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George Shanks
Chief Executive Officer |
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George Shanks joined JacobsRimell as Chief Executive Officer in March 2003 to lead the company in exploiting the excellent service and customer foundations already achieved. Prior to joining JacobsRimell, George was Vice President, EMEA at Inktomi Corporation, a provider of content networking and search software for telecom service providers and global enterprises. George joined Inktomi from three years at internet consultancy Rubus where he was a co-founder. Before that, George spent nine years as a Regional Director at Oracle UK establishing the company as the dominant database supplier to the telecom industry, and latterly as Director of Sales & Operations for Oracle's European Telecom Industry business. George holds an honors degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Bristol. |
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Maurice O'Connor
Chief Operating Officer |
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Maurice O’Connor was appointed Chief Operating Officer and joined the Board in April 2007 having previously served as JR’s Chief Financial Officer. Maurice joined JR in December 2003 to lead the implementation of the JR APS 4 solution in Philadelphia, as part of the Bedrock project at Comcast, and was appointed CFO in June 2004. Maurice has over 20 years of commercial, financial, operational and strategic experience in the software and communications sectors including funding and development of early stage high technology companies and cable experience working for UPC in Europe. Whilst at UPC in Amsterdam, Maurice worked to initiate a joint venture between Accenture and UPC to commercialize the Derby integrated suite of customer care, billing and fulfilment solutions. Maurice has an honours degree in Business Studies from Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. |
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David Rice-Jones
Chief Financial Officer
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David Rice-Jones joined JacobsRimell as Chief Financial Officer in May 2007. David has 18 years' financial and operational experience in the software and telco sectors. Prior to joining JacobsRimell, David was CFO of Cramer, the market leading provider of inventory management systems for telcos. At Cramer David worked with three CEO’s over four years to increase revenues by 40% compound, was responsible for Cramer’s acquisition of T-Soft and lead commercial and contractual negotiations during the sale of Cramer to Amdocs for $425m cash in August 2006. David has previously headed up European Finance for Access360, Continuus Software and Cadence and his early career was spent at Nortel where he held a variety of commercial finance positions. David qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1985 and has an honors degree in Engineering Science and Management from Durham University. |
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David Jacobs
Co-Founder and CTO |
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David Jacobs, co-founder of JacobsRimell, has over 20 years experience in networking and the online industry. David led the company from inception as a professional services company, through its transition to become the leading provider of service delivery software services. As CTO he is responsible for JacobsRimell’s service deployment and development activities. Previously, David spent 11 years with Reuters in a number of senior roles culminating in the deployment of a global Frame Relay infrastructure and one of the world’s first global IP extranets for the delivery of all Reuters information services. In addition to overseeing the management of Reuters’ complex IP network facilities, David was also responsible for the management of international bandwidth, network management systems and Quality of Service capabilities. David received a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middlesex University, London. |
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Joe Frost
Vice-President Marketing |
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Joe Frost has 25 years experience in the IT and networking industry and was appointed the Vice President Marketing in March 2005. He is responsible for all aspects of marketing for JR’s service fulfillment and management solutions, including developing its messaging, branding and presence. Joe has spend his entire career working in IT, starting as an engineer and networking consultant at Digital Equipment, then moving into product management and marketing roles at 3Com Corp and Cisco Systems. Prior to joining JR, Joe ran the regional marketing organizations for Inktomi Corp, and Peregrine Systems. |
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David Jacobs
Co-Founder and CTO |
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David Jacobs, co-founder of JacobsRimell, has over 20 years experience in networking and the online industry. David led the company from inception as a professional services company, through its transition to become the leading provider of service delivery software services. As CTO he is responsible for JacobsRimell’s service deployment and development activities. Previously, David spent 11 years with Reuters in a number of senior roles culminating in the deployment of a global Frame Relay infrastructure and one of the world’s first global IP extranets for the delivery of all Reuters information services. In addition to overseeing the management of Reuters’ complex IP network facilities, David was also responsible for the management of international bandwidth, network management systems and Quality of Service capabilities. David received a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middlesex University, London. |
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| Phil Rimell - Chief Architect & Co-Founder |
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Phil Rimell, co-founder of JacobsRimell, is responsible for the reference architecture that underpins all JacobsRimell products. Phil has nearly 20 years' experience of global-scale networks and distributed systems in the telecommunications, financial services and oil industries.
Before JacobsRimell, Phil worked at Reuters where he designed and implemented leading-edge networks for the delivery of news and financial information around the globe. Prior to Reuters, Phil worked in the oil exploration industry, developing and deploying networking and supercomputer resources for data processing.
Phil received a BSc in Physics from the University of Bristol. |
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