2007 Speaker Biographies

Thank you to all the speakers, presenters and moderators who joined us for the event.

Mike Anderson, Vice President, Business Development & Sales, GotVoice
Mike Anderson has fifteen plus years of experience in large corporate and startup environments spanning the telecommunications, private equity and financial services industries. Prior to GotVoice, Mr. Anderson was co-founder of Fly Fashions, a cell phone accessories company whose customers included T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless, Superior Communications, and Sony Ericsson. Before this, he served as a vice president at Washington Mutual, where he was responsible for managing the company's $150 million venture capital fund. Earlier in his career, Mr. Anderson founded Sound Design Group, which provided consultancy and investment services for early-stage technology companies including Mobliss(Index Corp), Terabeam(YDI), Match.com(InterActive Corp), NavTeq and Convergence Corp(Amazon). His telecom tenure was with TDS, a Fortune 500 company with cellular and landline telecommunications operations in 36 states. Mike serves on the Alliance of Angels board and the advisory board of TravellingWave, a speech to text solution for mobile phones. He holds bachelor's degrees in Business and Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin. Register today.

Julie Ask, VP and Research Director, JupiterResearch
Julie Ask focuses on evolving trends in the telecommunications - specifically wireless - industry, examining both the marketing and technology issues these companies face as they look to deploy new technologies and services to enhance their businesses. JupiterResearch's wireless coverage examines business models, technology trends, and consumer behavior and attitudes to provide strategic advice and insight to those in the industry or those looking for a presence on the "third screen." Ms. Ask's telecom experience dates back to her research at COMSAT Laboratories where as an engineer she did microwave circuit design - the focus of her graduate work. After earning her M.B.A., she was a management consultant within the Operations Management and Communications Groups at Booz Allen & Hamilton. Prior to joining JupiterResearch, she worked as a Business Development and Product Marketing Manager for a wireless data company, Livemind, a start-up in San Francisco. Ms. Ask holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.Register today.

Jeffrey Black, CEO and Founder , TalkPlus
Jeffery Black has over 28 years of international business experience in developing and marketing emerging technologies in the wireless, internet search, and internet appliance markets. As CEO, Mr. Black directs every aspect of the company, from strategic vision and product development to marketing and operations issues. During his career, Mr. Black has founded and sold several companies including Hotels.com, iAtlas Corporation, and Resorts.com. Prior to TalkPlus, Inc., Mr. Black was acting chief executive officer/investor of BizExpense, Inc.; vice president of business development for Conomae Corporation; and vice president, Business Solutions Division, for the AltaVista Company. He also held numerous management and technology positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and the Tandy Corporation. Register today.

Clint Brown, Board of Directors, Wi-Fi Alliance
Clint W. Brown is a Board member and Treasurer for the Wi-Fi Alliance™, a global non-profit organization with the goal of driving the adoption of a single worldwide-accepted standard for high-speed wireless local area networking. He is currently the Director of Business Development in Broadcom's Wireless Networking Business Unit. Mr. Brown joined Broadcom in 1999 following Broadcom's acquisition of Epigram, Inc., a developer of advanced semiconductor products for high speed home networking. Prior to Epigram, he was the Director of North America Sales for Rockwell Semiconductor (Conexant) the world leader in Analog Voice/Fax Modems. Register today.

Tom Carter, President of North & South American Operations, Truphone
Tom Carter has a career spanning more than 20 years, during which he has founded and funded startups and has led sales, marketing and business-development teams in Asia, Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Prior to truphone, as co-founder of BridgePort Networks, Mr. Carter personally funded the initial development team and actively participated in the operation of the company. He was also co-founder of @Mobile, a venture-backed application-services provider for wireless carriers and Internet content providers. During the mid-1990s, while at Tandem Computers, Mr. Carter was instrumental in pioneering the first off-switch "home location register" application for mobile-subscriber authorization—now deployed in 20 countries across 73 carriers. He holds a U.S. patent as co-author of the design for a mobile-over-Internet network.

