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SPEAKERS
Nandi is responsible for expanding Bango's relationships and establishing new ones with mobile operators and strategic partners globally. A seasoned executive and entrepreneur in technology, Nandi has been in Mobile and Internet industries from the early days. His depth of experience in the global mobile marketplace will prove invaluable to Bango's global expansion. Prior to joining Bango, Nandi was Sales Director for PocketThis, a Silicon Valley provider of mobile contextualization technology, where he managed tier one carrier and partner relationships across the EU. In 1999 Nandi co-founded SurfKitchen, the leading provider of mobile dynamic user experience (DUE) software. From 1999 to 2003 he drove the company's business and corporate development efforts globally, helped develop the company's proposition and go to market strategy, plus securing major operator accounts. Nandi has also served as an entrepreneur in residence with Morning Street Capital, a NY private equity group.
Ofir Azury is the Director of Marketing at Unipier, a leading provider of Intelligent Policy Management and service marketing solutions for mobile service providers. Ofir is responsible for leading Unipier’s strategic and direct marketing efforts including market research, product promotion, partner marketing, analyst relationship and marketing communication initiatives. Before joining Unipier, Ofir was a business development manager and marketing manager at Niragongo Technologies. He has more than 7 years experience in the mobile world and served at various sales and business development positions in the media market. For the last 14 years. Ofir holds a B.A. degree in Economic and Business administration and an MBA degree in Marketing and Business Administration, both from Bar-Ilan University.
Udi is responsible for all commercial and marketing activities at Cellectivity, the market leader for mobile betting & gaming service provision. With over 15 years of mobile & value added services experience, Udi joined Cellectivity in Jan 2006. Prior to Cellectivity Udi worked at In-Fusio, a mobile games company as VP Sales & Project Management. Prior to In-Fusio, Udi held commercial and management roles at Emblaze Systems and Comverse Network Systems.
Louise had been in Telecoms industry for 16 years, formerly with AT&T and Cable & Wireless. She joined the Telemedia industry in 2002 as the premium SMS market was starting up in the UK, firstly with Mobileway, then PNC and now Tanla Mobile. Recently appointed as Head of Sales, Louise heads up the sales team at Tanla Mobile UK.
Moti has been involved in the mobile Value Added Service sector since 1998. First, managed the on-line advertising and web services at Smile Media, one of the largest ISP in Israel, then followed a carrier of 5 years in Ericsson where Moti was a regional manager of Ericsson Mobility World center, which is the framework of Ericsson global to cooperate with VAS platform and application providers. Followed by a role as director of product marketing and business development at Mobixell networks, a technology provider of mobile multimedia and advertising solutions. Till in 2006 co-founded Sabio, an Application Service Provider focused on providing end-to-end solutions for interactive mobile video services.
Dr. Torocsik is the founder and owner of TeleMedia InteracTV, being the world No. 1 producer of live, interactive call-in TV quiz shows. The company produces 1500+ hours of live TV shows each month; its CallTV shows are currently aired in 40+ countries. He founded TeleMedia LLC in 1993 while still working for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Mathematics. TeleMedia become the market leader in Hungary in interactive telephony within a year and rapidly grew into a network of international companies. TeleMedia had a spinoff Telemedia InteracTV in 2003, which become the largest CallTV production company in the world.
Zoltan is the co-founder & CEO of Tele1 Ltd., which operates live cam2cam website NeonCams.com. Zoltan has 8 years background in mobile and online industry. In 2000 he started working as a consultant for T-Mobile . With his team he launched SMS and wap content services and also created first content MMS in the world at T-Mobile Hungary. Until 2007 Zoltan worked for Ringier AG Zurich as a new media expert in Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Romania. Zoltan is married with three children.
Klaus Müller became Zed’s Country Manager for Austria and Switzerland in February 2007. In this role he is managing the market roll out and is responsible for P&L in both markets In his previous career from 2003 to 2007, Klaus Müller was head of the customer facing unit covering Proposition Management as well as CRM at the mobile multi-media provider H3G Austria “3”. From 1999 to 2003, Müller worked in the Product Management and Marketing team at T-Mobile Austria. Before that he held the position of Sales Manager at AVL LIST, an international leading company in the sector of engine development. Müller was born in Styria and has studied mechanical engineering and economics at the Technical University of Graz/Austria and at the University of Hertfordshire/England. Zed develops and markets entertainment and community products and services for mobile and the Internet. The company is the leading mobile value-added services (MVAS) player in the world in terms of revenue and geographical footprint. Zed operates in more than 50 countries, including Europe's largest markets, USA and China and holds agreements with 110 wireless operators all over the world.
Robert Johnson, CEO – Netcollex Limited – with a background in the retail and direct marketing sector which led to his appointment as an executive of Netcollex Limited (a direct response marketing company) with responsibilities for advertising and marketing. As the internet emerged as a market, Robert was instrumental in the profitable expansion of the Group into the new digital media of Internet and mobile. Robert speaks at forums including the forums for World Telemedia, Total Telecom World and Profitable Mobile Content. Robert was an Executive Committee member of the industry group, Network for Online Commerce, and has represented the industry at meetings with The Department of Trade & Industry, OFCOM, ICSTIS and Otelo.
