Rutie Adar

Zoran

Marketing Director

In June 2006, Rutie Adar joined Zoran Corporation's Mobile Division, a leading developer of integrated digital multimedia ICs for the consumer, mobile and cellular markets, as Director Marketing. For the previous five years, Ms. Adar directed product marketing at TransChip, a developer of digital camera ICs for mobile phones. Before that Ms. Adar worked at NeoMagic as the Marketing Manager MPEG-4 product line, following its acquisition of Associative Computing, an Israeli start-up company that designed imaging processors. For the past 17 years, Ms. Adar has held various R&D and marketing positions at semiconductor companies including at Zoran Microelectronics in Haifa , Israel , as an algorithm developer in the fields of image processing and compression. Ms. Adar received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Hebrew University , Jerusalem , and an MBA from the Recanati School of Business, Tel Aviv University . Ms. Adar also holds two patents in image compression.

Shawn Ambwani

Intertrust

VP, Licensing
Shawn is a co-founder of Envivio, which was spun off from France Telecom in 1999 to develop MPEG-4 streaming solutions for the broadcast, cable network, and content developer markets. At France Telecom, he conceived and led international teams in the development of Internet services in France and in the US.

Josep A. Aliagas

Arena Mobile

CEO
I studied economics in the University of Barcelona where I obtained a Degree in Economics. I studied a post degree in audit and accounting in the same university. I joined KPMG Peat Marwick as an auditor for 3 years after my studies. I started the first internet ISP in Spain in 1995. In 1998 our company was bought by World Online Tiscali where I stayed as a CEO. Then started other TV, radios, interactive TV and mobile companies. Today I am the CEO of Arena Mobile. I speak few languages between them English, French and Spanish.

Daniel Appelquist

Vodafone

Senior Technology Strategist

Daniel is Senior Technology Strategist at Vodafone Group where he focuses on Web and mobile Internet topics. He represents Vodafone in the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, which he helped create and he has been involved in developing dotMobi. Previously, Daniel has been a pioneer in the field of Web content.

Dilip Bala

ABC Entertainment & Touchstone Television,

VP, Business Development
Dilip Bala is responsible for wireless and new media business development related to across ABC and Touchstone for the Disney-ABC Television Group's Digital Media team.  This includes projects for ABC Entertainment's Daytime, Primetime and Late Night as well as Touchstone Television.  He also oversees the mobile initiatives related to ABC's broadcast of The 79th Annual Academy Awards; this year marks the first time Oscar content is available on mobile. Bala oversees production and distribution of all mobile content including video, personalization products and games.  He also manages e-commerce activities for ABC. Bala reports to Bruce Gersh, senior vice president, business development, ABC Entertainment and Touchstone Television. Before joining ABC in 2004, Bala headed up operations for a direct marketing start-up and was previously with The Walt Disney Company for over six years in various finance and planning roles.  He began his career at Ernst & Young where he earned his CPA credentials. Dilip resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Kristi, and their two children, Jay and Maya.

John Beale

Volantis Systems

VP of Marketing, Volantis Systems
John Beale is responsible for product marketing, market research and corporate positioning for Volantis.  The position includes driving a cross-functional team to devise business, product and channel strategies for Volantis' licensing and managed services businesses; he joined Volantis in 2005 to expand and launch the Company's product line and support an expansion of the business into the US, Asia, and Latin America.  Before Volantis, he served as head of marketing for more than five years at QUALCOMM's QCT semiconductor division and previously spent more than ten years based in Japan and Malaysia as a marketing consultant for a variety global telecommunications concerns.

Michal Bayle

Yahoo!

Senior Director of Monetization, Connected Life
Michael Bayle is the Senior Director of Monetization for Yahoo! Connected Life. He is responsible for leading the global monetization strategy for Connected Life products, including Mobile, PC Desktop clients and TV. This effort includes leading a cross-company, cross-functional team to devise business, product and channel strategies to support indirect revenue initiatives. Bayle joined the organization in September 2002 to lead business development for some of Yahoo! Search Marketing's largest global partners including MSN and ESPN. He also played a key role in launching Yahoo! Search Marketing's mobile sponsored search trials in Japan in 2004 and in the US in 2005.

