Symbian announces Vice President, Business Development to deliver smartphone mass market

LONDON, UK (March 8th, 2001) -- Symbian today announces the appointment of Andy Brannan as VP, Business Development. Andy will lead Symbian's global business development to deliver smartphone projects with existing and new licensees and extend Symbian's commercial relationships with network operators, content and service providers.

"Having secured the top five handset manufacturers as licensees of the Symbian platform, Andy will focus on driving the rapid adoption of smartphones in the market by extending our partnerships with content and service providers," commented Mark Edwards, EVP, Sales & Marketing, Symbian. "Andy brings to our team 15 years experience in sales & marketing gained from extensive relationships with leading manufacturers, retailers and distributors."

Andy joins Symbian from Diamond / S3 / Sonic Blue where, as European Sales Director, he led a team to secure contracts with Hewlett Packard, Dell and Gateway. He was also responsible for driving partnerships with distributors and retailers such as Virgin, Dixons, FNAC, Media Market, and Saturn. Previous to this he spent 8 years at Hewlett Packard in a variety of Sales and Marketing roles. These included OEM Market Development Manager for the company's line of digital audio tape drives (DAT), then 3 years as Northern European OEM Sales Manager for all storage products.

About Symbian

Symbian owns, develops and licenses a software platform for next generation mobile phones. Owned by Ericsson, Matsushita (Panasonic), Motorola, Nokia and Psion, Symbian's mission is to license the Symbian platform to all mobile phone manufacturers and to create a mass market for next generation mobile phones by working closely with wireless networks, content, messaging and enterprise wide solution providers. With headquarters in the UK, Symbian also has offices in US, Japan and Sweden. Symbian's website can be found at  Symbian

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