Timothy Chang, Principal, Northwest Venture Partners
Tim Chang brings a combination of operational, technical and international business experience to Norwest Venture Partners. Mr. Chang focuses on investments in wireless and digital media as well as business development initiatives in Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining NVP, he was a principal at Gabriel Venture Partners where he was actively involved in over a dozen wireless-related deals and led Gabriel's investments in Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by Qualcomm), Eyespot, Sequoia Communications, Sandbridge, and Kajeet. Mr. Chang built Gabriel's wireless sector practice and helped establish business development capabilities through strong, strategic relationships across the wireless value chain, particularly in Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining Gabriel, he was a product manager at Gateway Inc. and a development engineer for General Motors. Mr. Chang holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MS in electrical engineering/system engineering as well as a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan. Register today.

Tim Deal, Senior Analyst, Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services
Tim Deal serves as Senior Analyst of Pike & Fischer's Broadband Advisory Services, a BNA Company, with a special focus on broadband-enabled consumer electronics devices and on emerging mass market applications such as online video sharing and VoIP-optimized e-commerce. Mr. Deal developed SWOT analyses on such products as the iPhone, the Apple TV service, and rich-media applications on such social networking sites as MySpace. Mr. Deal has provided detailed and actionable competitive intelligence analysis to leading technology firms for more than six years. In that time he authored more than one hundred comprehensive syndicated reports and an equal number of custom financial models covering the computing, consumer electronics, digital media, and storage industries. Prior to his career in competitive intelligence, Mr. Deal served as a counterintelligence/human intelligence and force protection analyst with the United States Army. Register today.

Amit Desai, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Dial Directions
Amit Desai is co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Dial Directions, the first company to provide free voice-activated location-based services to all cell phones. Any cell phone user can dial DIR-ECT-IONS and say where they are and where they'd like to go—the service understands and texts back turn-by-turn directions. Mr. Desai leads overall strategy for Dial Direction's technology platform, which provides first-of-its-kind location-based services (directions, locations, reservations, invitations) to the consumer public and industry partners. Previously, Mr. Desai co-founded and led product strategy at Voxify and co-founded Anubis, prior to the company's acquisition. Mr. Desai holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from MIT. Register today.

Chris Douglass, Global Telecommunications Strategy Executive, IBM
Chris Douglass develops evolving business models and industry value chain solutions, delivery and transformation services, and industry technical standards that enable value-added solutions such as wireless, IP multimedia subsystems, and service delivery platforms for IBM and its clients. Mr. Douglass has more than 20 years of extensive knowledge and experience in the mobile and wireless and telecommunications industry. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Douglass held a broad array of positions in management, consultative technical solution sales, and marketing at two of the largest wireless service providers in the United States. Mr. Douglass earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio and an associate's degree in business administration from Southern Vermont College. Register today.

Josh Fraser, Vice President, Business Development, CallWave
Josh Fraser is Vice President, Business Development at CallWave and is responsible for bringing innovative "on demand" personal communication solutions to service providers. Prior to joining CallWave in April 2004, Mr. Fraser was with Student Advantage, Inc., a leading marketing and transaction services provider to higher education and operator of the nation's largest student membership program. Mr. Fraser held a number of senior management positions at Student Advantage including VP, Business Development and General Manager. Prior to Student Advantage, he held Business Development and Financial Planning roles at ESPN.com. Mr. Fraser started his career with Coopers & Lybrand's Financial Advisory Services as an Analyst. Register today.

Dave Hagan, President and CEO, Boingo
Dave Hagen is responsible for the strategic direction as well as day-to-day operations at Boingo. Mr. Hagen has over 20 years experience in senior management roles in the telecommunications industry with Sprint in the U.S. and Canada and served as division president and executive vice president for Sprint. He is responsible for launching the consumer business under the Sprint brand, which grew to be a $600 million business, the largest alternative long distance company in Canada. Mr. Hagen is also responsible for launching an ISP service in Canada under the Sprint brand, called The Most Online, which was the second largest ISP in Canada. Before Boingo, he served as CEO for FirstSource Corp. and as the President/COO of Ticketmaster Online CitySearch. Mr. Hagen holds an MBA from Baker University as well as a BS from the University of Kansas. Register today.