Markus Berger-de León

Jamba

Managing Director
Markus is Managing Director of Jamba, one of the leading drivers in the global mobile entertainment industry, a subsidiary of Verisign. During Markus tenure Jamba! raised to the most renowned and most effective distributors of mobile contents. His expertise spans from mobile and media topics to software and regulatory issues. Prior to being with Jamba!/Verisign Markus was cofounder, CTO and COO of his own software company. As such he established new IT-driven B2B procurement services with customers across Europe. Markus holds a diploma in business administration from the WHU - Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management in Koblenz, Germany. Additionally, he studied at the Columbia Business School and at Plekhanov in Moscow.

Jean-Pierre Bienaimé

UMTS Forum

Chairman
Following a long and distinguished career within the telecommunications industry, Jean-Pierre Bienaimé 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 Nexus International, and Director of International Development at France Telecom Mobiles (2000). After the purchase of Orange by FT, Bienaimé was appointed Group Technical Support Director at Orange until December 2002. 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.

David Bluhm,

GoTV Networks

Chief Executive Officer
David Bluhm has been at the forefront of the technology sector for the last 20 years - having been involved in more than 20 startups that have achieved a combined "high water equity value of over 36 billion dollars. Before joining GoTV Networks, Bluhm was CEO of WUF Networks, which allowed users to access and stream rich media to mobile phones. WUF helped pioneer mobile music and was later acquired by Yahoo! to power its Yahoo! Music Mobile service. Prior to WUF, Bluhm co-founded MFORMA, serving as President of Americas and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development. Earlier in his career, Bluhm was CEO of NearMe, where he guided the development and initial licensing of a suite of location technologies used by AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS and U.S. Cellular to deliver directory assistance and other localized information to mobile phones. Bluhm also founded 2WAY Corporation, serving as President and CEO and has held several executive positions at Motorola, Mosaix International, Davox Corporation, Realtor.com, BondHub.com, and Mammoth Micro Productions. Bluhm holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington.

Marc Bookman

MCN

CEO

As Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Mobile Content Networks, Inc. (MCN), Marc Bookman brings over 18 years in search and content industry experience including leadership roles in general management, business development and product marketing. Before starting MCN, Bookman was the Founder and CEO of Sentius Corporation where he introduced the industry's first contextual linking engine as well as distributed electronic book browser software, which was widely licensed through Sony and Apple Computer. Prior to Sentius, Bookman worked in the US and Japan for Sony Corporation in both corporate and product development roles. Bookman is an advisor to several Silicon Valley start-ups, a regular speaker at industry conferences, and a published author. He has three patents all about making content easier for people to use. He holds a B.S. in Accounting, an M.B.A and Master's Degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Chicago.

Brady Bruce

Promptu

SVP of Telecom Products & Services
Brady O. Bruce leads Promptu's business activities serving mobile carriers, with overall responsibility for business development, product management, sales and marketing. Bruce's career spans more than 20 years in telecommunications, broadband, and consumer technology. Prior to Promptu, Bruce served as vice president of sales and support at PRISMIQ, Inc., a leader in digital media hubs and consumer electronics. Bruce helped to establish the PRISMIQ MediaPlayer as the industry's top-selling product, and to garner top awards such as "Product of the Year" from PC Magazine and other publications. Prior to joining PRISMIQ, Bruce served as senior vice president of marketing and business development for NightFire Software, a maker of service management and network provisioning applications for communication service providers, expanding the company's business into Europe and Asia. Before NightFire, Bruce served as vice president of marketing at Radius (and its successor Digital Origin), the renowned maker of digital media products, where he led a complete rebranding, created new retail products, and expanded international distribution.

