M:Metrics Hires Distinguished Telecom Executive as CFO
12 June 2006
M:Metrics, the mobile market authority, todayannounced that Peter Wiederspan has joined the measurement firm as chieffinancial officer. Wiederspan brings vast experience building companies inthe telecommunications sector, including tenures at Nextel, VeriSign andIlluminet.
"We're proud to have attracted an individual of Peter's caliber to join ourcompany," said Will Hodgman, CEO, M:Metrics. "Having spent more than adecade in the telecommunications industry, Peter is a perfect complement toour team of mobile and measurement industry luminaries."
Wiederspan began his career at Ernst and Young before joining Nextel whenit was a fledgling start-up. After stewarding Nextel's growth in themid-nineties, Wiederspan joined another start-up, Illuminet, a nextgeneration database and infrastructure company for the telecommunicationssector. As vice president, finance and investor relations, Wiederspan was akey architect of Illuminet's IPO and brokered the company's acquisition byVeriSign, where he continued to direct the financial operations of itstelecommunications division.
"For a guy who loves building companies, M:Metrics is the perfect drawingboard," said Wiederspan. "It's not often that you find a well-capitalized,profitable young company with more than 60 customers and an executive teamthat rivals the best that I have worked with. I'm eager to join the team inexpanding M:Metrics' global footprint and shareholder value."
M:Metrics applies trusted media measurement methodologies to assess theaudience for mobile content and applications. As the world's mostauthoritative mobile market measurement firm, M:Metrics delivers the mostaccurate mobile market metrics through the largest monthly survey of mobilesubscribers in the U.S., U.K., Germany and France, as well as automateddata collection methodologies.
About M:Metrics
M:Metrics is the mobile market measurement authority. As the only researchfirm to measure the audience for mobile media, M:Metrics provides the mostaccurate metrics on actual mobile content consumption by applying trustedmedia measurement methodologies to the mobile market. M:Metrics' monthlysyndicated data service gives clients the critical insights andintelligence required to inform smart business strategies and thecompetitive benchmarks needed to evaluate the performance of competitorsand partners. M:Metrics is a private, venture-funded corporationheadquartered in Seattle, with offices in San Francisco and London.
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