Over 80 Industry Visionaries and Influencers in Open Mobile, including:


Hugh S.Bradlow, CTO, Telstra
Hugh S. Bradlow is Chief Technology Officer for Telstra and is responsible for investigating the future technologies that will impact Telstra's business.
Prior to joining Telstra in September 1995, Professor Bradlow was Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Wollongong in Australia and Professor of Electrical Engineering (Digital Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
Professor Bradlow is a graduate in electrical engineering from the University of Cape Town in 1973 and received the D.Phil. degree for research in experimental nuclear physics from the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, an Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong, a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and a recipient of a Centenary Medal from the Commonwealth of Australia. He was elected the joint 2009 Australian Telecommunications Ambassador of the Year.
Peter Semmelhack, CEO, Buglabs, USA
Robin Spinks, Principal Manager, Digital Accessibility, RNIB (Royal National Institute of the Blind), UK
Carl-Gustaf Harroch, Executive Director and Developer at Novoda and Senior Member London Android Development Community
Tim Raby, CEO, OMTP and Wholesale Application Community (WAC)
Neslihan Ucar Cadirci, Partner and Services Management, Turkcell
Turkey has one of the most difficult and unusual mobile consumers market all over the world and I'm working for the leader of this market, Turkcell Telecommunications, from 10 years. After 2 years at Technical Procurement department, I was the first member of Content Business Group at 2002 where we started to work with third parties. Within these 8 years we built an ecosystem with more than 250 companies and 550 services for both individual and corporate customers.
I was one of the project owners of ringback tone service which is a success and case study all over the Europe with its consumer and revenue base. I act as a Manager of Turkcell-im wap portal between 2006-2008 which was built on an idea of changing the general habits' for using WAP(now mobile internet) of Turkish customers' and we tried to be their unique address for content and services together with our third parties.
Now I'm responsible both managing the 3rd party ecosystem and B2C Services Product Management and we're trying to expand our ecosystem abilities to Turkcell Group Companies such as Life:) in Ukraine&Belarus, KKTcell in Cyprus, Superonline and Turkcell Technology in Turkey.
Fabio Sergio, Executive Creative Director, Frog Design, Italy
Ralph Muller, Director, Eclipse Foundation
Gus Desbarats, Chairman, The Alloy, UK
Geoff Blaber, Director of Devices, Services and Platforms, CCS Insight
Geoff Blaber joined CCS Insight in April 2007. In his role as Director, Devices and Mobile Software platforms he leads research coverage in these areas. He joined CCS Insight from IDC where he worked with many of the leading mobile communications companies, establishing a reputation for informed qualitative analysis on industry dynamics, trends, developments, vendor strategies, product positioning, segmentation and market forecasts. Prior to that, Geoff worked for a consultancy division of Atkins, providing research and advisory services about the application of telecoms in the commercial property sector; and for Competitive Intelligence and Consultancy, where he specialised in EMEA and North American IT and mobile device markets. Geoff is a well-known member of the industry analyst community and provides regular commentary to leading publications such as Reuters, the Financial Times and the BBC.
Volker Hirsch, Serial Entrepreneur & Senior Executive in Mobile and Digital Media Ecosystems Blogger & Analyst
Volker is the Chief Strategy Officer at social infrastructure software specialists Scoreloop who bring sociality including monetization tools to mobile platforms and the web. He is also a co-founder of Blue Beck, a smartphone games studio.

Volker has been at the forefront of mobile and digital media for a decade. From helping conceive the world's first mobile artist services for the likes of Britney Spears, Eve and Duran Duran, working with radio stations to use mobile as an audience activation tool to mobile games (at Hands-On Mobile and Connect2Media and including licenses with Marvel, Hasbro, Activision, LEGO, BMW, Konami, WPT, etc.) he has been fortunate in playing a part in industry firsts.

