Andrew Hughes

Current

International Development Consultant at Virtual Trip Group
Head of Telco Sales - Consultant at MoMac

Past

Sales Director, Europe at Volantis Systems
Senior Account Director, Southern Europe at Surfkitchen Limited
Sales Director, Southern Europe at Valista Limited, formerly Network365

Co_Founder, VP Sales at Brainstorm Marketing (Formerly Saverfone)
Founder - Secretary at MMA - Formerly WMA
Co-Founder MD at Airtime Angels Ltd

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Education

University of Westminster

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Connections

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Industry

Wireless

Andrew Hughes’s Summary

Over 12 years sales and development experience in the software and mobile telecoms arena with a further 12 years commercial experience.

A track record of formulating company strategies and robust product value propositions, focusing on conceptual selling of software solutions.

My commercial flair has created two mobile companies with exits; launched and driven an industry association in two geographies; worked internationally within world class organisations developing relationships with renowned clients resulting in significant business with Tier 1 and 2 telco’s, banks and content owners.

Andrew Hughes’s Specialties:

- Significant sales to Tier 1/2 Telco's & Enterprises in EMEA, Inc Vodafone, Telefonica, 02, Orange, TIM, Turkcell, Cosmote, Wind, Garanti Bank.
- 'Start-up-to-exit' experience
- Co-Founder Mobile Marketing Association
- Company and product strategy
- Team building and leading
- Licensed, ASP and channel sales models
- Content Adaptation
- On Device Portals
- Location Based Services
- M-Payments
- M-Marketing
- Mobile content aggregation and delivery
- B2B, B2C, D2C

Andrew Hughes’s Experience

International Development Consultant

Virtual Trip Group

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2009 — Present (2 months)
Head of Telco Sales - Consultant

MoMac

(Telecommunications industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 months)
Sales Director, Europe

Volantis Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 4 months)

Volantis provide a comprehensive, integrated offering of solutions to support fast development and deployment mobile content, applications and services.
Customers include Orange, TIM, Telefonica, Disney, eBay, 3, T-Mobile, Cahnnel4, Yahoo and more
Senior Account Director, Southern Europe

Surfkitchen Limited

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 10 months)

Business Development and key Account management for telco's and enterprises around Southern Europe, based in Italy
Sales Director, Southern Europe

Valista Limited, formerly Network365

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2003 — January 2004 (7 months)

Business Development and Key Account Management for telco vendor's and enterprises around Southern Europe, based in Italy
Co_Founder, VP Sales

Brainstorm Marketing (Formerly Saverfone)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2000 — July 2003 (3 years 7 months)

Co-Founder Saverfone Limited, London 2000, acquired by Brainstorm 2001 forming Brainstorm Marketing Limited. A consortium including Opera Telecom in 2003 bought Brainstorm in 2003.

Saverfone launched a LBS connecting shoppers with retail high street bargins and vouchers.

Brainstorm created two core platforms to provide mobile marketing suites for Telco's, content owners and enterprises. Additional products provided LBS tools for retail promotion and transcoding of MMS through web access.
Customers included: Vodafone UK, Orange UK, Genie UK, BBC and EMAP.
Founder - Secretary

MMA - Formerly WMA

(Educational Institution; Telecommunications industry)

January 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 7 months)

Co founder of Wireless Marketing Association later merging with the US WAA creating MMA

Mobile Marketing Association promotes and runs good business practice guides including the industry's only Code of Practice
Co-Founder MD

Airtime Angels Ltd

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 1994 — November 1997 (3 years 5 months)

Mobile / Affinity Marketing - B2B/B2C/D2C
Airtime launched the 'Affinity Fone' scheme rasing funds for over 40 UK charities. Linking mobile billing through Cellnet we allowed consumers to donate 5% of call charges to their chosen charity without cost to themselves.
Charities included Save the Children Fund, Great Ormand St. Hospital, Action Aid.

Andrew Hughes’s Education

University of Westminster

Bsc , Business Studies , 1983 — 1985

Activities and Societies:

Dissertaion: Affinity Marketing

Additional Information

Andrew Hughes’s Interests:

Cooking - Founder Ragu Guru slow food movement, wines - for consumption and investment, olive oil production, clay shooting, silver spoons, wonderkameras, Itama, photgraphy, 1st editions. Travel - still!,

Andrew Hughes’s Groups:

Co-founder Mobile Marketing Associacion in UK and Italy
Member Mobile Monday.
Founder Ragu Guru slow food movement Italia

Executive Suite
Mobile Marketing Association
Business Development
Wireless Jobs
British Expatriate Networking Group
TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
IMM 2.0 - Intelligent Mobile Marketing (+10000 members) Join now!
Content Management
Wireless Internet Industry Executives (WIIE)...5,300+ members & growing!
Red de Contactos en España
Mobile Content
Telecom Executives Business Network
Volantis Alumni
Mobile Telecoms industry group
eLearn
Sales/Marketing VP's & Directors - Software & Technology
WIMS 2.0
Telecom & Mobile VAS Professionals Worldwide
e-Learning Professionals Network
Mobile start-ups - 5000+ members and growing!
On the Horizon Marketing Group
E-Learning Advocates
Virtual Trip Group Community
MVNO Industry Summit 2009
Square One IT & ERP Consultants Group (SAP, Oracle / Peoplesoft, Testing, Databases & Development)
Green Telecom
Mobile World Congress - Networking thru 2009 and beyond
e-Learning
Epignosis / Discussion about eLearning, eFront and partnership opportunities
HispaMovil - Sobre móvil, en español
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