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Mark Edwards
Occupation(s)CEO, MDS

Mark Edwards is a British businessman and the current CEO of MDS.[1]

Career

Mark Edwards has 20 years of communications, hardware, software and international executive management experience. Prior to joining Mformation, a mobile device management (MDM (Modular Digital Multitrack) software provider,[2][3] as CEO based in New Jersey USA. In 2005, they opened a new office in Bangalore, India.[4][5] he was the EVP of Marketing and Sales for Symbian,[6][7] a wireless operating system company developing the OS for next-generation data-enabled mobile phones, owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Panasonic, Psion, Samsung Electronics, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. He led Symbian's global sales, marketing, public relations, strategy, developer relations, and partner management, establishing high-level relationships with global carriers and handset vendors, and broadening Symbian's position in the global telecommunications market.

Edwards has served on the boards of a number of leading-edge wireless technology providers as non-Executive Chairman. Prior to Symbian, he held executive management positions at Psion Computers PLC and Spring Group PLC, and founded and served as CEO of CRT Multimedia Ltd, an international multimedia electronic publishing company. Prior to founding CRT Multimedia, he was head of Windows marketing at Microsoft UK Ltd. and took Windows from under 10% market share to over 90% in 18 months. He also served as Product and Program Manager for the DAT (digital audio tape) global product line at Hewlett Packard, CPB.

Edwards joined MDS, a convergent real-time billing company as CEO in 2013. His blue-chip technology experience and reputation as 'growth CEO' have become established over the last 14 years, as he has led the rapid growth of a number of mobile businesses. This includes Mformation, a company that Edwards grew from a start-up to a global leader in mobile device management, supplying Tier 1 customers, and Aylus Networks, a leader in mobile video technology.

Personal

Edwards holds a BSc in Electronic and Computing Engineering, 1st class from Birmingham University.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Industry Veteran Mark Edwards Appointed as CEO of MDS". realwire.com. October 16, 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Sprint Nextel Employs mFormation Device Management Platform. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. 2007-01-30. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
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  4. ^ [2][dead link‍]
  5. ^ "Mobile Device Management Software - Mformation Technologies Inc. - Mformation and F-Secure Partner to Provide Remote Management for F-Secure Mobile Security Solution". Mformation.com. 2008-11-12. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
  6. ^ [3][dead link‍]
  7. ^ Spoke   (2008-07-20). "Mark Edwards, Executive VP Sales & Marketing, Symbian OS". Spoke. Retrieved 2012-07-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  8. ^ [4] Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
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