Speakers Biographies
Ajit Jaokar, Founder & CEO, Futuretext
Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies.
His thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog, The OpenGardensBlog, was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide. He is also well known for his books Mobile Web 2.0, Social Media Marketing.
Ajit chairs Oxford University's Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University.
Alan Brenner, SVP, Research In Motion (RIM)
Alan is responsible for the inception, development and delivery of RIM’s end to end software platform including developer tools, BlackBerry Enterprise Software(BES), BlackBerry Internet Software(BIS) and BlackBerry Unite!.
Prior to joining RIM, Alan was a Senior VP at Sun Microsystems responsible for the Java ME Platform, Java Cards, Open Office, iPlanet Email and several other Sun software businesses.
Alan holds a Master of Communication and Information Studies Degree from Cleveland State University and a BA with Honors from York University.
Alex Farber, Senior Reporter, New Media Age
Following five years working in the music industry on a variety of consumer facing websites and services, Alex joined mobile trade magazine Mobile Media. He joined new media age in 2006 and covers mobile, music and portals. Follow Alex on twitter http://twitter.com/alexfarber
Aymar de Lencquesaing, Senior Corporate VP, President Acer Smart Handheld Business Group
As Senior Corporate VP, Aymar is part of Acer’s senior management team and as SHBG President he is in charge of the company’s business in the Smart Handheld market, with a specific corporate wide focus on operators.
Previously at Packard Bell Aymar spent over twenty years in the USA where he held a variety of management, sales and marketing positions in the high-tech industry including CEO of HotVoice Communicationsm, Executive VP International of Ziff Davis / Softbank, President of Seybold, President of PC Brand and VP of Tandon Corporation.
Aymar is a graduate of the ESSEC (Ecole Supérieure de Sciences Economiques et Commerciales - Paris - France).
Barney Wragg, Independent Media Consultant
Barney Wragg had a career in both small and large technology related businesses including Micronics and ARM before moving to Universal Music Group in 2000 and EMI in 2006. Barney was responsible for all aspects of EMI's digital strategy and business development, including the ground breaking move to support the distribution of DRM free content.
Barney has also founded and invested in a number of media and technology businesses and continues to sit on the board of a number of companies in this space.
Caroline Gabriel, SCo-founder & Research Director, Rethink Research Associates
Rethink Research Associates is a London-based analyst and consulting firm, which specializes in operator business models using emerging technologies. In particular, the company’s research and consulting focus on advanced wireless technologies such as WiMAX, LTE and 4G, and on the economics of the quad play.
Caroline has been analysing the telecoms and technology sectors for over 20 years and was previously European content director at VNU Business Publishing, one of the world’s largest technology publishers.
Chris Bruce, CEO, BT Openzone and Board Director, Wireless Broadband Alliance
Chris is responsible for managing BT’s public Wi-Fi service, Openzone. He has over 20 years’ experience within the telecommunications industry in a range of general management, product, marketing and sales channel management roles. Chris joined BT in 1991 and has been responsible for business growth in the international data comms, mobile, internet hosting, global voice and now wireless broadband sectors.
At BT Openzone, Chris has spearheaded a number of industry leading initiatives including the launch of the world’s first international Wi-Fi travel voucher offering travellers cheaper and more predictable communications costs when abroad.
Christian Lindholm, Managing Partner, Fjord
Fjord is a convergence design agency, based in Berlin, Helsinki, London and New York. Christian’s role is three fold, he is responsible for sales, marketing and godfathering complicated project to ensure designers reach higest levels of elegant simplicity, company design motto.
Before that he was Vice President of Global Mobile Products at Yahoo. He worked ten years for Nokia in various roles in the areas of user interface, product creation and venturing.
He is also chairman of Tech21 Sensor GmbH a german startup developing a touch sensor and user interface innovations. Helsingin Sanomat, Finland's largest daily newspaper called him the 'godfather of mobile phone users', A tribute to the long-term efforts making Nokia phones easier to use. While at Nokia he invented the Nokia Navi-key user interface, he is the father of the Series 60 user interface. His innovations have been seen in nearly 1BN phones sold all over the world. At Yahoo he was instrumental in the creation of the Yahoo Go 2.0, featuring the award wining carousel user experience. He is a frequent lecturer and commentator on the future of mobility. He is a guest columnist for Forbes.com, and writes about moving experiences on his blog
He holds several patents in user experience and HW concepts. He believes: Everything can always be simplified and made more delightful to use, everything that can be mobile will be mobile. He has a master's degree in Economics and takes a strategic visionary perspective on design, design management and product creation.
Christiane Vejlø, Head of Innovation, 3 Denmark
Christiane initially headed up the content team and function as daily lead editor for 3’s mobile portal Planet 3. Recently she has stepped into a new role with even deeper focus on the mobile as a media channel and first mover products and services as Head of Innovation for 3 Denmark. Within this area she plays an important role spotting trends and analysing the digital scene, working closely with the product and content team to maintain 3’s frontrunner position being first with innovative new services.
Prior to joining 3 Christiane was heading Public Relations for Danish ISP Dansk Bredbaand and functioning as a new media consultant for her own company. With a background in the media business she has taken part in content production and promotion for content platforms from TV, radio and magazines to newspapers, internet and mobile.
Christiane holds a Master in Media Studies and Communication Degree from the University of Copenhagen and a BA from University of Aarhus. Christiane is also on the board of the `Danish Media Counsel for Children and Teenagers` and a popular speaker on generation Y and the digital lifestyle of tomorrow.
Christopher Schläffer, Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Deutsche Telekom
Christopher Schläffer is Deutsche Telekom´s Group Product & Innovation Officer. At the same time he is the member of the Executive Committee of T-Mobile International responsible for Marketing.
In his role Christopher Schläffer is in charge of Deutsche Telekom´s product portfolio across strategic business areas and bringing key innovations like IPTV, the mobile internet or new services around "Connected Life & Work" to market. He also takes responsibility for Deutsche Telekom’s Research & Development.
