roliver

Richard Oliver

SurfKitchen

Member Profile:

Richard joined SurfKitchen with 20 years of financial and operational
experience gained in executive positions in both Fortune 250
corporations and the entrepreneurial technology sector. Richard is
responsible for the financial and operational functions of the
company. Before SurfKitchen, Richard was the CFO and COO of
SpiritSoft, a private equity-backed business and leader in Java
middleware, which was acquired by a Nasdaq listed leader of the
middleware market.

Richard previously worked for Xerox and Dana Corporation during a 14
year blue-chip career in equipment and technology finance. He led
complex commercial and financial departments at an international level
through periods of rapid growth.

Richard holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in business studies from the
University of West England and is a chartered management accountant.

Company Profile:

SurfKitchen is uniquely focused on delivering a compelling mobile user
experience. SurfKitchen's simple logical menus ensure true Quality of
Experience, easy discovery, consumption, and repeat usage of mobile
data services.

Simplifying the end-user experience improves user satisfaction,
encourages take-up of data services and promotes operator brand
identity. SurfKitchen's platform enables digital content to be sent
over the air to a broad range of feature phones and smart phones
across Symbian, Microsoft, Java, and Brew platforms. This enables
operators to ensure that the most up-to-date content is always
available to subscribers. The SurfKitchen experience can be tailored
according to operator market segmentation, promoting greater service
differentiation and so encouraging increased customer loyalty and
ultimately reducing churn.

SurfKitchen's solutions have been deployed by major operators
throughout the world including Orange Group, Telstra, Telefonica
Moviles España, Maxis, AL JAWAL, and Etisalat.

This list of high profile customers, combined with SurfKitchen's
unique expertise, has resulted in SurfKitchen becoming the market
leader in On-Device Portal applications with the emphasis on providing
a superior user experience and offering broader content service choice
and customization.

Member nationality:

United Kingdom

Company nationality:

United Kingdom

Company industry sector:

Mobile Software, Services and Hardware