Gil Ron

Comverse is a USD 1 Billion and 5,000 employees company. It is a leading provider of solutions enabling; value-added services, billing and IP communications solutions for telecommunication operators. Regional manager overlooking all Comverse activates in North and Central Europe; DACH, Nordic & Baltic, Poland, Hungary, Czech and Slovakia. Regional annual business volume of $45M

The VP Sales, IP Communication manage the global sales and pre-sales team. In this capacity I am in charge of the global sales performance and strategy. • Reporting to the Netcentrex CEO and manage a large team of sales people. • Responsible for sales of several tens of million dollars.

Responsible for all business and customer related activities in a region covering Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and a key account in Poland. • Reported to the VP and GM Central Europe and managed a team of five sales and pre-sales managers. • Succeeded in increasing the sales to USD 22M annually • Won the first IMS core network project for Comverse, which was awarded as “Innovative sale of the year” • Was a member of the CEO strategic team for cooperation with Huawei

Served as account manager for several operators in the T-Mobile group and led the T-Mobile International Voicemail project

Exalink was a start-up offering superior WAP Gateways for the Mobile Data market. It was acquired by Comverse in late 2000 for $ 500K. As regional Sales Director I was responsible for sales in Central and Eastern Europe.

ECI provides telecommunications solutions for access and transmission domains. It had 4,000 employees and a sales of USD 800M. I held several sales positions and played a significant role in the establishment of ECI Joined Venture in China and the successful penetration to the Chinese SDH transmission market. During my relocation to China I led the sales of the Joined Venture and later built a Sales force in our Beijing HQ.