Speakers' Profile

As the EVP of Nokia, Colin heads the global sales operations for all Nokia products and services. He was appointed to his position in January 2010, and named to the Nokia Leadership Team in February 2011. He reports to the executive vice president, Markets.

Colin began his Nokia career in 1992 as a product manager in his native Australia. He was promoted through a range of sales and marketing positions, including director of marketing in Asia Pacific, general manager of Nokia Taiwan and vice president and general manager for the Mobile Phones unit in China.

Before his appointment to head of the global Sales unit, Colin was president and senior vice president for Greater China, Japan and Korea. He spent 15 years working in the Asia Pacific region.
Before joining Nokia, Colin worked in several telecommunications companies in Australia and the United Kingdom.

He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Western Australia, and he attended the EMBA program at the London Business School.

As Regional Managing Director for Asia Pacific (Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia) at Research In Motion (RIM), Mr. Gregory Wade is responsible for driving the success of BlackBerry® smartphones and solutions in the region and is focused on managing relationships with strategic partners and carriers offering the BlackBerry solution.

Based in Singapore, Mr. Wade has developed RIM's business in the region by establishing BlackBerry in new countries throughout the region and growing the popularity of BlackBerry with the growing number of customers in the region. Mr. Wade's contribution to the business environment in Singapore is also extended through his participation as a member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.

Jonathan Dharmapalan is the Global Deputy Telecommunications Leader.

Until recently, Jonathan led Ernst & Young's Global Telecommunications Center in Beijing. He has led engagements for clients across the Asia Pacific region, advising clients on growth strategies, operational excellence and regulatory issues.

In his 25 year career Jonathan has served some of the largest companies in the telecommunications sector.He has significant experience in both mobile and terrestrial communications.He has served his clients from the early days of divestiture and privatization through the years of unprecedented growth of wireless and broadband technologies. Jonathan also has significant experience in the related sectors of High Tech and Media.

Phil Mottram is Executive Director of Global Sales for Telstra International Group based in Hong Kong. With nearly 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry, he is responsible for overseeing and driving the company's entire managed services and connectivity portfolio.

Prior to joining Telstra International, Phil was the Director of Sales for British Telecom's Openreach having been with the company in various senior executive sales positions over the past nine years.

Phil also held the role of European Sales Director for Sprint and spent seven years working in sales for AT&T.

Mr. Tore Johnsen is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Grameenphone Ltd. Joining the Telenor Group in 1974, Mr. Johnsen has since become one of the Telenor Group's preeminent leaders and mobile telecommunications experts in Asia. He is the first CEO within the Telenor Group to have headed four of the company's five operations in Asia, including Total Access Communications Public Co. Ltd. (Dtac) in Thailand from 2008-2011, Telenor Pakistan from 2004-2008, and Digi Telecommunications in Malaysia from 2001-2004.

His appointment as CEO of Grameenphone, the largest telecommunications operator in Bangladesh, further strengthens his extensive leadership credentials in the region.

Joseph O'Konek is the Chief Executive Officer of CSL Limited, the leading mobile operator in Hong Kong. He was previously Executive Vice President of 3S Network, Inc., a privately held wireless engineering firm based in Bellevue, WA. Prior to joining CSL, he led the prepaid and convergence billing software product line for Nokia Siemens Networks in Munich, Germany as Global Head of Business Support Systems and served as Global Practice Head for the Network Design and Service Management & Performance Consulting Practices for Nokia in 2005 in Espoo, Finland.

Alexander Jeuck holds an MBA in International Business Management and Dipl. Ing. (FH) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Applied Science Ravensburg-Weingarten in Germany. Since 2010 he is responsible for ND SatCom as VP Sales Asia Pacific for the business and partner development in India, South East Asia and Oceanic Region. Prior he was instrumental for ND SatCom as President Middle East, in charge of regional business & operations expansion. Until 2002 he held various managing positions at Nortel Networks Germany delivering International Optical Network solutions in Europe.

1997 - 1998 he was member in the DSNG ad-hoc group of the DVB Project to support the standardization for contribution applications by satellite. His industrial experience started 1987 with Dornier GmbH, a German company producing aircraft, defense materiel and space systems.

With over 25 years' experience in the satellite communications industry, Anver Anderson has recently joined Newtec as VP Asia, managing Newtec's Singapore and Beijing offices.  In 2003 he set up a full service solutions consultancy business for the broadcast and satellite industry - with clients including ITN, Al Jazeera, APTN, GLG, Babcock International, Ovum and Advent Communications (Vislink Group).

Previously, he worked for satellite operators Inmarsat and Europe*Star as well as service providers Vyvx, VT Merlin Communications and British Telecom and has extensive experience in business development and product marketing across many aspects of the industry.

Amiram Levinberg is a co-founder of Gilat and returned to the Company in 2005 as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Levinberg previously held positions as Gilat's President, Chief Operations Officer and Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Levinberg served in a research and development unit of the Israeli Defense Force (1977-1987) and was awarded the Israel Defense Award in 1988. Mr. Levinberg holds a MSc. in Digital Communications and a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa. Mr. Levinberg also serves on the Boards of Cardboard Industries and Kargal, a cardboard manufacturer in Israel, and Kasamba, an internet company offering online expert professional advice.

With a background in both the satellite and energy industries, Christian Bergan is responsible for the market strategy and works closely with iDirect's global network of service providers to promote the value of VSAT technology throughout the industry.

Prior to joining iDirect, Bergan was a director, sales and marketing, with TSAT providing satellite communications solutions to the energy and utility industries. He spent 20 years with IC Bergan where he was the vice president, sales and marketing.

Bergan holds a Bachelors degree from Oslo Engineering College in manufacturing engineering and a Masters degree in management from Troy University.

Chris D'Aguiar is Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Inmarsat, and is responsible for market development and raising market awareness of the company's world-class capabilities and comprehensive product portfolio. Mr D'Aguiar also oversees the distribution of Inmarsat's mobile satellite services through a network of over 400 partners around the world.

Since joining Inmarsat in 1996, Mr D'Aguiar has directed Inmarsat's sales, channel management and regional business development teams. Latterly he led Inmarsat's distribution development programme and the Global Satellite Phone Service commercial team.

Prior to joining Inmarsat, Mr D'Aguiar undertook a variety of business development, commercial and financial management roles within Marconi, GPT (a telecoms joint venture between GEC and Siemens), and Fibreway (an optical broadband network, now part of Easynet).

Daniel Enns is senior vice president strategic marketing & business development for Comtech EF Data. Focusing on strategic activities, Enns initiates development & orchestrates partnerships. He is considered a pioneer in IP networking via satellite. His tenure includes various executive positions.

Prior to joining Comtech EF Data, Enns was General Manager/Founder of Crown Satellite LLC, guiding product and business development on the SpectraCast® products. Under his leadership, Crown Satellite was acquired by Adaptive Broadband (formerly California Microwave/EF Data). Enns also held the position of engineering director for World Radio Missionary Fellowship. He holds a BSEE from the University of Manitoba.

David Hartshorn is Secretary General of GVF, the London-based non-profit international association of the satellite communications industry. GVF consists of more than 200 member organisations from every major region of the world and from every sector of the industry, including mobile and fixed operators, manufacturers, system integrators, and other turn-key service providers. 

Supported by 15 affiliate offices, two regional offices and seven working groups, Mr. Hartshorn leads the Forum's global efforts to facilitate the provision of satellite-based communications solutions throughout all nations of the world.

Mr. Hartshorn works closely to support national-, regional- and global-level policy makers as they formulate state-of-the-art satellite regulatory frameworks. He is also responsible for creating greater awareness of the commercial, economic, political and technological advantages that communications provide for the world. GVF's Certification, product quality assurance and network-validation programmes are an important means by which these aims are achieved.

Mr. Hartshorn has worked in the communications industry for 20 years, serving in business development, sales, publishing, and association offices based in North and Southeast Asia, North America and Western Europe. He is a Member of numerous communications-sector bodies, including the UN Working Group for Emergency Telecommunications, and others.      

Mr. Deepak Mathur is the Vice President for SES WORLD SKIES for the South Asia and the Middle East, responsible for the region's Sales and Market Development activities. He has been with SES for the past 10 years, originally joining the organization with General Electric. Mr. Mathur has in the past held leadership roles with Echostar, NagraVision and Loral.

He is based in Singapore and married with two daughters.

Ermady joined TELKOM in 1973 and lead the business unit of East Java regional division as deputy head of division from 1998-2001.  He was the head of division of Sumatra region from 2001-2003.  In 2003-2005, he was the head of Enterprise Service Center as the division which served Enterprises and government customers. He was also the head of Jakarta Region from 2005-2007.

Since 2007, he has been a member of the Board of Directors, from 2007-2008 as consumers' director and now as director of network and solution and also as Chief Operating Officer (COO).

He was also president commissioner of PT.INDONUSA TELEMEDIA (a pay TV Company) from 2007-2008, president commissioner of PT.TELKOM INTERNASIONAL INDONESIA from 2008-2010. Currently he is a member of board commissioner of PT.TELEKOMUNIKASI SELULAR (TELKOMSEL).

Over the past 20 years Glen has enjoyed a multiplicity of roles in sales, marketing, product development, engineering, and business development throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific regions.

The majority of this time has been spent on customer-focused activities within the energy, telecommunications, media, and technology sectors.

A clear strategic thinker, Glen aims to develop and deliver business solutions which satisfy key commercial objectives through close engagement with customers and other stakeholders.

Glen is currently Vice President of Sales for SES World Skies where his primary focus is driving sales revenue for satellite services within the Asia-Pacific region.

Gregg Daffner is CEO of GapSat which provides satellite operators with in-orbit 'gap-filler' satellites for an interim period. Gregg is also president of G3 Global Communications a satellite venture incubation and consulting firm focused on strategic planning, business development, transactional and regulatory advice for the Asia-Pacific satellite market.

Previously Gregg co-founded and was president of Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS). He is a former television producer and communications attorney who was the head of satellite services for Hong Kong Telecom, Vice President for PanAmSat and Lockheed Martin Corp, and Director of International Policy for the US Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications & Information Administration where he was instrumental in the promotion of private enterprise in space.

Gregg is a member of the Board of PTC, the Council of Governors of CASBAA as well as Chair of their Wireless Action Group, VP for APSCC and Asian Attache for GVF.

Kevin is Publisher of talk Satellite, a leading business information source for the satellite industry.

Graduating in 1984 with a honours degree in Media, Kevin began his Asian Technology experience with the publication Products and Services to China. Prior to talk Satellite he played a leading role in the development of publications such as Asian Communications, Asia Pacific Satellite, The APT Yearbook, and The Euronet. Through his work with TelecomTV Kevin gained a wealth of experience in rich media projects.

Tom van der Heyden, CEO/Director of Sky Fiber, is a digital broadcast and satellite communications industry pioneer, with 35 years building satellite systems and companies globally. Tom created Indonesia's DBS program Indovision, from concept through turn-key launch and operation, co-authored the first DAB FCC filing, led the use of L, S and X bands in Asia, co-founded CTAI (Orbital Sciences GEO division), built the first voice and data networks in China and Taiwan, and Indonesia's wideband TDMA networks. An author on emerging market satellite applications, Tom holds patents in spacecraft design, and both engineering and business degrees.

Martin Coleman started Colem as an engineering services consultancy. Using his previous experience he developed his own network management system products for Corporate, SNG/Flyaway and Wireless Cameras including Automation, Intelligent Device Configuration and Media Management. Martin has worked with companies including BSkyB, NOAA and Reuters.

Martin's work, through the satellite Interference Reduction Group (sIRG) has produced a specification for Video Carrier ID, issued by WBU-ISOG. He is now the executive director of sIRG.

Prior to Colem, Martin was an engineer in charge of BT satellite projects for Madley & Goonhilly earth stations. His background is both satellite and international telecommunications.

Nile Suwansiri is the Vice President of Marketing & Sales - Southeast Asian Region of THAICOM Public Company Limited and has over 19 years of experience in the satellite industry.

Nile has been with THAICOM since its inception in 1992. He previously held positions of Satellite Engineering Manager, Satellite Control Manager and Head of Marketing.

Presently, his responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of the IPSTAR broadband businesses in Indonesia, Malaysia and The Philippines.

Nile holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand and an Executive MBA degree from SASIN Graduate School of Management in Bangkok in collaboration with the Kellogg and Wharton Schools of Management.

Mr. French joined NSR in September 2003 and has since authored numerous studies, the most recent being the Global Assessment of Satellite Demand, 7th. Edition and Broadband Satellite Markets 10th. Edition. His focus is commercial satellite supply and demand modeling, video services, DTH, enterprise broadband and narrowband VSAT networks, and satellite broadband access services. He also leads NSR's analysis of multi-spot beam high throughput satellites (HTS) for consumer-class satellite broadband access and numerous additional markets. Mr. French is based in Singapore.

Ramesh Ramaswamy is assistant vice president of Marketing in the International Division at Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes).  In this capacity he is responsible for the strategic development of products and services to be offered by Hughes in the international market.