From 2002 to 2006 Christopher Schläffer served as Corporate Development Officer (CDO) in charge of Corporate Strategy, Technology & Innovation, Research& Development, IT, Venture Capital as well as Deutsche Telekom’s Regional Offices in Asia and Europe.
In 2000 Christopher Schläffer became Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy at Deutsche Telekom.
Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom in 1998 Christopher Schläffer worked with Accenture, the global consulting, technology and outsourcing company.
Christopher Schläffer holds a master’s degree from the Vienna University of Economics.
Christy Wyatt, Vice President, Software Applications and Ecosystem, Motorola, Inc.
Christy is responsible for the development and management of Motorola’s strategic platforms, ISV and developer ecosystems. She and her global team drive platform definition, design, and development and cultivate a thriving developer environment through partner recruitment/management, tools development and support, ISV management and go-to-market programs. She currently serves as Motorola’s board member for the Linux Foundation, LiMo Foundation, and Eclipse Foundation.
Prior to joining Motorola, Christy served as Worldwide Developer Relations Director at Apple Computer where she was responsible for partners, global alliances and evangelism. Before her time at Apple, Christy was Senior Director at Palmsource Inc., responsible for their licensing and developer relations teams where she grew the developer community from 3,000 to 200,000 with more than 14,000 applications.
Christy has also held key technical, sales and business development roles at Sun Microsystems, JavaSoft and ESRI.
Daniel Rosen, Head of Mobile, AKQA
As Founder and Head of AKQA Mobile, Daniel has been behind some of the most notable mobile campaigns that have received international recognition, for brands including: Nike, Gap, Coke, Target, McDonald’s and Visa.Prior to AKQA, Daniel was MD of Associated Newspapers’ interactive subsidiary, Greenland, and launched 12snap UK’s mobile marketing business. He started his mobile carer in 1995 as a client side marketer within Orange UK.
Dean Bubley, Founder, Disruptive Analysis
Disruptive Analysis is an independent technology industry analyst and consulting firm.
An analyst with over 16 years' experience, Dean primarily specialises in mobile, wireless, networking, and telecoms fields, with further expertise in certain aspects of the software and semiconductor sectors. His present focus is on wireless technology, especially the evolution of mobile device architecture & software, fixed-mobile convergence, IMS, wireless VoIP, shifts in service provider value chains, enterprise mobility, in-building technologies, femtocells, spectrum policy, wireless broadband, and the integration of cellular and WLAN technologies.
He is also the author of the Disruptive Wireless blog, found at disruptivewireless.blogspot.com.
Dean was formerly an equity analyst, covering communications and software stocks with the UK arm of investment bank Robert W. Baird and prior to that, he spent eight years at UK research firm Datamonitor, where he co-founded the company's Technology business unit and held the titles of Chief Analyst and Director of Consulting.
He holds a BA in Physics from Keble College, Oxford University.
Declan Lonergan, VP Consumer Research EMEA, Yankee Group
Declan Lonergan is a vice president of Yankee Group’s Anywhere Consumer research group. Lonergan produces and manages research that improves service providers’ and technology vendors’ business results. He helps clients make critical decisions regarding the deployment and marketing of innovative consumer services. Lonergan has 17 years of experience in the communications industry.
Enrico Salvatori, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Qualcomm Europe
Enrico joined Qualcomm as a Senior Director for Technical Marketing in Europe for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), where he was responsible for operator relationships in Southern Europe. He has been the Vice President of Qualcomm Europe Operations and was responsible for the day-to-day running of the business across all divisions, working with operators and handset manufacturers driving UMTS adoption across Western Europe. Today Enrico is Senior Vice President & General Manager of Qualcomm Europe, taking the lead role for Global Business Development in Europe.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, he was the Chief Technology Officer at TELIT, an Italian GSM/GPRS handset manufacturer. He also worked as a Technical Director in Elsacom, a satellite service provision company distributing the Globalstar communication service.
Enrico has a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Rome.
Frank Keeling, MD EMEA, GluMobile
As Managing Director, EMEA, Frank Keeling leads Glu’s sales, marketing and licensing efforts throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa. Keeling joined Glu with more than 15 years experience as a senior executive for global internet, mobile content and digital entertainment companies. Keeling was most recently CEO of In-Fusio, a European-based mobile games service provider. Prior to In-Fusio, Keeling served as vice president of EMEA for RealNetworks, where he lead the music, games and video divisions in EMEA; and COO of Vodafone Global Content Services, where he was key in the development and deployment of the mobile content and delivery platform to support the launch of Vodafone live! – Vodafone’s major 3G consumer service offering. In addition, Keeling has held senior executive positions at a number of leading new technology companies including Freeserve, AOL Europe and Gemstar TV Guide International.
George Linardos, VP Product Management Media, Nokia
George Linardos is responsible for product strategy, development and marketing of Nokia’s global mobile content services.
Prior to his current role, George was Director of Mosh, Nokia’s integrated web and mobile platform for the global distribution and sharing of user-generated mobile content. Prior to MOSH, Mr. Linardos served as Head of Branded Content & Aggregators where he was responsible for driving global business development efforts and alliances with major media and entertainment companies. Mr. Linardos came to Nokia from a similar position at Macromedia as Director of Programming.
Previously, George formed and ran the Digital Media division of HSI Productions Inc., one of the largest television commercial and music video production companies in the world, with clients such as Gap and Nike. Equally experienced in traditional media, George was originally a feature film development executive and producer for Academy Award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone and then in partnership with actor-filmmaker Ben Stiller with whom he co-founded Red Hour Films at 20th Century Fox Studios. Some of the projects he helped develop and produce include the Academy Award nominated “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” “Zoolander,” and the Emmy and Golden Globe winning HBO film “Indictment: The McMartin Trial.”
Geraldine Wilson, CEO, Truphone
Geraldine Wilson joined Truphone as CEO from Yahoo! where she was the former vice president and general manager of Yahoo!’s European mobile division, Connected Life.
