Brendan Benzing
Vice President of Mobile Search and Marketing
InfoSpace, Inc

Brendan Benzing,Vice President of Product and Marketing, is responsible for defining InfoSpace's product strategy in Mobile Search as well as its industry leading Mobile Service Platform platform. Benzing joined InfoSpace in 2005, bringing experience in sales, marketing and interactive media product development. He has over 16 years of experience in the media industry and over a decade with interactive media products including mobile, internet, and interactive TV. Prior to InfoSpace, Benzing spend seven years with America Online, most recently serving as an Executive Director, in AOL's Search and Directional Media Group.  Prior to that Brendan held positions of increasing responsibility with Bell Atlantic, which is now part of Verizon.

Indy Bishop
Director of Marketing
Moosejaw Mountaineering

Randy Cavaiani
VP Marketing and Business Development
Novarra

Anna M. Chagnon
President & CEO
Bitstream

Under the direction of President and CEO Anna Chagnon, Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS) is an innovator in the embedded system and mobile technology market. In 2007, Bitstream was named to the Boston Globe 100 Best of
Massachusetts Businesses for the first time, and was ranked 20th on the list. Babson College and The Commonwealth Institute also named Bitstream as one of the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts based on its
revenue growth in each of the last two years. Ms. Chagnon has previously served in various executive positions at Bitstream. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Chagnon served as Counsel to Progress Software Corporation, and
also practiced law at the Boston firms of Peabody & Arnold and Warner & Stackpole.

Ms. Chagnon holds an MBA from Babson College, a BS from Northeastern University, and a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley

Shawn Conahan
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Intercasting Corp.

Shawn Conahan is an accomplished entrepreneur and skilled manager with a track record of success in the mobile industry and digital media space and serves as the founder, chairman and CEO of Intercasting.

Prior to founding Intercasting Corporation, Conahan was president and chief executive of Moviso, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal.  Under Conahan’s leadership, Moviso grew into the largest ringtone provider in North America by the time it was sold in December 2003 for $25mm.

From 1999 to 2001, Conahan was at MP3.com, first as the launch manager of the controversial my.mp3.com service and ultimately serving as vice president and GM of the MP3 Mobile division.  During his tenure at MP3.com, he was responsible for successfully building the infrastructure and establishing the agreements to distribute MP3.com’s content to non-PC devices.

Prior to MP3.com Conahan was the global program manager at Universal Music Group to assist with the Polygram post-merger technical integration. Conahan’s other previous positions include senior manager at BDO Seidman Management Consulting, where he focused on the growth and management challenges of middle-market public and private organizations; and he was the associate consultant at The Warner Group, a consulting firm where Shawn excelled in the communications infrastructure practice deploying regional wireless communications systems.

Conahan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge.

Todd Daubert
Partner
Kelley Drye & Warren's Telecommunications Practice Group

At Kelley Drye, Mr. Daubert’s practice focuses on representing companies in regulatory, appellate, litigation, and transactional matters involving a broad range of technology and communications law issues. His clients include wireline and wireless communications service providers, equipment and retail product manufacturers, and companies that rely on communications and technology to conduct their business in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Mr. Daubert represents clients before the FCC, state commissions, and federal and state courts. As part of this representation, Mr. Daubert, among other things, formulates strategies to achieve client goals; writes comments, petitions, and formal complaints to the FCC relating to domestic, international, and satellite issues; and writes motions and briefs before federal appellate courts. Mr. Daubert also advises clients with respect to commercial issues, including the drafting of regulatory disclosures in public offerings and reports to the SEC, and negotiates agreements with other service providers and subscribers. Mr. Daubert is a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia, New York, Maryland, the United States Courts of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He earned his Juris Doctor with honors from Duke University and his Bachelor’s Degree from Oklahoma State University. He speaks German, French, and Spanish.

Mark Desautels was named Vice President, Wireless Internet Development, in January 2001. Before that, he served as President & CEO of the Wireless Data Forum, beginning in January 2000, after serving for two years as its first Managing Director. Previously, he was the Assistant to the Director, Office of Intergovernmental Relations, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), where he was the agency's press spokesperson and chief liaison officer. Desautels helped design, develop, implement, and manage the agency's first Web site, and he was the agency's representative to the Legislative Branch Legislative Information Systems Task Force.

Dan Flanegan
Co-Founder, President
Brand Anywhere

Dan Flanegan is CEO of Brand Anywhere, a content publisher dedicated to tracking, reviewing and better understading mobile and social media marketing campaigns, the brands that launch them and the companies that power them

In 2003 Flanegan co-founded Soapbox Mobile, a leading mobile marketing agency and platform provider.  While serving as President & CEO of Soapbox, Dan was responsible for the company's vision, market leadership and mission of helping companies improve customer communication via the mobile channel.

While at Soapbox Dan was instrumental in creating a next generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that has powered the mobile campaigns of numerous brands and entertainment companies including Levis, MobiTV, Guinness, The Vans Warped Tour, Proctor & Gamble, W Hotels, General Motors and many others.  He continues to advise the
company on strategic relationships and sits on the Board of Directors.

