CEO Perspectives

Mauro Montanaro
Chief Executive Officer, Jamba

Mauro Montanaro is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jamba, the mobile industry's largest vertically integrated mobile entertainment company. Mauro is responsible for leading Jamba worldwide and reports to the board of directors.

Mauro joins Jamba after more than a decade at Nokia, where he most recently served as Vice President of Customer and Market Operations for the South East Asia Pacific region. His responsibilities included managing handset sales and channel development in the fastest growing cellular market in the world.

Mauro held a variety of key positions at Nokia since his start in 1996 with strategy development. He was appointed to the Head of Strategy for Asia Pacific a year after joining the company and spent the next 10 years rapidly expanding the region for the company. He later was appointed to Director of the company's Imaging Business Unit. In this role, he helped drive new growth in the mobile phone market with imaging capabilities by leveraging new business opportunities in the shift from voice to visual communications. He then moved to Vice President for Sales and Channel Management for its Multimedia Business Group, where he oversaw the sales and channel development for cellular handsets and mobile content services including imaging, games and mobile enhancements and created new regional channels.

Prior to joining Nokia, Mauro was a lecturer at the Helsinki School of Economics and has led consulting projects for Finnish and foreign companies with businesses operations in Finland. Mauro holds a masters degree in international law (JJD) from the Universita' di Bologna, Italy and an MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland in conjunction with the Manchester Business School, United Kingdom.

Mauro is a professional singer, released 5 albums and worked in music video production in Italy and the US for six years.

Before joining Maxis in December 2004, Nikolai was 12 years with McKinsey & Company, where he was the Managing Partner of the Malaysia office since 2002. Nikolai came to Malaysia in November 1996, after having worked in the German, Italian and Indian offices of McKinsey.

Nikolai has been involved extensively in telecommunications and high-tech work in Asia, including telecommunications transformation, national technology strategy development and R&D commercialization.

Nikolai holds a PhD in Technology and Innovation Management from University of Kiel, Germany. He is also a Director of Scicom (MSC) Bhd, a Mesdaq-listed customer care operator.

Access Networks & Technologies

Dr. Stuart Sharrock
Consultant, Interact Group

Dr Stuart Sharrock has been an analyst and consultant in the telecommunications industry for over two decades. He has undertaken research and consultancy projects for many major operators and manufacturers as well as organisations such as the European Commission, European Telecommunications Office, Liberty Alliance, UMTS Forum, GSM Association, ITU, WiMax Forum and ICSTIS.

Dr Sharrock has worked closely with the International Telecommunication Union over the past fifteen years. He has published the official exhibition catalogue for the World Telecom exhibitions in Geneva as well as for many of the ITU’s regional Telecom events in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is a member of the Forum Committee of the ITU Telecom Board and Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the ICIN conference.

Wilfred Kwan
Chief Technology Officer, ANC

Wilfred Kwan, Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for Network Operations, Engineering, IT, Customer Service, Local fdAccess and Service Delivery. Mr. Kwan previously served as Chief Technology Officer of Asia Netcom (ANC) and earlier as Senior Vice President of Network Operations of Asia Global Crossing. With more than 18 years of experience in the telecom industry, Mr. Kwan's experience ranges from software development and integrated circuit design to product development, network planning and operations. Mr. Kwan joined ANC from WorldCom Asia Pacific, where he was the Director of Operations. Since 1999, Mr. Kwan has served as an advisory committee member to OFTA in Hong Kong.

Ron Levin
Director of Product Marketing, ECI Telecom

Ron Levin is Director of Product Marketing at ECI Telecom, where he is responsible for ECI's broadband access solutions. Prior to ECI, Mr. Levin was Product Manager at Jungo Software Technologies, a developer of software for home and small business gateways, which was later acquired by NDS in 2007. Mr. Levin is a contributing member of the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI) (www.homegateway.org). Mr. Levin holds a MSc in Management from the University of Tel Aviv and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion, Haifa.

Min Chung-yen
Solution Consultant, CTO Office of Asia Pac, Huawei

Mr. Min owns Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York in 1983. He has 25 years of telecom. experience with global corporations including ITT, Siemens, Lucent and Motorola. He is currently holding the position as the solution consultant of Huawei's CTO Office of Asia Pac. Marketing Division. Major contribution includes helping operators plan, develop, and deploy next generation wireless networks, deliver unique customized solution and ensure optimized network performance. Additionally, he supports operator's market strategies with the focus on value chain.

Robin Mersh
Chief Operating Officer, DSL Forum

Robin joined the Forum as Chief Operating Officer in July 2006 and is the senior full time executive.

He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 14 years, starting in sales and sales management for Cable & Wireless and then moving onto 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 US. Mostly in network and service provisioning and activation for companies like Astracon, TTI Telecom and Evolving Systems, where he negotiated and managed several large OEM agreements.

He is originally from Cambridge in the UK. He received a B.A. degree (with Honours) from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London in 1992. He now lives in North Carolina.

Ray Owen
Head of Technology, Asia, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility (H&NM)

An expert in wireless broadband technologies, Dr Owen works closely with the Home & Networks Mobility Go-to-Market teams and their customers to pursue new opportunities by providing strategic consultancy on technology and solution development.

