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Robert Acker
VP and GM, Aha by Harman
Robert Acker has been a pioneering entrepreneur in the connected car space for the past 14+ years. In that time, the automotive industry has been looking to Acker as a thought leader and visionary. In his current role with global infotainment giant HARMAN, Robert and his team are working to revolutionize radio for today’s connected consumer. Aha, the fourth band of radio alongside AM, FM and XM, organizes content from the web into personalized, live and on-demand radio stations that consumers can listen to from anywhere – even safely from the driver’s seat. Acker holds both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from MIT, and a MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Raj Aggarwal
CEO and Co-Founder, Localytics
Raj is CEO of Localytics (http://www.localytics.com). Localytics offers a powerful, real-time analytics platform that helps thousands of leading smartphone & tablet app publishers make more successful and more profitable apps. Raj previously spent 5 years in management consulting, most recently with Bain & Company. His primary focus was the wireless sector and in this capacity he helped build some of the world’s most successful mobile companies. Prior to consulting, Raj completed his MBA with Honors from the Ivey School of Business and London Business School. Before this he managed Pre-Sales Engineering for Requisite Technology, an enterprise software provider in Colorado. Raj’s career began in robotics, where he eventually led the sales and marketing department for a Toronto-based manufacturer.
Scott Bendar
FreedomPop
Biography coming soon.Damian Black
CEO and Founder, SQLstream
Damian started his career at HP in their European research labs, eventually running a European-wide middleware solutions business. At HP he led the team that pioneered IP Mediation - a real-time technology for analytics and billing in Telecomm, becoming market leader. He moved to XACCT as VP Product Management, acquired by Amdocs to power its real-time data mediation. Damian was also VP Sales and Business Development for Followap, a Sequoia funded company, market leader in mobile Instant Messaging and Presence until acquired by NeuStar, powering Vodafone's IM service, continuing Damian's career in real-time middleware. Damian is the author of ten patents and founder of SQLstream, a parallel engine executing continuous SQL queries against streaming big data in a cloud-based architecture.
John Burke
SVP and GM, Converged Experiences, Motorola Mobility
John Burke leads Motorola’s Converged Experiences business, which focuses on driving the evolution of TV and a smart, simple connected home. John heads a team that is making it easy and intuitive for consumers to enjoy more of the content and connected lifestyle services they want…anytime anyplace, on any screen. John joined Motorola in 2000 with the acquisition of General Instrument Corp. Among his successes, John is responsible for establishing Motorola’s global leadership in the cable modem marketplace and for bringing wireless freedom into the home with the introduction of the world’s first wireless cable modem gateway. John received his bachelor's degree in business administration from The Ohio State University, and a master's degree in management from Saint Joseph's University.
Stephen Bye
CTO, Sprint
Stephen Bye, CTO and vice president of Technology Development & Strategy, is responsible for driving Sprint’s technology strategy, architecture and global standards; innovation center and labs; emerging business and service model development. Bye has more than 20 years of engineering, operations, product development, business planning and marketing experience with telecom, cable and wireless service providers. Prior to joining Sprint, Bye was vice president of Wireless at Cox Communications. He has also held executive positions with AT&T, inCode Wireless, BellSouth International, Optus Communications and Telstra.
Patrick Cook
Director of Innovation Services, PARC, a Xerox company
Patrick Cook, Director of Innovation Services at PARC, a Xerox company, leads the delivery of human-centered insights to clients for projects spanning a variety of disciplines and application spaces. By breaking down silos commonly separating research, engineering, social science, design, and business strategy, his team identifies unmet needs, recommends practices that work, and helps create products and services that sell. A key method is ethnography, the naturalistic study of human behavior in context, which PARC pioneered in the realm of technology innovation. Prior to PARC, Patrick worked at the intersection of business, technology, research, and market/product delivery with global Fortune 50 companies including Intel, HP, Symantec, and SAP. Patrick received his B.A. in English Language and Literature from Durham University.