Andy Choi

Greystripe

CTO & Founder
Andy is the architect of Greystripe's AdWRAP technology. Previously, he was the Chief Architect at CoManage Corporation, a telecom OSS company whose customers included ATT Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and Telecom Italia. At CoManage he was responsible for the design and architecture of the company's products and managed the technical direction of over 50 development, test, and professional services engineers. Andy's previous experience includes senior engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard, OSI, and Gadzoox Networks. Andy graduated from MIT with a BS in Computer Science and completed further graduate studies at Stanford.

Salil Dalvi

NBC Universal

VP, Digital Media, Wireless 
Salil Dalvi was named Vice President of Digital Media, Wireless for NBC Universal in June of 2005.   In this role, he manages product strategy and development for NBC Universal's mobile content efforts. Over the past 2 years, NBCU has launched a broad slate of wireless video and WAP sites from top franchises including NBC Entertainment, NBC News, NBC Sports, The Olympics, Bravo and Access Hollywood. Salil started his career in Affiliate Sales and Marketing at MTV Networks, and holds an MBA from Emory University and a BS degree in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. He currently lives in South Orange, NJ with his wife and son, Lori and Luke.

Nick Desai

Juice Wireless

Chairman, Founder, CEO
Nick Desai is the Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Juice Wireless.Nick is the visionary behind Juice’s award wining products, exceptional customer base,and most recently, the Personal Broadcast Network concept.
Nick is a proven serial technology, internet and wireless industry entrepreneur and has been a thought leader in the evolution of mobile data services since their inception. Nick’s vision of seamlessly integrated internet-to-mobile applications is realized in Juice’s highly popular MobileBday.com birthday reminder service, in Juice’s award winning Epi-To-Go mobile shopping list application, and most significantly in the JuiceCaster Personal Broadcast Network. Prior to Juice Wireless, Nick was a co-founder of Lemko Corporation (www.lemko.com)– a market leader in IP based cellular infrastructure solutions. For Lemko, Nick led business development with top tier carriers ranging from Cingular to Reliance and Sprint PCS to Bharti Telecom. Prior to Lemko, Nick was Founder and CEO of Zkey.com – a multi-award winning market leader in the personal identity management and mobile commerce infrastructure space.
Nick is a frequent speaker and author. He has spoken at venues ranging from CTIA to the Harvard Business School to the eCEO Summit. He has written a regular column for California CEO Magazine for over three years now.Nick holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Irvine. Nick resides in Los Angeles California and enjoys baseball, body surfing and cooking in his occasional free time.

Stanley Fertig

HBO International

VP
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.

Ulf Gustafsson

Teracom AB

SVP, Sales & Marketing
Previously head of sales at Teracom (2004), founder and owner of his own company (2003), Director of developer program services, EMEA for Metrowerks Inc, General Manager for Motorola applications global network, EMEA (2001). Diploma in marketing from IHM Business School and engineering studies at the Royal Technical University in Stockholm and University of Dalarna.

Tobias Mattsson

Air2Web

Sunil Gunderia

Walt Disney Internet Group

VP, Head of Mobile, EMEA
Mr. Gunderia is the London-based Vice President, Head of Mobile for the Walt Disney Internet Group, EMEA. In this capacity he is responsible for managing all aspects of the mobile publishing business across EMEA. The group he heads publishes a wide variety of content including Disney branded graphics, ring tones, applications and games as well as non-Disney branded content published through the Living Mobile label. The EMEA mobile publishing team includes personnel across creative, product development, sales, marketing and distribution. Previously Mr. Gunderia served as Director, International Strategy and Business Development for the Walt Disney Internet Group based in Los Angeles where he was responsible for strategy formulation and deal execution. He has executed deals across Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Prior to joining Disney, Mr. Gunderia held a variety of strategy and consulting positions.