Mark Collins has been the Policy Advisor with PhonepayPlus – the UK phone-paid services regulator formerly called ICSTIS – since January 2007. PhonepayPlus regulates the content, promotional and overall operation of premium rate telephone services through its Code of Practice, and Mark has responsibility for all policy considerations arising from this Code, as well as for the development of appropriate regulation for emerging types of service. Mark also plays an active role in fostering and developing relationships with public and private sector stakeholders and is a member of the International Audiotex Regulators’ Network, where he currently chairs a sub-group to rewrite the IARN Handbook. Prior to PhonepayPlus, Mark was the Project Manager for the Home Office’s Strategy for a Healthy Police Service, a project which reduced police sickness absence by 28% nationwide over 3 years, an estimated efficiency saving of around £300m.
Kieran's particular expertise lies in Mobile Social Networks and Mobile UGC (including Adult). Kieran has been involved in all aspects of the social network business model from product design through user-acquistion, community-building and most importantly monetising the resulting community through mobile advertising and subscriptions. Kieran has 10 years’ international experience in setting up, sales, product development and business management of entrepreneurial internet companies in the online and mobile world. From 1991 to 1998 Kieran worked in the UK and Germany as an e-business and IT consultant for Barclays Bank, Save & Prosper, Lufthansa (Germany) and Deutsche Bahn (Germany). Kieran has a B.Sc. (Honours) Computer Science and Mathematics, University College, Cork.
James Harris has been with PhonepayPlus - the UK phone-paid services regulator formerly called ICSTIS - for four years. Having achieved success in a number of roles within the organisation, he currently heads up the Industry Support team with responsibility for a variety of functions, all sharing a common aim of working with industry stakeholders to build trust in phone-paid services. The key function of the team is the provision of free, expert compliance advice to anyone involved in the operation of services. Relaunched in line with the new brand in October 2007, the team now handles hundreds of queries a week from across the industry. After completing a degree in psychology, James toured the globe as a musician before staring his career in telecoms at First Telecom – one of the first operators in the UK to provide customers with an alternative to BT. Prior to joining PhonepayPlus, James spent four years with Pershing, a subsidiary of the Bank of New York, in management and training roles with their market-leading telephone and internet share-dealing service.
David has been Head of Legal at MX Telecom since 2002, with responsibility for contract negotiation, regulatory representation, policy and consultation positions. MX Telecom offers an easily accessible gateway to data, voice and video messaging services including 2-way and premium SMS, PayforIT, multimedia messaging, interactive voice response, location-based services, video short codes, Internet and TV related solutions. Acting as the primary advisor for the regulatory concerns of in excess of 500 clients, David has extensive knowledge and experience of all regulatory considerations affecting service providers in the mobile space in several territories, including the UK, Ireland, North America and Australasia. Such knowledge and experience in the UK covers areas such as PhonepayPlus, the IMCB, Ofcom, PayForIT, all Mobile Network Codes of Practice, LBS, the ICO, the ASA and the Gambling Commission. David graduated with a Law degree from The University of Leeds and has an MSc in E-Commerce from Birkbeck, London.
Prior to joining Ericsson in 2000, Tim Cuthbert worked as a consultant within the IT community, giving him a comprehensive understanding, and constructive experience, of both technical and commercial aspects of the industry. At Ericsson Tim has held various strategic positions within the company. He started his Ericsson career within IP network design, for GPRS/3G networks, and later led the integration’s team for delivery. He then moved into Ericsson IPX in 2004 as Product and Customer Solutions Manager. Tim’s interaction with content providers and mobile operators has made him a respected specialist in the Mobile Content & Payments industry, and a valuable contributor to the phenomenal growth of IPX. In his current position, Tim is responsible for the UK and Irish Operator Partnerships, overseeing all related sales, commercial and product activities. His experience has given him a unique insight into the needs and challenges facing Content Providers and Network Operators. Tim has also influenced the detail of the technical and commercial issues involved in the rapidly evolving world of digital mobile content. Matt Jones Matt Jones is a classically trained musician and has written and produced over 100 themes and scores for Film and TV. He is published by Universal, EMI and BMG and has worked with many media giants including the BBC, ITV and renowned independents including RDF Media, Hat Trick and Granada TV. Initially working as a consultant, Matt officially joined the board and attained equal partner status with Simon Wilding in the summer of 2007. His connections within the industry and extensive knowledge of music rights and licensing have enabled Mobile Inspiration Ltd (formerly MOYST Ltd) to position themselves in an extremely strong position for the roll out of new services in 2008. In his time since joining the company, Matt has overseen the negotiations with regards to securing contracts with UNIVERSAL and a whole host of other rights owners including the BBC. Additionally he has overseen the complete company re-brand and name change(novation) from MOYST Ltd to soon to be announced launch of Mobile Inspiration Ltd. Matt is currently overseeing similar development projects and services with SONY Music and Warner’s as well as music based services in America in conjunction with MTV.
