Speakers

Peter is a Managing Director of Mooreland Partners, a global boutique investment banking firm specializing in mergers & acquisitions in the Information and Communication Technology industries, with offices in the Silicon Valley, New York and London. Mooreland Partners is notably the most active and experienced M&A advisor to the mobile industry globally. Mooreland bankers have collectively executed over 70 transactions across the mobile value chain in the last 10 years. Prior to joining Mooreland, Peter was heading technology investment banking for the European arm of Nomura, Japan's largest investment bank, and prior to Nomura he was a senior M&A banker with Broadview, a global technology-focused investment bank. Peter holds an MSc in Management, a "Diplôme Grande Ecole" and a "Diplomkaufmann" from ESCP Europe and received a BSc in electronics and engineering sciences from Paris University.

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Mark Waechter, aged 44, is a graduated economist and marketer with many years professional and leadership experience, national and interna tional market know-how in the areas of FMCG / food trade (Unilever), IT / Internet (UUNET / WorldCom) and telecommunications / cellular phones (T-Mobile). In May 2005 he founded MWC.mobi, a management consultancy focusing on the development of Mobile Strategies for companies who (plan to) use mobile phones as a medium to address their target group. Mark is head of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) in Germany and member of MMA’s Global Board of Directors. In 2006 he launched MobileMonday in the German market. Today Mark is Co-Chairman of MobileMonday Germany with 5 chapters live and running. In Europe Mark is respected as Mobile Media evangelist.
Follow Mark on twitter: @mwcdotmobi

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George Nimeh is the founder and Managing Director of iris Digital where he directs all aspects of digital marketing at iris, a global integrated agency network.
 
A proven leader of digital and integrated marketing and brand communications, George has a 14-year track record of significantly growing enterprise value from both the agency and client side. A pioneer of digital marketing, George has occupied senior positions at companies including CBS/Viacom, Red Bull and Omnicom where he’s directed digital strategy and social business design, integrated marketing, emerging platform and content development, eCRM and e-commerce.
 
George has worked closely with brands including Sony Ericsson, The New York Times, Hertz, Coca-Cola, VW, Chase Manhattan Bank, Lucent Technologies, BN.com, The World Wildlife Fund, Advance Publications and The US Navy amongst others.
Follow George on twitter: @iboy
George writes a popular blog which can be found at i-boy

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Ralph Simon is regarded as one of the founders of the modern mobile entertainment industry. Over the last decade he has been a prominent global trailblazer and innovator, growing the mobile entertainment and content industry, and playing a central role in its impact and presence worldwide.

Simon heads the London-based Mobilium International Advisory Group, which provides high level strategic advice and guidance to mobile operators, handset and technology companies, media companies, movie studio & TV networks, brands, ad agency groups, and platform providers around the world. Specifically, Simon recommends unique ways to business growth and profitability, growing revenues and maximizing impact from the usage and distribution of mobile entertainment content, mobile music, messaging, mobile media technology and applications.

He is the founder of the influential Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas (MEF), the global voice of the international mobile entertainment industry. As Chairman Emeritus he continues his work on raising industry standards and opportunity. He acts as a high-level adviser to mobile operators, handset makers, and the cross-platform entertainment industry, targeting the more than 4 billion mobile subscribers worldwide.

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Born in the UK, Graham Brown has spent his life living and working in both London and Tokyo. A keen psychology graduate, Graham has focused his marketing career on understanding what influences consumer behavior. Graham established mobileYouth in 2001 at a time when the blanket industry response to youth was “we don’t do kids”. Needless to say, things have changed a little since then and Graham’s role in the organization has evolved from knocking on the doors of operators to maintaining the research momentum and deepening our understanding of what the consumer wants. As well as speaking at industry conferences on the subject of young consumers, Graham has appeared on CNBC, Sky, CNN and BBC TV regarding youth marketing issues as well as in print with the FT, Guardian, WSJ and the Sunday Times.

Graham Brown and Josh Dhaliwal founded mobileYouth in 2001 to give technology, brands and marketing professionals the tools to better understand young consumers, incorporate youth into their product development, build dialogue, develop trust and establish ethical marketing policies.