Dave Dickinson
President and CEO, Zeo
Dave joined Zeo, Inc., as President & CEO in March 2007. Prior to Zeo, Dave served as COO and consumer division President & CEO of StemCyte. Before joining StemCyte, Dave held numerous executive positions within the Mead Johnson Nutritionals Division of Bristol-Myers Squibb and became a co-founder and executive-in-residence for the Sherbrooke Capital Health & Wellness venture capital fund. Dave was also a General Manager of Household Products for the Arm & Hammer Baking Soda Division of Church & Dwight and Director of Marketing of Personal Care.Dave received a B.S. degree Industrial Economics from Union College and MBA in Marketing from the Northwestern Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Brad Duea
SVP, Marketing, T-Mobile USA
Brad is responsible for Value Added Services, Applications and Content, Mobile Broadband, M2M and Emerging Devices for T-Mobile USA. Prior to joining T-Mobile in April 2010, Brad served as president of Napster LLC, the pioneer in digital music and, until recently, a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy. Under Brad’s leadership, Napster’s total revenues increased from less than $12 million to well over $120 million. Prior to Napster, Brad served as Vice President of Worldwide Business Development and Worldwide OEM Sales for Roxio, Inc., the digital media software company. Brad holds a B.A. from University of California at Santa Barbara, a M.B.A. from the University of Southern California, and a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law.
Nick Earl
SVP, Global Mobile and Social Studios, Electronic Arts (EA)
Nick Earl is head of Global Mobile and Social Studios, overseeing design, programming, artwork, audio, research and development, and strategy for EA's mobile and social games studios. Earl managed the development of hit games for emerging platforms such as The Sims FreePlay, Dead Space, Tetris, Scrabble and The Simpsons. Earl has been in the interactive entertainment space for nearly 20 years, and with EA since 2001 serving as General Manager of Visceral Studio (formerly EA Redwood Shores Studio) and as Chief Operating Officer of the Redwood Shores Studio.
John Ellis
Chief Technologist, Connected Services and Solutions, Ford Motor Company
John Ellis, Global Technologist for Connected Services and Solutions with Ford Motor Company, is tasked with expanding Ford’s “brought-in” strategy of integrating mobile technology into the vehicle. He oversees a team of developers and engineers responsible for creating the “connected car” and striking a balance between embedded and off-board technology so that drivers can seamlessly extend their mobile lives into their vehicles. John has over twenty years of experience in the telecommunications industry. During most of his career, John worked for Motorola where he held key leadership positions in Product Management, Software & Services, Marketing and Strategy and Engineering. While there, John participated in the marketing and selling of Motorola’s mobile software and services, their software developer ecosystem, and industry-leading Open Source Software program.
Katie Fehrenbacher
Senior Writer, GigaOM
Katie Fehrenbacher has been covering cutting-edge technology, startups and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley for more than 7 years. She is the founding Editor of Earth2Tech, which she launched in July 2007. Prior to starting Earth2Tech she was a Staff Writer for GigaOM where she covered wireless and broadband technology. She has been a reporter at Red Herring, an editor at Engadget and began her career as a reporter in the Silicon Valley bureau of the largest Japanese daily newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun.
Kevin Fitchard
Senior Writer, GigaOM
Kevin covers mobile broadband, carriers and wireless infrastructure for GigaOM. He has been writing about wireless networks and technology for 11 years, working first at Telephony Magazine and its online successor Connected Planet. Kevin spent his early career at several small Texas newspapers. He made the shift to tech writing upon moving to Chicago, where he now lives.
Jeff Haynie
CEO, Appcelerator
Jeff Haynie is Co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator. Jeff is a long-time serial entrepreneur, technologist and blogger. Previously, Jeff was Co-founder and CTO of Vocalocity, a software provider in the communications arena and before that, CTO of eHatchery, a digital incubator and off-shoot of Bill Gross’ idealab!. Jeff has worked on numerous standard committees such as IETF and W3C as well as core contributor to a number of important open source technologies such as JBoss and OpenVXI. Jeff served with distinction in the U.S. Navy. Jeff blogs at http://blog.jeffhaynie.us and can be found on twitter @jhaynie.
Phil Hendrix
Founder and Director, immr and Analyst, GigaOM Pro
Dr. Phil Hendrix is the director of immr (www.immr.org), a research and consulting firm he founded to help clients bring innovative new products and services to market. Phil works with clients to uncover customer needs, optimize product/service features, achieve competitive differentiation and accelerate market acceptance. He is also an analyst in GigaOm's analyst network, focusing on mobile and location-based services, in particular. Before founding immr, Phil was a partner with DiamondCluster and a principal with Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). Previously, he was a professor at Emory University and the University of Michigan, where he taught courses in research, buyer behavior and marketing strategy. Phil received his PhD in Marketing from the Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan.
