DiMitri Hage

DiMitri Hage

Senior Executive, Sales, BD and Corporate Development

San Francisco Bay Area

Past
  • Sales, BD and Corporate Development at AdMarvel, Inc.
  • Corporate Business Development at Comverse, Inc.
  • VP, Strategy/Corporate Business Development at Cellcrypt
Education
  • University of Dayton
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Telecommunications
Websites

DiMitri Hage’s Summary

Over 20 years in leadership and general management experience in sales, marketing and business development in building successful organizations for both large multi-national corporations and leading-edge technology start-up companies in the voice and data communications industry (both wireless and wireline) in the US and abroad. Strong combination of technology, sales, and operating skills to provide effective product and systems solutions to customer challenges resulting in rapid revenue and bottom line growth from both the equipment vendor and service provider perspective.

DiMitri Hage’s Specialties:

* New Technology and Emerging Market Development
* Carrier and End-User Sales, Business Development and Marketing Development
* Executive Level Relationship Capacity
* OEM, VAR and System Integrators Channels Development
* Service Provider and Equipment Vendor Perspective
* Development and Management of an Aggressive Sales Organization


DiMitri Hage’s Experience

  • Sales, BD and Corporate Development

    AdMarvel, Inc.

    (Telecommunications industry)

    20082009 (1 year )

    AdMarvel helps publishers address a range of needs to make mobile sources such as ad networks, house ads, & direct sourcing from house sales and agencies perform better.

    Publisher Interface Just as easy as setting up an ad network, publishers use simple ad tags to make calls to the publisher interface to request ads.

    Mobile Ad Platform AdMarvel sources impressions from multiple ad networks and serves the best based on historical click through rates and eCPM. The optimizer also ensures rapid ad serving for your site without round robin calls to multiple networks.

    Impression Instrumentation Each ad served is instrumented with a trackable url so publishers know exactly which ads from which networks are performing best.

    Reporting Publishers have a web interface to analyze their ad network performance in real-time. Graphs enable side by side comparison of ad networks, regions, devices and more.

    AdMarvel has been incubated from within Frengo. Frengo is backed by Venture heavy weights Khosla, Trilogy Equity Partners & Index Ventures.

  • Corporate Business Development

    Comverse, Inc.

    (Public Company; CMVT.PK; Telecommunications industry)

    20072008 (1 year )

    Spearheaded a new initiative for an introduction of Web 2.0 applications and services for Mobile Social Networks, User Generated Content and Mobile Advertising.

    Pursed and identified potential strategic partnerships and alliances for new products and services with major portals, vertical portals, Web 2.0 companies, Social Networks, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Content, and New Media.

    Comverse is the world’s leading provider of software and systems that enable multimedia network based enhanced services. More than 500 communication service providers in more than 130 countries use Comverse call completion, messaging, content and billing solutions to increase revenues, strengthen customer loyalty, and improve operational efficiency.

  • VP, Strategy/Corporate Business Development

    Cellcrypt

    (Computer & Network Security industry)

    20062007 (1 year )

    Cellcrypt, a start-up in the mobile voice security space with offices in London and Silicon Valley. Its core business is Voice/VoIP security with a particular focus on mobile and P2P platforms.

    •Helped secure funding, advised the executive team, and established a base for USA operations
    •Global go-to-market strategy and execution
    •Set up trials and worked with strategic partners, the likes of Cisco Systems, HP, IBM Global, Avaya, Nortel, AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile and other GSM wireless carriers.

  • Strategy and Corporate Business Development

    RingCentral, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    20052006 (1 year )

    • Define new products/services platform to provide enhanced value added communications services (VAS).
    • Access products/services market opportunity targeting strategic partners, portals and verticals.
    • Comprehensive market analysis and competitive advantage.
    • Go-to-market strategy.
    • Market validation.
    • Identify/recruit key executives for a core team.
    • Identify potential investors and help secure Funding.

