Speakers Biographies

Adam Lavine, Co-founder and CEO, FunMobility

Adam Lavine is co-founder and CEO of FunMobility, a veteran mobile entertainment company.  FunMobility manages over 50 services for all U.S. carriers including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Metro PCS, Cricket and Boost.  FunMobility is pleased to announce the new FunMail Visual Messaging Platform at this conference.

Alex Jin-Sung Choi, VP Mobile Communication Technology Lab, LG Electronics

After the graduation of Seoul National University, Seoul Korea, he joined LG Information & Communication., Ltd in 1987. He worked for the development of Electronic Switching System during 1987-1988. Then he pursued his Ph.D at University of Southern California USA. After Ph.D, he rejoined LG Electronics where now 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 chaired IMT-2000 & 4G Project Group in TTA from 2002 till 2007. He is also 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.

Anil Dharni, Co-founder, Storm8

Anil Dharni is the Co-Founder of Storm8, the #1 MMO iPhone company. Storm8 has 7 titles on the App Store with each title reaching top 10. Prior to Storm8, Anil was the VP of Products and UED at hi5 Networks, Inc., where he drove the product roadmap and key product initiatives like hi5 coins (virtual currency), games, and platform. He has served in product management roles at Yahoo! and held consulting and engineering roles at Wipro, Ariba, and Engineering Animation. Anil holds a B.E. in aeronautical engineering from Punjab University and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Antti Ohrling, Co-founder, Blyk

Antti is co-founder of Blyk and he has over 25 years experience as a senior manager in branded goods, retail and wholesale, media and advertising industries.

He is also the chairman of Contra Asia, an advertising agency specializing in social media and mobile environments, based in Beijing. He acts as a senior consultant in Ohrling Limited, a consultancy group specializing in innovative strategy implementations and challenging go-to-market projects.

Antti was founder of Contra Advertising Group, which since spring 2009 is part of Touch Worldwide.

Antti is a regular at lectures on innovative business models, social media marketing and brand issues for international audiences.

Arturo Pereyra, Director, Oracle

Arturo Pereyra leads marketing and business development for Oracle's Media and Telecom applications solutions. Mr. Pereyra has over 15 years experience in the hi-technology and telecommunications industries. Mr. Pereyra's experience also includes leading worldwide marketing activities for HP's Emerging Markets Group and was a co-founder for a venture-backed wireless company. Prior to this, Mr. Pereyra was an Associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton, based in New York, and worked in the Marketing and Multi-media practice.

Bart Decrem, Co-founder, CEO, Tapulous

Bart Decrem is a co-founder and CEO of Tapulous, a Palo Alto-based startup building fun and social apps for the iPhone, including the wildly successful rhythm game Tap Tap Revenge. Previously, Bart was the founding CEO of Flock, the social web browser company, and a co-founder of Eazel, a company working to make Linux easier to use. Bart also headed marketing and business affairs for the Firefox 1.0 launch. In between, Bart has been an Entrepreneur In Residence at Doll Capital Management and worked on a number of community projects. Bart was born and raised in Belgium, holds a JD from Stanford Law School and was featured as one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business in May of 2009.

Bernard Gershon, President, Gershon Media

Bernard Gershon is currently the President, Gershon Media, a digital media strategy practice with a focus on online and mobile video including

advertising and distribution. Mr. Gershon is advising several early stage

companies and sits on the Advisory Board of Boxee, a Spark and Union Square investment.

Bernard Gershon was formally senior vice president and general manager, digital media, at The Walt Disney Company. In this role, he was responsible for developing revenue opportunities and distributing Disney/ABC content to all digital media platforms including broadband, wireless, cable, IPTV and VOD.

Brandon Lucas, VP and GM Mobile, BET

Brandon Lucas is a mobile industry veteran with relevant experience in Japan, Europe and the United States. In his current role as VP and GM of BET Mobile, Brandon is responsible for driving the wireless business, strategy and partnerships for BET Networks, the leading provider of media and entertainment for African Americans and consumers of Black culture. Prior to joining BET Networks, Brandon ran mobile business development for MySpace, where in two years he built partnerships with U.S. wireless carriers, device manufacturers, SMS aggregators and ad networks. Before MySpace, Brandon held mobile business development positions with the Walt Disney Company and U.S. Cellular. He received a BA from Harvard University and an International MBA from the University of Chicago. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is an avid outdoor adventurer.

Brian Modoff, Managing Director, Sr. Telecoms Tech Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Brian Modoff is the senior analyst covering Wireless and Communitcations Technology at Deutsche Bank Securities. Brian began covering the telecom industry in 1993. Key investment themes include the impact of broadband mobile networks on the devices and content being delivered to end users, and changes to the network architecture in order to deliver these more advanced services. Brian is widely quoted in major financial and industry publications, and publishes the weekly newsletter “Signals to Noise.”