Alexis Helcmanocki

Ipsos

IP & Telecom Executive Manger, Europe
Alexis Helcmanocki possède une expérience de plus de 15 ans dans les nouvelles technologies, et plus particulièrement les Télécoms et l'IT. Il est spécialisé dans la gestion de comptes-clefs paneuropéens, auxquels il apporte son expertise en collaboration avec les équipes Ipsos. A ce titre, il est en charge de la collaboration avec France Telecom - Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Sony-Ericsson, Telecom-Italia, Nokia, Telefonica, Motorola, H3G, . Avant de rejoindre Ipsos en Mai 2005, Alexis était PDG de Buongiorno Vitaminic France, société paneuropéenne spécialisée dans les services à valeurs ajoutée pour les opérateurs Télécoms fixes et mobiles, après avoir été Directeur Associé chez Statilogie, Groupe ATOS, institut d'étude spécialisé dans les études de satisfaction et les études Marketing pour les Télécoms, et Consultant chez Andersen Consulting dans la practice du Marketing Relationnel et des nouvelles technologies. Agé de 41 ans, Alexis est diplômé de l'ESSEC et d'une Maîtrise en Statistiques à l'Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliquées.

Sandi Isaacs

Paramount Pictures

SVP, Digital Entertainment Group
Sandi Isaacs is the Senior Vice President of the Digital Entertainment Group at Paramount Pictures. In this capacity, she represents Paramount’s intellectual properties including; new movie releases, classic properties and Paramount ’s extensive library of over 3,000 films. Recently, she initiated and launched Paramount’s mobile destination and related movie sites, as well as cross integration of these applications into Paramount ’s motion picture and home entertainment marketing initiatives. Ms. Isaacs joined Paramount Pictures in 2000. Prior to that, she acted as Director, International Publishing at Activision, and Manager, International Production at Disney Interactive. Isaacs has more than a decade of interactive entertainment industry experience and an extensive background in licensing, business development and product development.

Mark Kirstein

iSuppli

VP, Multimedia Content & Services
Mark Kirstein is Vice President, Multimedia Content and Services for iSuppli. He is responsible for the production of research following digital audio and video delivered over wireless and wired broadband networks. Mark has worked with numerous technology firms in consulting and advisory roles, contributing to their decision-making process and their success. Previously, Mark was Vice President and General Manager of In-Stat, a market research firm following advanced communications and semiconductors. In this role, he managed business strategy, sales, operations, and business development in Asia . In addition, Mark managed the analyst team in the research, analysis and creation of several hundred research reports, annually. In prior roles, Mark was Director and Principal A nalyst for Multimedia research. Mark is widely regarded as an authority on broadband, consumer electronics, and semiconductors. In early 2000, Mark authored a ground-breaking whitepaper, entitled "Entering the Broadband Era". This research predicted the dramatic impact of broadband and the resulting opportunities and consequences in the content/media & consumer electronics industries. His insights foresaw many of the developments that have since become reality.

Hubert Kjelberg

Ericsson

Head of Content
For over 50 years, broadcast television has more or less worked the same way: as a one-way distribution channel that provides a certain program at a certain time. But now this is changing, to something new and better. Soon, any time will be our personal prime time. We will begin to control and interact with TV and switch from passive viewing to active 'lean forward' participation. This is the view of Ericsson, whose networks handle the majority of existing mobile TV services. Hubert Kjellberg has been working with content and media for the past seven years. He has been active in creating and licensing content at different production and format companies and has his own media rights management company. Hubert has experience both from the media and communications sector as he has headed up Three's content department in Sweden and is presently the head of content at Ericsson.

Chris Locke

AOL Europe

Senior Strategy Manager, Mobile & Social Media
Chris has spent the past ten years working on the social aspects of Internet technologies.  Starting as an academic, he was the Xerox Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing, running the Masters programme of the same name, at University College London.  He then joined the Internet industry as it started to develop, with senior roles developing Internet and community strategies for the Virgin Group and Freeserve.  He then moved to the mobile industry, initially working for Hutchison 3G to launch the first 3G network in the UK, then for T-Mobile International developing their pan-European mobile data product strategy.  He is now heading up the European mobile team for AOL Europe, as well as contributing to the Social Media strategy. Chris is also still active as an academic, and recently co-edited Thumb Culture - The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society - a collection of essays from leading academics around the world that covers the social impact mobile phones have had on a variety of cultures."

