MNF Group Invests in Platforms and Networks Division to Drive R&D Innovation


Monica Singireddy Appointed Software Team Manager

Sydney – 3rd April 2017 - MNF Group today announced the appointment of Monica Singireddy as Software Team Manager. Monica’s appointment is the latest senior hire within MNF Group’s Platforms and Networks Division, which has significantly expanded in the past year in order to drive research and development initiatives and position the company for future growth.

“MNF Group puts technical innovation at the centre of everything we do. Our commitment to developing world-leading proprietary solutions has delivered exceptional results. It is all down to the calibre of the people we recruit,” said Rene Sugo, CEO of MNF Group. “To ensure we continue to lead the market and take full advantage of opportunities across the Asia Pacific, in a rapidly evolving and accelerating customer environment, we have expanded our software team, as detailed at the AGM, and appointed Monica to the management team which is leading our aggressive R&D programme.”

Monica joins MNF Group from Philips Dynalite where she spent six years in a number of roles, most recently as Software Leader. She was previously a Software Engineer at Toshiba. At MNF Group, Monica is tasked with overseeing and mentoring the group’s growing software development operations looking after core carrier systems. The software team is part of MNF Group’s Platforms and Network Division, which has grown from 24% to 30% of the company’s total headcount, during the 2016 financial year as announced in the Group’s AGM presentation in October 2016.

“Our biggest single investment is in our people and we are delighted that Monica has joined us to help drive MNF Group’s next wave of innovation. We create value for our customers and our shareholders by our inventive and world-leading solutions and have an incredibly exciting R&D pipeline for 2017 and beyond,” Rene added.

MNF Group’s innovation has been widely recognised by the industry. To date its world-first toll-fraud SAAS solution TollShield™ has won the ACOMMS award for Vendor Innovation – Emerging (2016); Winner of 6th ICMG Global Awards for Software Architecture (2016); Winner of State iAward for Infrastructure and Platforms Innovation of the Year (2016); Winner of State iAward for Business Services Award (2016) and Winner of National iAward for Business Services Award (2016). Its proprietary iBoss NBN aggregation platform was also listed in the 2016 Anthill Smart 100 Index which showcases Australia’s most innovative products, while its MyNetFone brand was recognised as the best voice and hosted PBX provider by the 2017 Edison Awards.

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About MNF Group Limited

MNF Group Limited (ASX:MNF) is one of Asia-Pacific’s fastest growing technology companies. Listed on the ASX since 2006, it is now capitalised at around $300M, and twice winner of the Forbes Asia-Pacific “Best under a Billion” award. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, the company has over 250 people located across Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. MNF develops and operates a global communications network and software suite enabling some of the world’s leading innovators to deliver new-generation communications solutions.

As the world moves to IP, MNF Group is building the brands, services, network and technology to lead the way.

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