In her previous role she was responsible for growing the ISP’s broadband and mobile business in Europe, her remit including business, marketing strategy and operations. She joined Yahoo! from Vodafone where, among others, she held the key positions of chief commercial officer for Vodafone Sweden, and managing director of UK. content services for Vodafone UK. Prior to this she was managing director of Vizzavi UK and director for Prepay at Vodafone UK where she was responsible for the successful launch of the company’s “Pay as you Talk” proposition.
In total, Geraldine brings more than 20 years of product, marketing and sales experience in the mobile and telecoms industry to her new role.
Giles Corbett, Independent Advisor
Gil Rosen, Vice President – Strategic Initiatives & Customer Experience, Amdocs Interactive
Gil Rosen leads new initiatives in Amdocs in the area of open services and third-party enablement environments. He is a specialist in mobile, web commerce and the user experience, and has more than 10 years of experience in setting up and leading high-tech start-up ventures. Gil joined Amdocs in 2007 from TriPlay Communications, which he co-founded and where he served as General Manager. Gil holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya Arison School of Business in Israel.
Henry Stevens, Director of Media and Entertainment, GSMA
Henry is Director of Media and Entertainment at the GSMA, in which role he leads the GSMA’s Mobile Media Metrics Programme and has overall responsibility for all the Association’s activities in Mobile Advertising. He has over fifteen years’ experience in the telecommunications and media industries, including three years working for UK operator O2, where he was Head of Marketing Strategy and Planning, and over ten years’ strategy consulting, based in both Europe and North America.
Hossein Moiin, Group Vice President for Technology Strategy, T-Mobile International
Hossein’s main interest is in identification of innovative solutions to mobile operators’ business problems. Currently, he is leading the development of for the Next Generation Mobile Networks project, an industry-wide initiative that sets the future vision of the mobile industry. Previously, he led the technical strategy of T-Mobile for data services. Before joining T-Mobile, Hossein worked for Sun Microsystems in US and Europe to develop strategic platforms for telecommunication and financial sectors.
Hossein has over twenty years of experience in the ICT industries and holds a Ph.D. from University of California in Computer Engineering.
Hugo Barra, Group Product Manager, Google
Hugo is Group Product Manager and Global Product Lead for Mobile at Google. Prior to this Hugo was Business Director of Nuance Communications where he co-founded the company’s global business unit focused on mobile voice search and mobile voice messaging software products − Nuance Mobile. At Nuance, he held several roles including product management, product marketing and business development and launched a number of speech recognition products.
Previously, Hugo co-founded LOBBY7, a Boston-based mobile software company spun off of the MIT Media Lab and backed by SOFTBANK, acquired by Nuance Communications in 2003.
A native of Brazil, Hugo received Bachelor of Science and Masters of Engineering degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Science from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He worked as a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab and MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and was MIT Senior Class President.
Ian Wood, Principal, Wireless Foundry
Ian founded Wireless Foundry in 1999 having worked for the previous 12 years in a number of Corporate Roles in Mobile across Europe. Wireless Foundry is a boutique strategy house that offers insight to Boards on the development of the mobile industry and positioning.
Ian holds a PhD in Economics and his specialisms are Pricing & Game Theory. Since working on 3G Spectrum bids he has focused on the development of Next Generation Networks and the Services that can run over them. Recent assignments have been; Adoption of Mobile Banking Services, 4G Wireless Standards Adoption and Handset Segmentation and Subsidy models. Clients include Vodafone, Hewlett Packard, Ericsson, Qualcomm and Huawei.
Ilja Laurs, Founder & CEO, GetJar
GetJar is the world's most popular mobile application distribution and developer community and a great example of mobile applications companies growing their businesses off-deck, without having to go through the mobile operators. Some of the high profile applications companies Getjar has been working with include Google Maps, Yahoo Go and Opera Mini.
Ilja was born in Lithuania in 1976 when the country was part of the Soviet Union. While at secondary school, he enrolled in an American student exchange programme, which found him a place in a school in Ohio State for a year. He then came back to Lithuania to join Vilnius University. Interestingly, he says he decided to do Economics as "technology was not considered cool" at the time, financing his education by teaching English to school students. Fluent in Lithuanian, Russian and English, he holds a keen interest in Basketball and Chess, and enjoys traveling.
Jakob Berg, Chief Executive Officer, PopCatcher
Jakob co-founded PopCatcher with his brother Rickard. He obtained a Bachelor degree of Economics at Linköping’s University and studied finance at the Royal Melbourne University of Technology, Australia.
He began his career in 1996 as stock analyst and share trader at Nordea Bank. In 1999, he was offered a position at the financial institution Hagströmer & Qviberg.
In 2001 he started the PopCatcher venture with his brother Rickard. Acting as the CEO, he has proved successful in expanding the capital and financing PopCatcher’s activities as well as promoting PopCatcher’s technology toward OEMs. He is actively taking part in project leading of products with the PopCatcher technology integrated.
James Enck, Senior Partner, mCapital
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Jay Sullivan, VP Mobile, Mozilla
Jay works at Mozilla on mobile Firefox and other new projects with the Mozilla Labs team. He has been working as a mobile software developer for the last several years, most recently as co-founder and VP of Product Management at PocketThis, where he and his team pioneered the idea of “Send to phone” from the Web as a way to make the mobile Web useful for people. In that capacity, he worked with mobile network operators, mobile infrastructure and browser providers and Web developers building mobile applications in Europe and the US.
Prior to that Jay worked at Oracle on Business Intelligence tools and applications, and Firefly Network (purchased by Microsoft) on the earliest versions of Passport.
Jim Hollingsworth, SVP, Gracenote
Bringing over 25 years of experience in the consumer electronics industry, Jim leads Gracenote’s global marketing throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Jim was previously President of ReplayTV a subsidiary of Denon and Marantz Holdings. Prior to D&M’s acquisition of ReplayTV, he was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, where he oversaw four major product lines (RIO Digital Audio, GoVideo, ReplayTV and Diamond Multimedia). Previously, he was Vice President of Marketing, Computer Products at Sony Corp., and was integral in the launch of the VAIO line of PCs and Peripherals. Prior to that, Jim spent two years at StarSight Telecast (now Gemstar, Inc.), where he was responsible for licensing StarSight's technologies to the consumer electronics industry. He began his career at Sony Consumer Electronics and Panasonic, where he held roles in sales and marketing.
