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Acision (News - Alert), an icon in mobile messaging, recently appointed Fatima Raimondi as its senior vice president and general manager for Latin America (LATAM). In her new role, Fatima will manage Acision's LATAM operations and build upon Acision's position and success in the region.

Prior to joining Acision, Fatima was president of Ericsson (News - Alert) Brazil. She has also worked as a board member at the Swedish Chamber in both Argentina and Brazil. Presently, she is a member of the advisory board of Melitta do Brazil and a member of the Organization and People Committee of Natura Board of Directors, also in Brazil.

"The mobile communication industry plays an important role in helping Latin America people develop and grow in all areas of life and business, often opening up new opportunities to connect across all demographics," said Raimondi. "Today the LATAM region is developing at an impressive rate, which is very exciting and important, not just to Acision but the industry as a whole, which can create and launch new services to users who are willing to adopt and embrace. My main focus will be to ensure that Acision's position as a driver of innovation and creator of high-demand messaging services becomes even stronger in the region by working with the company's team of talented individuals, as well as operators and enterprises, to take them a step closer to the new raft of services in the mobile messaging world."

Speaking on the growth opportunities in LATAM market, Jorgen Nilsson, chief executive at Acision, said the time is right to “evolve the business into more than just mobile messaging company and introduce new services for operators, consumers and enterprises.”

 “With Fatima's extensive experience in the telecoms market driving sales and growing high-achieving businesses, we are confident that we can leverage her leadership to build on the success we have already had in this region, launch new services, achieve our growth objectives and explore new, exciting opportunities across Latin America," Nilsson added.

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