Prior to founding Soapbox Mobile, Flanegan served as the Director of Product Management for ClickAction Inc. (now Yesmail), a leading e-marketing software and services company. There, he was accountable for designing and implementing the company's email relationship management products.  These products continue to power the email
campaigns of numerous Fortune 1000 companies.

Mr. Flanegan has been interviewed and quoted by various publications and media outlets, including Red Herring, Click Z, The San Diego Business Journal, ABC, NBC, Fox News, Box Office Magazine, The San Diego Union Tribune, UPI, Wired, Marketing Sherpa and Wireless Week.

Dan is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at the UCSD Connect Springboard program, a Co-Chair of the Marketing Special Interest Group (SIG) of CommNexus and an advisor to a number of early stage
start-ups.

Boris Fridman is the CEO of Crisp Wireless, a mobile solutions company that builds and powers mobile websites for leading media and entertainment companies.  Under Boris's direction, Crisp has evolved to become the major provider of mobile content solutions to leading brands including USA Today, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Tribune Interactive and CondeNet.

  Prior to Crisp, Boris was the COO of SJ Labs, a developer of award-winning VoIP software products.  He was instrumental in raising its initial round of capital and in selling the company to MagicJack, a rapidly-growing VOIP service provider.   Before SJ Labs, Boris founded and was CEO of Broadbeam Corporation, a provider of mobile enterprise solutions.  He led Broadbeam through its early high-growth phase and several rounds of funding to become a premier supplier of wireless middleware products to enterprises worldwide.  

Boris holds a M.S. in Physics.  He is the co-author of the “Wireless Data for the Enterprise: Making Sense of Wireless Business,” published by McGraw-Hill.

Menekse Gencer is director of business development for PayPal’s Mobile Payments division. In this role, she is responsible for growing the PayPal mobile business in North America through partnerships with mobile application providers, carriers and device manufacturers.

 Prior to PayPal, Menekse worked with Wells Fargo in the Internet Services Group leading the effort to define their mobile banking strategy. Menekse was also a senior director at Gateway responsible for building the company’s enterprise business prior to the eMachines merger.

He has a M.A. in Software Engineering and English Studies and has worked as a web development freelancer for more than seven years. During the last 2 years he has been doing research in the area of Mobile Ajax and how Ajax can help to make mobile website and applications better.

Rocco is a frequent speaker at conferences and the creator of the Frost Ajax Library - a minimalist Ajax library for constrained
browsers. Together with Ajit Jaokar and Bryan Rieger he contributed to the Mobile Ajax FAQ, his articles featured in publications such as UK's .net magazine.

Keith Gerard

CEO and Founder mDog.com

Since 1995, Keith has been actively involved in the development and management of interactive applications within the wireless market space.  Prior to founding mDog, Keith has served in an executive development capacity for multi-billion dollar companies that include Andrew Corporation, as well as People's Choice TV - whose broadband wireless technology platform was acquired by Sprint and deployed nationwide in 2000.

Having recognized an immediate need for a technology that could automatically convert conventional web content for practical mobile accessibility, Keith founded the mDog mobile platform in 2003.  A team of mobile veterans throughout the organization continue to optimize and refine mDog’s proprietary mobile methodology.  mDog remains the only mobile solution that converts website content (text, graphics, multimedia) as a dynamic application - requiring no direct involvement from the content source itself.  In most instances, a website can be comprehensively mobilized within a day.

mDog’s technology powers the mobile web presence and SMS alert capabilities for such marquee publishers as Dow Jones, Forbes, Nielsen eMedia, IDG, Ziff-Davis, bizjournals.com and Careerbuilder.  mDog’s unique value proposition is to manage and license its mobile platform for the development, hosting, ad-serving, monetization, and maintenance of a partner’s mobile initiatives. In exchange, mDog maintains syndication agreements with its partners on the mDog.com mobile portal.  

A formidable list of publications that have adopted the mDog model include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, Billboard, Computerworld, MacWorld, PC Magazine, Adweek, Infoworld, CIO, and The Hollywood Reporter - among dozens of others. 

David Gill

Director of Mobile Media

Telephia

David Gill is the Director of Mobile Media at Telephia, the world's largest provider of syndicated consumer research to the telecom and mobile media markets. In this role, David is responsible for customer-facing aspects of Telephia’s new Media business, including delivery of mobile content market data, competitive insights and analysis. Prior to Telephia,

David was a director at research company M:Metrics, where he grew sales significantly with major carriers, OEMs and content providers including Nokia, Cingular, SprintNextel, US Cellular, Navteq and The Weather Channel.  David also spent 8 years with Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor in various sales and business development roles, both in the US and Europe.  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Texas in Austin

John Goodall is a passionate software developer and entrepreneur with over 6 years experience helping large companies and start-ups develop their Internet strategies.  After seeing the "Lite" for a Mobile Future he decided to co-found LiteFeeds a start-up that brings Web2.0 and personalization to your mobile device.  Now an RSS Evangelist, John preaches the benefits of merging the open universe of syndicated content and services with the mobile space.

