Acision Appoints Mark Williams as Senior Vice President & General Manager for Asia-Pacific

September 9th, 2009 SINGAPORE and LONDON - Telecom executives, investment bankers, law firms and professional intermediaries are gathering in Singapore on November 5-6 at TMT Finance and Investment Asia (www.tmtfinance.com/asia), the global content and networking rich forum. The forum features the Telecom Leadership Round Table chaired by Booz & Co with CEOs and CFOs from the leading international telecom operators; M&A Advisers Panel with Clifford Chance LLP, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and HSBC and National Broadband Networks, hosted by KPMG.

September 6th, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - - Acision Increases Commitment to Middle East and Africa With Hire of New GM Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Sherif Hamoudah as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Middle East, Africa and Pakistan. With more than 20 years sales and marketing experience in the telecoms industry, Hamoudah will oversee the MEA and Pakistan operations and take responsibility for driving business development in the region as well as enhancing operator relationships.

August 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharti Airtel, Asia's leading integrated telecom services provider has selected Acision to provide a fully managed service for its Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) infrastructure. As the first managed service of its kind in the market, Acision has replaced Bharti Airtel's existing MMS provider to drive adoption across its subscriber base, as well as improve the MMS experience for customers.

July 1st, 2009 SAO PAULO - - Acision Increases its Investment in the LatAm Region to Meet the Needs of Carriers and Introduce Solutions to Help Them Increase Revenues Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announces the appointment of Rafael Steinhauser as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Latin America, based in Acision's Sao Paulo office. In this newly created role, Rafael Steinhauser will drive the company's growth across the region and have responsibility for sales, marketing, business development and operations.

June 24th, 2009 JAKARTA - - Advanced Features of Acision Text Suite Provide Indonesian Mobile Subscribers With an Improved and More Personal Messaging Experience Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Telkomsel, the leading operator of cellular telecommunications services in Indonesia, have launched an advanced SMS service to Telkomsel's 75 million customers using the award winning Acision Message Plus. Branded as SMS Pro, the service will be available to both pre-paid and post-paid subscribers of Telkomsel.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - The Board of The Investor Relations Society is delighted to announce the appointment of two new Board members with immediate effect as follows: Emma Burdett - Head of Investor Relations, Maitland Lisa Williams - Head of Investor Relations, Debenhams plc Commenting on the new appointments, Peregrine Riviere, Chairman of the Investor Relations Society said: "I am delighted to welcome Emma and Lisa as Board members. Both are already actively involved with the Society through their membership of the Policy and Membership committees respectively." "I would like to thank all of the Board members for their help and support in running the Society and I am sure that Emma and Lisa will be able to make a valuable contribution to continue the development of the Society going forward." In line with the Society's Articles of Association, these appointments to the Board will be put to vote by the full membership at the Annual General Meeting in June 2009.

April 22nd, 2009 MANILA, Philippines - Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway Deployed to Substantially Increase Usage of Voice Service Acision, the world's leading messaging company, and Globe Telecom, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines, have launched the world's first fully convergent solution that works across both fixed and mobile networks for post-paid subscribers. Enabled by Acision's innovative real-time, location-based charging solutions, Acision Flexible Charger and Acision Location Gateway, the service is designed to boost network traffic, primarily voice, by offering free calls within a set city zone.

April 15th, 2009 TEMPE, Arizona - Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) today announced that the company has appointed Mr.

March 31st, 2009 CTIA - LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Acision, the world's leading messaging company, today announced that it has joined the GSMA's Rich Communication Suite (RCS) Initiative. As part of the RCS Initiative, Acision, along with 60 other member organisations, will be at the forefront of developing rich communication technology and services, which run across IP and multimedia-based networks, such as enhanced messaging, presence enabled contact management and in-call multimedia sharing.

March 16th, 2009 SINGAPORE - Manthan Systems today announced the appointment Paul Gaddes in the position of Senior Vice President - Strategic Relationships (SEA). Paul comes to Manthan with over 14 years of experience in providing business and technology solutions across the retail and supply chain segments from both sales and implementation perspectives.

July 6th, 2009 Citi names 2 senior execs to lead Asia operationsHONG KONG — Citigroup Inc. said Monday it was naming two senior executives to lead its Asia Pacific operations after the previous head of the region resigned.

July 14th, 2009 Obama nominates new Peace Corps directorWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he will nominate a career international development specialist to be director of the Peace Corps. Aaron Williams is the vice president for international business development with RTI International.

August 14th, 2009 Pimco hires new portfolio managerNEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Pacific Investment Management Co.

August 21st, 2009 KBR forms new business unitHOUSTON — KBR Inc. formed a new business group to serve customers in North America, the Middle East, United Kingdom and Australia.

September 1st, 2009 SINGAPORE - Singapore's DBS Group Holdings Ltd, the biggest bank in South-East Asia, said Tuesday that it has appointed Piyush Gupta from Citibank Inc as its chief executive officer, about five months after the death of its previous CEO. Gupta, 49, is currently Citibank's chief executive for South-East Asia and the Pacific and is to join the DBS Group in November, the bank said in a statement.

September 3rd, 2009 Cascal appoints new CFOLONDON — International water and waste company Cascal N.V. said Thursday it has tapped Mark Thurston as its new chief financial officer.

August 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - The installation, testing and commissioning of the 6,700 km TGN-Intra Asia (TGN-IA) cable system was complete, telecom service provider Tata Communications and undersea communications technology leader Tyco Telecommunications announced Tuesday. "The fully operational 6,700 km TGN-IA system links Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Vietnam and the Philippines, providing route diversity throughout the Asia Pacific region, Tata Communications said in a regulatory statement.

February 15th, 2009 BANGKOK - More than 11 countries, including India, are expected to participate at a meeting in Manila in Philippines to discuss the responses to the current economic crisis. Ministers of labour and finance, senior UN and government officials, workers and employers' representatives from Asia and the Pacific will meet in Manila from Feb 18-20 for the forum titled 'Responding to the Economic Crisis - Coherent Policies for Growth, Employment and Decent Work in Asia and the Pacific', a press statement issued by the International Labour Organisation said Monday.

July 27th, 2009 Triumph Group names new president, COOWAYNE, Pa. — Aircraft parts maker Triumph Group Inc.

August 20th, 2009 Gen. Gary North takes over Pacific Air forcesHICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii — Gen. Gary North is taking command of the United States Pacific Air Forces based at Hickham Air Force Base in Hawaii.