Craze Productions is a Digital Record Company specializing in the exclusive licensing of high quality Music/Video content. Having been in the music industry for many years (25), and running the biggest private record company in Europe in the 1990’s, Sam Kleinman returned to the record business several years ago after an absence of 7 years. Realizing the very sorry state the traditional record companies were in, he decided to make the leap to strictly digital distribution. He has licensed exclusive content of some of the biggest HIP HOP artists in the world and today enjoys a catalogue of more than 12,000 songs mainly in the Hip Hop Genre and Urban music ( Soul, R&B, Reggae, Rap), which makes Craze Productions the largest digital Urban record company in the world in terms of number of selections in the genre. Craze is a Hybrid true record company, doing recordings, mixing (such as a record with Jim Cliff and Sting), also in partnership with some of the most advanced digital distribution platforms in the world due to his connections in the state of Israel with many Israeli companies who developed fantastic digital delivery platforms and need a content provider, Craze also features the only interactive Music channel in the world on SKY interactive channel 1818, Hence, Craze is a true futuristic digital entertainment company, not an aggregator.
As an experienced entrepreneur and CEO, Oren drives the vision and direction for Olista in developing the Service Experience Assurance (SEA) market. Oren has 20 years' experience in the telecommunication software industry, developing, selling and implementing large-scale telecom systems, including Switches, OSS and BSS systems. Oren founded TeleKnowledge, a worldwide provider of monetisation, billing and customer care platforms for the telecom and online content markets. During his time at Teleknowledge he held the positions of President and CEO, and COO; initially leading the conceptualisation and development of the flagship product and later the sales and marketing efforts. Prior to Teleknowledge, Oren was Director of Billing at Bezeq, Israel's national carrier. Oren held various positions as a software officer in the Israeli air force and he holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.
Matthew Welch is the Chief Marketing Officer of Cecure Gaming, responsible for the marketing of the Aces Royal, World Poker Tour, and Poker Million mobile brands. Previously, Matthew spent three years as Chief Marketing Officer of InterActive Corporation Personals, responsible for match.com marketing in 33 countries globally. During his tenure, match.com became the global #1 leader in online dating. Prior to that, Matthew was Vice President of Marketing at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall in New York City. In addition, he has worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and at New York advertising agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Ammirati & Puris, where he ran global marketing campaigns for Kodak, BMW/Mini and Kraft General Foods. Matthew is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Georgetown University.
Martin Taylor is co-founder and Sales and Marketing Director of Redwood Technologies, Europe's premier manufacturer of converged services platforms for the Telemedia industry. Martin is also a co-founding director of Content Guru, the operator of Europe's largest and most comprehensive mass communications facility, STORM™. Martin has some 15 years of experience in our industry, and he has been involved with many of the highest profile services worldwide during that time. Today, Martin is a leading innovator of new applications combining voice, data and video for the broadcast media and retail marketing sectors. Martin holds a BSc(Hons) degree in Business Management from King's College, University of London.
Nick Dixon is Head of Media Solutions at Redwood Technologies Ltd and Content Guru Ltd. His focus is on Redwood's pioneering participation TV, online and radio services solutions that already service some of the worlds biggest media channels. Nick joined Redwood in December 2007 from Kingston Communications, part of the KCOM Group plc, where he was Head of Media Telephony Services. Nick was responsible for all aspects of the media sector and enjoyed great success widening the channel product portfolio, culminating in the deployment of the company's mass calling platform in early 2006. Off the back of this, Kingston enjoyed a number of key successes in the channel and saw enormous revenue growth. Prior to joining Kingston, Nick built up valuable knowledge and experience of the ICT world during various Sales and Account Management positions at Tiscali UK Ltd, Cable & Wireless plc and Redstone plc. Ashley Christie CC Media Live is the leader in developing and managing LIVE VIDEO CHAT and PAY PER PERFORMANCE technologies. CC manages 1000s of hours of LIVE content for our media partners, including advancing cross platform technology & interoperable media systems. With unique experience and knowledge of both the Mobile and Internet sectors Ashley has been able to bridge the gap between different devices and billing solutions to enable clients to have access to customers 24/7 and at the same time creating products and services which offer high customer retention levels. Ashley started his career at The Transact Group working under one of the UK’s most influential industry leaders and after 5 years moved on to the CC Media Network to run the mobile division. One year on and his ever growing vision of effective cross platform strategies and the creation of addictive communities have become a revenue boosting reality! www.camsense.com / www.camcontacts.com / www.striphilo.com
James is the co-founder of 29/29 Interactive, suppliers of consultancy and services for mass-market communications and interactive applications that empower customers to deliver cutting edge solutions across voice, mobile and web platforms. James has over 10 year’s business development, marketing, product management, PR & communications experience including 7 years within the fixed line, mobile aggregation and interactive media markets. He began his career at Stafford Borough Council, before working in sports marketing in both Formula 1 and football merchandising. In 2000, he joined Cable & Wireless, before moving to Totem Communications and Opera Telecom (now known as OITG). Prior to founding 29/29 Interactive, he held the position of Director of Marketing at PNC Telecom Services (now INVOMO). Along side his role at 29/29 Interactive he is also Managing Director at 767 Media, a Mobile Virtual Aggregator. 29/29 Interactive provide consultancy in commercial, marketing, content acquisition, business development & PR to Aggregators, Platform Providers and Mobile Marketing Agencies. In addition to consultancy services, they also run interactive services on behalf of Content Providers, Publishers and Charities.
