Jordi Aliagas

Arena Mobile

Vice President

Jordi studied Economics at a European University. He worked a few years in the marketing department of World Online & Tiscali, one of the biggest ISPs in Europe. Afterwards Mr. Aliagas moved into the television industry and founded a TV channel in the Madrid and Barcelona undergrounds and airports. He also founded one of the first interactive TV companies together with the biggest audiovisual group in Spain. As a part of the interactive TV project, Mr. Aliagas started Arena Mobile in 2001 with the goal of developing a new media where internet and television could one day converge and help develop the “always on” culture. Nowadays Arena Mobile is a self-funded company fully owned by the Aliagas family, with subsidiaries in 12 countries in Europe, America and Asia and sales in 90+ operators in 48 countries in the five continents.

Julie Ask

JupiterKagan

Research Director and Senior Analyst

Julie focuses on evolving trends in both the telecommunications and automotive industries, examining both the marketing and technology issues these companies face as they look to deploy new technologies to enhance their businesses. JupiterResearch's wireless coverage examines business models, technology trends, and consumer behavior and attitudes to provide strategic advice and insight to those in the industry or those looking for a presence on the "third screen."

Kim Bangash

HorrorNet TV (A Dark Castle Network)

Chief Executive Officer

Kim has been working in media and entertainment since 1993. He has been a Principal at Orchid Ventures, a media and entertainment venture fund, since 2000. Orchid develops and invests in early stage media companies as well as entertainment projects such as independent films. Mr. Bangash’s film investments have garnered worldwide acclaim, including four Academy Award nominations and one Oscar for the films Sling Blade and You Can Count on Me. In 2004, he founded Redrum with Hollywood mega-producer Joel Silver. Redrum is a media brand dedicated to the exceptionally popular content categories of horror, thriller and suspense. The company operates across multiple platforms including television, internet, wireless and live events. Previously, Mr. Bangash worked as an analyst at the prestigious New York City Investment Fund, a private equity fund chaired by Henry Kravis, Managing Partner and founder of KKR. Prior, he worked as a small cap analyst at Anglo American Investor Services, a broker dealer affiliate of the renowned South African commodity firm. Mr. Bangash is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.

Joachim Blunck

Bunim-Murray Productions

Senior Vice President, Digital Content

Joachim’s credits reflect over 25 years experience in publishing, television, and information technology. His eclectic career spans Emmy-winning television producing and directing, computer systems design and programming, award-winning newspaper design, and numerous project and product launches. As an executive for the News Corporation, Mr. Blunck was part of the startup team for several national publications, oversaw the implementation of computerized production systems for Murdoch Magazines, and investigated emerging delivery technologies. As a producer and executive for Fox, Inc., he launched groundbreaking programming for network, syndication, and cable distribution. Mr. Blunck co-created the syndicated television show “A Current Affair,” which began the tabloid television genre and redefined television news. His Emmy-winning work on Fox’s “The Reporters” represented that network’s first foray into national news. Mr. Blunck also perfected the model for local morning television with “Good Day New York.” In 1994, he oversaw the creation and launch of the cornerstone live programming on Fox’s first cable network, FX.

Carsten Boers

Flytxt

President and Co-Founder

The creation of today’s mobile marketing and content industry is partly attributable to the pioneering, visionary work and evangelising of the mobile medium by Flytxt’s founding team. Having driven the concept creation and delivery of thousands of mobile projects, Carsten is recognized as one of the world’s most experienced mobile marketers. After co-founding Flytxt in 2000, he led its sales and client services team, before moving on to set up Flytxt’s US operation in 2003. Mr. Boers was previously with the Monitor Company, a leading strategy consulting firm, where he worked on telecommunications, logistics and pharmaceutical projects. A native German, he studied Philosophy and Economics at LSE in London.

Fredrik Borgstrom

Ericsson Inc.
Director, Managed Services, Entertainment and Media
Fredrik leads business development in the area of hosted Entertainment and Media solutions specializing in gaming and new media. He recently moved to United States from Sweden and was previously responsible for Ericsson's global sales of hosted download and gaming portals as well as in an earlier assignment for the product and content portfolio and delivery of the same. Mr. Borgstrom has been part of building up Ericsson’s global hosting business since the start in 2004 mainly in the area of Entertainment portal solutions including entertaiment and download portals, music portals and gaming portals. Prior to joining the Managed Services department, he was a sales manager within commercial support in Ericssons Global Services sales unit ,where he was managing commercial support tasks within global services solution such as system integration, managed services, network roll-out, customer support and education towards Ericsson’s sales organizations around the world. Mr. Borgstrom has background in Ericsson customer training organization serving as a technical trainer for GSM systems as well as a career as a military officer.

