iconectiv Adds Industry Veterans to Board

PISCATAWAY, N.J., July 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- iconectiv, a leader in trusted, neutral, third party telecommunications interconnection solutions, announced today the appointments of two industry veterans, William "Bill" Clift and Richard "Dick" Lynch, to a newly authorized advisory board.

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iconectiv's board has been authorized to act in its sole discretion to support iconectiv's objective to deliver neutral, mission-critical, interconnection services around the globe.  These two appointments mark the initial stages of staffing an independent iconectiv board.  Mr. Clift and Mr. Lynch, bring a wealth of combined telecommunications industry and carrier knowledge and a deep understanding of how technology is converging across the communications landscape.  Mr. Clift is the former Chief Technical Officer at Cingular (now AT&T Mobility) and Mr. Lynch is the former EVP & Chief Technology Officer at Verizon Wireless.

"We are pleased to have Bill and Dick join this iconectiv board," said Richard Jacowleff, President and CEO of iconectiv. "Bill's extensive background at BellSouth, BellSouth Wireless and AT&T Mobility and his leadership in the communications field make him an excellent addition to the team.  Dick brings a wealth of experience from his time at Verizon Wireless and Verizon Communications and will lend his expertise to key priorities across the company including our continued commitment to offering competitive, neutral telecom administration services. Both of these board members will bring considerable insight to the company as iconectiv continues to help advance the transition to a global IP communications marketplace."

William Clift
Mr. Clift has over 36 years of experience in the telecommunications industry.  In his 29 years at BellSouth, Bill held various positions in Network Operations and Strategic Planning and served as Regional Vice President for Business Operations in Indiana and President of one of BellSouth Wireless' divisions.  When Cingular Wireless was formed as a joint venture between BellSouth and the then SBC, Bill was appointed as the Chief Technical Officer for the company.  He held this position until his retirement in 2004.  Since that time, Bill has held the position of North American division President for WFI and CEO and President of Optimi, a creator of wireless engineering software products. Bill has served on the Boards of Mitec Telecom, Optimi, Oz Communications and Innopath and on the Wireless Advisory Board for Vantage Point Venture Partners.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Sionic and on the Advisory Board for Star Voice.

Richard Lynch
Mr. Lynch was the EVP & Chief Technology Officer for Verizon Communications between 2007 and 2011 and EVP & CTO of Verizon Wireless and its predecessors since 1990. Mr. Lynch is a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and has been awarded patents in the field of wireless communications.  He has sat on the boards of numerous industry organizations including the GSM Association (GSMA), the CDMA Development Group (CDG), and as a member of the Federal Communications Commission Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and Communications Security Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC).  For his leadership in the early years of wireless data, Lynch was honored with the President's Award by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA).  He has also been inducted into the Wireless History Foundation's Hall of Fame.  Lynch currently serves on the boards of TranSwitch Corporation, where he is chairman, Ruckus Wireless and Blackberry.  Mr. Lynch currently is president of FB Associates, LLC, which provides advisory and consulting services at the intersection of technology, marketing, and business operations.

For more information about iconectiv, visit: www.iconectiv.com.

About iconectiv
Telcordia Technologies, Inc., doing business as iconectiv, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson, develops market leading solutions that enable operators to interconnect networks, devices, and applications critical to evolving the global telecommunications marketplace. iconectiv's powerful, trusted, neutral solutions for the telecommunications industry includes number portability clearinghouses, mobile messaging services, anti-theft mobile device registries, spectrum management databases and other interconnection information services. iconectiv's solutions are used by more than 1,000 operators, regulators and content providers and are currently used to provide services to over 1 billion end users. For more information, visit: www.iconectiv.com.

Contact:
Amanda Sutton
iconectiv
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