Kristian Jarnefelt, CEO, Concilio Networks
Prior to joining Concilio Networks, Kristian worked almost 12 years at Hewlett-Packard in various sales, marketing and management roles. The last 2 years Kristian served as the Country Manager of the Baltic countries overseeing HP's operations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In addition to the overall CEO role, Kristian is responsible for the Go To Market-strategy, sales and marketing and partnerships. Kristian holds an MSc degree in business administration from Helsinki School of Economics. Register today.

Allan Johnson, Vice President, Business Development, Wireless Business Unit, HelloSoft
Allan Johnson is Vice President of Business Development for the Wireless Business Unit at HelloSoft, the world's leader in VoIP for mobile devices. Mr. Johnson is responsible for delivery of HelloSoft's VoWLAN and converged cellular/WiFi solutions. Mr. Johnson has over 20 years experience in the wireless and broadband industries and has held various management and leadership positions developing base stations and infrastructure at Motorola, baseband cellular chips and handset reference designs at Philips Semiconductors and VDSL broadband chips at Ikanos Communications. Prior to joining HelloSoft, Mr. Johnson was an independent consultant advising VC's and other industry players in IMS, VoIP and FMC. Register today.

Derek Kerton, Principal, The Kerton Group
Derek Kerton is the head of the Kerton Group's Strategy Consulting Practice and is an internationally recognized wireless industry expert who consults for companies throughout the telecom value chain (NTT DoCoMo, SKTelecom, Disney, Sony, Broadcom...). Mr. Kerton sits on the boards of Aegis Mobility, KeyZap, and The Telecom Council; publishes research and analysis across the industry; advises the financial community on telecom issues (Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones...); and has been interviewed on CNN, CNBC, BloombergTV, and Wall Street Journal among others. Register today.

Jim Kirkland, Director, Corporate Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, SpinVox
Kirkland held senior executive positions and was general counsel for Covad Communications and Clearwire Technologies, where he was responsible for strategic partnerships and transactions. A former partner at Mintz Levin in Washington, D.C., he represented emerging-growth Internet, wireless and telecommunications companies. Register today.

Bruce Lawler, Co-Founder and EVP, Business Development and Product Marketing, Kodiak Networks
Lawler is responsible for overseeing Kodiak Networks' company's overall business and product strategy. He has nearly 20 years of telecommunications experience, was founding partner of inOvate Communications Group, and led the company's investment in Danger, Rosum Corporation, and Kodiak Networks. Lawler also served as a founding executive of iBEAM Broadcasting and has held engineering and management positions at Motorola, GE, and Eastman Kodak. Lawler received his B.S. from Purdue University and holds Master's degrees in engineering and business from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Register today.

Lynn Lucas, Director of Mobility Solutions, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Lucas brings over 10 years of wireless industry experience to Cisco Systems where she is the Director of Mobility Solutions. The Mobility Solutions team is helping enterprises understand this rapidly evolving market and how to best utilize Cisco mobility solutions for business advantage. Most recently, Lucas delivered strategic marketing services to wireless and mobility companies through her own consulting firm. Prior to that, she served as Vice President of Product Marketing for Proxim Corporation where she led the marketing team for wireless LAN and WAN products. Lucas also has significant market development expertise in education, healthcare, last mile and public safety verticals. Lucas is a recognized industry leader, most recently serving as the Vice-chairperson for the Wi-Fi Alliance's Voice over Wi-Fi task group where she worked to drive interoperability standards and awareness. Prior to Proxim, Lucas held marketing management positions for 10 years at HP. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Register today.

John Lynch, Vice President, Promptu Systems Corporation
John Lynch is currently VP of Sales at Promptu Systems Corporation, a mobile applications development company with expertise in bringing complex internet based services and solutions to input constrained mobile phones. Mr. Lynch is a Silicon Valley veteran with broad expertise in new market development. As former worldwide VP Sales and Marketing at OmniVision Technologies, Mr. Lynch lead the company's efforts to enter and dominate the camera technology market for mobile handsets, overseeing their sales growth from approximately $8M per quarter to over $100M per quarter. Prior to OmniVision, Mr. Lynch was VP Sales at SCM Microsystems, where he led the sales efforts for television, security and video products. Register today.

