Terry Hughes

Current

President at Redwood Technologies

Past

CEO / Director at Otaview.com
VP Sales and Sales Director at Zi Corporation
Business Manager at Bluekite

Sales Director and General Manager at Brand Communications
Business Development Manager at Vodafone
Sales Executive at Cognito
Dealer Sales Manager at Mercury Paging

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Education

Coventry University
Coventry University
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Industry

Wireless

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Terry Hughes’s Summary

North America based President / CEO / VP Sales / Director / senior commercial person in telecommunications, wireless / mobile, software, carrier / operator solutions, embedded mobile handset solutions, mobile internet. Many successful years selling throughout Europe EMEA, Asia and North America. A Brit now living in Canada; moved from Europe to Calgary Alberta to live and work in May 2005.

I am President of a wireless start-up (in mobile semantic tagging and telecom expense management), in that time I have received significant recognition, coupled with a few awards and accolades from the wireless industry. With limited funding we have also achieved some significant milestones and traction with carriers and OEMs. Find out more at www.redwoodtechnologies.com . I also own a sales consultancy business www.otaview.com . I have previously worked for Zi Corporation (predictive text), Bluekite (GPRS optimization), Brand Communications (mobile access routers), Vodafone UK, Cognito (two-way messaging), and Mercury Paging (one-way paging!).

Terry Hughes’s Specialties:

CEO, President, Sales, business development, sales management, account management, general manager, contracts, negotiation, matrix management, project management, professional services, customer services, sales consultancy, sales training, strategy, fundraising, financing, public speaking, PR

Terry Hughes’s Experience

President

Redwood Technologies

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

September 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Redwood Technologies, a Canadian wireless application development company, is making big waves in the industry with our call tagging / mobile activity management / mobile semantic tagging solution. We are RIM partners and our solution, called momentem, is being sold via wireless carriers including Orange in Europe. I took over at Redwood duing its fledgling start-up days, got it funded, put an amazing team together, built up a significant amount of traction in the industry, won several awards and accolades for the company and team, and put Redwood firmly on the wireless industry's map. My job is now all about ramping up sales, execution of the business plan, and expanding Redwood in the USA and Europe where we have huge opportunities to be a home run.
CEO / Director

Otaview.com

(Wireless industry)

April 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 6 months)

In April 2006 I set up my own sales consultancy company, see www.otaview.com for details. One of my early customers was Redwood, and they persuaded me to become full-time CEO / President of Redwood in 2006. otaview.com is available for advisory roles and consulting work.
VP Sales and Sales Director

Zi Corporation

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ZICA; Telecommunications industry)

July 2002 — September 2006 (4 years 3 months)

Responsible for Zi's European business, including winning the Nokia account for Zi, then moved to Canada where I was responsible for Zi's North America business. Also managed Professional Services and Asia Sales.
Business Manager

Bluekite

(Wireless industry)

July 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 1 month)

bluekite.com was a San Francisco dot-com selling bandwidth optimization (faster GPRS technology) to wireless carriers worldwide. I was responsible for all of the European accounts. It was a great two years; great experience at the height of the dot-com boom, and a great list of customers including carriers in the UK, Switzerland, Italy and Austria.
Sales Director and General Manager

Brand Communications

(Wireless industry)

July 1998 — July 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Brand Communications is a UK company that is still going strong after more than a decade of selling mobile data solutions to carriers and enterprises. Many of my achievements there are still on their website today. We sold carrier-grade mobile access systems to around 10 carriers in Europe, in the UK (2 carriers), Ireland (2 carriers), Belgium, Holland, Norway, and Spain among others. We were real pioneers of mobile data, using circuit-switched data een before GPRS came along.
Business Development Manager

Vodafone

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

April 1992 — August 1998 (6 years 5 months)
Sales Executive

Cognito

(Wireless industry)

February 1990 — April 1992 (2 years 3 months)
Dealer Sales Manager

Mercury Paging

(Wireless industry)

1987 — 1990 (3 years)