Mr. Ramaswamy began his career at Hughes in 1986 as a software engineer and was one of the original designers of the VSAT (very small aperture terminal) satellite product line. Prior to his current position, Mr. Ramaswamy was assistant vice president and general manager of the Asia/Pacific region, responsible for business development and profit and loss for the region. Previously, he was responsible for business development in the Middle East/Africa region and before that, was responsible for program management including installation of and technical support to VSAT systems around the world.

Mr. Ramaswamy holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, USA and a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Madras in India.

Responsible for marketing Intelsat Network Service products in Asia Pacific. Technical Services Director and Senior Regional Marketing Director, Asia Pacific from 2005 to 2009.

Global Manager, Satellite Services, REACH with overall responsibility for satellite product management and business development until 2004. Following a similar role in Telstra Global Wholesale for the management of satellite related investments, business development, commercial arrangements and regulatory affairs.

Australian Signatory representative to Intelsat Board of Governors and Advisory Committees 1986 to 2001. Chairman of the Technical Committee 1991 to 1993 and the Australian Governor 1998 to 2001.

From 1980 to 1997 with OTC Australia and Telstra as a systems engineer, project manager and senior engineering manager responsible for spectrum management, technology development, design and implementation of satellite earth station facilities, VSAT networks and other telecommunications infrastructure in Asia Pacific.

Member of the IEEE, B.E. (Electrical) and B.Sc. (Theoretical Physics).

Vivek is an Executive Director and Co-Founder at Media Partners Asia (MPA). Vivek oversees all information services for MPA, including consulting and research. MPA is a leading independent provider of information services, focusing on media and communications in Asia Pacific. MPA serves various audiences and clients with multiple platforms.

MPA reports receive widespread coverage in global media and its research and consulting services are utilized by numerous industry-related groups, such as media and telecom owners, investors, technology companies, regulatory groups and the financial sector.

Vivek is a leading media and telecommunications analyst in the Asia Pacific region. He was formerly a Senior Analyst and Managing Editor at the Kagan group. He graduated from the London School of Economics & Political Science with BSc Economics degree and an MSc Economics degree.

Yau Chyong Lim is MEASAT's Senior Director of Sales and Marketing. He oversees the Sales and Marketing operations of the organization. Yau has more than 15 years experience in the satellite communication industry. He is well exposed in satellite engineering and operations as well as service sectors of DTH, broadcasting and telecommunications. Yau holds an MBA in Finance and a Bachelor of Science in Microelectronics & Physics.

Yutaka Nagai is Senior Executive Vice President of SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation. He is also the Board Director of SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc, a parent company of SJ.

He started his carrier at Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corporation in 1971 and was engaged in research and development work for satellite communications system. During his 40 years business carrier, his first involvement with satellite business was in 1986 when he joined Japan Communication Satellite Company Inc. Then he developed his carrier from satellite operation to satellite engineering, business planning and business development. Now, he shows a great leadership as top management of SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation.

He received a Bachelor of Engineering from Tokyo University.

Yvon Henri is Chief of the Space Services Department (SSD) at the Radiocommunication Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in Geneva (Switzerland). Before joining ITU in 1995, he has held various management positions at France Telecom (Paris, France) and INTELSAT (Washington DC, USA) and has been involved in the satellite business for more than 25 years.

ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technology issues, and the global focal point for governments and the private sector in developing networks and services.

Amit Sinha Roy, Vice President of Strategy & Marketing, Global Enterprise Solutions of Tata Communications Limited Group has over 20 years of experience in the global IT industry, Mr. Roy defines winning strategies for the Group's enterprise business, particularly in emerging and mature geographies. This entails the segmentation, targeting and positioning for key products and solutions.

Mr. Roy is also responsible for the building and implementation of advanced business development functions for new and complex solutions, designed to achieve specific business revenue targets. He also leads the creation and implementation of relevant go-to-market and marketing plans by region.

Barry is the Huawei Regional CIO for the South Pacific Office with a focus on Transformation Strategy & Planning to support Next Gen Business Models, IP Services and Networks. Barry specializes in the field of Telecommunications, Business Transformation Consulting, with a focus on translating business imperatives into executable programs, into Architectural Designs and deliverables to enable Next generation BSS/OSS/SDP/ hosted and Cloud based solutions.

Barry has had the unique opportunity to work across several facets of the industry; from AT&T, Lucent, Accenture, HP & IBM (OSS Global Solutions Lead) where he has worked with many Operators around the world.

As the Co-Founder and CTO of THINKCube Systems Pvt. Ltd., an organization that specializes in developing product solutions which add value to Telco operators offerings, Buddhika provides technical guidance and direction to leverage in existing proven technologies such as Open Source Software, Linux and Visualization. Buddhika has over 14 years of experience in IT, mainly in the areas of Free & Open Source Software, Systems Administration, E-Commerce and other Networking Technologies.

Prior to joining Thibkcube, Buddhika was working as a Technical Consultant at the R&D Lab of Virtusa, a leading global software development organization. During that time he was an influential figure in advocating the use of FOSS by engaging in several POC studies and Business Pursuits.
Buddhika has also been involved through the inception of several leading Open Source projects, such as Sahana Disaster Management System and Tarprobane GNU/Linux.

He holds a B.Sc in physical science from University of Colombo and PGD in Computer Science from BCS UK. He is a council member of BCS, Sri Lanka Section and an avid FOSS advocate within the Sri Lanka's FOSS community.

Jurrie van den Breekel is a Director of Cloud Solutions at Spirent Communications and serves as market segment lead for the company's Cloud, Enterprise and Data Center test solutions.
Previously he served as a technical marketing manager where he was responsible for the market development of Spirent's Networks and Applications division in the EMEA region. Jurrie has also held a variety of other positions at Spirent.

Prior to joining Spirent in 2000, he spent several years at the Dutch-based system integrator, TrueCom, as product manager for telecom test systems.

As the Chief Operating Officer of the company, Mithila is responsible for driving the Vision of the Company and directing the company operations. Mithila's career spanning a period of twenty years has been focused on the Telecom space and has been responsible for deployment, operation and optimization of many operating units in several service providers. Mithila's initial career with Singapore Telecom International (STI) involved several assignments at subsidiary companies involving broadcasting, data services, fixed network operations etc. He also gained extensive experience in the Access Network technology space during his tenure as Regional Director – South Asia for Airspan Networks Inc ( a leading WIMAX / LTE solution provider).

Mithila holds a First Class, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) degree from City University, London. He is also a member of the Institution of Engineering Technology (formally IEE) and IEEE. He is also a register chartered engineer (C.Eng.) of the Engineering council (UK)

Paul Stallard is Head of Systems Management at Ericsson Solution Area TV. He joined the company in 1998 and previously held positions in Research, Engineering, Product Management and Solutions Architecture. As VP Systems Management he is responsible for coordinating the future direction of Ericsson's television portfolio. Paul has a PhD in Electronic Engineering and, prior to joining Ericsson, was a lecturer in Computer Science specializing in computing architecture and network protocols.

Per has held leadership positions growing telecom and IT businesses in Asia for 20 years. In 2010 he co-founded the Asia Cloud Computing Association where he currently serves as Executive Director and CEO. He is also the founder and CEO of Springpoint, a company linking innovation companies with the Asian mobile market place.

Per started his career in Asia at the Swedish Foreign Ministry and the Swedish Trade Council before taking on senior management positions in technology companies and organizations such as the GSM Association, Actix, SmartTrust and Ascom Wireless.

Per holds a dual degree in History of Ideas and Chinese language, which has helped shape him as a successful entrepreneur with a focus on translating technology into business benefits and how to create value, in an Asian context. He has a strong track record in growing companies from the early stages to profitability and, in some notable cases, very successful exits.

With over 20 years in ICT at some of the world's leading telecom companies, Sean has worked across a variety of disciplines and technologies.  His experience covers international submarine cable systems, terrestrial network builds, and international and domestic wholesale and enterprise sales management, with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region.

Before joining BT, Sean held a variety of management roles in enterprise and international wholesale at Telstra, among them head of sales, Asia Pacific for Australia Japan Cable, a supplier of international wholesale capacity to carriers across Asia and the US. Most recently, Sean's efforts where focused on a terrestrial network build on the islands of Sumatra and Java in Indonesia.

At BT, Sean is responsible for the management and growth of BT's South East Asia carrier business across disciplines including IPX, global inbound services, conferencing, global data connectivity and consulting services such as technology transformation and business process improvement.

Steve McWhirter looks after the company's focus on large organisations, such as Suncorp, Bajaj, St George Bank, Perpetual, American Express and Crocs, and is charged with growing this market across the entire region.

An industry veteran with 21 years of experience in the IT industry, Steve brings with him a strong understanding of the IT and business landscape across Asia Pacific.

Steve has been with salesforce.com since August 2008. Prior to that he was at HP, building its infrastructure software business, and before that turned RedHat into a $120m business in Asia Pacific.

Steve holds a Bachelor of Education with a major in Computer Science from Sydney University and a Diploma in Pure Mathematics from the University of New England.

Accomplished IT professional with over 20 year's experience in Information Technology, Tung Diep has been a successful IBM SWG Technical Leader and GBS Delivery Executive with an established track record in technical sales engagements and application development/project delivery in the Telecommunication; Retail; Insurance; and Automobile sectors. Tung holds an MBA degree from Mt Eliza Business School (Melbourne, Australia).; and a Bachelor of Science degree from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia).

Appointed since Jan 2009 as the Tivoli Client Technical Professionals Leader for IBM AP SWG, Tung has been contributing successfully to the AP IBM SWG Tivoli business and is a recognised technical leader, especially in Cloud Computing. Tung was personally involved in a number of early IBM cloud engagements across AP, including the Wu Xi SW park (China); SKT (Korea); HLB (Malaysia); and China Unicom HeBei (China). The extensive SWG technical sales and Cloud engagements track record; the strong Asian language skills and a diverse culture background/exposure provide an excellent capacity for Tung to contribute successfully to the IBM business; especially in China, Asean and the Asia Pacific region.

Victor is an Executive Director in the Performance & Technology group in KPMG Singapore. He joined KPMG recently after spending 18 years in North America with Deloitte, where he was Deloitte's Global Leader for Vulnerability Management Services. He was appointed to the Americas Advisory Board of International Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC) 2 in 2004 and is an advisory board member for SCIPP International.

Victor has over 18 years of IT security consulting experience covering strategic planning, secure software development and vulnerability assessments. Victor also leads KPMG's emerging technology advisory practice, and lead KPMG's efforts in cloud computing security consulting services.

Abu joined the Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh (AMTOB) as its Secretary General on August 1, 2010.* Earlier he was a Strategy Analyst at Ericsson's Southeast Asia head office in Malaysia until June 2010. Previously, he was Technology Editor for bdnews24.com, Bangladesh's first online newspaper, as well as a research analyst at EMC World Cellular Database (currently owned by Informa) covering the mobile markets of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal.

As a journalist, Abu persuaded the government to join the SEA-ME-WE4 consortium in 2002, which has linked Bangladesh with its very first, and by far the only, submarine cable. At LIRNEasia, he conducted research into the replicability of a microfinance approach to extending rural connectivity in Bangladesh. He has also provided consultancy expertise in telecommunications to local and international organizations. He served on the faculty of regional regulatory training courses offered by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) between 2001 and 2004.

*Abu works in LIRNEasia in his personal capacity and not as a representative of AMTOB.

As SingTel's CEO Singapore, Allen Lew is responsible for the company's operations in Singapore. He leads the Digital Consumer, Business Groups, Global Markets and Wholesale segments, Networks, as well as leading IT and communications specialist NCS.

Allen was named Telecom CEO of the Year by Telecom Asia 2007 for his leadership role in SingTel's reinvigorated performance in Singapore's broadband and mobile market.

Andrew Haire has over 30 years of experience across four continents and has been associated with some of the most successful telecom initiatives around the world. He has worked in over 65 economies and jurisdictions with the primary focus on market growth, strategy, the sector's direction, technical opportunities, and economic structure. He has been responsible for architecting major policy frameworks in the telecoms, technology, and postal sectors, as well as serving as regulator for 10 years at Singapore's IDA soon after its inception in 2000.

Previously, his experience included integral senior management roles with regulatory and public policy portfolios at one of the world's largest telecom operators and various engineering and management positions at the world's largest computer company.

Ara is a Sydney based partner of Webb Henderson, a first-tier law firm specialising in the telecoms, media and broadcasting sectors.Ara advises telecoms clients in Australia, South-East Asia and the Middle East on a range of strategic commercial and regulatory matters, including next generation access (NGA), network rollout, network sharing, access and interconnection. Ara is currently advising NBN Co Limited on range of issues associated with wholesale access to Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). He is also advising SingTel in relation to Singapore's Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN).