Mike Brady

FAST

Senior Director, Business Development

Mike has spent his career in the software industry helping businesses leverage digital technology to improve profitability. His expertise includes working for MSA Media, Centerseat, Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, with responsibility for enabling new technologies in media and communications. At FAST, Mr. Brady works with wireless carriers and content companies to apply search technology to maximize revenue from commerce, advertising and multi-media services online and with mobile devices. He has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

Brady Bruce

Promptu

Senior Vice President, Telecom Products and Services

Under Bruce’s leadership, Promptu has expanded its business from providing voice-search solutions for cable television to serving the mobile marketplace. Promptu has recently received extensive recognition in the US as it has been acknowledged as one of IDC’s Top 10 Emerging Wireless Application Companies to Watch in 2006 as well as one of OnHollywood’s Top 100 Private Companies. Promptu has also been recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0 & CNN Money, Red Herring, Wireless Week, RCR, and other business and mobile publications. Mr. Bruce leads Promptu's business activities serving mobile carriers. Prior to Promptu, he served as Vice President of Sales and Support at PRISMIQ, Inc., where he helped to establish the PRISMIQ MediaPlayer as the industry's top-selling product. Prior to that, Mr. Bruce has served in leading marketing and business positions at NightFire Software, Radius, Fatbubble, Texas Telemedicine Project, and VTEL Corporation.

Michael Carter

MyThum Interactive

President and Chief Executive Officer

Since 2002, Michael and his team have launched hundreds of mobile initiatives, leveraging a comprehensive suite of services that includes SMS, interactive television, downloadable content, mobile coupons, interactive voice response (IVR) and mobile commerce solutions. MyThum powers mobile marketing strategies for leading brands such as Molson, Best Buy USA, Warner Music Canada, Nokia and Universal Music Canada, Shoppers Drug Mart and interactive mobile solutions for media companies such as CHUM Limited, CanWest Global Communications, Rogers Media, Corus Entertainment and Standard Broadcasting. In his leadership role at MyThum, Mr. Carter draws on more than a decade of wireless, e-commerce, interactive entertainment and management consulting experience.

Matt Champagne
Microsoft
Director, Mobile Product Management, MSN and Windows Live

Matt is responsible for bringing to the global market mobile versions of such services as Mail, Messenger, Search, Spaces, and content services for MSN as well as the new suite of products and services being launched under the Windows Live brand. He also serves on the Mobile Marketing Association Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Prior to MSN, Mr. Champagne was Chief Executive Officer of Tukati, Inc., a software and ASP company providing a broadband media delivery solution based on secure grid networking. Before Tukati, he held the position of COO and Vice President, Mobile Solutions at eCash Technologies, Inc., a software and solutions provider for mission critical transaction processing and payments systems targeted to the mobile, financial, and media markets. Prior to eCash, Mr. Champagne was a Director, Data Services for AT&T Wireless Services.

Steve Cherry

CommerceTel

Chief Executive Officer

Steve has been involved in the telecommunications software industry for more than 25 years and has extensive experience in global business and market development. Prior to joining CommerceTel, he founded TelePost, a global provider of internet-controlled telephony solutions that were deployed throughout Europe, the U.S., and Japan. Telepost was subsequently acquired by FreeServe, the then largest ISP in Europe. Prior to Telepost, Mr. Cherry was General Manager of Delrina Communications Services, later acquired by Symantec, where he worked with MCI, PacBell and BellSouth. Earlier in his career, Mr. Cherry held senior management positions at Janna Systems and General Electric Information Services.

Gidon Coussin

Comverse

General Manager, Video Express

Gidon is a sales and business development expert with over 7 years of selling telecommunication products, Working for comverse technologies, he was in charge for building and executing of all MVNO sales activities in the Americas. Mr. Coussin also helped to establish the MIM business for Comverse. He is currently the General Manager of the Video Express division within Comverse, in charge of establishing the video mobile application business for Comverse. Mr. Coussin was also in charge of establishing the US operations for Odigo Inc.