Balazs is the founder of Napfolt Limited, what owns and operates Hungary's biggest kid portal TeveClub.hu Balazs has founded Napfolt and started TeveClub during his university years in 1997, and since its first day online, it has became one of Hungary's favorite websites, has won several awards, and has been entertaining many people since. Currently it's Hungary's most popular youth community site. TeveClub now exists in 3 languages and planed to expand to 10 countries within a year.
Rich has 8 years' background in Video Games Creation and Development as Lead Designer on 'Number 1' products, 8 years' in Web Development and 5 years in Mobile Development (with crossover). He was credited in the Sunday Times for creating the first ever WAP game. Rich has been developing mobile internet sites since 2002, successfully delivering mobile content over the Mobile Internet, before incorporating the Wapple in 2004. Wapple has since then gone on to win numerous awards for it's innovative platform and continually leads the market in technology advances.
Rob Lewis is CEO and co-founder of is Europe's leading direct-to-mobile unlimited music download service provider, Omnifone. Rob is responsible for the rollout of MusicStation the award winning all-you-can-eat mobile music service and MusicStation Max, the world's first pre-licensed unlimited music downloads phone. MusicStation was launched to critical acclaim at 3GSM World Congress 2007, and Lewis has already signed a number of major mobile network operator partners across Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa to rollout the service including Vodafone in the UK and Telenor in Sweden, Vodacom in South Africa and 3 in Hong Kong. For a small weekly fee, MusicStation offers mobile user's unlimited access to full track music downloads from all the major music labels, in addition to a range of community features and personalised music news, anywhere, at any time, on over 75% of all 2.5G, 3G and HSDPA handsets sold today. Announced in partnership with LG at Mobile World Congress 2008 and set to launch in the first half of 2008, MusicStation Max is the world's first phone with free unlimited music downloads included 'out of the box'. Lewis previously founded Business & Technology Magazine (later sold to Dennis Publishing) and along with Omnifone co-founders Phil Sant and Mark Knight, founded the successful internet software developer Cromwell Media (sold to InterX for £850m in March 2000) and was founder CEO of Silicon.com (sold to NASDAQ-listed CNET Networks) and its sister companies Paris-based Silicon.fr and Munich-based Silicon.de. Omnifone has offices in London, Scotland, Sweden, Hong Kong and South Africa. For further information, please visit www.omnifone.com. Alistair Hill Alistair focuses on mobile content consumption trends for M: Metrics the mobile media research company. Alistair previously worked in Client services where he supported the analytical and research needs of mobile operators, handset manufactures, media companies and advertising agencies. He started his professional life by helping to set up two internet companies (which are still in existence!) in the music and news sectors prior to working in business development at the Financial Times.
Christina Eriksson joined Ericsson IPX in 2003 and has since then held various positions within the company. Starting within R&D and later heading up the operator integrations team, she has built up extensive knowledge about IPX and the Mobile Content & Payments industry and has been instrumental in company growth over the years. In her current position, Ms. Eriksson is responsible for the IPX’s Operator Payment and Connection Services (OPCS), overseeing all related product management, sales and commercial activities and is also a member of the IPX Global Sales Management Team. Her experience has given her a unique insight into working with Content Providers and Network Operators as well as the technical issues involved in the rapidly evolving world of digital mobile content. Prior to joining Ericsson, Ms Eriksson worked as a consultant within the IT and Telecom industry, giving her a comprehensive understanding and experience of both technical and commercial aspects of the IT industry. Christina Eriksson has an M.Sc in Chemical Science and Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Craig has more than 17 years of experience in the IT marketplace. The majority of this time has been client facing, delivering solutions and services in third party managed and outsourced environments. Craig Started his career at Whitbread where has was responsible for Data Centres. Prior to joining Energis/Cable&Wireless in 2005 he was an Account Director within CSC managing the transformation and delivery of large corporate IT outsource programmes. At C&W Craig heads the Premium Interactive Business Unit. Craig is married with two children; his hobbies include golf and fishing.
Danny Kalish is the CTO of Unipier, a leading provider of Intelligent Policy Management solutions for mobile service providers. Danny is Unipier’s technological visionary and thought leader. Before joining Unipier he founded Niragongo in 1999 and served as the company President and CTO until 2004. Prior to this, Danny founded Interbit T&C Ltd., a leading hi-tech training and consulting company, where he was co-managing director for four years. He is a seasoned Internet veteran and Israeli Java Guru, as well as a known consultant and instructor in those fields. Danny served in the Israeli Military Intelligence for seven years in a classified development unit as a software engineer and project manager. Danny holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Tel-Aviv University and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, both cum laude.
Since 1996, Mr. Habari has been an online marketing guru to many of the web's most successful online video broadcasting, billing and gaming companies in their online and offline marketing strategies, affiliate programs, internationalization, data-mining and information architecture as well as their creative and content development. In the past four years he helped to create, manage and optimize affiliate marketing and internet programs to cross-over with emerging technologies. 2004-2005 Mr. Habari was Director Online Marketing for PartyGaming as well as leading the mobile strategy for the group. Two years ago, Mr. Habari founded 777Mobile.com, which became one of the leading Mobile Gambling Operators.