Jin-Sung Choi, Vice President Head of Mobile Communication Technology Lab, LG Electronics
After graduating from Seoul National University, Jun-Sung Choi joined LG Information & Communication Ltd and worked for the development of Electronic Switching System, then pursuing his Ph.D at University of Southern California. He then rejoined LG Electronics where he became vice president and the head of mobile communication technology research center.
His research interests are mobile and cellular networks, IP QOS, Mobile Broadband and beyond, All IP mobile networks, mobile Internet, 4G and others. One of his major achievements was UMTS Access system development in 2001. In addition, he has been actively participated in IMT-2000 & 4G global standardization activity ever since 3GPP global standard body was established. He regularly attends 3GPP, 3GPP2, OMA and IEEE global mobile standard meetings as a head representative of LG Electronics. He is also a member of TTA, the official standard development organization in Korea. He has chaired IMT-2000 & 4G Project Group in TTA and is a board member of OMA, Open Mobile Alliance and an associate member of NGMN, Next Generation Mobile Network where he actively participates into various working groups. He is now in charge of LTE technology development.
Jon Hall, Chief Advocate, openmoko
Jon "maddog" Hall is Chief Advocate of openmoko, and Executive Director of Linux International (www.li.org). During his career in commercial computing he has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager and educator.
He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, and SGI. He currently works as an independent consultant, and is the CTO and Ambassador for Koolu (www.koolu.com) a Canadian firm that is involved with bringing environmentally friendly computing to emerging marketplaces.
Jon has worked on many systems, both proprietary and open, having concentrated on Unix and Linux systems.
He has taught at Hartford State Technical College, Merrimack College and Daniel Webster College and is the author of numerous magazine and newspaper articles, many presentations and one book, "Linux for Dummies". Jon has consulted with the governments of China, Malaysia and Brazil as well as the United Nations and many local and state governments on the use of Free and Open Source Software.
Jon has travelled the world speaking on the benefits of Open Source Software, and received his BS in Commerce and Engineering from Drexel University, and his MSCS from RPI in Troy, New York.
Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software
Jon, along with colleague Geir Ivarsøy, developed a Web browser while working for Norwegian Telecom Research (Telenor) in 1994. In 1995 they together founded Opera Software and launched their first browser to the public a year later.
Jon holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Oslo. Upon completing his education, he worked as a research scientist for Norwegian Telecom Research.
Jon has received numerous honors and awards for his accomplishments through Opera Software. In 2005, he was included in the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders program.
Kaj-Erik Relander, Partner, Accel Partners
Kaj-Erik has over 20 years of experience in Telecommunications, IT and Venture Capital. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Carrier IQ, Cambridge Broadband, Discretix, Medio, MyThings, Pontis, Surfkitchen, The Cloud, Ubiquisys, Volantis, XConnect and Zlango. Before joining Accel, Kaj-Erik was President and CEO of Sonera Corporation, the progressive Finnish telecommunications company.
Accel Partners has a long history of excellence and innovation in the venture capital business and is dedicated to partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class companies. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California; London, UK; and Bangalore, India; as well as in China via the IDG-Accel Partnership.
With over $6 billion under management, Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful category-defining companies including: Actuate, Alfresco, AMCC, Arrowpoint, Baidu, BBN, Brightcove, ComScore, Etsy, Facebook, Focus Media, Foundry Networks, Gameforge, GlamMedia, Imperva, Infinera, Interwoven, JBoss, Kayak, Macromedia, metroPCS, Mu Sigma, Polycom/PictureTel, Portal Software, QlikTech, Rapt, Real Networks, Redback Networks, Riverbed, Sohu.com, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, Webroot, XenSource, and Zimbra.
Kenneth Karlberg, President of Business Area Mobility Services, TeliaSonera AB
Kenneth has held a number of top positions, primarily within TeliaSonera's mobile business including Head of TeliaSonera's operations in Norway, Denmark, Baltic and Spain. He now heads up the entire mobile business unit across the TeliaSonera Group, reporting directly to the CEO of TeliaSonera AB.
Before entering the post as President for Telia Mobile, he was Vice President and Head of Operations in Telia Mobitel. He has also been in charge of Marketing and Sales as well as Head of Human Resources within the Telia Group.
Kenneth is currently Chairman of the Boards of Omnitel in Lithuania, LMT in Latvia, Telia Denmark, NetCom and Chess in Norway and member of the board of Xfera Moviles in Spain. He is also a Chairman of the Board of Örebro Innovation Center and Konvera AB and member of the Board in the Swedish Emergency Management Agency.
Kevin Mc Donagh, London Android User Group
Kevin McDonagh is a Director for the Android consultancy group Novoda and an assistant organiser at the London Android User group. (Londroid). Kevin was a developer at JPMorgan Chase, managed the Glasgow Green Map project and ran the web design company AppleTv Design.
Kiyo Oishi, CEO, ACCESS Systems Americas
Kiyo Oishi is an executive officer of ACCESS CO., Ltd. and Chief Operating Officer of ACCESS Systems Americas. In this role, he is responsible for the day-to-day operations of ACCESS Systems Americas, with a particular focus on integrating global marketing and business development efforts.
Prior to joining ACCESS CO., Ltd., Kiyo was director of marketing at Geoworks, where he was responsible for multiple embedded software licensing deals with leading consumer electronics companies. Before Geoworks, Kiyo worked at Sony, where he accumulated extensive experience in sales, marketing and business planning in the areas of consumer electronics and component devices.
Kiyo holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Lee Williams, Executive Director, Symbian Foundation
The Symbian Foundation is a non-profit organisation that is building an open source software platform based on Symbian OS, today’s most widely used open operating system for mobile phones.
