Just wanted to let you know that Nimbuzz, award winning mobile social messenger company, made a strategic hire with our new CMO, Neal Fullman. Neal, former International Communications Director at fring, has joined Nimbuzz in the role of Chief Marketing Officer, leading brand development, marketing and communications strategy.

He joins at a time of development across all business units and a period of unprecedented growth with more than 25,000 new users joining every day, and a variety of global distribution deals being confirmed.

Explaining the hire, Nimbuzz CEO Evert Jaap Lugt commented: “We are delighted that Neal Fullman will be joining the Nimbuzz team as our new CMO, to lead the next phase of our growth in which marketing and branding will become central to everything we do.”

Neal has developed a specialism for consumer technology & telecoms, digital, social and traditional media. His professional work has resulted in award-winning communication strategies, commercial structures & partnership acquisition across a variety of digital platforms, mobile, broadcast, online & social networks.

“I’m very happy to be joining the company at such an exciting stage in its development, and look forward to working with the great team at Nimbuzz and to the opportunity to build a world-class mobile communications brand.” said Neal Fullman.

Neal Fullman has 15 years International marketing & communications experience, having directed board level strategies for established FTSE 100’s, blue-chip brands and entrepreneurial start-ups. Neal looked after technology and telecoms brands for four years at the London office of Edelman Worldwide, with clients including Ericsson, breathe.com, BT Cellnet, BT Genie and O2.