Telecom experts increase order book (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Telecom experts increase order book

VIRTUA UK - a leading supplier of expertise to the telecoms industry based at Hook - achieved increased sales of 20 per cent of turnover in the first four months of 2010.

Tomeet the demands of this growth, Virtua, which employs almost 100 people, has brought in in-dustry heavyweights - Rob Davies and Ian Jenkins as well as Kevin Tillotson in a business develop-ment role.

Virtua has more than 20 years ex-perience in the mobile telecommu-nications sector covering technical project management, engineering and integration, working with major organisations in Europe and the US.

Virtua chief executive Andy Watts: "These are exciting times for us.

"We are seeing fantastic growth in all areas of the business.

"In particular, since the new year, we have made changes to our mar-keting and sales strategy.

"These have directly affected our new-business activity but we want to carry on ex-panding for the benefit of our team, clients and the industry as a whole.

"To achieve this we are investing in some of the best people available, people with a passion and indepth knowledge of the industry, the technology and our client's needs."

Mr Davies takes on the role of senior systems architect. After five years working for Ferranti and then 20 years with Motorola as a systems engineer, he has a wealth of experience within the Telecoms industry specialising in cellular development.

Mr Jenkins takes on the role of head of RF systems design. After 10 years at Alan Dick & Co as a cellular design antenna en-gineer he focused on projects for Vodafone and 02 where he came to be considered the design authority and Mr Tillotson takes on the role ofbusiness development director.

With 20 years experience across a variety of sectors, he has grown businesses both organically and through acquisition.

"Virtua is a fast moving company going through exciting changes and performing at the top level of the telecoms and mobile telecoms industries, " said Mr Watts.

"To move forward we need to work with the best. Rob, Ian and Kevin have the right attitude and are already working closely with both long-term and new clients."

The company provides teams of-fering business analysis, systems engineering, programme and pro-ject management and Virtua employees are all experts in their own field.