Ventraq hires Bill Branagh as VP EMEA

Ventraq – a leader in profit and performance building solutions for communication service providers and large enterprises – today announced it has added longtime industry leader, Bill Branagh to drive the company's accelerating growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

Mr. Branagh brings over 25 years experience in sales and executive leadership to Ventraq where he will be responsible for increasing revenue and share in those markets. In his new position, Mr. Branagh will lead the EMEA-based Ventraq sales team representing the company's business analytics, dynamic mediation and interconnect billing and settlement solutions. This includes the company's latest business building solution for service providers, Customer Behavior Analytics.

Immediately prior to joining Ventraq, Mr. Branagh served as Vice President, EMEA for NetCracker, where he led the company's steady string of sales successes over a two year period. Mr. Branagh has also held critical leadership roles at Openet, Evolving Systems and Watchmark (now IBM).

"Bill's knowledge of both service providers and partners throughout EMEA will help accelerate Ventraq's growth in this vital region," said Rich Evans, Senior Vice President of Global Sales for Ventraq. "He brings to Ventraq an excellent track record in delivering exceptional business results for service providers looking to gain a competitive advantage and increased profitability through innovative solutions. Under Bill's leadership, Ventraq will bring our performance-building solutions to a growing number of EMEA-based communication service providers."

About Ventraq, Inc.
Formed by the merger of industry veterans ACE*COMM, TeleSciences and innovative start-up 10e Solutions – and with a heritage of 40 years in providing telecommunications solutions – Ventraq delivers performance enhancing deployments throughout the world, processing billions of events per day. Its extensive client base of operators and equipment vendor partners includes Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, mBlox, Nortel, O2, SFR, T-Mobile, Turk Telecom, TELUS, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Verizon.

Ventraq (www.ventraq.com) is a portfolio company within Ariston Global and is headquartered in Mount Laurel, New Jersey with other locations in the US, UK, and Australia and has been ISO 9001:2000 certified since 1996.

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