As Industry Principal for Telecommunications at SAP in the South East Asia region (SEA), Ciaran Harron drives the business development strategy and guides the promotion and adoption of SAP's industry solutions for the telecommunications sector across this region.His responsibilities include helping customers develop IT roadmaps that derive business value, align industry partner programs and collaboration, and bringing SAP's innovative industry offerings to SEA customers.

Ciaran brings more than fifteen years of deep industry expertise and experience to SAP's Telecommunications practice. Prior to joining SAP, Ciaran spent six years working for Telkomsel, the largest GSM operator in Indonesia.

Damien Garot is the Eutelsat Director of corporate development. Having joined the company 5 years ago, he is involved in the long-term development projects of Eutelsat, for organic and external growth.
Damien has over 15 years of experience in the industry. Damien has worked for Alcatel Space in Paris and SkyBridge in Washington DC. He graduated from ENSAE in France on space engineering and holds an MBA from EM Lyon.

David is a veteran in the telecommunications industry with more than 30 years of working experience in several parts of the world.

David leads Nucleus Connect to create a vibrant Retail Service Provider (RSP) environment offering comprehensive and flexible services that will help all RSPs select and deliver broadband connectivity services to their target markets quickly and seamlessly, bringing a more enriching experience to the end-users.

David was with StarHub since 1997 and worked during the licence tender phase. After the successful bid, he was put in charge of the fixed network implementation. As Head of Integrated Network Engineering, David was responsible for the operations of StarHub's fixed, mobile and cable networks, and charted the division's strategic technology directions. He also led International Carrier Relations and Domestic Wholesale services which focus on the provision of communications infrastructure, facilities and services with other carriers and service providers.

Dipesh Rattan is currently Director of Microwave Systems, Wireless for APAC at CommScope. He is based in New Delhi, India and responsible for the profitable growth of Microwave antenna product line consisting of standard, well-established mature products along with strong emphasis on bringing new products and line extensions to market. His job also requires him to provide advice to industry leaders on total site solutions including backhaul infrastructure and innovative approaches to enable efficient use of microwave capacity.

Rattan has over 12 years of industry experience and has worked in product development and marketing of total RF path solutions to operators in Australia, Asia and India.Prior to CommScope, Rattan has held senior positions with Vodafone, Lucent Technologies and Idea Cellular.

Rattan holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics & Telecommunications along with Masters in Business Management.

Glenn directs the global business plan for technical and channel marketing, awareness and communications programs for BTI Systems.

Glenn's 20 plus years of experience developing new business opportunities in the telecommunications and IT sector equips him with a unique understanding of the customer and technology challenges of new business growth. He has held senior roles in marketing, business development and network planning organizations across technologies ranging from microchips to systems to OSS software.

As the former VP of Global Alliances for Nortel, Glenn built successful partnerships with global systems integrators and major IT companies including EMC, Microsoft and SUN Microsystems.

Peter Lovelock is the Director of TRPC, the consulting and training arm of the Telecoms Research Project, an IT think-tank based out of Singapore, Hong Kong and Beijing. He has more than 25 years experience in telecoms, Internet and IT research, including regulatory assessments, implementation and execution projects, and due diligence and market entry strategic guidance projects throughout Asia.

 The TRPC provides in-depth research and consulting services to companies, as well as to institutions such as the World Bank, the ITU, UNDP and ESCAP, the European Commission in China, and for regulators in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and India.

 In recent years, Peter has provided NBN advice including on convergence policies to the Japanese, Singaporean, Chinese, Australian and Mongolian governments, among others.

Dr Lovelock is a principal advisor to the Yellow Pages group, Qpay mobile payments technologies, and Yummi Media (Asia), as well as a senior advisor to Microsoft.

 Between 1999 and 2004 Peter built and ran China's leading IT research consultancy. Prior to that, Peter worked as a senior policy analyst at the ITU in Geneva.

An industry visionary and well-known expert in the field, Mo serves on Alvarion's executive management team as Corporate Vice President for Innovation and Marketing. In addition, he serves in several prominent roles in the industry, such as Vice President of the WiMAX Forum and a member of the WiMAX Forum Board of Directors. Instrumental in growing WiMAX into a multi-billion dollar industry and having expanded the WiMAX Forum's global reach, Mo is considered to be the leading voice for the WiMAX industry. In addition to his industry leadership position with the WiMAX Forum, Mo also serves on the advisory board for the Wireless Communication Alliance and is an IEEE MTT-SVC 2004 chairman.

Prior to joining Alvarion, Mo was responsible for developing and managing network solutions in European and South American broadband wireless markets for Lucent Technologies. Before Lucent, he spent fourteen years in technical and management positions with Hewlett Packard, developing microwave and fiber optic communication components and systems. He co-founded the wireless systems division, where he was responsible for the engineering team developing low-cost residential digital wireless systems for U.S. and Asian markets.

Mo earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University on Sub picosecond GaAs Wafer Probe Systems.

Moya is a Partner in Gilbert + Tobin's Competition and Regulation group, specialising in telecommunications, online businesses and converging media. She has extensive experience providing legal and regulatory advice, and well as economic and business analysis.

Prior to joining Gilbert + Tobin, Moya was Vice President at leading economic consulting firm, CRA International. Before that, Moya spent several years in senior business and legal roles at Fairfax and Telstra, including as General Counsel and Company Secretary of Telstra Multimedia during the HFC rollout and establishment of FOXTEL.

Mr Philip Heah joined Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) in November 2000 and is the Senior Director heading the Next Generation Infrastructure Group.

He is responsible for overseeing the deployment of a new super high speed wired broadband network, the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (Next Gen NBN). This new Next Gen NBN has been identified as a strategic infrastructure for Singapore to remain as a vibrant infocomm community for both businesses and consumers under its Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015) Masterplan. Under his leadership, the contractors responsible for the passive and active Next Gen NBN were awarded, and the deployment of the passive network has began, and on schedule. The group is now concentrating on engaging retail service providers, and end users, to create vibrancy and adoption of the Next Gen Services.

Among his notable achievements, Mr Philip heads IDA's Innovation and Wireless division. During his stint as its Director, key industry-wide wireless innovation initiatives were announced, including 'Pilot and Trial Hotspots' (PATH), 'Wireless Technology Alliance' (WTA) and 'Market Development' (MADE). Philip also successfully launched Calls for Collaborations (CFCs) that resulted in cross-industry partnerships in various programmes. The value of CFCs rests in pulling together different industry players within a value chain to provide a whole solution to users.

Prior to joining IDA, Philip Heah was Director of Technology at the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Rhys Arkins is the Director of Technical Sales for Acme Packet in the Asia Pacific region. He graduated from the University of Queensland with First Class Honours and a University Medal in Computer Science, however he soon realized that the connected world of IP Communications was of primary interest and has pursued that for the past ten years in the industry.

Sharad is an Executive Director at KPMG Corporate Finance, Singapore, leading the Infrastructure and Projects practice. He specializes in Project Finance and has handled various projects across infrastructure sectors including broadband, industrial infrastructure, energy and transport. His skill set includes contract structuring, bid advisory, business planning, financial structuring and modelling, regulatory advisory, risk mitigation, project appraisal, fund syndication and negotiations with bankers for project financing.

Sharad is the Project Director leading a group of consultants to advise a Singapore government agency on the structure and implementation of the Next Generation National Broadband Network (NGNBN) under the PPP framework.

Rohan Samarajiva is founding Chair and CEO of LIRNEasia, an ICT policy and regulation think tank active across 11 emerging Asian economies.

Samarajiva was Team Leader at the Sri Lanka Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology (2002-04) responsible for infrastructure reforms. He headed the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission in Sri Lanka as it was being established as a separate entity (1998-99), and advised the Royal Government of Bhutan on the establishment of the telecom regulatory body (2001-02). Most recently, Samarajiva was Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Post and Telecom in Bangladesh (2006-09).

Stewart White is KPMG's Middle East & South Asia (MESA) Head of Telecoms since 2010.  He is involved in providing clients in the region with highly focused telecoms sector-specific advice to operators and investors from a regulatory, policy, public affairs and commercial perspective based on 30 years experience. He has experience working in more than 50 countries where he has also advised a number of governments on sector reform, drafting legislation to implement and establish regulatory authorities, drafting licences and interconnection agreements, particularly in the Middle East.

He has worked closely with a number of operators in the region and was one of the key players in Etisalat's successful bid and for and negotiation of the third mobile licence in Egypt. He has been one of the advisors of the Australian Government with regard to its $43bn next generation network project. From 1999 to 2005, he was the Group Public Policy Director of Vodafone Group, where he was described by its CEO, Sir Christopher Gent, as 'Vodafone's Foreign Minister', with responsibility for its public policy and affairs worldwide. He has had a long involvement with the International Telecommunication Union and has been an advisor to a number of Secretaries General, including Hamadoun Touré, particularly with regard to NGN and access issues and digital age issues, including IP interconnection. In June 2010 he was invited to be a keynote speaker at a closed Ministerial Roundtable hosted by the Singaporean regulator, iDA, on Government Strategies and Policies on providing ICT access to their Populace.

Tony Poulos has been involved with software development and systems integration in travel and telecommunications for over 25 years. He developed a convergent billing system in the early nineties in Australia and from there he worked in a business development role with Unisys' Telecommunications Practice in Europe. He was co-founder of Copernicus Global Billing Services, a London based, web-enabled, managed service provider for outsourced billing and payments collection. He has worked in the areas of BSS, IT, revenue assurance, billing, payments, mobile internet access, mobile email and content delivery.

In addition to being a regular speaker and chairman at telco and finance conferences worldwide, he has been a Contributing Analyst for IDC, writes for a number of industry publications worldwide and is Anchor, for TelecomAsia's, Telecom Channel. Tony was an executive of the Global Billing Association for five years prior to its merger with the TM Forum. Until recently he headed up the Revenue Management Initiative of the TM Forum and conducts its training classes in billing and revenue management. His new role is one of BSS Strategist and Evangelist.

Vincent Boudville joined Huawei from Mar 2008 and is currently with Huawei's Senior Director of Business Consulting, South Pacific Region. He has over 25 years of experience in the ICT industry. He holds an MBA with a focus in technology management. He is leading teams that provide strategic business consulting to telecommunications operators in the region.

Sample of Current and Past projects: Future strategies including Next Generation NBN, Cloud Computing and All-IP transformation. Before Huawei he was instrumental in the wide adoption of Wireless technologies in notebook computers with Intel Corporation.

Zhenjun is Lead for Innovations in Marketing, Strategy and Public Affairs, Alcatel-Lucent APAC. He is responsible for building innovation and ecosystem programs, including Connect' program and leveraging programs for market development in APAC.

He joined Alcatel-Lucent in 1998 and since then held product and solution marketing and business development positions in US and APAC. He was a senior member of technical staff with SBC Communications Inc. (now AT&T).Previously; he held R&D and technical support positions with IBM Canada, Nortel, and Newbridge Networks. He holds an MBA degree from University of Maryland's Robert Smith Business School,M.Sc.degree from Queen's University and a BSc degree from University of Western Ontario.

Day 2 (22 June 2011, Wednesday)

Poon has been a market research professional for 12 years, and has been a regular speaker at numerous professional gatherings and industry events, including CommunicAsia and Cloud Computing Expo. Poon joined Tier1 Research in April of 2010, bringing expertise in cloud computing and enterprise network migration strategies. She is instrumental in the overall global consulting and research activities.
Prior to joining Tier1 Research, Poon was a senior analyst at Yankee Group for more than 10 years. Before Yankee, she worked as a research analyst in Frost & Sullivan's Telecommunications Service group. Poon holds a B.A. degree and an M.B.A. degree in international marketing from Ohio University.

Chad Gibbons leads the Alcatel-Lucent Services cloud services practice, a worldwide team responsible for bringing innovative cloud service offerings to market for service providers and enterprises. Previously Chad was Vice President of global strategy for Alcatel-Lucent Services, a role that helped transform Alcatel-Lucent's services portfolio into a solutions business, and Senior Director for Alcatel's IPTV & multimedia solutions practice. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University.

Wai Kong is the Lead Architect for Communications and Media Solutions in Asia Pacific. He is responsible for evaluation emerging technologies and business trends for communications service providers. In the last 2 years, he has been building Cloud usage scenarios, doing market segmentation and building viable Cloud business models.

Wai Kong has been in the telecom industry for the last 20 years. He has consulted and led various large projects in the region.

Cuneyt is an engineer at heart, yet specializes in accelerating the adoption and alignment of digital marketing technologies. He is one of the select few leaders with over a decade of experience in the web CMS industry - especially in Asia Pacific and Japan.

Over various roles, Cuneyt was responsible for leadership of sales strategy, go to market, and channel expansion within WCM, Portal, Social Media, Mobility and Digital Asset Management solutions. He has worked closely with worldwide brands such as Chevron Philips Chemical, Verizon Wireless, General Motors, FDA, City and County of San Francisco, American Bar Association, Network TEN and CPA Australia.

