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July 27-28, 2005
Hilton Universal City

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Speaker Biographies

   

David Amato

ArcSoft, Inc.

Director, Mobile Products

David is responsible for selling ArcSoft's mobile products and services to handset OEM's, wireless operators, chip manufacturers and content providers. ArcSoft's Mobile Products group provides leading-edge multimedia applications and technologies, and is recognized as a market leader.

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Byron Allen

Entertainment Studios Home Entertainment

Founder

Byron launched Entertainment Studios Home Entertainment which will leverage Entertainment Studios existing library of more than 3,000 hours of original programming in the sell-through arena as well as acquire original motion pictures and specialty product, with an emphasis on comedy. Entertainment Studios will use its network of first-run syndicated television programs to promote its products to an audience of more than 15 million viewers each week.

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Steve Andler

Networks In Motion

Vice President, Marketing

Steve joined NIM in 2004. He was most recently Vice President of Marketing for the Computer Systems Group at Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. Before joining Toshiba, he was Vice President of Marketing for Fujitsu PC Corporation. Mr. Andler held key senior management roles at Phoenix Technologies, Apple, AST, Toshiba, and MicroSystems, Inc. He has over 20 years of experience conceiving and marketing products focused on the application of new technologies to mobile computing and consumer electronics.

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Scott Andrews

BMI

Senior Director, Internet and Mobile Entertainment

As the Senior Director, Internet Licensing for BMI, Scott is responsible for negotiating and drafting license agreements with U.S. Internet, wireless and online gaming companies, developing and implementing sales and marketing strategies and music performance agreements for new media customers, and for representing BMI’s repertoire and copyright clearance service to the internet community. Additionally, he is directly involved in many of BMI’s new technology initiatives including BMI’s Digital Licensing Center for online licensing of Internet customers; BMI’s Electronic Music-Use Reporting System for broadcast radio station customers; and other initiatives designed to streamline business practices through the use of new technologies. Mr. Andrews joined BMI in 1988 as the Broadcast Manager, Midwestern States, Media Licensing, and rose to Senior Director, Group & National Accounts, Media Licensing before segueing to the Internet Licensing department.

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Joe Astroth

Autodesk Location Services

Vice President and General Manager

Joe brings more than 20 years of experience in GIS and computer mapping to his role as the leader of the Autodesk Location Services division. Since its founding in 2001, he has been instrumental in shaping the division's business and technology strategies, as well as building a strong executive team.

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Bill Barhydt

Sennari

Chief Executive Officer

Bill is responsible for the company's vision and strategy.  Sennari represents the next generation of interactive mobile services; a platform integrating mobile technologies to create an unprecedented new infrastructure for building brand loyalty and community applications. He has been a pioneer in Internet and media technologies for 20 years. In 2000 the World Economic Forum recognized Mr. Barhydt as one of the original group of 30 technology pioneers for his work in Internet technologies at WebSentric.

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Jeff Bartee

Idetic, Inc.

Vice President, Finance and Business Development

Jeff joined Idetic in 2002 as the Vice President of Finance and Business Development, and brings over ten years of financial planning, technology and media expertise to the company. He has been pivotal in directing strategic content acquisitions and managing contracts in his dual-role as Vice President of Business Development. Prior to Idetic, Mr. Bartee served as the Vice President of Financial Planning for Excite@Home where he oversaw financial planning for multiple business units including Cable Internet Access, Engineering and Operations, Commercial Business and International. He also served as Revenue Account Manager and later Controller at Tandem Computers, which was subsequently acquired by Compaq Computers.

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Aaron Bernstein

QUALCOMM Internet Services

Senior Manager, Gaming Group

Aaron is a senior manager with the QUALCOMM Gaming Group, the team chartered to champion, define, and drive the QUALCOMM wireless gaming experience. He oversees the group’s Developer Relations activities to ensure that the platform is profitable and viable for publishers and developers so that they can deliver the best possible wireless games. Prior to joining QUALCOMM in 2003, Mr. Bernstein worked at PacketVideo, RealNetworks, and PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College.

