Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
As chief strategy officer, Berge Ayvazian oversees Yankee Group's new growth mission, providing thought leadership for the firm's research, consulting and events in the mobile, telecom, IT, applications, media and entertainment industries worldwide. Working with the company's diverse research groups, Ayvazian ensures Yankee Group is aligned with clients to help them visualize, navigate and generate value from current and future business opportunities. As a senior industry analyst and consultant, Ayvazian directs a wide range of research and consulting projects across a broad group of topics, including communications industry structure, broadband service provider strategy, mobile network infrastructure, enterprise networking strategy, information technology and applications. Ayvazian has directed more than 100 consulting projects forecasting product and service markets, assessing strategies and analyzing investment opportunities in the telecommunications, wireless, computer, internet, cable and broadcast TV industries.

Sven Bolthausen, Head of Multimedia Germany, Ericsson
Sven Bolthausen has been working for Ericsson since 1999 in different areas of responsibilities. Since beginning of 2008 he is overall responsible for Ericsson’s Multimedia Business in Northern Europe (Germany, Benelux and Switzerland) which includes Multimedia Solutions, System integration and Business Consulting. He is also member of the extended country management team in Germany. Mr. Bolthausen has great experience in IPTV and Mobile TV solutions, IMS and IMS applications, Mobile media and entertainment as well as Service Management. Prior to his current position, he was heading up Ericsson’s Advisory Services Business for nearly 3 years (Business Consulting, Network and Technology Consulting and Training) within Ericsson Northern Europe. At that time he was also member of the management team of Business Unit Global Services in Ericsson Northern Europe.

Caroline Gabriel, Research Directory, Rethink Research Associates
Caroline Gabriel co-founded Rethink Research Associates in 2002. Rethink is a London, UK-based market research and consulting company specialized in technologies and business models for service providers and vendors, in the broadband wireless, 3G, fixed/mobile convergence and wireline broadband markets. It provides published market reports, customized research projects and business model consulting, and holds one of the world’s most comprehensive research databases of operators and vendors in broadband wireless, particularly WiMAX. Gabriel has also been responsible for creating the thought leading Wireless Watch and WiMAX Watch analyst services for Rethink. This provides weekly analysis and in-depth market reports on many aspects of wireless and mobile technology, with particular expertise in broadband wireless. Current reports include WiMAX Business Models 2006-10 and The WiMAX Global Map 2006-9.

Hans Höglund, Director, Government and Industry Relations, Ericsson
Hans Höglund is Director, Government and Industry Relations at Ericsson, with focus on broadband and convergence. He has previously held different managerial positions within Research and Development, Technical- and Customer Account -Management and has spent 16 years on international assignments in Australia, Asia, Middle East and Western Europe. As Ericsson's representative to the IT Strategy and Broadband Working Group within the Swedish Industry Ministry, Hans has been very active in promoting the benefits of broadband for individuals, enterprises and the society as a whole.

Kevin Holley, Vice-Chair, Technical Plenary, Chair, Requirements Working Group, OMA
Kevin Holley is Manager of Application Standards for Telefonica O2 Europe, based in Ipswich, U.K. He is responsible for Telefonica O2 Europe's engagement in standardization activities in the Open Mobile Alliance. In 2006, Mr. Holley became Vice-Chair of the Technical Plenary of the Open Mobile Alliance having served as Chair of the Requirements Group since 2002. Mr. Holley has been with O2 since 2001, prior to its separation from BT. He has been working with mobile applications since 1985 and with mobile standardization since 1988. Mr. Holley was one of the original designers of the GSM SMS Standard. Mr. Holley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.

Mathias Huttmann, International Director Content, MINICK Group
Mathias Huttmann is International Director Content for the MINICK Group. In this function he is responsible for MINICK’s key partnerships as well as all mobile content and portal management activities. This includes licensing for mobile products such as games, music, entertainment/adult, video/TV, and movies/fun in several countries with pan-european focus. Before joining the MINICK Group in 2007, Mathias Huttmann was working six years as Content Partner Manager for T-MOBILE INTERNATIONAL and before as a Marketing Manager for T-MOBILE GERMANY. He began his career with LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES as Sales and Marketing Trainee, after his studies of Business Administration and Management at the University of Bayreuth.

Jon Jädersten, EMEA Marketing Manager – Ultra Mobility Group, Intel Corporation
Jon Jädersten manages the business and marketing plans for Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). His objective is to establish the Mobile Internet Device (MID) product category in the region and grow Intel’s business in this new and quickly evolving product segment based on Intel’s new low-power platforms. Jon joined Intel in EMEA in1997. He has held a number of positions in the European sales and marketing organization, including channel engineering, IA sales, WW account management and Global Accounts Director roles. In 2005, Jon relocated to Intel’s headquarter in Santa Clara to join the Corporate marketing group. In August 2006, Jon moved into the Mobility Platforms Group and was given ownership of Intel’s then coming generation Intel® Centrino® Processor Technology that launched in May, 2007. Jon relocated back to EMEA during the summer of 2007. Jon was born in 1971 and holds a Master of Science degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Bryce Johnstone, Strategic Marketing Manager- Wireless Business Unit, Texas Instruments
Bryce Johnstone is a worldwide manager for Marketing & Strategy of Texas Instruments. Previously, Mr. Johnstone held the position of worldwide marketing manager for TI’s Short Distance Wireless (SDW) Business Unit.  He has extensive experience in European networking and wireless markets, with previous positions at TI as European business development manager for SDW and European marketing manager for Ethernet Switching and wireless LAN. Since joining TI in 1989, Johnstone has worked in several technical and commercials areas, including wireless LAN, SPARC microprocessors, DSP and 486. Johnstone received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the University of Edinburgh and holds an MBA from the Open University (UK).