He also works with the Go-to-Market teams to cultivate CTO level relationships with major government, enterprise and carrier network customers across the region. In his role as Head of Technology, Dr. Owen also provides high level guidance on technical strategy covering Motorola's solution portfolio. This includes TETRA, GSM, UMTS, and MOTOwi4 wireless broadband solutions such as WiMAX, Mesh WiFi, Canopy, wireless backhaul, and Broadband over Power Line (BPL), as well as MOTOwi4 services.

Now based in Vietnam, Dr. Owen is familiar with the business needs of service provides and was involved with the development of the MOTOwi4 product portfolio for Asia Pacific where he helped engineer lower cost networks and subscriber device solutions and services. He was previously stationed in Australia where he developed network solutions for tier-1 operators.

Dr. Owen has been with Motorola for 12 years and has held numerous management positions in Motorola. Prior to assuming his current position, he was Motorola's Solutions Architect for Asia Pacific and was responsible for the management of the UMTS architecture design for customers in the region. He was involved in Motorola's first UMTS deployment and the design and development of UMTS system simulation and dimensioning tools.

Dr. Owen holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Birmingham. He has also published 19 papers and developed 32 patents, one of which won him an award for Motorola's Patent Application of the Year in 1999.

James Person
Chief Operating Officer, CDMA Development Group

James Person, a veteran of the telecom industry, leads the efforts of the CDMA Development Group (CDG) for all regional development and he has responsibility for CDG’s strategic and technical programs. The CDG spearheads the adoption and evolution of CDMA wireless systems around the world. Mr. Person brings an extensive background in wireless and broadband communications to his work at the CDG. He spent nearly a decade in product development, international sales and marketing roles for CDMA technology and products for cellular, wireless local loop and satellite markets at Qualcomm International. He established Qualcomm’s Southeast Asian office and helped to bring the first CDMA networks to the region. Later he was posted in Europe, working with the 3G organizations on the continent and continuing to promote CDMA technologies.

Most recently, Mr. Person was vice president of international sales at Copper Mountain Networks, a provider of IP-based broadband communications products.

Mr. Person earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and an international MBA from the University of Southern California (USC).

Abu is a Strategic Analyst in Ericsson's South East Asia office at Kuala
Lumpur. He is also the Senior Policy Fellow in LIRNEasia since this Colombo- based regulatory research outfit's inception. First a freelance journalist on telecoms and IT and then became the Technology Editor of bdnews24.com. Abu also worked as a Research Analyst with EMC World Cellular Database. He analyzed the mobile markets of Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan. He was a faculty in regional regulatory training courses offered by The Energy and
Resources Institute (TERI) of New Delhi.

Alan Hadden
President, GSA

Alan Hadden has 21 years mobile industry experience, and has been President of GSA since its formation in 1998.

Previously he was on the senior management team of a PCN/GSM 1800 operator (today called T-Mobile), involved in start-up, launch, and expansion phases. He assisted with discussions with key stakeholders and overseas regulators to establish 1800 MHz as a mainstream band for cellular and new mobile businesses. He represented the company at the GSM Association and the UMTS Forum.

Previously Alan was Industrial Advisor to the UK communications regulator, and represented views influencing regulation and standardization at national and international level.

Mike Ropicky
Senior Director, Marketing & Product Operations, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility (H&NM), Asia Pacific

Based in Singapore, Mike is tasked with the development of product strategies relevant to Asia Pacific telecom operators in both mature and emerging markets. Mike's organization is responsible for all aspects of the Home & Networks product and marketing initiatives – inclusive of CDMA, 1X-EVDO, GMS, UMTS, Wireless Broadband (MotoWi4-WiMax), and Core Networks solutions.

Mike has been based in Asia for over 11 years and 22 years in telecommunications business, living in the USA, Hong Kong and Singapore. His wide-ranging experience in Asia Pacific markets coupled with extensive travel to both Europe and North America, has established him as a leader in the GLOBAL business arena.

Boudewijn Pesch
Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Acision Asia Pacific

Boudewijn Pesch is the Managing Director of Acision Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, Boudewijn has responsibilities for Acision overall business strategy and operations in the region.

Boudewijn joined CMG in 1998 as the Chief Representative, when he was tasked with extending CMG's global presence to China. In a short time, Boudewijn successfully brought the China operations up to speed by implementing localised marketing programmes, establishing key alliances and clinching a significant number of client deals. In September 2001, Boudewijn was promoted to the post of Managing Director of CMG Asia-Pacific, and moved to Singapore to manage the regional offices from here. CMG merged with Logica in end of 2002 and is now known as LogicaCMG.

As the managing director for LogicaCMG's Telecoms Products business, Boudewijn expanded business presence in new emerging markets such as Pakistan, Bangladesh Vietnam and Thailand, where the company has had considerable business success.

He has a Masters degree in management studies and a Bachelors degree in engineering.

Efraim Wachtel
President and CEO, RAD Data Communications

Efraim Wachtel was born in Israel in 1945. He graduated from the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, in 1970 with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering. He holds a Masters degree in business administration from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, as well as a Masters degree in computer sciences.

Mr. Wachtel worked in the Weizmann Institute of Science, Tadiran and Telrad as an R&D engineer.

He later spent six years in the United States. While pursuing his graduate education, he also worked at Lear Siegler Avionics.

Mr. Wachtel joined RAD Data Communications in 1984, establishing RAD's American subsidiary in New Jersey. He returned to Israel in 1985 to head the International Marketing Department, and served successively as Director and then Vice President of Marketing and Sales. He was named President and CEO in 1997.

