Mark Edwards (British businessman)

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

Mark Edwards
Occupation(s)CEO, MDS

Career

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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] he was the EVP of Marketing and Sales for Symbian,[5][6] 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.

Edwards has served on the boards of a number of 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.

Personal

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Edwards holds a BSc in Electronic and Computing Engineering, 1st class from Birmingham University.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Industry Veteran Mark Edwards Appointed as CEO of MDS". realwire.com. 16 October 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Sprint Nextel Employs mFormation Device Management Platform. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. 30 January 2007. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
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  4. ^ "Mobile Device Management Software - Mformation Technologies Inc. - Mformation and F-Secure Partner to Provide Remote Management for F-Secure Mobile Security Solution". Mformation.com. 12 November 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  5. ^ "Mark Edwards joins Symbian as Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing | Business Wire | Find Articles". findarticles.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  6. ^ Spoke (20 July 2008). "Mark Edwards, Executive VP Sales & Marketing, Symbian OS". Spoke. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  7. ^ [2] Archived July 14, 2011, at the Wayback Machine