Mr. John Leung is the Director of Emerging Markets for Southeast Asia, at Research In Motion (RIM). Based in Singapore, his primary focus is on building up the presence of BlackBerry in Singapore and emerging markets such as The Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei and Guam. John is responsible for the overall business strategy and owning relationships with key partners to increase the demand of BlackBerry smartphones and solutions from both business and individual customers alike.

He started his career in advertising with M&C Saatchi, London and later in Asia; he continued his media career where he joined MTV as regional Director of Marketing, successfully pioneering sponsored initiatives including the launch of the MTV Asia Awards.

Peter is a partner in Gilbert + Tobin's Corporate, Communications & Technology group and has a particular focus on the telecommunications, information technology and government sectors involving a broad range of projects based on complex contracting and risk allocation arrangements. Peter has extensive experience advising clients on issues relating to cloud computing including data security, privacy, service levels, financial security requirements and jurisdiction arrangements.

Peter also advises clients across the Asia Pacific on major transformation and systems integration programs, sourcing arrangements and managed services transactions as well as shared services initiatives and licensing issues.

Sue works in the Huawei South Pacific CIO Office as a Director and is the Business Consultant lead for Cloud Computing with a focus on Transformation Strategy & Planning for both Telecom and Enterprise customers.

During her 25+ year career in the Telecom Industry, Sue has worked with numerous Telecom Operators across the Asia Pacific region supporting them in the development of their Business and Service Strategies, and Organization and IT Strategy, Plans, Programs.
She has worked across the IT Industry for IBM, Accenture and HP and in various roles in areas of Marketing and Solution Development, Systems Integration and Outsourcing.

Since joining Optus in 1992, Rob Parcell has held many senior roles across the company within sales and marketing management.
Rob was appointed to the Acting Managing Director role of Optus Business in April 2010. In this role Rob is responsible for all Optus enterprise business segments ranging from corporate through to government customers, as well as products and services including Optus Cloud Solutions.

Prior to this role Rob held the position of Chief Executive Officer, Alphawest for two years where he was responsible for all aspects of Alphawest's business including sales, operations and delivery. Alphawest, which Optus acquired in 2005, experienced significant growth since its integration with Optus and is now one of the top ten IT services companies in Australia.

Prior to joining Alphwest as CEO in 2008, Rob held the position of Director of the Southern Region with Optus from 2004 to 2008. In this role, Rob led Optus' Southern operations focusing on all aspects of Victoria's, South Australia's, Western Australia's and Tasmania's IT&T needs – with particular attention given to the corporate and Government sectors.

Rob is a keen patron of the arts, a passionate AFL supporter and enjoys tennis.

Roger Carvosso has worked in the telecommunications industry for 25 years, 17 of which have been at Telstra Corporation, working on portfolio management, product development and marketing of the Telstra and BigPond Internet brands in Australia. He has also managed multi-national enterprise and global carrier segments for international data products, as well as business and partnership development for managed ICT services.

As the current Head of Product Strategy & IP Services at Telstra International, Roger shapes strategies for the company's network-centric Managed Services & Connectivity (MS&C) products and 'agile' IP networking services such as Application Assured Networking (AAN) and Content Delivery (CDN) services.  He also manages the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN, Global Internet, IP Transit and Managed Security portfolio of services for large-scale organisations.

Prior to Telstra, Roger worked for the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC), where he led design and operational support for international satellite data,   video and managed router services. He also provided consultancy and bid design support for multinational customers.

Roger holds a Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical (Hons) degree from the University of Queensland and a Masters of Commerce – Finance/Marketing degree from the University of New South Wales. He is married with twins and lives in Sydney, Australia. 

Stephen Miles is vice president of the Service Assurance business unit for the Asia Pacific and Japan region. Based in Singapore, Stephen is responsible for strategy development and growing the revenue of the Service Assurance portfolio across the region.  In this role, he ensures that the service assurance strategy for CA technologies is well executed to help customers optimize their business service performance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. In addition, Stephen drives the service assurance business for communication service providers (CSPs) for Asia Pacific and Japan, helping CSPs proactively manage and monitor all parts of their operations with CA Technologies service assurance solutions.

Stephen has more than 20 years of IT software and networking experience. He ran the regional business operations for leading networking and software management organizations including Bay Networks, Nortel and EMC in Asia Pacific. Prior to joining CA Technologies in 2009, Stephen was vice president of Sales for the Infrastructure Management Group at EMC, where he specialized in service assurance solutions for service providers and enterprises.

Stephen has a degree equivalent from Windsor & Maidenhead College (Business School).

BhumipKhasnabish, PhD, is a Senior Member of IEEE and an emeritus Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). He has been trying to pull the Cloud initiative off the ground in IETF, and a co‐chair of the Test and Interoperability committee of ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF).

Currently Bhumip is a Director in the Standards Development and Industry Relations Division of ZTE USA, focusing on cross‐domain projects. Before that, he worked in Verizon Labs in Waltham, MA on specifying and prototyping VoIP, VoATM, MPEG video distribution, IPTV, and Converged Services NNI, and in BNR Ltd. in Ottawa, Canada, designing and implementing multi-service frame-cell switch.

KDr. Khasnabish has authored numerous patents, books, and articles in a variety of areas related to converged services and new generation networking. His recent contribution "Next Generation Technologies, Networks, and Services," appeared as a chapter in the book "Next Generation Telecommunications Networks, Services, and Management," (Wiley-IEEE Press, April 2010). His recent book "Implementing Voice over IP" is currently in second printing. Previously he edited/co‐edited a Book on "Multimedia Communications Networks: Technologies and Services," and many Special Issues of IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Magazines, and the Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM).

Bhumip is an Associate Editor of the Computers & Electrical Engineering: An International Journal, a member of the Board of Editors of the JNSM, and an adjunct faculty member of Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

David Ko leads Zynga's mobile business globally. In this role, Ko oversees all strategy, product development, business development and monetization activities for the business.

Prior to Zynga, Ko spent 10 years at Yahoo! where he was senior vice president of Yahoo!'s Audience, Mobile and Local businesses. As part of this role, he led all aspects from strategy to product of Yahoo!'s mobile business globally, and spearheaded the company's initiatives in the local space. He was also responsible for the vision, strategy and continued innovation of Yahoo!'s media properties including Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Entertainment. Prior to this, David served as vice president for Yahoo!'s mobile business in Asia Pacific.

Ko began his career as a senior associate for Equity Capital Markets at Salomon Smith Barney, where he was responsible for identifying, executing and closing deals in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Before joining the Equity Capital Markets group, he was a financial analyst for the Investment Banking Division in Global Energy. David graduated from New York University, Stern School of Business.

Dilip Mistry is a Senior Director in Microsoft Advertising Publishing Solutions Group, accountable for mobile, local and commerce advertising business in Asia.

Prior to this role, he was an online business leader in Asia executing marketing strategies to grow the audience for online & mobile consumer services, drive user engagement in Microsoft Consumer & Online business division.

Prior to joining C&O, Dilip had an extensive career in Microsoft commercial software business in multiple management, business development, sales and marketing roles in subsidiary, regional and corporate functions based in Asia, Europe, Middle East and US. Throughout his extensive career he has managed multi-million dollar marketing budgets to execute local and multinational marketing campaigns.

As General Manager for Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism, he was accountable for building a thriving 'Apps' ecosystem on multiple platforms throughout Asia Pacific.

Douglas Gan, 28, is the founder and CEO of ShowNearby, Singapore's leading location-based service provider which develops the multiple award and accolade winning ShowNearby application for smartphones. Before launching ShowNearby in March 2008, Douglas was a web consultant for Streetdirectory.com, GARENA.com, and PropertyGuru.com.sg from 2006 to 2007.

A serial entrepreneur, he founded PureHostings.net at the age of 16, plus other sites such as GlobalWiz.com.sg, Sunnypost.com, WithinBudget.net and LiveDNRS. He was also the founder of popular youth forum OhGenki.com and movie listing site OhGenki Movies in 2002 and 2005 respectively. OhGenki was subsequently sold to StreetDirectory.com in 2006.

Eric recently joined Velti and heads the sales and business development for Velti's business in the Asia Pacific region.  Eric will spearhead the company's efforts to run campaigns with brands, advertising agencies, mobile operators and media companies using the company's platform.

Eric has been working in the mobile technology field for the past 15 years, where he led the sales function in Asia Pacific for leading global players, including SanDisk and Giesecke and Devrient, managing relationships with key global accounts, strategic business partners and distribution channels.  Eric has a strong focus in working on b2b and b2c sales and marketing efforts, managing public and state-owned telecommunications and banking sector clients, and relationships with global network operator groups, mobile handset and card manufacturers throughout Asia.  Eric is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario.

Fabrizio is a Digital Media and Mobile executive with extensive experience across multiple markets in regions including EMEA, APAC and North America. Fabrizio is currently in charge of Global Business Development as well as APAC operations for Out There Media leading the launch and monetization of opt-in marketing propositions with tier-1 operators and advertising clients. Prior to joining Out There Media he held the position of Managing Director, Southeast Asia at Buongiorno Hong Kong, while his previous professional roles include senior positions at companies including Amdocs, Qpass, Epok Inc and T-Mobile International. 

Fredrik Hallberg is the Managing Director for GfK Network Intelligence Solution and a General Manager at GfK Retail and Technology GmbH; as well as a member of the global Retail and Technology Board. He is the speaker for Retail and Technology in Central and Eastern Europe as well as for the Network Intelligence Solution project. He started at GfK Sweden in 1997 and held various Management and Key Account positions in the Nordics as well as on a European level.

Krishna drives marketing and product strategy for Mobclix, a Velti company. Previously, Krishna was a co-founder for BlueLithium (acquired by Yahoo! for $300M), the world's largest behavioral targeted ad network. Krishna also launched MingleNow, the first online social network focused on offline places, events, and people. Prior to that, Krishna was co-founder of Burrp!, a localized review & recommendation portal for metropolitan India (acquired by media conglomerate TV18).

Krishna serves on various MMA committees and on the IAB Committees for Broadband & Lead Generation. He has been interviewed by Fox Business/News & Bloomberg on numerous occasions and authored articles in MediaPost, AdWeek & Mashable. Krishna is also a frequent speaker at conferences such as OMMA Mobile, APPNATION, Digiday, AdTech, AlwaysOn, Commonwealth Club, & Churchill Club. He also blogs for Huffington Post, iMedia, Adotas, & AdExchanger.

Krishna graduated with honors from UC Davis.

Marcus Tan is the Managing Director of Smaato's Asia Pacific operations. With more than 20 years of experience in managing customer operations and services, business development, sales and marketing from traditional to online to mobile media industries. Marcus is responsible for driving Smaato's mobile advertising business across the Asia Pacific region (including China and India) via its SOMA™ platform.

Prior to Smaato, Marcus had held business leadership roles in companies such as Velti, Nokia, Travelocity, Lycos and Media Corporation of Singapore. Marcus graduated with a MBA from Victoria University in Australia.

Suresh has broad range of executive and technological experience as an entrepreneur and a technologist. Suresh is popularly known for his entrepreneurial capabilities with founding of TELiBrahma Convergent Communications. Suresh has extensive venture capital experience. His current priority is taking TELiBrahma to the next level of growth.

Some of his achievements include -

Significant contribution to the mobile solutions industry, with the conception of revolutionary mobile applications.

Has been successful in building a network independent of telecom operators, using unlicensed spectrum and scaling the same to world's largest network away from the operator, reaching out to 5000+ nodes over 21 cities. Thereby, Building a consumer inventory for delivering rich media and location based services that reach out to 2.5 M+ consumer's month on month

Latest innovation to Suresh's credit includes the launch of 'Augmented Reality', a platform and service in India delivering campaigns for 15 + brands month on month through TELiBrahma.

Nic has twenty five years experience in the Market Research Industry based in South Africa, the UK and now Singapore, during which time he has conducted research in over 120 countries. He is currently Consumer Insights Director in TNS Singapore, working with a number of local, regional and global clients, with a remit to ensure that reporting and presentation of results is insightful and actionable

Nic has published numerous conference papers on a broad range of topics which have been presented all over the world, including winning "Best Paper' at the ESOMAR Consumer Insights Conference in Vienna in 2003 and 'Best Paper' at the ESOMAR Global Diversity Conference in Miami in 2006 and Best Paper at the Singapore MRS in 2009 on the topic of young people's digital habits, including the mobile

Raymond was a veteran in fast moving consumer goods before he joined Hutchison Global Communications in 2003. Since then, he has been made responsible for different key roles within Hutchison Telecommunications, including mobile and fixed line branding, communications, content management and development. Innovative Fixed-mobile cross platform services on smartphones and tablets such as 3 ebooks, KKBOX music, Weibo & Facebook alerts, Shot n Print are amongst the many which splashed the territory with wide attention in the last couple of years.

In addition, Raymond has been instrumental in evangelizing "3" as a marketing tool to media, creative agencies and brand owners through partnership or advertising on the largest 3G community in the territory. Successful cases with brands like Ocean Park, Harbour City, TDC, and Adidas have inspired more and more creative ideas onto Hutchison's mobile marketing platforms. Raymond is currently the Chairman of the Hong Kong Advertisers Association, Vice- Chairman of the HK Audit Bureau of Circulations, and Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Interactive Marketing.