Chris Cook
Sr. Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Polaris Networks

A 20+ year veteran of several successful start-ups in the communications equipment business. Chris has held executive positions with some of the industry's most prominent companies including, Cisco/StrataCom, Alcatel/Xylan, Intel/Shiva, N.E.T. and AT&T/Tridom. Most recently Chris was Sr.Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Polaris Networks.

Sethumadhavan Srinivasan
Deputy Director, Strategy & Marketing, Huawei Asia Pacific Network

Sethumadhavan Srinivasan is Deputy Director of Huawei Asia Pacific Network Strategy & Marketing. He has more than 17 years of experience in technical and managerial positions, initiating and directing successful projects in R&D, Sales & Marketing, Pre-sales, Techno-commercial Offers, Project Management and Business Development, after qualifying as a First Class Electronics & Communication Engineer. Currently he is the Strategy and Solutions Architect in IP technologies, Packet Transport, NGN/IMS, MPLS/GMPLS/TMPLS/PBT based Carrier Ethernet, and converged “all IP” network architecture.

Andy Miller
Vice President (Service ProviderSales), Juniper Networks, Asia Pacific

Andy Miller is Juniper Network's vice president for Service Provider sales in Asia Pacific. He is responsible

for leading Juniper's Service Provider strategy and execution in the theatre, managing the company's regional direct-touch sales force to develop growth in this sector.

Prior to this role, Andy headed up the company's APAC Enterprise sales team and before that he was in the marketing team as director of marketing and was formerly also the company's director of strategic business development for Asia Pacific.

Andy brings to Juniper almost 20 years of experience working with carriers around the world, having held a number of senior international roles including sales, product design, product management, software development and marketing, working in New Zealand, Australia, England and the USA.

Henry Au-Yeung
Vice-President, International Products & Solutions, PCCW Global

Mr. Au-Yeung joined PCCW since 2001 and is now serving the role of VP, International Products and Solutions in PCCW Global, the international business division of PCCW. Mr. Au-Yeung is responsible for managing the Company's international products management and development and marketing around the globe.

Mr. Au-Yeung has been with the telecom industry for over 20 years. Before he joined PCCW, he had been with Hutchison Telecom, Pacific Century Group and AsiaSat. His experiences range from satellite network development to sales and business development in many Asian markets.

Convergence & IMS Stream

Steve Northridge
Identification & Direction of Products, Ulticom

Steve Northridge has more than 20 years expertise in wireless, converged network signaling, and broadband services technologies. During his 20 years at Ulticom, he has held various technical and management positions and was responsible for the identification and direction of products. He was also instrumental in the concept and initial product launch of the nSignia signaling gateway.

Northridge is a licensed professional engineer and a member of the IEEE. In addition, he has participated in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Sigtran working groups and currently represents Ulticom in the SCOPE Alliance.

Vanitha Narayanan
Vice President, Communications Sector, Asia Pacific, IBM

Vanitha Narayanan, who has 18 years of telecom experience, is responsible for IBM's clients in the telecommunications, media & entertainment and utilities industries in Asia Pacific. Previously, she was global vice president for IBM's telecommunications solutions offerings and led a team responsible for developing and deploying IBM's telecom solutions. Narayanan also managed the execution of IBM's initiatives around IMS, IPTV and order to cash.

Since joining IBM in 1987, Vanitha has focused on a variety of areas, including advanced intelligent network and call center offerings, e-commerce solutions, and ISV partnerships. She also helped establish IBM's telecom presence in India.

Martin Dawson
Chief Product Architect, Andrew Wireless Solutions

Prior to Andrew, Martin spent 10 years with Nortel working on cellular location technologies, intelligent network services, and wireless intelligent networks.

Previously, he was involved in intelligent network services for Telstra and British Telecom Research Labs, Ethernet network design and deployment for the University of Sydney, and control system design and software development with GEC Digital and BHP, among other activities.

He is currently active in standards forums for cellular and IP location technologies, consulting to industry, government, and regulatory authorities. He is a member of the North American National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and its working group focused on developing solutions for VoIP emergency services.

Martin has co-authored numerous papers on location technology and application and the book IP Location (McGraw-Hill, November 2006). He has presented on location technologies at Institute of Navigation and Asia Mobile Location Service events, among others.

Sandi Thomas
General Manager, Communications Sector, APAC, Microsoft

Sandi Thomas, General Manager for Asia Pacific, within the Communications Sector at Microsoft, oversees the sales operations across 10 countries in the Asia Pacific region, which is one of the fastest growing regions for Microsoft's Communications Sector. Based in Singapore, she is responsible for driving the company's business with leading telecommunications providers, service providers and media and entertainment companies in Asia, as well as building a strong eco-system of partners to support Microsoft's initiatives in the region.

Prior to joining Communications Sector, Sandi was General Manager of Microsoft's Southern California District and was responsible for sales, marketing and enterprise services in Southern California and Hawaii. The Southern California District oversees three offices.

Robert Le Busque
Director Collaboration Solutions and MNC Program, Asia Pacific, Verizon Business

Robert Le Busque is the sales director for Verizon Business' Collaboration Solutions group and MNC Program. Based in Sydney, Le Busque is responsible for managing Verizon Business' conferencing and collaboration services as well as its MNC program for the region. An industry veteran with 10 years' experience in the sector, Le Busque has worked with many global organisations in developing and implementing converged communications strategies and technologies.

