Qpass Appoints New Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services

Business Wire, Dec 16, 2005

SEATTLE -- Qpass, a mobile commerce software and solutions company, today announced the appointment of Joe Murray to vice president of worldwide professional services. Murray brings more than two decades of experience in the customer relationship management (CRM), e-commerce and financial service industries. He will lead the global Qpass Services organization, which provides critical systems implementation, integration and software configuration and customization services. Additionally, Murray will lead the global Qpass business process and content marketing and management services teams.

"Joe has extraordinary experience and has demonstrated leadership in building and managing service organizations. We're confident that he will be a great addition to the Qpass team," said Chase Franklin, CEO of Qpass. "Superior customer service and responsiveness continue to be key priorities for Qpass and Joe will be instrumental in helping us in our goal to enable our customers to grow highly profitable premium services businesses."

Prior to joining Qpass, Murray was most recently at Epiphany where he served as senior vice president of professional services, managing a team of more than 120 service professionals. Prior to Epiphany, Murray spent 15 years at BearingPoint/KPMG where his last position was managing director for its CRM practice.

Murray holds a bachelor's degree in Decision Information Science from Santa Clara University and will be based in Seattle.

About Qpass

Qpass is a mobile commerce solutions company that enables the buying and selling of digital goods and services over any network. The Qpass platform manages hundreds of thousands of content applications and services across mobile, VoIP, and WiFi networks. The company manages the entire mobile commerce transaction process, from content sourcing, to merchandising and delivery, to billing and customer care.

Qpass customers include Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile International, Vodafone, Sprint, Suncom ALLTEL, US Cellular, One and Skype. Qpass serves more than 150 million mobile subscribers and more than 60 million web portal, WiFi and VOIP users worldwide. Qpass processes tens of millions of premium services transactions per month and has processed more than 400 million premium downloads since inception, representing more than US$900 million in gross retail consumer sales. Qpass is privately-held and has headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and Vienna, Austria. For more information, please visit www.qpass.com.