Stephane Marceau, CEO, MOBIVOX
Stephane Marceau brings over 12 years of global experience to Mobivox in building and marketing IP communications to consumer markets. As Vice-President with Bell Canada, he built several new business lines, including the residential VoIP operating unit. Stephane served as VP and head of many different Bell groups - consumer strategy, e-commerce, online SME markets and corporate development - and led several acquisitions and partnerships. Prior to his time at Bell Canada, he advised many of the largest wireless and telecom companies in Western Europe, the U.S. and Canada on Internet strategy and technology opportunities. Stephane is also on the board of several web 2.0 start-ups in Montreal. He holds a Master's degree in Management of Technology from the University of Waterloo, which he obtained in 1994 after earning a BA in Finance from the Universite du Quebec a Montreal in 1992. Register today.

Sue Marek, Editor-in-Chief, FierceWireless, Event Chair
Marek, previously executive editor at Wireless Week, serves as Editor-in-Chief of FierceWireless, the flagship publication of parent company, FierceMarkets. Marek also heads FierceMarkets' Telecom & Digital Media Group of publications, including FierceDeveloper, FierceWiFi, FierceVoIP, FierceIPTV, FierceGameBiz and FierceMobileContent. Register today.

Cyril Matthews, Vice President, Marketing, IntelePeer
Matthews leads the core product group at IntelePeer (formerly VoEX Inc.) and is a veteran telecommunications executive. Matthews has worked in positions including Product and Marketing Management and Business Development for a variety of network infrastructure, database, OSS/BSS and service provider companies. He led the marketing launch of the first Number Portability service bureau and supported the first mobile phones with integrated internet access. Additionally, Matthews has been an active participant in global groups promoting VoIP technology as well as being a well-known industry speaker. Register today.

Francois Mazoudier, CEO, Speakanet
Over the past 17 years, Francois Mazoudier has built several fast growth businesses in technology related industries. He is currently the CEO of Speakanet A/S, whose GoHello™ solution obsoletes the office hardware telephone system with a 100% mobile (cellular), hardware-free, self-provisioned, web enabled solution. Prior to Speakanet, Mr. Mazoudier developed several early stage companies that successfully IPOd, including RealNetworks Europe, PictureTel, Central Point Software, and The Cloud Networks. Register today.

Brian McAuley, Chairman, Pacific Datavision
Brian McAuley is a world class entrepreneur with extensive experience in start-up businesses. Most recently he was President and CEO of NeoWorld Communications, which he founded in 1999. Prior to NeoWorld, Mr. McAuley co-founded Nextel Communications, Inc. and was its President from 1987 to 1995. From 1982 to 1986, Mr. McAuley served as Senior Vice President and Director of Millicom Incorporated, a company formed to participate in cellular telephone licensing and operations. Other career experiences include being Vice President of Robert's Foods, Corporate Controller of Norton Simon, Inc. and a Manager at the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche. Mr. McAuley has a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Adelphi University and is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of various finance and telecommunications industry organizations. Register today.

Tim McElgunn, Chief Analyst, Pike & Fischer's Broadband Avisory Services
Tim McElgunn has more than 20 years of experience and expertise in market sizing, forecasting, segmentation and share analysis in emerging and legacy segments of the telecommunications industry. He focuses on the business strategies and competitive status of U.S. cable companies, telephone companies, satellite TV providers and broadband-enabled application providers such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Before joining BAS in November 2006, Mr. McElgunn headed up U.S. consumer broadband analysis for eight years at Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan. He also held senior analyst positions at both Datapro/NBI and Gartner Dataquest. Register today.