Carolyn Brandon, Sr. Industry and Innovation Fellow, Georgetown University

Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting

Chetan Sharma is President of Chetan Sharma Consulting and is one of the leading strategists in the mobile industry. He has served as an advisor to several Fortune100 companies in the wireless space and is probably the only industry strategist who has advised each of the top 6 global mobile data operators. His client list includes NTT DoCoMo, China Mobile, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, KDDI, Reliance, Sony, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, Qualcomm, and Disney. Chetan is also a leading authority and IP expert in the wireless industry, testifying in cases such as ITC – Qualcomm vs. Broadcom as well as the author of 5 best-selling books on wireless. He has MSEE from KSU and BS from IIT, Roorkee.

Christa Quarles, Managing Director, Equity Research, Thomas Weisel Partners

Christa Quarles is a Managing Director at Thomas Weisel Partners and has been covering the internet sector since 2000. As the lead Internet analyst, she is responsible for the development of firm's research themes and conducts proprietary research on the dynamics of the secular shifts of interactive advertising and media consumption and appears regularly on CNBC to discuss her views. Christa graduated with a BS from Carnegie Mellon University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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 projects to ensure designers reach highest 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 and whilst there he invented the Nokia Navi-key user interface and he is also the father of the Series 60 user interface. He is also chairman of Tech21 Sensor GmbH a german startup developing a touch sensor and user interface innovations.

Christopher David, VP Partner Engagement, Sony Ericsson

Christopher David is the Head of Developer and Partner Engagement. He is responsible for driving and communicating Sony Ericsson's renewed developer strategy in terms of their multi platform approach, as well as articulating the relevance of content development to developer and partner, and 'prosumer' communities.

His deep knowledge and understanding of the telecoms industry stem from 19 Years' experience in various engineering, sales and technologist roles. Christopher spent many years in the software development business at Ericsson, Logica, Sun Microsystems and Sony Ericsson. He also has over 10 Years' experience in standards related work with Parlay, OMA, JCP and OSGi Alliance, where he held positions on the board, as spec lead and chair.

Cole Brodman, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, T-Mobile

Cole Brodman is currently Senior Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for T-Mobile USA. Mr. Brodman has been with T-Mobile and its predecessor companies, VoiceStream Wireless and Western Wireless, for more than 13 years. In his current capacity, Mr. Brodman is responsible for ideation, development and operations of new products, services, mobile phones and devices. Additionally, he is responsible for the evolution of T-Mobile’s network and technology base, as well as the national engineering of the core systems that run T-Mobile’s wireless network.

Dag Kittlaus, Co-founder and CEO, Siri

Siri's CEO is Dag Kittlaus, who founded the company as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SRI. A serial innovator and consumer wireless internet veteran of 10 years in Scandinavia and the US, Dag is working on creating his third consecutive mobile internet product with over a million users.

Dag has held leadership roles as VP of Consumer Internet Services at Scandinavian telecom giant Telenor Mobile, and several consumer product groups at Motorola including GM of xProducts and founder and GM of Motorola's Interactive Media Group. He conceived and launched Screen3, a breakthrough consumer mobile application currently used by millions of users and adopted by Cingular, China Mobile, and Telefonica.

Dan Ford, Vice President, Oracle Communications

Dan Ford leads global marketing for Oracle Communications. Prior to joining Oracle, Dan ran marketing for Rearden Commerce and led Siebel Systems’ Communications, Media & Energy industry business unit. Earlier in his career, Dan also held sales and product marketing leadership positions at AT&T and GTE (now Verizon). Dan holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University, an MBA from the Wharton Business School, and an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dan Gralak, VP, Acer

Dave Hagan, CEO, Boingo Wireless

Dave has over 20 years experience in senior management roles in the telecommunications industry. Previously he served as President of Sprint Canada where he was responsible for launching the consumer business which became the largest alternative long distance company in Canada, and an ISP business. Prior to that Dave was CEO for FirstSource Corp. and President/COO of Ticketmaster Online CitySearch.

David Rivas, Vice President, Devices, R&D, Nokia

David Rivas is Vice President Architecture & Technology and is responsible for driving Nokia's software technology agenda in Nokia's R&D Unit. In addition, he is closely involved with many Nokia partnerships, including the Symbian Foundation and recently announced partnership with Microsoft. David’s other roles in Nokia have included Vice President of Technology and Product Management for S60 software.

David Perlmutter, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Intel Architecture Group, Intel Corporation

David (Dadi) Perlmutter is responsible for architecting, developing, and marketing Intel's platform solutions for all computing segments including data centers, desktops, laptops, netbooks/nettops, handhelds, embedded devices, and consumer electronics. Perlmutter is focused on product development and architecture technology decisions across microprocessors, chipsets, system-on-a-chip (SOC), communications and graphics. Prior to his current role, Perlmutter was VP and GM of Mobility Group, where he drove creation of Intel's latest mobile products from the high-performance Intel® Core™ processor family to the low-power Intel® Atom™ processor family.

Diana Pouliot, Group Manager Android Mobile Platforms, Google Inc.

Diana oversees all of Google's mobile advertising efforts for the America's working closely with the mobile product team and mobile strategic partnership team. Prior to joining Google in 2001, Diana worked at Internet Appliance Network developing device and application advertising for Virgin Music. Earlier, she worked in the consumer publishing group at Ziff-Davis, and began her career at IBM ..

