Callis Communications Strengthens Management Team with New Executive
Appointments in Customer Support, Business Development, Human Resources and
Administration
Key Hires to Help Drive Continued Growth for Leading Provider of Hosted SMB
Telephony Solutions
MOBILE, Ala., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Callis Communications, a leading
regional provider of hosted telephony and managed Voice over IP (VoIP)
services for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced two new
executive appointments in support of its continuing rapid growth.
Jim Womack was named vice president of service delivery and
administration, responsible for corporate administration, human resources, and
customer support. He brings more than 20 years of management experience to
Callis, including Staples, where he helped open the chain's new Alabama
division and managed retail locations in Mobile. Previously, at Jitney-Jungle
Stores of America, Womack operated retail units with annual sales volume
exceeding $15 million. He is a graduate of Mobile College.
Tim Foster was named Mobile market director, responsible for growing
Callis' base of business across local businesses, schools and universities,
non-profit organizations and other key SMB segments. He brings more than 15
years of extensive industry experience to the company, and successfully
supported new customer relationships on some of its largest deployments
to-date.
Foster previously served at general manager for several major national
restaurant chains and local eateries, including Ruby Tuesdays, Peppers Family
Dining, Garfield's Restaurant and TGI Fridays in Mobile, which he helped
become one of the company's top performing locations in the nation. He is an
electrical engineering graduate of the University of South Alabama.
"Jim and Tim each bring a successful track record with well-known national
and Mobile-area companies in key business roles, and we're very excited to add
such seasoned local executives to our management team," said Callis President
and CEO Dean Parker, Jr. "Their collective experience will be critical in
continuing to expand our customer base, while providing those customers with
superior service delivery that better helps them achieve the maximum,
bottom-line benefits from our VoicePath solution."
The company plans to make additional executive hires in several other key
areas, including regional sales, network engineering and finance, added
Parker. Callis was recently recognized as an Inc. Magazine 5000, based on its
five-year revenue growth from 2003-07.
About Callis
Callis Communications, based in Mobile, Alabama, is a leading
facilities-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier and ISP providing hosted
IP solutions to small and medium-sized companies in key southeast business
markets. Callis has been recognized as an Inc. 5000 company, with an annual
growth rate of nearly 500 percent and customer retention rate of 99.99
percent. Its VoicePath suite of fully-managed IP applications includes hosted
PBX, local and long distance service, data backup, server collocation, and
domain/email/website hosting, all backed by a highly-reliable, redundant
network and its innovative 5-1-1 service for 24x7 customer support. For
additional information, visit www.mycallis.com or call 251-662-8300.
SOURCE Callis Communications
Brian Muys of Strategic Communications Group, +1-301-408-4500,
bmuys@gotostrategic.com, for Callis Communications