Rohit Dadwal is Managing Director (MD) for the Mobile Marketing Association's Asia Pacific (APAC) branch, running the regional headquarters in Singapore. He joined the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) in November 2008, having spent 8 years at Microsoft and participated in MMA activity as a board member. In his role as MD, Rohit will work to build a sustainable ecosystem for the mobile marketing industry in the APAC region, promoting the MMA as the leading association for region-wide consultation on key industry issues such as measurement and metrics, mobile advertising guidelines, codes of conduct and consumer best practices.

Rohit brings a wealth of industry experience to the MMA, with over 10 years spent working in the Internet and telecommunications industries, including the design and delivery of some of the early ISP services. He has spent the last 7 years working on mobile value added services, user experience and wireless technologies and has been instrumental in launching new products and services across the Asian and international markets.

Rohit has also worked for Bharti-British Telecom ISP services - India, and with IPSIl, an affiliate of VSNL – the largest internet service provider in India. He has travelled widely across Asia, visiting communication service providers, attending and speaking at conferences, and speaking to the media.

Susanna is responsible for Blyk's business development and expansion in the Asia Pacific region. She has ten years of telecommunication industry experience in Europe and Asia.

Prior to joining Blyk, Susanna worked in leadership and sales roles at Nokia Siemens Networks and Siemens based in Thailand, Singapore and Germany. She was responsible for managing the Vodafone Group global account and in charge of the VAS and applications business in APAC.

With her master's degree in marketing from the University of Innsbruck in Austria and SKEMA of Sophia Antipolis in France, Susanna is passionate about the mobile engagement channel between brands and consumers.

Arvind has 20 years of senior management experience in entrepreneurial and executive roles, including advising on business strategy to Silicon Valley start-ups, VCs and private-equity firms.  His expertise is in the area of Technology Media and Telecommunications (TMT), with a focus on the mobile wireless segment.

At Geodesic, Arvind is responsible for securing and managing strategic partnerships with the top mobile wireless operators, handset vendors and content providers worldwide. 

Previously, Arvind held executive roles at SpectraLink, Hellosoft, Morphics Technology, Zoran and Synopsis.

Arvind has an MBA (Sloan Fellow, MIT Sloan School of Management) and an MSEE (Syracuse University, New York). 

Conrad Labonte is currently Director, Business Development, Network Solutions, Wireless, Asia Pacific for CommScope.  He advises mobile carriers on a range of technology and business issues, validated using comprehensive business case modeling. He has over 20 years of Asian telecom experience, in a range of wireless solutions and media/telecom applications including IMS and NGN, services, & middleware.  He has extensive experience in product development as well as in bringing solutions to service providers in Europe, Australia, Asia, the Pacific, and Canada.

Conrad is currently based in Singapore, and advises industry leaders on the new methods in generate revenues by leveraging intrinsic untapped information contained in the mobile operations. Previously Conrad was the Director of Redknee's APAC business; Managing Director of CELAsia; and Nortel Networks' Director for Wireless ASEAN/Pakistan business.  He also held various senior positions in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Australia, and Canada at Nortel.

David is currently CEO of Jumbuck Entertainment, an Australian head-quartered organisation running mobile entertainment communities globally. Building on its foundations in the on-deck world globally, David is driving Jumbuck's transformation into a leader in monetisation of communities in a direct-to-consumer, social media based, smart phone enabled world.

David is relatively new to the mobile world. After an early career as an engineer, David spent 11 years consulting in the Asia-Pacific finance and communications sectors with McKinsey & Company before branching into the entrepreneurial world.  He founded and led echoice.com.au, a leading online mortgage lender in Australia, before co-founding a successful Salesforce.com implementation consultancy.

David has an Engineering degree from Monash Universtity, and an MBA from London Business School.

Dr KF Lai is co-founder and chief executive officer of BuzzCity, one of world's leading mobile media companies in the development and marketing of mobile services and entertainment to a global audience.

Established in 1999 in Singapore, BuzzCity's business focuses on two distinct audiences: the newly connected emerging middle class in developing markets and the blue collar sector in developed regions.

These "unwired" consumers are accessing the mobile Internet on their phones due to widespread and affordable wireless access. Prior to founding BuzzCity, Dr Lai worked as an applied researcher in laboratories funded by the Singapore government, specializing in pattern recognition and text retrieval.

He graduated with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and obtained his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Eamonn Kearns is Vice President, Asia for Dialogic Inc and has responsibility for the development of sales strategies, growth initiatives, and new market penetration. Kearns has been with Dialogic since 1990 and stayed with the Dialogic division in Intel, while it was part of Intel for over seven years before being spun out from Intel in October, 2006.

With over 20 years of experience in the computer telephony, telecommunications, and computer industries, Kearns has held various positions in sales management, business development, and marketing.

Ian Chapman-Banks joined Dell in January 2009 as General Manager for the Asia Pacific Consumer division. Ian has spent much of his career laying the groundwork for Asia's successful convergence of entertainment and technology through his various assignments within the region. With an intimate knowledge of the Asia Pacific consumer landscape and a strong track record marketing consumerware, Ian brings these expertise and experience to bear as he leads his team to reach out, engage and connect with Dell's customers.

Before joining Dell, Ian was Motorola's Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific, Mobile Devices. In this capacity, Ian shaped the enhancement of Motorola's brand and reputation across 17 markets, creating marketing programs acknowledged by the industry as some of the most innovative and effective in the region. Ian also guided the creation of MotoMusic.com, Motogames.com, and Motorola's acquisition of pan-Asian music service Soundbuzz.

In 2005, Ian's responsibilities grew at Motorola to cover more the Asian market. In his role as Corporate Vice President and General Manager for Mobile Devices Asia, he led the improvement of Motorola's sales and financial performance for the region, while spearheading its business strategy and product management for end-to-end solutions.

Ian's earlier career highlights include the setting up of Microsoft's Home and Entertainment Division's regional headquarters in Hong Kong in 2002. As the Brand & Channel Director for in the Asia-Pacific region, his portfolio grew to include formulating the group's strategy and organization design, and for recruiting a regional team to execute that strategy.
Ian relocated to Korea for three months to set up Microsoft's Games Division, where he created the strategy and plan that would see Microsoft building a library of localized content and the Xbox Live online gaming service, rolling out into four markets and establishing a foundation for Microsoft's growing global move into online games.

Prior to Microsoft, Ian was the Marketing and Channel Director for Apple in Asia Pacific, where he helped build the company's brand in the region following Steve Jobs' return to Apple.  Ian managed the company's advertising, marketing (online, direct, buzz and retail), collateral, and packaging in each of the region's markets.

Ian received his undergraduate Bsc in Applied Science and Computer Studies in the United Kingdom, and earned his MBA in Strategy and Finance from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business in the US.

Mr Jari Heinonen, Vice President, Asia Pacific Region joined F-Secure in Year 2000. He was graduated with a university level degree in Computer Science in 1989.

Before embarking his career with F-Secure, he was working with various roles in Europe and in Asia. Besides that, he has also worked for Telia Sonera in Scandinavia, which he has been taking care of the mobile internet business development.

Today, with Heinonen's vast and extensive knowledge and experience, F-Secure, Asia is now on the world map where people recognize F-Secure as the best solution provider in IT industry!"

John co-directs the Two Bulls software design and development team. Specializing in cutting edge branding/campaign strategies, Two Bulls incorporates Augmented Reality, location services and social networking to produce engaging mobile/web experiences.

Two Bulls recently won GSMA's Coca-Cola Brand App Challenge (Barcelona 2011) and have been awarded the United Nations' World Summit Award (Winner, Mobile, 2010), Desktop Magazine Create Awards (Winner, Digital & Interactive, Australia 2010) and Gulltasten (Content Service of the Year, Norway, November 2010). John's productions have also been awarded the DuPont Innovation Award (2008) and numerous top chart rankings on Apple's App Store.

John holds a degree in Computer Science and has delivered solutions for clients including GE, Cisco, Sony, Victoria's Secret, Qantas and the European Union.

Justin Ho is the Co - CEO of Singapore based Utiba Pte Ltd. Mr. Ho carries more than two decades of experience in the technology and finance domains.

Prior to starting up Utiba, Justin was associated with NCR corporation, an organisation in the field of leading businesses around the globe to the next generation of customer interactions. NCR is the global market share leader in banking ATMs, retail self-service checkout, and both airline and health care self-service check-in kiosks, in the sales team.

Justin holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Melbourne University. On personal front, Justin nurtures a passion for golf and photography, architecture, aeroplanes and financial inclusion.

Since joining MEF in 2001, Rimma has been instrumental in executing MEF's rapid growth and extended global reach, forging relationships with industry leaders and key stakeholders, and positioning MEF as the mobile media industry's global trade body. As Executive Director, Rimma leads MEF in its mission to facilitate the industry's growth, protect revenues and create competitive advantage for members in collaboration with the Global Board and MEF's regional chapters in Asia, EMEA, LaTam and North America. Prior to MEF, Rimma worked for an internet start-up and several global trade associations based in Washington DC. A bi-lingual English-Russian speaker, Rimma holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelors degree from Cornell University.

Rob is the Global Telecommunications Industry Leader at the IBM Institute for Business Value. He is responsible for developing strategic thought leadership in telecommunications and as such contributes to IBM's global telecom strategy. In this role he develops future agenda's, industry outlooks and business value realization studies. He has 20 years experience in telecommunications.

Rob periodically presents or participates in panel sessions at major industry conferences, such as World Telecom Council, Asian Carriers' Conference and Broadband World Forum, and has published multiple articles in, amongst others, Total Telecom Magazine, Telecom Asia, Wireless Asia, European Communications and Journal of Telecommunications Management.

Michael Neidhoefer co-founded Netbiscuits and serves the company as CEO since 2000. He is one of the first true Mobile Internet pioneers in Germany and today one of the most experienced individuals in the mobile market and a valued industry voice as speaker. He is overall responsible for the Netbiscuits Strategy as well as Sales and Marketing and successfully grew the business to a market leading software company serving 300+ business customers and major brands such as eBay, Yahoo and AOL. He was nominated for the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Germany in 2008.

Neeraj Roy is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Under his leadership, Hungama today is South Asia's largest digital and mobile entertainment company. He is also the Chairman of the Asia Board of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), and was recently voted amongst the 'Top Ten mobiThinkers' and '50 Most influential People in Mobile Entertainment' globally. Neeraj was also awarded the Sun Microsystems-Economic Times Young Leader award in 2001 and voted as 25 young leaders in the new millennium by Business India. He has been nominated four times in a row, to the list of 'Top 50 Executives in Mobile Content' by the ME magazine in the UK. He is also an active speaker at various international forums and on several domestic and international committees advising on the global Mobile Entertainment opportunity.

Neeraj began his career in the hospitality industry with the Taj Group of Hotels. After a successful decade in the service industry, he moved on to establish hungama.com in 1999. Today Hungama is the largest aggregator, developer and publisher of Bollywood & South Asian entertainment content in the world, having worldwide exclusive rights to over half a million music and video titles.

Neeraj always wanted to be an entrepreneur right from his early days in business school. After 16 years in industry, today, Neeraj is known as an innovator, and is sought for his vision in the digital and mobile entertainment industry. Neeraj has built a business that is at an inflection point and a team that is highly motivated and believes in his vision.

HY Sia started his career by founding Ionnex in year 2002, a company specializing in mobile value added services and software development. Sia is one of the earliest mobile VAS industries in Malaysia, and successfully steered the company to expand regionally in Asia Pacific region.

In year 2008, Sia founded Tranglo as cross-border telecommunication and money transfer transaction hub. Sia specialize in products and business development for Tranglo. Today, Tranglo is serving more than 60 mobile operators and 70 banks spanning across Asia Pacific andMiddle East market.

HY Sia graduated as Bachelor of Information Technology, Multimedia University (Cyberjaya, Malaysia) in year 2001

Sid has been an entrepreneur in the Software and Information Technology industry for more than 15 years now. He is the Founder and CEO of Web Spiders (www.webspiders.com) – a Rich Web and Mobile Engineering Company with core competencies in Mobile Technologies, Rich Internet Application Frameworks (e.g., Adobe Flex) and Enterprise Content Management systems. Web Spiders is dual-headquartered in Singapore and India with subsidiaries in UK and USA.

As a popular and highly sought after international speaker, Sid has traveled extensively sharing his expertise and helping people across the globe.

Steven is the CEO and co-Founder of mig33, a global mobile consumer internet company, and Executive Chairman of Third Party Platform Pty Ltd, an Australian Financial Services provider.

Steven has extensive experience in developing and delivering compelling internet services for consumers, having founded both mig33 and Sanford Securities Pty Ltd, Australia's first online stockbroking company. Subsequently, Steven went on to co-found mig33. The goal was to build a mobile Internet community by connecting consumers via mobile phones using popular Internet applications. Since its release at the end of 1995, mig33 has attracted more than millions of users in countries all over the world.

