Fremont, CA, June 3, 2008 — AltiGen® Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATGN), a leading provider of VoIP business phone systems and Unified Communications solutions for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), including companies with multiple distributed locations, branch offices and call centers, named Jeff Kays as vice president of business development. Mr. Kays’ primary focus will be to accelerate growth of AltiGen’s strategic business initiatives through aggressive reseller recruiting and partner channel expansion. He will also be responsible for the company’s distribution, strategic alliance, product and marketing partners and programs.
“For the past year AltiGen has been aggressively pursuing a multi-faceted growth strategy,” said Jeremiah Fleming, AltiGen’s president and chief operating officer. “Jeff’s strong focus on new business development, extensive channel experience and demonstrated ability to drive business growth will play a key role in helping AltiGen achieve the goals we’ve established in our growth plan.”
Fremont, CA, June 3, 2008 — AltiGen® Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATGN), a leading provider of VoIP business phone systems and Unified Communications solutions for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), including companies with multiple distributed locations, branch offices and call centers, named Jeff Kays as vice president of business development. Mr. Kays’ primary focus will be to accelerate growth of AltiGen’s strategic business initiatives through aggressive reseller recruiting and partner channel expansion. He will also be responsible for the company’s distribution, strategic alliance, product and marketing partners and programs.
“For the past year AltiGen has been aggressively pursuing a multi-faceted growth strategy,” said Jeremiah Fleming, AltiGen’s president and chief operating officer. “Jeff’s strong focus on new business development, extensive channel experience and demonstrated ability to drive business growth will play a key role in helping AltiGen achieve the goals we’ve established in our growth plan.”
Mike Plumer, AltiGen’s vice president of sales, said “Jeff brings years of experience directing successful channel sales programs to the team. Having him on board will enable us to have a concentrated focus on growing and improving the productivity of our reseller base, while I turn, my efforts to developing new business relationships. We believe this two-pronged approach will contribute to the further growth of the company.”
Jeff Kays stated, “AltiGen’s world class software-based communications platform positions us to uniquely address the high growth Unified Communications market. Given the number of quality resellers and distributors that have partnered with AltiGen during the course of the past year, the timing couldn’t be better to accelerate both partner recruiting and development programs in this area. This is an exciting time to join AltiGen and I look forward to significantly growing our business.”
Prior to joining AltiGen, Mr. Kays served as vice president of sales at Dallas-based Alliance Systems. Under his leadership, Alliance grew to over $100 million in annual revenues. In developing a channel sales model as Alliance’s primary growth strategy, Jeff built a global partner network supporting the enterprise telephony, call center, unified communications and carrier markets. Prior to joining Alliance Systems, he served as director of new business development at National Health Enhancement Systems, a publicly traded software company and vice president of sales for VS3, a Phoenix-based developer of enterprise voice messaging systems. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri.
AltiGen Communications
AltiGen Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATGN) is a leading provider of VoIP business phone systems and Microsoft-based Unified Communications solutions for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), including companies with multiple distributed locations, branch offices and call centers. AltiGen’s scalable, integrated, and easy to manage all-in-one unified communications solutions enable an array of applications like standards based SIP VoIP phones and servers, unified messaging, voicemail, call recording, conferencing, call activity reporting and mobility solutions that leverage both the Internet and the public telephone network to take advantage of the convergence of voice and data communications. AltiGen’s systems are designed with an open architecture and are built on an industry standard platform. This adherence to widely used standards allows products to integrate with and leverage the existing technology investment of partners and customers. For more information, call 1-888-ALTIGEN or visit the web site at www.altigen.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including, without limitation, statements regarding the continued market acceptance of our Voice over IP telephone systems, and a successful partnership with a leading distributor in the Untied Kingdom. These statements reflect management’s current expectation. However, actual results could differ materially as a result of unknown risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to, risks related to AltiGen’s limited operating history. For a more detailed description of these and other risks and uncertainties affecting AltiGen’s performance, please refer to AltiGen’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007 and all subsequent current reports on Form 8-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to AltiGen as of the date hereof and AltiGen assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.