Crews, formerly GM of Bell Canada’s Home Monitoring service, to manage 4Home’s service provider rollouts of home control services worldwide
Sunnyvale, CA– April 22, 2008 – 4HomeMedia, Inc., developer of ControlPoint™ and Portal Server, the industry-standard platform for home control services over broadband, today announced the appointment of Jeff Crews as VP of Service Provider Rollouts. The move reinforces the company’s leadership position in combining top industry expertise with the leading software solution for delivering the next-generation of broadband services for the home.
“With his extensive background, first-hand experiences, and connections in the telecommunications and home services arena, Jeff will help bring our software-enabled services into the mainstream by planning and consulting with the service providers that will deliver the services,” said Brad Kayton, COO of 4HomeMedia. “We will only be truly successful in marketing our software to service providers when they, in turn, experience similar success marketing their offer to consumers. Jeff spent the last two years at one of Canada’s leading service providers developing and then marketing home monitoring services directly to consumers.”
Crews adds over 15 years of executive leadership to the senior management team at 4HomeMedia. He previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Bell Monitoring Services, a subsidiary of Bell Canada responsible for the development of next-generation home monitoring, security, and home health services. Earlier, Crews held several VP-level positions at MTS Allstream, a leading Canadian communications provider. He holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.
“4HomeMedia is at the forefront of connected-home market and has pioneered the industry’s support and development of home control services,” said Crews. “I’m honored to play such an integral role in taking these solutions to the next level by assisting in launching, managing, and growing the service provider rollouts and seeing them successfully delivered into people’s homes.”
About 4HomeMedia, Inc.
4HomeMedia is the leading provider of “home control services” which include home monitoring, media and entertainment management, home health, and energy management. With the sudden commoditization of the “triple play,” 4HomeMedia’s solution is in high-demand. 4HomeMedia’s ControlPoint™ and Portal Server software products allow hardware vendors and service providers to create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use, and profitable new applications and services for the connected home. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed anywhere on the home network provides whole home coverage — from anywhere and at anytime. Portal Server is a robust broadband application server for the NOC providing scalable and manageable home control services for a broad, mass-market rollout. 4HomeMedia, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information on 4HomeMedia and its award-winning solutions, please visit www.4homemedia.com