Prior to joining Verizon Business, Le Busque held both consulting and channel management roles throughout Asia and Europe. During this time he worked exclusively with technology based companies to identify and execute sales strategies for markets across the Asia Pacific region. His extensive international experience proved invaluable in helping corporations to address the communications and technology challenges facing them in a rapidly changing, global marketplace.

Le Busque holds a Bachelor's of Arts Degree from Queensland University of Technology and a Postgraduate Graduate Diploma from Queensland University.

Yunchuan joined ZTE Corporation in 2000. During his 7 years career with ZTE, he was engaged in the R&D and planning of core network. Currently, he is responsible for the planning and marketing of IMS end-to-end solution. He is the specialist in core network and fixed-mobile convergence (FMC).

Yuanchuan holds a Master’s and a Bachelor’s Degree from Tingshua University and Zhejiang University, respectively.

Jonathan Beavon
Director, NDS

Jonathan Beavon is the Director, Segment Marketing at NDS, responsible for platform solutions with a particular focus on technology convergence in the entertainment market.

Jonathan has been with NDS for 11 years and has extensive experience both in engineering and international marketing roles in the semi-conductor industry.

Jonathan was previously with Philips, Plessey and Hitachi and has worked extensively in Japan, Korea, Europe and the US. He also holds a degree in electronics.

In his position as Vice President Product Management Service Provider Products, for Dialogic Corporation, Mr. Klett is responsible for the continued evolution of Dialogic's broad and proven Service Provider product portfolio.

Mr. Klett also served as Vice President of Product Management for Excel Switching Corporation, following the company's spin-out from Lucent Technologies in 2003.

Joy Huang
Director, Product Management Dept of Core Network Marketing, Huawei Technologies

Mr. Huang is responsible for Core Network Product Management Dept of Huawei, he has bee n dedicated to the core network field at Huawei for nearly 10 years and was a senior member of the systems group of Huawei's IMS/NGN product line and chief system architect of the NGN development team. He has been involved in many Core Nework projects worldwide and works closely with key service providers in China, Europe, and North America to provide innovative and customized solutions. Mr. Huang has a master's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Adam Bryant
Head Asia Pacific & Greater China Solutions, Converged Core, Subscriber Data Management, Nokia Siemens Network

Adam Bryant is the Chief Technical Officer, Asia Pacific and has over 18 years of wireless tele communications experience. Mr Bryant is responsible for planning and designing the network infrastructure for Asia Pacific operators, and drives development programs to meet their specific requirements.

Prior to joining Nokia Siemens Network, Adam worked at Nortel where he was the Chief Architect for the Vodafone global account, the Account Architect for O2 and led Nortel Wireless Northern Region solutions' team serving a variety of operators.

During his extensive multi-national career, Adam has also held a number of senior management positions covering software development, product management and marketing and solutions architecture.

Snorre Kjesbu
Vice President, Technology and Innovation, TANDBERG

Snorre Kjesbu is Vice President of Technology & Innovation at TANDBERG. He is responsible for the personal systems and camera division, as well as for the innovation and IPR. Prior to joining TANDBERG, Kjesbu was technology program manager in ABB with responsibility for ABB’s research and development on wireless communications.

Kjesbu holds more than 20 granted patents and patent applications in the area of communication and video conferencing. He is frequently invited speaker and keynote speaker at a number of conferences, and has guest lectured at Stanford University.

Kjesbu and his team at ABB in 2002 were awarded the Wall Street Journal Innovation award for their work on wireless sensors.

Dato' Zamzamzairani holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communication Engineering from Plymouth Polytechnic, United Kingdom and has attended the Kellog School of Management's programme on ‘Corporate Finance Strategies for Creating Shareholder Value'

He was appointed CEO of Malaysia Business overseeing TM Retail, TM Wholesale, TM Net Sdn Bhd and several other related subsidiaries. Prior to the appointment, he was the Senior Vice President, Group Strategy and Technology of TM.

He has over 22 years of telecommunications industry experience, starting his career with the then Jabatan Telekom Malaysia in 1984, progressing to General Manager, Global Business, prior to his move to a local mobile operator in 1997. Thereon, Zamzamzairani held senior leadership positions at several multinational companies such as Global One and Lucent ( Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, where he led the companies as the CEO.

In addition to his executive responsibilities, Zamzamzairani also sits on the Board of several TM Group subsidiaries, including VADS Berhad.

Mobile & Interactive Stream

David Ko
Managing Director and Vice President, Yahoo!'s Connected Life business, Asia

David Ko is Managing Director and Vice President for Yahoo!'s Connected Life business across Asia. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for extending Yahoo!'s mobile products, broadband services, digital home initiatives and PC client experiences. David also oversees the deployment and distribution of Yahoo! oneSearch, Yahoo! Go suite of services, and mobile advertising across the Asia Pacific region.

Since joining Yahoo! in April 2000, David has been a leader in driving the company's mobile business and managing key partnerships with vendors, device manufactures and operators. Under David's leadership, Yahoo! is currently the leader in mobile web services, with a record of 19 partnership deals with telecom operators in Asia Pacific region.

In his previous role at Yahoo!, David was senior director of global mobile and was responsible for developing and implementing Yahoo!'s worldwide mobile strategy. He was a key contributor in the distribution strategy of Yahoo! products and services including: Yahoo! Mobile Web, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Mobile Search, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Games and Yahoo! Photos. Before joining the mobile team, David was the senior director for consumer services for Yahoo!, where he was responsible for developing a distribution strategy for Yahoo! premium services.