Volker is a regular speaker at top mobile and technology conferences around the world (incl. Mobile World Congress, CTIA, Uplinq, Popkomm, etc) and a co-organiser of the world's first TEDx Youth event in Manchester. He blogs at http://vhirsch.com/blog and tweets @vhirsch.
Ben Wood, Director of Research, CCS Insight
Ben Wood joined CCS Insight in May 2006 and is a co-owner of the business. In his role as Director of Research he leads a global team of analysts focused on the mobile market. With more than 15 years' experience he has emerged to be one of the most influential industry analysts covering the wireless sector. Previous experience includes heading mobile devices research as a Vice President at Gartner and working as a Director of Mobile Streams (a mobile content start-up), which was subsequently floated on AIM; Prior to this he spent three years at Lucent Technologies, with a focus on advanced wireless applications for 2.5G and 3G networks; and spent three years at Vodafone, where he worked as part of the teams that launched SMS and mobile data. Ben is a highly respected industry commentator, quoted regularly in publications such as the Reuters, Financial Times and Business Week, and has appeared on business programmes for CNBC, CNN and the BBC. He has been recognised as being one of the top three analysts worldwide dedicated to communications and networking by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) and most recently was included in the Mobile Power 50 – a list of the 50 most influential people in the mobile industry in 2010. You'll seldom see him using the same device twice and his encyclopaedic knowledge of mobile phones is echoed in his collection of over 800 devices.
Malik Saadi, Principal Analyst, Informa Telecoms and Media
Gary Readfern-Gray, Developer, Royal National Institute of Blind, RNIB
Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP)
Neslihan Ucar Cadirci, Partner and Services Management, Turkcell
James Middleton, Managing Editor, Telecoms.com
James Middleton is managing editor of telecoms.com. He has over ten years experience of writing and reporting on the telecoms and technology sectors and has been running industry focused websites for much of that time.
Jim Morrish, Mobile Content Content and Applications Research, Analysys Mason
Jim leads Analysys Mason's Mobile Content and Applications research programme. He has extensive experience within both the mobile and media sectors, and is familiar with the full range of mainstream mobile technologies and the relative strengths and weaknesses of potential substitute technologies. In the role of Consultant, Jim led the development of Analysys Mason's business within the mobile TV sector, delivering a number of leading-edge mobile TV assignments and authoring several articles for publication in the industry press. Jim has 17 years of experience in telecoms, media and related industries. Prior to joining Analysys Mason, he worked for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Cable & Wireless, the BBC, and as a freelance consultant.
Mike Hibberd, Editorial Director, Telecoms.com and Mobile Communications International
Mike Hibberd has been reporting and commentating on the mobile communications industry for more than 13 years. He has been editorial director of telecoms.com and Mobile Communications International since 2001.

During his time covering the industry for Informa, Mike has chaired a wide range of industry conference panels, provided comment for mainstream media, both on television and in print, and contributed to the work of a number of industry bodies, delivering training sessions, judging awards and working on policy.

Mike oversees the content strategy of the ITM media solutions portfolio of editorial and commercial products, in print and online.
Peter Vescuso, Black Duck Software
Peter brings over 20 years experience in marketing and executive management developing new markets and building brands. Prior to joining Black Duck Software, Peter was VP/GM of the Enterprise Business and VP of Marketing at Cantata Technology. Cantata was a leading provider of enabling communications technology formed in the acquisition of Brooktrout Technology by Excel Switching and was itself acquired by Dialogic in 2007.

Before Cantata Technology, Peter was Director of Marketing at Compaq Computer (before the acquisition by Hewlett-Packard) responsible for product marketing and market development in the Workstation Division. Before joining Compaq, he spent eight years in Hewlett-Packard's Technical Systems Division in senior marketing, market development and strategic planning roles.

Peter earned a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the New York Institute of Technology and an M.S. degree at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.
Rob Taylor, Managing Director, Codethink
Rob Taylor: Managing Director, Codethink Ltd - Rob has been developing software since he was just nine years old. His personal focus has always been on working with powerful middleware and frameworks with the aim of providing a far more compelling user experience. Having been educated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Cambridge University, Rob began working on embedded Linux systems back in 1999.

