Industry Software Number of employees 331 | Website www.criticalpath.net Type Privately held company | |
Fate Acquired by Openwave Messaging (December 4, 2013) Key people Mark Palomba, CEO and Chairman
Tim Noel, CFO
Barry Twohig, EVP of Engineering Products Mobile Software
Messaging Software
Anti-Abuse Software
Identity Management Software Revenue $66.963 million USD (2005) CEO Mark E. Palomba (14 Jun 2007–) Headquarters Dublin, Republic of Ireland Founded 1997, San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Critical Path is a provider of messaging services, working in partnerships with mobile operators, telecommunications companies, ISPs, and enterprises. It was acquired on December 4, 2013 by Openwave Messaging and is now headed by Openwave Messaging President and CEO, Joe Campbell. On March 02, 2016, it was announced that Synchronoss Technologies agreed to acquire Openwave Messaging.
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History
Critical Path, Inc. was founded in 1997 by David C. Hayden and Wayne de Geere III as a provider of outsourced email service to ISPs. In 1998 they hired a new CEO, Douglas Hickey and acquired Usenet provider Supernews. The company went public on March 29, 1999. The IPO was covered favorably by the trade press at the time. In early 2001, nearly two years after their IPO, a series of lawsuits against Critical Path were filed over hiring practices, accounting irregularities, and securities fraud, culminating in a management shakeup and SEC action against the company's President, David Thatcher, and other executives. Thatcher and 2 others plead guilty and were sentenced to jail terms from 3 months to one year. In 2005 their stock was delisted by Nasdaq.
In 2007 the company went private and in 2008 sold Supernews to Giganews.
In October 2010, Critical Path and Mirapoint, a secure enterprise messaging company announced their decision to merge.
Products and solutions
Critical Path's Memova product line provides consumer messaging solutions (homogeneous mixtures composed of only one phase) for mobile operators, broadband and fixed-line service providers. These solutions include:
In addition, the company provides a number of Identity Management (IDM) solutions: