Yaron previously served as President of AMDOCS’ AT&T Division
TEL-AVIV, Israel – January 4, 2015– RADCOM Ltd. (NASDAQ: RDCM), today announced that Mr. David Ripstein, RADCOM’s CEO since mid-2007, is retiring from his position at RADCOM and that Mr. Yaron Ravkaie, age 47, formerly President of Amdocs’ North American AT&T Division, will assume the role of CEO in mid-January.
Mr. David Ripstein, RADCOM’s outgoing CEO, commented, “After eight years as CEO and our achievement of winning a significant opportunity in a top-tier Mobile Operator in North America, I feel that now is the right time to hand over the reins to my successor. Q4 revenue estimates will be approximately $2.7M to $3.0M, which is lower than we expected, due to the company-wide effort focused on winning this top-tier opportunity. Despite this near term pain, I believe this massive effort will translate into long term gain. I will continue to advise the company in the coming year to facilitate a smooth transition.”
Mr. Ravkaie held a variety of leadership positions, during his 16-year tenure at Amdocs, within its North American organization, including serving as President of its $1 billion AT&T Division with responsibility for sales, client management, strategy, projects, programs, long-term outsourcing and managed services activities. In 2013, Mr. Ravkaie created and served as President of Amdocs’ Mobile Financial Services Division, a position in which he executed an M&A and led a global organization. During the past 12 months, Mr. Ravkaie served as Chief Business Officer for RR Media, with top-level responsibility for managing its global business group. Mr. Ravkaie holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technion-Israel Insitute of Technology and an MBA from the Ben Gurion University.
Mr. Yaron Ravkaie commented, “RADCOM is a great company with huge potential, second-to-none technology and a bright future. I feel privileged to lead the company as it enters this exciting new stage of its growth. We are going to excel in our future deployments, and ensure the full satisfaction of our customers that will strengthen the company growth, and lead to increased revenues.”
Ms. Heli (Rachel) Bennun, RADCOM’s Chairwoman of the Board, commented, “I would like to express the Board’s sincere thanks and appreciation to David Ripstein as he retires from RADCOM. His vision and leadership has fueled the Company’s successful turnaround, and guided its emergence as a strong, profitable company, well positioned for continued growth. We are grateful for his leadership and dedicated service, and wish him well in his future endeavors.”
“At the same time we are pleased to welcome Yaron Ravkaie as RADCOM’s new CEO, we have full confidence in his ability to lead RADCOM through its exciting new growth phase. Yaron’s track record demonstrates clearly that he has the management experience, execution capabilities and industry knowledge that the Company needs for this next stage.”
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About RADCOM
RADCOM provides innovative service assurance and customer experience management solutions for leading telecom operators and communications service providers. RADCOM specializes in solutions for next-generation mobile and fixed networks, including LTE, VoLTE, IMS, VoIP, UMTS/GSM and mobile broadband. RADCOM’s comprehensive, carrier-grade solutions are designed for big data analytics on terabit networks, and are used to prevent service provider revenue leakage and to enhance customer care management. RADCOM’s products interact with policy management to provide self-optimizing network solutions. RADCOM’s shares are listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol RDCM. . For more information, please visit www.RADCOM.com.
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