Before joining the foundation, Lee led the S60 Software organisation in Nokia’s Devices business and was responsible for managing and delivering key Nokia software assets for the companies’ products. This included the S60 software platform, related applications and product software for Nokia's S60 based devices and internet based services.
Prior to joining S60, he was the former head of Engineering and Product Development for Be, Inc. Products included the BeOS Operating System, BeIA an Internet Appliances platform and related applications and services. Be was acquired by Palm Computing and he joined as the head of Product Development and Delivery at Palm. Palm OS 4, 5 and smartphone based variants were delivered during his tenure at the company. He also led the Engineering Product Development Group at PalmSource, the software platform company responsible for licensing the Palm OS platform to global consumer electronics and smartphone licensees. After leaving Palm, and before joining Nokia, Lee was the General Manager of the Mobility Software Division for Symbol Technologies, before it was acquired by Motorola.
Lee is married with two children and is based in London, UK.
Magnus Melander, Board Member, Clue
Magnus is a an entrepreneur and independent consultant in general management, sales, marketing and wireless networking and serves of the boards of Clue, April Systems, Possio and La-Yin. Previously, Magnus was Partner at BrainHeart Capital, a VC devoted to wireless technologies, which he co-founded 2000. He has 25 years of international IT industry experience, including positions with IBM, Apple and 3Com. At 3Com, Magnus held several senior executive positions, including Marketing Director Europe, Network Service Provider Director EMEA and New Business Development Director EMEA. During his years at Apple he held a number of executive positions including Country Manager Finland, Channel Marketing Director Europe and Channel Strategy Director Europe.
Martin Wrigley, Director of Technology, Orange Partner
Orange Partner provides developers with the contacts, information, tools and support required to build and sell solutions to 100 million-plus Orange customers across the globe. Martin joined Orange in 1992 and is also the chairman of the Java Verified Committee.
Matt Hatton, Lead Analyst, Analysys Mason
Matt is responsible for Analysys Mason’s Mobile Broadband research programme, which explores the key issues affecting the evolution of this critical new market. He has over 10 years of experience at the cutting edge of telecoms strategy research and consulting. His career in the industry has included a market-intelligence and strategy role with Hutchison 3G UK (3 UK), and five years as a Senior Analyst and Program Manager with Yankee Group. Matt is a well-respected commentator on the mobile industry. He has an MSc in Telecommunications from University College London.
Mike Grant, Analysys Mason
Mike has almost 20 years of experience in the telecoms industry in a variety of senior management roles in operational and consulting environments. He has considerable experience of developing business plans and negotiating market entry strategies within the mobile space. Mike rejoined Analysys Mason from Superscape plc, where, as Vice President of Commercial Affairs, he played a major role in the development of 3D mobile gaming. He was responsible for developing and executing a two-stage strategy which firstly led to the development and adoption of the Java 3D graphics standard for mobile based on Superscape technology, and subsequently led Superscape to a position as the world’s leading 3D mobile games publisher.
Prior to joining Superscape, Mike established and developed the mobile practice of Analysys Mason into one of the foremost advisors in the mobile industry, playing a pivotal role in advising the EU on setting spectrum allocations in Europe and supporting over half of the 3G licensing processes in Europe and Asia in 2000–2001. Previously, he held senior management positions at British Aerospace Communications, the first private organisation to operate public telecoms services in the UK, and was a founder member of the consortium behind the Orange mobile phone business.
Dr Mike Short, Vice President – Research and Development, O2
Mike’s career spans 34 years in Electronics and Telecommunications, with the last 21 years in Mobile Communications. He was appointed Director of Cellnet in 1989 dealing with major infra-structure investments and commercial agreements. In 1993 the focus moved to launching Cellnet’s GSM service and establishing Roaming Agreements.
He was elected Chairman of the global GSM Association for 1995/96 and served on their Executive Board for 5 years. He has also served as a member of the UK Home Office Internet Task Force, UK OSAB (Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board) and DCSF Home access to Broadband committees. He is the current Chairman of the UK Government Trade and Investment ICT Sector advisory board and Board member of UK Child Council for Internet safety, as well as a Vice President of IET
Mike has also previously chaired the Mobile Data Association and is now Honorary President – MDA.
After looking after Cellnet’s 3G strategy and external relations he was appointed VP Technology for O2 Group in 2000, prior to demerger from BT.
Mike’s focus today is on Third Generation mobile, Mobile data applications in the Public Sector and steering Telefonica Europe’s Group Research and Development in mobile.
In the last 5 years Mike has also been appointed Visiting Professor at Surrey University, De Montfort and Lancaster Universities, and to the Boards of Coventry University Board and Ravensbourne College . He was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 2008 for services to the Mobile Communications industry. He is a Fellow of IET/BCS/CIPS/RGS and a Member of the Royal Television Society
Mitch Lazar, MD, Yahoo! Mobile, Europe
As Managing Director and General Manager of Yahoo! Mobile in Europe, Mitch is responsible for business development, product, marketing and operations of Yahoo!’s Mobile business in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Yahoo!’s mobile business includes strategic alliances with some of the world’s largest mobile communications companies, global device manufacturers and publishers. Yahoo! Mobile services are available through the mobile web; as a downloadable application for smart phones and as an application for the iPhone. Key Yahoo! services available to consumers through Yahoo! Mobile also include Yahoo! oneSearch, the company’s industry leading mobile search product.
Morgan Gillis, Executive Director, LiMo Foundation
Morgan has overall responsibility for leading the Foundation and all operational affairs including marketing, membership development, commercial and legal.
Prior to joining LiMo Foundation, Morgan served for six years as the operational board member for Symbian Limited, with global responsibility for sales and professional services. He established licensing agreements with all major handset makers, negotiated global agreements with several tier one operators and oversaw the support of numerous customer implementation projects, which helped establish the smart phone as a new industry category.