Eric Chu, Group Manager Android Mobile Platforms, Google

Eric Chu is responsible for driving the Android ecosystem at Google. In addition to working with members of the Open Handset Alliance, Eric also leads various Android developer initiatives within Google, including Android Market. Prior to joining Google, Eric was the CMO for Aplix, a leading supplier of mobile middleware in handsets.

Eric also spent 10 years at Sun, driving Java ME business and marketing as one of the key contributors that grew the Java mobile ecosystem to over 1 billion devices.

Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO, Funambol

Fabrizio Capobianco is CEO of Funambol, the leader of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones. Fabrizio is a serial entreprenuer with extensive experience in the mobile industry. He is an accomplished blogger about wireless and holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Pavia.

Frank Meehan, CEO, INQ Mobile

Frank founded INQ Mobile in 2007 to bring high function, low cost mobile handsets to the mass market. Frank has been with Hutchison since March 2001. Before founding INQ, he was General Manager of 3G Handsets and Applications for Hutchinson Whampoa. In that role he procured 10 million handsets annually for all of the Hutchison 3G companies. When Frank first joined Hutchison Whampoa, he worked on the engineering integration of the 3 UK 3G mobile network, the first outside Japan. After that successful network launch, he was asked to develop and launch Hutchison’s open mobile internet proposition, X-Series, for all 3G operations, as well as manage the company’s key application partners such as Google, Skype, Microsoft, Sling, Novarra, Orb and others.

Gaurav Garg, Partner, Sequoia Capital

Gaurav is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on systems and services investments. Prior to joining sequoia capital in 2001, Gaurav was a founder and senior vice-president of product management at Redback networks (RBAK). Earlier, Gaurav held various engineering positions at Synoptics and Bay Networks. Gaurav has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Gene Keenan, VP Mobile, Isobar

Gene Keenan leads the cutting edge of marketing innovation as Isobar's VP of Mobile Services. In this role, Gene has won numerous Aegis Globe awards for his innovation and has been the recipient of industry awards including an MSNEMMY for his work on Adidas.

Gene is on the board of the Mobile Marketing Association who also counts as board members these major brands: P&G, VISA, AOL, CBS, ESPN, FOX, Microsoft, and every major carrier in the USA. He co-chairs the metrics committee of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and guided the creation, funding, and execution of the first marketing effectiveness study on behalf of the MMA. Before joining the interactive space Gene was a professional chef who toured with the Grateful Dead for eight years and owned an organic edible flower and herb farm.

Glenn Lurie, President - Emerging Devices and National Resale, AT&T

Glenn Lurie is president of Emerging Devices and Resale for AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. Lurie leads AT&T’s strategic initiative to drive innovation in bringing wireless connectivity to a host of new devices and applications — including personal computers, internet devices, in-car entertainment and navigation systems, cameras, and machine-to-machine communications solutions.

Lurie also led negotiations with Apple Inc. in bringing the iPhone to AT&T and continues to have responsibilities for the Apple operations. In addition, Lurie has responsibility for National Resale relationships.

Glenn joined the former AT&T Wireless in 1990, and held several sales, marketing and operation positions throughout his tenure. As senior vice president-West Region, he was responsible for the market operations in ten western states, representing more than 40 percent of the company's overall business.

Prior to leading the company’s market operations in the west, Lurie held senior executive positions including Regional Vice President for the California/Hawaii region and Vice President and General Manager for Los Angeles after advancing from a similar position for Arizona.

Prior to coming to the wireless industry, Lurie was a professional soccer player for teams representing Cleveland, Atlanta and Portland.

Lurie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business/Marketing from Seattle Pacific University.

Gregory Rosston, Deputy Director, Public Policy Program, Stanford University

Gregory Rosston is Deputy Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Deputy Director of the Public Policy program at Stanford University where he teaches courses on competition policy and strategy, intellectual property, and writing and rhetoric. Dr. Rosston served as Deputy Chief Economist at the FCC working on the implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and spectrum auctions. He co-chaired the Economy, Globalization and Trade committee for the Obama campaign and was a member of the Obama transition team focusing on economic agency review and energy policy.

Greg Sterling, Sr. Analyst, Opus Research

Greg Sterling is Senior Analyst for Opus Research’s Internet 2 Go program. He is also the founder of Sterling Market Intelligence. Internet 2 Go tracks a wide range of activities and issues: consumer behavior, mobile Internet adoption, the growth of mobile advertising and alternative mobile business models and devices. terling previously ran the Kelsey Group’s Interactive Local Media program. Before that he held editorial and business development roles at TechTV and AllBusiness.com. Prior to joining AllBusiness, Sterling was a practicing attorney in San Francisco.

Hank Skorny, Executive Advisor, Real Networks

At Real Networks, Hank is leading a new effort to place media into the cloud, offering the ability to protect and access it anywhere. This will allow users to organize, explore and socialize with their media like never before.



Hank serves as the Managing Partner of o8Ventures and Chairman of Zipwhip, Inc., a leader in TCP-IP based text messaging over the web. He serves on several boards, including TiE – The Indus Entrepreneurs and Enterprise Ireland.

Henri Moissinac, Director of Mobile, Facebook

Henri Moissinac oversees the company’s mobile strategy and operations. Henri joined Facebook from eBay, where he led mobile and product strategy. Before eBay, he was the co-founder and CTO of iBazar, a leading online auction company which was acquired by eBay. Previously, Henri worked in venture capital with Atlas Venture and began his career at Orange.