Roland founded DIMOCO in 2000 together with his brother Gerald and is responsible for business development and the technical and financial departments. DIMOCO was AUSTRIA´s first mobile marketing company and today holds subsidiaries and branch offices in Germany, Czech Republik, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia and the Ukraine. Roland is an expert in Direct Marketing, having founded several successful companies in this area. He is also founder of the Mobile Marketing Association in Austria and has been taking part in the European MMA activities since 2002. He has been chairman of the MMA in Austria and a member of the board in the MMA EMEA region since 2005.
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Professional Experience: Sep 1999 – Jan 2004
Guillaume Peersman is the managing director of international mobile specialist Dialogue Communications. He has worked for the company for over 10 years and today is a highly respected figure in the mobile industry and one of its key speakers. Guillaume’s start in the telecoms industry came whilst he was a student studying in Paris. Guillaume graduated from the Institut Superieur D’Electronique de Paris (ISEP) in 1996 with a double M.Eng in electronics and computer networks. He then joined the University of Sheffield Computer Science Department and started a PhD sponsored by Dialogue Communications. Guillaume’s research focus was on mobile network technologies and his research interest focus turned to the design, development and performance analysis of two way messaging gateways for the GSM Short Message Service (SMS). In 1998, the gateway design was implemented by Dialogue Communications to launch the UK’s first commercial email to SMS service for Vodafone UK and has been published in a number of journals and conferences. The gateway architecture has been at the core of Dialogue’s messaging technology ever since and been scaled over the years to handle some of the largest text messaging events in the UK. In 1999, Guillaume designed and set up Dialogue’s technical architecture as the company evolved into an Internet-based service provider for messaging services. In 2000, his field of research was extended to cover the emerging Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Dialogue Communications soon launched the world first access to email via WAP. As Dialogue expanded to provide services to an increasing number of customers, Guillaume helped to organise and setup the development and operational team. In 2003, Guillaume was awarded the PhD and took on the role of technical director - managing the development team, setting the guidelines for architecture and implementation and facilitating the introduction of new technologies. In 2005, he increased his involvement with the commercial side of the business, providing technical consultancy to the sales and support team and managing the relationship with mobile operators. Following this progression, in August 2007 he was appointed as managing director of the company. Since then, he has been a key speaker at many mobile industry events around the world, sharing his valuable technical and industry knowledge that he has gained over the past 10 years.
Jeremy is a professional marketer with an extensive career that has involved many of the leading companies in the UK. His client experience includes Marketing Manager at Tesco and Head of Affinity Marketing at BT. He followed this with a move to Coca-Cola as European Promotions Director, where he was involved in the coordination of plans for Euro2000, the Olympics, internet projects including Coke Auction and the overall promotional strategy for the business. This was followed by a move to COLT Telecom as Group Marcomms Director before setting up in 2002, PromoVeritas Ltd, as the UK's first dedicated and independent promotional verification company. Working with most of the leading sales promotion agencies and clients in this country and in Europe, the company provides the security and integrity for all sorts of voting, competitions, prize draws and valuable "golden ticket" type instant win promotions. Recent projects include BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Eurovision Song Contest, Coca Cola Buy A Player, McVities 10,000 Instant winners and end to end process audits for a group of 20+ radio stations. He is passionate about ensuring the integrity of client projects and protecting the confidence of the consumer. In addition to his work, Jeremy is a Board member of AIME, the Association for Interactive and Mobile Entertainment, and represented the UK on the Promotional Marketing Council of Europe between 2001 and 2006, latterly as Vice President. He is currently a Board member of CAP, the governing body of the UK advertising industry and is a founding trustee of Fresh Visions, a charity for the disadvantaged and Urban Renewal in the South East and also the National Osteoporosis Society. He is married to Denise, a cookery writer and lives in Northwood, North West London with a gaggle of children aged 12 -18 .
Catherine Becker is deputy MD of Radar, a division of AdConnection, in London, the leading agency in mobile entertainment media in the UK. In 2007 AdConnection was named as one of the Sunday Times Fastrack fastest growing companies in the UK, the only media or advertising company to do so. It has achieved this through developing new methodologies and tools to understand what media works for our mobile, entertainment and telecoms clients. Radar have been an earlier adopter of online and mobile advertising opportunities to drive improved sales for our clients. Catherine has been in the media industry for 20 years, working at leading advertising agencies JWT, Y&R and ZenithOptimedia. She has spoken at numerous conferences and won media awards including recently winning the Campaign Media Award. She graduated in Marketing at the University of Lancaster, UK and University of Boulder, Colorado, USA.
