RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mavenir Systems today announced the promotion of Bahram Jalalizadeh to Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development. He will be responsible for managing all of the sales strategy and customer relationships for Mavenir globally. A key member of Mavenir’s executive team since the company’s first year, Mr. Jalalizadeh has worked closely with mobile operators to transform their networks to next-generation all-IP networks and to apply Mavenir’s innovative solutions to overcome deployment challenges and meet critical business requirements.
Mr. Jalalizadeh has more than 25 years of executive management and engineering experience in the telecom industry, with an emphasis on wireless technology. He joined Mavenir in October 2006 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing Development. He was promoted to Vice President of Business Development in August 2008 and to Executive Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Accounts in August 2011.
Before Mavenir, Mr. Jalalizadeh held executive and management positions at Alcatel (now Alcatel-Lucent), Spatial Wireless and Nortel Networks. He developed and led a global market development strategy that transformed Spatial Wireless from a startup to a leading provider of mobile switching technology solutions.
“Mavenir’s stable, experienced leadership team is a major reason why mobile operators worldwide turn to us when they want to provide their customers with high-quality, IP-based voice, video, rich communications and enhanced messaging services,” said Pardeep Kohli, Mavenir’s President and CEO. “Mr. Jalalizadeh’s experience and expertise, along with his strategic, innovative and entrepreneurial approach to business and strong relationships, give both Mavenir and our customers, a major competitive advantage. Mr. Jalalizadeh has helped position Mavenir as a leading supplier of next-generation solutions globally. We are excited to have him lead our team.”
About Mavenir:
Mavenir is a leading provider of software-based networking solutions that enable mobile service providers to deliver high-quality internet protocol (IP)-based voice, video, rich communication and enhanced messaging services to their subscribers globally. Mavenir’s mOne® software platform has enabled leading mobile service providers to introduce the industry’s first live network deployment of Voice-Over-LTE (VoLTE) and the industry’s first live deployment of next-generation Rich Communication Services 5.0 (RCS). Our solutions deliver next-generation services such as RCS, VoLTE and Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) over existing 2G and 3G networks and next-generation 4G LTE networks. www.mavenir.com