Keith Cornell Joins End2End’s Board as Executive Chairman

End2End, the leading Mobile Application Infrastructure Provider (MAIP) in Europe, announced today that it appointed Keith Cornell, 45, an experienced telecoms industry executive, as Executive Chairman of its Board of Directors.

“We are extremely happy to welcome Keith Cornell to our board,” said Tage Rasmussen, CEO of End2End. “His extensive and highly relevant business experience and unparalleled understanding of the telecoms industry will be a significant asset during a key period in End2End’s development.”

Keith Cornell brings ten years of executive management, marketing and business development experience from the international telecoms market to End2End. During his career, Mr Cornell has served on the management teams of several leading mobile operators. Most recently Mr Cornell served as President Europe of mmO2 with responsibility for Viag Interkom, Telfort, Digifone and Manx and as a Board Member overseeing BT’s investment in Cegetel/SFR.

“End2End represents an answer to the prayers of mobile operators by introducing a service delivery model which allows operators to get access to large numbers of mobile data services without significant up-front investments, “ stated Mr Cornell. “I look forward to working with the management team and the Board in building End2End’s strong technical infrastructure into a customer-led commercial company.“

Prior to mmO2, Keith was Senior Vice President, Business Development for FirstMark Communications in London. Prior to joining FMCE, Keith was Director, Southern Europe for Vodafone AirTouch and Vice President, International Operations for AirTouch Europe, in the Netherlands. There he served on the Boards of Omnitel (Italy), Airtel (Spain), Mobifon (Romania) and Europolitan (Sweden). Before moving to The Hague, Keith was Managing Director, Corporate Development for AirTouch Communications, responsible for activities in Europe, Russia, India and Brazil. Before AirTouch, Keith was a Senior Manager in the strategy consultancy, Marakon Associates.

Keith Cornell received a BS in Engineering and Economics from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California and an MS in Industrial Administration (MBA) for the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife and two daughters near London in Maidenhead.

About End2End
End2End is a Mobile Application Infrastructure Provider (MAIP) operating a carrier-grade network of data centres from which it delivers managed data services, technology hosting and outsourcing services to operators, portals and other companies. End2End’s outsourced mobile application infrastructure enables operators to reduce time to market without sacrificing the reliability of a carrier-grade platform. 

End2End can accelerate operator revenues and profitability while avoiding the need for its customers to invest independently in the infrastructure and development resources normally required for the launch of data applications.  End2End’s independent position between mobile network operators and the content/application providers makes it an ideal partner in the delivery of 2G, 2.5G, and 3G mobile data services.