John holds a Bachelor's Degree in Physics and Mathematics from York University, Toronto.   He has worked for a variety of interesting companies such as Macys, Quantum Dot and Webpost.

Manny Gonzalez serves as Senior Director of Mobile Technology at Keynote Systems, Inc. in San Mateo, CA. He is responsible for the product management, engineering and advanced technical support of Keynote's Mobile Test and Monitoring services.  He has over 20 years of experience in developing and delivering software solutions in the high-tech industry.

At Keynote, Manny led the development of Keynote's web-based visualization and provisioning applications. This includes the company's alarms engine, on-line reporting and real-time data feed services.

In his current role, he oversees all facets of mobile test and monitoring technology and is engaged in delivering next generation solutions for Keynote's family of mobile services.

Prior to Keynote, Manny served as R&D manager and software architect at Mentor Graphics Corporation. There he held positions in Engineering, Technical Marketing and Program Management, working on alliances and technology integration ventures with Motorola, HP, LSI Logic, VLSI Design (NXP) and a variety of business partners

Gummi Hafsteinsson
Product Manager

Google Mobile

As a product manager for Google's mobile group, Gummi Hafsteinsson is responsible for all mobile applications, including Google Maps and Gmail. Prior to joining Google, Gummi founded and ran a company called Dimon Software that produced mobile enterprise connectivity software designed to enable enterprises to access corporate IT systems from any mobile device. Gummi has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and an electrical and computer engineering degree from the University of Iceland.

Omar Hamoui, named by Business Week as an “M-Commerce Barron” and featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the mobile industry. After earning a degree in Computer Science at UCLA and prior to founding AdMob, Omar founded and ran several companies in mobile software and services. At the time, he was frustrated by the lack of available options when it came to promoting and monetizing his products.

Omar realized that mobile service and content firms needed better ways to advertise and make money on the mobile Web. Omar created AdMob to solve this problem. Today, at 29, Omar is running one of the fastest growing, most innovative companies in the mobile world.

David Harper

Founder, CEO
Winksite

David Harper founded Winksite (http://winksite.com) a leading mobile content management and social networking software company whose solutions connect publishers to their audiences and audience members to each other. Winksite is the first W3C standards compliant mobile Website builder that also includes RSS-driven content deployment and mobile-tuned community features. David is also the Co-founder of the New York Chapter of Mobile Monday.

David has more then 20 years experience as an entrepreneur, technologist, and senior level executive. During this time Mr. Harper successfully founded several software development companies, one of which he sold to an investment bank after growing it from scratch to millions in revenues. David has also been instrumental in capital raises and P&L for companies under management. His forward-thinking expertise in information architecture, UI design and content publishing has provided award-winning solutions for established major brands.

Born in the USA, lived in London SW5 during the birth of punk. David is now a hardcore member of the mobile revolution - connecting the world from the streets and placing "People First". David Harper’s Blog “Different Things” can be found at http://harper.winksite.com

As SVP World-wide Sales, Martin is responsible for the direct sales and business development operations in the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. He also heads up the Partner Sales team that provides the indirect channel for sales of Bango products and services to mobile content providers through a world-wide partner network.

As Sales Director at iii.co.uk (Interactive Investor International plc) Martin helped the company to a leading market position and through a subsequent IPO in February 2000. Martin spent 12 months with AT&T Labs, heading global new technology sales. Before that, he was at Sun Microsystems for 10 years in sales and sales management positions where he was one of Sun's most successful European salesmen.

He has also held senior roles at NCR and Torch Computers in the USA and Canada.
 

David Hill is the Director of mobile web initiatives at mobiSiteGalore.com and is responsible for defining mobiSiteGalore’s mobile web strategy. After graduating in mechanical engineering, and brief stints with media, advertising and information technology sectors, David joined www.akmin.com – the makers of mobiSiteGalore in 2001. He has about 4 years of experience in interactive media and advertising design and close to 6 years in usability engineering and user experience design specially for Internet, and the mobile platform. David’s successful range of product designs include www.SiteGalore.com - the global leader in do-it-yourself online website build solution for service providers. And mobiSiteGalore – the world’s first standards compliant online mobile website builder.

Tom Hussey is the Director of Marketing and Business Development for Azaire Networks, and has worked in a variety of system engineering roles at IBM, SynOptics and Bay Networks.

Before joining Azaire, Tom worked as the Director of Product Management forGSM/UMTS packet core networks at Nortel Networks. Most recently Tom was Product Manager for Qualcomm MediaFLO where he focused on content and service management.

Ajit Jaokar
Co-author of the book 'Mobile web 2.0'

CHAIRPERSON DAY 1

Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the publishing company futuretext.

He believes in a pragmatic but open Mobile Data industry – a vision which he fosters through his blog OpenGardens.

The OpenGardens Blog was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide.

Ajit is the co-author of the book 'Mobile web 2.0' and is also a member of the web2.0 workgroup.

He is a regular speaker at technology events including keynote presentations at O Reilly Web 2.0 and Java One and also talks a 3GSM Barcelona, Real-World AJAX and IMS World in Monaco.

