Mike Beaty

Digital Standard

Chief Global Strategist and Chief Software Architect
Mike possesses a rare combination of skills as he is both a visionary strategist and technologist. Mr. Beaty has over 14 years of commercial product development experience, fluency in over 15 development languages and has personally designed and developed more than 17 successful commercial software packages. At Digital Standard, he was instrumental in the design and development of Saki Mobile Services – the world’s first Data-Centric MVNE platform. Saki Mobile Services enables consumer brands to easily establish branded mobile communities at the fraction of the cost of a typical MVNO. Best described as a fusion of mobile interactivity, social networking, entertainment, and mobile marketing, Saki Mobile Services offer a wealth of differentiating data-related capabilities with limitless opportunities for customization.

Brendan Benzing

InfoSpace

Vice President, Mobile Search Platforms and Ad Solutions

Brendan joined InfoSpace in 2005, bringing deep experience in the sales, marketing and development of interactive products. He spent over six years at America Online, recently serving as Executive Director in AOL’s Search and Directional Media Group. In that role, Mr. Benzing developed strategies for pay-for-performance advertising for the company’s local Yellow Pages, content targeting, and AOL Search businesses. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, he most recently participated on a Mobile Search panel at the Kelsey Group’s Interactive Local Media Conference.

Peter Bernard

Microsoft Corporation
Group Manager, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division

Peter is responsible for marketing a range of innovative Microsoft applications as well as the developer platform that powers a wide variety of devices such as phones, personal digital assistants and portable media players. During the last 15 years, he has held a variety of pioneering positions in the mobile industry and has been granted several patents and has patents pending in areas including power management, electronic imaging and mobile security. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Bernard was Chief Product Officer at Insignia, responsible for directing the definition, implementation and evolution of Insignia's J2ME and mobile device management products and marketing for mobile operators and device manufacturers. He served for three years on the Java Community Process Executive Committee, one of fifteen people that drive the definition of "what is mobile Java" and was actively involved in the QUALCOMM BREW and Symbian eco-systems. Prior to Insignia, Mr. Bernard served as Vice President of Products and Marketing at E-Color, a high performance image server software company.

Todd Bernick

Merrill Lynch & Co.

Managing Director
Todd has nearly 12 years of investment banking experience and has spent the past nine years as a specialist in both the Investment Banking and Leveraged Finance Groups at Merrill Lynch. He has worked on a broad range of strategic advisory assignments including the acquisition of Hollywood Entertainment by Movie Gallery, the acquisition of Mandalay Resort Group by MGM Mirage, the sale of DBM by The Thomson Corporation to Compass Partners, the acquisition of AT&T Broadband by Comcast Corporation, the sale of Telemundo by Sony Corporation and Liberty Media to NBC and the acquisition of Mirage Resorts by MGM Grand. In addition, Mr. Bernick has completed financing assignments for diverse group of companies including Cablevision Systems Corporation, Comcast Corporation, Jamdat Mobile, Movie Gallery, Nassau Broadcasting, Netflix, Nexstar Broadcasting, Orbital Imaging, Paxson Communications, Radio One, The Reader's Digest Association, Spanish Broadcasting System, Time Warner, The Thomson Corporation and WiderThan Co., Ltd.

Jean-Pierre Bienaimé

Orange

Director, Group Technical Support

and UMTS Forum, Chairman

Following a long and distinguished career within the telecommunications industry, Jean-Pierre has been Chairman of mobile industry association The UMTS Forum since his election in January 2003, with a mission to promote a common vision of the development of 3G/UMTS and of its evolution, and to ensure its worldwide commercial success. Joining France Telecom (FT) in 1979, his responsibilities included financial management and planning, Director of Marketing and Product Development for international business services and corporate networks, Director of Business Development and Subsidiaries at France Cables & Radio, Chief Executive Officer of FT subsidiary Nexus International, and Director of International Development at France Telecom Mobiles (2000). After the purchase of Orange by FT, Mr. Bienaimé was appointed Group Technical Support Director at Orange until January 2003. In this position, he provided technical and IT support to the business units and mobile affiliates of Orange and France Telecom worldwide, and contributed to Orange’s corporate programmes such as re-branding and franchising.

