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.

 

Member Spotlight: Meet Telecom2

We would like to introduce you to Telecom2, one of our Fixed Line providers, and also a long standing member of our Board.

We interviewed Rob Johnson the Chairman for Telecom2 and he told us they are a technical development operation specialising in telecoms and billing, and their clients include TV companies and Premiership Football Club!

You can read the full interview here: Telecom2 Spotlight Member Feature

 

Member Spotlight: Meet Fonix

We are on a mission to help our members and their businesses. One the ways we are doing this is to give them an opportunity to tell us more about their business and the services they offer, and promote them however we can. Supporting our members is supporting business, and future growth across the industry.

Our first spotlight interview is with Fonix, who is a mobile payments and messaging services provider. Please feel free to reach out to them if you are interested in what they do and want to learn more.

Read the full interview: Fonix Spotlight Member Feature April 2020

Announcing our 2020 Board

We are pleased to welcome our new aimm Board!

Following the call for nominations during the month of February we received 5 nominations for the vacancies which had 6 spaces available. As such there will be no necessity to go to a vote.

We are pleased to announce that our nominated members are duly elected to the Board. We would ask that you join us in congratulating them.

The aimm Board now comprises of :

Candidates:

Abi Hillman – ITV

Jonny Brown – sb7

Kevin Dawson – DMB

Nick Millward – mGage

Oliver Cooke – IMImobile

Learn more about our 2020 candidates.

They will be joining our existing Board:

Neil Johnson  – aimm Chair

Toby Padgham – aimm Executive Director

Joanna Cox – aimm General Manager

Rob Weisz – Fonix (Vice Chair)

Eric Feltin – Safari Mobile (Vice Chair)

Alan Partington – Telecom2

Caroline Press – Three

Chris Newell – Donr

Claire Taylor – Telefonica

Joel Stern – Global (co-opt)

Kerry Howard – BBC Children in Need (co-opt)

Alex Haffner – Fladgate LLP (co-opt)

Our new Board members will officially start their roles on the 1st April and will be at our next Board meeting, and we look forward to working with them.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank James Macfarlane at PM Connect for all his hard work and support during his time on the Board, and who has now stepped down due to other commitments.

Kind regards

aimm Executive Team