In January of 2007 Rob founded Codethink Ltd, an Open Source consulting company that aims to provide genius wherever it's needed. He continues to attract like-minded individuals with a variety of specialist skills to the company with the aim of driving forward Open Source technologies and providing expert consultancy to businesses around the world.
Shashi Fernando, CEO, Saffron Digital
Shashi Fernando is the CEO of Saffron Digital, a global video platform company with products live in 22 countries. Saffron Digital is a pioneer in DRM technology, and is committed to bringing entertainment media to as wide a variety of devices as possible.

The company's clients currently include Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG and Samsung, Sony Pictures, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Sky, T Mobile and Vodafone. In 2009, Saffron Digital was named in the Tech Media Invest Top 100 list of companies, organised by Europe Unlimited in association with The Guardian, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Kemp Little.

Before establishing Saffron Digital in 2006, Shashi founded the digital film company Filmnight in 2004. His career began at British Airways and then Hollinger Digital, part of the Telegraph group, before joining the interactive agency Razorfish, working with client such as Nike, Giorgio Armani, Sony and Hutchinson.
Tim Hadley, Director, Corporate Communications, Omnifone
As Director, Corporate Communications at Omnifone, the world's leading independent provider of cloud based unlimited music services for consumer electronics vendors, ISPs, automotive and mobile companies, Tim is responsible for promoting Omnifone internationally. Tim was instrumental in launching the company's MusicStation® powered unlimited music services, available today to device users across five continents with the likes of HP, BSkyB, Sony Ericsson and Vodafone.

Tim has worked with Omnifone since the beginning of 2007. With over a decade's experience in mobile, gaming and new media sectors in a variety of agency, in-house and consulting roles, Tim has worked with a wide range of brands including Microsoft, InfoSpace, HTC and Orange UK where he helped launch the operator's first 3G handsets, music, TV and entertainment services. Omnifone is based in Island Studios, London with regional headquarters in Asia Pacific. www.omnifone.com.
Vinary Kapoor, Business Development Director, Tieto
Vinay Kapoor is a Business development director at Tieto where he helps build new revenue streams and helps shape Tieto's mobile devices strategy. Vinay has been a mobile industry insider for over a decade and has an avid interest in the events that shape this ever changing industry.
Martin Wrignley, Director of Developer Services, Orange
Martin Wrigley is Director of Developer Services for Orange France Telecom, working on the Orange Application Shop programme and the Orange developer programme; Orange Partner.
Orange Partner provides developers with the contacts, information, tools and support required to build and sell mobile applications and solutions to 150 million-plus Orange customers across the globe and is rolling out the Orange Application Shop across the 20+ Orange territories.
Martin has 25 years of experience in telecoms and IT, and joined Orange in 1992. Martin is also currently Chairman of Java Verified and Acting chair of the Unified Test Initiative
www.orangepartner.com
Alberto Ciarniello
VP Services Innovation, Product Innovation
Telecom Italia
Angel Gambino
VP Services Innovation, Product Innovation
Sonico
George Martin
Software Product Manager, Wireless Business Unit
Texas Instruments

George Martin is our Software Product Manager for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) wireless organization. Managing synergistic functions, Martin is responsible for driving the strategic definition of TI′s software strategy on its proven OMAP™ platforms. Martin and his team also establish tactical execution prioritization in all areas of OMAP software development.

Martin started his career with TI in 1980. After pursuing a brief opportunity with Alcatel North America as an intelligent networks manager, Martin returned to TI in 2003, and has since served as a director-level member of the OMAP processor software team. He has worked in Linux and Open Source Linux for more than five years, and has acted as the Linux Open Source Advocate for Engineering for the past four years. In that role, Martin championed TI′s push into Open Source development as a technical and business initiative within the wireless framework. Before his current position, Martin served as the director of software development for the OMAP processor team.

Martin received a bachelor′s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.

Mike Knuckey
Gilad Shlang
CEO
MeeMix

Gilad Shlang′s professional experience within the hi-tech industry stretches over twelve years. At 23, he founded V-Promotion, a behavior based digital signing advertisement platform. Gilad has since worked with several start-up companies, challenging the norms of user experience and personalization as well as forming new business opportunities. Gilad has a BA in Fine Arts and Mathematics.

