Clickatell grows North American management team

Clickatell, the world's premier mobile messaging operator, today announced the appointment of John O'Leary as vice-president of North American sales.

O'Leary is tasked with continuing to drive Clickatell's successful launch into the enterprise market, particularly into the financial services, emergency first response, logistics and government sectors.

O'Leary brings more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and partner development to the Clickatell executive management team. He will head up a strong sales team in Clickatell's offices in North America, which are successfully bringing enterprise-ready messaging solutions to their respective markets.

Prior to joining Clickatell, O'Leary was vice-president of worldwide sales at Tablus, an enterprise content security company, where he successfully sold multimillion-dollar solutions to some of the world's largest corporations. Previously O'Leary has held executive level positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and Progress Software and has also been vice-president of sales at several Silicon Valley start-ups.

"John's sales experience and expertise are just what Clickatell needs to take its North American operations to the next level. The interest we have seen from major players in our target sectors confirm our belief that Clickatell's messaging services are of immediate importance for time-critical and mission-critical applications," said Tad Bogdan, Clickatell EVP worldwide sales and business development.

Clickatell's multimodal mobile messaging solutions for enterprises gives companies unprecedented reach when communicating with customers, staff and suppliers, irrespective of which device is preferred by the user. Industry leading acknowledgement of message receipt makes this service a favourite with first responders and other emergency organisations. The carrier grade, proven technology underpinning the solutions is trusted by financial services around the world to handle their most time-critical and sensitive information.