Before entering the mobile industry, Morgan held CEO and managing director positions with two leading European IT services businesses. He holds a Master's degree in mathematics and computer science.
Nabeel Mardi, Vice President of Device Development, T-Mobile International
Nabeel’s main focus is on developing and delivering bespoke mobile terminals, as well as, the evaluation of the overall terminal offerings across suppliers. He joined T-Mobile in the area of Mobile Multimedia; he then continued in the New Services Group where he was responsible for long-term innovation and also lead T-Mobile’s technical interest in the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP). In 2005 Nabeel was appointed Vice President of Terminal Strategy and Innovation. Previously Nabeel worked in various managerial roles for Psion PLC.
Nabeel has over 15 years of product experience in consumer electronics, holds an MSc in Data Communication and is a member of the Institute for Engineering and Technology (MIET).
Paran Johar, CMO, JumpTap
Paran leads the teams responsible for JumpTap’s global marketing activities. He is the driving force behind evangelizing the adoption of mobile advertising and supports the advertiser, publisher and carrier solution brands that serve thousands of partners. Before joining JumpTap, Paran was EVP of Digital Marketing for North America and Managing Director of MRM's Los Angeles office, his responsibilities included overseeing all operations of the LA office and all digital marketing in North America including online media, search marketing, and mobile marketing.
Prior to MRM, Paran was GM of the Los Angeles office for Tribal DDB responsible for all online media, SEM, and SEO activities in North America. Under his leadership, the Los Angeles office grew from $0 to over $80MM in annual billings, winning numerous awards such as Adweek's Interactive Agency of the Year in 2005. A seasoned and accomplished marketer and entrepreneur he has a diverse background in online branding and marketing communication work from other leading agencies such as Saatchi and Saatchi, BBDO Worldwide iXL, Poppe Tyson, Bates USA,. His client roster has spanned a broad range of work with media and brands including General Motors, Microsoft, Avery Dennison, Paramount Pictures, Wells Fargo Bank, Abbott Labs, Toyota, and many others.
Patrick Bossert, Director of Market Strategy, Convergys
Patrick Bossert is Director of Market Strategy for Convergys Corp, responsible for directing the $3bn company's investments to meet the changing needs of the telecoms market. Formerly he has held positions of Director of Transformational Outsourcing at Atos Origin UK, Head of Telecoms Business Strategy at KPMG Consulting, CTO of a US Venture Capital fund, and a variety of management and business leadership positions for FTSE100 corporate ventures. Patrick holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of York.
Peggy Salz, Editor, mSearchGroove
Peggy Anne Salz is the founder and publisher of MSearchGroove (MSG), an online source of analysis and commentary on mobile advertising, mobile advertising, and social media. Her report, Mobile Search & Content Discovery—the first of its kind—establishes Peggy as an authority on mobile search and content discovery technologies enabling media companies and mobile operators to monetize content and services through advertising and paid search. Her drive to spark debate about issues impacting the industry at all levels has won her international recognition as a brave new voice in the mobile content market.
She has established a successful consulting career based on vision, insight, versatility, and over 15 years of industry experience. She has written over 300 articles and also comments on daily developments impacting the industry at all levels for magazines, publications and online destinations such as MobiAd News, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Media, and New Media Age.
Philipp Diebert, Executive Programme Manager, NGMN
Philipp Deibert is Executive Programme Manager for the NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks) Alliance, an initiative of world-leading mobile operators with the objective to provide a coherent and technology-agnostic vision for the mobile network evolution beyond 3G.
Before joining NGMN, Philipp was a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton in the IT/ Communication & Technology Practice. In this position, he led multiple key assignments for major international telecom operators and vendors. His main consulting focus was in the areas of Portfolio- and Growth- Strategies, Transformation Programs and Technology Strategy. Prior to that, Philipp worked for Motorola in the UMTS network division and for German Television ZDF.
Philipp Hoschka, Deputy Director, w3c
Philipp’s main interest is bringing the benefits of Web technology to mobile and other non-PC devices. He leads W3C's Ubiquitous Web Domain which includes W3C's Mobile Web Initiative created by Philipp in 2005. In the past, he pioneered work on integrating audio and video into the Web.
Philipp founded, chaired and served as editor for the Working Group that developed the W3C Standard SMIL which today is an integral part of mobile phone MMS messaging. Philipp also leads W3C's "Television and the Web" Activity. He previously directed W3C's Architecture Domain, which issues all core XML specifications from the W3C. He chaired numerous W3C workshops that explored new Web developments, such as Workshops on the Mobile Web Initiative, Web Services, Television and the Web, Push Technology and Real-Time Multimedia and the Web.
Philipp holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Pieter Knook, Director, Vodafone Internet Services
Pieter works with product development, delivery and in market responsibility for all consumer data oriented products across Vodafone. His objective is to substantially grow this data business with new, innovative products and services, embedded within each Vodafone operating company. VIS employees are based in most Vodafone geographies and in the central development hubs in Dusseldorf, Copenhagen and London.
Prior to founding VIS, Pieter spent 17 years with Microsoft in Redmond, WA, most recently as the head of the Mobile Communications Business. He has been responsible for customer relationships for Microsoft in the Communications sector as well as building products including Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile shipped 20m units last fiscal year demonstrating a significant growth business under Pieter’s leadership.
Pieter also led the Microsoft Asia region based out of Tokyo until 2002. This was the fastest growing region in the Microsoft portfolio, regularly exceeding its budget and growth targets.
He is active on social websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter so this is another great way of getting to know Pieter.
Rajeev Chand, Managing Director Wireless, Rutberg & Co
Rajeev is responsible for leading the firm’s venture capital and merger and acquisition research practice in the wireless industry. Specifically, he develops thought capital on investment trends and opportunities; provides transaction counsel to the ecosystem of entrepreneurs, investors, and acquirers; and serves as an industry analyst for innovation and growth.
