Abandon Mobile Appoints Kristin Montgomery Vice President Of Sales And Marketing
Senior Marketing Executive Brings Sales and Gaming Expertise to Leading Mobile Entertainment Company
SANTA MONICA, CA and NEW YORK, NY - June 27, 2006:
Abandon Mobile, a leading entertainment company that
specializes in integrating interactive film, television, and
broadcast content with mobile media, today announced the
appointment of Kristin Montgomery to the position of Vice
President in charge of Sales and Marketing. In addition to
managing and overseeing the company's sales and marketing
programs, Montgomery will be responsible for growing
Abandon's market leading products including the company's
mobile gaming and application-based offerings.
With more than 15 years consumer marketing and sales
experience in the fast-paced international video game and
entertainment industries, Montgomery has a proven track
record of success, and has helped build start ups from zero
revenue to up to $200 million. At 3Dfx Interactive, maker of
3D graphics accelerators for the video game PC market,
Montgomery was responsible for landing the company's first
customer and growing her region to over $70 million in the
first year. Most recently, Montgomery held management
positions at Glu Mobile and Hands-on Mobile (formerly Mforma)
where she concentrated on sales and marketing programs for
wireless carriers as well as mobile handset
manufacturers.
"Kristin brings a wealth of talent and industry experience to
Abandon Mobile and is extremely well qualified to help
support the launch of our products and growth into new
markets," said Jamie Ottile, CEO of Abandon Mobile.
"Utilizing Kristin's TV, film and video game relationships,
we are in a great position to build our sales channel even
further, while strengthening our ability to help publishers
bring high quality entertainment content to the mobile mass
market."
"Abandon has an exceptionally talented team of individuals
with expertise across multiple platforms and industries,"
said Montgomery. "As a proven game developer, with access to
some of the world's largest brands and entertainment
properties, Abandon is uniquely positioned for continued
success and growth over the long term."
Kristin's appointment comes on the heels of Abandon Mobile's
recent announcement of an exclusive relationship with NBC
Sports for its complete mobile sports franchise licenses that
include the popular media property National Heads-Up Poker,
and soon to be launched Real Golf mobile game. In recent
weeks, Abandon Mobile also named Jamie Ottilie to the
position of President. Ottilie, who previously served as the
company's Chief Operating Officer, also served as the Chief
Executive Officer at Lucky Chicken Games. Ottlie has more
than 15 year's experience in designing, licensing and
producing top-performing video games across multiple
platforms.
For more information about Abandon Mobile products and
services, please call 310-317-9665 or visit www.abandonmobile.com.
About Abandon Mobile
Abandon Mobile is a leading entertainment company that
specializes in integrating interactive film, television, and
broadcast content with mobile media. Recently, Abandon
acquired Lucky Chicken Games, a Malibu, California-based game
developer whose management team has over 50 years combined
game development experience. In August 2005, Abandon Mobile
entered into an exclusive worldwide partnership with NBC
Sports to bring NBC Sports branded games to mobile
phones.
Abandon Mobile's games are carried domestically on Verizon,
Cingular, Sprint and T-Mobile, and distributed
internationally through top carriers and delivery services
such as China Mobile and China Unicomm (China), Vodafone and
T-mobile (Europe), and Yahoo Mobile WAP (Thailand, Singapore,
and India). Headquartered in New York, and with offices in
Malibu, California, Abandon Mobile is backed by Abandon
Entertainment and GF Capital Partners.
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Eric Gonzalez
Kohnke Communications for Abandon Mobile
415.777.4000
eric@kohnkecomm.com