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 and Social Media Marketing. Ajit chairs Oxfords University's Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University.

Alberto Torres, EVP, Nokia

Alberto Torres is Nokia's Executive Vice President, MeeGo Computers, responsible for developing computer-grade solutions and products based on the MeeGo platform. In his previous role, Mr. Torres was Senior Vice President, Devices Category Management, responsible for the Devices portfolio and product management at Nokia. Before joining Nokia in 2004, he spent 10 years with McKinsey in France and the United States, working with high-tech and industry leaders in mobile devices, consumer technologies, software, and Internet services.

Alisa Bowen, SVP Head of Consumer Publishing, Thomson Reuters

Alisa Bowen is SVP head of consumer publishing at Thomson Reuters, where she oversees the sales, marketing, product development and operations for the advertising supported web, mobile, ipTV propositions in 12 languages and 17 markets globally. Prior to this, Ms. Bowen was the head of product management for the consumer publishing business. For almost a decade, Ms. Bowen has played a role in the evolution of the organization's multi-media strategy.

Andrew Fisher, CEO, Shazam Entertainment

Andrew, appointed CEO of Shazam in 2005, has been responsible for the company's strategic focus and leading its accelerated growth to become the world's leading mobile discovery application. Shazam now has over 50 million users worldwide, available in over 200 countries and deployed across multiple platforms. Andrew was previously European Managing Director of InfoSpace Inc and during his career he has led the successful growth of a number of technology focused enterprises. 

Andrew Gilbert, EVP, Qualcomm

Andrew Gilbert is an EVP of Qualcomm, President of Qualcomm Internet Services and President of Qualcomm Europe. He provides strategic direction and oversight of all business development and operational activity in Europe. He is also responsible for leading Qualcomm Internet Services, a core Qualcomm business, and is an officer of the company, serving as a member of Qualcomm's Executive Committee. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Gilbert served as Vice President and General Manager of Flarion Technologies (EMEA). In over 20 years in telecommunications he has held positions in companies including Motorola and Racal.

Aymar de Lencquesaing, Senior Corporate VP, Acer

Aymar is part of Acer's senior management team and as President of the Smart Handheld Business Group he is in charge of the company's business in the Smart Handheld market. 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 Communications, EVP International of Ziff Davis/ Softbank, President of Sebold, president of PC Brand and VP of Tandon Corporation.

Barney Wragg, Principal, Barney Wragg Associates

Barney Wragg Associates is a specialist digital media agency that helps media and entertainment companies maximize their digital revenues; listing Robbie Williams and BRIT Awards among their clients. In his career, he has held senior positions at both Universal Music Group and EMI.

At EMI, he was responsible for all aspects of the companies'company’s digital strategy and business development and spearheaded their ground-breaking move to support distribution of DRM free content.

Ben Wood, Director of Research, CCS Insight

Ben has more than 15 years experience in the mobile sector, most recently as Research Vice President for Mobile Devices at Gartner where he led a global team of analysts. Prior to that he was Director of Mobile Streams, which was recently floated on AIM; spent 3 years at Lucent Technologies with a focus on advanced wireless applications for 2.5G and 3G networks; and spent 3 years at Vodafone where he was involved in launching SMS and Mobile Data. Twitter: benwood

Caroline Locke, Director, Mobile Internet, O2

Caroline Locke joined Telefonica O2 UK in 2002 working within a technology team for three years. In September 2008 Caroline joined the Mobile Data Group - Telefonica S.A. as a Global Project Manager. She is currently working on delivery of Application based services, with App Stores already launched in Spain and Argentina, and other Operating Business Store’s launching imminently.  In addition, she is managing the development of a multi-platform, single execution environment for Applications.

Charles Weir, MD, Penrillian

Charles is Managing Director of Penrillian, and an expert in outsourced development and project management. He has worked with Vodafone, Symbian, Barclays, NatWest and CSFB and is also an acknowledged authority on agile methods for development. Charles is a regular speaker at software and mobile device events such as the Symbian Smartphone show, and has run seminars for the British Computer Society (BCS), and the Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU).