Ian Blaine

thePlatform

Chief Executive Officer

Ian 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. In 1998, he founded an online personal information management company, Uniplanet, which he led as Chief Executive Officer from startup to acquisition by NBCi in 1999. In 2000, Mr. Blaine co-founded thePlatform, and has successfully guided the company through two rounds of financing, and two mergers. He is a director of thePlatform and in addition to managing day-to-day activities, he sets long- term strategy for the company. Mr. Blaine holds a B.A. in business administration from the University of Washington.

Mark Bole

ShoZu

Chief Executive Officer
Mark has over 20 years’ experience in the technology industry with more than half of that time in senior commercial and general management roles. Prior to joining Cognima, he was President of Incomit Ab, a provider of solutions for mobile service providers to manage 3rd party consumer applications. Mr. Bole led Incomit from a pre-revenue position through to strong market traction. Previously he held a number of senior roles in Nokia over a 12 year period including: Vice President, Global Customers with P&L accountability for 2G and 3G mobile business; Vice President, Internet Solutions Division with worldwide sales and marketing responsibility for taking several pre-revenue acquisitions to market in the enterprise and internet service provider space; General Manager, West Europe with accountability for several hundred million dollars worth of mobile systems business; Managing Director, Hong Kong; Managing Director, Taiwan; and General Manager, Cable Networks UK.

David Brooks

Snell & Wilcox

Vice President, Systems and Architecture

David has worked in the Consumer and Broadcast Electronics industry for over 30 years. Throughout his career he has been involved in the setting of standards from the consumer 8mm Video, the original European HDTV standard - HD-MAC, to more recent compression standards in the ARIB and SMPTE standardisation committees. Mr. Brooks was the project manager of the first generation of HDTV and Widescreen receivers to be sold in Europe. Prior to joining Snell & Wilcox in 1997, he headed up the French research centres of Thomson Multimedia based in Rennes. On joining Snell Wilcox, Mr. Brooks was responsible for the MPEG activities of the company leading to the pre-development of the Ingest range of products. He is currently responsible for the system and technology strategy of the company. Mr. Brooks also heads up the algorithm and simulations group.

Dr. Willms Buhse
CoreMedia
Director, Products and Marketing
Willms has been active in the field of content business and digital rights management for many years. Early in his career, Dr. Buhse worked as a consultant at the German top management consultancy group, Roland Berger & Partner. After this, from 1999 to 2003, he worked with Bertelsmann AG and BMG in Gütersloh, Hamburg and New York, USA, where he co-founded Bertelsmann Digital World Services, a pioneer in the field of digital rights management (DRM). Elected Vice Chair of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) in 2003 and 2006, Dr. Buhse plays a leading role in developing open standards for mobile content delivery. He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) and in Management Sciences (Dipl.-Oec.) from the University of Hanover, Germany and Madrid, Spain. Dr.Buhse gained his Ph.D. in Economics from the Technical University of Munich, with a research thesis entitled Digital Rights Management vs. the Darknet – Competitive Strategies and Business Models for the Music Industry.

John Burris

Sprint Nextel

Director, Data Programming, Product Marketing

John runs Sprint's wireless data service business (PCS Vision) as well as Sprint's premium service businesses (i.e. multimedia services, downloadable applications/games, ringers, screen savers, etc.). He has been with Sprint for two years, previously working in Sprint PCS Business Development where he was responsible for closing large 2G/3G deals with content and service partners. In a different role, Mr. Burris leads the market development team for Sprint's CLEC business that was rolling out national telephony services. Before joining Sprint, he was a co-founder of Orbit Commerce, an eBusiness platform for the delivery of web-based applications to small and medium-sized businesses. The company had numerous Fortune 500 clients and in 2001 was sold to Digital River, a publicly-traded company. Mr. Burris also worked several years for Accenture where he was a member of a technology team that worked out of the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto. Most of his clients were members of the telecommunications and Internet industries. Mr. Burris has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in Ames, and earned his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

Ted Casey

Verizon Wireless

Head of Mobile Music

Ted oversees Verizon Wireless' music business, including music strategy and the industry-leading mobile carrier's V CAST Music, True Tones, Ringback Tones, and music video services. He is a digital media veteran, with 15 years of experience managing award-winning digital media and Internet businesses. Prior to Verizon Wireless, Mr. Casey was General Manager of Lycos Music and Lycos' HotBot search engine, manager of QuickTime VR for Apple Computer, and Co-founder and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for GoFish Technologies. He holds an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles and a B.A. from Duke University.

Stanislas Chesnais
Netsize Group
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Stanislas is a serial entrepreneur who has created leading high tech companies including Aldea, Cleade and Netsize. He founded Netsize In 1998, defying mobile industry sceptics who doubted the success of mobile data services. Netsize is currently the global leader for enabling wireless solutions for mobile business and entertainment services. The company won the Deloitte Technology 50 award for 3 consecutive years for being the fastest growing technology company in France and EMEA. Netsize operates services in 32 countries, employs 220 people and recorded revenues of $128 million (€106m) for 2005. Mr. Chesnais is responsible for the successful implementation of the Netsize global expansion strategy and is continuing to grow the company by entering new geographical and vertical markets. He has years of management consulting and high-tech experience and he began his professional career as a consultant for Ernst & Young in France and Canada. Mr. Chesnais holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from ESCP (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) and a MBA in marketing from Drexel University, Philadelphia.

Greg Clayman

MTV Networks

Vice President, Wireless Strategy and Operations

Greg is responsible for managing the overall strategic direction and day-to-day business and product development, operations, and partnership management aspects of the mobile media business for the MTV, Vh1, CMT, Comedy Central, and LOGO brands. Prior to MTV, he co-founded Upoc Networks and served as its Vice President of Marketing, Sales, and Business Development. Founded at the end of 1999, Upoc has since become one of the top wireless media, marketing and community providers in the US - over a million consumers use its services, and it accounts for almost 5% of all the SMS traffic in the United States.

Mark Donovan

M:Metrics

Vice President, Products; Senior Analyst

Mark spent most of the past decade developing and implementing strategies to use new technologies to transform communication. Working with mobile operators, handset manufacturers and content providers in North America, Europe and Asia, he helped define new business opportunities and bring mobile technologies and services to market. Mr. Donovan has more than a decade of experience conducting survey research, data analysis and modeling. He is a frequent speaker on new media and mobility and a prolific author.

Kelly Egan

Best Buy, Inc.
Entertainment Strategist
Kelly is responsible for building strategic growth opportunities for Best Buy’s entertainment business. During his tenure at Best Buy, Mr. Egan has developed strategic initiatives targeting mobile entertainment, entertainment retail 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 the 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. Previously, Mr. Egan was a consultant in the Media and Entertainment practice at IBM Global Strategy Consulting. Specializing in Digital Distribution and Interactive Television, he was instrumental in developing and executing digital strategies for numerous global entertainment conglomerates, film studios, and music labels.

Thomas Ellsworth

GoTV Networks

Chief Operating 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. (NASDAQ: JMDT) where he was part of the management team that saw the company complete its highly successful IPO in September of 2004. Prior to JAMDAT Mr. Ellsworth was Vice President of Incubator Development and Senior Director of Business Development in the wireless division of Sprint. In that role, he oversaw the Sprint incubator joint venture that led to the formation of wireless companies - including JAMDAT Mobile and Boingo.

Natalie Farsi
m-Qube
Vice President, Media and Entertainment

Natalie is responsible for establishing and managing strategic business partnerships with today's leading media and entertainment companies, creating a broader distribution infrastructure for m-Qube's media applications and mobile marketing services. In this position, she has been involved in several groundbreaking initiatives. Ms. Farsi helped launch the first cross-carrier premium billed web and short code initiated WAP Storefronts for Warner Music Group. Working in conjunction with Samsung and Atlantic Records, she developed the first cross-carrier Mobile Diary for a recording artist which featured personal artist picture messages taken with a camera phone. m-Qube's media and entertainment partners include MTV Networks, Warner Music Group, Showtime Networks, Universal Music, CBS MarketWatch and Sesame Workshop.