Henry Bailey, VP, SAP

Henry Bailey is Vice President, Service Industries, Industry & Solutions Group, SAP Americas, Inc. He has more than 20 years tenure in the Service Industry sector and is responsible for managing the Industry Principals and developing solutions specific to; Utilities, Telecom, Media, Professional Services, Construction and Transportation at SAP.

Hope F. Cochran, SVP Finance, Clearwire

Ms Cochran has been responsible for the company’s finance, financial planning and strategy, and global treasury and cash management activities since 2005. Prior to Clearwire Ms. Cochran served as chief financial officer of Evant Incorporated, Controller of the Americas – Sales Operations for PeopleSoft Inc. In both chief financial officer positions, Cochran managed corporate finance, accounting, human resources, legal and facilities activities. She began her career as an auditor at Deloitte & Touche LLP.

Hossein Moiin, Mobility Fellow, BT Design

Hossein Moiin is the mobility fellow in BT Design where he is responsible for the mobile architecture of the BT group and its mobility strategy. Prior to his current role Hossein Moiin was the group vice president for technical strategy at T-Mobile, International where he led the development of the Next Generation of Mobile Networks, an industry-wide initiative that sets the future vision of the mobile industry.. Before joining T-Mobile, Dr. Moiin worked for Sun Microsystems in US and Europe to develop strategic platforms for telecommunication and financial sectors. Dr. Moiin has over twenty years of experience in the ICT industries and holds a Ph. D. from University of California in Computer Engineering.

Ilja Laurs, Founder and CEO, GetJar

Ilja Laurs is Founder and CEO of GetJar, the world’s largest independent mobile application store providing global distribution and monetization services to 350,000 developers, including brands like Google, Microsoft and Facebook. Every month, 35,000,000 downloads are served from GetJar site and its network of OEM and carrier partners that include Vodafone, Sony Ericsson, Blackberry and others.

Serial enterpreneur since 1999, Ilja's launched over 20 successfull projects, as diverse as hotel reservation system LithuanianHotels, mobile payments service MicroPay and games studio Gaxo. Fluent in Lithuanian, Russian and English, he holds a keen interest in Basketball, Tennis and Chess, and enjoys traveling.

Jahangir Mohammed, CEO, Jasper Wireless

Jahangir founded Jasper Wireless in 2004 and serves as the company’s chief executive officer.

Prior to founding Jasper Wireless, Jahangir served as the CEO of Kineto Wireless, a company he founded. Kineto pioneered the convergence of WiFi and Cellular technologies. Kineto’s technology has become a world standard which has been deployed by GSM carriers in numerous countries. He continues to serve on the Board of Kineto.

Previously, Jahangir worked on a variety of engineering management and product development roles at Philips, AT&T Bell laboratories and Nortel.

James Tagg, Founder and CTO, Truphone

James Tagg is a hi-tech success story, habitually and successfully bringing new mobile telephony and other technologies to market. Prior to Truphone, as managing director of Fastmobile Europe, he launched both mobile instant messaging and push-to-talk with carriers in Germany, Italy and the UK. Earlier in his career he invented touch-screen technology, found today in most of the world’s public access touch screens. He founded Moonstone Technology in 1989 to develop it, and sold the company to MicroTouch Systems Ltd - now 3M - in 1994.

Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt, SVP and Sr. Advisor to CEO, Ericsson Group

Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt has been with Ericsson since 1978, in a number of roles, including Chief Technology Officer (1998-2004), VP R&D (1990-1998) and Head of Research (1985).

In his current role as Senior Vice President and Senior Advisor, Technology to the Group CEO, he is responsible for technology strategies and alignment with leading operators in USA, China and Japan. He is also responsible for establishing research and technology cooperation with leading Internet companies in USA to establish converged mobile and fixed internet.

Jamie Wells, Director Mobile Advertising, Microsoft

Jamie is responsible for defining Microsoft’s Mobile Advertising positioning within the mobile advertising industry. Before joining Microsoft, Jamie led the full service mobile advertising and marketing practice at OMD Worldwide, the largest Global Media Agency. Additionally, Jamie served in senior marketing and management roles at MangoMOBILE, and Omnicom company, Ringleader Digital, TCS Mobile and 4Kids Entertainment.

Jason Loia, COO, Digital Chocolate

Jason Loia is COO of Digital Chocolate, a leading publisher of iPhone, mobile, and web games with over 150 titles on 200 channels worldwide. Launched and led by legendary founder of Electronic Arts, Trip Hawkins, Digital Chocolate is best known for their unique and innovative games, the highest quality ratings in the industry, and their leadership in social gaming. Digital Chocolate games have received over 100 million game plays and include such favorites as Tower Bloxx, Rollercoaster Rush, and Crazy Penguin Catapult. Prior to Digital Chocolate, Jason served as VP of Production at Lavastorm, where he built and led one of the first mobile game studios in the U.S. Jason holds electrical engineering degrees from U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jeff Belk, Principal, ICT168 Capital

Jeffrey Belk is a principal in ICT168 Capital, LLC, focused on developing global growth opportunities in the Information and Communication Technology space. Formerly, Belk spent almost 14 years at Qualcomm, where prior to his departure in early 2008, he was SVP of strategy and market development.