David is a graduate of New York University, Stern School of Business.

Adit was previously Chief Marketing Officer for TOT Public Company, a major state-owned telecommunications company based in Thailand since 2005. Prior to this, he was at TA Orange, a mobile subsidiary of TRUE Corporation as Deputy Director of Corporate and Wholesale Solution; and the Head of Business Marketing and Assistant Vice President for Business and Enterprise in TRUE Corporation. From 1998 to 2001, he served as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

Adit graduated with a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University (Boston, US); a Master of Business Administration from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) and a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University (Chicago, US).

Matt Bancroft
Chief Marketing Officer, Mformation Technologies

Matt Bancroft, Mformation's Chief Marketing Officer, has more than thirteen years of marketing, strategy and telecommunications experience. Before Mformation, Matt was VP of Business Development for Flarion Technologies, where he was responsible for worldwide business development and played an integral role in the company's growth and subsequent acquisition by Qualcomm.

Before Flarion, Matt was VP at Evercore Partners, a leading New York merchant bank, and was a consultant at Bain and Company in London, UK and Boston, MA.

Matt holds an MBA from Harvard University, MA, and a Masters of Engineering and BA in Manufacturing Engineering from Cambridge University, UK.

Stephan Dieter
Managing Consultant, Detecon Consulting

Stephan is Managing Consultant at Detecon Consulting, a consultancy specialized in the worldwide telecommunication markets. As the head of the Center of Excellence “New Media”, he focuses on the business impact of convergent technologies and changing user behaviors for carrier and other players in the field of media and entertainment. Successful projects were delivered in the area of strategic consulting in the IPTV and entertainment environment.

He is the author of numerous articles and presentations on international conferences dealing with the opportunities of a converged IPTV and MultiPlay ecosystem and visiting lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität Munich, Germany.

Maurie Dobbin
Managing Director, TeleResources Engineering (Aust) Pty Ltd

Maurie Dobbin is the Managing Director of TeleResources an Australian-based wireless strat egy 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.

Recent assignments have included a due diligence studies of an Australian wireless broadband network, and the proposed purchase of an undersea fibre optic link plus a major restructuring consultancy for a Vietnamese telecom carrier.

Mr Dobbin is a frequent speaker at conferences in Australia and internationally on topics dealing with new technologies and markets in the wireless sector.

Mark Steele
Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific, Tele Atlas

Mark Steele is Chief Operating Officer, Asia-Pacific, responsible for all corporate, finance and business development operations throughout the region. He reports to President and COO George Fink.

Before joining Tele Atlas, Steele was the President of ITT China, responsible for all corporate functions within the country including corporate finance, business development, government and legal affairs and corporate communications. Prior to that, he was President of ITT's Asia Pacific electronic components division, with region-wide responsibility for the company's operations in Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Prior to joining ITT, Steele was Director of Marketing for Hughes Interconnect Systems Group in California.

Steele is a member of the Board of Governors and the past Chairman of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. He holds a double major in International Business and Japanese from the University of Nebraska.

John Starkweather
International Director, Product Management, Microsoft Corporation

As an international director of product management for the Entertainment and Devices Division, John is responsible for Windows Mobile product and partner marketing in the division’s Mobile Communications Business. John’s team functions as the marketing interface between the product planning and go-to-market teams for the entire Asia Pacific and European regions.

John has been with Microsoft since 2001, and his achievements include the launch of the first Windows Mobile phone, and multiple versions of Windows Embedded and Windows Mobile.

Prior to joining Microsoft, John held a variety of business development and marketing roles in the wireless and telecommunications industry over nine years, including project management and consulting roles at Siemens’ Carrier and Enterprise Network divisions, where John marketed Siemens’ carrier-grade soft switches and enterprise telephony systems. Additionally, John also was responsible for marketing communications efforts at Sierra Wireless, working with a number of mobile operators including AT&T Wireless, Bell Atlantic and Sprint to deploy CDPD, an early wireless data technology in the United States.

Eckhard Ortwein
CEO, Co-Founder, paybox solutions AG

Eckhard Ortwein is the CEO and co-founder of paybox solutions AG, the trendsetting company for mobile payment enterprise solutions, working for leading operations such as Maxis and Celcom in Malaysia, Vodafone and o2 in Germany, mobilkom and One in Austria, and Vodafone Egypt.

As Co-Manager Mobile Commerce, he made mobilkom Austria the leading provider of mobile commerce worldwide and built the first national mobile Payment consortium.

Eckhard has 15 years industry and Consulting experience for global corporations and start-ups in telecommunications, financial services, adne consumer goods industries. As a visionary driver of m-Payments & m-Commerce, he is a recognized m-Payment expert, speaking at high-profile industry events and publishing regularly on mobile topics.

Prior to paybox, Eckhard worked for Procter & Gamble and for Arthur D. Little on IT-enabled innovation projects in Germany and in the USA.

Eckhard holds a Master of Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Simeon Coney
Vice president, Strategic Development, AdaptiveMobile

As vice president of strategic development, Simeon's responsibility is for the development and execution of AdaptiveMobile partnerships globally. Simeon has 18 years' experience within the mobile, fixed line and IT infrastructure markets. As a member of the AdaptiveMobile executive team, Simeon has represented the company at a number of leading industry trade shows and events, including CTIA and the RSA Security Conference and has appeared in numerous industry publications such as ComputerWorld.

