Industry Leader Nicole Meissner Joins Yappn to Lead UK and European Ecommerce and Social Programs - Seite 2

Europe is the third highest region for Ecommerce in the world with 94 million consumers buying across borders with the top ecommerce buying countries being the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Austria and the Netherlands. Out of the 816 million people living in Europe, 69% use the internet and 47% of internet users make purchases online. Ecommerce sales in Europe grew by 16.3% in 2013 to EUR363.1 billion. Continuing this growing trend, online revenues are expected to increase to EUR425.5 billion during 2014 and by the end of 2016, increase to EUR625 billion. (Ecommerce News)

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About Nicole Meissner

Co-Founder, COO, CMO and Head of IR for Synchronica PLC, now Myriad Group, Ms. Meissner scaled revenues with strong growth via 4 acquisitions spanning $1.7MM (2006), $3.2MM (2007), $5.3MM (2008), $5.9MM (2009), $10.9MM (2010) and $23MM (2011). During 2011 she also led the acquisition of Nokia Operator Branded Messaging Business for $25MM in cash and raised $15MM from new and existing institutional investors to fund acquisition and provide working capital. Through the acquisition, she acquired patent portfolio and contracts with operators in North America including Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Rogers and Bell, with recurring revenue.

From 2003 - 2004, Ms. Meissner was the Senior VP, Product Management and Marketing for Asdis Software AG where she defined and developed three new products for kiosk, ATM and terminal management for the financial services and telecommunication industries., driving a turn-around of the company and bringing revenues from EUR0 to EUR15MM through deployment of products in major international banks.

Ms. Meissner has held other posts at venture capital and private equity firms as well as positions at Siemens AG, Radio Ramasuri, German Press Agency and Sueddeutsche Zeitung

About Yappn

Yappn is a real-time multilingual company that amplifies brand messaging, helps conduct commerce and provides customer support by globalizing these experiences with its proprietary approach to language. Through its real-time multilingual amplification platform, Yappn eliminates the language barrier, allowing the free flow of communications in 67 languages. Yappn has developed cost effective, unique and proprietary technology tools and services that create dynamic solutions that enhance a brands messaging, media, e-commerce and support platforms.