Chetan Sharma, President, Chetan Sharma Consulting

Chetan Sharma 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.

Christian Lindholm, Managing Partner, Fjord

Fjord is Europe's leading convergence design agency, based in Berlin, Helsinki, London, Madrid and New York. Christian was previously, VP of Global Mobile Products at Yahoo. He worked at Nokia for 10 years, in various roles in the areas of user interface, product creation and venturing. He is also chairman of Tech21.

A globally recognized visionary on mobility and digital lifestyle, he writes about moving experiences on his blog www.christianlindholm.com He believes: Everything can always be simplified and made more delightful to use and everything that can be mobile will be mobile.

Christophe Maire, CEO, Txtr

Txtr is a berlin-based start up that builds tools and services for digital reading and provides a complete service software stack, supporting a multitude of vendors, applications and devices. Christophe has 15 years experience as founder and CEO of technology ventures. Among others, he founded and led gate5 AG, a Berlin-based pioneer in mobile mapping & community software for 7 years before selling the company to Nokia.

Christophe Parcot, VP Sales, Yahoo! EMEA

As Vice President of Sales Yahoo! EMEA, Christophe Parcot is responsible for the company's Sales strategy across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to this, Christophe was VP Yahoo! Southern Europe and launched Overture Services France and Spain. Other roles include Tiscali France, founding member of the free ISP Liberty Surf, Hachette Group (now Lagardère) in Canada, Bertelsmann consumer magazines Group and LVMH Group. Christophe holds an MBA from ESSEC in Paris.

Dan 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.

Dave Westrom, VP, BL Healthcare

Dave Westrom is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at BL Healthcare where he is responsible for corporate strategy, global sales and marketing. Prior to BL Healthcare, Dave was a Global Account Director with SAP Americas. Dave joined SAP as the result of the SAP acquisition of Lighthammer, where he was Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Accounts. Dave has also held executive level positions in sales and marketing with Invensys, Wonderware, and ABB.

David Gwozdz, Chief Executive Officer, Mojiva

An advertising and technology industry pioneer who can't get enough of the game, Dave's most significant accomplishments include leading Mojiva to grow faster than any other advertising platform, having served over 2 billion ads in its first 10 months of operation. Previously he was a member of the founding team of DoubleClick, the internet advertising company acquired by Google for $3 billion in March 2008.

Dean Bubley, Founder, Disruptive Analysis

An analyst with 18 years' experience, Dean specialises in mobile, wireless, networking, and telecoms fields. His present focus is emerging business models and strategies, mobile device architecture and software, fixed mobile convergence, VoIP, shifts in service provider value chains, enterprise mobility, in-building technologies, femtocells, spectrum policy, mobile broadband, and the emergence of open Platforms and APIs. He is also the author of the Disruptive Wireless blog, found at disruptivewireless.blogspot.com.

Ebbe Altberg, VP Audience, Yahoo! EMEA

Ebbe Altberg is responsible for all aspects of the creation, development and management of Audience products for Yahoo! EMEA! He joins from Ingenio Inc. where he was the Chief Product Officer in charge of all product development and the Program Management, Engineering, and Operations teams. Before Ingenio he worked at Microsoft for over 11 years leading the development of several key technologies and applications, including Microsoft Office 98 for the Macintosh, Word for Windows 6.0, 95 and 97.

Emmanuel Routier, Director International M2M Center, Orange Business Services

Emmanuel is Director M2M at Mobistar responsible for the M2M Business Unit, as well as for the International M2M business of the Orange Group. He has worked in the areas of interconnect, roaming, wholesale and M2M within Mobistar variously since 1999. He started his career with France Telecom in 1991.

Emma Lloyd, Director Mobile, Sky

Emma started her career in management consulting where she has ten year's business consulting and mobile telecommunications experience, initially with Coopers & Lybrand and latterly PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Emma left consulting in 2001 and co-founded The BT Movio service launched with Virgin Mobile in September 2006, the first mobile broadcast TV and digital radio service in Europe. Emma joined Sky as a Business Development Director in January 2008 where she leads the development of mobile services along with a number of group wide initiatives.