Scott Crowder

Entriq
Chief Operating Officer
Scott oversees the day-to-day operations at Entriq, and drives the business and technology strategies. Additionally, he is focused on continuing to secure top content owners and service providers as Entriq customers. Prior to his position as Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Crowder was Senior Vice President of Business Development and General Manager of Mobile Services at Entriq, and successfully launched the company’s highly-anticipated Mobile Solution. The Entriq Mobile Solution provides full security and DRM capabilities including OMA, video, audio and image delivery via WAP or Java applications. Prior to joining Entriq, he held the position of Chief Operating Officer for Clearkey Solutions. ClearKey focused on rights management solutions for media and document security. Prior to joining Clearkey Solutions, Mr. Crowder was Vice President of Product Operations for the Content Networking group at Inktomi. He developed key business relationships with technology companies and led several large CDN deployments using Inktomi products.

Brad Duea

Napster

President

Brad is currently responsible for all aspects of Napster's international endeavors as well as the its business development efforts, including mobile, on a worldwide basis. He took on the position of President in January, 2004, after serving as Vice President, Worldwide Business Development for Roxio, Inc., where he was responsible for all business development efforts for Roxio and its Napster subsidiary. In such prior role, Mr. Duea focused on Napster's international expansion effort and the formulation of strategic partnerships. He was also an integral member of the transaction team for the acquisition and integration of pressplay (a music subscription joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group) and certain assets from VUNet Tech.

Vladimir Edelman

SoapBox Mobile

Chief Executive Officer

Vladimir joined Soapbox Mobile in July 2006. Prior to joining Soapbox Mobile, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Mobile ESPN Publishing Worldwide where he managed all aspects of ESPN's domestic and international wireless publishing business, including application licensing, video, wireless Internet, games, and messaging products to carriers. At ESPN, Mr. Edelman also lead business and product development, strategic planning and relationships with wireless network operators, handset manufacturers and content aggregators. Prior to joining ESPN, he served as Vice President and General Manager for Vulcan Sports Media where he oversaw Emerging Technologies. Mr. Edelman's previous experience includes executive positions at CBS, FOX, Time-Warner, and MSNBC. He holds an M.S. in financial journalism from Boston University, and his written work has appeared in Playboy, SPY, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, and Psychology Today.

Jay Emmet

mBlox

President, Americas

Jay is responsible for managing all commercial activities supporting the North and South American markets. Prior to joining mBlox, he was Senior Vice President of Operations for ATG, and previous to that he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at New Edge Networks. Mr. Emmet has over 15 years of multi-functional communications experience including leadership positions at LightNetworks, Logix, and MCI. He also worked at Andersen Consulting (currently Accenture) and served 6 years as a United States Marine Officer. Mr. Emmet currently serves as a Board member for the Mobile Marketing Association. He has an MBA from American University and a BA from St. Anselm College.

David Epstein

Access Hollywood
Interactive Director
David was instrumental in successful re-launch of Access Hollywood’s popular website Access Hollywood.com. Access Hollywood.com attracts more than 600,000 unique users per month and is one of the leading entertainment news web portals in the country. He also is currently directing all interactive efforts for NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution’s new nationally syndicated talk/variety program, “The Megan Mullally Show.” Prior to joining NBC Universal, Mr. Epstein was an off-Broadway producer, where he worked on such productions as “Buicks,” “Teacher’s Lounge” and “Debbie Does Dallas…The Musical.” From 2001-2002, Mr. Epstein served as Interactive Design Team Director for Compuware in Chicago. Before that, he was the founder and CEO of Blairlake New Media, an interactive design agency based in New York City. Mr. Epstein oversaw the internet design firm’s rise from two founders to 65 full-time artists and web producers over a six-year span. Blairlake clients included Lee Jeans, Hallmark Entertainment and Sprint PCS. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Kansas and a J.D. from Drake University School of Law. Epstein currently resides in New York City.

Natalie Farsi

Mobizzo (a unit of Fox Mobile Entertainment)

Senior Vice President, Content and mCommerce

Natalie is responsible for overseeing content and m-commerce for the company’s direct-to-consumer mobile entertainment service, Mobizzo. In addition to optimizing Mobizzo's business, she will be responsible for expanding the group's content offering, through deal making and partnerships, as well as content production, development and distribution. Ms. Farsi has more than a decade of experience in multiplatform content creation, business development and entertainment marketing for digital and traditional media companies. She was most recently Vice President of Media at m-Qube, a leading provider of mobile solutions for the media and entertainment industry, which was recently acquired by VeriSign. In this position, Ms. Farsi worked with a myriad of media companies, including MTV Networks, Warner Music Group, Showtime Networks and Universal Music Group, to leverage wireless as a retail, marketing and communications channel.

