aimm welcomes new Board members

This year we said goodbye to a couple of Board members, who moved onto to new opportunities. They had been a part of aimm for many years and have during their time on the Board, been a great support and have helped shape our direction, so thanks to them for all their help.

Although it was sad to see them go we are pleased to welcome our new Board members who have stepped up to replace them, and look forward to working with them over the next couple of years.  Both our new Board members are from the companies who had already been part of the Board, so provides a nice continuity.

Please welcome our new Board members:

 

Denzil Tapsell-Gunner – Kaleyra

As Head of Legal, Denzil oversees the European regulatory compliance for Kaleyra, a global Communications Platform as a Service company. This includes mobile payment industry compliance in several European countries where Kaleyra operates as an intermediary provider. In that role,

Denzil has broad experience of working with the regulatory bodies and all members of the value chain to ensure that industry and business needs are met without compromising on the need to operate compliantly.

As a qualified solicitor, Denzil has many years experience both advising to, and then working in technology industries, including dealing with the Codes of Conduct for numerous regulatory bodies. He joined the mobile payment and messaging industry in 2017.

 

Victoria Hull – Dynamic Mobile Billing

Victoria is Head of Business Development and has over twenty years of experience in a business-to-business sales environment working with major UK brands. The past decade she has been focussed on telecoms, mobile technology and payments in the UK, Caribbean, Ireland, Australia and South and East Africa.

Prior to this Victoria worked at a large London firm reselling Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard and IBM technology delivering large scale server room projects to insurance and communication sectors, followed by a number of years at a publishing and media company. She also enjoyed two and half years in the Territorial Army, spending many a weekend training in the field as part of the Royal Artillery. Victoria is also a trustee of the charity East Anglian Driveability that support the elderly and disabled to drive.

More recently, Victoria has been instrumental in the creation of a new company, Debit My Mobile, concentrating on ticketing in transport and parking sectors.

 

We will be starting the new Board election process in January with calls for new Board members to join us in April, so if you are a Gold Member you are eligible to become an aimm Board member. If you are interested in becoming a Board member make sure to keep your eyes open for Election announcements.

 

Take a Journey with Mobile Billing – EE BT event, supported by aimm

On the 23rd March EE/BT, supported by aimm, hosted the  ‘Take a Journey with Mobile Billing’ event at the BT Tower.

The aim of the event was to provide an introduction to Charge to Bill, as an additional payment method for the transport and parking sector.  The event demonstrated how – by giving a wider choice of payment options to their customers – the transport sector could reach those that may not wish to or are able to buy transport tickets the traditional ways.

Naomi Hone, Charge to Bill Manager at EE/BT said: ‘there are 72 million mobile phones in the UK, and carrier billing is already automatically enabled on most of them. This essentially means that the majority of people are walking around with a ticketing vending machine in their pocket!’

With speakers from aimm, EE, Kaleyra and Plusdial, as well as a panel featuring Fonix and DMB, answering questions  from the audience, it was a great opportunity to start the conversation around the opportunities that mobile billing can provide the transport industry.

Member Spotlight: Meet DMB

Dynamic Mobile Billing offers payment solutions to e-commerce merchants focused on mobile via established mechanics across messaging, carrier billing, mobile wallets and voice billing.

We spoke to Kevin Dawson the CEO of Dynamic Mobile Billing (DMB) to find out more about what they offer and their plans for the future in our interview.

If you are a charity then check out the special offer that DMB have made to help during this time!

Rupen Patel joins Dynamic Mobile Billing

Dynamic Mobile Billing appoints Rupen Patel as Head of Sales and Marketing.

Rupen brings a wealth of experience, with a career that spans over 20 years, including his time as Product & Lead Commercial Manager at mobile operator Three UK, as well as previous industry experience gained at Telefónica and Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF).

DMB CEO Kev Dawson comments on the appointment: “Rupen joins the UK Management team at an exciting growth time for the business.  We are seeing new revenue growth opportunities across both existing and new sector clients and Rupen offers extensive experience and capability to help drive DMB UK offerings in these areas.”

Rupen adds: “I’m delighted to be joining DMB at this promising time and hoping my experience can directly contribute to the mutual success of both myself and the business.”

Rupen started his career in the Media & Advertising sector, including stints at ITV, Channel 4 and WPP covering Sales, Business Development and Account/Client/Product Management.  He’s worked across all the major Media Agency groups and managed a portfolio of clients that included BT, Vodafone, Unilever, Mars, Procter & Gamble and GlaxoSmithKlein

At Three UK, Rupen was initially hired within the Payment Services team and was responsible for managing both Direct Carrier Billing & Premium Rate Services. For the last 20 months his focus has been solely on managing and growing the Premium SMS and Voice business working within the Wholesale Team.

As DMB are a member of aimm, we look forward to working with him, and hope to see him at the working groups.