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Datameg Lands Roger Lingle and Jay Stewart to Run its QoVox Subsidiary
QoVox Appoints Two Highly Experienced Leaders in the IP Service Assurance Market
| Source: Datameg
SALT LAKE CITY, UT -- (MARKET WIRE) -- January 23, 2007 -- Datameg Corporation (OTCBB : DTMG ) today
announced two significant leadership appointments to its QoVox subsidiary,
naming Roger Lingle as President and Jay Stewart as Chief Technology
Officer. Lingle and Stewart are both well known and highly experienced
managers in the IP test and measurement market. Both Lingle and Stewart
join QoVox from JDSU where Lingle acted as Vice President of Marketing for
JDSU's Service Assurance division, and Stewart served as IP Solutions
Architect for JDSU's Service Assurance division.
"In Roger and Jay, QoVox has today secured what we believe to be two of the
most talented and proven managers in the IP service assurance market. Their
joining QoVox is testament to the strength of our technology platform and
growth prospects and underscores our commitment to building value for
Datameg shareholders," said Jim Murphy, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Datameg. "Under Roger and Jay's experienced leadership QoVox will
aggressively develop and market hardware and software products that enable
carriers and enterprises to verify connectivity, measure service quality
and isolate and diagnose network problems."
"QoVox is in an ideal position in the service assurance market," said Roger
Lingle, President of QoVox. "Solid product lines are in place along with
the opportunity to extend the current technology platform into software and
agent-based service assurance solutions that leverage the existing products
and meet the critical customer needs as they deploy IP services. To lead
the talented QoVox team is very exciting and a tremendous opportunity for
me and my family."
Lingle is a seasoned executive with 20 years' experience in the management
and strategic development of emerging software and hardware test and
measurement companies in both the enterprise and carrier markets. Most
recently he was Vice President of Marketing for JDSU's Service Assurance
division, a carrier-class measurement and performance management company.
Prior to JDSU, Lingle was Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Mirador
Systems, a natural language processing company that was acquired by Global
Logic in 2003. Prior to Mirador, Lingle was Vice President of Marketing for
Ganymede Software, a software agent-based testing company that was acquired
by NetIQ in 2000. Lingle has also held management positions at AT&T, IBM
and Wandel & Goltermann and holds a BS in Finance from the University of
Maryland and an MBA from the University of South Florida.
Stewart has 19 years' experience in the IP Test and Measurement Industry.
Most recently, Stewart was IP Solution Architect with a focus on VoIP,
Metro Ethernet, IPTV and IMS at JDSU's Service Assurance division. At JDSU
Stewart introduced several highly innovative, award-winning products such
as the QT-50 VoIP software agent and architected the industry's largest
VoIP Service Assurance solution contract to date. Prior to JDSU Stewart
served as an Engineer at Wandel & Goltermann; Director of Engineering at
TTC; and Director of Marketing at Acterna. At Wandel & Goltermann, Stewart
introduced the markets' first Fast Ethernet Analyzer and Gigabit Ethernet
Analyzer. Stewart holds a BS in Computer Science from East Carolina
University.
About Datameg
Datameg Corporation (OTCBB : DTMG ) is an emerging company focused on
supplying products and related services that support critical network
performance requirements in the rapidly converging voice, data and video
communications industry. Specifically, through Datameg's wholly owned
subsidiary QoVox Corporation, the company designs, develops and offers
network-wide fault identification, fault isolation and voice quality
assurance products and critical real-time network health and performance
monitoring services for both providers and end-users of Internet telephony,
now commonly referred to as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The VoIP
industry critically depends on the ability to deliver voice service over
the Internet infrastructure with the high quality that end-users have grown
to expect with traditional telephony services. The company believes network
monitoring for voice quality is a vital function for the successful
commercial future of IP telephony. For more information, please visit
www.datameg.com.
About QoVox
QoVox Corporation is pioneering the development of network monitoring and
fault isolation tools and services for next generation network services.
QoVox's solutions include network-wide fault identification, fault
isolation and voice quality assurance products and services. With QoVox,
service providers can deliver new applications, such as VoIP, with the
reliability and quality that end-users have grown to expect from
traditional circuit-switched telephony. QoVox is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Datameg Corporation and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. For
more information, please visit www.qovox.com.
Certain statements contained herein are forward-looking. These
forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and are
subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Many factors
could cause actual results to differ significantly from these statements,
including our history of operating losses, our need for additional
financing, a failure of our products to perform as expected, introduction
of competing products by other companies, pressures on prices from
competitors and/or customers, regulatory obstacles to new product
introductions, lack of acceptance of our products, and changes in the VoIP
industry. These risks, uncertainties and assumptions are detailed in
documents filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission.