MOBIVOX hires Former Skype Mobile head

By Vivek | October 23rd, 2007 at 03:28 pm ET         

Canadian telco startup MOBIVOX seems set for long term Skype strategy. The startup announced yesterday that it has appointed former head of Skype Mobile Product Group, Nitzan Shaer, as the company?s Chief Operating Officer.  Shaer was also appointed to the MOBIVOX board of directors.

Shaer’s past experience includes working as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at IDG Ventures. Among others, IDG ventures was one of the venture firms that participated in MOBIVOX’s $11 million Series A round of funding.

Prior to IDG, Shaer was the head of the mobile product group at Skype. According to the information we have, Shaer was worked on development and marketing efforts that made Skype available on Nokia, Motorola and Windows Mobile.