Jason Jacobs
FitnessKeeper
Biography coming soon.Niels Jonker
CTO, Boingo
Niels sets the overall technology strategy and guides the engineering direction of Boingo, and influences core technologies and systems that support the company’s client software, networks, authentication, billing and IT infrastructure. Prior to joining Boingo, Niels was the chief network architect at EarthLink, and director of systems and services at OneMain (acquired by EarthLink). Prior to OneMain, Niels founded and built US Internet, a successful regional ISP servicing the southeastern US. Niels is the co-author of A Guide to Operating Systems, Course Technologies, and studied Computer science at VU University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Niels is currently collaborating with industry organizations including the WBA, GSMA, WFA and IEEE to develop seamless Wi-Fi offload solutions for consumers and carriers.
Derek Kerton
Principal Analyst, The Kerton Group
Derek Kerton is Principal Analyst and head of the Wireless Consulting Practice for The Kerton Group, a consulting firm focused on advanced telecom. Mr. Kerton is internationally recognized for his telecom industry insight and consults for companies throughout the telecom value chain (NTT Docomo, SKTelecom, Disney, ESPN, Sony...) and the financial community on the telecom market issues (Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones, Morgan Stanley...). He is chair of The Telecom Council of Silicon Valley and an advisor to Aegis Mobility. Mr. Kerton is quoted, published and interviewed globally on CNN, CNBC, BloombergTV, and Wall Street Radio, with his industry research and analysis available through TechDirt, articles, research reportsm and white papers. For full listings see: http://www.kerton.com/pressroom.html.
Ryan Kim
Staff Writer, GigaOM
Ryan has covered personal technology and wireless for the San Francisco Chronicle before joining GigaOM. He is based in New York and covers a number of topics including mobile development, app economies and East Coast start-ups.
Yoon Kim
CEO, Novauris Technologies
Dr. Yoon Kim, PhD is the CEO of Novauris Technologies, a provider of core speech recognition technology that is used by leading mobile operators and OEMs around the world. Prior to joining Novauris, he led two Silicon Valley startups and was a researcher at SRI International, where Nuance and Siri was started. Yoon has also served as a member of ETSI’s Speech Recognition Protocol Standards Workgroup and the Editorial Advisory Board of Speech Technology Magazine, which selected him as one of the most influential professionals in the industry. Yoon holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Jay Klein
CTO and VP, Allot Communications
Jay Klein has over 20 years’ experience in telecommunications and is responsible for driving Allot's technology strategy and core intellectual property. Before joining Allot, Klein served as VP Strategic Business Development at DSPG, where he was responsible for strategic technology acquisitions. Prior to this, he co-founded and held the position of CTO at Ensemble Communications and was one of the founders and creators of WiMAX and IEEE 802.16. Klein was also CTO and VP of R&D at CTP Systems which was acquired by DSP Communications and later by Intel. Klein holds numerous patents in the telecommunications field.
Tom Krazit
Senior Writer, GigaOM
Tom writes about one of the most important transitions in the history of computing – the shift from PC-based computing to mobile computing. He has written about nearly everything in the tech industry, including mobile, chips, and Web search, during a decade of work at CNET and IDG News Service. He joined paidContent in 2011 and lives and works in the Bay Area. In 2007, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers selected Tom for the award in Online Excellence, Breaking News for his story, “The Launch of the iPhone.”
Scott Kveton
Co-Founder and CEO, Urban Airship
Scott Kveton is the CEO of Urban Airship, a mobile messaging and monetization provider that powers the world’s most successful apps including ESPN, Macy’s and Groupon. He is widely recognized as an expert on mobile app strategy and cloud infrastructure, speaking frequently on app monetization, user engagement and the developer ecosystems around the various mobile platforms. Prior to co-founding Urban Airship, Kveton had more than a dozen years of experience building technology, developing business strategy and leading engineering teams with companies including Amazon.com, Rulespace, JanRain and Vidoop. He co-founded the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University, which was instrumental in helping several open source projects grow into mainstream usage, including the Mozilla Foundation, the Linux Kernel and Drupal.
