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Actility Appoints Global Technology Executive Mike Mulica as Chief Executive Officer
Actility, the industry leader
in Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) radio networking and the innovator behind
the ThingPark IoT solution platform, has today announced the appointment
of high-tech business veteran Mike Mulica (News - Alert) as Chief Executive Officer.
Mulica brings decades of experience in leadership roles with
globally-focused companies including Phone.com, Openwave (News - Alert), Syncronoss and
Real Networks. He has been a business pioneer in transformational
technologies including commercial internet, voice over IP and mobile,
mobile internet, and cloud.
Backed by prestigious investors including tier-one telcos KPN, Orange (News - Alert)
and Swisscom and electronics giant Foxconn, Actility is at the forefront
of the global IoT revolution. It is supporting national network
roll-outs in partnership with operators and broadcasters in six European
countries, and a citywide network in Dubai, with deployment projects in
two Asian countries in progress and trials under way in the Americas.
"The next transformational global technology wave is IoT," says Mulica,
"and it will trigger an explosion of productivity by connecting and
enabling smarter things in domains as varied as cities, agriculture and
factories." Explaining his decision to join Actility, Mulica adds that:
"All of the most successful technology waves were driven by product
innovation combined with a global industry architecture. Actility gets
that, and Olivier Hersent, Actility CTO and Founder, and his ThingPark
team clearly recognise the importance of comining great product
architecture with great industry architecture, which together enable a
complete and dynamic ecosystem."
"We're extremely pleased to have Mike on board, with his experience of
driving technology innovation into some of the largest global markets,"
says Olivier Hersent. "Mike understands service provider, enterprise and
direct to consumer markets on a global scale, and his experience and
worldwide network of connections will help us meet the demands of rapid
growth while maintaining ThingPark as the leading solution platform for
IoT."
"To succeed, IoT needs to become, like the internet itself, an open
global ecosystem in which the best people can innovate around products,
business models and services," adds Mulica. "I believe that Actility,
with our ThingPark platform and continuing commitment to the
rapidly-growing LoRa ecosystem, and to emerging standards such as
NB-IoT, is pioneering that open and collaborative approach to IoT.
ThingPark allows us to connect things, people and solutions into a
meaningful global marketplace."
ThingPark has three main elements: ThingPark Wireless, the core
LoRaWAN network infrastructure and tools; ThingPark Cloud,
offering Open Data management and protocol translation; and ThingPark
Marketplace, the hub of the ecosystem and marketplace. Together,
ThingPark is a "one-stop shop" enabling the deployment of end-to-end
services, offering device purchasing and delivery, device activation and
registration with IoT networks, application distribution and pairing
with devices, worldwide distribution over public networks, and the
deployment of private customer networks.
About Actility
Actility is an innovator and industry leader in LPWA (Low Power Wide
Area) large scale infrastructure. Actility's ThingPark™ is a
next-generation standards-based IoT platform. The ThingPark Wireless
LPWA network provides long-range coverage for low-power consumption
sensors. ThingPark Cloud offers big data storage for sensor data and
exposes sensor capabilities through an open API, enabling developers to
create vertical applications using the installed base of sensors. The
ThingPark platform offers embedded software solutions and cloud
solutions to connect devices with innovative applications. With its
dedicated online marketplace for IoT sensors, applications and network
solutions, ThingPark simplifies and accelerates the roll-out of
innovative IoT services. Actility is a founding member of the LoRa
Alliance: the largest, most powerful open standards-based enabler of the
Internet of Things. To find out more, visit www.thingpark.com.
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