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Jean-Pierre Bienaimé

Orange France

Chairman, UMTS Forum

Jean-Pierre has been Chairman of the mobile industry association since January 2003, with a mission to promote a common vision of the development of 3G/UMTS and its evolution while also ensuring its worldwide commercial success. Joining France Telecom in 1979, his responsibilities included financial management, marketing and product development for international services and corporate networks.

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Eric Bilange, Ph.D.
mForma
Chief Technology Officer

Eric is head of global IT operations and prior to joining mForma was CTO and Co-Founder of Indiqu, a leading supplier of wireless games and entertainment to 18 networks. Previously, he was Director of Product Management Internet solutions for Alcatel in Paris, France, one of the world's leading manufacturers of telecommunications infrastructure technologies. In this capacity, Dr. Bilange defined products and managed a mediation platform for ISPs, telcos and portals to facilitate the access of wireless devices, PDAs and set-top boxes.

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Ian Blaine

thePlatform
Chief Executive Officer

Ian has successfuly guided the company through two rounds of financing and two mergers. In addition to managing day-to-day activities, he sets long term strategy for the company. Mr. Blaine is a software industry veteran with experience at large software companies as well as successful start-ups. He has a strong background in product development, having spent over nine years at Aldus/Adobe Systems as a Senior Manager in the publishing division. In addition, Mr. Blaine has proven entrepreneurial experience, having co-founded two successful start-up companies. 

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Tom Bobich

Visage Mobile

Senior Vice President, Marketing and Product Development

In seven years with AirTouch Cellular, Tom helped the company grow from four markets to 17 states in the US and facilitated the brand's evolution into Verizon Wireless. Previously, he worked with The Clorox Company managing established businesses and new product development. As Brand Manager he reversed a declining, mature business and developed new products to extend brand franchises. Mr. Bobich also led the largest product launch in company history. Prior to business school, he was with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), working primarily in information strategy and systems.

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Scott Campbell

UK Trade and Investment

US Media & Communications Industry Advisor

Scott provides expert advice to UK Trade & Investment's business development officials and actively facilitates bilateral trade and investment in the Media & Communications Industries. Mr. Campbell's international business experience enables him to offer guidance to companies seeking to form strategic alliances, joint ventures and/or licensing agreements in the UK or North America.

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Rio Caraeff

Universal Music Mobile

General Manager

Rio oversees all areas of UMM-US, liaising closely with UMG's broad array of labels as well as the company's eLabs division to coordinate mobile music and non-music related initiatives with current and emerging wireless technologies and platforms.  He leads all UMM-US initiatives, working with wireless carriers, device manufacturers and infrastructure providers to maximize mobile opportunities, create new products and enable new distribution channels for UMG content.

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Roy Chapin
MovieSeer Limited

Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Roy founded MovieSeer Limited, a leading wireless entertainment company which focuses on wireless licensing and content production. He has had over six years experience in the telecommunication and wireless industry. Over these six years he has helped lead MovieSeer to develop one of the first to regional WAP entertainment portal with Sony Ericsson and has introduce of the start of "Prepaid Card" wireless promotions for multiple mobile operators in APAC MovieSeer has also become the sole and exclusive wireless licensee and representative of Sony Pictures Mobile for South Asia.

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Ted Cohen

EMI Music

Senior Vice President, Digital Development and Distribution

Ted oversees worldwide digital business development for this big five record company, which includes Capitol, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis. Under his guidance, EMI has led the industry with its initiatives in new technologies and business models such as digital downloads, online music subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio.