They currently serve over 300 clients in 60 countries worldwide such as Nokia, Apple, Telenor, Vodafone, MTN, MTV, BBC and the UK government. mobileYouth and “Mobile Youth” are registered trademarks of W2F Limited.
Follow Graham on twitter: @grahamdbrown
See more about Graham and Mobile Youth at: mobileyouth.org

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Douglas is Head of Mobile Marketing at Creston plc, the marketing services group that includes companies such as DLKW, ICM Research, Nelson Bostock PR & Tullo Marshall Warren, with clients such as Diageo, Nissan, Morrisons, T-Mobile & Unilever. Douglas provides group companies and their clients with strategy, insight and practical solutions for integrating mobile into strategic and tactical marketing programmes.

Douglas has 10 years of experience in mobile and web, running a couple of early incubated dot coms followed by 6 years in mobile with specialists, Sponge and Upstream. He has worked on projects in sales promotion, loyalty, acquisition, CRM and branding in many sectors including media, retail and FMCG including projects for clients such as Apple, Coca-Cola, News International, T-Mobile, Walkers, Visa and Vodafone

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Nenad Marovac has more than 18 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the media, telecom and technology sectors.

Mr. Marovac is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital which is an investment boutique focusing on investments in software and digital media in Europe and the US. Mr. Marovac is a Board member of Apsmart, Eyeka, Shazam Entertainment, Tbricks, OLX and Chairman and CEO of DN Capital.

Mr. Marovac founded DN Capital in June 2000 after leaving Advent International, one of the world's leading global private equity houses, where he was a Partner in the London office. At Advent International, he spent five years investing in European media, IT services, Internet and telecom companies. His investments include Synergon (IPO: LSE/BSE), Hogart, Internet Securities (now Euromoney) and @Entertainment (IPO Nasdaq: acquired by UPC). Prior to Advent, Mr. Marovac was a Financial Analyst in the leveraged buyout group of Bankers Trust in New York focusing on media and communications.

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Andrew is currently CEO of Rummble, an internet technology company. A passionate advocate of mobile technology, Rummble is his fifth internet start-up. With 15 years in ICT including 9 years in mobile, Andrew also sitson the board of UnLtdWorld (an online platform which connects and empowers social entrepreneurs), is a founding member of mlovesociety and is active in the London start-up community.

After starting his own IT consultancy while still at school, in 1997 Andrew started VirtualCities a local business web portal, through the dot com years he ran a successful web development company serving blue chip clients, which sold to CMG plc in 2000. There he developed the world's first online digital video news archive with sister company Cambridge Imaging BritishPathe with over 3500 hrs of video and 12 million+ images). Since 2001 Andrew has founded a ground breaking interactive personal fitness website (InTraining) with Olympian Dave Morgan, was CTO of a CRM and marketing startup (TelephoneWizard), built the UK's first interactive SMS flirting service (DinnerDateAuctions) and pioneered Europe's first mobile location based social network (playtxt) in 2002.
Follow Andrew on twitter: @andrewjscott

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Julie has design directed many projects in her career in a diverse range of international technology companies including e-commerce, speech recognition and font and imaging technology. She is a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

At Monotype Imaging, home of the Monotype, Linotype and ITC typeface libraries Julie spends her time working at the confluence of the print, desktop and mobile worlds. With a practical knowledge of how to implement typography to leverage effective communications she works with brand holders, agencies, publishers and mobile companies such as Vodafone, Nokia and Samsung. Julie has insight into the real challenges facing designers who want to bring rich typography to the mobile space. This includes first hand experience of launching the unique mobile font personalisation solution, Flipfont™.

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Oliver is part of the management team responsible for encouraging adoption and contribution of the Symbian Platform across strategic manufacturers, semiconductors and operators. He is based in Silicon Valley.

Oliver joined ARM Ltd in 1995. The UK’s most successful technology start-ups which had an IPO in 1998. He was tasked with getting ARM technology into mobile handsets. Initially working in Europe, he latter relocated to Japan in 2008. In 2002 he became the Global Director of Mobile Solutions delivering an almost 100% market share today. In 2005 he became the Vice President corporate business development and M&A relocated to the SF bay area. In 2007 he joined a video fabless start-up called W&W Communications as Vice President of Mobile business which was acquired in 2008 by Cavium Networks. In May 2009 he joined the non-profit open source Symbian Foundation.