David Jarvis brings many years of experience to his new role at Cherry Media. David was a new media pioneer in Australasia, forming some of the very first consumer entertainment as well as B2B publishing and information broadband portals for the Internet. After moving to Europe, David was part of the start-up Pan European management team for the Vodafone and Vivendi Universal mobile entertainment portal Vizzavi (re-established as Vodafone Live!). He was also behind Txtbomb; one of the world's first SMS entertainment, marketing and content management companies for consumer brands like Universal Music before joining Private Media Group in Barcelona where he pioneered the very first global movements of adult content onto emerging mobile devices as far back as 2001. Cherry Media Holdings has appointed mobile industry veteran David Jarvis to the new position as the group's Strategic Commercial Director for the European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as well as Australasia and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions. David is responsible for driving Cherry Media's comprehensive range of mobile entertainment services into new sectors across all of these territories. Cherry Media creates and delivers compelling entertainment products, as well as end-to-end marketing solutions, utilising powerful digital media platforms. Cherry Media's unique service portfolio enables brands or consumer-orientated aggregators to reach, acquire, engage and retain a receptive, high-spending and loyal client base. Owning and operating several key independent consumer brands, like the world-famous name in mobile adult entertainment Cherrysauce, the company works with leading content producers, media outlets, distributors and mobile operators in both retail and wholesale sectors around the world. The Cherrysauce operation is the current Gold Winner for Mobile Adult Services for Juniper's Future Mobile Awards of 2008, as well as an ME Award Winner for Best Mobile Adult Services.
Jonathan Shoham has worked in senior marketing and business development roles, for global organizations for 18 years, including Comverse Technologies, Mobile Streams, the British Post Office, with periods based in the UK and overseas in Israel. Jonathan is a seasoned marketer and has presented at many of the large international events, with an evangelistic approach to developing markets through the application of sound marketing strategies. At Yiamuno, as chief marketing officer, Jonathan provides strategic direction and ensures solid execution for marketing around the globe. He is responsible for strategy and market research, product and solutions marketing, marketing communications, customer segment and partner marketing, field marketing and analyst relations. Jonathan is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the United Kingdom and holds degrees in Economics and Business Administration.
Julia Dimambro has spent the last 10 years in new media and digital communications industries. Starting her career with London based digital agency, Deepend, Julia successfully launched and integrated the first interactive division of London advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, working on interactive marketing campaigns for Kelloggs, RAF, Barclays and some of the first Interactive TV trials for Sky. After relocating to the United States, Julia returned to Europe and spent 2 years working for Private Media Group, where she managed all of Private's Internet content partnerships. She later joined the newly founded Wireless Department as Commercial Director and set up some of the world's first mobile content deals and marketing campaigns for the large, publicly listed media group. In September 2003, Julia founded Cherry Media to create and deliver compelling entertainment products, as well as end-to-end marketing solutions, utilising powerful digital media platforms. Cherry Media's unique service portfolio enables brands or consumer-orientated aggregators to reach, acquire, engage and retain a receptive, high-spending and loyal client base. Owning and operating several key independent consumer brands, like the world-famous name in mobile adult entertainment Cherrysauce, the company works with leading content producers, media outlets, distributors and mobile operators in both retail and wholesale sectors around the world. The company's Cherrysauce operation is the current Gold Winner for Mobile Adult Services for Juniper's Future Mobile Awards of 2008, as well as an ME Award Winner for Best Mobile Adult Services. As the company's much-respected founder and Managing Director, Julia Dimambro was voted one of the top 50 most influential executives in the mobile entertainment industry for 2005, 2006 and 2007. Julia is also a regular writer and speaker on mobile erotic and adult entertainment.
Jeremy Flynn has been an industry leader in the UK mobile content market, with 6 years experience in a variety of roles in the content value chain Jeremy is CEO and co-founder of D2see, a Technical Service Provider specializing in delivering and monetising video to mobile for content IP owners and publishers. Previously he was Head of Commercial Partnerships at Vodafone UK, where he was responsible for the Off Portal Direct-to-Consumer business. In this role for 4 years he drove the UK successful free-market approach to facilitating the off portal mobile content market. Prior to this, he was at Motorola responsible for EMEA business in mobile application platforms and services Jeremy was awarded Greatest Individual contribution to New Media in the NMA Effectiveness Awards 2006, and is the Vice-Chair of AIME – Association of Interactive Media and Entertainment.
Rob joined Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) in March 2005 as Commercial Partnerships Manager where his sole purpose was to build; service and manage all relationships throughout MIG’s wholesale business. Having built a significant part of the business, Rob was promoted in June 2007 to Director of Wholesale Billing Products and Services: Rob and his team will be concentrating on maintaining MIG’s position as the leading provider of billing services in the UK and ensuring the smooth delivery and implementation of MIDAS™ - MIG’s robust, reliable, high speed and high capacity ‘Mobile Interactive Delivery Application Solution’ and integration of new and existing clients into MIGPAY™, MIG’s click and buy mobile payment mechanism. Rob has built his career in the mobile sector, specifically in premium rate services and has held previous management roles with O2 UK, Redstone Communications, ITouch UK and Thus PLC. A natural communicator, Rob is an outstanding asset and an essential part of the business development team, exemplifying MIG’s reputation for delivering outstanding customer service.
Mark has a unique knowledge of all areas of the mobile advertising value chain from working within advertising agencies, mobile operators and mobile content and rights owners, spanning 10 years of experience working in interactive advertising and new media. His breadth of experience gives him the rounded knowledge needed to build this new market on behalf of 4th Screen Advertising. M&C Saatchi – Head of Digital Marketing. O2 – Account Director, Mobile interactive services. TWIi – Account Director Brand Marketing and Interactive media.