From 2000 until 2006, Belk was Qualcomm’s SVP, global marketing. In 1999-2000, Belk was SVP & GM of Qualcomm Eudora Products. Prior to Qualcomm, Belk spent ten years in the PC industry, primarily with Proxima Corporation, in distribution, product management, and international roles.

Jill Braff, SVP Global Publishing, Glu Mobile

Jim Eadie, Vice President, Digital Distribution, MTV Networks

Jim Eadie is Vice President of Digital Distribution for MTV Networks.  In his role, Eadie is responsible for developing content distribution strategies across mobile platforms and cultivating distribution deals with mobile operators, aggregators and emerging media platforms across MTV Networks’ diverse brands, including: CMT, COMEDY CENTRAL, Logo, MTV, Nickelodeon, The N, Spike and VH1, among others.

Jim Ryan, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Motricity

Jim Ryan is widely recognized as a pioneer in the mobile data industry, with more than 15 years of experience across the globe specifically where he grew consumer data services for AT&T Mobility from $250M to over $4B in three years. Mr. Ryan currently serves as the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Motricity, the leader in mobile Internet solutions. In this role he leads the future strategy of the company, as well as the development of the industry wide mCore Platform, a carrier-grade managed service that enables carriers to offer their customers a highly personalized, high-value mobile Internet experience.

Joan Marsh, Vice President, Federal Regulatory, AT&T

Joan Marsh is Vice President of Federal Regulatory Affairs for AT&T in Washington, D.C. where she has represented AT&T since 1999. In her current role, Ms. Marsh is responsible for managing AT&T’s wireless and public safety/national security interests before federal regulatory authorities, including the Federal Communications Commission. From 1997 to 1999, Ms. Marsh served as Senior Regional Attorney for AT&T in its Chicago offices representing AT&T before various state public utilities commissions in the Midwest.

Prior to joining AT&T, Ms. Marsh spent five years as a trial litigator with the Chicago firm of Kirkland & Ellis. Prior to that position, Ms. Marsh was a law clerk for the Honorable Edward Rafeedie of the US District Court for Central District of California, Los Angeles. She received a J.D. with Honors from the University of Southern California Law Center in Los Angeles in 1990 and a Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986.

Joe Sims, Advisor and Board Member, Independent

Joe currently assists and advises young and mid-sized companies in the emerging wireless and digital media space, supporting these companies in both advisory and Board roles. Joe previously served as Vice President and General Manager for T-Mobile USA for over six years. He led T-Mobile's Broadband and value-added services including: T-Mobile HotSpot, HotSpot@Home and Web2Go. Joe was also responsible for business development, strategic partnerships and investments and led numerous key deals including the “Google Phone”, "Android" business.

John Donovan, Chief Technology Officer, AT&T

As CTO, Mr. Donovan oversees AT&T’s global technology direction and innovation road map, including product development, network and engineering operations, AT&T Labs and the security and intellectual property organizations.

Previously he was an EVP at Verisign Inc., and before that he was chairman and CEO of inCode Telecom Group Inc., where he helped shape strategic direction and positioning for wireless network operators around the globe.

He is a director of the board of 2Wire and services as chairman of the board of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).

John Faith, General Manager and Vice President, MySpace Mobile

John is the General Manager and Vice President of MySpace Mobile, and is responsible for all aspects pertaining to the growth and success of the business unit.

Prior to his current role, John contributed to multiple initiatives for the company as Vice President of Engineering including the expansion of MySpace into 29 local versions, the development of MySpace’s mobile product line, the maturation of its post sales production processes, and the delivery of a custom content management system. He was recently named one of the 25 most powerful people in wireless by FierceWireless.

Prior to MySpace, John was a software engineer and technical manager at Experian Consumer Direct and GoldPocket Interactive where he developed credit monitoring and interactive television software respectively.

John Jackson, Vice President of Research, CCS Insight

John Jackson is a well-known and respected analyst specializing in mobile and wireless technologies. Before joining CCS Insight, John was vice president of Yankee Group's Wireless/Mobile Technologies Decision Service, where he researched a range of topics, including devices, infrastructure, regulations and standards. John manages CCS Insight's North American office.

John Giere, Senior Vice President, Products and Marketing, Openwave Systems, Inc.

John Giere is SVP of products and marketing for Openwave where he is responsible for growing the company’s global market position, bringing carrier-grade solutions to service providers around the world as well as developing business with new and existing accounts. Prior to joining Openwave, John served as CMO for Alcatel Lucent.

John Horn, National Director of M2M, T-Mobile

John Horn has been at T-Mobile for seven years during which time he has developed and managed Indirect Distribution for the California launch - the largest launch in wireless history. He then took over the VAR program and helped to build it into a successful third party channel at T-mobile. During the last five years he has focused specifically on developing the M2M program and go to market strategy. In 2008 the M2M group became a separate business unit from the VAR Channel. John continues to lead the M2M Channel. He is working with T-Mobile’s European partners on M2M programs that can be supported in the US and Europe. In 2007 and 2008 he was named a M2M Pioneer.

