Purple Labs Expands into China

(Business News & Technology News, 18 Jan 2008)

Purple Labs has opened a new office in Beijing, China to provide full local technical support and expand its sales opportunities throughout the region.

The Beijing office is now led by Gordon Tsang, newly appointed general manager and senior vice president of sales in Asia. Tsang brings more than 15 years of experience in the telecommunications industry with an impressive track record of business and sales achievements in the Asia Pacific marketplace, including executive positions at Zi Corp., Magic4 and Openwave Systems. Most recently, Tsang was vice president and general manager for the worldwide client software business at Openwave, where he headed the sales and professional services organisation and successfully strengthened Openwave's market position with handset manufacturers in Asia.

"The new Beijing office and Gordon's appointment directly reflect our commitment to our Asian customers", said Simon Wilkinson, CEO of Purple Labs. "Gordon was instrumental in establishing Magic4 as the global leader in mobile messaging and I am very happy to welcome him to Purple Labs at such an exciting time for the Company and the mobile Linux industry."

Concurrently, Purple Labs has launched the Chinese language version of its website (http://www.purplelabs.com/cn).

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