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Alexander U. Conrad

Dwango Wireless

President and Chief Operations Officer

Alexander is a mobile media expert with extensive experience working for high-profile mobile, media and entertainment companies on a global basis. At Dwango, he has led the company's strategy to focus on premium lifestyle brands in the marketplace, putting a team in place that successfully developed, launched and promoted major lifestyle brand initiatives across all major carriers in North America. Prior to Dwango, Mr. Conrad was the Vice President of Business Development at Over-The-Air Wireless (OTA), where his focus was launching and promoting new carrier services across North America. He also managed the mergers and acquisitions process for OTA during the Dwango acquisition.

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Scott Debson

Zingy, Inc.

Vice President, Licensing and Publishing

Scott co-founded not13, one of the first leading mobile marketing and content companies in the UK and U.S. He headed the team at not13 that launched the world's first SMS lottery in partnership with Genie (now O2 in the UK). Mr. Debson was also responsible for the first cross carrier short code in the US for a $1 million SMS Sweepstakes with Warner Music Group and Missy Elliott in 2002. He has worked on more than 200 mobile marketing and content campaigns in Europe and the U.S. After departing not13, Mr. Debson consulted for a number of content owners in both the U.S. and UK aiding their transition across the Atlantic.

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Kelly Egan

Best Buy

Director of Business Development

During his tenure at Best Buy, Kelly has developed a number of strategic initiatives targeting new customer retail experiences and environments, new media distribution platforms, and digital content opportunities. He has been active in the field of Media and Entertainment for over ten years and has worked in both creative and management roles in the film, television, and interactive entertainment industries. Prior to joining Best Buy, Mr. Egan founded international film and television distributor Kegan Entertainment. Leading both property acquisition and territory sales responsibilities, he completed numerous worldwide distribution agreements at the MIPCOM and MIPTV markets in Cannes.

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Thomas Ellsworth

GoTV Networks

Chief Strategy Officer

Thomas is a deeply experienced veteran of the wireless industry. Before joining GoTV, he served as Executive Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Development from 2001 to 2005 at JAMDAT Mobile. Inc. where he was part of the management team that saw the company complete its highly successful IPO in September 2004. Prior to JAMDAT Mr. Ellsworth was Vice President of Incubator Development and senior director of Business Development in the wireless division of Sprint.

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Ric Eittreim

Versaly Entertainment

Vice President, Business Development

Richard was Vice President of Business Development for Global Software Solutions, Inc., specializing in globalization architectures for B2B marketplaces and exchanges. As Director of International Business for Mindscape, a leading game publisher, from 1991 to 1997, he developed multi-platform distribution lines and licensed over 50 software products into Asia-Pacific markets.

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Joe Fabris

Palm Inc.

Director, Business and Wireless Marketing

Joe has 20 years of experience in the high tech market, serving in a variety of positions with leading companies in the industry. He joined palmOne through the merger of Handspring and Palm in 2003. At palmOne Mr. Fabris is responsible for the marketing of the wireless line of the company's solutions to the business audience.

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Ron Faith
Qpass

Vice President, Open Market
Ron joined Qpass in 1997 as the company's first official employee and has been involved in all facets including sales, product marketing, business operations and strategic direction. Prior to Qpass, he spent several years at Apple, and was responsible for bringing the company's first consumer Internet product, the Apple Internet Connection Kit, to market. While at Apple, Mr. Faith also served as Manager for Worldwide Software Configuration Management, overseeing the release of all Apple international and domestic software.

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Mitch Feinman

News Corp.

Vice President, Digital Content

Mitch is VP of Digital Content for News Corp., the world’s most global media company. In his position, Mitch identifies and builds new distribution channels. Recently, with a focus on mobile, FOX has emerged as the leader in text messaging (American Idol) and video (24: Conspiracy). In fact, Mr. Feinman invented and trademarked the word Mobisode TM, short videos that are part of an ongoing series created specifically for wireless.