Having shot erotic, glamour and porn spanning 30 years, I have gone from selling photographs for mail order, to selling content for mobile phone and Ipod distribution. This has developed into producing content for magazines such as Mayfair, Club, and Barely Legal as well as DVDs now available on the Internet. For 21 years my career was in the UK and the last 9 have been in the Czech Republic. The girls are just prettier and sell better. Now teamed with my wife Eva, we and our staff run Banapro, still producing content for clients to sell the best way they feel is right for them. We can shoot to order for clients who need something exclusive and particular to their needs. www.paulmarkham.com is just part of what we do.
Christopher has over a decade of experience in Internet and Mobile service design and creation, having worked in award-winning, new media companies like Digital Rum and Deepgroup. With insight drawn from live content management at the Atlanta Olympics, from .com brands, broadcasters, retailers, publishers and agencies; he created one of the first user generated content services in 2003, “What’s Hot” launched in 4 countries. Christopher also invented the first multi-channel voting product in the UK, PollPosition. Having led teams in emerging markets across EMEA, the U.S. and Iceland, Chris is championing how WIN’s customers can maximize the value of their digital content in the converging world of media and telecoms.
Josep licensed in Economics at Barcelona University where he later studied a post-graduate degree in Auditing and Accountancy. After leaving University he acquired a few years experience working as an auditor in KPMG Peat Marwick. In 1995, Josep left KPMG to establish the first 'Internet Service Provider' in Spain. Together with partners, they grew the business in Spain and Latin America, then integrated it into a multinational group ‘Tiscali’. Josep remained within the group as Spanish CEO until the company was floated. Later, he moved into the TV industry and founded a TV channel specifically servicing the Madrid and Barcelona undergrounds stations and airports. Then, together with the biggest Spanish owned TV production company, they founded one of the first interactive TV companies in Spain. In 2001 - as a part of the interactive TV project - Josep started Arena Mobile with the goal of developing a new media company where internet and television could one day converge and help develop the “always on” culture. Josep was nominated as one of the 25 Most Influential Persons in Telecoms for the WCA 2007 Award. Nowadays Arena Mobile is a company with subsidiaries in 16 countries in Europe, America and Asia and sales in 70 countries. Arena works as content provider, platform provider and master content provider with more than 120 operators and 50 TV channels and media groups in the 5 continents. Arena Mobile is the biggest commercial network in the mobile content industry and the company works with some of the biggest worldwide entertainment brands.
Bryan has spent 8 years at Mobile Commerce heading up business development and developing partnerships with all the major UK network operators as well as with key media and content partners. Mobile Commerce provides Monetised Mobile Search services to Orange, Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile, and a growing number of other partners including; The Sun, News of the World, Carphone Warehouse, Mobile Streams and Mobile Media Production. Mobile Commerce also provides Mobile Local Search & Travel services to Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile, Orange, MSN, lastminute.com and easyGroup in the UK. Prior to Mobile Commerce
As business development director at The Picture Production Company Group (PPC) Ben oversees business growth and marketing across PPC’s portfolio of divisions. Ben joined PPC in June 2005 as head of PPC iTV and was responsible for setting up and managing PPC’s interactive TV design and deployment division. In this role, Ben and his team created several industry firsts including Budweiser’s first interactive TV campaign as well as work on behalf of Nintendo, Canon, Citroën, Carlsberg, EA Games, Disney and Warner Brothers. Prior to joining PPC, Ben served as head of business development at interactive TV consultancy Press Red Ltd. During his time there, he was involved in more than 100 interactive TV campaigns, working with clients such as Transport for London, Mitsubishi, Mercedes and Kimberley Clarke. Before this, he was a marketing and communications consultant at The Wireless Radio Group. Ben has also been a keynote speaker at various advertising and broadcast conferences including IBC and the iTV Advertising Forum.
He is a pioneer in the mobile marketing space, and leads Silverback's mobile marketing business. He founded Cellcast-Interactif in 2001 and built it into a top mobile marketing company servicing many leading European companies, including TF1, Canal+, Skyrock, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, France Television, and Caisses d'Epargne. Prior to Cellcast- Interactif, Paul was the founder and CEO of Phonevalley, France's first SMS company. He started his career at Wunderman, a subsidiary of Young and Rubicam, leading the company's CRM initiative in France.
As VP Media Services and Marketing, Golan is responsible Celltick's content and advertising proposition and materializing it into substantial business. Golan brings over 10 years of experience in the field of global marketing and mass communications. Prior to Celltick, Golan was Vice President, Marketing at The Israeli Television Network where he developed advertising packages and was responsible for the company’s global advertising sales, as well as distribution agreements and customer acquisition. Prior to his position at The Israeli Network, Golan worked at Planet Leap in New York and California where he planned and executed global marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 companies including Apple Computer Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., 3Com, Nortel Networks, EDS, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. Golan also served as Marketing Communications Manager of the Israeli Diplomatic Mission to the USA and as a Media Planner at Bates Advertising. Golan was educated in New York and holds a BA in communications and an MBA from NYIT.
