Mark Edwards is a British businessman and the current CEO of MDS.

Career

Prior to joining Mformation, a mobile device management (MDM (Modular Digital Multitrack) software provider, as CEO based in New Jersey USA. In 2005, they opened a new office in Bangalore, India. he was the EVP of Marketing and Sales for

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, a wireless

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company developing the OS for next-generation data-enabled mobile phones, owned by

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, Psion,

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, Siemens and

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. He led Symbian's global sales, marketing, public relations, strategy,

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, and partner management. Edwards has served on the boards of a number of wireless technology providers as non-Executive Chairman. Prior to Symbian, he held executive management positions at Psion Computers PLC and Spring Group PLC, and founded and served as CEO of CRT Multimedia Ltd, an international multimedia electronic publishing company. Prior to founding CRT Multimedia, he was head of

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marketing at Microsoft UK Ltd. and took Windows from under 10% market share to over 90% in 18 months. He also served as Product and Program Manager for the DAT (digital audio tape) global product line at Hewlett Packard, CPB. Edwards joined MDS, a convergent real-time billing company as CEO in 2013.

Personal

Edwards holds a BSc in Electronic and Computing Engineering, 1st class from

Birmingham University The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...

References

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