Prior to joining AdaptiveMobile, Simeon provided strategic guidance and portfolio management to a range of FTSE 100 and US companies. Simeon's carrier started in product and service planning & launch at Nortel for fixed and mobile operators, moving to head up marketing and business development for Ceon - a provider of OSS/BSS for operators and Head of OSS for First Mark - a pan-European service provider.

Mahesh Prasad
President, Mobile Data and Content Services, Reliance Communications, India

Mahesh heads Mobile Data and Content Services areas for Reliance Communications and is responsible for setting the company direction and managing the business of mobile data and content services. He joined Reliance in June of 2002.

Mahesh is a telecom and software professional with over 20 years of experience in strategic planning, product development and marketing, Prior to Reliance, he held management positions at companies such as MCI Worldcom, Nextel, and Verizon with assignments in the U.S, Canada, and Italy, spanning wireline carrier services, wireless data, and mobile internet services, and broadband interactive media services.

Mahesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering and Master's degrees in Marketing and Management Information Systems.

Donglin Shen
VP for Wireless Technology, ZTE USA Inc.

With over 24 years of experience in telecommunication industry, Mr. Shen has worked in a variety of areas in wireless field that include research and development, industry standards development, product development and product management, as well as technical marketing. He has acquired an in-depth understanding of the wireless business, technology, market and industry, specializing in technology and market research, wireless product planning and telecommunication strategy development.

In addition, Mr. Shen has extensive experience in dealing with government agencies and private companies, having worked with the United Nations, the Government of China, the Government of Canada, telecom equipment vendors and service operators in North America, Europe and China.

Hanis Harun
Executive Director, Telecoms Industry Practice Group, Asia Pacific, The Nielson Company

As head of telecoms research for Greater China, Asia Pacific and India Hanis is in charge of enhancing and expanding Nielsen's capabilities, client relationships and best practices in telecoms research in these regions.

Hanis also supports the development of new telecoms research solutions in conjunction with both Nielsen Mobile (the world's largest provider of syndicated information to telecoms and media) and Nielsen's global R&D team.

Prior to joining Nielsen, Hanis was at TNS for 11 years where she headed two of their top technology accounts and was a steering committee member for the global technology sector.

Glenn Kiladis
VP of marketing and PR, Digit Wireless

Glenn Kiladis heads up the Marketing and Public Relations efforts for Digit Wireless. He is a proven technology marketer with over 14 years of experience working with emerging and large technology companies in marketing, branding and advertising; public relations; product development; business/partnership development.

Kiladis was formerly Director of Marketing & Public Relations for LogicaCMG, a $3 billion global consulting and IT Solutions company with a global wireless practice focusing on mobile messaging & content delivery, intelligent charging and wireless enterprise solution. His responsibilities included the overall strategic direction, tactical planning and execution of all marketing & public relations programs.

Jimmy Poon
Managing Director, PUCA ( China)

Jimmy Poon is the Chairperson for the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Asia Pacific Board, as well as the Managing Director for Púca (China), a global leader in Mobile Marketing. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with offices in the United Kingdom and throughout China.

Jimmy has over 15 years of experience as Regional Managing Director for 4A Advertising Agency Networks where he built various digital divisions, including Tribal DDB (Greater China) and Ammirati Puris Lintas Digital (Greater China).

immy has provided strategic leadership to the digital operations of global organisations such as HSBC Online Bank, Microsoft.com.hk and HP Online Store in the Greater China Region. Jimmy holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and an MBA from York University in Canada.

John Maguire
General Manager, CRE8 Limited

John Maguire, chief commercial officer and general manager, Asia-Pacific, CRE8 Limited.  CRE8 is a leading provider of mobile entertainment and connectivity services for operators, brands, media and consumers worldwide. John has 19 years experience in the telecom industry having filled roles in training, operations, international relations, product marketing, carrier relations and sales with OTC Australia, Telstra, REACH and Lucent Technologies, prior to joining CRE8. He is also the current secretary and treasurer of the Mobile Marketing Association's Asia-Pacific branch. 

Matthias Kunze
Director, Mobile Monetization, Yahoo! Connected Life, Asia

Matthias Kunze is the Director of Mobile Monetization for Yahoo! Connected Life in Asia. He is responsible for leading the monetization strategy for Connected Life's mobile products including oneSearch, display advertising and new advertising formats.

Kunze has been working in the mobile advertising industry for more than three years. He was a co-founder of Actionality, Inc., a mobile advertising company, which was acquired by Yahoo! in May 2007. He has co-founded other software companies and worked in the publishing and television business in Europe for many years.

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Dr. Nongluck Phinainitisart
President, Thaicom Public Company Limited

Dr. Nongluck Phinainitisart, President of Thaicom Public Company Limited. Since November 2000, she received her Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University and her Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering fromUniversityof Missouri, USA. With more than 20 years of experience in Telecommunications, Satellite, and mobile businesses, she is with Thaicom Public Company Limited since 1991.

Jean-Yves Le Gall
Chairman & CEO, Arianespace

Jean-Yves Le Gall is Chairman & CEO of Arianespace, the world's leading launch Servi ce & Solutions company. His main mission is to define the company's commercial strategy, and to develop and maintain a close relationship with its international clientele. As part of his job, he represents Arianespace in relations with European governments, space agencies and industrial partners, shareholders in the company. Jean-Yves Le Gall is also Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Starsem, the company's European-Russian subsidiary in charge of operating and marketing the Soyuz launch vehicle.