Andrew Fisher

Shazam

Chief Executive Officer

Andrew joined Shazam from InfoSpace where he was European Managing Director. At InfoSpace he led the company's significant European growth focusing on music and entertainment services for mobile operators and portal solutions for many leading online service providers. Over the past 14 years, Mr. Fisher has led the successful growth of a number of technology focused enterprises. He founded TDLI.com and was General Manager of Thomson Directories Business Ventures.

Rob Gelick

HELIO, Inc.

Senior Director, Media and Community Services

Kent German

CNET Networks

Senior Editor, Cell Phones

Kent writes and edits product reviews and features focusing on the latest in cell phones, smart phones, and accessories. He also writes the “On Call’ column where the latest cell phone questions are answered. Before CNET, Mr. German worked for Staffing Industry (SI) Report as an associate editor, where he reported on the business news and technology for the staffing and human resource industry. Prior to SI Report, Mr. German was an associate editor at Upside Magazine and Upside.com, a now-defunct technology business magazine. In 2001, he was honored with the American Society of Business Publication Editors award for outstanding magazine news section and was a Finalist for the Western Publications Association award for best magazine news section. Mr. German has a BA in Communications from the University of San Francisco and a Masters in Journalism from the University of Maryland.

Dave Goldberg

Yahoo! Inc.

Vice President and General Manager, Music

Dave is responsible for the growth and continued development of Yahoo! Music as a compelling, global music destination for consumers, marketers and record labels. He has lead the transition of LAUNCH to Yahoo! Music to become the web’s #1 music site, giving consumers the ability to watch, listen to and control their digital music experience directly on Yahoo!. Mr. Goldberg has also helped forged unique relationships with Yahoo! Music and major brands such as Pepsi, Saturn and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Prior to founding LAUNCH, he was Director of Marketing Strategy and New Business development at Capitol Records in Los Angeles, where he oversaw the development of new multimedia distribution methods and the development of alternative channels through which music and new artists could be effectively marketed to consumers.

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. Prior to that, he served 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.

Craig Hagopian

V-ENABLE
Co-Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer

Craig is responsible for driving V-ENABLE’s global sales and marketing initiatives, including business development, product planning and market communications programs. He brings a wealth of experience to the V-Enable management team with more than 18 years of sales and marketing experience across hardware and service based companies in the personal computer, wireless and broadband Internet industries. Prior to V-Enable, Mr. Hagopian was the co-founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of WAKUWAKU Channel, Inc. (BB Stream) and Chief Marketing Officer of Axesstel, Inc., a San Diego-based CDMA terminal manufacturing company. From 1994-2001, he was General Manager, Vice President and Senior Director of the Consumer Group for SkyTel Communications, a wireless data messaging service entity. Mr. Hagopian received his BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

John Hall

Gone In 30

Partner

Howard Handler

Virgin Mobile USA

Chief Marketing Officer

Howard joined Virgin Mobile as Chief Marketing Officer in January 2003. He leads all of Virgin Mobile’s branding, promotion, publicity, consumer marketing, content development, and retail sales efforts. Mr. Handler brings 20 years of experience as a recognized brand builder and leader across a range of world class brands, including The National Football League, MTV: Music Television, Saturday Night Live, and The Quaker Oats Company.

Dave Jaworski

PassAlong Networks

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Dave is responsible for ensuring the company offers the best possible experience to the consumer and the richest media platform to its business customers. This involves setting the technical and strategic vision for the company while leading the day-to-day operations. He spent the last 20 years in various management positions for technology companies ranging from start-ups to multibillion-dollar corporations. Early in his career, Mr. Jaworski put his computer science degree to good use at a pre-public Microsoft where he spent eight years, receiving the first Bill Gates Chairman's Award for Excellence. At Microsoft, Mr. Jaworski was responsible for 80 percent of the U.S. retail sales budget as well as heading up U.S. sales operations and Microsoft University. He also ran technical teams, including all U.S. systems engineer training and development, and developed international experience while running national sales at Microsoft Canada.

