Bubble Motion Scours the Globe to Boost its Asia-Based Management Team and Announces Four Key Executive Hires

Today, voice micro-blogging leader Bubble Motion is announcing a number of high-profile executive hires to support its rapid growth throughout Asia. In conjunction with the $10M growth round of capital the company raised before this year, the company has used the additional investment to upscale its executive management team in Asia - attracting talent from all over the globe. Joining the team are Jean Huang Lundgren as COO, Brett Bouchard as CMO, Prakash Durgani as VP Engineering, and Paul Palmer as VP Worldwide Sales. The company becomes one of the few social media startups in Asia with a broad base of global innovation management depth of Silicon Valley veterans.

Meanwhile, Prakash Durgani, Bubble Motion's new VP Engineering, adds deep VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and voice architectural knowledge to the team, joining CTO T.S. Ramakrishnan in continuing to scale the company's flagship Bubbly service. Between the two of these technical visionaries, they hold dozens of patents in the VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and voice innovation space. Bubble Motion's new VP Sales, Paul Palmer, brings extensive experience Asia mobile operator sales experience, starting and leading efforts in the Asia Pacific region for three so then known US startups over the past decade, including for Adaptive Mobile, Ubiquisys, and mFormation.

These executive-level team members will be expanding Bubble Motion's platform and country presence with a number of product and region launches ahead. A number of fresh mobile operator partnerships will reinforce Bubbly's expansion into more Asian countries. In parallel, the team will be bringing Bubbly to iOS and Android, adding text, photo, and video to the service.

Bubble Motion is pioneering social communication for mobile phones. Bubble Motion's Bubbly is a social messaging service where people share SMS and voice updates with friends, family, fans and followers. Bubbly is like 'Twitter with a voice' and brings social networking to mobile phones.