WASHINGTON, DC and LONDON — (Marketwire) — 02/13/12 — Elephant Talk Communication Corp. (NYSE Amex: ETAK) (), an international provider of business software to the telecommunications and financial services industry, today announced the hiring of Phil D-Angio as Senior Vice President of its wholly-owned subsidiary ValidSoft Limited (), a global supplier of fraud prevention, authentication and transaction verification solutions. Mr. D-Angio, a former Symantec and VeriSign executive specializing in the field of information and identity security, will head up ValidSoft-s global sales and business development initiatives from the company-s U.S. office.
Mr D-Angio has over 12 years of experience leading sales and business development teams in the internet security sector at the highest level with a strong track record of achievement. D-Angio joins Validsoft from Symantec, and will report to ValidSoft CEO Pat Carroll in order to align the overall global sales initiatives, marketing and business development strategy.
Pat Carroll, CEO of ValidSoft, said, “We are pleased to have attracted someone with Phil-s expertise and background in identity security at a point where ValidSoft is experiencing strong growth and demand among global financial institutions to help them combat fraud. His international experience and understanding of both the global market and the security technology that underpins it, makes him perfectly suited to strengthen and lead our global sales strategy. The U.S. is an important strategic market for us, and we look forward to benefitting from Phil-s considerable relationships among potential clients.”
D-Angio joins ValidSoft from Symantec, where he ran Symantec-s Information & Identity Protection group in the Americas; a growth business with significant contribution in net new revenue to Symantec-s security business unit. In addition, he led the Technical Sales team and was responsible for the Information & Identity Protection (IIP) Group, which focuses on data loss prevention, authentication and encryption sales across the Americas. Prior to this, he led VeriSign EMEA-s National ID and Emerging Markets campaign, and was head of the global Technical Sales organization, responsible for its PKI, strong authentication, and fraud prevention sales programs.
Mr. Phil D-Angio stated, “The pace of development of mobile-based solutions and advancing technologies such as voice biometrics make the information and identity security industry an exciting place to be, and joining the ValidSoft leadership team as SVP was an easy decision for me. ValidSoft has tremendous technology and has long been a visionary in this space. The company is now at an inflection point and has aggressive growth plans for 2012 and beyond. I look forward to working closely with the ValidSoft management team to help monetize our company-s superior security solutions.”
For further information on ValidSoft, please visit our website at
ValidSoft is a subsidiary of Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (NYSE Amex: ETAK) () and is a market leader in providing solutions to counter electronic fraud relating to card, the internet, and telephone channels. ValidSoft-s solutions are at the cutting edge of the market and are used to verify the authenticity of both parties to a transaction (Mutual Authentication), and the integrity of the transaction itself (Transaction Verification) for the mass market, in a highly cost effective and secure manner, yet easy to use and intuitive. For more information, please visit .
Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (NYSE Amex: ETAK) () is an international provider of business software and services to the telecommunications and financial services industry. The company enables both mobile carriers and virtual operators to offer a full suite of products, delivery platforms, support services, superior industry expertise and high quality customer service without substantial upfront investments from clients. Elephant Talk provides global telecommunication companies, mobile network operators, banks, supermarkets, consumer product companies, media firms, and other businesses a full suite of products and services that enables them to fully provide telecom services as part of their business offerings. The company offers various dynamic products that include remote health care, credit card fraud prevention, mobile internet ID security, multi-country discounted phone services, loyalty management services, and a whole range of other emerging customized mobile services. For more information, visit .
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