Enrico Salvatori, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Qualcomm Europe

Enrico Salvatori joined Qualcomm in February 2002, and is 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, and takes the lead role for Global Business Development in Europe.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Enrico Salvatori was the Chief Technology Officer at TELIT, and has also worked at Elsacom and Selenia Spazio.

Enrico has a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Rome

Florian Seiche, VP Europe, HTC

Florian Seiche joined HTC in September 2005 as Vice President of HTC Europe. In this role, he has overall Sales and Marketing responsibility for the EMEA Region. Florian has a strong telecoms background with significant international experience in the wireless devices industry. Prior to joining HTC Florian was the global Director of Devices for the Orange Group in London. Prior to that Florian worked at Siemens for ten years, where he led Siemens' mobile phone entry into North America.

Francis Charig, CEO and Founder, Antix Labs

Francis Charig is CEO and founder of Antix Labs; Antix licenses its portable native game format to mobile operators, service providers and device manufacturers enabling consumers to play, copy and share games across mobile and home networked devices. He was Head of the London Stock Exchange’s Trading Systems Business Unit, co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Tao Group, Chairman of the Open Contents Platform Association in Tokyo and is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.

Greg Clayman, EVP, MTV

Greg Clayman is Executive Vice President of Digital Distribution & Business Development for MTV Networks (MTVN). In his role, Clayman manages digital business across MTV Networks, working closely with its channels to develop new opportunities for distribution of digital content and manage strategic digital partnerships. Clayman also oversees the MTVN Mobile Media group, supporting the company's brands in developing and distributing a wide portfolio of mobile content and applications. Additionally, Clayman works with MTVN's International division on global partnerships and distribution strategy.

Gustav Söderström, VP of Products, Spotify

Formerly, director of mobile solutions, Gustav is now VP of Products at Spotify. His passion is the mobile applications of the Internet and the business models that emerge from these technologies. In his career, Gustav worked as an entrepreneur founding Swedish mobile social software company Kenet Works in 2003 (acquired by Yahoo! in 2006), and subsequently as director of product development and director of business development at Yahoo! Mobile.

Håkan Dahlström, President Mobility, TeliaSonera

Håkan Dahlström is 47 years old and he is since 24th February 2010 the President of Business Area Mobility Services in the TeliaSonera group. Prior to that he was in November 2008 appointed the President of Business Area Broadband Services and previous to that he held the position as the President of Mobility Services in Sweden (TeliaSonera Sweden). Before that he was Group Vice President and Head of Corporate Networks & Technology at the TeliaSonera.

Hampus Jakobsson, Co-founder, The Astonishing Tribe

Since co-founding The Astonishing Tribe (TAT) in February 2002, Hampus Jakobsson has been working closely with top-tier manufacturers and operators. Previously, Hampus built a considerable experience in the mobile industry working at Picofun, Soda Ltd and Gemplus. He currently serves at the Board of Directors of TAT and as an advisor to a couple of technology companies in Sweden. Hampus has a MSc. from the Lund Institute of Technology.

Hank Skorny, SVP Cloud, Real Networks

At Real Networks, Hank is leading a new effort to place media into the cloud. He has nearly 25 years experience, and was a successful entrepreneur, previously serving as CEO of Thumbspeed Inc. which was acquired by OZ Communications and subsequently Nokia. He has also held positions at Infospace Mobile, AOL Mobile, Adobe, Microsoft and Apple.

Hank serves as the Managing Partner of o8Ventures and Chairman of Zipwhip, Inc, as well as sitting on several boards, including TiE.

Ilja Laurs, CEO, GetJar

Ilja Laurs is Founder and CEO of GetJar, the world's largest cross-platform app store providing global distribution and monetization services to 350,000 developers, including brands like Google, Microsoft and Facebook, and serving 60 million app downloads per month. In August 2009, Informa Telecoms & Media included Ilja in the "Top 40 most influential people in mobile communications".

