London,
UK- September 30th 2014- For the third
year in a row, Bill Pereira, CEO of IDT Telecom, has been awarded a place in
the Global Telecoms Business Power 100, the international list of the 100 most
powerful and influential people in telecoms. Now in its seventh year, the Global Telecoms Business Power 100 list compiles
the most powerful and influential executives in the industry, selecting
nominations from the readers of the publication - including CEOs, CFOs and
other senior executives of the world’s major operators, telecoms vendors and
industry organizations.
Bill Pereira has been CEO, President and Co-Chairman
of IDT Telecom since 2011. Over the past 12 months Pereira has continued to
drive the growth of IDT’s core voice services while developing new revenue streams
from payment services, apps and other offerings.
Pereira commented on his nomination, “It is a great honor
to be recognized as an international leader in the industry, but I don’t view
it as an individual accolade. It is much more a reflection of the work of our IDT
team of 1,200 employees around the globe. Through their contributions, IDT has
become a leading global carrier, and I am confident we will continue to take
the company to new heights in the years to come.”
Under Pereira’s leadership, IDT now terminates 30
billion minutes per year, and has formed and strengthened key relationships
with all of the world’s major carriers. This past year he oversaw the expansion
of IDT into the money remittance business as well as the launch of the Boss Revolution
mobile app. The award winning app enables customers all around the world to
connect across borders with one-touch dialing of their contacts, with no
contracts and low rates.
ENDS
About
IDT
IDT
Corporation (NYSE: IDT), through its IDT Telecom division, provides
retail telecommunications and payment services to help immigrants and the
under-banked to conveniently and inexpensively communicate and share resources
around the world. IDT Telecom’s
wholesale business is a leading global carrier of international long distance
voice calls. IDT also holds majority
interests in two early-stage technology companies focused on high growth
industries: Zedge (www.zedge.net), a mobile content
discovery and acquisition platform, includes one of the most popular Apps for
Android and iOS; Fabrix Systems (www.fabrixsystems.com), a cloud based
scale out storage and computing platform, provides a scalable solution
optimized for media and big data processing and delivery. IDT recently announced an agreement to sell
its interest in Fabrix. For more
information, visit www.idt.net.
About GTB
Power100
Global Telecoms Business, www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com, is part of the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC
group. The full list of the GTB Power100 for 2014 is at http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/Stub/Power100.html For more information about the GTB Power100 contact
the editor of Global Telecoms Business, Alan Burkitt-Gray, on
aburkitt@euromoneyplc.com or +44 20 7779 8518
Media Contacts:
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IDT
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