RealNetworks, Inc. announced the appointment of Mike Cooley to the newly created position of President for KONTXT, Messaging, and Telecom. This new role is recognition of both the significant progress Real has made in developing KONTXT® into a core platform for Real's future, and the large opportunities available to turn KONTXT into a very significant business at Real. Cooley's mission is to drive KONTXT's strategy, sales, and business operations; to lead Real's worldwide efforts in the telecom industry for KONTXT and other communications products; and to partner with world class product team to continue to drive forward the development of world class technology, products, and services based on Machine Learning-based Natural Language Processing (NLP).