Jonathan Morgan, VP of Product Management, Tatara Systems
Jon brings more than 18 years of marketing, technical, and management experience from across the communications industry to his role as Vice President of Product Management for Tatara Systems. Prior to Tatara, Jon was Director of Product Management for Appian Communications. Jon has also held numerous management positions at Fujitsu Network Communications, including serving as the Sr. Director of Product Marketing in the switching group, founding the Corporate Business Development group responsible for partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions, and various product planning positions defining next generation transmission and switching products. Earlier in his career, Jon spent 7 years at Bellcore in various organizations, including the SONET Requirements and Project Management Departments, in addition to his time with the semiconductor company TranSwitch. Jon holds a B.S.E.E. from Washington University in St. Louis and a M.S.E.E. from Rutgers University. Register today.

Karthik Muthukrishnan, Senior Consultant, Product and Strategy Planning, Alcatel-Lucent
As Senior Consulting Engineer for Alcatel-Lucent's Strategy and Product Portfolio Planning, Karthik Muthukrishnan is responsible for driving the company's strategy for next-generation multi-service platforms, in addition to planning and managing packet services in the IP/MPLS and Ethernet product lines. Prior to his current position, Mr. Muthukrishnan served as Lucent Technologies' Senior Consulting Engineer in multi-service switching, in charge of architecting and developing IP solutions. Before joining Lucent, he worked for Sequoia Systems as a Senior Software Engineer, and served as a software engineer with Boston Technology. Mr. Muthukrishnan holds a bachelor of science degree in computer engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, as well as a master of science degree in computer science from Louisiana State University. Register today.

Bob Plaschke, CEO, Sonim Technologies
Bob Plaschke recently served as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures focusing on wireless investments. Before joining Sutter Hill Ventures, Mr. Plaschke was senior vice president of worldwide client services at InfoSpace. During his tenure, he was responsible for bringing 18 wireless operators online across the globe. Before joining InfoSpace, he was chief financial officer and vice president business development at Prio, a wireless and wireline promotion infrastructure company. Mr. Plaschke also has held management positions with Datacard, McKinsey and Anderson Consulting. Bob earned an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago and received his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Northwestern University. Register today.

Tony Saigh, Head of Business Development, Mobile Operators, Skype
Saigh joined Skype since 2005 as Business Development Manager, leading partner activities with mobile operators. Saigh manages strategic and commercial aspects of Skype's partnership with Hutchison, with whom it has launched Skype on mobile handsets across Three's networks in UK, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Australia and Hong Kong. Prior to Skype, Saigh has held senior business development positions at mobile companies including Terra Mobile, during which time he was responsible mobile gaming strategy and OEM partner activities. In 2000, he was Head of Business Development and a founding member at mobile start up NomadIQ, a location based software company, which was acquired within its first year by OmniSky Corporation, a leading provider of wireless internet and email services to handheld devices. He went on to join the carrier business development team at OmniSky's newly formed European joint venture with News Corporation, OmniSky International. During his time at OmniSky International, he worked on and successfully negotiated the UK's first commercial GPRS email launch with BT Cellnet and Ericsson. Register today.

Stan Schatt, Vice President & Research Director, Networking , ABI Research
Stan Schatt heads ABI Research's Networking research group, in addition to authoring his own research focused on Wi-Fi and other Wide Area Networking and Local Area Networking topics. He provides research leadership to ABI Research's coverage of Multi-Channel Video, Broadband Networks, Mobile Broadband, Wi-Fi, and M2M. Previously, Mr. Schatt VP of Research at Current Analysis, Vice President in charge of all networking and communications research at both Forrester Research and its predecessor Giga Information Group, and Research Director at Ziff-Davis Market Intelligence. His industry background also includes periods at AT&T and Honeywell. Stan holds a BA in Chemistry from Arizona State University, an MBA from the Thunderbird Garvin School of International Management and a PhD from the University of Southern California. Register today.

Steve Shaw, AVP of Marketing, Kineto Wireless
Steve Shaw is the associate vice president of marketing for Kineto Wireless, the innovator and leading provider of UMA Technology solutions, and one of the UMA industry's leading spokespeople. Mr. Shaw is responsible for Kineto's go-to-market strategy for its UMA-compliant IP network controller for mobile and integrated network operators. Mr. Shaw has more than 15 years experience in product, marketing, and business development roles with telecommunications companies. Mr. Shaw holds a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of Southern California. Register today.