Tarik Husain is the Business Development Director for Sybase 365's Mobile Commerce division, where his responsibilities include driving and managing key global strategic partnerships, and formulating strategies for Sybase 365's global mobile banking, mobile payments and mobile remittance business.

Originally from the UK, Mr. Husain has worked for several years in the USA, Australia and recently Singapore. Bringing over 20 years experience in the banking and payments industry, Mr. Husain holds a well rounded perspective of the FSI industry having been on both ends of the spectrum – from banks to the vendor community.

Prior to Sybase 365, he has held various senior positions in banks such as the Bank of England, Lasalle Banks, European American Bank and OCBC Bank; and in vendor organizations such as ACI Worldwide and Hewlett Packard

Tom Clayton is currently the CEO of Bubble Motion, where he has led the company through a phenomenal period of growth building out the mobile voice blogging service called Bubbly that has grown to over 10M+ users spread throughout Asia in just over a year since it launched. 

Prior to Bubble Motion, Tom was GM of the Worldwide Telecom Business at BEA Systems, an infrastructure software company acquired by Oracle for $8.5B.  Before BEA, Tom helped start five different companies - ranging from another Sequoia Capital-backed Internet company to an e-commerce–focused systems integrator.

Tom holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley.  Prior to Tom's professional career, he was a boxer and won the Bronze Medal at the U.S. National Championships.

Abu joined the Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh (AMTOB) as its Secretary General on August 1, 2010.* Earlier he was a Strategy Analyst at Ericsson's Southeast Asia head office in Malaysia until June 2010. Previously, he was Technology Editor for bdnews24.com, Bangladesh's first online newspaper, as well as a research analyst at EMC World Cellular Database (currently owned by Informa) covering the mobile markets of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal.

As a journalist, Abu persuaded the government to join the SEA-ME-WE4 consortium in 2002, which has linked Bangladesh with its very first, and by far the only, submarine cable. At LIRNEasia, he conducted research into the replicability of a microfinance approach to extending rural connectivity in Bangladesh. He has also provided consultancy expertise in telecommunications to local and international organizations. He served on the faculty of regional regulatory training courses offered by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) between 2001 and 2004.

*Abu works in LIRNEasia in his personal capacity and not as a representative of AMTOB.

Ahmad Azhar, 46, holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. He began his career in 1987 as an Engineer in Agilent Technologies (formerly known as Hewlett Packard). He then joined management consultants, Accenture in 1990 servicing a portfolio of clients in Malaysia, Asia and the Middle East in various industries from communications to high technology, oil and gas and the public sector. His experience includes strategic planning and change management, business and operations support systems, enterprise resource management, revenue and customer relationship management. He became a Partner at Accenture in 2000 before joining TM as Group Chief Information Officer on 2 August 2004. In 2008, Ahmad was appointed the Programme Director of the High-Speed Broadband Programme and contributed to the successful launch of UniFi in March 2010. He was appointed to his current position as TM's Chief Strategy Officer on 15 July 2010.

BVoted 2009 Best Asia Pacific Telecom Executive by readers of CommsDay and named 2008 Telecom CEO of the Year by Telecom Asia, Bill Barney presided over the transformation of one of Asia's first Chapter 11 casualties (Asia Global Crossing), into one of the region's leading providers of IP and WAN services (Asia Netcom). In 2007, Mr. Barney led the company's successful acquisition of regional ISP, Pacific Internet, which operationally merged with Asia Netcom and re-launched as Pacnet in January 2008.

Before founding BroadLight in 2000, Didi worked for 18 years at Telrad (a subsidiary of Nortel) as R&D manager. His varied communications background includes joint projects with Nortel as well as HW and SW Telephony projects. In 1998, Mr. Ivancovsky joined the Access Division of Telrad and served as Head of the Embedded Software department focusing mainly on Broadband Access involving Sonet/SDH, ATM, DSL and Telephony.

Prior to work as a Product Marketing Director, Mr. Liu Feng was a Marketing Manager, Testing Director, Senior R&D Testing Engineer and System Verification Engineer for broadband access product in ZTE. Mr. Liu represented ZTE in many industry meetings, conferences, exhibition and trade shows. He has deeply insights in broadband access network evolution and development always brings a fresh perspective to the audience.

He got a master degree of Telecommunications and Information System in CATT (China Academy of Telecommunications Technology) in 2003 and a bachelor degree of electrical engineering in USTC (University of Science and Technology of China) in 2000.

John Hibbard is a leading consultant in international telecommunications, particularly in the development of submarine cable projects. He has over 40 years experience in the telecommunications industry, mostly in international activities and submarine cables. Prior to becoming a consultant, John was Managing Director Global Wholesale at Telstra Australia, where he managed Telstra's international business, and was founding Chairman of the Australia Japan Cable. He is now President of the Pacific Telecommunications Council and Chairman of its Board of Governors.

Robin Mersh joined the Broadband Forum as Chief Operating Officer in July 2006, and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in July 2010. Robin has authored many articles and has spoken at and chaired many broadband industry conferences and exhibitions. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 18 years, starting at Cable & Wireless and then moving on to BT before meeting his wife and moving to the US in 1999.

Robin has worked in business development and alliance management for various OSS software companies in the United States, mainly in network and service provisioning and activation, where he negotiated and managed several large OEM agreements. He is originally from Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London in 1992.

Rohan Samarajiva is founding Chair and CEO of LIRNEasia, an ICT policy and regulation think tank active across 11 emerging Asian economies.

Samarajiva was Team Leader at the Sri Lanka Ministry for Economic Reform, Science and Technology (2002-04) responsible for infrastructure reforms. He headed the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission in Sri Lanka as it was being established as a separate entity (1998-99), and advised the Royal Government of Bhutan on the establishment of the telecom regulatory body (2001-02). Most recently, Samarajiva was Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Post and Telecom in Bangladesh (2006-09).

Simon Delord is a Director of Technology and Solutions at Alcatel-Lucent and has over 10 years of experience in the Telecom industry working for both vendors and carriers. Simon joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2010 and past employers include Telstra, Uecomm and France Telecom.

His current focus is on cloud computing and next generation networking solutions.  He has worked extensively in Ethernet, IP/MPLS architectural design and service deployment with a focus on quality of service and multicast. He is an active contributor to the IETF in the PWE3 and L2VPN working groups, has coauthored several RFCs and has spoken at various conferences

Stewart White is KPMG's Middle East & South Asia (MESA) Head of Telecoms since 2010.  He is involved in providing clients in the region with highly focused telecoms sector-specific advice to operators and investors from a regulatory, policy, public affairs and commercial perspective based on 30 years experience. He has experience working in more than 50 countries where he has also advised a number of governments on sector reform, drafting legislation to implement and establish regulatory authorities, drafting licences and interconnection agreements, particularly in the Middle East.

He has worked closely with a number of operators in the region and was one of the key players in Etisalat's successful bid and for and negotiation of the third mobile licence in Egypt. He has been one of the advisors of the Australian Government with regard to its $43bn next generation network project. From 1999 to 2005, he was the Group Public Policy Director of Vodafone Group, where he was described by its CEO, Sir Christopher Gent, as 'Vodafone's Foreign Minister', with responsibility for its public policy and affairs worldwide. He has had a long involvement with the International Telecommunication Union and has been an advisor to a number of Secretaries General, including Hamadoun Touré, particularly with regard to NGN and access issues and digital age issues, including IP interconnection. In June 2010 he was invited to be a keynote speaker at a closed Ministerial Roundtable hosted by the Singaporean regulator, iDA, on Government Strategies and Policies on providing ICT access to their Populace.

Dr Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) since January 2007, was re-elected for a second term at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, Guadalajara, Mexico, in October 2010.

He served as Director of ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) from 1998 to 2006, and has wide professional experience in both the public and private sectors.

Born in 1953, Dr Touré holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Leningrad (LEIS, USSR) and Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD) from the University of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of Moscow (MTUCI, Russia).

He is committed to ITU as an innovative, forward-looking organization adapted to meeting the challenges created by the rapidly-changing ICT environment, and to continuing to spearhead the Union towards implementing the resolutions of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Dr Touré is married with four children and two granddaughters.

Day 3 (23 June 2011, Thursday)

Ashish is a Partner heading the Lead Advisory practice for Technology, Communications and Media & entertainment (TCE). Ashish has about 17 years' experience in M&A Transactions including Cross Border transactions, syndicating private equity for early and late stage companies, assisting in strategic business planning, due diligence reviews and restructuring. He joined E&Y in year 2000 and is based in the Gurgaon office.Ashish is a management Postgraduate from IIM Ahmedabad (1992) and B.Tech from IIT Delhi (1988).

Mr. Benney Cheng, VP of ASEAN, PCCW Global, based in Singapore since Nov 2005.

Before joining "PCCW, Benney Cheng has been the Country Manager of "Reach" in 2002 and "TMI" since 1996. He was the head of their sales, marketing and business operations, and led the team to build up Telecom services sales in and around Singapore.

Benney began his IT career in 1986 with "AT&T" in Beijing to develop network product sales channel and Unix localization projects. Mr. Cheng was a forerunner in selling major system integration projects such as Unix applications, structuring cable system, and WAN solutions to state-owned enterprises and

central government ministries in PRC. He was promoted to General Manager of the China division in 1990 and had smoothly led a local team to integrate its China/HK operations into NCR which was acquired by AT&T in 1991.

Mr. Cheng graduated from Brigham Young University, USA, majoring in Computer Science.

Christopher is Senior Director, Solution Marketing, Irdeto. He joined the company in 2001 and has held various positions in Marketing and Product Management. Christopher is a specialist in Digital TV and digital media technologies, especially those related to content security and user experience. Prior to joining Irdeto, he held various positions in fixed and mobile telecommunications in The Netherlands and the United States. He has a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Iowa, where he graduated with honors. Christopher is an avid digital media technology enthusiast.

Francis Yan has 15 years of experience in the areas of IP / data networking and transmission technologies. He was Involved in key projects for ZTE Bearer Network Division globally for more than 5 years
Speaker in MPLS World Congress 2009 in Paris for ZTE on "ESRP Enhancement for MPLS based Backhaul"

Past work experience in telecom equipment vendors and various systems integrators for IP/MPLS/ATM, national broadband, IPTV, NAS/SAN, VoIP/NGN and other projects in China and Asia Pacific
Born and educated in Hong Kong, university degree in the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Computer Engineering (Hons)

Geoff Thomas is the General Manager for Asia Pacific, Greater China, India and Japan within the Communications Sector at Microsoft. He is responsible for sales and marketing, business development, consulting and support services for leading telecommunications companies, service providers, and media and entertainment companies in Asia. He is also responsible for building a strong eco-system of partners to support Microsoft's initiatives in the region.

Harrie Tholen started his career in advanced development of HDTV technologies at Philips. He moved on to product management, sales and general management in various high technology fields. With assignments in Hong Kong and Singapore, he has over 15 years of experience in the Asia Pacific region in the digital broadcasting and mobile multimedia industries. 

Harrie Tholen is currently Civolution's General Manager for Asia Pacific, based in Shanghai. Civolution is the leading provider of watermarking and fingerprinting solutions to content owners and content distributers for identifying, managing and monetizing their media content.

Isa Seow is a new media technology professional experienced in technology standards, policy and government relations. He is well versed with Asia Pacific, having recently acted as a regional technology lobbyist for the motion picture industry. Currently, Seow is Managing Director of the Centre for Content Promotion. Seow also interacts with governments, industry, and regional organisations in the region. He maintains a creative side as a major label artist/musician.

Jim Williams is President and Founder of Media Strategies and Solutions, LLC, a consultancy focused on bridging the traditional divide between technology providers and major media producers thereby lowering business, legal and technical risk for its clients.  Clients include companies wishing to provide higher value content on more diverse platforms.

Jim is the former SVP/CTO of the MPAA and also a former executive with DIRECTV leading the startup of DIRECTV Japan, the launch of the first U.S. nationwide HDTV service and STB development. 

Jim holds fifteen U.S. patents, has won six Emmys and has delivered 50+ addresses on five continents.

Juan-Jose heads the Enterprise Innovation programme at Vodafone Global Enterprise, the division of Vodafone which manages the communications needs for the largest multi-national companies worldwide.

Juan-Jose's vision is to engage with multinational customers and partners to design how the evolution of technology and mobility services will support their business strategy and growth.

Prior to this position, Juan-Jose led the Customer Solutions area in Vodafone Global Enterprise and achieved marketing recognition and awards from a number of global institutions and analysts.

Juan-Jose has more than thirteen years experience at Vodafone in different functions and locations, including roles at Vodafone Spain, Vodafone New Zealand and Vodafone Group, where he managed growth and change programmes in Sales, Marketing, Product and Business Development.

Juan-Jose has a degree in Telecommunications Engineering, an Executive MBA from Instituto Empresa and other qualifications from IMD.