Recently, he spoke at the European Parliament about Web 2.0, Mobile Web 2.0 and the social web. Ajit also featured recently on CNN money, The BBC digital planet, The Scoble show and spoke at the Digital visions program at Stanford University and MIT/Sloan.

Ajit chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0 and User generated content at Oxford University

Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three.

He is currently doing a PhD on Identity and Reputation systems

Brian Johnson is the Senior Vice President for mBlox, the global leader in SMS message delivery and associated financial transaction processing. In this position he oversees the commercial operations in the Americas as well as the Asia Pacific region, with a focus on the mobile entertainment and commerce space.

 Johnson’s business career, spanning nearly 25 years, has focused on early stage companies that are leading new category creations.  Johnson has participated in two successful public offerings and one M&A sale to a public company.  Prior to joining mBlox, Johnson was a Senior Vice President at ATG, a GE company, and also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Pac-West Telecomm, a VOIP service company. In addition, he has also held various executive level positions at companies such as Comverse, Harris and Winstar. 

Johnson is the former Executive Director of the California First Foundation and former Board Member for a sales force automation firm.  He currently serves on the Board for Asia First Group, an on-line gaming and localization services firm in the mobile space.  Johnson holds an MBA and Bachelor of Science in Financial Management.

As VP of North America, Adam is responsible for business development and evolving the ongoing strategy for Bango's US operations.

With 15 years experience in the internet and payments industries, Adam has played key roles in developing start-up companies to become successful global businesses. Initially working for Pipex, one of Europe's first business focused ISPs, then taken over by UUNET, he provided internet services to companies such as JP Morgan.

Most recently Adam worked with WorldPay, an internet payment company who were purchased by Royal Bank of Scotland, the world's fifth largest Bank. He was responsible their Asia Pacific Ecommerce operations and grew their Asian business from start up to become one of the strongest payment service providers in the region, before joining their global payment strategy team.

Gary Kibel is an attorney with Davis & Gilbert LLP. He practices in the areas of New Media, Advertising and IP law. Gary regularly counsels wireless carriers, content providers, technology companies and advertising agencies regarding wireless data/video/music services, licensing, gaming, interactive advertising, promotions, entertainment, privacy and copyrights/trademarks. Davis & Gilbert is widely regarded as the premier law firm in the U.S. representing advertising, marketing and promotions agencies, and also represents prominent technology and entertainment companies, marketers, and advertising trade associations.  Gary has worked on a wide variety of deals in the wireless industry from small promotions to some of the most significant and ground-breaking content deals in the industry.  Prior to becoming an attorney, Gary was an Information Systems Analyst with Merrill Lynch.

Jefferson Lilly manages mBlox’s North American sales to Fortune 500 and strategic internet accounts.  He has recently closed deals with industry leaders such as MasterCard, Yahoo!, and Motorola.  Jefferson helped open up the market for enterprise use of SMS in 2002 when he began selling text messaging solutions to enterprises with a venture-funded startup that was subsequently acquired by VeriSign.  Jefferson’s prior career includes selling messaging gateways into carriers at Openwave and general management at one of Viacom’s online divisions.  Early in his career at Bain & Company Jefferson helped leading computing and consumer packaged goods companies develop their go-to-market and manufacturing strategies.

Jefferson holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.  When not at work, he can be found enjoying good wine and bad golf.

As general manager of Motricity's off-deck business unit, Steve Leonard is the chief architect and engineer of Campaign Manager which enables customers to create, manage and deliver their mobile campaigns to more than 230 million end-users. Named as one of the Top 30 Most Important People in the Mobile Content Industry by Mobile Entertainment magazine, he has been instrumental in developing and delivering mobile product offerings and compelling revenue models for leading media and entertainment companies, including: CBS, NBC, TV Guide, CNN, Bennett Productions, The WB, VH-1, GSN, Food Network, Speed Channel, Fuse, TBS, Showtime, SciFi and Court TV.

Paul Miller
Senior Director of Mobile and Wireless
Symantec

Paul Miller, Senior Director of Mobile and Wireless at Symantec Corp., leads the company’s mobile client security strategy and delivery as well as the company’s overall vision for mobile and wireless as it pertains to the enterprise and consumer markets.

Miller’s background in the mobile and security industries spans close to 15 years.  Prior to joining Symantec, Miller spent five years at Gemplus leading the identity strategy using mobile infrastructure to combat identity fraud, particularly for the enterprise and financial markets.  Miller also spent two years with GTE Cybertrust working on PKI-based identity and mobile commerce and five years with Rainbow Technologies handling the copy protection, license management and Digital Rights Management product lines.

Miller is a contributing author of two books discussing the business modeling of combining mobile and identity services.  He also holds two patents with former colleagues, one for server-based DRM and the other for the bulk issuance of crypto identity tokens. 

Miller often speaks on security and identity services, including consumer and enterprise adoption strategies for new technologies.  He has served as a Radicchio founding board member, co-chair of Liberty Alliance’s mobile business group, chair of Liberty’s strong authentication effort and a board member for Global Chipcard Alliance.  Miller holds a bachelor of computer science degree from University of Colorado. 

