SpinVox, the world's first voicemail-to-text company, has strengthened its technical pedigree with the appointment of Philip Marnick as Chief Technology Officer.

Philip will play a vital role in the ongoing development of SpinVox’s voicemail-to-text service as well as applying his vast experience in the network operator industry to pending deployments with large mobile networks. Philip boasts an impressive track record of over 20 years experience in the wireless communications industry. Throughout his career he has been at the forefront of the industry’s major developments, involved in multiple developments in network the design of the world’s first GSM 1800 and 900 mobile networks, speech coding and the development of global telecom standards for 3G and mobile IP. He also launched the world’s first camera phone and photo messaging service. Former positions include Vice President of Industry Development for O2; Board Director of Service Planning for J-Phone – Japan (now Vodafone Japan KK) and Head of Mobile Multimedia for the BT Group. Philip Marnick commented: “I’ve spent my career developing mobile networks and the core services that run over them. The simplicity, ingenuity and compelling need for SpinVox was instantly apparent to me when I first saw the service. It’s clear that network operators have also identified the exciting opportunity that SpinVox offers them, and I look forward to delivering them fully integrated speech-to-text systems and new voice and data services.” Christina Domecq, Chief Executive, SpinVox, said: “Philip brings to SpinVox an unrivalled wealth of experience in the mobile telecoms industry. In particular his technical vision and understanding of network implementation of new applications are invaluable to the team at this critical stage in our development. Within the retail sector we’ve successfully proven the commercial viability of our voicemail-to-text service for partners and end-customers alike, and are now engaged in the integration of the service into the operators’ existing voicemail systems.”