Jean-Yves Le Gall has devoted his entire career to the European space program. He has held a number of management positions concerning both programs and strategy, including with the French Ministry of Industry, Novespace, French space agency CNES, Starsem and Arianespace, which he joined in 2001.

He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and he received the Astronautics Prize from the French Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAAF) in 2001. He was recognized by the magazine Via Satellite as its 2005 Satellite Executive of the Year. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 from the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council. Jean-Yves Le Gall holds the rank of Knight in both the Legion of Honor and the National Order of Merit. He has been awarded “Ordre de l'Amitié” from the Russian Federation.

David Bettinger
Chief Technology Officer, iDirect Technologies

David Bettinger joined iDirect Technologies as the Director of Hardware Engineering in 199 6 and took over responsibility of all hardware and software development as VP of Engineering in 2002. In his role as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering, he is responsible for the oversight of all technology and engineering decisions within iDirect and serves to drive the strategic direction for product development. In addition to being the lead system architect for iDirect's flagship NetModem and iNFINITI series products.

Mr. Bettinger is also active in industry standards organizations and forums and is a member of the Telecommunications Industry Association, IEEE and the IPv6 Forum.

Mr. Bettinger has been active in the satellite networking industry for over 15 years, and previous to iDirect, Mr. Bettinger was a senior member of the technical staff at Hughes Network Systems in the Satellite Networks Division. Mr. Bettinger is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Mr.. Huang is the Vice President of China Direct Broadcast Satellite Co.Ltd. He is also the Senior Advisor to GSM Association

Prior to this he was the vice president of SINO Satellite Communication Co. Ltd. He was a lawyer in Beijing Zhong Ye Law Firm.

Amiram Levinberg is a co-founder of Gilat and returned to the Company in 2005 as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Levinberg returned to the company as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer in 2005.

He 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 an 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.

Patrick French
Senior Analyst & Head, Singapore Office, NSR, LLC.

Mr. French joined NSR, LLC. in September 2003 and has since authored numerous stud ies, the most recent being the Global Assessment of Satellite Demand, 4th. Edition and Broadband Satellite Markets 6 th Edition.

His specialty within NSR is commercial satellite supply and demand modeling, video distribution and contribution, DTH, HD, enterprise broadband and narrowband VSAT networks, and consumer-class satellite broadband services.

In addition, he has undertaken client specific projects in diverse satellite applications. Mr. French is based in Singapore.

Mr. Pourmand has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University. He received a patent in 1977 for his Digital Implementation of Parity Monitor and Alarm.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications Inc.

Eui K. Koh
President, Protostar Asia

Eui K. Koh is President of Protostar Asia, a DTH focused satellite operator in Asia-Pa cific region. He served A PSCC (Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council) as Chairman of Boards and President from 2003 to 2006. The A PSCC is a non-profit international satellite association whose main mission is to promote satellite communications and broadcasting in Asia Pacific region.

Prior to this post, Dr Koh was Vice President for Asia Pacific region for New Skies Satellites N.V., a global satellite service provider from 1999 to 2003, based in Singapore. He has been recently appointed as Eminent Person on the ITU High Level Panel on Emergency Communications in December 2007. Dr. Koh has more than 30 years experience in telecommunications industry. Prior to joining New Skies Satellites, Dr. Koh was Managing Director, Intelsat Asia Pacific and he was responsible for sales, marketing and business development in the region for Intelsat, a global satellite operator headquartered in Washington D.C. in USA.

Dr. Koh received his Bachelor's of Science Degree in Seoul, Korea and earned his Master of Science Degree and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering in U.S.A. Dr. Koh is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He published a numerous articles in Satellite Communications field.

David Justin
Chief Executive Officer, GlobeCast Asia

David Justin was appointed CEO of GlobeCast Asia in 2006 to lead the company's growth in the Asian region. Prior to that, he held the position of Senior Vice President, Marketing and Product Development. He joined GlobeCast in 2002 as Senior Vice-President Engineering. Prior to joining GlobeCast, David was Vice-President, Engineering & Operations with satellite operator Stellat where he oversaw the design and construction of its entire technical infrastructure of the Stellat 5 satellite which was successfully launched in July 2002.

Prior to that, David was with France Telecom Long Distance where he headed FT's satellite services business unit. David began his career with Aerospatiale working on European programmes.

Thomas Choi
Co-Founder and CEO, Asia Broadcast Satellite

Thomas Choi, one of the two founders of Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS), is one of the more renowned and respected satellite media and telecommunications professionals in the Asia Pacific industry.

With over 15 years of experience in Aerospace and Satellite industry, Tom has already established his capabilities as a successful satellite service entrepreneur. Over the past 5 years, Tom served as the Founder and CEO of one of the leading satellite telecommunications service providers in Asia, SpeedCast Limited.

Paul Brown-Kenyon
Chief Operating Officer, MEASAT

Paul Brown-Kenyon is Chief Operating Officer at MEASAT. In this role, Paul oversees the running of the company. Paul originally joined MEASAT in 2003 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Prior to joining MEASAT, Paul spent six years with McKinsey & Company in the Firm's Singapore, Hong Kong and Stamford (US) offices. As an Associate Principal in Singapore, Paul was one of the leaders of the Firm's regional telecom, high tech and media practices working with clients in the telecom and media industries across the Greater China and South East Asia regions. Prior to McKinsey, Paul worked at Inmarsat, the International Mobile Satellite Organization, in London in Spectrum Management.