Cameron Moll
Interaction Design Manager
LDS Church

Design and Development Track Lead

Co-author of CSS Mastery (www.cssmastery.com) and author of Mobile Web Design (www.mobilewebbook.com), Cameron Moll creates meaningful web interfaces that harmonize utility and presentation. His work or advice has been featured by Forrester Research, Communication Arts, National Public Radio (NPR), and many others. He speaks on user interface design at conferences nationally and internationally, and amid all this craziness he still finds time to play ball with each of his boys.

Cameron is currently employed as Interaction Design Manager for the LDS Church, helping manage the many websites and applications of a organization with more than 12 million members worldwide. Cameron resides in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wife Suzanne and four sons. Find him online at www.cameronmoll.com

Imad Mouline
Chief Technology Officer
Gomez

Imad Mouline brings years of software architecture, research and development experience to Gomez. At Gomez, Imad works with customers, analysts, industry groups and internal resources to help drive Gomez’ technology and business strategy to meet customers’ needs in the face of new business and technology trends.

Prior to Gomez, Imad held the position of Chief Technology Officer at S1 Corporation. There Imad played a variety of roles across departments including engineering, product management, sales and marketing. Before S1, Imad served as Director of Engineering in the Office of the CTO at BroadVision, after its acquisition of Interleaf. At Interleaf Imad held various professional services and engineering roles, where he ultimately served as the director of engineering for product architecture, while contributing code to one of the products.

Imad holds a B.S. in Management Science-Information Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Alex Muller founded GPShopper in January 2005 in order to use innovative wireless technologies to improve the every-day shopping experience. Since then he has successfully launched the very first mobile local product search application, Slifter.

Previous to GPShopper, he had been developing sophisticated software solutions for major retail companies throughout the last ten years.

While at LinkShare, Mr. Muller managed, designed and developed the world’s largest product-data distribution system currently used by Wal Mart, Target, Macy’s,
Dell.com, Buy.com and Shop.com, among others. As a founder of EvolveLiving (2000), which he sold to Ecos Tech (2001), Mr. Muller served as the VP of Products responsible for all of product marketing and technology operations.

He received an MS in Engineering and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as BS Engineering from Tufts University.

Justin Oberman
Founder
Mopocket.com

Workshop Leader

Justin Oberman is a Mobile Evangelist at Rave Wireless in New York City and comes to his current position from consulting in the new media space.

As a New Media Viral Communication Consultant and founder of Digitisms for that purpose, Justin specialized in consulting corporations, non-profits, political campaigns and individuals to effectively harness the power of new media tools such as the blogosphere, social networking and mobile technology.

Justin is also the founder and editor of the popular mobile technology weblog MOpocket.com. Known as a mobile maven of sorts, you can also read Justin at MobileActive an organization dedicated to the use of mobile technology for social activism of which he is an original member and at the Personal Democracy Forum where he is the Mobile Technology and Politics Correspondent.

Recently, Justin was made the mobile guru for the recently launched TechPresient blog which covers how the 2008 presidential candidates are using the web, and vice versa. Justin has also contributed to the Institute of Politics, Democracy and the Internet Politics To Go Handbook and many other wireless specialty publications and white pages.Justin is also on the board of Mobile Monday New York and is also a co-founder and on the board of advisors for Mobile Monday Washington DC. He is also a major contributor to the Carnival of the Mobilists.

When he is not traveling the globe attending and speaking at wireless related events Justin lives in New York City where in his spare time he is also a high school policy debate coach.

He has a BA from Brandeis University, a Masters Degree in Philosophy from the Graduate Faculty at the New School and 2-3 start up ideas written on napkins in his back pocket.

Since 2004, Jeff Oscodar has served as director, president and chief executive officer of the digital-media-to-go company, HandHeld Entertainment. In the last three years, Oscodar, a known content partnership expert, has orchestrated the acquisition of four Web properties (Dorks.com <http://Dorks.com> , FunMansion.com, YourDailyMedia.com and Putfile.com ) making HandHeld Entertainment one of the largest online video networks in its market.

Prior to joining HandHeld, Oscodar helped Raytheon turn many of its defense industry applications into valuable commercial operations though his consulting firm, Rule 168 Advisors.

Previous to founding Rule 168 Advisors, Oscodar co-founded and served as vice president of business development for InfoGear Technology, the market leader in building Internet appliance products and services. While at InfoGear, Oscodar established more than 100 content partnerships with companies like Amazon.com , Time.com , USA TODAY, and Yahoo!

Sanjiv Parikh is a Director for the Emerging Business Team at Microsoft, based in Silicon Valley. The Emerging Business Team manages Microsoft’s interaction with venture capitalists and start-ups world wide to accelerate innovation and foster the software ecosystem. Within the Emerging Business Team, Sanjiv is in charge of engagements with mobility oriented start-ups, venture capitalists and enterprises.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Sanjiv was Managing Director of FairWinds Ventures, a private equity advisory and investment firm. He advised large corporations and assisted early/mid-stage companies with their private equity needs: which included M&A, spin-outs, financings, and interim management.