Ilja Laurs
Founder and CEO, GetJar
Ilja Laurs is the Founder and CEO of GetJar, world’s largest open app store. “European Manager of the Year 2011” by European Business Press, the association of the leading European business and financial publications, “25 European Tech Leaders” by Wall Street Journal, “Top 40 most influential people in mobile communications” by Informa Telecoms and Media, “10 Start-ups That Will Change Your Life” by TIME magazine and “Technology Pioneer 2011” by World Economic Forum are only a few of his numerous industry achievements. Since 2005, pioneering in the app store concept, GetJar serves 350,000 developers, from one-man shops to brands like Google, Microsoft and Facebook. As of August 2011, GetJar distributes 200,000 mobile applications and has served over 2 billion downloads.
Christian Lindholm
Chief Innovation Officer, Fjord
Christian is one of the digital design industry’s true gurus, being highly respected throughout the web and mobile space. At Fjord, Christian uses his mobile and web experience to steer the development of world-class digital design solutions including Nokia’s LifeBlog. His vast experience allows him to ensure Fjord’s creations meet the needs of the mass market while remaining at the forefront of innovation. Previously, Christian was VP Mobile Products, Yahoo, overseeing the development of several leading platforms including the award-winning Yahoo Go 2.0. Before that, he oversaw Nokia’s digital design at the height of its domination of the mobile handset marketplace. As one of the fathers of the smartphone revolution Christian is one of the industry’s most incisive commentators.
Vineet Madan
SVP, New Ventures and Strategic Services, McGraw-Hill Education
Vineet oversees McGraw-Hill Education’s strategic planning, reengineering, major partnerships, market development, venture investments and M&A. In his seven plus years at McGraw-Hill he has filled various senior leadership roles with a keen focus on directing the company’s digital transformation. He has previously worked at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Booz Allen Hamilton (now Booz & Co.)Current or prior Board memberships include Software & Information Industry Association – Education division, Inkling and HotChalk. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and a MBA, with honors, in finance and economics from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
Mehdi Maghsoodnia
CEO, Rafter previously BookRenter
Mehdi has over 20 years of experience building great teams and operating both startups and public companies. Before BookRenter, Mehdi was SVP of products and services at CafePress where he joined the team in the early days and grew the company to over $130M in revenues. Prior to CafePress, Mehdi was SVP of products at Intellisync where they had 90% ownership of the mobile sync market before Nokia bought the company for $450M. Mehdi held a number of executive positions at other Valley companies and currently sits on the board of FaceTime, Pbworks and Fotomoto. Mehdi is also a geek at heart and did his undergraduate studies at Berkeley and his graduate studies in computer science at Stanford. Mehdi's favorite topic in college was fuzzy logic by Professor Lotfi Zadeh.
Om Malik
Founder, GigaOM
Om Malik has more than 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news. He was part of the founding team of Forbes.com as a Senior Editor. He then went on to become a senior writer at Red Herring during its glory days before joining Business 2.0 in March 2003, covering telecom, innovation and broadband stories. His contributions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and MIT Technology Review. Additionally, Om is the author of “Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist.” He is also the recipient of many industry awards, including Excellence in Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2001 and the Gold Award from American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2001.
Terry McCabe
CTO, Mavenir Systems
Terry McCabe was also Chief Technology Officer at Airwide, which was acquired by Mavenir. Prior to Airwide, Terry McCabe held senior positions at Sema Group, including Vice President of Engineering and CTO. In these roles McCabe oversaw Software Architecture, Research & Development, and Product Management in Europe and North America. These roles focused on messaging, prepaid, and value-added service applications, primarily based on wireless mobile network technologies. Terry led the company's participation in a number of standards organizations including the WAP Forum, the SMS Forum and TIA.Previously, Terry spent eight years with Digital Equipment working in Realtime Solutions, Telecommunications, and Software usability. During his tenure, he worked on a number of Open Systems interoperability initiatives established by the European Workshop on Open Systems (EWOS).Terry graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
Clint McClellan
Senior Director, Market Development, Qualcomm and President and Chairman, Continua Health Alliance
Clint McClellan is currently the senior director of Market Development for QUALCOMM Incorporated. McClellan's current responsibilities include establishing opportunities in the Life Sciences market. McClellan joined QUALCOMM in December of 1997 as director of strategic marketing. McClellan brings a wealth of wireless industry analysis experience to QUALCOMM. Since joining QUALCOMM, McClellan has served in business development roles and established the Global Industry Analyst program and Global Market Intelligence program at QUALCOMM. Currently McClellan service as the Board Chairman for the Foundation for the Children of the Californias which supports Hospital Infantil, a pediatric Hospital, in Tijuana, Mexico. He also serves on the boards of CommNexus and the Wireless Communications Alliance.