He and his team have categorized and track approximately 2,100 privately held companies in wireless globally, representing $4.9 billion in annual venture capital. In addition, he works with over 100 publicly held companies, across carriers, media and entertainment companies, Internet firms, and solutions providers, to understand, formulate, and evaluate investment and acquisition theses. Rajeev’s research is published monthly to a readership of over 80,000 professionals.
Ray Anderson, CEO, Bango
Ray co-founded Bango – a company that uniquely enables content providers to market, deliver and sell their products and services directly to mobile phone users on all networks world-wide. He positioned the company to benefit from the opening up of the operator portals in 2004 and the transition of the mobile content business from a messaging model to a customer friendly browse and buy Internet model.
In 2005, Ray led the successful floatation of the company, and continues to build and steer the Bango team forward in to one of the most exciting markets in history.
Ray previously established IXI which created the industry standard network GUI - X.desktop. IXI was an early leader in the creation of the web. The company merged with SCO and then floated on NASDAQ. Ray held senior executive roles in SCO, including general manager, senior VP Marketing, and senior VP of New Ventures. He played a key role in transforming SCO from being a small "PC Unix" company to it becoming the industry standard Intel Unix provider.
Before IXI Ray was a co-founder of Torch Computers which he sold to CATSCO in 1984. Before that he worked for Acorn Computers, The General Electric Company and Sinclair Research.
Ray is an entrepreneur, innovator and investor with 20 years experience. He was named "Technology Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2006 and in the same year at the ME Awards was given a special award for outstanding contribution to the mobile entertainment industry. A member of "The Cambridge Angels", Ray was a founding investor in a variety of growing companies including TeamStudio, Tenison Technology, Electronic Share Information (sold to E*Trade), Aspective, Trigenix (sold to Qualcomm), RE5ULT (82ASK), Shortfuze, Midentity and other technology businesses. He holds a 1st Class Degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University. He is a keen pilot.
Rich Green, EVP Software, Sun Microsystems (2008)
Rich was responsible for all aspects of Sun’s software business, including sales, engineering, product and business strategy, marketing/branding, M&A. He previously led creation of JavaEE and JavaME and is now a private consultant in the software sector.
Rick Fant, Head of Internet Discovery, Vodafone Internet Services
Rick Fant as Head of Internet Discovery leads the marketing, developpment and deployment of consumer services associated with internet access and internet enabled applications. Prior to Vodafone, Rick had a long career at Microsoft starting in application development and deployment; growing to server product development and marketing and evolving into managing product teams in the delivery of mobile applications and services. Rick gained an extensive background in software development and organization management with Tandem computers and US West communications.
Rob Lewis, CEO, Omnifone
Rob is responsible for agreeing the first international licensing for unlimited music services with all four major music labels and leading independents and heads up the rollout of the company’s multi-award winning MusicStation® powered unlimited music services, available today to over 50 million device users across four continents, partnering with the likes of Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, Telenor, Hutchison Telecom and Vodacom. Omnifone’s MusicStation Max and MusicStation Next Generation solutions enable device vendor, ISP and mobile partners to deliver pre-licensed interoperable unlimited music services to multiple device platforms including mobile, PC, in-car and in-home devices.
Rob is PwC UK Technology, Innovation & Growth Awards 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year. He previously founded Business & Technology Magazine (sold to Dennis Publishing) and along with Omnifone co-founders Phil Sant and Mark Knight, founded the successful internet software developer Cromwell Media (sold to InterX for £850m in 2000). He was also the founder and CEO of Silicon.com (later sold to CNET Networks) and its sister companies, Paris-based Silicon.fr and Munich-based Silicon.de.
Robert Unsworth, VP EMEA, Digital Chocolate
Robert’s 16 year atypical career path spans a variety of disciplines including serving as a Royal Marines Captain in operational areas such as Bosnia in the 90s as well as work for the British Government in other areas at home and overseas. Robert subsequently spent a number of years working as a consultant in Corporate Data Solutions for France Telecom in Paris before entering the mobile content world in 2004. Robert’s efforts were initially focused on embedded gaming technology partnerships in Europe and Asia before concentrating on the more traditional Publisher/Operator channels in the principal markets of Northern Europe in 2005/6. Robert joined Digital Chocolate in late 2006 where he now heads up commercial activities in Europe, Middle East and Africa as Vice President Sales and Marketing.
Robert Andrews, Editor, paidContent:UK
Robert Andrews reports on the UK and European online content business for paidContent:UK, paidContent.org and other websites operated by ContentNext, a wholly owned subsidiary of Guardian News & Media. He has reported on technology and media for 13 years. A former BBC News online journalist, he has been a regular contributor to Wired News, Journalism.co.uk and Blogging4Business and E-consultancy. He has also written for titles including New Media Investor and PC Plus and has appeared in Time, Los Angeles Business Journal, Media Life and on BBC Radio.
Robert has taught online journalism at university, developed social media marketing and communication strategies for organisations and consultancy, influencing UK government policy. He has moderated at several events including conferences hosted by ContentNext.
Rod Hall, Executive Director European Comms, JP Morgan
Rod is the Senior Equity Research Analyst for Communications Technologies within JPMorgan Europe. Prior to joining JPMorgan Rod was a Director at Dresdner Kleinwort in Telecoms Equity Research. Before his career in investment banking Mr. Hall worked for AT&T in both technical and business management roles in the US and France for 8 years. Rod also serves as a member on the advisory board of Servo - a San Francisco based company working on unified mobile search and discovery solutions. http://www.twitter.com/rodhall
Russell Buckley, VP Global Alliances, AdMob
Russell is a leading expert on mobile marketing, having overseen thousands of campaigns since 2000. MobHappy, his blog about mobile technology and mobile marketing, is one of the most popular on the web focusing on this area. Before specializing in mobile, he spent over 15 years working in marketing, including advising leading brands such as Coca-Cola, Diageo, Texaco and Mars. In 2000, he was recruited to be Director of Marketing of mobile marketing start up, ZagMe, one of the leading pioneers in mobile advertising and location based marketing. Russell learned about AdMob soon after the launch and joined as its first employee, with the remit of launching AdMob into the EMEA market.