Andrew Silver, Co-Founder and CTO, Tango Networks
Tango Networks was co-founded by Andrew Silver, who now serves as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Silver is an entrepreneur and business technologist with over 14 years in the telecommunications industry. He has held various senior management and director roles within large and small companies in the cellular industry including Nortel, Ericsson, Comverse Technologies and startup Spatial Wireless (acquired by Alcatel). He has received multiple corporate awards such as the Nortel CEO Top Talent and Patent awards. Mr. Silver holds an MBA and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, and five patents in wireless telecommunications. Register today.

Joe Sipher, Chief Product and Marketing Officer, Pinger
As Chief Product and Marketing Officer, Joe Sipher leads all Pinger's marketing and product activities. Before Pinger, Sipher was SVP Marketing and Development at Virgin Electronics. Prior to that, he spent over a decade creating and marketing products with outstanding customer experience within the Palm economy. Most recently at Palm he served as VP product and carrier marketing at Palm. At Handspring, Sipher helped transition the company from handhelds to smartphones, culminating in the award-winning Treo smartphone family as VP WW Marketing. Earlier in his career at Palm, Sipher helped define products and services like Graffiti, HotSync and Palm.Net. He holds 12 patents. Register today.

Aaron Sipper, Director, Product Marketing, Reef Point Systems
Sipper has 15 years experience in developing and marketing complete life cycle management for circuit- and packet-switching, VoIP, data networking, IMS and wireless products and solutions. Herecently wrote "Securing the IMS Network," a comprehensive security and quality of service treatise for service providers that is one of the most popular downloaded documents on FMC security related topics on the Internet today. His experience spans consulting and well as senior positions at telecommunications equipment manufacturers. Prior to Reef Point, he was a founder and the Vice President of Strategy for Sentito Networks, a VoIP infrastructure provider. Earlier, he was Systems Engineering Manager for Tellabs/Salix Technologies, a Class 4 media gateway start up. His career also includes product line management, systems and software engineering positions at various telecommunications equipment manufacturers. Register today.

Charles Studt, Vice President, Product Management, IntelePeer
Charles Studt has successfully launched, managed and grown complex software products and communications services in both VoIP and legacy network domains. At IntelePeer (formerly VOEX), Mr. Studt leads product development strategy for ENUM and advanced VoIP applications. In addition, he serves as a board member of the SPIDER Registry ENUM peering community. Register today.

Renu Upadhyay, Senior Marketing Manager, Mobility Solutions, Cisco Systems
Renu Upadhyay brings over 8 years of wireless marketing experience to Cisco Systems where she is a Senior Marketing Manager of Mobility Solutions. At Cisco, Ms. Upadhyay is responsible for the marketing strategy of Cisco Mobility Solutions as it relates to defining and developing messaging, tools and supporting sales and partner marketing activities for Location based Services, Seamless Mobile Convergence / Fixed Mobile Convergence (including Unified Communications over WLAN), and Mobility solutions for Manufacturing to promote the vast potential business opportunities offered by Cisco Mobility solutions. Prior to Cisco, she was a Senior Marketing Manager at Cingular Wireless, now AT&T Mobility and in the marketing organization at Lucent. Ms. Upadhyay holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco and a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Bombay, India. Register today.

Michel Veys, COO, JAJAH
Michel Veys is COO of JAJAH, the world's most innovative global communications company, which enables consumers and businesses to make free and low-cost telephone calls, locally or globally, dialing from either their computer or mobile phone. Prior to JAJAH, Mr. Veys was General Manager of the payments gateway business at PayPal. He also held management positions at VeriSign, Visa and Citicorp. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg School of Management and an undergraduate in Industrial Engineering from the University of Brussels, Belgium. Register today.