An active networker, you can follow his endeavours on Twitter: @J3Mobile

Knox Carey is Director of Technology Initiatives at SyncTV, a subsidiary of Intertrust technologies corporation. Knox is responsible for technology architectures, standardization, and business development for SyncTV and Intertrust in the Asia Pacific region; he also leads several technology initiatives in areas such as data mining and healthcare. Knox earned his PhD in electrical engineering from Cornell University.

As Director, IP Business Development – Velocix, APAC, Laurent leads the engagement of Alcatel-Lucent into APAC region for CDN infrastructure and services to Internet and broadband service providers and media and entertainment companies.

Laurent's responsibilities include opportunity assessment and strategy as well as business development.
Previously Laurent was Head of Solutions & Marketing for Alcatel-Lucent Solutions and Marketing (S&M) Organization where he was helping to drive the company's innovations and strategy in Thailand.

Laurent has extensive experience throughout the region developing key relationship with customers, partners, regulators, governments and industry bodies.

Prior to Alcatel, Laurent was with IBM working in sales and marketing.

Laurent graduated from ENSAM in France.

Dr. Hukill is Senior Advisor to the Pacific Telecommunications Council where he leads program planning, organizational development and governance support. His own consultancy practice includes services for educational institutions and industry organizations in a broad range of areas including international telecommunication policy and development, broadcast media and journalism, digital video training, and travel industry information systems.

Dr. Hukill was previously Associate Dean, School of Travel Industry Management, and University of Hawaii. Prior to that, he was Head, Electronic and Broadcast Media Division, School of Communication Studies (now Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Noel Matthews heads Ericsson TV Solutions' European and Asia-Pacific business development team.

Previously Noel was Vice President of Business Development in EMEA and APAC for TANDBERG Television. He joined the company as product manager for the world's first MPEG-2 broadcast encoder range and has since performed a number of senior product management and business development roles, counting the world's first 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video encoder among his successes.

During his 14 years with the TANDBERG Television, Noel has led new business development teams covering OFDM-based digital TV, Telco C&D, ATSC and IPTV. From March 2004 he led the IPTV business team that established TANDBERG Television as a market leader for telco video. He was seconded as Acting General Manager, APAC, for five months from December 2007.

Robin Mersh joined the Broadband Forum as Chief Operating Officer in July 2006, and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer in July 2010. Robin has authored many articles and has spoken at and chaired many broadband industry conferences and exhibitions. He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 18 years, starting at Cable & Wireless and then moving on to BT before meeting his wife and moving to the US in 1999.

Robin has worked in business development and alliance management for various OSS software companies in the United States, mainly in network and service provisioning and activation, where he negotiated and managed several large OEM agreements. He is originally from Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London in 1992.

Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Intertrust: in charge of licensing and business development. Previously, he was executive vice president at Nextreaming where he managed their platform division.

He also co-founded Envivio, which was spun off from France Telecom in 1999 to develop MPEG-4 streaming solutions for the broadcast, cable network, and content developer markets. At France Telecom, he conceived and led international teams in the development of Internet services in France and in the US. He has a Math degree from UCLA and JD/MBA from Boston University. He is a member of the California Bar

Simon Delord is a Director of Technology and Solutions at Alcatel-Lucent and has over 10 years of experience in the Telecom industry working for both vendors and carriers. Simon joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2010 and past employers include Telstra, Uecomm and France Telecom.

His current focus is on cloud computing and next generation networking solutions.  He has worked extensively in Ethernet, IP/MPLS architectural design and service deployment with a focus on quality of service and multicast. He is an active contributor to the IETF in the PWE3 and L2VPN working groups, has coauthored several RFCs and has spoken at various conferences

Alan Hadden has been President of GSA since formation in 1998. GSA represents GSM/EDGE/WCDMA-HSPA/HSPA+ and LTE suppliers, providing globally referenced reports, facts, and analysis explaining market developments and trends. GSA also organizes seminars and briefings to facilitate information sharing and dialog with its key audiences and communities.

Previously Alan was on the senior management team of a UK PCN/GSM 1800 operator involved in start-up, launch, and expansion phases. He assisted discussions with stakeholders and overseas regulators to establish 1800 MHz as a mainstream band for cellular and new mobile businesses. Previously Alan was Industrial Advisor to the UK communications regulator.

Alex Orange is Director of Government Affairs for South East Asia and the Pacific at Qualcomm Incorporated. In this capacity, Mr. Orange directs Qualcomm's public policy and regulatory agenda and oversees its relationship with Government and regulatory agencies in the region. Mr. Orange works with Ministries, policy makers and independent regulators on national frequency allocation plans, licensing and regulations for 3G, mobile broadcasting and broadband wireless access systems. Alex also interfaces with multilateral organizations and governmental forums, for example the International Telecommunications Union and the Asia Pacific Telecommunity, to coordinate regional and international efforts in support of Qualcomm's next-generation wireless technologies.

Mr. Orange has previously gained 11 years experience working with the Ministry of Economic Development of New Zealand, where, as the Senior Planning Engineer he developed national spectrum management policies, plans, allocation methodologies, and licensing mechanisms that are considered industry best practice. Mr. Orange chaired the New Zealand Radio Sector that developed New Zealand's international position relative to radiocommunications and also participated in or led New Zealand government delegations to numerous bi-lateral, multi-lateral, and UN treaty level negotiations.

Majoring in physics at the University of Canterbury (NZ), Alex graduated in 1989. Before gaining his Master's degree in electronics from the University of Otago (NZ), Alex worked within the consumer electronics manufacturing industry in Hong Kong.

Mr. Orange, his wife and two daughters reside in Hong Kong.

Bosco Eduardo Fernandes has more than 20 years of experience in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Media Industries. He held many Managerial positions in R&D at Siemens Ag. He Lead a number of Research Projects in the European Commissions Research Programmes and contributed to standards.

Bosco Fernandes has Chaired many Task Forces in different areas and spoken at many International Conferences. He is the Chair of the ITU Telecom Program Committee. At Siemens he worked in the Government Public Affairs department before joining Nokia Siemens Networks.

In this last job he was responsible for Industry relations and worked in a number of Industry Fora including the UMTS Forum.He holds a degree of Dipl. Ing in Electronic engineering in Munich, Germany and an Executive MBA. He is a Senior member of the IEEE communications society and a member of the International Telecommunications Academy of Russia (ITA).

Declan Byrne joined the WiMAX Forum in 2010 as the director of marketing. Byrne brings 12 years of experience in the wireless industry and a strong background in marketing to the WiMAX Forum. Prior to joining the WiMAX Forum, Byrne worked for Airspan as Chief Marketing Officer. At Airspan Byrne was responsible for driving corporate strategy, strategic partnerships, business development, and traditional marketing and government relations. Prior to Airspan, he held senior executive positions at small and large corporations in the wireless industry including a position at AT&T with global responsibility for developing and managing international and domestic alliances.

Byrne also served as a US Diplomat abroad for the Foreign Service for more than 10 years. Byrne is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and is fluent in French, Russian, German and Spanish.

Don is a co-founder and chief technology officer for Sandvine. Don is responsible for leading Sandvine's technical vision, including the strategic development, direction and future growth of Sandvine's products and solutions.
Before holding the position of CTO, Don served as vice president of consulting systems engineering and led Sandvine's development engineers and technical service consultants. Prior to Sandvine, Don was director of firmware and manager of software engineering for PixStream, responsible for system architecture. Don also held the position of Manager, Software Engineering for Cisco Systems in the Video Networking Business Unit.
As a leader in the technology community, Don has spoken at notable events such as Broadband World Forum Asia, SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, ISS and the Communications Futures Program at MIT.
In 2007, Don and his fellow co-founders were honoured with the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the technology category for their success and dedication to their work at Sandvine.
Originally from Ottawa, Don attended the University of Waterloo's bachelor of applied science program for systems design engineering. He currently resides in Waterloo with his wife.

Douglas Kok is currently Vice Director of Huawei's South Pacific Wireless Marketing Department, based in Singapore. An individual with 15 years' experience in the wireless industry, he possesses working experience with a number of Tier-1 wireless infrastructure providers and consulting companies in a variety of capacities, including sales and marketing, technical consultancy, project management and R&D.

He Jinchun, received B.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in 1996, and is studying in Nanjing University, China, for master degree in engineering project management.

He worked in CETC-10 (the 10th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation) from 1996-2001, and is currently working in CommScope, as a Principal Electrical Engineer, Wireless for base station antenna designs.

Dr. Song is currently vice president of the Global Marketing Group in Telecommunication Systems Division. In this capacity, he is responsible for worldwide marketing and business development of Samsung's Mobile WiMAX and Fixed Mobile Convergence solutions. He joined Samsung Electronics in 2000 and worked in strategic marketing, business development, and global business management roles for the fixed and mobile communications network systems division.

Dr. Song has more than 20 years of international management experience in telecommunications industry and has held a number of technical and marketing roles in telecommunications service and communications companies including U S WEST, Bellcore and AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is also an internationally renowned speaker in mobile WiMAX, mobile communication services, fixed mobile convergence, enterprise and home services and solutions.

Dr. Song holds a Doctorate in Computer Science, a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

Jaikishan Rajaraman is Senior Services Director at the GSMA. His main responsibilities center on the development of inter-operable solutions for new services and technologies within the GSM world.

As Senior Director for Asia-Pacific, Mr Rajaraman currently drives GSMA services and technology strategy for the greater Asia-Pacific region, a role that he fulfills from his base in Singapore. He has more than 10 years' experience in mobile product development, strategy and management, specializing in roaming and inter-working solutions. His expertise spans both developed and developing markets in Asia and Europe.

Joëlle Toledano is, since 2005, Member of the Executive Board at ARCEP, the French National Regulatory Authority for electronic communications and postal affairs.

With a PhD in both Mathematics and Economics, she has had a dual career in academia and business. She has held has held various positions of responsibility within computing and telecommunications firms. She was the Executive Vice-president of Alcatel TITN from 1987 to 1989, and later the Managing Director of CCMC Human Resources. She was named Director of European and National Regulation at La Poste, the French Post Office in 2001.

She is also a professor at the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (Supélec).

Joseph O'Konek is the Chief Executive Officer of CSL Limited, the leading mobile operator in Hong Kong. He was previously Executive Vice President of 3S Network, Inc., a privately held wireless engineering firm based in Bellevue, WA. Prior to joining CSL, he led the prepaid and convergence billing software product line for Nokia Siemens Networks in Munich, Germany as Global Head of Business Support Systems and served as Global Practice Head for the Network Design and Service Management & Performance Consulting Practices for Nokia in 2005 in Espoo, Finland.

Over 30 years of experience in the Telecommunications/Wireless industry, working for main infrastructure companies such as NORTEL, QUALCOMM, NOKIA, Motorola, Andrew Corporation in various capacities from Business Development/International Marketing, R&D Management, Program/Project Management, System Engineering, Network Planning/Deployment. Managed large wireless deployments in North America, South America, Africa and India. Extensive working experience with tier 1 operators in North America, South America, Africa and India. Extensive RF experience.

Masoud Bassiri serves as Board Chairman, Founder and CEO of Consistel, the wireless solution provider and system integrator for telecommunications industry. In 1996, he established Consistel's (former MSI) first presence in Singapore. Under Masoud's leadership, Consistel built an international presence spanning more than 12 countries and expanded its products and solutions.

His first step into telecommunications industry began in 1989 with Motorola and Nortel, where he delivered over 20 cellular networks to the network operators throughout Asia.
He also holds executive directorship in Singapore for Consistel and is a Fellow of IEEE, KPN, HKN and the American Chamber of Commerce.

Mats Nilson has been part of mobile communications and GSM since the 80's, working for leading companies including Televerket/Telia, Swedish Telecom International, Radio Design and ABNW. He has worked in close cooperation with Omnitel Italy (Vodafone), Lucent and EMS Wireless.

He is also Assisting Director for the Center for Wireless R&D, Wireless@KTH at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, member of the National Radio Committee at the Royal Academy of Science, and Chairman of the Board for the Nordic Radio Society. Mats' significant contributions to GSM infrastructure are in technical management, R&D, system development, standardization and business development.

Maurie Dobbin is the Managing Director of TeleResources an Australian-based wireless strategy and solutions company.  Mr Dobbin has over forty years experience with the telecommunications industry in engineering, marketing and management positions. 

Over the past twenty years Mr Dobbin has specialised in the wireless communications sector where he has undertaken assignments for government related to policy development, assisted network operators to bid for licences, helped investors undertake due diligence on cellular business opportunities and worked on business strategies for service providers.

Michael (Mick) Higgins joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2007 as the Lead for Product Management of the Multi-service Radio Access Division. Since then, he became more involved in driving the radio access network product management, until his current appointment in August 2010 to lead the Alcatel Lucent's wireless business across APAC. Currently, he is responsible for providing customer solutions and sales support for Alcatel-Lucent's radio access (GSM, WCDMA, LTE, CDMA and Small Cells) and mobile core businesses.
Mick started his career over 17 years ago with Bell Northern Research in the United Kingdom as part of the mobile core R&D team. During his 17 year career, he has worked extensively in R&D, product management, and regional sales support across North America, Europe and APAC. He has spent the majority of his career working in all areas of the wireless business, from network management, to core network and the past 8 years in radio access.