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Joe Fleischer

BigChampagne

Founder

Joe is a third-generation member of the music industry. Immediately following graduation from UCLA, he went to work for A&M Records when it was still an independent and served stints in both Marketing and Artists and Repertoire. In 1993, Mr. Fleischer joined Hits Magazine (then the leading music industry trade magazine), rising to Vice President and Senior Editor. He also served as the music industry columnist for Spin magazine and hosted his own live concert series "Live From the Pit" for the Global Satellite Network.

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Thomas Gewecke

Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Senior Vice President, Digital Business Group

Thomas oversees the development of Sony BMG's digital revenues worldwide. He is directly responsible for all relationships with digital partners and revenues generated in the U.S., as well as for coordinating the international digital business development in countries outside the U.S. through a regional presence in Europe and Asia. Mr. Gewecke oversees BMG's current U.S. Digital Marketing and Licensing Group, and continues to oversee his current direct reports from Sony's mobile business as well as Sony Music's EMD business. He lead the GDB's support of Sony's international digital efforts, working closely with the regional and territory teams, with the ERO team reporting directly to him. Previously Mr.Thomas served as Senior Vice President, Business Development, Sony Music Digital Services, since 1999.

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Matt Golden

Tira Wireless

Vice President, Business Development

Matt is charged with establishing and maintaining relationships with the top mobile operators and publishers across North American and EMEA markets. He assumed his current role at Tira after spending two years as the Director of New Ventures with Brightspark Ventures, LP, Canada 's leading early stage venture capital firm. At Brightspark, Mr. Golden  focused on building financial networks, raising capital, striking alliances and in forming partnerships for the Brightspark group of companies and developed a strong focus on the emerging J2ME technologies market.

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Louis Gump

The Weather Channel Interactive
Vice President, Mobile

Louis has responsibility for all of the company's branded offerings for mobile consumers, including downloadable wireless Doppler radar applications, multimedia offerings, messaging products, and wireless websites. During his tenure, TWCi has launched various products such as made-for-mobile video and on-demand messaging, and has continued to integrate mobile offerings into weather.com, the Web site of The Weather Channel. Previously, Mr. Gump served as Director of Business Development and Director of Mobile Products and Services for TWCi.

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Minard Hamilton

JAMDAT Mobile

Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Minard was formerly the general manager ESPN.com  International. He oversaw the expansion of ESPN.com's existing business in Europe, and the building of businesses in Latin America and Asia. Prior to joining ESPN.com, Mr. Hamilton was a senior vice president at ESPN International, where he was responsible for programming, marketing and advertising sales at ESPN's  fourteen international networks covering Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Australia and Africa.  Among other responsibilities,Mr.  Hamilton handled ESPN International relationships with the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, PGA, ATP, the Premier League, Serie A and UEFA.  He also served as vice president of International at Activision, Inc., a leading computer game publisher.

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Eric Harber

Qpass

Vice President, Corporate and Business Development

Eric brings a strong background in establishing companies as leaders through the development of key relationships. Before joining Qpass, he was Executive Vice President of Strategic Development for ChannelAdvisor Corporation, building relationships with partners including eBay, Amazon, Motorola, and IBM establishing ChannelAdvisor as the leader in e-commerce/online marketplace software and services. Prior to joining ChannelAdvisor, Mr. Harber held various executive leadership positions at Pinpoint Networks, Inc., formulating strategy, driving execution by successfully selling to major mobile operators, and leading strategic funding efforts resulting in dramatic growth for the company.

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Rouben Haroutoonian

Dwango Wireless

Executive Vice President

Rouben has over 20 years of senior management experience that spans across Sales, Business Development, Marketing, Procurement and Operations Management. He plays a key role in developing, implementing and sustaining Dwango's growth strategy. Previously, Mr. Haroutoonian served as Vice President of Sales and Client Services for Mobliss, Inc., where he led the creation and deployment of innovative mobile strategies for several well-known brands such as American Idol, ESPN, Nike, Sports Illustrated, Toyota, and The Coca-Cola Company. That success led to a merger with Index Corporation of Japan in January 2004. Mr. Haroutoonian serves as a board member of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), a global association that strives to stimulate market growth and define industry standards for operations and guidelines on privacy.