Brian Johnson
mBlox
Director, Business Development
Brian is tasked with driving new revenue and maintaining current customer relationships. In this position, he leads the Direct Sales and Account Management teams in the US. Mr. Johnson has held executive sales roles in the telecommunications industry for 15 years. Prior to joining mBlox, he served as Vice President of Sales for CLEC start ups Winstar, Pac-West and ATG. Preceeding the CLEC industry, Mr. Johnson directed sales efforts for Comverse in North America. Brian holds an MBA and a BS in Finance.

Adam Lavine

FunMobility

Chief Executive Officer

Adam has deep experience in technology, animation and the wireless industry. Prior to founding FunMail (now Fun Mobility), in 1999, he was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Specular International, a 3D graphics and animation software company whose customers included Disney, ABC Television and Industrial Light and Magic. Specular was sold to MetaTools, a publicly traded company in 1997, where he worked on streaming 3D technologies before leaving to found FunMail. Before Specular, Mr. Lavine was an Animation Instructor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he produced and directed animations for the National Science Foundation. Mr. Lavine graduated Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts, where he holds degrees in English and Educational Computer Animation.

Heidi Lehmann
Third Screen Media

Vice President, Content Acquisition and Strategy
Heidi serves as chair of the Ad Standards Committee for the Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to joining TSM, she was partner and managing director of the marketing technology consultancy, Emerging Interest, where she was responsible for strategy and operations of the firm’s Advertising Road Show, a program that brought marketing technology innovators together with marketing decision-makers. Ms. Lehmann has held senior business development and sales positions with Artificial Life, a natural language and artificial intelligence “bot” company; Kaon Interactive; and Autosite.com. She also developed the “Poison Cocktail Club,” in collaboration with MIT’s Center for Educational Computing Initiatives. Ms. Lehmann earned a Bachelor of Arts from Hood College and a certificate in film production management from UCLA.

Brian Lent

Medio

President and 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, Mr. Lent also held senior technical and marketing management positions at Amazon.com, where he led efforts in data mining, data warehousing, CRM, and e-commerce search engines. Mr. Lent was a principal and Director of Applications at Junglee, later an Amazon acquisition, where he pioneered new internet database technologies. As an NSF and Department of Defense ONR Fellow, he held research and development positions at IBM Almaden Research Center and Silicon Graphics.

Steve Leonard
Motricity
General Manager, Off-Deck

Steve was the Chief Executive Officer of GoldPocket Wireless prior to its acquisition by Motricity, and is considered a pioneer in the wireless industry. He can provide great perspective on the current and future developments of mobile content creation and delivery. As wireless content (including marketing campaigns, SMS voting, and brand awareness) becomes more pervasive among consumers, understanding the relationship between content aggregators and wireless carriers becomes extremely important.

Priscilla Lu

ViDeOnline

Chief Executive Officer

Priscilla has over 25 years of international industry experience in telecommunications, with significant relationships at the CEO, CTO level with major carriers in China, South East Asia, U.S. and Europe. She led early efforts in technology innovation in the GSM cellular networking space back in the early nineties, and earned worldwide recognition for her leadership in innovation, with 3 Special Recognition Awards in different years at the 3GSM Annual conference held in Cannes, France. Dr. Lu founded interWAVE Communications Ltd was Chairman and from 1994 to 2003 and took the company public in January 2000. She remained a Director on the board of interWAVE, which stayed on the national NASADAQ listing until it was sold December 2004 to Alvarion.

Heather MacPherson

Ogilvy & Mather

Managing Director

Sean Malatesta

India Games

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas

Sean has served as a key executive in building and developing businesses within the Media, Telecom, Entertainment and Games sectors. He is a seasoned entrepreneur. Since 1998, Mr. Malatesta has participated in raising more than $50 million in strategic financing for companies. At Indiagames, he manages the business in the Americas, interacting with mobile carriers, handset makers and rights holders. Prior to Indiagames, Mr. Malatesta was Director of Business Development with Mobile365 (formerly Mobileway), a leading mobile carrier aggregator and full service mobile company. At Mobile365, he assembled partnerships with mobile carriers, technology companies, content makers, motion picture studios, TV networks, records labels, advertising agencies and media companies. Mr. Malatesta played an instrumental role in managing the explosive worldwide growth of two of the leading companies in the field of electronic program guides.

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.