Laura Marriott

Mobile Marketing Association

Executive Director
Laura Marriott is the executive director for the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), where she is responsible for leading the association in its charter to drive the adoption of mobile marketing while ensuring consumer privacy and brand integrity. The MMA is an action-oriented association designed to clear obstacles to market development, to establish standards and best practices for sustainable growth, and to evangelize the mobile channel for use by brands and third party content providers. In her role as executive director, Marriott directs all activities and communications to the more than 300 world-wide members, representing over twenty countries and some of the world's most recognized consumer brands. With more than fifteen years of experience in the high-tech industry in the areas of business development, product management and marketing, Marriott has a proven track record of leadership, dedication and the ability to create and execute on programs with measurable results.

Asa Nordgren

IMobile

Partner
Asa Nordgren has been engaged in development and launch of new media for the last 11 years as a researcher in media and communications science at mid Sweden university, as an internet strategy consultant in the dotcom era, as head of business innovation at mobile 3G operator 3 in Sweden, as founder of two mobile concept development agencies. To day Asa leads Metronome film and television (Scandinavia 's larges Film and TV Production Company) launch of 360G formats in TV and film for all consumption situations and all platforms.

Ole Obermann

Sony BMG

VP, Digital Business Development
Ole Obermann was named Vice President, Digital Business Development, Europe, for Sony BMG in 2006. In this role Mr. Obermann is responsible for the general oversight of Sony BMG's European digital business.  Working together with the European Digital Board and the digital teams in each European territory, he leads Sony BMG's Global Digital Business Group's support of local digital initiatives in each territory, and drives development and execution of strategies for European digital growth and expansion. Prior to joining Sony BMG, Mr. Obermann served as Vice President & General Manager, Liquid Digital Media, where he oversaw all aspects of Liquid's digital music commerce activities, including the operation of Walmart's digital music store, one of the largest digital music offerings in the United States .  Prior to that, he spent 3 years at Walmart.com, where he was responsible for the launch and management of the music, video, book, and video game categories. He began his career at BMG, serving as the Marketing Manager for BMG Classics between 1994 and 1998. Mr. Obermann holds an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a BA in International Relations from Colgate University. 

Michael J. O'Farrell

dotMobi Advisory Group

Chair & Interim, Executive Director

Michael J. O'Farrell Chair, dotMobi Advisory Group Michael J. O'Farrell is the Founder & CEO of mifon company, a new mobile media venture, as well as a strategic advisor for Carlson Marketing, ooober, GSM Interactive and 3i4 Media. Michael began his career in the mobile industry with Rogers Cantel in the early 1990s and, over the last 15 years, has been engaged as an executive with industry-leading mobile organisations including Diversinet, InfoComm, Wysdom, the Personal Communication Industry Association, PCS Innovations (acquired by Schlumberger) and The Wireless Group. As a global subject matter expert on mobile messaging, browsing, multimedia and commerce commercialisation initiatives, Michael has been a featured speaker and considered a leading mobile industry futurist.

Ilkka Paananen

Digital Chocolate Ltd.

President of Studios
Ilkka is responsible for directing the Studios of Digital Chocolate. Ilkka joined Sumea in 2000 and grew the company to profitability by leading the development of 24 mobile games and a distribution network of over 100 channels that included every major European carrier. Based on Sumea's leadership position in Europe , Ilkka and the company's founders sold Sumea to Digital Chocolate in 2004. Ilkka studied Industrial Management at Helsinki University of Technology.

