by Donna Sudderth on January 27, 2012
Dana Point, CA – January 26, 2012 - SimpleSignal, Inc., the leading cloud-based Unified Communications and Collaboration provider for business, today announced they have hired Ron Ireland as Senior Vice President, Finance and Business Development. Ireland will have oversight of SimpleSignal’s day-to-day financial operations as well as taking a significant role in business development. He will be responsible for introducing SimpleSignal’s products to a larger indirect channel audience and for helping the company manage their rapid growth. Ireland is a proven leader in the telecom and VoIP industry, having steered a leading nationally certified reseller through several business cycles, achieving growth and profitability in every year of his tenure. This industry experience, coupled with previous positions in banking and consumer finance, add up to knowledge and competency in growth management, finance, strategic planning, and operational efficiencies.
Ireland has been actively involved in the indirect agent channel for the last 14 years. He most recently served as VP, Channel Development for GLOBALINX, a facilities-based provider of IP services to the residential and small business markets, following their acquisition of TMC Communications, a leading reseller of switchless voice and data services for the SMB market, in December of 2010. There he held the dual title of President and CFO, where he coordinated the activities of all sales, accounting, collections, HR, pricing, IT, and revenue assurance staff, and ensured performance goals were met and profit margins grew.
“I’ve admired SimpleSignal from afar for the last several years, and observed their commitment to the indirect channel and to providing a full-featured unified communications solution to both the SMB and enterprise markets as a winning strategy in today’s quickly changing communications environment,” said Ireland when asked about the move. “SimpleSignal is being recognized as one of the most innovative companies in the industry, and I’m really excited to be a part of bringing their new cloud technologies to companies small and large.”
In addition to its flagship cloud-based PBX and SIP Trunking products, SimpleSignal provides a growing suite of unified communications solutions including mobile integration, integrated voice-powered applications and cloud services like backup and storage, audio and video conferencing, call recording, and desktop collaboration tools to tens of thousands of business users throughout the United States, and was recently named to Inc 5000’s list of fastest growing private companies.
“We’re excited to have Ron join our team as we continue on our path of market leader in unified communications,” said SimpleSignal CEO Dave Gilbert. “Ron brings a diverse skill set and a lengthy list of industry connections to the table. He knows every angle of the business and he is a very welcome addition to our already talented growing team.”
Since beginning his career in 1988, Ireland held positions of increasing responsibility and leadership in the banking industry as controller and then CFO at California Thrift and Loan and Bank of Ventura before transitioning to the telecom industry, joining TMC in 1998. Ireland graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Westmont College and received a Masters degree in Business Economics with a focus on Accounting from UC Santa Barbara.
About Simple
Signal SimpleSignal is a hosted PBX and cloud-based Unified Communications service provider, delivering IP phone applications and cloud-based collaboration services to tens of thousands of satisfied business users throughout the US and Canada, with a growing list of multi-office clients in many International locations. SimpleSignal has created some of the most innovative and advanced voice “mashups” in the communications industry, leveraging voice technology for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Salesforce.com, among others. SimpleSignal has offices in Denver, CO, and Dana Point, CA. Find us on the web at http://www.simplesignal.com. For sales, call 866-434-4404. Read our blog: http://www.simplesignal.com/blog/.
Media Contact: Donna Sudderth, donna@simplesignal.com, 949.777.5150
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by Donna Sudderth on January 18, 2012
SimpleSignal Backup, a new cloud-based backup, archiving and recovery service is a powerful, yet simple to use solution and comes equipped with encryption backup tools previously available only to Fortune 500 companies, but with an interface designed to be used by anyone in any size organization.
Dana Point, CA PRWEB – January 18, 2012 – SimpleSignal, Inc., the leading cloud-based Unified Communications and Collaboration provider for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced the launch of its managed online data backup and storage service, adding to the growing suite of cloud-based unified communications services.
“SimpleSignal Backup was a natural addition to our cloud offering as we have become trusted suppliers to tens of thousands of users of mission critical hosted services such as hosted PBX, HD audio and video conferencing and call recording,” said Dave Gilbert, CEO of SimpleSignal. “Because of our growing knowledge and experience with helping companies implement disaster recovery programs within their communications technologies, it became evident there was a need for an easy to set up and use, cloud-based data backup solution.”
SimpleSignal Backup provides secure, dependable online data backup and storage. Client data is stored in encrypted form using 256 bit AES encryption at two, Tier-4, SAS70 Type 2 certified, online data backup centers, located hundreds of miles apart from each other. (256-AES was approved by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for use in encrypting the U.S. government’s documents classified “TOP SECRET”). Each data center has 24/7 monitoring and advanced security measures such as biometric controlled access as well as backup generators and redundant connections to the Internet.
“There are some major distinctions between our enterprise level backup service and the typical stand alone consumer backup products on the market,” said Michael Sterl, VP, SimpleSignal. “Their solutions are completely self-managed, while ours is a comprehensive service. Managed online data backup as a service means we help implement, set up, and constantly monitor a client’s systems to make sure data is protected at all times. In the event of a disaster SimpleSignal Backup would have data restored within a matter of hours. With a consumer product, clients have to restore all the data on their own which can take days, weeks or months. Plus we can add contingency services like local backup to an installation, which no consumer product provides.”
Some key features include:
- Automatic – Backups begin automatically according to a user definable schedule.
- Off-Site – All backups are sent to servers in secure off-site locations.
- Custom Schedules – Backups can be scheduled to run as often as clients wish.
- Scalable – No expense for new hardware when storage needs grow.
- Unlimited Backup Sets – Create multiple backup sets each with their own schedule and retention setting.
- Restore Files 24/7 – Recover a single file or entire system whenever needed.
- Centralized Control – Manage multiple SimpleSignal Backup installations from one computer on the client’s network.
- Large File Support – Backup files of any size including multi-gigabyte files.
- Works in the Background – Seamlessly backup files while they are open and in use.
- Bandwidth Efficient – Only the blocks of data that have changed need to be uploaded to the SimpleSignal Backup servers.
About SimpleSignal
SimpleSignal is a hosted PBX and cloud-based Unified Communications service provider, delivering IP phone applications and cloud-based services to tens of thousands of satisfied business users throughout the US and Canada, with a growing list of multi-office clients in many International locations. In addition to its flagship cloud-based PBX phone offering, SimpleSignal provides a growing suite of unified communications solutions including mobile integration, integrated voice-powered applications and cloud services like backup and storage, audio and video conferencing, call recording, and desktop collaboration tools. SimpleSignal has created some of the most innovative and advanced voice “mashups” in the communications industry, leveraging voice technology for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Salesforce.com, among others. SimpleSignal has offices in Denver, CO, and Dana Point, CA. Find us on the web at http://www.simplesignal.com. For sales, call 866-434-4404. Read our blog: http://www.simplesignal.com/blog/.
Media Contact: Donna Sudderth, donna@simplesignal.com, 949.777.5150
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Dana Point, CA – January 26, 2012 - SimpleSignal, Inc., the leading cloud-based Unified Communications and Collaboration provider for business, today announced they have hired Ron Ireland as Senior Vice President, Finance and Business Development. Ireland will have oversight of SimpleSignal’s day-to-day financial operations as well as taking a significant role in business development. He will be responsible for introducing SimpleSignal’s products to a larger indirect channel audience and for helping the company manage their rapid growth. Ireland is a proven leader in the telecom and VoIP industry, having steered a leading nationally certified reseller through several business cycles, achieving growth and profitability in every year of his tenure. This industry experience, coupled with previous positions in banking and consumer finance, add up to knowledge and competency in growth management, finance, strategic planning, and operational efficiencies.