Stanley Fertig
HBO International
Vice President

Stanley is an innovator in the field of international entertainment and related media businesses. He is overseeing the pay television company’s mobile businesses outside the US. Under Mr. Fertig's leadership, HBO has just launched a multi-country mobile television service available on Vodafone Live!, including full episodes of some of HBO’s most celebrated shows. He is also responsible at HBO for development of international programming services on other new platforms, and sits on the board of directors of HBO Asia and HBO Central Europe. Previously, Mr. Fertig was Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Business Development at Columbia Music Entertainment, a Tokyo-listed independent music & entertainment company, overseeing international distribution, digital distribution and acquisitions. Prior to CME, his recent activity includes co-founding SDCi Limited, a developer of B2B tools for the European television industry, and serving as Chief Financial Officer of Media Content, a London AIM-listed sports agency.

Boris Fridman

Crisp Wireless

Chief Executive Officer

Boris has a proven track record building and leading successful software companies in the wireless and mobile space. As Chief Operating Officer of SJ Labs, a developer of award-winning VoIP software products, he focused the company on providing VoIP solutions in the emerging voice over Wi-Fi market. As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Broadbeam Corporation, Mr. Fridman led the company to become a premier supplier of wireless middleware products to enterprises worldwide. He co-authored "Wireless Data for the Enterprise: Making Sense of Wireless Business" published by McGraw-Hill and received a patent in the area of wireless access to the Internet. Mr. Fridman holds a Master's degree in physics.

Charles Fritz

NeoMedia Technologies

Founder and Chairman of the Board

Charles is the founder of NeoMedia Technologies and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of the corporation from its inception until June 2002. Since then, he has acted as a consultant and advisor to the company, as well as continuing to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Prior to NeoMedia, Mr. Fritz was an Account Executive with IBM Corporation from 1986 to 1988, Director of Marketing and Strategic Alliances for the information Consulting Group from 1988-1989, and a Consultant for McKinsey & Company. He holds an M.B.A. from Rollins College and a B.A. in finance from the University of Florida. Mr. Fritz has been an active member of a number of Mobile Marketing Initiatives across the world. NeoMedia has developed PaperClick; a patented next generation mobile marketing technology.

Michael Gartenberg
Jupiter Research
Vice President and Research Director
Michael leads Jupiter Research's team on emerging technology platforms and provides advice that helps clients take advantage of a variety of access technologies, digital information devices and software platforms. Leveraging Jupiter Research's expertise in these areas, he helped launch Jupiter's PC & Console Games service, Wi-Fi Mobility service and Jupiter Research's Analyst Weblogs. Mr. Gartenberg has been quoted extensively about personal, mobile and digital entertainment technologies in industry trade publications online and in print, as well as in leading publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek and the Associated Press. He has also been a guest commentator on network news shows as well as CNN, CNBC and MSNBC. Mr. Gartenberg also currently writes a monthly business technology column for Computerworld magazine.

Michael Gaumond
Motorola
Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media Services

Michael leads the Digital Media Solutions group, based in Tempe, Arizona, which is charged with developing a compelling, seamless digital music experience to consumers. Prior to his current role, Mr. Gaumond served as Vice President, Operations and Business Development, for Motorola’s cell phone business.

Frederick Ghahramani
AirG
Director
Frederick co-founded AirG in 2000 and has spent the past six years growing the company to a leadership position in the mobile entertainment space, with over 85 employees and sales in 33 countries.  He has spearheaded the company’s business development team in building relationships with over 85 leading mobile operators and media companies globally including Sprint Nextel, Orange, T-Mobile, Verizon, Cingular and MTV Asia.  As a recipient of the Business Development Bank of Canada’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2005, Mr. Ghahramani is a recognized entrepreneur with technical and business expertise in the wireless electronics, software, and ship brokering industries.  He is also a passionate advocate for the mobile community and wireless social networking space.

Eric Goldberg

Crossover  Technologies

Managing Director

Eric is a board member of, advisor or consultant to Digital Chocolate, Kayak, (M)forma, Openwave, Unplugged, Vindigo, Warner Music Group, and an early-stage venture capital firm. He was most recently the President of Unplugged Games, for which he secured distribution with four of the five largest North American carriers. Previously, Mr. Goldberg served as Founder and President of Crossover Technologies, one of the first online game companies, and prior to that as President of West End Games, the adventure game company. His award-winning games include Paranoia, Tales of the Arabian Nights, The Tom Peters Business School in a Box, and MadMaze, the first online game to draw one million players. Mr. Goldberg is a regular speaker at the major wireless and games conferences, including CTIA, GDC, GDC Mobile, Mobile Entertainment Summit, AGC, and E3, and serves as a programs advisor or advisory board member for the latter four conferences.

