i2i Associates - Global Business Development

i2i welcomes new team member Jody King.

 Connecting with your customers – whether they are consumer/business, or internal/external stakeholders – is what drives Jody.   He believes that it is the customer, not the technology, who is at the heart of any new innovation.  And it is they who will ultimately decide its success.

He is a Marketing and Communications consultant who can provide Strategy, Product Development and Implementation advice.  He specializes in Telecommunications having gathered experience on premier brands such as 3 Mobile, Telecom NZ and Deutsche Telekom.

His experience is complemented with over 13 years in Advertising with leading agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi and DDB.

Include Jody as early as possible in your product development lifecycle to be sure that your product meets with a receptive audience.

June 9th till 11th saw Cologne (Germany) hosting the Angacom again, Germany’s largest exhibition for broadband and content.

Hybridserver had decided to have their first official appearance at this event, and i2i organised and ran this first promotional activity.

Conference visitors were very interested in  Hybridserver’s new generation of servers, as they exceed the performance of standard servers by a factor 100! This means not only lower hardware costs, but also less space and less energy.

This performance is going to revolutionize the global server market. Stay tuned!

i2i’s global team will work with Whisbi to introduce this solution to businesses all over the world.

 Jason is an international business development professional with over 20 years of experience in international B2B sales and marketing. He has an accomplished track record of identifying new opportunities and bringing them to market.

Jason is recognized as a creative, autonomous, and results-driven professional with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. With his experience in a private equity-focused financial advisory firm specializing in management buy-in and buy-out transactions, he is also very practiced at dealing with C-level executives.

Simartis, headquartered in Bucharest (Romania), has decided to use i2i to help with the business development for their innovative technologies.

Simartis’ innovative solutions help mobile operators to drastically increase conversion rates of mobile campaigns. Several operators globally have already adopted this solution and benefit from improved profitability of their retail business.

An entrepreneur and engineer, Timo has over 30 years experience in the telecom sector. He founded AurorA International Telecommunications Inc. in 1994 to provide wholesale international telecom services to carriers in Canada, the U.S.A. and overseas.

After graduating from the University of Waterloo with a BASc (Applied Science) he began his career in telecom at CNCP Telecommunications Inc, Bell Canada & General DataComm before being an executive at ACC TeleEnterprises. He has held board positions on several private and public companies in Canada and in New Zealand.

Timo resides in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and will take care of the North American market on behalf of i2i’s clients.

Come and see us and many exciting technical innovations!

Also this year i2i attended the leading global event for the mobile industry, the MWC in Barcelona.

Takemetuit, one of i2i’s clients, exhibited at this event and presented for the first time their revolutionary indoor positioning technology to the public. i2i supported Takemetuit by networking with industry contacts and identifying relevant players in this market.

This year’s MWC saw 93,000 visitors from all over the world – a record.

According to Ovum , the five key trends this year were:

• The focus of mobile operators – in terms of opportunities for growth – is shifting to the enterprise market
• Consolidation in the telecoms–technology sector is inevitable
• Operators’ visions around virtualized networks are starting to crystallize
• 5G is increasingly being seen as a network platform for IoT
• The relationships between OTT players and operators are becoming stronger

For more details see here

i2i partner Shankar Mondal attended the 34th Telecommunications Executive Circle in Frankfurt. The topic of the C-level event was “Services as Innovation Drivers”.

Apart from the interesting discussion, the event also offered the opportunity for networking on behalf of i2i’s global clients.