Previously, Sanjiv was a Managing Director of Atrium Capital. Atrium Capital is a 16 year-old Sand Hill Road venture capital firm which, in addition to having its own financial fund, managed the venture capital activities of Fortune Brands, Hallmark Cards, R.R. Donnelley & Sons and W.W. Grainger. Atrium’s investments include AdForce, B2BWorks, DigitalPersona, FieldCentrix, InfoUSA.com, MapQuest, MetaTV, Multex and RedEnvelope.

Prior to joining Atrium Capital, Sanjiv helped launch RightWorks Corporation; an enterprise software company in supply chain management and procurement that was sold to Internet Capital Group for $1.25 billion and is currently part of i2 Technologies.

Previously, Sanjiv was a Principal with Mehta & Company, Inc.; a merchant bank specializing in private equity finance and turnaround management. Sanjiv invested in and helped turnaround several portfolio companies in various operating capacities, including: a $50 million nationwide healthcare services firm and a $100 million European seat belt manufacturer, among others.

Outside of work, Sanjiv has been actively involved with The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) in Silicon Valley since 1994. He organized the venture capital seminar for the 1994, 1995 and 1996 annual conferences. He is currently a Charter Member and on the board and faculty of the TiE-Institute which aims to further education for entrepreneurs. Sanjiv also serves on the Board of Directors of the Wharton Club of San Francisco, a community and professional development organization of The Wharton School.

On a personal note, Sanjiv is an avid sailor, having been sailing for over 25 years both competitively and for leisure. Sanjiv has sailed off the coasts of California, Maine, Maryland, Florida, and in the Mediterranean off the coasts of France, Italy and Greece.

Sanjiv holds an engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

James Pearce brings more than 10 years of experience in the mobile technology sector to dotMobi, which he joined in January 2007. In addition to his work on domain name technologies and content tools, Pearce is a mobile standards expert and has worked with a number of standards bodies, including the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group.

Prior to dotMobi, Pearce served as CTO at Argogroup, where he specialized in user experience optimization for mobile and converged applications. Earlier, at AnywhereYouGo.com – a top destination for mobile developers – Pearce launched the Wireless Internet Lab, a professional services environment for mobile developers to test and validate mobile applications before launching.

Mr. Pearce has a Masters degree with Honors in Physics from the University of Oxford.

Tony Phillip
CEO
UpSNAP

Prior to Quattro, Eswar was the co-Founder and CTO of m-Qube, Inc. While at m-Qube, Eswar was the leader of all technology research and development. m-Qube was acquired by VeriSign for $250 million in April of 2006.

Prior to m-Qube, Eswar was VP Engineering at Open Market Inc. Before Open Market Eswar was the Technical Lead for Adobe Acrobat. Eswar held various engineering positions at Sun Microsystems prior to Adobe.

Jorey Ramer is Vice President of Corporate Development and a founder of JumpTap. Previously, Mr. Ramer was co-founder of two business units of Trilogy Software, one of the world's largest privately-held software companies, based in Austin, Texas. He was instrumental in co-founding Trilogy's financial services division, the largest unit by revenue within two years, designing the group's first product and implementing its associated marketing strategy. Leveraging this technology, Mr. Ramer and a dedicated team spun off a company that was acquired by Fortune 500 member Marsh & McLennan.

Following Trilogy, Mr. Ramer created insurance business solutions at Isovia Software, an enterprise wireless applications company acquired by JP Mobile (now part of Good Technology). Most recently, Mr. Ramer managed New England sales for TIBCO Software, rebuilding the dormant region and doubling the company's average revenues from new customers.

Mr. Ramer holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dan is responsible for developing and managing Rave Wireless's partnerships with wireless carriers, higher education software providers and other technology developers to support the Company's university mobile phone programs for safety, academics and communications.

 Most recently, Dan was Director of Promotions & Partnerships at Virgin Mobile USA. Prior to that he was a Sr. Associate at Maveron, the venture capital firm founded by Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz, where he invested in consumer and technology companies including drugstore.com (Nasdaq: DSCM), Capella University (Nasdaq: CAPU), Good Technology (acquired by Motorola) and Potbelly Sandwich Works.   

Before that, Dan was Director of Business Development at HotJobs prior to its IPO and eventual acquisition by Yahoo! Dan started his career as an investment analyst at ASIMCO, a private equity firm based in Beijing. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Steve is a Projection Industry & Editorial Expert who is responsible for the editorial management of Projection Monthly and Microdisplay Report, He is a 13-year display veteran with experience in business development, strategy competitive market analysis and technology writing.

Stecve was a technology marketing engineer at InFocus Corporation as well as a Sr. Product Manager for InFocus, launching "ProjectorNet" and developing "LiteShow" wireless networking products. Steve has a B.S. From UCLA

PR Week Magazine has described Peter as “redefining the art of networking,” and Investor’s Business Daily has called him “crazy, but effective.” Peter Shankman is truly an example of what happens when you take the best things about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and put them to work for you.

