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SkyPort Expands its Sales Organization
Veteran Telecom Sales Leader Stella Powell Joins SkyPort as Executive VP Sales and Marketing

November 13, 2006 – HOUSTON, TEXAS – SkyPort International is pleased to announce the appointment of Stella Powell to Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing. Stella Powell, a 22 year veteran of telecommunications sales leadership and management, brings additional depth and strength to the SkyPort team.
 
Prior to joining SkyPort, Stella was Director of Solution Sales and Business Development at Premier Global Solutions (NYSE: PGI), where she developed sales and marketing initiatives to help drive annual revenues to $500 million. Her highly successful career includes; senior sales and marketing positions for renowned organizations such as Dynegy Global Communications, NEOS Communications, MCI Telecommunications and Warner Amex Cable Communications. 

“Stella’s strong track record in building world class sales teams and processes will help SkyPort manage its substantial increase in opportunities, existing customer base and expansion into additional markets.  Her focus and depth of knowledge is exactly what we are looking for given the growth of our organization,” stated Roger Klotz, President and CEO of SkyPort International, Inc.

Stella Powell comments, “I look forward to adding real value to the SkyPort team. I joined SkyPort because of the quality of the customer base, the large scale contracts we are negotiating, triple digit growth rate and the people that work here. It is an exciting time. Developing the winning team to not just capture the opportunities but to also support our customers is a crucial part of this role.” 

Rick Davis (former Chief Sales Officer), has now taken on the roll of Senior Vice President of Business Development, where he will advance and manage SkyPort’s major business partnerships SkyPort relationships such the IBM-Cisco Emergency Response Network (ERN) program and many others now require a dedicated team approach lead by Rick Davis. 

“These exciting partnerships are a recent addition to SkyPort’s plan for global expansion and as such we needed one of our most seasoned professionals to lead these opportunities. Rick Davis has the experience and knowledge base essential to commercialize these significant global opportunities,” concludes Roger Klotz.

For more information contact:
SkyPort Global Communications, Inc.
1.800.822.2961
pr@skyportglobal.com