Dstny has appointed Christophe Costers as its new Chief Operating Officer.

Costers is credited with an impressive track record in transformational management, which will drive Dstny’s business performance and sustainable growth.

Costers’ previous role was as VP of Entertainment at Belgian Telco Telenet, where he also held several senior management positions beforehand.

Costers commented:

I am thrilled to join Dstny and work alongside a talented team to further strengthen the company’s position as a leader in cloud-based Business Communications. I look forward to leveraging my experience to drive sustainable growth and help Dstny deliver exceptional value to our customers and partners.”

Costers brings almost 20 years of varied experience in business functions, including P&L ownership, strategy consulting, and entrepreneurship. He illustrates industry expertise in Telecom and IT services as well as private equity. He possesses international experience in over 25 countries in both developed and emerging markets.

“Our industry is undergoing rapid transformation, and Christophe’s unique blend of skills and experience make him the ideal person to lead our business performance initiatives,” added Daan De Wever, CEO of Dstny. “With Christophe on board, we are confident in our ability to accelerate our growth and boost vitality for our customers, partners, employees, and planet.”

Dstny’s Run of Exciting Teams-Centric Acquisitions and Solutions

Dstny has been going from strength to strength over the past couple of years.

Last year, Dstny acquired Qunifi, the holding company for Call2Teams and Carrier Automate. Qunifi was a Microsoft Teams specialist that supported more than two million Teams users.

Call2Teams was highly capable of adding voice to the collaboration platform, while Carrier Automate helped carriers on their journey to Microsoft’s Operator Connect. Qunifi became part of the Dstny for Service Provider section.

A few months later, in June 2022, Dstny Automate launched its Operator Connect Accelerator support to help service providers gain accreditation for the Teams voice solution. Qunifi partnered with Ribbon to deliver the service via Dstny’s Carrier Automate platform.

Carrier Automate automates much of the Operator Connect set-up process for service providers, dramatically reducing the initial costs compared to building the technology themselves. UC Today spoke to Dstny and Ribbon earlier this yearabout how the two businesses partnered up to deliver a high-quality BYOC solution.

Last month, Dstny expanded its Teams-centric capabilities yet again, having received its Operator Connect certification for Microsoft Teams. Dstny is now available on the Teams Admin Centre and aims to deliver its seamless and quality-assured enterprise solution via Microsoft Teams Voice.

Dstny with Operator Connect allows organisations to unite their meetings, collaborations and calls in one interface to simplify workflows and improve productivity. With Dstny now available in the Microsoft Teams Admin Centre, IT admins can easily choose lines and minutes, handle numbers and assign users directly in the Teams portal.

Dstny’s Launches Beyond Teams

It is not just integrations and collaborations with Teams that Dstny has produced. Earlier this year, Dstny announced that Dstny Automate could now enable Webex Calling as part of the company’s global BYOC (Bring Your Own Carrier) aggregation platform Carrier Automate.

The Carrier Automate platform, delivered by Dstny Automate and developed in partnership with Ribbon, empowered global operators to quickly deliver PSTN services to Webex Calling. According to Dstny, the platform enabled operators to accelerate their go-to-market and address the increase in demand for BYOC.

In March, Dstny launched a fixed mobile convergence (FMC) offering to bridge the gap between UC platforms and mobile devices, called Dstny Converge. Dstny Converge provided service providers with the power to integrate voice services with a device’s native dialler so users wouldn’t have to switch between apps.

Dstny stated the use of FMC would improve reliability for users while having less battery impact than a mobile data-powered call through a collaboration app. It claimed that Converge required minimal engineering work to set up and that it could deliver FMC services to more than 2.3 million daily active mobile users.



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