Volante Expands Operations Into EMEA
By Volante Technologies Inc., PRNESunday, July 25, 2010
The Messaging Company Opens its Doors in London
NEW YORK, July 26, 2010 - Volante today announced the opening of a City of London office for sales
and customer support across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Heading
the office will be Fiona Hamilton with Christopher A. Taylor and Mark Chapman
as sales directors.
"The inquiries we are fielding from the EMEA markets clearly indicate a
desperate need for high quality messaging products," said Vijay Oddiraju,
Volante CEO. "This is why we made a decision to expand our operations. We
have attracted an extraordinary London staff of data messaging experts, who
will be supporting existing and new customer relationships."
Named Volante's vice president of EMEA operations, Fiona Hamilton brings
a notable background of business building and financial technology expertise
to the role. One of the best-known executives in the data messaging world,
she was co-founder and director of Century 24 Solutions (C24), with
continuing involvement in the product line of messaging solutions as the firm
was acquired by IONA technologies, which was subsequently acquired by
Progress Software. Previously, she held senior executive positions at
Mercator, Braid Systems Limited, and Misys Wholesale Banking Systems. She has
worked continuously with SWIFT since the mid-1980s, and participated as a
contributor in the development of ISO 20022, ISITC and FpML.
"No one has deeper expertise than Volante or works harder to provide the
best products for integration of SWIFT, trade data and other financial
messages," said Fiona Hamilton. "As a former competitor, I know the huge need
among capital markets firms for this level of excellence in products and
service. I look forward to helping Volante deepen their presence throughout
EMEA, one customer success after another."
Joining sales for the London office is Christopher A. Taylor. A veteran
of three decades of business development including 12 years targeting
financial services firms, he was most recently employed by IONA as the
business development director selling data services / messaging solutions in
the financial markets. He brings a wealth of experience with tier-one
financial institutions.
Filling out the sales team is Mark Chapman, who brings more than 20 years
experience in business development and account management in financial
services and IT. Before joining Volante, he oversaw business development
operations in the UK for Acuma, winning and managing large account
relationships with major financial services firms and vendors. Earlier, he
held sales and account management positions with ResearchSummary, CSK
Software and Micrognosis.
For specifics on Volante office locations, as well its products,
solutions and customers, please visit the website at
www.volantetech.com or write to info@volantetech.com.
About Volante
Since 2001, Volante Technologies has been providing expertise and
software solutions for financial data messaging. Volante solutions slash
development time and costs for the financial services industry. Volante
provides integration solutions for low-latency environments, service oriented
architectures, vendor data consolidation, complex event processing, SWIFT
message integration and other complex data challenges. Its metadata-based
technology also enables enterprise data governance and model-driven data
initiatives.
Volante solutions are employed by top-tier buy-side and sell-side
institutions around the globe, as well as industry utilities. For more
information, visit www.volantetech.com.
Media Contact: Kathleen Hawk +1-845-687-2222 kathleen@volantetech.com ------------------------
Kathleen Hawk of Volante Technologies, +1-845-687-2222, kathleen at volantetech.com
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