Previous to T-Mobile John has served as a Manager, Director and VP of other telecom companies for over 20 years. He has managed direct and indirect distribution models in both the business and consumer channels. John earned a degree in Political Science from the University of California at Davis. He has eight children.

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.

Julie Ask, VP, Forrester Research

Julie Ask is a Vice President with Forrester Research where she is a mobile analyst helping consumer product and service companies with their mobile strategies. She is based in San Francisco, CA.

Julius P. Knapp, Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, FCC

Julius Knapp is Chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET). Mr. Knapp became Chief of OET in 2006, having previously served as the Deputy Chief since 2002. Prior to that he was the Chief of the Policy & Rules Division where he was responsible for FCC frequency allocation proceedings and for proceedings amending the FCC rules for radio frequency devices.

Kevin Fitchard, Senior Editor, Connected Planet

Kevin Fitchard covers the wireless beat for Connected Planet Magazine and TelephonyOnline.com. Fitchard has worked for the telecom division of Penton Media for nine years. He began as a Senior News Editor for TelecomClick in 2000 and later became a roving correspondent for multiple Penton publications before joining the Telephony staff full-time in 2001. Fitchard is one of the core group of editors that launched Connected Planet this year.

Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe

As chief technology officer and senior vice president, Experience & Technology Organization, Kevin Lynch oversees Adobe’s experience design and core technology across business units. This role includes driving Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices, including Adobe® Flash® Player, Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Flex® and Adobe AIR™, the cross-operating system application runtime that bridges the computing power and data capabilities of the desktop with the real-time dynamic capabilities of the web. He also oversees Adobe’s developer relations program, including the integration of customers and partners in the development process through Adobe Labs and customer advisory councils.

Kiyo Oishi, CEO, Access Systems

Kiyo is CEO of ACCESS Systems Americas and an executive officer of ACCESS CO., Ltd. 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.

Larry Harris, CEO, Ansible

Before co-founding Ansible, Larry served as EVP, Director of Integrated Marketing for Draftfcb, where he led the Interpublic/Facebook collaborative team, helping clients and IPG agencies leverage the popular social networking platform. Prior to joining Draftfcb, Larry co-founded and ran FCBi Digital where he was SVP, Executive Producer and Digital Creative Honcho, overseeing global creative development for clients like HP, Samsung, Quest, the IRS, USPS and MetLife. At Foote, Cone and Belding, Larry ran Chase Bank, Lucent, MetLife and NCR. He joined FCB's New York office in 1995 after a five-year stint at DMB&B, where he was an associate creative director on Budweiser and O'Doul's.

Lee Williams, Executive Director, Symbian Foundation

Lee Williams is the Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, a nonprofit organisationthat is working with a large global community to develop an open source software platform based on Symbian OS, the world's leading mobile operating system, for mobile products and services. Prior to this role, Lee led the S60 Software organisation in Nokia's Devices business, prior that he was head of Product Development and Delivery for Palm Computing.

Marco Argenti, Vice President, Media & Games, Nokia

Marco Argenti is a consumer technology industry veteran with almost 20 years experience and currently serves as Vice President of Media & Games for Nokia. Argenti is globally responsible for Ovi Store, Nokia’s content service, and Ovi Share, Nokia’s free media sharing service. He speaks frequently at industry conferences in Europe and North America, and was named by Mobile Entertainment Magazine as one of the 50 Mobile Entertainment industry leaders worldwide in 2007 and 2008.

Mark Donovan, SVP and Senior Analyst, comScore

Mark Lowenstein, Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem

As Managing Director of Mobile Ecosystem, Lowenstein advises C-level executives on corporate, product, market, and industry strategy across the value chain of the wireless, communications, and digital media industries. Lowenstein's consulting career began at the Yankee Group, where he founded and led the company's top-ranked global wireless practices. Most recently, Lowenstein was Vice President of Market Planning and Strategy at Verizon Wireless.

Martin Reber, CEO, SVOX

Martin Reber is a CEO of SVOX, a leading supplier of embedded speech solutions, since March 2009. Before that he served as a COO and led the Professional Services unit. As a COO Martin was responsible for development of the highly successful SVOX Pico TTS engine, which is now part of Google’s Android platform. He holds graduate and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kaiserslautern.

Matthew Corbett, Founder, INmobile.org

Matthew is the founder of INmobile.org, the top private online community of senior executives and experts involved in the dynamic area of mobility and convergence. INmobile.org was launched in 2006 with 200 hand-picked executives, and has grown to over 2500 members globally.

Michael Abbott, SVP, Palm

Michael leads the application platform and services development for the company’s next-generation Palm webOS platform. He has extensive experience in building technically challenging web-based applications and services.

Before joining Palm, Michael was the general manager of .NET Online Services at Microsoft, where he led efforts to deliver a services platform that enabled the development of large-scale Internet-based services. Prior to Microsoft, he co-founded Passenger Inc., where he served as chairman and led the development of the company’s consumer marketing SAAS platform. Michael also founded Composite Software, creator of industry-leading enterprise information integration software, where he served as the CEO/CTO.

Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from California Polytechnic State University, and has completed coursework toward a Ph.D. at the University of Washington.

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.

Pankaj Kedia, Director of Mobile Ecosystems, Intel

Pankaj is responsible for working with the industry to enable complete solutions for MIDs/Smartphones, ensure the availability of rich, intuitive applications, content, and services, and taking these solutions to market. Pankaj has led Intel's charge in establishing the Mobile Internet Device category in the industry and launching the Intel® Atom™ processor. Pankaj joined Intel in 1996 and has held a range of executive advisory, marketing, planning, and business development roles across the company. Prior to Intel, he was in the management consulting industry for 5 years.

Peter Lurie, Co-founder and General Counsel, Virgin Mobile USA

Peter Lurie has guided Virgin Mobile USA from start-up through 2002 launch and rapid growth. He has been responsible for leading several capital transactions, and taking the company public in 2007. Lurie served as principal of a PE group for a German bank, and worked on mergers & acquisitions and PE transactions at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Lurie is a graduate of Dartmouth College and University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

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.

Rani Cohen, Chairman and CEO, TuneWiki

Rani Cohen, TuneWiki Chairman and CEO, has been involved in numerous exits for technology companies in Israel, Europe and the United States, including several successful public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Rani has extensive hands-on experience with start-up companies, including raising funds from top-tier VC firms and launching their U.S. operations. Rani is Founder and Chairman of Magnolia Capital, an Investment Bank representing Thomas Weisel Partners, Revolution Partners, Ferghana Partners and Nomura International in Israel. He previously served as the President and CEO of HyperRoll, a software company (backed by Sequoia Capital, Greylock and Bessemer), and as Founder, Chairman, President and CEO of Transparency Software (backed by Pitango and Lightspeed).

He was formerly Managing Director of Mofet Venture Capital and Aurum-SBC Ventures, where he led investments in a number of successful companies. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Rani held executive management positions at Nexus Telecommunications (EVP Sales and Business Development) and BVR Technologies (VP Business Development). In addition, Rani previously worked as an investment banker in the Technology M&A Group of Credit Suisse First Boston in New York. Rani served as a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force. He holds a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MBA from Yale University. In his free time, Rani is an avid kite surfer, a runner and enjoys reading quality literature.

Rich Wong, Partner, Accel Partners

Richard joined Accel in 2006, with a focus on enterprise software, SaaS, and mobile infrastructure and services. Rich currently serves on the board of AdMob, the largest mobile advertising player and Parature, a leader in SaaS based customer support. Rich also works closely with the management team of Getjar Networks, the largest mobile development community and free mobile apps download portal. Through pre-Accel associations, Rich also serves as a board advisor to Plaxo (acquired by Comcast) , Sana Security, and Simplicita (acquired by Sandvine). At CTIA 2008, Rich was awarded a "Mobile Six" award as one of the 6 most influential individuals shaping the wireless industry.

Rick Fant, Head of Internet Discovery, Vodafone Internet Services

Rick Fant as Head of Internet Discovery leads the marketing, development 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 Chandhok, VP of Software Strategy, Qualcomm

Rob Chandhok, vice president of software strategy for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), is responsible for the strategies and development of Qualcomm's cutting edge software technologies, ecosystem and multimedia/high-level operating systems, enabling powerful mobile user experiences that go far beyond what is found on the desktop

Rob Gelick, VP, CBS Mobile

Rob Gelick, Vice President, CBS Mobile, CBS Interactive oversees new mobile service development and operations across more than a dozen CBS Interactive brands including CBS Entertainment, CNET, Gamespot, TV.com, CBS News, CWTV, Chow and BNET.

Prior to CBS, Gelick was one of 10 founding executives at Helio where he served as the Vice President of Data Services. Before joining Helio, Gelick had an eight-year career at Motorola where he helped pioneer the world’s first mobile commerce and downloadable media solutions.

Rod Hall, Executive Director Comms Tech Research, JP Morgan

Prior to joining JPMorgan Rod was a Director at Dresdner Kleinwort in Telecoms Equity Research. Before 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 Baker, VP, Amazon Kindle

Russell Baker has been managing the Whispernet business at Amazon since 2006. This includes the strategy, road map, partnerships, and economics of the wireless services for Kindle. In addition, Russell also manages the newspaper, magazine, and blogger partnerships for Kindle. Prior to joining the Kindle team, Russell managed large retailer websites for whom Amazon provided website, ecommerce, and order fulfillment services.

Before joining Amazon, Russell served as Director of Internet services with Blackbaud, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development with Chutney Technologies, Director of Internet Strategy with iXL, Strategy Consultant with Accenture, and Large Accounts Manager with Westinghouse.

Russell earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington and his master’s degree from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Russ McGuire, Vice President Strategy, Sprint

Russ McGuire is a leading strategist and visionary in the telecom industry. As vice president of strategy for Sprint, he is responsible for developing the strategic vision and strategic framework for the $40B+ telecommunications giant.