Mark Grindeland

NMS Communications

Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Applications

Over the last 20 years, Mark has implemented innovative and profitable product and marketing initiatives for some of the world's leading consumer brands, including American Express, Citibank, Sony, IBM, Ford, General Motors, Star Alliance, AT&T and British Telecom. He recently served as Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Marketing for m-Qube, a premier innovator in delivering branded content services to mobile operators and their customers in North America. Prior to starting m-Qube, Mr. Grindeland held the Chief Executive Officer post for Wunderman EMEA, the world’s largest direct marketing firm.

Malachy Harkin

Vimio PLC

Chief Executive Officer

Malachy has over 20 years experience working in information technology and telecommunications. He began his career in business development with Systems Dynamics, before taking on sales roles in Radius Communications (Ireland) Limited and McKeown Software Limited. In 1998 Mr. Harkin became an executive director of Stentor plc, an Irish telecommunications company, with responsibility for international sales, operations strategy and capability building. Following the acquisition in 2000 of Stentor Plc by nevada tele.com limited, a company jointly owned by Energis plc and Viridian Group plc, he founded and worked as Managing Director of Inmetex Limited, a telecom solutions provider, based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Mr. Harkin joined Vimio in February 2004 as Chief Executive Officer and was responsible for Vimio’s IPO on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the London Stock Exchange.

Colm Healy
Xiam Technologies
Chief Executive Officer

Colm held a number of senior positions in Dublin, New York and London within Bank of Ireland's Treasury and International Banking Division and previously in Price Waterhouse Coopers before joining XIAM in 2000. He is a qualified chartered accountant and holds a first class honours Masters Degree in Management Science as well as a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from University College Dublin. Mr. Healy has been instrumental in the strategic development of XIAM Technologies since becoming Chief Executive Officer in 2001, steering the company through a sustained period of growth to become the leading player in software solutions for the marketing of mobile content and services. He has been actively involved in successfully building strong business relationships between XIAM Technologies and a worldwide network of Mobile Carriers such as Vodafone (UK, Sweden, Ireland), Midwest Wireless (USA), Telenor Mobile interactive (USA), O2 (Ireland).

Ryan Hughes

Verizon Wireless

Director, Content and Programming
Ryan leads the content programming team at Verizon Wireless. With products including the vast array of consumer multimedia services, V CAST, mobile advertising, off-net and other strategic content initiatives, his team works directly with content providers. Previously Mr. Hughes ran the National Hockey League's new media business development unit, capitalizing on new distribution platforms such as interactive television, video-on-demand, wireless, and broadband networks. Prior to that, he helped pioneer the internet's first online sports highlights service for young athletes, and also launched Canada's first outsourced affinity marketing service for member-based organizations.

Drew Hull

NPD Wireless
Research Director, Mobile Content
Drew is responsible for providing clients with strategic advice and insights on the market for mobile content, including games, music, video and personalization products. His research and analysis call on his mobile content expertise, rich marketing background and NPD’s unique knowledge base across the traditional music, movies and games industries. Prior to joining The NPD Group, Mr. Hull managed various lines of music and personalization products at Sprint, including wallpapers, ringtones and ringbacks. He was responsible for the product’s P&L, selecting content, programming the services, and overseeing all marketing and promotional activities. In these roles, Mr. Hull developed a broad base of experience working with all four major record labels, major content companies, aggregators and infrastructure providers. He built his expertise through a series of consumer and B2B marketing roles in product development, product management and sales training roles at Sprint.

Scott Jensen

MFORMA

Vice President, Licensing and Brand Partnerships

Scott is responsible for the acquisition of entertainment brands and for the management of MFORMA’s partnerships with brand owners. Prior to joining MFORMA, he was president of game developer, NuvoStudios, and earlier, a member of the management team that founded SportSkill, where he negotiated contracts with the NFL, MLB, and Fox Sports. Earlier Mr. Jensen was Vice President of Business and Legal affairs at StreamSearch where he helped launch the first online film and music festival. Mr. Jensen began his career as a practicing attorney, specializing in advising entertainment and technology clients.