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

Jeet Kaul, VP Java Engineering, Oracle

Jeet leads the global team which produces Java software technologies and platforms. Previously at Sun Microsystems, he was VP of the client software group. He also served as VP of developer products and programs where he championed NetBeans adoption among developer communities for languages like Ruby, JavaScript and PHP. He also directed development of the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and spearheaded its open sourcing, as part of the launch of the GlassFish community.

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. He is on the board of the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance.

Jerome Nadel, EVP, Sagem Wireless

At Sagem Wireless, Nadel is responsible for bringing innovative user-centric mobile devices and services to market. Previously Nadel was CXO of Human Factors International where he helped transform the firm's core usability services into business oriented user experience strategy and design. Before that he was VP Marketing for Gemplus, driving technology partnerships and promoting usability of mobile data services.

Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation

Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. He was most recently executive director at Free Standards Group (FSG). Prior to FSG, he served as VP of marketing for Covalent Technologies, the leader in products and services for the Apache web server. Zemlin was also a member of the founding management team of Corio, a leading enterprise ASP.

Joaquim Croca, Head of Health Solutions, Vodafone

Joaquim joined Vodafone in Portugal in 2002. To date he has held various positions within Vodafone at a global and local level in Technology, Government relations and External Affairs. Before joining Vodafone Global Enterprise, in January 2010, Joaquim was the global Head of Corporate Responsibility Performance & Reporting.

Jon S. von Tetzchner, Co-Founder, Opera Software

Jon S. von Tetzchner, along with colleague Geir Ivarsøy, started developing a Web browser while working for Norwegian Telecom Research (Telenor) in 1994 which and is now widely used, pioneering many innovations that have revolutionized Web browsing. 
As co-founder of Opera Software, Tetzchner spreads the company's vision of One Web, which means giving people universal access to the Web the way they like it. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Oslo.

Josh Williams, CEO, Gowalla

Josh Williams is a co-founder and CEO of Gowalla, a locative social network inspiring people to share their favorite places and experiences with friends. With an ever growing collection of game-like rewards, the beautifully designed service has connected people in 150 countries with over 450,000 places around the world.

Prior to Gowalla, he was Principal at Firewheel Design, a boutique user-interface consultancy, where his clients included Microsoft, Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Thompson Reuters and Causes.

Judy Gibbons, Accel Partners

Judy has over 25 years experience in the computer industry with a focus on software, digital media, online advertising & consumer Internet. She currently serves as Chairman of Mippin, and is on the board of Autoquake. Previously she was Corporate Vice President of MSN Global Sales and Marketing managing the business across 40 markets worldwide. Judy also serves on the board of the Guardian Media Group and Virgin Money Giving and previously was on the board of 02.

Julien-David Nitlech, Director, Orange Devices

As Fixed & Mobile Devices Portfolio Director, Julien-David Nitlech is responsible for the selection of a best in class, Group-wide portfolio of devices for Orange’s mobile, fixed, mobile broadband and M2M markets. Prior to his current role, Julien-David was responsible for Orange’s business and mobile broadband device portfolios. He started his career at France Telecom North America in the Planning & Strategy division, based in New York.

Ken Denman, CEO, Openwave

Ken Denman is CEO for Openwave Systems where he is focused on executing Openwave's corporate strategy and growing the company's global market share with innovative software infrastructure products and services for mobile and broadband operators.

Ken's career spans more than 20 years in the global telecommunications and IT industries. Before Openwave, Ken served as chairman and CEO of iPass, a world leader in platform-based enterprise mobility services, and also headed up MediaOne's International Wireless Group.

Kim Bybjerg, Managing Director Mobile Managed Solutions, KPN

Kim serves as KPN’s Managing Director for the M2M (machine to machine) Division since January 2010. Kim brings more than 20 years of experience in IT and Wireless Industry, with strong skills and expertise in business and executive management. Kim recently successfully managed Sympac, KPN International branch, in EU where he led global business-to-business strategy and sales operations.

Liam Galin, President and CEO, Flash Networks

Liam Galin joined Flash Networks in 2005 as President & CEO. Previously, Mr. Galin worked at RiT (NASDAQ: RITT) for seven years, five of which as CEO. Prior to his joining RiT, Mr. Galin served in an elite technology unit of the Israel Defense Forces for nine years. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering, both from Tel Aviv University.