His experience includes 20+ years in the telecom industry plus experience in the defense and nuclear power industries. Prior to joining Sprint, Russ was Chief Strategy Officer for TeleChoice, a leading business strategy consultancy solely focused on innovative telecom market opportunities. In this role he guided top executives from established and start-up telecom companies in developing core business strategies and market strategies to leverage their unique capabilities into sustainable market positions. Mr. McGuire has founded or co-founded two successful technology startups. Additionally, he has been a regular columnist for Network World, Business Reform, and Success magazines.

Mr. McGuire is also the author of The Power of Mobility, a book about how businesses can prosper in the next technology revolution, published by John Wiley & Sons. His daily weblog on these topics can be read at www.mcguireslaw.com.

Ryan Hughes, VP Partner Management, Verizon

In this role his team manages Verizon’s strategic partnerships, as well as Corporate Business Development in new and emerging platforms.

Prior to that, Ryan was VP of Digital Media Programming where he was responsible for sourcing and delivering content across Verizon’s multimedia platforms, including social networking, music, games, location-based services, mobile web, messaging and downloadable applications.

Before Verizon, Hughes spent five years at the National Hockey League running New Media Business Development. At the NHL, he was responsible for bringing the league’s content to all new media platforms such as interactive TV, wireless and Internet.

Hughes has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Cornell University. He was drafted into the NHL in the second round, and played four years of professional minor league hockey before beginning his business career.

Scott Wallsten, Economics Director, National Broadband Task Force, FCC

Scott Wallsten is an economist with expertise in industrial organization and public policy. His research focuses on telecommunications, regulation, competition, and technology policy. He is currently economics director for the FCC's National Broadband Task Force. While at the FCC he is on leave from his position as vice president for research at the Technology Policy Institute.

Sena Gbeckor-Kove, Founder and CTO, ImKon

Sena has been in the Digital Media industry for 12 years and has been focusing on the emerging mobile market for the last 2. He is currently CTO and co-founder of Singapore headquartered consultancy imKon and leads the development of imKon's own mobile, server side and desktop IP projects when not advising or consulting for clients such as BT, Samsung and Comic Relief. Sena is currently writing a book on Mobile Application Stores for FutureText.

Sue Marek, Editor-in-Chief, Wireless Group, Fierce Markets

Sue has been editor-in-chief of FierceMarkets wireless group since joining the company in January 2007. In her current position, she oversees the editorial content of several FierceMarkets’ newsletters including FierceWireless, FierceMobileContent, FierceDeveloper, FierceWireless:Europe and FierceBroadbandWireless and provides editorial guidance for the publications’ websites, webinars and live events.

Sue has more than 18 years of experience reporting on the telecom industry. Prior to joining FierceMarkets, she was the executive editor of Wireless Week. From 1999 to 2001, she worked as an analyst for Paul Kagan Associates, specializing in wireless and broadband technologies. She also was the managing editor of Convergence magazine, a monthly magazine for cable television, phone and wireless network operators.

Tim Connolly, VP Mobile, Disney/ESPN/ABC

Tim Connolly is Vice President of Mobile Distribution for Disney & ESPN Media Networks. He is responsible for creating and maintaining strategic relationships across the mobile industry on behalf of ABC Entertainment, ABC News, Disney, Disney Channel and ESPN.

Connolly’s primary focus is on growing the distribution of mobile video and mobile web services with wireless service providers, handset manufacturers and others. Connolly and his team oversee account management, negotiate carriage agreements, and develop distribution strategies, including pricing, packaging and marketing of the company’s mobile product offerings.

Prior to joining Disney, Connolly served as VP of Sales and Business Development at Ericsson, where he was responsible for delivering networks, applications and services to T-Mobile and AT&T. Prior to this role, he was responsible for Ericsson’s Applications business in North America.

Prior to joining Ericsson, Connolly founded a telecom and media start-up as well as a gourmet coffee business.

Connolly received an MBA and a Masters of Public Policy from the University of Maryland, as well as BA from Wesleyan University. He is based in New York City.

Todd Rowley, VP, Sprint 4G

Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora

Tom Conrad leads the Pandora product organization, which includes product management, user interface design, software development, and network operations. Before joining Pandora, Tom was the Vice President of Engineering at Kenamea, Inc. where he led the teams responsible for the design and development of an award-winning Internet-scale messaging system. Tom previously was the Technical Director for the successful video game series "You Don't Know Jack." Past experience also includes engineering management positions at Berkeley Systems, Relevance Technologies, Documentum, Pets.com, and Kenamea. Tom began his career at Apple Computer developing user interface elements for the Mac OS. Tom has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Ty Roberts, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Gracenote

Ty Roberts is widely recognized as one of the inventors of enhanced CD technology and is accredited with producing the industry's first enhanced CDs. He joined Gracenote in November of 1998 after the company acquired ION, a multimedia and music technology company that he founded in 1993. Roberts serves as Gracenote's chief technology strategist, providing technology direction and overseeing the creation of products and services that leverage the power of the Gracenote database to deliver information services.

Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Vinton G. Cerf is Google’s vice president and chief Internet evangelist. As one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the Internet’s TCP/IP protocols and architecture. Cerf holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and MS. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA.

Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991. He is also the co-creator and co-producer of the technology industry's annual conference, D: All Things Digital, and the co-executive editor of the technology web site, allthingsd.com. On television, Mr. Mossberg is a regular technology commentator for the Fox Business Network.