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Claas Heise

T-Ventures

Managing Director

Claas joined T-Venture in Bonn, Germany as an investment professional, having already been successfully working with T-Venture as an outside advisor since 1997. T-Venture is the corporate venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom group, which also includes T-Mobile. He is based at T-Venture's U.S. subsidiary, T-Venture of America in San Mateo, CA. Mr. Heise is responsible for U.S. portfolio companies, new deal flow and projects, the relationships with U.S. venture capital companies, and for managing T-Venture’s partnership with Telesoft Partners.

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Tony Henning

Future Image, Inc.

Managing Editor, The Mobile Imaging Report

Tony is also the author of "Wireless Imaging – Overcoming the Challenges," "The Camera-Phone Phenomenon – A New Deal for Imaging," and "Will Camera-Phones Replace Digital Cameras?" He has presented on Wireless Imaging at Digital Imaging Marketing Association, Mobile Imaging North America 2003, Seybold, Photo Marketing Association, I3A, Digital Imaging Group, Mobile Multimedia Messaging, and Wireless Internet 2001.

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Chris Houston

Amp'd Mobile

Senior Vice President, Wireless

As Senior Vice President of Wireless Operations, Chris leads Amp'd Mobile's product development, customer care, logistics and system integration teams. He's been developing and managing MVNO's for both carriers and resellers since the MVNO concept was first introduced in North America six years ago, most recently with Boost Mobile USA and Bell Mobility Canada.

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Manish Jha

ESPN Mobile

Senior Vice President

Manish is charged with leading ESPN's growing wireless business worldwide, including licensing and ESPN Mobile, the first national U.S. wireless phone (MVNO) service specifically targeted at sports fans (to launch in second half of 2005).  ESPN currently features licensing agreements with every major domestic carrier, including up-to-the-minute scores, news and headlines; ring tones, games, photo galleries, Spanish-language content and more.

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Evan Kamer

National Football League

Senior Director, New Media and Publishing

Evan is responsible for the general management and development of many new media businesses for the NFL including the internet, satellite radio, broadband, wireless, fantasy football and interactive television. He helped engineer some of the largest sports new media rights agreements in recent years with partners such as Sirius, AOL Time Warner, Viacom and CBS Sportsline. Mr. Kamer was also a key visionary in the development of the NFL Internet Network, a groundbreaking network concept enabling the league to leverage the power of aggregation and centralized investment while providing for local team editorial and community functions.

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Burton Katz

Buongiorno

President, U.S. Operations

Burton is responsible for setting strategic direction and implementing the business plan for all of B!'s fast growing activities in the U.S. In this capacity, He is guiding the successful launch in the U.S. with the consumer brand and is working closely with wireless operators, offline and online media companies and large retailers.

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Angelo Kim

onTimetek

Chief Technology Officer

Angelo is one of the leading South Korean engineers of Digital Media Broadcasting and other mobile multimedia technologies.  He has delivered groundbreaking solutions for the top two Korean mobile operators, SK Telecom and KTF and for KBS; the number 1 broadcasting network in South Korea.   An expert in multimedia quality for standards such as H.264 and MPEG4, Dr. Kim led the team that developed innovative T-DMB solutions in a joint-effort with KBS, South Korea’s leading broadcaster.  