Luca Pagano, VP, EA Mobile EMEA

Luca is responsible for driving EA Mobile's publishing business throughout Europe as well as the Middle East and Africa, deepening carrier relationships and exploring new partnerships and strategic avenues for growth. Luca joined EA Mobile from Buongiorno, where he served as Region Managing Director, UK & International. Prior to Buongiorno, he held positions at ZedGravity, the Oxford Centre for Innovation and Value Partners Management Consulting.

Mark Curtis, CEO, Flirtomatic

Mark is CEO of Flirtomatic, winner of the 2009 NMA Grand Prix. He is a co-founder of Fjord, the digital innovation company with offices in 5 countries. In 2005 he wrote “Distraction” (Futuretext) about the social effects of digital media. He co-founded CHBi which became Razorfish London in 1998.

Mark Donovan, SVP Mobile, ComScore

Mark Donovan serves as Senior Vice President of Mobile Products at comScore, Inc, the global source of digital market intelligence. Mark previously served as CMO of M:Metrics, which was acquired by comScore in May 2008. He joined M:Metrics in 2004, leading the product and marketing team which launched the company in 2005 and went on to become the leading provider of mobile media metrics in the United States and Europe.

Mark Rock, CEO, Audioboo

Mark Rock is the founder and CEO of Audioboo, a social audio platform that launched in March last year and has already signed up Stephen Fry, The British Army, BBC and Financial Times as users. Audioboo allows you to record audio from your mobile phone, add a photo, title and geolocation and share it instantly on networks like Twitter & Facebook.

Mark Rolston, Chief Creative Officer, frog design

An early software pioneer, Mark founded frog's digital media group in 1996, working with clients to leverage emerging technologies and setting the tone for user interface design and e-commerce platforms. He drove the creation of dell.com, marking the birth of the most profitable website on the Internet, and has crafted user experiences for Microsoft, SAP, Disney, and Hewlett Packard, among others. Today, Mark focuses on the convergence of product, digital, and strategic design, pushing clients to offer truly unified and valuable user experiences.

Michael Reilly, Director, Orange Healthcare UK

Michael has over 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry, predominantly in product development, commercial product life cycle management, B2B strategy and Business Development. He has worked for BT, O2, Worldcom and Deutsche Telecom prior to joining Orange where he developed, launched and managed the B2B data portfolio before assuming his current role. Michael was awarded a PhD, based on a 4 year longitudinal research based thesis, in Organisation Behaviour from the University of Brighton.

Dr Mike Grant, Partner, Analysys Mason

Mike leads Analysys Mason's global Media and Services practice. The practice assists organisations across the media value chain achieve their goals in a converging media and telecoms landscape, providing advice on corporate strategy, policy development, and M&A. Mike is currently advising clients on issues including connected TV, mobile media, and content monetisation online. Over twenty years in industry and consulting, Mike was behind the introduction of 3D graphics into the mobile industry, and established one of the world's leading mobile gaming companies. Mike is a Cranfield MBA.

Dr Mike Short, VP R&D, O2

Mike was appointed Director of Cellnet in 1989 and in 1993 launched Cellnet's GSM service; establishing Roaming Agreements. He then looked after 3G Strategy and external relations and in 2000 was appointed VP technology for O2 group, prior to demerger from BT. His 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.

Mike was chairman of the global GSM Association for 1995/6 and served on their Executive Board for 5 years. 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 VP of IET.

Niklas Sonkin, EVP, Tele2

Niklas currently holds the position as Executive Vice president and Market Area Director for Central Europe & Eurasia at Tele2. He has a strong industry background from his earlier roles as Chief Strategy Officer and Director of Business to Business, Product Development and Management at Wataniya Telecom. Niklas has also held senior positions at TeliaSonera AB, Sonera Corporation, and Telecom Finland.