Harry Kargman

Kargo, Inc.

Chief Executive Officer

Harry is the Chief Executive Officer of Kargo. Prior to founding Kargo in 1999, he worked at Intertainer, a broadband video provider and at Intel in their venture group. Mr. Kargman graduated with honors from Harvard College and holds two patents. He has been featured in the New York Times, Today Show, 20/20, CNN, NPR and other publications.

Mitch Lasky

EA Mobile
Senior Vice President

Mitch was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Studios for Activision, where he was responsible for all product development on a worldwide basis. Mr. Lasky also worked as a new media business affairs lawyer at the Walt Disney Company, and was one of the founding members of the multimedia law practice at the prestigious Los Angeles law firm Irell & Manella. He graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a BA in History and Literature, and earned a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Brian Lent

Medio Systems

Chief Executive Officer
Brian co-founded Medio Systems in 2004 from his role as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Previously the founding Chief Executive Officer of Intelligent Results, a business analytics software company, he also held various senior technical and marketing management positions at Amazon.com leading efforts in data mining, data warehousing, CRM, and e-commerce search engines. Prior to Amazon, Mr. Lent was a principal and Director of Applications at Junglee (acquired by Amazon.com) pioneering new internet database technologies. As an NSF and Department of Defense ONR Fellow, he held various research and development positions at IBM Almaden Research Center and Silicon Graphics. At Stanford, Mr. Lent co-founded the MIDAS (Mining Data At Stanford) group in 1994, the lab that spawned the Google crawler and search engine. He has contributed to several professional publications and is a patent holder on the topic of Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Database Systems.

Anil Malhotra

Bango

Chief Alliance Officer

Anil is focused on building long-term relationships with mobile operators and other infrastructure players such as billing providers and handset manufacturers. He 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.

John Mansell
Kagan Research
Consultant
John has been with Kagan Research, LLC nearly from its inception over 35 years ago. He began his career as a newsletter editor in 1975 and was promoted to senior analyst in 1986. Today, Mr. Mansell is Kagan's lead analyst for cable TV overbuilds and competition, sports media rights and franchise valuations, communications law, and a seasoned appraiser of sports business, digital media, wireless, DBS and
communications properties. He is responsible for writing, editing and contributing to several Kagan books, special reports and newsletters, including Kagan's Wireless Broadband, Cable TV Law Reporter and Media Sports Business. Mr. Mansell serves as moderator at Kagan events such as the Kagan Digital Media Summit and has been invited to speak at industry association conferences, including the Wireless Communications Assn., National Cable TV & Telecom Assn. and the Western Cable Show.

Sue Marek

Wireless Week

Executive Editor

Sue, a member of Wireless Week's original launch team in 1995, has more than a decade of publishing experience. She coordinated production of the start-up publication as managing editor. Before Wireless Week, Ms. Marek worked as managing editor of Convergence, a monthly magazine for cable television, phone and wireless network operators. From 1999 to 2001, she temporarily left Wireless Week to specialize in wireless data and broadband as news editor and analyst at Paul Kagan Associates.

Alana Muller

Sprint Nextel Corporation

Director, Product Marketing

Alana is responsible for consumer wireless data applications and information services including Sprint TV and location-based services. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a BA in mathematics from Smith College.

Stephen Oman
ChangingWorlds

Program Director

Stephen has over fifteen years of experience in software development on large-scale enterprise projects. He is responsible for the successful delivery of ChangingWorlds’ technology to some of the world’s largest mobile operators, including Vodafone. Mr. Oman also has a major input to the product strategy of the company, and is responsible for aligning the products with the key business drivers of mobile operators. Previously, he managed the development of the website for IngredientsNet.com, the world’s first online business-to-business trading site for the food ingredients industry. Mr. Oman holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Victor Penev
Playboy Enterprises International Inc.
Vice President, Playboy On-Line

Victor oversees Playboy’s international digital business. His responsibilities include structuring partnerships with companies in the online and wireless space worldwide, with a focus on developing and growing profitable businesses that leverage Playboy's brand and deep content.