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Jong-Heun Kim
Storm Ventures
Managing Director

Jong-Heun, prior to joining Storm Ventures, managed business development at LG Electronics where he closed strategic partnerships with startups in Digital TV, multimedia enabling technologies, and wireless converged (cellular + WiFi) devices. Previously, he was a consultant in the telecom group of PWC Consulting in Seoul, Korea. Mr. Kim has also worked with SK Telecom. Jong-Heun graduated Summa Cum Laude from Seoul National University, and has an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

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Larry Kramer

CBS Digital Media

President

Larry was the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MarketWatch.com.  He first proposed the creation of the joint venture between Data Broadcasting Corp. and CBS and has led the company through its launch in Oct. 1997.  He also managed the company as Chairman and CEO through its successful IPO in January 1999 and three subsequent acquisitions, Big Charts, Hulbert Financial Digest and Pinnacor. Mr. Kramer joined Data Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 following its acquisition of DataSport to run a Sports and News Division. There he created DBC News, the predecessor company to MarketWatch.com and served as Vice President of News, Sports, & Marketing for DBC.

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Jonas Kronlund

Elisa Corporation, Finland

Technology Specialist

Jonas has for several years been a technology specialist for the R&D department of Elisa Corporation, a leading telecommunications provider in Finland. He is currently responsible for coordinating the digital media related R&D activities of Elisa and has for the last two years been leading the development of services for mobile TV, using IP Datacasting over DVB-H.

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Hyeon Lee

Samsung

Vice President, Mobile Solutions

Hyeon prior to working for Samsung Electronics, she was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of a Venture Backed Optical IP Switch Company called Coree Networks. Prior to Coree Ms. Lee held various sales and marketing roles at Lucent Technologies.

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George Linardos

Nokia

Senior Business Development Manager, Branded Content

George is charged with driving content deals and partnerships for Preminet and Forum Nokia with major media and entertainment companies. He came to Nokia from a similar position at Macromedia as Director of Programming. Prior to joining Macromedia, Mr. Linardos formed and ran the New Media division of HSI Productions Inc., one of the largest television commercial and music video production companies in the world. At HSI, he oversaw a diverse slate of forward thinking ventures in the areas of Internet content, videogames, and branded entertainment.

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Anil Malhotra

Bango

Co-founder and Vice President, Alliances & Marketing

Anil is focused on building long-term relationships with mobile operators and other infrastructure players such as billing providers and handset manufacturers. Mr. Malhotra is a highly experienced, senior marketing and business development manager, with 15 years experience in building entrepreneurial, fast-growth start-up businesses, in the Internet, software publishing and technology sectors.

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Sue Marek

Wireless Week

Senior Editor

Sue has been Senior Editor since January 2001. She reports on a variety of wireless voice and data topics. A seasoned journalist, Ms. Marek previously was Managing Editor of Wireless Week in the publication's early years.

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Brian McGarvey

Airborne Entertainment, Inc.

Vice President of Partner Development

Brian brings more than 16 years of experience in marketing, sales and organizational development, and his focus on maximizing technology innovations to meet customer needs has allowed him to gain invaluable experience on the front lines of the Internet revolution and emerge with a proven ability to turn new channels and technologies into sustainable revenue centers. He builds and manages relationships with wireless carriers and major-brand content partners. Airborneâ€Ts clients include Verizon Wireless, Cingular, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, and Bell Mobility, and branded-content providers include Activision, MAXIM Magazine, Cosmo, CosmoGIRL, Fox Films, Speed TV, the For Dummies book series, TV Guide, Snapple, The Food Network, Wine Spectator, Family Guy, the NHL and Donald Trump.

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Anthony Meador

MobileGates Corporation

Chief Executive Officer

Anthony is well known throughout the wireless mobile industry and has founded several successful multi-million dollar companies. He started his career designing electronic navigation systems for Jensen Marine, then the largest commercial sailboat boat manufacturer in the world. Since then Mr. Meador has accumulated over 20 years of development and design experience in navigation and computer systems with companies such as Delco/General Motors and Hughes Aircraft.

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Mike Merrill

Smartphones Technologies, Inc.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mike has been on the leading edge of the wireless industry for more than 16 years.  He founded Smartphones Technologies, a mobile content publisher specializing in celebrity and entertainment voice ringtones, graphics, animations and video clips. Previously, as the founder and CEO of Totally Wireless, Mr. Merrill was an early pioneer of wireless data, opening the nation’s first retail chain dedicated exclusively to wireless products and services.