Russell is currently Global Chairman of the Board of The Mobile Marketing Association, a founder of Mobile Monday in Germany, is a regular speaker on mobile at conferences throughout the world and has published many articles, as well as a white paper on location based marketing.
Scott Seaborn
Scott Seaborn, Head Of Mobile Technologies & Co-Chairman UK Mobile Marketing Association, Ogilvy Group UK & Mobile Marketing Association
Scott has worked in advertising for 15 years and with mobile for the past 10
Scott began his career in broadcast media, then he worked through digital and internet. Finally mobile – he has ridden the wave of new media technologies, Over the past 3 years Scott’s work has won 10 awards.
SeanKane, Head of Mobile, Bebo Inc
Simon Torrance, CEO, STL Partners / Telco 2.0™ Initative
Simon leads STL Partners, an analyst firm specializing in business model innovation at the intersection of the telecoms, media and technology sectors. In May 2006 he co-founded the Telco 2.0™ Initiative, a research-based programme to help the telecoms industry define and implement new business models. This now has strategic partnerships with the GSMA, TMForum and Mobile Entertainment Forum. Simon’s early career was in marketing and innovation consulting at WPP and Omnicom. He has an MA from Cambridge University.
Stewart Anderton, Principal Consultant, Ovum
Stewart Anderton is a Principal Consultant working across the communications industry delivering to clients in the regulatory, fixed, mobile and satellite segments, including service providers and vendors. He has worked in telecoms consulting for over 12 years, drawing on a broad base of technology and business experience from his systems engineering, new product development/ introduction and technical management background.
Stewart’s advises primarily in the areas of: Market analysis and strategy for fixed, mobile and satellite networks; Telco network and service strategy; Commercial and technical due diligence for M&A and licence bids; Emerging IP services; Business case development; NGN and NGA analysis and cost modelling.
Stewart’s experience is derived from both a lifetime in the industry, and also from the management and delivery of a broad range of strategy and market analysis consulting engagements.
Steve Ives, CEO, Taptu
Steve Ives is CEO of Taptu, a mobile search company based in Cambridge UK. Previously he was founder and CEO of Trigenix, a Cambridge-based mobile software company which was acquired in 2004 by Qualcomm. Steve graduated from Cambridge University and holds an MBA from Wharton.
Stuart Collingwood, Vice President EMEA, Sling Media
Stuart has responsibility for all of the company’s EMEA operations including partnerships, country and territory expansion and strategic planning. For the three years prior to joining Sling Media, he advised pay TV providers, digital media companies and technology start-ups on the launch of new digital platforms and technology.
Stuart also served as Vice President EMEA for Liberate and spent eight years at Fujitsu-ICL.
Sunil Gunderia, Vice President, Head of Mobile, Disney Interactive Studios
In this capacity he is responsible for managing all aspects of the mobile publishing business across EMEA, Asia Pac and Latin America. The group he heads publishes a wide variety of content including Disney branded graphics, ring tones, applications and games as well as non-Disney branded content published through the Living Mobile label. The EMEA mobile publishing team includes personnel across creative, product development, sales, marketing and distribution.
Previously Sunil served as Director, International Strategy and Business Development for the Walt Disney Internet Group based in Los Angeles where he was responsible for strategy formulation and deal execution. Prior to joining Disney, he held a variety of strategy and consulting positions.
Sunil holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.
Tanya Field, Director – Mobile Data Group, Telefonica S.A.
Tanya Field joined Telefonica O2 UK as Head of Content for the UK operation. In this role she was tasked with delivering the portal content strategy, managing both third party relationships and in-house content development.
In September 2007 she joined Telefonica Europe as Director – Mobile Data Group with an operational remit to deliver solutions for User Interface, Mobile Advertising and Internet Products and Services across both Telefonica Europe and Telefonica. She is currently delivering leading edge Mobile Internet solutions for the portfolio of Telefonica companies and will deliver a Global Mobile Advertising Solution.
As Director of the Mobile Data Group she is ultimately responsible for determining the 3 year development and delivery plan for global solutions across the above mentioned three workstreams.
Tim Massey, VP Software Engineering, Handmark
Over the last seven years Tim has played an integral role in the Handmark’s growth. His keen understanding of the mobile consumer behavior paired with his unique software design and development expertise continues to drive the company’s innovative mobile solutions. With more than 18 years experience in the software development industry, Mr. Massey has worked for SBC, AT&T, Informix and Digital Archeology. His career has been focused on optimizing the software development process and effective management of virtual teams.
Tim Raby, Managing Director, OMTP
Prior to joining OMTP, Tim was Head of Devices for O2 Group where he was responsible for all Terminal technology and Portfolio activity during the 3G launch period. He was responsible for the successful launch of the first ODM consumer O2 brand X phones alongside the XDA PDA family.
Tim came to O2 via BT Internet and Genie which he joined in early 2000. During this period he played a key role in many different parts of the evolving mobile data value chain; including Business Development in Genie Europe, developing Unified Messaging, pioneering Java Games and launching O2 Active. Before this Tim had 15 years experience in many different areas of Telecommunication and software development.
Yves Maitre, Senior Vice President, Devices, Orange
Yves Maitre was appointed Senior Vice President, Devices in early 2005 and has responsibility for the technical delivery and marketing of all fixed and mobile devices, including accessories, across all Orange markets. Yves has also recently been appointed the head of Orange’s Mobile Multimedia taskforce with the aim to make mobile multimedia services accessible and compelling to all Orange customers.
Prior to joining Orange Yves spent six years working for consumer electronics company Thomson. He was President of Key MRO America, a subsidiary or Thomson United States and whilst living in Singapore he worked for Thomson Asia as Director of Manufacturing Supply chain and Product management.
Before Thomson, Yves spent five years as the COO of Quante-Pouyet, a subsidiary of 3M, making connectors for the telecoms business.
Yves is also a board member of FT R&D China and a Board member of the European Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati.
Yves is an Engineering graduate in Nuclear Physics.