Amanda Marks

Universal Music Group, eLabs

Executive Vice President

Amanda is responsible for the business development and business affairs departments of eLabs, the division of UMG that is dedicated to exploring and developing new business opportunities and new digital delivery systems for recorded music. Prior to her position at eLabs, she served as the General Manager for Jimmy and Doug’s Farmclub.com where she was responsible for the daily operations of Farmclub.com, including finance, business and legal affairs, business development and human resources. Before Farmclub.com, Ms. Marks was with Universal Music Group’s Business & Legal Affairs Department. In this position, she was responsible for helping to formulate UMG’s business and legal affairs policy for the exploitation of sound recordings over the Internet, providing general counseling and business and legal affairs services to several of the UMG record labels, assisting in the label integration process following the Universal – PolyGram merger, and drafting and negotiating agreements for UMG as a whole, the UMG labels and other divisions of UMG.

Josh Martin

iHollywood Forum

Digital Media Analyst

Josh is responsible for analyzing breaking news and its impact on the digital media marketplace, working with the media, writing white papers, and crafting agendas for our events. Prior to joining iHollywood, he spent three years with IDC where he served as a Research Analyst covering emerging video distribution technologies. In his role as an industry expert Mr. Martin was often quoted in the press, spoke at trade shows, and authored numerous studies and forecasts around topics including YouTube, Next Generation DVD, Internet Video, and more. He graduated from Babson College, an entrepreneurial business institution in Massachusetts.

Alex Moir

MX Telecom

Chief Executive Officer, North America

Alex heads up the North American operations of leading SMS aggregator MX Telecom and is responsible for all commercial activities supporting the US and Canadian markets. Prior to opening the US office in New York in 2003, he spent two years as Marketing Director for MX Telecom in London, building key relationships in the early days of the SMS market in Europe. MX Telecom operates in North America, Europe and Australasia, serving hundreds of clients for SMS, MMS, Video, Voice and Location connectivity. It has become a major player in the wireless industry, well respected for its role in growing and developing the market over the past six years. Before joining MX Telecom, Mr. Moir was Strategic Planning Manager at Reuters Plc, where he oversaw strategic analysis projects to aid corporate level decision-making within the group. Mr. Moir has a Manufacturing Engineering M.A. M.Eng. degree from St John’s College, Cambridge University, holds a private pilots license and in his leisure time enjoys travel, sport and music.

Ralf Onken

CoreMedia

Business Development

André Pagnac

Actimagine Corp.

President and Chief Executive Officer

André is a co-founder of Actimagine which was created in 2003 to conceive, patent and license display software technologies. Prior to Actimagine, he spent most of his carrier in software publishing for graphic industries, occupying various executive positions in Europe and Asia. At Actimagine, Mr. Pagnac established relationships and licensing agreements of Actimagine video codec, most notably with Nintendo Co. Ltd, Fisher-Price or Sony Pictures to deliver AAA rated contents on mobile platforms.

Alex Panelli

Trilibis Mobile

Chief Executive Officer

Under Alex’s leadership, Trilibis Mobile has established itself as a leader in mobile communities with social application titles, such as Webdate™ Mobile and peepsnation™, running on major carrier networks including Cingular, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, Alltel, U.S. Cellular, Cricket and Boost. He joined Trilibis Mobile in 2003 as the company’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and became Chief Executive Officer in 2004. In his role as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Panelli focuses on corporate strategy, external communications and relationships with customers and partners. Before joining Trilibis in 2003, he consulted on several critical projects for the Senior Vice President of Global Operations at Palm, Inc. Prior to Palm, Mr. Panelli was Director of Sales for Converge, an enterprise & supply chain software company funded by HP, Hitachi, Samsung, NEC and others. His professional experience includes management roles with HP, Agilent and Motorola. Mr. Panelli holds an MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Tom Parrish

SmartVideo

Senior Vice President, Business Development

As a ten-year veteran of the wireless industry, Tom recently joined SmartVideo as Senior Vice President, Business Development to oversee all new company initiatives and carrier relations. Prior to joining SmartVideo, he was the senior Vice President of Business Development and Content at Mobliss where he was instrumental in new business partnerships, licensing agreements and carrier relations. While at AT&T Wireless, Mr. Parrish was responsible in part for launching the first generation of branded applications and promotions with some of the nation's largest media companies.