  • Director of Sales and Business Development

    Garuda Networks, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    20032004 (1 year )

    * Developed markets for Carriers -Wireless and Wireline, PSTN, ILEC, CLEC, NGN, Cable operators, MTUs, MTCs, PrePaid operators and Enterprises.
    * Positioned company to focus on Verticals in PrePaid , Rural Telcos and NGN domestically and Internationally.
    * Established and build Global Distribution, VAR channels, resellers and SIs.
    * Structured and set up partner agreements for strategic alliances.
    * Participated in strategic planning and implementation of marketing programs.
    * Interfaced with engineering and product marketing teams to coordinate solutions for customers and defined applications for Verticals.

  • Director of Sales and Business Development

    Mediagate, Inc.

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    20012002 (1 year )

    *Developed markets for Carriers -Wireless and Wireline, Service Providers and Enterprises.
    *Covered all of North America.
    *Guided global distributors, resellers and strategic partners as to the positioning of Mediagate’s Unified Multi-Media Messaging platform.
    *Interfaced with marketing and engineering teams to coordinate solution proposals for Global Telecom Solution and Mobile Providers.
    *Structured partner agreements, as well as driving business development and strategic alliances for North America and International markets.
    *Participated in strategic planning and implementation of marketing programs for North America and International markets for Mediagate’s leading-edge Multi-Media Unified Messaging technologies.
    *Developed and managed the strategic relationships with http://www.LogicaCMG.com, http://www.Criticalpath.net and http://www.Mirapoint.com

  • Western Area Senior Sales/Business Development Manager

    NexTone Communications

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    20002001 (1 year )

    *Developed markets for the ISPs, ASPs, CLECs, BLECs, RBOCs, IXCs, NGN, OEMs and VARs.
    *Covered west of the Mississippi for sales and business development.
    *Positioned company to target new accounts and strategic alliances and helped generate bookings
    *Lead sales/business development efforts in lead generating and beta sites.
    *Managed a staff of two people in sales and sales engineering.

  • Various sales/sales management and business development positions

    Ericsson/WebCom /TouchWave, GigaLabs, Cascade Comm., Siemens/IBM/ROLM , Nortel Networks, and IBM.

    (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

    19812000 (19 years )


DiMitri Hage’s Education

  • University of Dayton

    BS in Business Administration , Double major - Marketing and Management , 19771980


Additional Information

DiMitri Hage’s Websites:

DiMitri Hage’s Interests:

Entrepreneurship, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Start-ups, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Mobile, Mobile Content, Media, Mobile Advertising, Social Networks.

DiMitri Hage’s Groups:

  •    InterFrench
  •    VLAB
  •    SVHUB
  •    The DEMO Conference
  •    Earlystage.com Entrepreneurs
  •    the.co.ils - The Israeli Internet Networking Forum
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Mobile Marketing Association
  •    Advertising Professional
  •    MobileMonday
  •    MobilOpen :: the mobile business group
  •    Mobile Advertising & Marketing
  •    Marketing Executives Group
  •    Web 2.0
  •    Israel Technology Group
  •    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
  •    Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
  •    Venture Capital Cafe (+5000 Members)
  •    IMM 2.0 - Intelligent Mobile Marketing (+10000 members) Join now!
  •    Venture Capital
  •    Global Private Equity & Venture Capital
  •    Wireless Telecommunications Worldwide
  •    Wireless Internet Industry Executives (WIIE)...6,000+ members & growing!
  •    M & A advisors
  •    Startup Specialists
  •    VENTURE CAPITAL EUROPE
  •    Mobilists (Innovators in mobile industry - 3900+ members)
  •    Mobile Content
  •    Mobile Marketing & Advertising
  •    Telecom Executives Business Network
  •    Social Media Today
  •    Social Media Marketing
  •    Mobile Telecoms industry group
  •    Google Android
  •    Media Professionals Worldwide
  •    Silicon Valley Venture Community
  •    Israel High Tech (10,000+ members)
  •    Telecom & Mobile VAS Professionals Worldwide
  •    International CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment
  •    Mergers and Acquisitions Professionals (MAP)
  •    Venture Capital Group
  •    Mobile start-ups - 7,000+ members and growing!
  •    Mobile Social Network
  •    MEF-Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas
  •    GSMA Mobile World Congress (The Official Networking Group)
  •    Mobile World Congress - Networking thru 2009 and beyond
  •    IAB Mobile
  •    Enterprise Ireland - Americas

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