Terry Hughes

Current

President at Widality Inc.

Past

CEO / Director at Otaview.com
VP Sales and Sales Director at Zi Corporation
Business Manager at Bluekite

Sales Director and General Manager at Brand Communications
Business Development Manager at Vodafone
Sales Executive at Cognito
Dealer Sales Manager at Mercury Paging

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Education

BA in Business Administration
Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering

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Industry

Wireless

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Terry Hughes’s Summary

North America based President / CEO / VP Sales / Director / senior commercial person in telecommunications, wireless / mobile, software, carrier / operator solutions, embedded mobile handset solutions, mobile internet. Many successful years selling throughout Europe EMEA, Asia and North America. A Brit now living in Canada; moved from Europe to Calgary Alberta to live and work in May 2005.

I am President of a wireless start-up (in mobile semantic tagging and telecom expense management), in that time I have received significant recognition, coupled with a few awards and accolades from the wireless industry. With limited funding we have also achieved some significant milestones and traction with carriers and OEMs. Find out more at www.widality.com . I also own a sales consultancy business www.otaview.com . I have previously worked for Zi Corporation (predictive text), Bluekite (GPRS optimization), Brand Communications (mobile access routers), Vodafone UK, Cognito (two-way messaging), and Mercury Paging (radiopaging).

Terry Hughes’s Specialties:

CEO, CMO, President, Sales, business development, sales management, account management, general manager, contracts, negotiation, matrix management, project management, professional services, customer services, sales consultancy, sales training, strategy, fundraising, financing, public speaking, PR

Terry Hughes’s Experience

President

Widality Inc.

(Wireless industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Widality, based in silicon valley and Canada, was born out of the award-winning Redwood Technologies, a Canadian developer of wireless application and SaaS services.

Widality is the provider of "momentem", a revolutionary new way for smartphone users to tag their calls and other mobile activities, so that they can make sense of their bill and account for their cost and time. Widality is a player in the burgeoning semantic web, we are helping our users to build the semantic web "one mobile call at a a time".

The momentem service has been launched as a nationwide service by Rogers Wireless across Canada, and is available in the BlackBerry App World and other app stores. There are tons of happy customers and tons of industry recognition for this ground-breaking new service. Find out more and try it for yourself at www.momentem.net
CEO / Director

Otaview.com

(Wireless industry)

April 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 6 months)

In April 2006 I set up my own sales consultancy company, see www.otaview.com for details. One of my early customers was Redwood, and they persuaded me to become full-time CEO / President of Redwood in 2006. otaview.com is available for advisory roles and consulting work.
VP Sales and Sales Director

Zi Corporation

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ZICA; Telecommunications industry)

July 2002 — September 2006 (4 years 3 months)

Responsible for Zi's European business, including winning the Nokia account for Zi, then moved to Canada where I was responsible for Zi's North America business. Also managed Professional Services and Asia Sales.
Business Manager

Bluekite

(Wireless industry)

July 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 1 month)

bluekite.com was a San Francisco dot-com selling bandwidth optimization (faster GPRS technology) to wireless carriers worldwide. I was responsible for all of the European accounts. It was a great two years; great experience at the height of the dot-com boom, and a great list of customers including carriers in the UK, Switzerland, Italy and Austria.
Sales Director and General Manager

Brand Communications

(Wireless industry)

July 1998 — July 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Brand Communications is a UK company that is still going strong after more than a decade of selling mobile data solutions to carriers and enterprises. Many of my achievements there are still on their website today. We sold carrier-grade mobile access systems to around 10 carriers in Europe, in the UK (2 carriers), Ireland (2 carriers), Belgium, Holland, Norway, and Spain among others. We were real pioneers of mobile data, using circuit-switched data een before GPRS came along.
Business Development Manager

Vodafone

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

April 1992 — August 1998 (6 years 5 months)
Sales Executive

Cognito

(Wireless industry)

February 1990 — April 1992 (2 years 3 months)
Dealer Sales Manager

Mercury Paging

(Wireless industry)

1987 — 1990 (3 years )

Terry Hughes’s Education

BA in Business Administration

BA , Business Administration , 1999
Degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering

HND , Electronics and Communications Engineering