BLAINE, Wash., Sept. 2, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mobetize Corp. (OTCQB:MPAY) ("Mobetize" or "the Company") today announces that Vincent Tozzi has been appointed as the Company's first Chief Revenue Officer. In his role, Tozzi will be responsible for the Company's Sales and Marketing with a focus on building our sales teams and closing contracts. Tozzi has twenty-plus years of experience in sales management, business development, solution sales and channel management with large telcos in North America, most recently as Chief Commercial Officer for Nobel USA. His prior experience includes senior sales and marketing positions at IDT Telecom, Allegiance Telecom and Winstar Communications.
"This is an exciting time for Mobetize as a number of parties have expressed interest in deploying the Company's financial services platform," said Tozzi. "I'm looking forward to working with the exceptional team at Mobetize in scaling the business and enabling our customers to increase revenues, and decrease churn, through their deployment of our alternative financial services offering."
"We are very pleased to welcome Vincent to our team," stated Aja Hans, CEO of Mobetize. "His familiarity in Software as a Service (SaaS) solution sales, coupled with his keen strategic insight, makes him the ideal choice to lead the acceleration of Mobetize's revenue engine and expand our growth. Additionally, we believe that Vincent being situated on the East Coast is a real advantage for Mobetize given the number of opportunities we are currently pursuing located in that geography."
About Mobetize Corp.
Mobetize Corp. (MPAY) is a global technology leader in mobile commerce payment solutions. Mobetize's brand-able platform enables telecom operators and others, to simplify the delivery of key financial and telecom services. Mobetize ensures end-to-end integration for services such as retail/online payments, mobile air-time top ups, domestic and international money transfers, P2P transfers and Visa/Mastercard programs on mobile devices. Mobetize seamlessly integrates and white labels their secure mobile money platform with their delivery partners to help increase their revenues, decrease customer service costs and increase loyalty to existing offerings. For more information, visit http://www.mobetize.com
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