town, South Africa from where he will be spearheading Silverstreet’s expansion into the African continent for existing business and for new services that are presently under development.
Africa is an emerging market for mobile with real opportunity for accelerated growth, Mr. Bayhack’s extensive mobile knowledge as well as ten years experience in the telecommunications industry is expected to greatly compliment the existing Silverstreet presence in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.
“Africa fits perfectly in our strategy to open local offices in emerging and developing markets, and I expect a substantial contribution from this new business unit in our overall company performance” says Silverstreet Chief Commercial Officer Mr. Simon Landsheer.
About Silverstreet:
Silverstreet, founded in 1999, is a specialist in Mobile Messaging (SMS) offering global MT termination options (covering more then 800 networks) and focusing specifically on mission critical traffic and high volume (wholesale) clients.
Our footprint is global. Next to our global reach with standard MT messages we have coverage with Premium SMS in 32 countries and always expanding. Currently Silverstreet employs 37 people, and has reached a volume of over 2 billion SMS messages in 2009.
Silverstreet is a privately funded company independent of outside investment, and financing it’s own expansion.
For further information contact:
Silverstreet
Mr. Simon Landsheer
Wisma MPL, 1703C Jalan Raja Chulan
50200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
tel: +60193317092
e-mail:
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