Voip-Pal.com Inc. announced that due to personal reasons Dr. Thomas Sawyer has stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Voip-Pal. Dr. Sawyer will remain with the Company as a Director and will oversee specific projects. Vice-Chairman Colin Tucker has been appointed Chairman of the Board.

Majority shareholder and Special Advisor to the Board of Directors Emil Malak has been appointed to the Board of Directors and named CEO. Dr. Tucker was a founding member of Orange plc, a company he helped grow into a mobile network leader, generating billions in annual revenues and operating in six countries. Orange was sold to France Telecom for GBP 25 billion (approximately $38 billion).

Dr. Tucker has served as a Director and CEO of Hutchison 3G where in 2003, he oversaw the deployment of the first 3G mobile network in the UK. Newly appointed CEO, Emil Malak is the larger single shareholder of Voip-Pal stock. He was a co-founder of Digifonica in 2003 and oversaw the development of the patents which were acquired by Voip-Pal in 2013.

Mr. Malak also serves as Chairman of the Board for a biotech company currently conducting cancer research in Germany.