Oliver holds a Bachelor's degree with honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Greenwich London, UK.
Follow Oliver on twiter: @OlyG

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Vikki Chowney heads up Reputation Online, contributing to The Really Mobile Project to indulge her inner mobile geek and waxing lyrical about using technology for Social Change on Vikkichowney.com.

Before joining Centaur Media to become Editor of Reputation Online, she worked as a freelancer, with recent clients including Talk Talk, Big Yellow Self Storage and WCAFI (World Clean Air Forest Initiative), as well as Contagious Magazine.

Vikki has previously written a weekly tech column for BitchBuzz.com, an independent women's lifestyle network with readers spread across the US & UK. A G20Voice blogger at the recent London and Pittsburgh Summits, her work has featured on the Global Cool blog, Mobile Industry Review, theGINlady.com and many others.
Follow Vikki on twitter: @vikkichowney

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Prior to joining Greycroft, Ian founded StrongData Corporation, a pioneer in digital encryption, and spent several years as a venture capitalist with Boston Millennia Partners, where he focused on early stage companies in the software and Internet sectors.

Ian currently serves or observes on the boards of Greycroft’s investments in Buddy Media, Buzzd, Collective Media, CrowdFusion, Extreme Reach, MarketBright, mPoint, M5 Networks, OnePIN, and Vizu. Ian previously invested in and advised several companies, including Airpath Wireless (acquired by Aptilo) and SensorLogic.

Ian's past experience also includes investment banking in the technology group at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette and strategy consulting with the Arnold Business Strategy Group. Ian holds a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

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Oded leads Microsoft’s Mobile Services group in the UK. Microsoft’s portfolio includes the UK’s number one mobile email service, Windows Live Hotmail; number one mobile instant messaging service, Windows Live Messenger; number one independent portal, MSN Mobile; and the recently launched Bing search engine. In this role, he looks after marketing, partnerships and new business generation with operators, phone manufacturers and software partners.

Having worked in a variety of marketing and engineering roles in the US, Israel and now UK, his global experience in the mobile space spans three continents. He is passionate about improving user experience and launching products that span across PC, Phone and Web. Previously, he was Head of Product Development with Retalix, a global leader in retail software solutions, and was responsible for developing their mobile solutions suite. Oded has an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, Cambridge MA, and a BA with distinction from The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has been using Windows phones since the very first SPV Smartphone.
Follow Oded on twitter: @odedran

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Mike Kirkup is the Director for the Developer Relations program at RIM, which is responsible for managing the technical relationships and programs for RIM’s developer community worldwide. Mike and his team work with RIM’s developer community to provide support and guidance as developers work to integrate their applications to the BlackBerry platform.

Mike joined RIM in 2001 as a Security Software Developer in RIM’s Wireless Security Group. As part of the Wireless Security group, Mike contributed to the development of the BlackBerry Cryptography API, S/MIME and PGP implementations.

Mike holds a Masters of Management Science and a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

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A seasoned entrepreneur, Alex has been in the new media industry for 20 years, initially as CEO of Legion - Europe’s largest IVR company. Alex co-founded Sponge in 2002. Sponge is the UK’s most successful and longest established mobile agency working across Europe and the Middle East. Clients include Autotrader, Birds Eye, Coca Cola, McDonalds, United Biscuits and Vodafone through to the Press Association, News International and IPC. Sponge currently supplies mobile solutions to over half of the top 20 digital and creative agencies.

Alex has amassed a wealth of experience in direct response, communications and mobile services for agencies/brands, media groups and mobile operators.

In his (limited) spare time, Alex is an avid potter, makes jam and forgets things.

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Having spent the majority of his career in the banking sector in Europe, Phil Cox joined SVB Financial Group in London in 2009 to lead its global operations in the UK, Europe and Israel as well as the continued growth and geographic expansion of the business.

Cox has worked in the banking sector for more than 20 years and brings a wealth of experience and leadership to SVB Financial Group. Prior to joining SVB, he was the head of Commercial Banking at Bank of Scotland in London, a division of Lloyds Banking Group. In this role, he was responsible for the relationship management, origination and operational aspects of the business. Cox is both ACIB (Chartered Institute of Bankers) and AMCT (Corporate Treasurers) qualified.