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Myra Moore

DTC

Founder and President

Myra is founder and president of Digital Tech Consulting. She also serves as the firm's chief analyst. Ms. Moore has more than 15 years of experience as a market research director, technology analyst and business journalist. Under her direction, DTC has published several market-research studies: The Business of Digital Copyright, U.S. Digital Terrestrial TV Market and Online Media Services. She has served in analyst positions for Paul Kagan Associates and Parks Associates, and has written about technology for a variety of news outlets including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Dallas Morning News and the Knight Ridder news service.

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Stéphane Nadon

Clearmode / Teleglobe,

Senior Product Manager, Mobile Content Services

Stéphane currently serves as Senior Product Manager of Mobile Content Services for Teleglobe's Mobile Services line of business. With broad experience in the Mobile industry including prepaid wireless, messaging, mobile commerce and data services, Mr. Nadon was responsible at Microcell for launching the very successful Fido mobile content service.  At Teleglobe he is responsible for Teleglobe's content services offerings to mobile operators worldwide. Mr. Nadon oversees the global strategy, product development and marketing for the Clearmode managed content service. Stéphane participates in numerous industry conferences and has appeared in print, as well as on Canadian television and radio to discuss Wireless entertainment, technology and trends.

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Robert Nashak

Glu Mobile

Senior Vice President, Production

Robert has extensive experience in the video game and online entertainment industries and leads creative development and production for all of Glu Mobile's mobile games and entertainment. Prior to joining Glu Mobile, he was Vice President of Product Development at Acclaim and was executive producer at Vivendi Universal Games, where he managed licensed entertainment properties. Mr. Nashak has also held positions as adjunct professor at University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television and as producer at Cendant Software and Disney Online. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and holds M.A. from Oxford University and a B.A. from Georgetown University.
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Glenn Paul

dotPhoto, Inc.

Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer

Glenn is Chairman, President and CEO of dotPhoto, an online digital photo-processing site that went live in May 2000. It was named the number one photo site on the internet by independent research firm ARS and one of the Top 50 Sites on the Web (and the only photo site) by PC World Magazine. Mr. Paul is the former Co-Founder and President of Clancy-Paul Computers, which was purchased by Valcom Corporation (Valcom later became InaCom). He served on the InaCom Steering Committee as Vice President of Product Strategy and on the Board of the Boston Computer Exchange.

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Paul Petersky

The Management Network Group

Vice President, Market Research

Paul brings over 20 years of primary and secondary research project management experience to his role at TMNG. His experience covers a comprehensive range of quantitative and qualitative research methods and techniques with proven skills in marketing analysis, research, planning, and market strategy development. Prior to joining TMNG, Paul was a Vice President at market research firm ConStat, Inc., where he was responsible for the development of client relationships among Fortune 500 Technology and Financial services clients and developed proposals, research designs and statistical models for the firm’s top clients including top tier service providers. Mr. Petersky has also held senior research positions with Verus Group, Ltd., TCI Communications and US West. He earned his MBA from the Daniel’s College of Business at The University of Denver and his BA from Colorado College.

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Michael Polin, Esq.

American Television in China, International Television for Asia

Chief Executive Officer

Michael is a well known International Entertainment Attorney and is a recognized expert on China Entertainment Industries. He is a highly sought after consultant on International legal and business matters. Attorney Polin is CEO of two China-Asia Entertainment companies; American Television in China and International Television for Asia . He has extensive relationships and partners in China, including those at the world's largest Cell and Internet companies, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telcom. Attorney Polin's companies are distinctly focused on multimedia entertainment that includes cell phone and internet content, television programming and merchandising, publishing, as well as technology. The content includes gaming, an