Eric Petajan

VectorMAX Corporation

Chief Technology Officer
Eric previously was Chief Scientist and Founder of face2face animation, inc. His outstanding body of work in the fields of digital HDTV, interactive graphics systems, and facial motion capture have earned him six patents and international acclaim. Prior to face2face, Dr. Petajan was a researcher at Bell Labs for more than 16 years. He was a pivotal figure in the development of the U.S. Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) digital HDTV standard, and a leader in the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), the body that developed the MPEG-2 digital video standard. Dr. Petajan also chairs the MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation (FBA) group. He received a Ph.D. electrical engineering in 1984 and an MS in Physics from the University of Illinois where he built the first automatic lip-reading system. Dr. Petajan is also associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

Marshall Porter

Digital Fountain

Director of Mobile
Marshall Porter serves as Director of Mobile for Digital Fountain, responsible for defining and executing the company's digital media delivery solutions for the mobile industry. Prior to Digital Fountain, Mr. Porter was Director of Strategic Development at Handango, overseeing the company's strategic development initiatives, including off-portal and corporate development strategies, key infrastructure initiatives, and the launching of new lines of business. Porter holds a Masters Degree in Management, Economics, and International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland . He also holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Political Science from Texas Christian University , where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa .

Bill Sanders

Sony Pictures Digital Sales & Marketing

VP, 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.

John Smelzer

FOX Interactive Media

SVP & General Manager, Mobile
John Smelzer is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile for Fox Interactive Media (FIM) in charge of developing mobile extension strategies for FIM's online assets, including FOXSports.com, IGN.com, MySpace.com and Grab.com, among others. His group, which was formed in March 2006, creates and manages FIM-branded mobile offerings that span the wireless product spectrum from sports to social networking, and are distributed on all major US carriers. Smelzer joined FOXSports.com as Director, Business Development in August 2001. In this role, he secured FOX Sports' place as an anchor tenant in the Real Network's RealOne Super Pass , one of the first broadband video consumer products. Promoted to Vice President in 2002, Smelzer pioneered Fox Sports' initial mobile expansion and oversaw the creation and distribution of a FOX Sports mobile video offering across all major carriers and aggregators. Smelzer also led negotiations with Microsoft MSN for the exclusive distribution of FOXSports.com.

Leighton Webb

I-play

SVP of Content Strategy & Licensing of Mobile Entertainment company
Leighton Webb is I-play's Senior Vice President of Content Strategy and Licensing for the company's global business. Webb drives the company's overall content strategy as well as leading the licensing and publishing businesses. Before joining I-play, Webb held the position of Vice President International Wireless for Fox Mobile Entertainment where he oversaw the company's publisher and mobile operator relationships in Europe. Prior to Fox, he was an Executive Director and General Manager at America Online where he headed up content strategy and operations activity for the AOL Games Channel including AOL's strategic relationship with Electronic Arts. He began his career at Ubi Soft Entertainment where he held management positions in product development and marketing in both Ubi Soft's San Francisco and Paris offices. Webb earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the College of William and Mary and an MBA in finance from the Fisher Graduate School of International Business at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Jason Wells

Sony Pictures Television International

SVP Mobile Entertainment
As Vice President of Mobile Sales for Sony Pictures Digital Sales and Marketing, a division of Sony Pictures Digital, Jason Wells will be responsible for bringing Sony Pictures Entertainment properties into the mobile space by developing new content and products. Wells brings with him years of experience in business development, management consulting and business launch strategy. Most recently he was vice president of business development for Handango, where he directed the content and distribution business units. Prior to Handango, Wells was founder and president of Globient Corp, where he opened new channels in Europe, Asia and Latin America for technology companies. As a former management consultant with AT Kearney, Wells worked with telecommunications giants such as Sprint and Telstra to launch and grow new businesses. He has worked extensively throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America in channel development, marketing and strategy roles.

Mike Yuen

QUALCOMM Internet Services

QUALCOMM Incorporated

Senior Director, BREW Gaming Group
Mike Yuen is senior director of the BREW Gaming Group for QUALCOMM Internet Services. He 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, Yuen 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. He previously held positions with Accolade, GTE Interactive Media, Hammerhead Entertainment, AMD, and NCR. Yuen is a member of the advisory boards for Game Developers Conference (GDC) Mobile and Floodgate Entertainment, the board of directors of the San Diego Software Industry Council (SDSIC), and was a member of the founding board of directors for Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) Americas.