Tony Holcombe, the man who in January 2011 led Syniverse through its $2.6 billion delisting and acquisition by Carlyle Group, has stepped aside as CEO of the company. Holcombe will now sit on the company’s board as vice chair.
COO Jeffrey Gordon, who joined the company in 2008, has been appointed as the new CEO. Prior to joining Syniverse, Gordon held positions with Convergys, Bell Atlantic and IBM.
A Syniverse release credited Holcombe with carrying out a successful repositioning of Syniverse as a global company that offers a diversified range of services to the mobile industry. The company’s background was as a US-focussed call and roaming clearing house, but Holcombe worked hard to position the company as a key enabler of the global interoperability, and business intelligence, that will be required as the industry transitions to mobile broadband data.
His successor, Gordon, said, “With issues to be addressed such as the transition to LTE and 4G, the need for real-time operator solutions, the demand for network capacity to address exploding mobile data usage, and the changing mobile experience with sophisticated new applications such as two-way video, Syniverse is ideally suited to help customers address these pressing needs and much more.”