John Puterbaugh

Nellymoser

Chief Executive Officer

John has devoted many years to the research and development of advanced speech and audio technologies. He has consulted for companies such as Milcom, Wildfire, Kidkids, Franklin Electronics and Voxonic. Prior to consulting and founding Nellymoser, Mr. Puterbaugh was Director of Software Operations at Voxware, Inc., one of the first companies to provide real-time streaming solutions for the Internet for companies such as Disney, Microsoft, Nokia and Netscape. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Dartmouth and was an undergraduate at Oberlin College.

Adam Ritter

Major League Baseball, Advanced Media

Vice President, Wireless

Adam brings extensive knowledge of the business issues surrounding content licensing and distribution through mobile devices. He is responsible for all aspects of the wireless business including product development, carrier relations, licensing and operations for MLB.com as well the 30 Major League teams. Prior to joining the company Mr. Ritter served as Vice President of New Media Business Development for CBS MarketWatch, where he was responsible for identifying wireless content-licensing opportunities for CBS MarketWatch and CBS News.

Tim Saarela

WapOneline

Chief Executive Officer, Americas

Tim is a 15 year veteran in media industry from media production, licensing and marketing to mobile media distribution and service management. He brought WapOneline from Finland to Americas in 2000. The Miami base was an obvious choice for correctly predicting the demand for mobile content first in Latin America and now in the United States.

Bill Sanders

Sony Pictures Digital Sales and Marketing

Vice President, Programming

Bill oversees the worldwide programming strategy to bring video content into the mobile marketplace. Most recently, he served as President of Pervasive Media where he consulted businesses which focused on entertainment content for mobile devices; in particular, video for cell phones. Prior to that position, Mr. Sanders was Senior Vice President for Big Ticket Television, a Paramount/Viacom company, where he oversaw all current network and syndicated programming and spearheaded Big Ticket’s entry into enhanced television. Throughout his career, Mr. Sanders has served as Vice President of Original Programming for HBO and supervising producer for the channel’s award winning comedy series "Dream On". In addition, he has held positions at Universal Television, Warner Brothers Television, and ABC.

Bob Shallow
Nokia North America
Head of Music and Rich Media; Mobile DTV, Sponsoring Member

Bob is responsible for bringing to market a range of music and rich media optimized devices as well as a range of companion consumer content services. These touch radio, premium on demand music and video services as well as multi-channel mobile television broadcasting. He joined Nokia in November of 2004 bringing a wealth of international media industry experience. Mr. Shallow spent 15 years with IMG, the leading global sports and lifestyle media, rights management and marketing company, in various capacities. Prior to Nokia, he was the Vice President, Production Ventures and Business Development with TWI, the company’s media arm, responsible for developing distribution opportunities through digital cable, mobile, broadband and optical disk as well as managing the digital commercial activities of numerous prestigious clients. Formerly, Mr. Shallow was the Vice President of Production at TWI supervising the creation of numerous television specials and series.

Larry Shapiro

Walt Disney Internet Group

Executive Vice President and General Manager, North America Mobile

Larry leads all distribution and technology partnership activities for the company, manages the businesses, U.S. based wireless business, CRM business services and customer support services. He also serves as the WDIG general counsel and is responsible for its human resources and public affairs functions. A key player in the formation of the Walt Disney Internet Group, Mr. Shapiro previously served as Executive Vice President, Business Development and Operations for Disney's online unit, Buena Vista Internet Group (BVIG). Prior to the November 1999 merger of Infoseek Corporation and BVIG, he was Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs for BVIG. Mr. Shapiro joined the company as Vice President-Counsel within Disney's corporate legal department, where he led numerous transactions, including Disney's acquisition of Starwave Corporation and its 1998 investment in Infoseek.