Rick McConnell
EVP, Products and Development, Akamai
Rick is Executive Vice President of Products and Development at Akamai, the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere. He is responsible for leading Akamai’s Site, Enterprise Cloud and Media product divisions. With 25 years of product and business development expertise, Mr. McConnell has focused his career on the areas of Internet communications and collaboration technologies. Prior to joining Akamai, he served in various leadership roles at Cisco Systems, including VP/GM of the Unified Communications Business Unit. Before that, he was CEO of Latitude Communications, which was bought by Cisco in 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Quantitative Economics and a Masters of Business Administration, both from Stanford University.
Jeff Miles
VP of Mobile Transactions, NXP Semiconductors
Jeff is the current Vice President for Mobile Transactions at NXP. Mr. Miles has over 18 years of international and US experience as a key executive with VeriFone, ARCO and TNT Express Worldwide. He has spent over 10 years in the payments industry and played a key role in bringing contactless payments to the Quick serve industry through a partnership with VeriFone and MasterCard that led to the largest retail roll-out of contactless readers to date. Mr. Miles also has extensive international experience successfully rolling out global systems to over 72 countries. Mr. Miles has held key management positions in numerous start-up and Fortune 500 companies. He graduated from Pepperdine University with a B.A. in Political Science.
Monica Paolini
President, Senza Fili Consulting and Analyst, GigaOM Pro
Monica Paolini is the president of Senza Fili Consulting, an analyst and consulting firm that provides market research, financial analysis, and advisory support on wireless technologies and services, and an analyst at GigaOM Pro. On the consulting side, she works closely with a selected group of clients worldwide on emerging technologies and customer requirements, evaluation of business and product development opportunities, marketing, and market size and revenue opportunity assessment. On the analyst side, she writes extensively on the trends, technological innovation, and financial drivers in the wireless industry. Monica has a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego, an MBA from the University of Oxford, and a BA/MA in Philosophy from the University of Bologna (Italy)
Marc Parrish
VP, Retention and Loyalty Marketing, Barnes & Noble.com
Marc Parrish is Vice President, Retention & Loyalty Marketing, Barnes & Noble.com. In this role, Mr. Parrish oversees all aspects of our Membership program, manages our various marketing initiatives and executes programs to retain and grow our customers’ loyalty to the Barnes & Noble brands. Mr. Parrish is a 20-year veteran of eCommerce and has been on the cutting edge of eMarketing since its inception, building large, direct marketing-driven eCommerce sites and online communities, as well as executing multi-channel retailing strategies. Before joining Barnes & Noble, he held senior marketing and management roles at Jigsaw, Capcom Entertainment, Palm Inc., and Egghead.com. Mr. Parrish has an MBA from UCLA and a degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Jody Ranck
Analyst, GigaOM Pro
Jody Ranck has a career in health and innovation spanning over 20 years in his work with corporations, foundations, non-profits, the United Nations and governments. He has consulted in the area of health and technology with a wide range of organizations including the mHealth Alliance, the Pan American Health Organization, Rockefeller Foundation and others. Previously he co-directed the health practice at the Institute for the Future and taught at UC Berkeley. He has a doctorate in Health Policy and Administration from UC Berkeley as well as an MA in International Relations and Economics (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS), and a BA in biology from Ithaca College. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at Grameen Bank, Bangladesh (1992).
Neville Ray
CTO, T-Mobile USA
Appointed Chief Technology Officer in November 2010, Neville Ray is responsible for the national management and development of the T-Mobile USA wireless network, as well as the company’s IT services and operations. Originally from the United Kingdom, his career in the U.S. began in 1995 at Pacific Bell Mobile Services in California. He joined T-Mobile in 2000 as Vice President of Network Engineering and Operations, Northeast Region. Ray is an honors graduate of City University of London and a member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Institution of Civil Engineers. Ray is chairperson of 4G Americas, which promotes and facilitates the seamless deployment of 3GPP technologies, including HSPA, HSPA+ and LTE.
Stephen Rayment
CTO, Ericsson Wi-Fi Products, Ericsson
Stephen is co-founder and CTO of BelAir Networks (now a part of Ericsson). He brings more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has worked extensively with service providers deploying new wireless technologies. Previously, he led the development of broadband wireless products, the launch of broadband multimedia satcom equipment and the design of the industry's first wireless PBX at Nortel and BNR. Stephen holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University, a Diploma in Administration from the University of Ottawa, is a graduate of the MIT Sloan School's Management of Technology program and a Senior Member of IEEE. Stephen is Vice Chair of the HotSpot 2.0 Marketing Task Group.