Peter is CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc., a Marketing a PR Strategy firm located in New York City, with clients worldwide. For the Geek Factory, Peter consults to companies around the Globe, including the Snapple Beverage Group, Walt Disney World, American Express, Discovery Networks, We The People, Dream Catcher Destinations Club, and many others. Peter sits on the board of the Scott-e-Vest, the world’s first technologically enabled clothing line.

Peter is also the CEO of AirKarma, the parent company of AirTroductions, the world’s first airline networking and dating service. Founded in 2005, AirTroductions has already made the radar screens of media worldwide. Currently at over 13,000 members, AirTroductions has experienced unprecedented growth, and thousands of frequent fliers have experienced happier travels.

Peter has spoken upon invitation at various conferences and trade shows, including NAB, CTIA, CTAM, CES, PMA, Advertising Week, the DMA, and others. Peter has also been the keynote speaker at the National Association of Advertisers, and the Florida Advertising Council.

Prior to starting The Geek Factory, Peter was a consultant to the National Hockey League, working closely with the New Jersey Devils to conceive, launch, and promote NewJerseyDevils.com.

Peter started his career in Vienna, VA, with America Online as a Senior News Editor, helping the AOL Newsroom achieve 1,000,000 user hours per month. While Peter was at AOL, membership in the online service grew from 3,000,000 members to 12,000,000 members by the time he left. Peter also spearheaded coverage of the Democratic and Republican 1996 conventions, marking the first time an online news service covered any major political event.

Born and raised in New York City, Peter still lives there with his two psychotic cats, Karma and NASA, who consistently deny his repeated requests to relinquish the couch. In the few hours of spare time Peter has per month, he’s a frequent runner, with eleven completed marathons and three Olympic distance triathlons to his credit, and an “B” licensed skydiver, specializing in freeflying.

Dan isn’t just a mobile imaging visionary – he’s a technological renaissance man.  His forays into casual games, software development and interface design have led to breakthroughs in the evolution of user-friendly technology and the streamlining of tools that have helped countless users to benefit from business-critical, life-improving and recreational technologies. 

Dan’s first major success in programming and invention came in the second grade, when he developed a motion detection device that placed first in the Duracell/NSTA Invention Challenge.  Eventually Dan found himself at Microsoft, where he went on to develop the revolutionary user interface components for the company’s enterprise and consumer standard operating system, Windows XP, as well as the critically acclaimed Windows PowerToys, Windows 2000 Storage Management and consumer storage in Windows ’98.  His contributions to Microsoft’s business allowed large organizations like The Library of Congress and financial services institutions like Morgan Stanley to archive and access enormous amounts of data via a tape robot.  

In the years following his tenure at Microsoft, Dan managed the development of the RealArcade service at RealNetworks, allowing thousands of end-users to play countless classic games such as Monopoly, Scrabble and Rollercoaster Tycoon on their desktop.  He arrived at RealNetworks by way of Wildseed, where he developed the architecture for faceplates that empowered consumers to change the look and user interface of their handsets.  In his role at Wildseed, Dan was responsible for managing software development for the Identity Cellular Phone, which featured innovative capabilities that included a light show and interchangeable faceplate software. 

Ms. Silvera is a visionary, entrepreneur and chief executive in voice technology, Internet and telecommunications industries. She joined Apptera in 2005 as CEO and Board Member.  Previously as Chairman/CEO Ms. Silvera founded the first network-based Internet security company Pilot Network Services, took the company public, and built it to a $1 billion market cap. Prior to that, Ms. Silvera was President/COO of VoiceCom Systems, leading voice messaging/IVR provider and of Votan, voice recognition technology leader.

Ms. Silvera is Board Member and past President of AVIOS, international voice technology society. She has been a frequent speaker at technology and investment banking conferences, and has contributed articles to local and national publications. She holds B.S. in Economics from Turku School of Economics, Finland, with course work in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and graduate studies in Mathematical Economics at Syracuse University in New York.

R. Paul Singh is the CEO and President at PixSense, Inc. He founded ipVerse/Veraz (NASDAQ: VRAZ) and helped the company in its nine year journey in various management roles from CEO to VP to GM. He has over 20 years of experience in general management, marketing and business development in the communications industry. Veraz Networks develops and manufactures Voice over IP switches for the Telecom service providers worldwide. Before founding ipVerse, Mr. Singh was CEO and co-founder of Internetware, an Internet security company that merged with Quarterdeck Corporation. He has co-authored three books on Internet related topics, published by New Riders Publishing.
 

Building upon 12 years of experience in the Geographic Information Systems and Wireless fields, Jonathan Spinney currently manages Marketing for Openwave Systems directing outreach programs for Location-Based Services. Prior to joining Openwave, Jon managed LBS Industry Solutions Marketing at ESRI, building a developer-partner network serving various industry verticals supported by wireless carrier partnerships he helped ESRI architect.

 In 2004, Jon was awarded the annual ESRI Award in Innovation. Prior to ESRI, he deployed the first wireless e911 GIS provisioning product offerings in the U.S. while at LBS pioneer SignalSoft, and was a Senior Analyst & Product Manager with wireless research & consulting firm The Strategis Group where he managing wireless-market segmentation GIS products tracking FCC spectrum auction activity and coverage build-out. He began his GIS career at M7 Visual Intelligence, a start-up that built and launched an airborne and terrestrial remote sensing system that collected 1ft resolution orthophotos & oblique imagery and street-level panoramic imagery.  