Leslie Poole

Javien

Chief Executive Officer

Leslie has made a career out of leading ventures in both the technology and financial industries. Previously, he co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Broad IP Networks, a networking infrastructure company. Mr. Poole has also held positions as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Network Security Technologies, Inc. and Executive Director of The National Investment Fund for Credit Unions, where he grew assets under management from $100 million to over $1 billion.

Grahame Riddell

O2

Head of Content - Music, Film, TV and Sports

Grahame has over 14 years experience in the mobile industry across a number of areas including marketing, product development, strategy and content acquisition. In 1998 he launched Cellnet's ( O2 ) first Prepay service and headed up the Prepay marketing team. Mr. Riddell then spent time at Vodafone where he worked on the launch of Vodafone live before moving back to O2 where he led the marketing launch of O2 Active, Mobile Internet service and other data and content services.

Srivats Sampath
Mercora
Chief Executive Officer

Srivats was most recently with McAfee.com before merging the company with Network Associates in October 2002. He served as McAfee.com's founder, President and Chief Executive Officer from December 1998, guiding the company through a successful IPO in December 1999, achieving "the top 5 performing stocks" ranking on NASDAQ for CY 2001 and eventually helping it grow into the largest managed consumer security services company with over 4m paid subscribers. Prior to founding McAfee.com, Mr. Sampath was with Netscape Communications, a provider of Internet software and services, as Vice President of Server Product Marketing. From June 1993 to June 1996, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Discussions Corporation, a company he founded to develop email based groupware solutions.

Tero Sarkkinen

Futuremark, Inc.

Executive Vice President, Online Business

Before joining Futuremark in 1999, Tero worked as E-Commerce manager for Elisa Communications (a large Finnish telecom operator). He established Futuremark's US subsidiary in 1999 and has since been located in the Silicon Valley charged with the company’s worldwide sales and marketing. Mr. Sarkkinen has lead Futuremark’s rapid organic growth all the time while maintaining good net income margins. This resulted in 85th place in Deloitte’s EMEA Growth Company Ranking in 2005 and in RedHerring’s Hot 100 Europe nomination in 2006.

Jim Souders

Action Engine

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations

Jim leads the company's efforts to grow the customer base and develop close partnerships with key strategic partners across the globe. He brings over 20 years of wireless telecommunications experience working with companies such as US West, GTE, OSI and Dorado Software. Prior to joining Action Engine, Mr. Souders was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Wavelink Corporation, a leading provider of software solutions for the development of mission-critical wireless applications and the management of wireless LAN networks and mobile devices. While at Wavelink he increased revenues by over 100% per year and established numerous partner alliances with equipment manufacturers, system integrators, and independent software vendors worldwide. Mr. Souders has traveled extensively throughout Asia and is considered an industry expert on the promises and pitfalls of mobile advertising. He is a native of the Northwest and graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and accounting.

Eric Steuer

Wired

Contributing Editor
Eric is a contributing editor at Wired and the Creative Director of Creative Commons. He is co-founder of the Sneakmove record label and makes music as a member of the hip-hop group Meanest Man Contest.

Clint Stinchcomb

Discovery Communications

Senior Vice President and General Manager

Michael Stroud

iHollywood Forum

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Michael has been a professional business journalist for 22 years, is the co-founder of iHollywood Forum, and a frequent moderator for business forums on digital entertainment. He previously covered technology as a senior writer at Investor's Business Daily, was the Los Angeles Bloomberg News entertainment correspondent for five years, later served as the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for Broadcasting and Cable, and was a correspondent for four years for Wired.com. He is now an independent journalist covering technology, entertainment and the wireless industry, and is a featured columnist for Always On Network. His articles have also appeared in the Sunday New York Times, Business 2.0, and The Red Herring. He has a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Asian Studies in 1981, and speaks fluent Mandarin.

Daniel Tibbets
GoTV Networks
Executive Vice President, Studio
Daniel's media experience spans 16 years including senior executive roles in production and development at Twentieth Television, Fireworks Television, CBS Enterprises and Papazian-Hirsch Entertainment, where he is credited with the development of the HBO series ROME. While running FOXLAB, Inc. and production at Twentieth Television, Mr. Tibbets created and developed the "mobisode™" including executive producing the first two original content mobisode’s™ Love and Hate and Sunset Hotel.

Dominick Tolli

Virgin Mobile, USA

Vice President, Value Added Services

Dominick is leads Virgin Mobile’s industry leading data services including music, messaging, gaming and access. He has also had key positions in Net2Phone and a small start up called AT&T.