Paul holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, USA, and a MA (Oxon) in Engineering Economics and Management from Hertford College, University of Oxford, UK.

David Ball
Vice President, Intelsat

David Ball became Intelsat’s Vice President, Asia Pacific in July 2006 when the company acquired PanAmSat. He held the same position with PanAmSat since January 2003. Mr. Ball is responsible for the management of Intelsat’s sales and marketing activities throughout the Asia Pacific region. This includes overseeing Intelsat sales offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

Prior to his current position, he held a variety of management positions with PanAmSat from 1995-2003, including those focused on sales, engineering and space-systems development.

Prior to joining PanAmSat in 1995, Mr. Ball served as a commissioned officer in the Royal Australian Air Force, specializing in communications system management.

He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia and a Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Australia’s Deakin University.

Mr. Ball is a member of the Council of Governors of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) and a Board Member of the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC). In 2007, he became the Chairman of the CASBAA Satellite Industry Committee.

Andrew Jordan
President and CEO, SAT-GE

Andrew Jordan is the President and CEO of SAT-GE with over 20 years experience in management and development of new markets & products throughout Asia. Graduating in Chinese from the School of Oriental & African Studies in London, his entire career has been focused on the Asia Pacific region.

Andrew has worked with most of the major broadcasters and telecommunications operators in the Asia Pacific and globally. His experience includes 18 years in executive management roles in the Asia Pacific satellite industry.

Simon Bull
Senior Consultant, Comsys

After graduating with an honours degree from the London School of Economics in 1982, Simon Bull served as a commissioned officer in the Royal Artillery of Her Majesty's Armed Forces. Mr. Bull joined Communication Systems Limited (COMSYS) in 1985, and he has subsequently developed regulatory and commercial expertise in the areas of VSAT systems, earth stations, and satellite services on a worldwide basis. He has been primarily responsible for the multi-client VSAT studies undertaken by the company during the last ten years, including the company's VSAT Industry Status and Financial & Forecasts Reports.

His work at COMSYS also involves him in advising clients on the regulatory, strategic and business planning, administrative and operational aspects of satellite communication systems and products. As part of this work Mr. Bull regularly visits equipment manufacturers, service providers and PTTs in Europe, North and South America, Australasia, Africa and Asia. He has visited most of the companies reviewed or described in the VSAT report, amounting to well over 250 firms and more than 65 countries worldwide. He is regularly consulted by current and potential VSAT manufacturers, service providers and users. His advice has been sought by new broadband platform providers, specialised VSAT operators, system vendors, private equity firms and financial analysts. He has been actively involved, directly and as part of multi-disciplinary teams, advising clients with respect to acquisitions ranging in size from $5 million to over $1 billion.

Mark D. Dankberg
Chairman, CEO, Co-founder, ViaSat Inc.

Mr. Dankberg co-founded ViaSat Inc. in 1986 and has led the company to become one of the fastest growing high-tech companies in the world. He has held the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since inception.

Before its initial public offering in 1996, ViaSat was named three times to the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately held companies. Since then, the company's continuing superior performance has earned it recognition on the BusinessWeek “100 Best Small Corporations,” the “200 Best Small Companies in America” by Forbes, the Business 2.0 list of “100 Fastest Growing Technology Companies”, and Red Herring magazine's “Small Cap 100”.

Mr. Dankberg has influenced the development of satellite communication standards and holds several patents on these technologies as well, including Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) networking, jam-resistant satellite links, satellite messaging systems, and Paired Carrier Multiple Access (PCMA). He is now involved in development of potential new standards for domestic and international satellite telephony and broadband data networks.

Mr. Dankberg also is a director of TrellisWare Technologies, Inc., a privately-held subsidiary of ViaSat, and is on the advisory board of Minnetronix, Inc. a privately-held medical device and design company.

Titus Yong is the Vice President and Head of SingTel Satellite, which is responsible for the fixed and mobile satellite business and infrastructure in SingTel. Titus has headed the Satellite Group since April 2006.

Prior to this appointment, he was the Senior Director of Corporate Business Marketing and was responsible for the global marketing of B2B solutions. He also helped the Corporate Business Group implement various strategic initiatives such as building a pan-Asian network of managed hosting data centres and was later appointed as COO of the managed hosting business unit.

Titus had a 2-year stint as the Director of Optus Business Marketing and Product Management based out of Sydney, Australia. In this role, he was responsible for revamping the entire marketing and product strategy, which included steering the B2B business towards new strategic directions such as IP convergence and SME solutions investment. He was also responsible for strategic bid management which secured many key government and Australian MNC contracts.

He currently sits on the boards of Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC), SingaSat Pte Ltd and APT Satellite Holdings Ltd. Titus has a Honours Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the National University of Singapore, specialising in communication technology.

Dave Rehbehn
Senior Director, Hughes Network Systems

Rehbehn develops HNS' market strategy and works with end users and service operators to track market trends, including application and business developments and their impact on networking solutions.

Rehbehn has more than 20 years experience in the satellite arena including business development for the HNS set-top box product family as well as the HNS DIRECWAY Consumer internet service business. While at HNS, Rehbehn has worked closely with many of Fortune 1000 companies to develop network solutions tailored to their needs, and he has supported the engineering development of wideband TDMA, packet networks and TDMA VSAT satellite network projects.