Michael Lai, Chief Executive Officer of Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd ("P1"), the only WiMAX Forum Board Member from South East Asia WiMAX Operators.

With over 20 years of experience in the Information, Communications and Technologies (ICT) industry, Michael leads one of the world's leading WiMAX telecommunications companies – P1, with the challenge to develop the startup right from ground zero.
Today, with Michael at helm, P1 has grown from zero to RM1.3 Billion (in US $371million), 200K subscribers and over 40% population coverage in less than 2 years. P1 is now the global Malaysian Brand, the world's largest deployment of 802.16e 2.3GHz WiMAX network, outside Korea.

Olivier Beaujard, Group VP Market Development for Sierra Wireless has more that 16-year experience in the wireless industry and M2M market. Mr. Beaujard joined Sierra Wireless from Wavecom in early 1999 where he was in charge of Product Marketing; he did set-up the Marketing activity at Wavecom.

He then hold several marketing roles such as Marketing Director, Corporate Business Development Director, Vice President Marketing and Vice-President of Business Development.
Prior to joining Sierra Wireless, Mr. Beaujard had an international Sales experience in the value added services platforms for telecommunications networks at FERMA.
Mr. Beaujard also worked in the smart card industry for GEMPLUS (now GEMALTO) where he was responsible of the GSM standardization at ETSI.Mr. Beaujard graduated from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG - ENSERG) with an electronics and telecommunications engineer diploma. He also holds an MBA of ESSEC business school.

Rajiv Mehrotra is the Founder and Chairman of the Shyam Group of companies. The group has interests in a wide range of successful telecom ventures. In 1974, Rajiv pioneered the manufacture of satellite TV equipment for millions of village homes in India. He then took telecom to the masses by installing wireless telephones in over 100,000 Indian villages. He went on to launch Shyam Telecom, a leading name worldwide for mobile coverage solutions.

Mr. Mehrotra is also the founder of Shyam Telelink Limited (now Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd.), one of the first operators to deploy CDMA technology for fixed wireless services. His efforts established Essel Shyam as the leading name in VSAT services in India. Rajiv founded VNL (Vihaan Networks Ltd.) to connect the billions of unconnected across the world.

Ronny Haraldsvik is responsible for worldwide marketing strategy and operations at Bytemobile. He joined the company in 2010, with over 20 years of telecommunications industry experience, including wireless broadband, IP services, software, personal computing, and consumer devices.

Prior to Bytemobile, Haraldsvik spent more than 10 years as vice president of Marketing at a succession of wireless and IP networking companies focused on infrastructure technology for mobile network operators. These companies included SpiderCloud Wireless, Alien Technology, Qualcomm, Flarion Technologies, Tahoe Networks, and Shasta Networks. He earned a B.A. degree in Business from the University of San Francisco.

Stephen Hire is Director of Marketing for Aeroflex Asia Limited and Aeroflex Limited and is based in Hong Kong. He is responsible for APAC marketing, strategy and business development for Aeroflex's wireless test and measurement products.

Stephen joined Racal Instruments in 2001 prior to its acquisition by Aeroflex in 2003. Prior to that he spent 12 years with Marconi Instruments and IFR which were also acquired by Aeroflex in 2002. He has been closely involved with the Chinese TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE industry since 2002.

Dr Stuart Sharrock has been an analyst and consultant in the telecommunications industry for the past three decades. He holds a BSc in Natural Philosophy from Edinburgh University and a PhD in Nuclear Physics from University College London and has conducted research in nuclear physics in the Soviet Union, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.

Stuart has been the Editor of Telecommunications International, Mobile Communications International, and Voice+ magazines and the European Correspondent for RCR Wireless News. He has contributed to a variety of trade publications in the telecommunications industry and has undertaken research and consultancy projects for major operators and manufacturers as well as organisations such as the European Commission, European Telecommunications Office, Liberty Alliance, UMTS Forum, GSA, GSMA, ITU, WiMax Forum and ICSTIS.

Stuart is an experienced conference organiser and has designed the programmes for well over 100 telecommunications conferences in Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. He is a regular speaker and chairman at international telecommunications conferences.

Mr. Weerasinghe joined Dialog Axiata PLC ("Dialog") in 1999 and functions in the capacity of the Group Chief Operating Officer, since January 2011. He counts over 10 years experience in technology related business management.

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of the United Kingdom, Mr. Weerasinghe Graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree with 1st Class honors in Accountancy and Financial Management from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Mr. Weerasinghe also holds a Masters in Business Administration (Distinction) from the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. In 1992, he transferred to NTT DOCOMO, Inc. He is now Director of the Radio Access Network Development Department of NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
He has been engaged in the W-CDMA standardization activity at ARIB in Japan since 1997 and he is currently the leader of the IMT-Partnership Group in ARIB since March 2006.

He has been contributing to standardization activities in 3GPP since1999. He had contributed to 3GPP TSG-RAN as a vice chairman during March 2005 to March 2009. He is currently a chairman of 3GPP TSG-RAN since April 2009.

Guanghan Xu received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1991.

In 1992, he joined the faculty of Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and was later promoted to Tenured Associate Professor. He co-founded Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology, Inc. in 1995. In 2000, he co-founded Navini Networks, which was later acquired by Cisco. Since then, he has been serving as Chief Scientist for Beijing Xinwei Telecom Technology, Inc. He has published about 40 journal papers, 18 patents, and hundreds of conference papers.

Dr. Xu is recipient of 1995 NSF CAREER Award and 1996 IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing Young Author Best Paper Award.  He was recipient of the First Class Award and Second Class Award of Science and Technology Advancement granted by Chinese State Department. In 2003, he was granted Asian American Engineer Award by Chinese Institute of Engineers. In 2008, he was elected IEEE　Fellow.

Yune is Division Head of Network Resource and Strategic Planning, responsible for assessing new technologies, network roadmap development, frequency spectrum and RF planning, covering more than 15,000 base stations across a number of technologies including 3G HSPA, 2G, and CDMA.

His recent achievements at Indosat include leader of network planning and implementation of the first 3G HSDPA 3.6Mbps; HSPA 42Mbps and low cost 2G network expansion in remote areas in Indonesia.

Rohit Dadwal is Managing Director (MD) for the Mobile Marketing Association's Asia Pacific (APAC) branch, running the regional headquarters in Singapore. He joined the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) in November 2008, having spent 8 years at Microsoft and participated in MMA activity as a board member. In his role as MD, Rohit will work to build a sustainable ecosystem for the mobile marketing industry in the APAC region, promoting the MMA as the leading association for region-wide consultation on key industry issues such as measurement and metrics, mobile advertising guidelines, codes of conduct and consumer best practices.

Rohit brings a wealth of industry experience to the MMA, with over 10 years spent working in the Internet and telecommunications industries, including the design and delivery of some of the early ISP services. He has spent the last 7 years working on mobile value added services, user experience and wireless technologies and has been instrumental in launching new products and services across the Asian and international markets.

Rohit has also worked for Bharti-British Telecom ISP services - India, and with IPSIl, an affiliate of VSNL – the largest internet service provider in India. He has travelled widely across Asia, visiting communication service providers, attending and speaking at conferences, and speaking to the media.

Emmanuel Allix, is the founder and Managing Partner of Isalis Asia, a boutique consulting firm specialized in developing mobile technology and advertising businesses in Asia Pacific. Prior to launching Isalis Asia, he was Vice President and Managing Director at InMobi where he oversaw all business functions in the Asia Pacific region.

He also led business and operations at Pudding Media a full service Mobile Advertising solutions provider, worked for GroupM Interaction (a WPP media investment company) where he served as Regional Mobile Director and prior to joining GroupM, and overall spent over 15 years in the IT and Internet arenas across Asia and Europe including at Singapore Airlines.  In the mid-90ies while living in France he founded one of the first Internet website development start-ups where his firm created and launched websites and other online activities for major French companies.   He has also led e-Commerce initiatives at KPMG Consulting France.
Emmanuel is a regular speaker at various events including iMedia, CommunicAsia, MMA Forum, Media360, AdTech, IMMAP and MMC.

Emmanuel was an active and engaged board member in the 2008 APAC MMA Board and has been involved in the MMA Measurement Committee over the past year. He has rejoined the 2011 MMA APAC board and hopes, as MMA APAC Vice-Chairman to continue to lead and drive efforts in the creation of a mobile advertising currency.

Dilip Mistry is a Senior Director in Microsoft Advertising Publishing Solutions Group, accountable for building the company's mobile, local and commerce advertising business in Asia.

Prior to this role, he was an online business leader in Asia executing marketing strategies to grow the audience for online & mobile consumer services, drive user engagement with these services in a newly formed field organization, Consumer & Online (C&O).

Prior to joining C&O, Dilip had an extensive career in Microsoft commercial software business in multiple management, business development, sales, marketing in subsidiary, regional and corporate roles based in Asia, Europe, Middle East and US. Throughout his extensive career he has managed multi-million dollar marketing budgets to execute local and multinational marketing campaigns.

Dilip holds a MBA from the University Of Chicago School Of Business and is a global board member for Mobile Marketing Association (MMA).

Microsoft Advertising provides advertisers and publishers with media, tools and services to help drive deep and profitable engagement with their audiences. This includes a media network that reaches hundreds of millions of consumers around the world; global technology platforms and tools that enable easy planning and management of campaigns and content; and services that help untangle the complexities of digital media to get more value from marketing and content investments. Microsoft Advertising makes buying and selling media simple, smart and cost-effective across media and devices in the Microsoft network of properties and beyond.

Brian Tan is the Technical Consultant for Sourcefire at ASEAN. Brian has more than 10 years of professional experience in the security and network industry. Prior to Sourcefire, Brian had served as the Technical Consultant for RSA Security (acquired by EMC) and Senior Technical Consultant for Imperva, responsible for providing technical assistance during the sales cycles for customers throughout ASEAN.

Throughout his career, Brian was involved with many clients on their security architecture, including areas such as perimeter security, two-factor authentication, web application security and database security and monitoring. He currently holds the CISSP and GCIH certifications.

Jonathan Tan is Managing Director of ASEAN at Palo Alto Networks. He received a B.S. Degree in Information Technology from University of Dublin, Ireland. Jonathan has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years and has held several management positions in Sales and Channels. His international experience in Asia Pacific includes building the business in Indonesia, Vietnam and emerging market in SAARC region exclude India when he was in HP Software Division and prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was from F5 Networks where he heads up the channels in Asia Pacific.

Mike Ang is the Immediate Past President of The Association of the Telecommunications Industry of Singapore (ATiS), and Managing Director of Stream Networks, a consulting, network and middleware integration services company. His company is now focussing on providing consulting services and solutions to ISPs and mobile phone operators. He has 33 years of experience in the IT, semiconductor and Telecom markets, with his last 20 years in the Asia Pacific region as VP Asia Pacific for a number of companies. He was with large companies like Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia, EDS, Alcatel, and start-ups like Xylan, Top Layer and Aventail.

He had spoken in conferences like Asia Telecom in Pune, India, Asia Telecom Industry Exchange in Taiwan, and on Next Generation Broadband Networks in Singapore, in 2010.

Steve Christian has a wealth of experience in digital media and Internet technology and is a frequent speaker on at global industry events. At Verimatrix, he is responsible for product strategy, marketing programs and management of brand equity. Prior to joining Verimatrix, Christian was VP Marketing at streaming media specialist Nine Systems and also ran his own "virtual VP" technology marketing consultancy.

His background includes product and services management at Wind River, ST Microelectronics and Raytheon. Christian has a 1st class degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and an MBA from the Open University in the UK.

Naveen is vice president and general manager of IXIA, Asia Pacific. He is responsible for managing regional sales, support and business development for all Ixia products in Asia Pacific.

Based in Singapore, Naveen has more than 15 years of experience in telecom and technology sectors. He has led several companies in growing their Asia Pacific business. He was a key player in delivering one of the largest OSS systems in the world in India.

He has been an active participant in the TeleManagement Forum (TMF), working with various service providers on eTOM and NGOSS implementations.

Prior to Ixia, Naveen was the Vice President and GM for Agilent, running their communications business in Asia Pacific. Between 2000 and 2005, Naveen was director of Lucent Technologies' OSS business in Asia-Pacific. He worked extensively with service providers in the region, covering wireline, wireless and data technologies.

Before Lucent, Naveen spent 15 years in the United States working for Texaco and Pavilion Technologies. As director of Asia-Pacific, he was responsible for starting the Asia-Pacific division of Pavilion and establishing and running a branch office in Japan, with a network of partners across Korea, Taiwan, China, India and Singapore.

Naveen received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Maryland and has been an adjunct faculty member at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston, Texas.