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Telecom Industry Veteran Brings Quarter of a Century's Worth of Experience to Help Drive Tello's Growth and Expansion 
San Mateo, CA March 9, 2006 Tello, a provider of instant communication and collaboration solutions, has appointed Kevin Gavin as Chief Marketing Officer. In his new role, Gavin will be responsible for developing and driving Tello's global marketing strategy. Gavin, a 24-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, brings to Tello a tremendous amount of relevant experience helping early stage start-up telecommunications companies achieve market-leading status in new category creations. He was Vice President of Marketing at McCaw Cellular in the late 1980's when the cellular industry was just emerging. He later became Corporate Vice President of Marketing and Product Development at Nextel, where he joined the company when it was still called FleetCall and led the renaming of the company as well as the initial product introduction of the Nextel digital mobile network service. More recently, Gavin served as Chief Marketing Officer at GoBeam, the leading provider of VoIP-based hosted PBX services in the US. GoBeam won multiple awards and honors as a leading innovator in hosted business VoIP and had the number one market share in the emerging category when Gavin helped sell the company to Covad. "Kevin is an experienced and recognized leader in telecommunications marketing," said Doug Renert, CEO of Tello. "His breadth of experience spans every facet of the industry. We anticipate Kevin's background and impressive track record of meeting customer needs will directly translate into market traction. We are very happy that he is joining us during this crucial phase as Tello launches our breakthrough solution and emerges to play a leading role in the telecom industry transformation." "Tello is an exciting and innovative company at the forefront of the communications industry," said Kevin Gavin, CMO of Tello. "It's exciting to work at a company that is so well positioned to play a leading role in the emerging instant communications and collaboration category. I am looking forward to adding fuel to the company's growth by helping to shape corporate strategy and product development as we rapidly build awareness and drive the customer value of Tello." Gavin is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania. About Tello Tello supports instant communication and collaboration across networks, applications and devices in the context of critical business processes. The company is privately-held, with a group of investors that includes Eagle River, Evercore Partners, Rho Ventures and Intel Capital. Tello is headquartered in San Mateo, California. For more information, visit www.Tello.com. |
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