Holly Connects Expands Operations and Appoints New VP

NEW YORK, August 7, 2006 - Holly Connects appointed Paul Derry as VP sales, North America, to drive the company's growth and customer acquisition in the region.  Derry has more than 20 years sales experience in the speech and next-generation IVR market having previously held positions as VP OEM sales for Vocalocity and director of business development for VoiceGenie where he was responsible for driving the partner and market strategy for their service provider solutions. Earlier in his career, Derry held various sales and management positions with Lucent Technologies.

Holly has also expanded its sales and operations to Europe announcing the availability of the Holly Voice Platform via partnerships with Dimension Data. 

Ryan Millar, VP sales, Europe, will drive Holly's growth and partnership strategy in the European market.

The Holly Voice Platform is a Voice over IP-based solution that is certified VoiceXML 2.0 compliant by the VoiceXML Forum. Holly integrates with existing telephony and Web-based infrastructure and supports traditional touchtone, speech recognition, CTI and call control. 

Holly released its third generation multi-tenancy features in the Holly Voice Platform 4.2 release.