James Wanless, COO and Co-Founder, Talkster
As COO and Co-Founder, James Wanless is leading Talkster to bring to market a simple, free service that lets people place carrier-grade telephone calls to any phone, VoIP or VoIM service worldwide. As COO, Mr. Wanless oversees product management, research and development, and engineering, as well as business development. Mr. Wanless has spent nearly twenty years in voice communications and is a pioneer in interactive voice response (IVR) technology, beginning in 1988, when the nascent technology was little more than glorified tape-based answering machines. At Phoneworks, Mr. Wanless managed global operations and production for the groundbreaking IVR company that served Fortune 500 companies such as American Express. Seeing the opportunity to expand IVR capabilities utilizing computerized telephony, Mr. Wanless co-founded Solvware in 1993 to develop commercial IVR applications for a broad marketplace. Solvware has since grown to include operations in ten countries and Solvware's IVR-based services, which he expanded to include web-based and mobile content, are in use across three continents. Register today.

Michael Wehrs, Vice President, Evangelism, Nuance Communications, Inc.
Michael Wehrs is responsible for the overall mobile business strategy, including mergers and acquisitions, product strategy, and industry and public policy of Nuance. Prior to the acquisition of Tegic to Nuance, Mr. Wehrs was VP, Product Management & Global Marketing for Tegic Communications, an AOL company. He joined Tegic from Microsoft Corporation, where he was responsible for driving industry adoption and business development opportunities in support of many of Microsoft's products. Prior that, he held senior roles working on technology and standards, and directing market research and product planning, for Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices division. Between roles at Microsoft, Mr. Wehrs was a principal at Ignition Partners, a director of new technology at Samsung Electronics America, EVP for Orcatron Communications, and held director positions at Sony Electronics, and Conner Peripherals. Mr. Wehrs graduated with a B.S. in Computer and Information Science from Syracuse University. Register today.

Richard Wong, Partner, Accel Partners
Richard Wong brings over 15 years of technology experience to Accel Partners in mobile, broadband, messaging, and security software. Prior to Accel, Wong was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave where he launched several of Openwave's most successful products in security, messaging and location-services areas. Wong founded and chaired the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, a consortium of ISPs and technology providers working together to combat internet abuse. Previously Wong was the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications and a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. He holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Register today.

Emerick Woods, Chief Executive Officer, V-Enable
Emerick Woods is a successful executive and entrepreneur having managed and founded several early stage high technology companies. Mr. Woods is responsible for leading V-ENABLE's vision, future capital expansion options, and strategic relationships. Previously, Mr. Woods was chief executive officer at Aligo, Inc, another venture-backed company focused on the mobile space which was acquired in early 2007. Prior to that, he served as president and chief executive officer of Vicinity Corporation, a publicly traded company acquired by Microsoft, where he completed its initial public offering and successfully raised over $140 million. Before Vicinity, Mr. Woods held a variety of executive and general management positions at Coherity, CastBridge, TuneUp.com, HP, Quarterdeck, Symantec, Central Point and Microcom as well as consulting positions at McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen & Hamilton. Mr. Woods holds an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and a B.Sc., Computer Science degree from Yale University. Register today.

Greg Young, Vice President Engineering & Product Management, QUALCOMM QChat
Greg Young joins Qualcomm with 21 years of international telecom industry experience. Mr. Young is instrumental in strengthening business opportunities and relationships for QChat on a global scale. While serving as CTO at TATA Teleservices, Mr. Young was responsible for network operations, network expansion, wireless technology and value added services platforms. His responsibilities also included the selection, acquisition and implementation of new technologies and platforms that translated into commercially viable products and services. Mr. Young's background also includes 11 years at Telstra Corporation in Australia where he held various management roles across its wireless business. Mr. Young earned a degree in electrical engineering, received with distinction from Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. Register today.

Boaz Zilberman, Co-founder and Chief Product Architect, fring
Founder and Chief Architect Boaz Zilberman is responsible for product strategy at fring. An industry veteran with over 20 year experience in high-tech businesses, Zilberman's expertise includes launching high-tech business start-ups through to market maturity, strategic and tactical creativity, business development and marketing of telecom technologies and strategic partner negotiations. Prior roles have included VP of Products at Telrad Connegy; Director of Marketing at Radvision; founder and CEO of ExpertCall; and a series of computer-telephony positions with EasyRun Ltd, providing software systems to the telecom market and Intel Semiconductors. Zilberman holds an MSc in Computer Science from the City University of New York. Register today.