Pankaj Kedia, Director Global Ecosystems Ultra Mobility Group, Intel Corporation
Pankaj Kedia is the director of Global Ecosystem Programs for the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel Corporation. In this role, Pankaj is responsible for working with the industry to enable complete hardware and software solutions for Mobile Internet Devices, ensure the availability of rich, intuitive applications, content, and services, and taking the complete solution to market. Pankaj joined Intel in 1996 and has held a range of executive advisory, marketing, planning, and business development roles across the company. Prior to Intel, he was in the management consulting industry for 5 years leading projects in strategy, management, and information technology. Pankaj holds an MBA from Wharton, an MS from the University of Michigan, and a BS from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Herbert Mittermayr, Vice President, Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Broadcast
Herbert Mittermayr is Vice President Marketing of Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Broadcast, the Alcatel-Lucent internal venture dedicated to mobile TV solutions. Herbert has more than 10 years of experience in the telecom industry. He joined Alcatel in 1994 as Head of Business Center Export in Alcatel’s Transmission Division. He held several senior roles Transmission and Application Divisions, including director strategic marketing for mobile solutions and heading the business unit for Convergent Content Applications. Prior to Alcatel, Herbert was Managing Director of Ingenio, a venture capital financed software company. Thus he gained experience in innovative business models and venture capital financing on project and company level. He was Head of Business Unit within ABB before. Herbert Mittermayr graduated at Technical University Graz, Austria in Electrical Engineering and Business. He holds a PhD in Measurement Systems.

Michael Neidhöfer, Founder and Director Sales & Marketing, CEO
Michael has more than 8 years of professional management experience in sales & marketing as well as IT project and software management. He started his career heading the IT department of the German subsidiary of Croda Oleoechemicals Plc, a major British Chemical company with more than 4,000 employees worldwide. After 2 years he was appointed to be European SAP project manager managing the integration of SAP for Croda in Germany , UK , Spain , Switzerland and Sweden. Michael was born in 1973 and holds a degree of Master of Business and Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. After working for Croda Oleochemicals Plc, he co-founded Dynetic, the inventor of Netbiscuits™ in 2000 and now serves as CEO and head of Sales & Marketing. Michael set-up the company's product and innovation strategy and positioning, established the company's indirect and direct sales channels, and has grown Netbiscuits™ to the leading mobile content transcoding software in the mobile market with more than 50 active partners and 200 customers such as eBay, RTL and T-Online.

Troy Norcross, Business Development Manager, Publishers & Partnerships, Nokia Media Network
Troy Norcross is business development manager of publishers and partnerships for the Nokia Media Network. The Nokia Media Network provides reach to millions of mobile consumers through advertising on more than 80 premium publishers, including Nokia media properties like Nokia.mobi, Mosh and Widsets, as well as third-party, blue-chip publishers like Reuters, AccuWeather, Cosmopolitan and MotorTrend. Troy has more than six years experience in product marketing and product management in the mobile telecoms software space, with extensive experience in the mobile telecoms infrastructure space. Troy has worked as a product manager and technologist for Openwave Systems, 724 Solutions and Silicon Graphics.

Peter Northing, VP Marketing, iO global
Peter Northing is responsible for digital retailing, driving product strategy and the overall strategic marketing direction of iO global. His extensive, multi-industry experience in marketing and product development means he is known throughout the industry for pushing the boundaries of digital media. Prior to joining iO, Peter held the position of Director of Products and Service for renowned, market leading, network operator, 3. While at 3 Peter was responsible for the product delivery, product development and user experience on Planet 3, the 3 user portal. In addition to these media and entertainment responsibilities and achievements Peter headed up the core communications services; voice, video calling, SMS and MMS.

Hyacinth Nwana, Managing Director - Mobile Media Solutions, Arqiva
Dr. Hyacinth S. Nwana joined Arqiva in July 2005 as Managing Director, Mobile Media Solutions. He is responsible for all the company's activities in Mobile Broadcast TV, Wireless Broadband (WiMAX/WiFi), Datacasting and new wide (WANs), Metro (MANs) and/or National network roll out opportunities.

Marc Patterson, Vice President and General Manager - Mobile Data Services, BT Global Services
With more than two decades of experience in data communications, Marc Patterson remains a driving force in the development, marketing and positioning of BT Infonet’s global service portfolio. As vice president and general manager, Patterson directs both BT Infonet’s as well as BT Global Services’ mobile data services program. Under the MobileXpress™ brand, BT provides customers with a range of wireless and remote access capabilities to securely connect mobile users to enterprise and public Internet content and applications. Patterson joined BT Infonet in 1994, and has served in management roles in both sales and marketing prior to his current position.

Surinder Paul, Market Development Manager, Highdeal
Prior to joining Highdeal, Surinder worked as a marketing & business development consultant for Mobile & VoIP solution providers in France, UK & India. Before that, Surinder spent 14 years at Nortel Networks in the UK, Canada & France, performing various roles including product management, quality management, sales & marketing, for enterprise and carrier solutions.

Nicholas Spencer, Senior Analyst, Yankee Group
Nick Spencer is a senior analyst in Yankee Group's Enterprise Research group with expertise in applications and mobile solutions. Spencer helps clients navigate the emerging mobility landscape by examining both supply- and demand-side issues, focusing on applications, target industries and solution providers. His research also includes mobile middleware and application software for the B2B and B2C markets. Within this coverage area, Spencer analyzes the mobile commerce opportunity for enterprises, its potential, applications, market structure, business models and disruptive impact.