Corebridge wins the prestigious Red Herring Global 100 Award

17 January 2009

San Diego, California - Following a successful presentation before its distinguished panel of judges, Corebridge's Chief Information Officer, Simon Taylor was pleased to collect the prestigious Red Herring Global 100 Award on behalf of the company at a ceremony in San Diego on the night of 16 January.

"It was my great privilege to accept the Global 100 Award tonight from Alex Vieux, the publisher of Red Herring," said Simon. "It's the greatest award Corebridge has received so far and our achievement is the result of the hard work that each member of staff has put into our company."

The Red Herring Global 100 Awards competition recognises young companies whose performance and potential are outstanding. The Red Herring editorial team’s detailed process whittles down a pool of 1,800 eligible companies from all over the world to the one hundred annual recipients of their global award. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations are made on criteria such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy and ecosystem integration.

Corebridge’s successful competition entry was based on its significant revenue growth in 2008 and its trailblazing development of the Corebridge OCS Gateway server, which enables the OCS client to issue commands to a private branch exchange (PBX) or telephony switch so that OCS users can drive desktop phone activities from the Microsoft Office Communicator client. In this way Corebridge leverages Microsoft’s applications to incorporate legacy telephone systems in any organisation’s unified communications work flows.

"We were so pleased to announce Corebridge as a Red Herring Top 100 Global Company," commented Red Herring publisher Alex Vieux. "Difficult as it was for us to narrow the field down, Corebridge excels in its industry and we are pleased to have included it in our list of promising companies.  We look forward to the changes it makes to its industry in the future."

Delighted by the news, Corebridge's Chief Executive Officer, Francis Zadan commented, "Previous RH100 winners have included Google, eBay and Skype. This is one of the most prestigious awards that a privately held company can win, so the significance of this success to Corebridge is self-evident."

Corebridge's CIO, Simon Taylor holds Corebridge's Red Herring Global 100 Award at Friday night's ceremony