Speech technologies provider Intervoice (News - Alert) announced today Jim Milton is the company's new President and Chief Operating Officer.
Milton served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since joining the company on January 30, 2006, and in his promotion will report to Chief Executive Officer, Bob Ritchey.
Prior to joining Intervoice, Milton had 25 years of experience in high tech sales, marketing and general management at Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and UGS Corporation and was most recently, Executive Vice President at UGS Corporation (now a Siemens (News - Alert) company).
Ritchey said of the appointment, "I am very excited about the promotion of Jim into this expanded role. In addition to his current duties, he will now also be responsible for the company's research and development and product management organizations driving an even closer alignment of our product roadmap with the needs of our customers and partners."
David Brandenburg, Chairman of Intervoice, also said, "Jim has been a valuable contributor to the company's success over the past two years and I am pleased that his responsibilities have been expanded to include these important functions. This is also another step in our succession planning for the company."
Intervoice also announced today that a large U.K. mobile service provider has expanded its deployment of their Media Exchange Unified Services Platform to provide support for more then 15 million subscribers. The order is estimated to be worth approximately $8.0 million.
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