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Calum is a partner at leading specialist technology, media and telecoms law firm Kemp Little. He leads the firm’s Commercial Technology team advising some of the world's leading internet social media, retail, search, advertising and marketing brands. Calum's work puts him at the leading edge of developments in cross platform applications and he has particular expertise in the use of data and privacy online. Calum is ranked as a 'Leading Individual’ in IT law in the UK and is described by his peers as “outstanding” in the legal industry directories.

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Google’s portfolio of services have catapulted it into the so-called ‘third screen’ in one year. Barra is responsible for the entire suite of Google products available across mobile phones, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and, of course, Search.

Brazilian Barra, now based in London, joined the company in March 2008. He has been talking to operators and manufacturers about enhancing Google’s products for mobile with significant leaps being taken to compress certain services, and make them fast, easy to navigate and compelling.

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Mark is the Head of Product Management for Orange UK’s data and social media products. Mark has worked for Orange in a variety of marketing roles, most recently leading partnerships with the world’s major social media brands including Facebook and Twitter. Mark also led the development of social networking with Dolphin, Orange UK's innovative Pay As You Go tariff with free mobile social networking that has connected over 1 million Orange customers.

Mark is currently leading the marketing and development of Orange UK's other community, user generated and social media products, partnerships and strategy.
Follow Mark on twitter: @MWJ

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Kevin Marks is Vice President of Web Services at BT, converging telephony and the Web through open standards.

Over the last 20 years he's alternated between giant companies and founding startups - BBC, The UK MultiMedia Corporation, Apple QuickTime, Technorati, Google. The common thread has been working out how people, computers and media can complement each other, and solving the engineering and social problems where they meet.

He is one of the driving forces behind microformats.org, activitystrea.ms and portablecontacts.net. He is an advisor to the Open Rights Group. He wants you to remember that URLs are people too, and his URL is http://epeus.blogspot.com
Follow Kevin on twitter: @KevinMarks

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Paul is Managing Director of the EMEA branch of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). The MMA is an action-oriented, member-driven trade association, with a mission to lead the growth of mobile marketing worldwide and to drive forward a healthy and sustainable industry. Offering a wealth of industry knowledge in the form of research, educational tools and case studies, the MMA promotes and evangelizes the mobile channel and sets globally adopted initiatives, guidelines and best practices.

Paul is involved in all the MMA’s initiatives and communications for the 150+ European member companies representing every part of the mobile marketing value chain. He has over 20 years experience in a wide variety of sales, marketing, business development and commercial roles spanning several different industries and market sectors including automotive, printing, internet development and management consultancy. He has spent the past six years in mobile marketing agencies, is a regular speaker at mobile events and is a member of The Marketing Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing.
Follow Paul on twitter: @PaulBMMA

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JP Rangaswami is the Chief Scientist for BT Innovate & Design which is BT Group’s IT design and delivery business.

JP is responsible for influencing BT from within to transform it from a Telco to a Softco, by exploiting new business models, highlighting the opportunities of Web2.0 and social media and advising on new technology. He is an advocate for community-based "open source" development methods and practices. He also identifies and recommends start ups with which BT can partner and mentors new acquisitions such as Ribbit of which he is chairman.

JP joined BT from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he served as Global CIO demonstrating recognised market leadership in the use of innovative tools and techniques. He has extensive international experience and is passionate about delivering outstanding end-to-end customer experience.

A constant source of information and influential opinion on all aspects of technology and digital culture, JP's blog is: Confused of Calcutta
Follow JP on twitter: @jobsworth

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Harald has over 20 years of experience in marketing and business development, having led interactive agencies and marketing consulting firms in both the US and Europe. He was the CEO of Pixelpark (US), a former Bertelsmann company based in New York and headquartered in Berlin. As VP International he set up offices and new business initiatives in New York, Paris and London in preparation for Pixelpark's IPO in 1999.

More recently, Harald managed a successful viral marketing company, Cardmine in New York. Cardmine serves clients in the luxury beauty market including Estee Lauder and Procter & Gamble. In his career, Harald has served clients such as France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, EMI, Lufthansa, Bertelsmann, BMG, Unilever and MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Harald has a BA in Marketing Communications from Communications Academy, Hamburg.
Follow Harald on twitter: @hneihardt

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A successful entrepreneur with 20 years' experience in the development and leadership of technology and software ventures, Doug featured in the first two TV series of Dragon's Den. He is the Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Cambridge Angels and Chairman of the Conservative Party Small Business Task Force.