From 1990 Oisin has had a successful career as musician, producer and composer signed to A&M, Island, Talking Loud and Independiente/Sony. During this period Oisin worked with U2, Depeche Mode, Sinead O Connor, Shara Nelson and Beth Orton among others. Oisin still maintains a career in music composition, with film and TV commissions including Human Traffic, Mean Machine, Sky Broadband TV and RTE One. Inspired by the digital revolution in music Oisin moved into content distribution in the late 90s. Initially working at ClaraNet Oisin quickly moved to rapidly growing UK web agency Hypnosis Media, before joining the board at digital content aggregator Video-C as Technical VP. Oisin now heads Interoute's Online Distribution and Media division, enabling advanced online distribution and media streaming across Interoute's Next Generation Network, the fastest growing and most advanced in Europe. Interoute's 14,000 clients include Joost, AWOMO, EMI, Universal Music, Chrysalis, Warners, SonyBMG, Akamai, ISAN, Narrowstep, BBC, RedBee, EMAP and Virgin Media.
Sally joined the Internet service provider PIPEX in 1995 shortly after qualifying as a lawyer. During this time Sally aided the development of the PIPEX business throughout Europe and became European Legal Director following the acquisition of the business by UUNET and later Director of International Regulatory Affairs. In 1997, she was voted 'UK In-house lawyer of the Year'. In the late 1990s Sally played an integral role in the internet regulatory environment as a founding director of the UK Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA (UK)), the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), and ICRA and acted as consultant to the European Commission on the Electronic Commerce Directive. After leaving UUNET in 2001, Sally became Legal Director for RAW Communications before setting up her own IT legal consultancy, Strategic Brief. Three years later Sally joined WIN as Head of Legal where she is now Commercial Director.
Laura Marriott is the president for the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), where she is responsible for leading the association in its charter to drive the adoption of mobile marketing while ensuring consumer privacy and brand integrity. The MMA is an action-oriented association designed to clear obstacles to market development, to establish standards and best practices for sustainable growth, and to evangelize the mobile channel for use by brands and third party content providers. In her role as president, Marriott directs all activities and communications for the global association to the more than 450 world-wide members, representing over forty countries and some of the world’s most recognized brands. With more than sixteen years of experience in the high-tech industry in the areas of business development, product management and marketing, Marriott has a proven track record of leadership, dedication and the ability to create and execute on programs with measurable results. Marriott is currently the Colorado chapter host for MoMeMo. Prior to joining the MMA, she served as Director of Marketing for Intrado, where she was responsible for marketing the company’s mobility products and services. Marriott has also previously served as director of business development at Cyneta Networks and Cell-Loc Inc. Marriott graduated from the University of Alberta.
Patrick startedworking for Ministry of Sound in 2004 as a content and portal manager, moving on to operations manager and since January 2007 he has been head of thecompany's mobile arm. Patrick manages the launch of new branded mobile channels and WAP sites for the company as well as having a specific focus on new business development with partners both on and off portal. Patrick moved from Hollandto London in 1999 where he completed his BA in business studies, specialising in the marketing aspects of the business environment at Guildhall University. Patrick's dissertation on "The Behavioural Intention Modelfor the Purchase of MP3's on the Internet" won him a prestigious 'Worshipful Company of Marketers' award in 2002. Patrick has also worked at Sony BMG and from time to time still DJs at various clubs around the world. If you can't see the video on the right click the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRw95Gk920w
James is responsible for new business activity across both etv’s core business of branded content as well as interactive projects. He most recently played an integral role in securing a partnership with Turner Broadcasting to produce cross-platform channel, Nuts TV. James manages a business development team who is focused on delivering interactive video-based content for brands and broadcasters across all mediums as well as the etv marketing and communications function. In June 2006, James was appointed to the etv board in recognition of his outstanding individual contribution to the company. James joined etv from interactive TV company DITG, where he was Sales Director since 2001. While there, James provided the driving force to secure contracts with leading broadcasters such as UKTV, Five, C4, Zip TV and Disney. James has over 15 years experience of marketing and business development, predominantly in the broadcast and new media industries. Before joining DITG, he was content director at BT Openworld, focusing on youth content initiatives for touchphone kiosks, broadband and the BT video-on-demand trial. In addition, Penfold spent time working on BT’s pre-cursor to BIB/Open…
Sean Taylor is co-founder and Managing Director of Redwood Technologies and Content Guru. Sean has helped drive Redwood and Content Guru to become world leaders in their respective fields of technology solutions and hosting for media services. Sean holds a BEng(Hons) degree from King’s College, University of London. Redwood is one of the world’s leading providers of participation media and value added network solutions with systems installed in over 60 countries. Clients include major carriers such as Deutsche Telekom, KPN Telecom and BT. It’s unlikely that you live in the UK and haven’t used a Redwood system. Content Guru is a hosted services operation specialising in mass participation media solutions. In partnership with C&W, Content Guru has launched the most advanced participation media platform in the UK, STORM. With over 30,000 channels of capacity it is the UK’s largest integrated mass participation media solution and is shaking up the media space.
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