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ThinkingPhones Appoints Don Pratt as New CFOThinkingPhones, an innovator in developing mobile-enabled, analytics-driven business communications, today announced that Don Pratt has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Don will be responsible for the financial leadership, strategy, and oversight of the company, which continues its rapid growth. Don brings more than 20 years of financial expertise in CFO roles at innovative, rapidly growing companies to ThinkingPhones. Most recently, he was CFO at Arbor Networks (News - Alert), a DDoS/threat mitigation, Internet security firm in Burlington, MA that was acquired by Danaher Corp in 2010, which he helped grow to $180 million in revenue. "I'm thrilled to join ThinkingPhones, an industry leader that has established itself as a true innovator in cloud services," said Pratt. "Having spent the last 15 years in the switch/data/Internet security space, I feel very much at home with the ThinkingPhones bsiness model and technology. This is a critical time for the company as it drives explosive growth and expands its market leadership position. I'm looking forward to being a part of this extremely talented team." Prior to Arbor, Don was CFO of an Internet traffic management switch company called Ellacoya, acquired by Arbor, and Taqua, a Class 5 switch startup sold to Tekelec (News - Alert). He also held leadership roles in large public companies including Texas Instruments, FMC, and Boston Whaler/Reebok. Don holds a MBA and a BS in accounting from Babson College. "Don has an extensive record of success in building great businesses in high-growth technology sectors," said Steve Kokinos, ThinkingPhones President and CEO. "His wealth of financial experience and industry knowledge will be instrumental in propelling our growth and leadership in enterprise cloud communications as we take ThinkingPhones in new and exciting directions over the next year and beyond." About ThinkingPhones ThinkingPhones, an innovator in developing mobile-enabled, analytics-driven business communications, seamlessly unifies voice, text, and conferencing services on a single cloud platform. The company, a three-time Gartner (News - Alert) Magic Quadrant for UCaaS "Leader" and Frost & Sullivan UCaaS "Company of the Year," is the only unified communications provider suited to deliver solutions that solve the evolving collaboration challenges inherent in today's increasingly mobile and social workforce. ThinkingPhones has locations in Boston, New York, Ottawa, London, Amsterdam, Portugal, Paris, and Copenhagen. For more information, visit www.thinkingphones.com.
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