Simon Slater-Thomas Email & Phone Number

Basingstoke, Gb

Basingstoke , Hampshire, Gb

Call Control Technologies (callcontroltechnologies.com) is part of the trueCall group. trueCall has developed multi-award winning technology to combat the scourge of nuisance phone calls.This technology has been licenced to BT in the UK and to Telstra in Australia. It currently protects 750,000 homes in the UK and blocks 1/4 of a billion unwanted calls each year.CCT was set up to exploit this technology within telecoms networks around the world.trueCall has just been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise, in the Innovation category - the UK's most prestigious business award.

High Wycombe, Bucks, Gb

Founded Reality in Aug 2001, to address telecoms needs of SMEs. Secured £400,000 funding in March 2002 and £250,000 in May 2003. Launched Call Navigator™ in Oct 2002. Gained 2,500th business customer in October 2003.

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Be

Accelleran have recently closed their A-round funding - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aaaf-invests-leading-supplier-lte-small-cell-rudi-severijns http://www.accelleran.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/accelleranDevelopment of Silicon and Stack-Independent Small Cell Software to meet the global need for high quality, carrier-grade, reliable 4G LTE smallcell solutions to power networks delivering the next generation of mobile internet Accelleran has developed a product of demonstrable carrier-grade quality through a combination of its unique software development and test processes. This quality can only be guaranteed through the ability to fully abstract from any 3rd party hardware or software. Accelleran’s software is thereby fully independent and portable – ready for manufacture by leading OEMs and ODMs

Returned to Redstone following a semi-retirement in March 2000. In the interim, the company had run into severe financial difficulties following an ill-advised acquisition spree during mid-2001. Saw it through a restructuring and substantial downsizing, followed by a complex and difficult re-financing.

Founded Redstone in Feb 1994. Launched CallSure, which became largest Personal Numbering service in UK with 250,000 customers. Developed Redstone into a full service national telecoms operator with 7 switches and the 6th largest fibre network in the UK. Successfully completed 4 funding rounds. Floated on the LSE in November 1999 valued at £120m+. First company on TechMark, later entered FTSE350. Successfully completed rights issue in March 2000, raising £125m at a peak valuation of £1billion+.