Jon's extracurricular activities include blogging at maperture, as well as an adjunct lectureship at the University of London teaching a graduate course in Mobile Location-based Services now entering its sixth year. He holds a University of London MS in Geographic Information Science, an Anthropology BA from St. Vincent College, and is currently enrolled in the University of Durham MBA program.

David Staas is Director of Product Marketing at Openwave Systems, Inc.  His current focus is leading a Product Marketing organization responsible for executing go-to-market strategy across Openwave’s full portfolio of products, including communications, mobile content, mobile infrastructure, and client.   His responsibilities include executing a transition from a traditional infrastructure business to a new applications-focused business for converged broadband and mobile services, launching multiple new solutions on the forefront of industry changes.   David has been with Openwave for eight years, leading Product Management, Market Development, and Product Marketing teams, working closely with tier 1 mobile and broadband telecommunications providers to build many of the company’s most successful business lines. 

Prior to joining Openwave, David worked in the management consulting practice of Deloitte Consulting as well as in brand management with the Coca-Cola Company.  David holds a B.A. in Architecture from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. 
 

Antonio Vince Staybl, Austrian, born in Munich in 1969.
Before founding Gofresh GmbH with two partners, he worked as Marketing Manager at iobox Deutschland, where he launched the first mobile music co-ops of Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears and others.

The Founder and CEO of Gofresh was responsible for the launch of the world's first mobile-only music album from Gofresh's own mobile music label. With the launch of itsmy.com in 2006, Staybl again realized one of his Mobile Entertainment visions: itsmy.com, mobile web's, user generated content strongest community offers every mobile phone user in the world his own, free personal mobile homepage. He is determined to re-define the future of the "digital world", mobile.

Faraz Syed
CEO
Mobile Complete

Prior to launching Mobile Complete, Faraz was the Director of Solutions at Brience, a mobile WAP applications company, and a Technical Architect at KPMG Consulting. While employed with Brience, he experienced the difficulty and expense required to develop new mobile applications when teams often had to travel abroad to set up testing labs and independently purchase new handsets. The challenge facing the industry presented Faraz with the vision for founding Mobile Complete. Faraz has also held technical positions at Oracle, KLA Tencor and AMD. He holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the lead singer for a local rock band, Kaif.

Omar Tawakal
Chief Advertising Officer
Medio Systems

Tawakol is Chief Advertising Officer of Medio Systems, the leading provider of mobile search and advertising solutions, where he is in charge of Medio’s MobileNow Ad Network. He joined the company from from Revenue Science, where as CMO and SVP of Network Monetization he was instrumental in establishing the company's leadership in behavioral targeting. Prior to becoming CMO he served as General Manager, establishing both Revenue Science's indirect publisher business and its network business. There he was actively involved with key industry leaders in defining standards for behavioral targeting, and frequently served as a speaker and subject matter expert at events such as Ad:Tech, Admonsters, iMedia Summits, and OMMA.

Tawakol’s work at Revenue Science grew from his role as founder and CEO of CoRelation, an online behavioral segmentation and personalization media company, which was acquired by Revenue Science in 2001. Prior to founding CoRelation, he managed the consumer messaging products at Liberate, which provided interactive TV for major media companies such as AOL and Comcast. He also served as a computer science researcher at Stanford University's Logic Group and HP Software Labs.

He holds a Master of Science degree in computer science and industrial engineering from Stanford University, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from MIT. Tawakol’s graduate research and publications were focused on communications of interests based on interaction data, and his work on integrating contextual web-wide metadata was published by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Jon S. von Tetzchner, along with colleague Geir Ivarsøy, developed a Web browser while working for Norwegian Telecom Research (Telenor) in 1994. In 1995 they together founded Opera Software and launched their first browser to the public in 1996. Von Tetzchner is currently the CEO for Opera Software, and is a knowledgeable speaker on numerous topics including Opera as a company, its technology, operations, the marketplace and other industry-related subjects.

Von Tetzchner holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Oslo. Upon completing his education, he worked as a research scientist for Norwegian Telecom Research from 1991 to 1995. Von Tetzchner has received numerous honors and awards for his accomplishments through Opera Software. He was recently included in the Forum of Young Global Leaders for 2005 and listed as one of Business Week's Stars of Europe for 2004.

Jason Thibeault is CTO and Co-founder of GoWare, a software development company focused on providing solutions that both give developers and content owners the ability to mobilize their offerings and that help users stay connected to Web- and PC-based content while on the go. At GoWare, Jason drives the technical strategy and is responsible for creating and managing the company’s product roadmap.

A technology-industry veteran, Jason got his start at J.D. Power and Associates as a Technology Product Developer, where he conceived, built, and launched Power Katalyst, an enterprise data-delivery system that continues to net millions in annual revenue. Turning his unique skill set - software development and engineering knowledge combined with strategic and market insight - t