Previously to MeeMix, Gilad spearheaded the creation of the 888 Holdings Member Experience Department that developed and used personalization and community methodologies to increased users Life Time. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Gilad is a speaker on the field of personalization, user experience and new media in various academic institutes and international conventions and an active composer and saxophone player.

Aviad Rabinovitch
Head of Music
Orange, Partner Communications
Roberto Gavazzi
Strategy and Innovation
Telecom Italia
Peters Suh
CEO
WAC
John de Guzmán
Global Director, Emerging Products
The Associated Press
Ortwin Gentz
CEO
Future Tap
Antonio Marzo
CEO
Bloson
Kai Keinänen
Elisa
Kai Keinänen co-founded an Internet service provider in 1994 and has worked since for providing affordable Internet and mobile services for Finnish consumers. He was a technical manager at Saunalahti, CTO of the Jippii mobile portal and head of business development at Elisa Corporate Planning. Since 2007, Kai has headed Elisa's Consumer Technology unit responsible for service design, user experience and service implementation using in-house expertese and partner networks.

Kai has studied computer science and telecommunications engineering in Tampere University of Technology where he also completed his Executive MBA in Strategic Leadership and Technology Management in 2006.
Matias Monges
Vice President, Mobile Devices
Virgin Mobile USA

Professor Ed Candy
CTO
3 Hutchinson

Russell Buckley
Admob Evangelist
Google

Javier Lorente
Global Project Manager, Mobile Data Group
Telefónica

Patrick Hourihan
Head of UK Trade Research
Yahoo

Patrick Hourihan
Head of UK Trade Research
Yahoo

Enrica Filippi
Head of Sofware Ecosystem and
Strategy, 3G Multimedia BU
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ST-Ericsson

Vivek Chhabra
Head of the Mobile Cellular Business Unit,
Marvell

Vivek Chhabra is the head of the mobile cellular business unit at Marvell. Mr. Chhabra joined Marvell in 2007 from Texas Instruments and brings over 19 years of multidisciplinary experience in the mobile handset business, including software, semiconductors, and enterprise application infrastructure.

Mr. Chhabra's experience includes building and managing global engineering and marketing teams, channel strategies, strategic partnerships, as well as customer and operator engagements.

Prior to his time at Texas Instruments, Mr. Chhabra held various roles at IBM TJ Watson Research, Atsana, Mitel Networks and CDOT.

Mr. Chhabra holds a Masters degree in Technology Management and Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

Erik de Kroon Erik de Kroon
General Manager Mobile Apprications
JIL

Erik de Kroon is General Manager Mobile Applications for JIL. In that role he has device and product responsibility as well as responsibility for setting up developer support and testing processes. Prior to this, Erik was Head of Marketing for apps, advertising, search and browsing for Vodafone Group. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and an MBA from INSEAD business school.

Francesco Mapelli Francesco Mapelli
Community Manager
Funambol

Thomas Miller Thomas Miller,
Head of MeeGo Ecosystem Development,
Nokia

As head of MeeGo Ecosystem Development in Nokia, Tom oversees Nokia's efforts to promote the use of MeeGo to network operators, application developers, device makers and other partners. Tom has been involved in mobile platforms for nearly 12 years, first at Unwired Planet which became Phone.com then Openwave, then SavaJe Technologies, and Trolltech. Before that, he was in sales with Oracle and Informix. Tom has an A.B. In Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

Andrew Till Andrew Till,
Senior Vice President Solutions Marketing,
Teleca Ltd, Winchester, UK

Andrew joined Teleca in January 2009 to head up the solutions management team. In this role Andrew drives the evolution and development of Teleca's solution offerings designed to address the evolving needs of the mobile industry. Andrew works closely with Teleca's customer to identify their challenges and how Teleca can leverage its extensive solutions portfolio support them. Andrew joined Teleca from Motorola where he held a wide range of roles both within the European and global Multimedia organisation. Andrew´s most recent position with Motorola was as Senior Director with the Multimedia team. Andrew also previously held the positions of Product Portfolio and Strategy Director, Director of Customer Strategy and Business Intelligence Manager within Motorola's' European organization. Andrew holds a degree in International Business Administration and Italian from Brunel University