Stephen Venute

MyStrands

Vice President, Strategic Alliances

Stephen has over 15 years experience in advertising, marketing and strategic alliances. He was a double major in International Business and Foreign Policy from the American University in Washington DC. Mr. Venute spent eight years at AOL, where he was responsible for directing and managing complex global marketing alliances with some of AOL's largest and most strategic partnerships. Mr. Venute was responsible for developing and implementing cross-divisional initiatives within the Time Warner family of brands and helped to negotiate some of the more complex partnerships within the AOL portfolio. He helped to pioneer numerous successful online ROI initiatives and launched several internet-first programs. Prior to joining AOL, Mr. Venute spent several years with McCann-Erickson, based in Prague, where he was responsible for managing a portfolio multi-national and local advertising partnerships. While at McCann he managed a substantial number of major consumer packaged goods brands and was instrumental in helping to close new business.

Lisa Waits

Nokia

Head of SNAP Mobile

Lisa heads Nokia’s Java multiplayer and community-based gaming program, SNAP Mobile. She is responsible for the SNAP Mobile program’s end-to-end operator and publisher solution for mobile multiplayer Java gaming and associated community. Formerly the head of the Business Development and Strategy group of Nokia’s Network Game Solutions, Ms. Waits was a key participant in development of the N-Gage Arena community as well as driving the strategy for Nokia’s online game and community technology offerings. With a strong background in community development, including determining the characteristics and requirements of a sustainable online gaming community, she was instrumental in formulating principles for leveraging a combined hardware and software platform in the games market and applying such requirements and principles to the N-Gage value proposition. In addition to running the SNAP Mobile program, Ms. Waits is Site Manager of Nokia’s San Francisco office. She joined Nokia in 2003 as part of Nokia’s acquisition of Sega.com, a subsidiary of the Japanese games publisher, Sega Corporation. She was the former Associate General Counsel of Sega.com. Prior to joining Sega.com, Ms. Waits was a partner at a major U.S. law firm.

Daisy Whitney

TV Week

Technology Writer

Daisy writes for a number of publications including TelevisionWeek, Advertising Age, Shape and Business 2.0. She has a specialty in the media industry and is currently TelevisionWeek's technology and emerging media reporter. Ms. Whitney also wrote for the Denver Post for six years, and has also written for Canada’s The Globe and Mail, Miami Herald, New Media Age, Extra Extra, Natural Health and Consumers Digest. She graduated from Brown University in 1994 with a degree in art history.

Scott Wills

Hiwire

President and Chief Operating Officer

Scott is responsible for the deployment and launch of Aloha Partners’ mobile television broadcast service. He held Chief Executive Officer and executive positions for start-ups and Fortune 500 companies, covering consumer-packaged goods, media entertainment and new technologies. During his early career, Mr. Wills introduced popular new products for companies such as P&G and Pepsi-Cola. He also successfully founded several media and technology companies, both public and private. Mr. Wills' media entertainment credentials include the launch of A&E cable network, relaunch of American Movie Classics, introduction of the Montel Williams TV show and development of Zing interactive TV.

Jeff Yee

Treemo

Chief Operating Officer

Mike Yuen

QUALCOMM Internet Services
Senior Director, Gaming Group

Mike manages the team chartered with defining and driving the BREW gaming experience as well as ensuring the platform is profitable and viable for game publishers and developers. Prior to founding the Gaming Group in 2005, he led the BREW Developer Relations team that is responsible for signing up companies such as Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo!, Disney, Sony, and Electronic Arts to deliver consumer and business applications to users around the world. Mr. Yuen previously held positions with Accolade, GTE Interactive Media, Hammerhead Entertainment, AMD, and NCR. He is a member of the advisory boards for Game Developers Conference (GDC) Mobile and Floodgate Entertainment and was a member of the founding board of directors for Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) Americas.

Yingbo Zhu

ASPire Holdings

Vice President, China Mobile Data Business Support Center

Yingbo joined ASPire Technologies in January 2003. Prior to that he worked for China Telecom as a senior project manager and was involved in some broadband multimedia communication projects and was awarded by the Ministry of Information Industry for his achievements. Mr. Zhu graduated from Zhejiang University, China, with B.S. and M.S. degrees. He also studied and graduated from Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with a professional doctorate degree. Mr. Zhu has more than 14 years of development and management experience in the telecom industry.