Between 1996 and 2000 Doug was President and CEO of Micrografx, a US publicly quoted software company. Prior to that he also founded and subsequently sold two other companies: Visual Software and ITAL Computers.

Doug holds a BA in Psychology from University of California at Berkeley and a Juris Doctor at the school of Law, University of California at Los Angeles. In 2006 Doug was an Honorary Recipient of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. In 2007, Doug became a fellow of the RSA.
Follow Doug on twitter: @douglasrichard

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Belinda Parmar, Consultant Professor, is the founder of Lady Geek (http://ladygeek.org.uk) helping
technology companies understand and sell to women. Belinda is a planning director at a Top 10 advertising agency and has been advising and partnering with technology clients for over 13 years. Her clients include IBM, Cisco and Hewlett Packard.

Belinda is a lecturer at Syracuse University, winner of APG and D&AD awards and writes for The Times and Management Today.
Follow Belinda on twitter: @belindaparmar

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Matthäus is a freelance writer for VentureBeat covering the mobile space. He is also a startup founder, consultant, conference organiser and regular speaker on the global circuit. At VentureBeat, Matthaus writes many of the analysis and trend pieces on various mobile themes. For example he broke the news that MySpace and Facebook had overtaken mobile-only social networks in terms of traffic. Also, he was part of the team which ported Android on a netbook. In addition he was coordinating the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco for the second year running. He is either to be found in San Francisco or Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Follow Matthaus on twitter: @matthausk

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After holding senior level positions in financial institutions and the telecommunications sector, Inma founded and led as CEO her first entrepreneurial venture in 1999 and continued to co-found and lead at the helm two other companies, the latter one in Finland, as a mandate for 3i Ventures. In less than 18 months she successfully grew the business from 3 to 25 people and achieved global technology launch for NOKIA and HP

As a digital media strategist her work has been recognised by industry and media internationally. FORTUNE and TIME have described her as one of Europe’s top talents in Human Factors and Social Engagement through technology. In 2001 the members of The European Leadership Forum, a Fortune 500 CEO and EU Governors annual summit, voted her “Best Contributor to the Formation of Digital Media Strategy”. In 2005 Red Herring ranked her amongst the top 40 most influential women in technology. She is also regularly invited to participate in industry conferences as a speaker on mobile and web technologies, as well as on entrepreneurial issues such as growth, funding, selling technology products to consumers and Enterprise 2.0, how the social web is transforming corporations.
Follow Inma on twitter: @inma_martinez

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Julia Shalet helps companies in the youth sector by engaging teenagers in innovative research formats to help them develop their offering while at the same time providing compelling and relevant enterprise learning experiences for young people. Her new Traveling Teen Panel is proving a great attraction at conferences and for businesses to bring in-house. Over 15 years in the industry, she has worked with clients including T-Mobile, Weeworld.com, Hertfordshire Careers Services, internet and mobile start ups and schools. In 2007 she was named in Harper’s Bazaar “Top 40 entrepreneurs under the age of 40”.
Follow Julia on twitter: @jewl

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Kei is the Founder and CEO of Infinita Inc, a leading mobile research, consulting and development firm based in Tokyo. His company is consisted of a team of multinationals and helps clients across the globe create world-class services on connected devices. Their clients include IBM, AOL, Cybird, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Docomo.com, Itochu, Adobe, Gameloft, Qualcomm, Swisscom, and the Embassies of Canada and Denmark in Japan.

Kei was born and raised in the United States and has now lived a little more than half of his life in Japan. After graduating Waseda University, he has worked for Panasonic, Lucent Technologies and Cybird, all leading companies in their respective industries. His passions aside from work, include tennis, snowboarding, traveling, farming and cooking with his wife. He is a gadget lover by nature and is now hooked on the HTC Hero Android phone.
Follow Kei on twitter: @kei_shimada

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Appelquist is a senior researcher and technology strategist at Vodafone Group R&D focusing on the mobile Web and the future of social media. He represents Vodafone in the W3C where he helped to create the Mobile Web Initiative and has been instrumental in the development of the Web geolocation API. He is a co-founder of Mobile Monday London, the Mobile 2.0 and Over the Air events.
Follow Daniel on twitter: @torgo

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