Vlad Sejnoha
CTO, Nuance
As Nuance's Chief Technology Officer, Vlad Sejnoha oversees Nuance's research and focuses on core technology and product strategy, with an emphasis on emerging areas including natural language processing and mobile applications. Prior to joining Nuance, Vlad was the Chief Scientist at L&H, and earlier at Kurzweil AI, where he was responsible for creating technology for a number of commercially successful speech recognition products, including large vocabulary continuous speech dictation systems. Vlad has over 20 years experience in the field of speech recognition and holds thirteen US patents.
Chetan Sharma
President, Chetan Sharma Consulting and Analyst,, GigaOM Pro
Chetan Sharma is President of Chetan Sharma Consulting and is one of the leading strategists in the mobile industry. Executives from wireless companies around the world seek his accurate predictions, independent insights, and actionable recommendations. He has served as an advisor to senior executive management of several Fortune 100 companies in the wireless space and is probably the only industry strategist who has advised each of the top 6 global mobile data operators. Some of his clients include NTT DoCoMo, Disney, KTF, China Mobile, Toyota, Comcast, Motorola, FedEx, Sony, Samsung, Alcatel Lucent, KDDI, Virgin Mobile, Sprint Nextel, Skype, AT&T Wireless, Reuters, Juniper, Qualcomm, Nissan, Amdocs, Comverse, Reliance Infocomm, SAP, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, American Express, and Hewlett-Packard.
Halle Tecco
Founder and CEO, Rock Health
Halle Tecco is the Co-Founder & CEO of RockHealth, the first startup accelerator devoted exclusively to health companies. Tecco recognized the need and potential for startups in the digital health space while working at Apple's App Store covering the health and medical vertical. Tecco has been named as one of “12 Entrepreneurs Reinventing Healthcare” by CNN, one of “15 Women to Watch in Tech” by Inc. Magazine, and was a L’Oreal “Woman of Worth” Honoree. Tecco has written for Harvard Business School Publishing, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Glamour.com and ForbesWoman. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from Case Western Reserve University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Gibu Thomas
SVP, Mobile and Digital, Walmart
Derek Kerton is Principal Analyst and head of the Wireless Consulting Practice for The Kerton Group, a consulting firm focused on advanced telecom. Mr. Kerton is internationally recognized for his telecom industry insight and consults for companies throughout the telecom value chain (NTT Docomo, SKTelecom, Disney, ESPN, Sony...) and the financial community on the telecom market issues (Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones, Morgan Stanley...). He is chair of The Telecom Council of Silicon Valley and an advisor to Aegis Mobility. Mr. Kerton is quoted, published and interviewed globally on CNN, CNBC, BloombergTV, and Wall Street Radio, with his industry research and analysis available through TechDirt, articles, research reportsm and white papers. For full listings see: http://www.kerton.com/pressroom.html.
Kevin Tofel
Mobile Editor and Staff Writer, GigaOM
Kevin Tofel has 15 years of hands-on I.T. experience at Fortune 100 companies and 5 years of writing, blogging and podcasting behind him. In 2005, he built a team of bloggers for AOL to cover the growing HDTV space. The small startup site eventually became the popular destination of EngadgetHD. Returning to his passion of mobile technology, Kevin joined jkOnTheRun in 2006, where he has blogged extensively about netbooks, notebooks, smartphones, cloud services and Ultra Mobile PCs. Outside of the web world, Kevin’s print writing has appeared in The New York Times, Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine, PC Magazine and PC World.
Josh Williams
President and Chief Science Officer, Kontagent
Josh is responsible for strategic revenue projects, data science and R&D. He is responsible for driving Kontagent's world class proprietary data processing, analysis platform and algorithms into new verticals and markets. A serial entrepreneur, Josh has led two successful start-ups to two large exits - the first as CTO at an early big data firm in automated real-time financial securities analysis which was acquired in 2003, and the second as CEO and CTO at a leading game technology company which was acquired in early 2007. Josh is an investor and loves helping other entrepreneurs however he can. In his personal time, he... well, mostly just works more, much to his lovely wife's bemusement and occasional chagrin.