John Styers

Sprint Nextel

Director, Messaging and Imaging

John oversees the development, marketing and positioning of all messaging products for Sprint PCS, including Picture Mail, video mail, text messaging, IM, email, chat, greetings, mobile marketing and premium SMS/MMS applications. Before joining Sprint, he was Global Director of Operations and Finance for Crown Greetings – a subsidiary of Hallmark Cards. Crown Greetings secured its position as the premier global supplier of social communications products for the mobile phone by supplying this content directly to wireless carriers. Mr. Styers holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Wonhee Sull

HELIO
Chief Operating Officer
Wonhee serves as a member of HELIO's board of directors. In this role, he directs several teams to deliver an array of innovative products and services, technical infrastructure, customer services and consistent user experience. Dr. Sull is also responsible for creating the company’s strategic roadmap and developing new business opportunities. Prior to joining SK-EarthLink, he served as Vice President of the Platform R&D Center at SK Telecom. With full responsibility for R&D, Dr. Sull led the development of a consistent consumer experience across SK Telecom’s devices with the creation of a standardized application environment and platform. This innovative service delivery platform spurred the growth of numerous commercial services ranging from multimedia to m-commerce and was instrumental in the growth of SK Telecom’s wireless data business. In addition, he led several special task forces, including Terminal TF for long-term terminal strategies and Communication Intelligence TF for the fully-fledged personalized services in a ubiquitous environment.

Marc Theermann

Everypoint

Chief Marketing Officer

Marc launched the wireless marketing movement in the U.S. with the company he co-founded YellowPepper. After leading YellowPepper to become one of the world's premier mobile marketing companies, Mr. Theermann sold the company in January 2004. He holds a MBA degree from Northeastern University, a Masters in International Management from Thunderbird, and speaks three languages.

Daren Tsui

mSpot

Chief Executive Officer
Daren is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of mSpot, a pioneer in mobile multimedia entertainment. He founded the company in 2004 with the goal of helping movie studios, music labels and media corporations produce and deliver exciting, high-quality audio and video programming for mobile phones. Since its introduction to the market, mSpot has launched four services ranging from radio, music, sports and was the first mobile entertainment service to stream full-length feature films to mobile phones. Prior to founding mSpot, Mr. Tsui was the Vice President of Business Development at Enpocket, a global mobile media company providing integrated entertainment and marketing services.

Lewis Ward

IDC

Reseach Manager, Wireless and Mobile Communications

Lewis' area of focus is the U.S. consumer market and he is responsible for evaluating and forecasting opportunities, challenges and trends for wireless network operators and associated core constituents of the wireless voice and data ecosystem. Wireless entertainment content and services is a particular recent focus, and synthesizing primary consumer survey research with carrier filings and other market data sources in order to provide a holistic view of wireless entertainment is a core element of his work. An award-winning author and frequent lecturer, Mr. Ward's work has been quoted in many of the leading industry publications and Web sites. He was promoted from Senior Analyst to his current role in January, 2006. Before joining IDC in the spring of 2004, Mr. Ward was a Senior Analyst for six years at Collaborative Strategies, a San Francisco based management services firm that focuses on electronic collaboration and knowledge management.

Dave Whetstone
MobiTV
Chief Marketing Officer

Dave has over 12 years of wireless experience developing innovative services and marketing strategies for wireless carriers. He was a Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Virgin Mobile’s U.S. business. In that role, Mr. Whetstone was responsible for developing Virgin Mobile USA’s business strategy, creating the service offering and go-to-market strategy and developing distribution agreements with the nation’s largest retailers. Before Virgin, he held a variety of senior marketing and operational positions over a seven year period at AirTouch Cellular (now Verizon Wireless). Most recently, Mr. Whetstone was Vice President of Marketing for WebEx Communications. In addition, he has served as a strategy and marketing advisor for carriers, handset manufacturers and Internet service providers.

Matti Zinder

Spin³

Chief Executive Officer

Matti is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Spiral Solutions Ltd., a full-service interactive marketing, advertising and technology development firm established in 1999. Foreseeing the direction where interactive gaming was headed, in 2003 he established Spin³, a division of Spiral Solutions, which to date is credited with developing and rolling out one of the leading mobile gaming solutions worldwide. Spin³ has been nominated as the Best Made for Mobile Game system at the Mobile Entertainment Forum 2005 and at the World 3GSM conference 2006. In 2005, three leading full-service UK mobile casinos were launched using Spin³’s proprietary platform and technology, and earlier this year, Mr. Zinder was named one of the 50 most important individuals in mobile content worldwide by a respected and leading wireless industry publication. He has become a leading voice and authority in the area of mobile gaming, and has served as a keynote speaker at many international wireless industry symposiums and conferences, including the Mobile Entertainment Forum, Mobile Gambling Forum, MEM Asia and the Mobile Gambling Summit Asia.