Olaf Swantee, SEVP, France Telecom

Olaf Swantee heads up France Telecom's global mobile business. This serves 128.8 million customers, and includes Orange branded operations in 31 countries. He also represents the group's Europe & Egypt region businesses on the France Telecom executive board. A 44 year old Dutch national, Olaf holds a BA in Economics and received his European MBA from the EAP (Ecole Européenne des Affaires) in Paris in 1989.

Oli Stephenson, CTO, CBS Radio/Last.fm

Oli Stephensen is currently the CTO of the CBS Interactive Music Group which includes Last FM. Since joining CBS in 2006 he has successfully built an industry leading interactive radio platform and operates one of the largest streaming platforms on the planet. Previously he founded and ran a couple of startups in the mobile space that were acquired by Sonera. In the late 90's Oli built MAYO RADIO, the first democratically powered radio platform.

Olivier Baujard, CTO, Deutsche Telekom

Olivier Baujard was appointed as Deutsche Telekom's Chief Technology Officer in November 2009. He is also a member of the Executive Operating Board. As CTO for the entire Group, Olivier is responsible for the Group-wide engineering, deployment and operation of fixed, mobile and carrier infrastructures. Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom, Olivier Baujard worked for Alcatel-Lucent from 1988, holding a number of key senior positions across the international business, most recently as Chief Technology Officer and from 2008 as CEO and Chairman of Alcatel-Lucent, France.

Paul Reddick, CEO, Handmark

Paul Reddick is a mobile industry pioneer with more than 15 years experience leading and advising a variety of distinguished mobile media initiatives. Paul has established a solid set of leadership skills with a diverse engineering, Stanford MBA, McKinsey, and carrier management background. As CEO of Handmark, Paul continues to leverage his experience and expertise to drive mobile innovation and advance the company's global presence as a leading mobile content creator and distributor.

Pieter Knook, Director, Vodafone Internet Services

Pieter runs Vodafone Internet Services which does product development, delivery and has in market responsibility for all consumer data orientated products across Vodafone operating companies. His objective is to substantially grow this business with innovative products and services. Prior to founding VIS, Pieter spent 18 years with Microsoft in Redmond, WA, most recently as SVP of the Mobile Communications Business. Pieter also led the Microsoft Asia region based out of Tokyo until 2002.

Rajeev Chand, MD Wireless, Rutberg & Company

As Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst, Mr. Chand is responsible for leading the firm's venture capital and merger and acquisition research practice in the wireless industry. Most recently, Mr. Chand served as Director of Research for iSherpa Capital, a seed stage venture capital firm. Previously, Mr. Chand served as a strategy consultant with Accenture. He earned an undergraduate business degree from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard Titus, CEO, AND

As CEO of Associated Northcliffe Digital (www.and.co.uk), Richard oversees an international portfolio of businesses including Jobsite, Findaproperty, Globrix, Motors.co.uk, Allegran and the AND online and mobile businesses of Teletext. He is charged with the operation of the businesses and growth of the diverse AND portfolio and the larger consumer digital strategy. Previously, Richard led one of three BBC future media divisions as Controller Future Media, A&M and Mobile. He has founded / co-founded seven firms in his diverse entrepreneurial career including Razorfish LA and Schematic.

Richard Windsor, Sr. Analyst, Nomura Securities

Richard is the Technology industry specialist. From running a large technology fund for ADIA in the Middle East, Richard picked up coverage of the Nomura communications equipment sector in May 2001. Through close co-operation with analysts in other offices, Nomura's reputation in the wireless equipment sector has grown and is now considered by the industry as one of the leading research houses in next generation mobile terminal software and platforms. This is echoed on the institutional investor side. Nomura has concentrated on developing a fully global view of the sector.

Robin Ashton, Commercial Director, ESPN

Robin is a Digital Media professional with over 10 years experience.  In his role as Commercial Director, ESPN Digital Media, he oversees ESPN’s EMEA Digital Properties including ESPNcricinfo, ESPNsoccernet, ESPNscrum, ESPNF1, ESPN.co.uk and ESPNPlayer across all Digital Platforms.   ESPN delivers mobile services to for all of its major Digital Brands, and following the acquisition of Premier League Mobile rights for the next 3 seasons, is preparing to launch a new service to bring these clips to consumers in August.

Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director, FT.com

Rob was appointed MD of FT.com in June 2008. As the FT board representative for FT.com he is responsible for the website's commercial performance and overall strategy. Prior to this, he was a member of the FT.com Executive leadership team and was Advertising Strategy and Global Online Director. Since 1998, Grimshaw has held a series of commercial roles within the business, including Head of Global Key Accounts & Clients Sales and Head of Global Advertising Strategy & Operations.

Roberto Bonanzinga, Partner, Balderton Capital

Prior to joining Balderton, Roberto spent 15 years working with entrepreneurs in the US and in Europe acting as a non-executive director/adviser to numerous companies including Jaiku (acquired by Google NASDAQ:GOOG), Jambaz, Mobango, Pageflakes (acquired by Live Universe), Piczo, and Woome.

Roberto's past operational experience includes sr. Management roles at Viatel,  Netscalibur, Topica, Fabrik (acquired by Critical Path) and Information Access Company (acquired by Thomson Corporation NYSE:TOC).

Rolv-Erik Spilling, CTO, Telenor Norway

Rolv-Erik Spilling (42) is CTO in Telenor Norway and Vice President for the business unit Services, IT and Technology. Before becoming the CTO, Spilling was CMO for the Business Market in Norway. Before joining Telenor, Spilling was 8 years in Alcatel holding various positions. He is chairman of the board of Smartphones AS and Telenor Svalbard AS, in addition to being member of the board of Datametrix AS and Telenor Cinclus AS.

Russell Buckley, VP Global Alliances, AdMob

Russell is a leading expert on mobile marketing. 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. Russell is currently Chairman Emeritus of The Mobile Marketing Association, a founder of Mobile Monday in Germany.

Simon Torrance, CEO, STL Partners/Telco 2.0 Initiative

Simon is CEO of STL Partners, a research and consulting firm specialising in business model innovation at the intersection of the telecoms, media and enterprise IT sectors. In May 2006 he set up the Telco 2.0 Initiative, to catalyse change in the industry. Telco 2.0 carries out research and runs ‘executive brainstorms' to stimulate greater understanding and adoption of new growth opportunities. www.telco2.net/blog

Simon Watt, VP Technology, Universal Music Group International

Simon Watt leads UMGI’s technology group, responsible for its overall technology strategy, including the integration of new business models into the company’s operations and their rollout to international markets. Among the companies he works with are Apple, Microsoft, Spotify, Nokia, YouTube and VEVO. Prior to joining Universal Music, Simon Watt spent 11 years at electronics firm ARM. He was a microprocessor architect and has around 20 patents in his name.

Stephen Oman, Director, Amdocs Interactive Solutions

Stephen Oman, Director, Amdocs Interactive Solutions. Stephen has over twenty years' experience in software development on large-scale projects. He has delivered Amdocs Interactive's personalization technology to some of the world's largest mobile operators, including Vodafone Global, the O2 Group, Teliasonera, CSL Hong Kong & Sprint.

Steve Haber, President - Digital Reading Business Division, Sony

Haber is responsible for the global direction and development of Sony's Reader Digital Book, Sony's eBook store in the US and relationships with affiliate book stores overseas. The Reader business is Sony's first global consumer electronics business to be headquartered in the United States. Since joining Sony in 1988, Haber has assumed many different positions including Executive Vice President of Sony Electronics' Consumer Product Group, the SVP Electronics' Digital Imaging and Audio Division and SVP Personal Mobile and Imaging Division.

Thomas Husson, Senior Analyst, Forrester

Thomas serves Consumer Product Strategy professionals. His research covers mobile consumer services. He focuses in particular on the evolving mobile ecosystem, the impact of new entrants in the mobile space, mobile services, mobile media and content, mobile Internet, mobile marketing, and advertising. Before joining Forrester, Thomas spent 4 years at JupiterResearch as a senior analyst and six years at Bouygues Telecom (3rd French operator), first as Internet product manager and then as mobile multimedia product manager.

Tim Raby, CEO, OMTP

Tim joined OMTP in January 2006 after being 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.