California’s Oldest & Most Respected Executive Search Firm

BridgeGate LLC secures Chief Technology Officer for Irvine based startup, YouMail. Mike Rudolph joins personalized mobile voice mail provider in key leadership role.

Saturday, March 17, 2007 -

BridgeGate LLC, California’s oldest and most respected executive search firm is pleased to announce the placement of Mike Rudolph as Chief Technology Officer for YouMail. YouMail has created a disruptive voice messaging platform that is revolutionizing cell phone voice mail. The YouMail service is the first of its kind to integrate cell phone messaging with the web, email, blogs, and social networks.

Mike Rudolph brings to YouMail a history of leading world class software development organizations with some of the software industry’s most innovative companies including LogicalApps where he was Vice Presidnet Product Managemnt and Product Development. Prior to LogicalApps, Mike was a Vice President with First Advantage, a division of First American. A noted expert on Web 2.0, Mr. Rudolph will serve a key leadership position in the commercialization of YouMail’s revolutionary product.

Mr. Rudolph will report to YouMail’s newly appointed CEO, Alex Quilici who joins the company after having served as Vice President AOL Voice Services. BridgeGate’s Steve Brown executed the search for You Mail.

About YouMail
YouMail replaces your cellular voice mail with a free, dramatically better voice mail system, with a compelling set of cool new features like personalized greetings for each caller, online voice mail access, easy voicemail sharing, the ability to save special voicemails forever, and complete control over who can leave you a voicemail.

About BridgeGate LLC
BridgeGate LLC. (www.bridgegate.com) is a retained executive search firm headquartered in Irvine, California. BridgeGate serves established as well as early stage clients across all industries including Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Consumer Products and Services. BridgeGate's Partners and Associates work with a select group of diverse and prestigious organizations throughout the United States, including, Walmart.com, OpsWare, Experian Consumer Direct, LiveOps, and Oakley.