Intec Appoints Telecom Veteran to Drive Emerging Market Growth

ATLANTA & SAO PAULO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intec, a global provider of business support systems (BSS) solutions, announced today that Raul Rodriguez has joined the company as Vice President, Latin America. Tasked with driving growth and market strategy for Intec’s operations in the Caribbean and Latin America (CALA), Rodriguez will lead a team of sales and marketing specialists throughout the Americas in furthering Intec’s customer footprint and revenue opportunities within the CALA marketplace.

A telecom industry veteran with nearly three decades of experience, Rodriguez joins Intec from Integrated Telecom Solutions, Inc. (ITS), a telecom solutions company where he was Global Vice President of Sales. Prior to ITS, Raul was President of Convergys in Latin America, based in Sao Paulo, and responsible for the execution of strategic billing and care initiatives in the Central and Latin American markets.

Rodriguez formerly served as vice president of Sales Latin America for Openwave Systems Inc., and spent 16 years with Tandem Computers and Compaq Computers where he held multiple positions with worldwide responsibility, including VP of Telecom Platforms, VP of Marketing and Business Development. At Tandem Computers, Rodriguez was VP of Telco sales in Latin America and President of Tandem do Brazil. He is credited with the growth in Mobility Management and Telco products for Compaq Telecommunications.

“We are extremely pleased Raul has joined Intec at this exciting time in our company’s history. His regional knowledge and telecom market experience will enable Intec to take its operations and presence in the Latin American market to the next level,” said Ian Watterson, Vice President Americas. “He will be an invaluable member of the Americas team and a leader focused on driving results for customers.”

“I am very excited to have the opportunity to guide Intec’s growth and presence in Latin America. The company is well-known and trusted within the region, and its broad portfolio of products are more attractive than ever before to incumbents and new market entrants alike as Latin Americans leverage new communication technologies and embrace new service offerings. Service providers of all types benefit by having an innovative Intec product or suite of products supporting the core of their business operations.”

Originally from Venezuela, Rodriguez earned his Master's Degree in electronics engineering and computer communications networks from Monmouth College in Long Branch, New Jersey.

About Intec

Intec supplies solutions to over 60 of the world’s top 100 telecoms carriers, and is one of the world’s fastest growing suppliers of Business Support Systems (BSS) solutions.

Intec’s 400 plus customers include AT&T, Antel, Cable & Wireless, The Carphone Warehouse (UK), China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Eircom (Ireland), France Telecom, Hutchison 3G, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Telefonica, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, Vivo and Verizon. Intec works closely with its customers, many of whom have been with Intec since its inception, to add real value and ROI to their business by providing the highest standards of performance, flexibility and robustness to help communications service providers service their customers effectively and profitably.

Intec’s products and solutions portfolio includes:

• Retail billing and customer management
• Multi-service mediation and activation
• Inter-carrier billing settlements including US CABS and ITU-based settlement
• End-to-end content partner management
• Optimised wholesale routing and trading
• Real-time and convergent charging
• Pre-integrated solutions for wholesale, wireless and next generation charging functions

Founded in 1997, Intec is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ITL.L) and has over 1,600 staff and 31 offices in 24 countries. For more information, visit the Intec website at www.intecbilling.com.

Intec
Rosemary Mount, +1 (404) 705 2982
Marketing/Intec Americas
Rosemary.mount@intecbilling.com