Bambi Francisco

vator.tv
Bambi Francisco is the co-founder and CEO of Vator.tv. Vator was a side project of hers that was a mere concept with four video pitches in her Webmail box in June 2006, while she was a columnist/correspondent at Dow Jones MarketWatch. She left in April 2007 and launched Vator.tv in June 2007. At Dow Jones, Bambi covered Internet trends and investments across the public and private sectors. She was a morning business anchor for KPIX (the local CBS affiliate in San Francisco), and reported on MarketWatch's business magazine show on CBS. In the 'mid-90s, she worked as a producer at CNN's financial news network, where she created, launched and produced business shows, including one on IPOs and new ideas.

Bena Roberts

GoMo News
Bena Roberts is the President of Irish Mobile SEO company Visibility Mobile (a partnership with TSSG.org) and Founder and Editor of GoMo News. GoMo News is the leading European daily mobile blog on mobile advertising, mobile search and mobile barcodes.

Caroline Lewko

WIP
Caroline Lewko is CEO of Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP). She has been in the wireless/ telecom industry since 1995, as a coder, funder, business developer and entrepreneur and is known as the ‘connector’. Caroline founded the Wireless Innovation Network of BC (WINBC) in 2001 and spearheaded the development and fundraising of Wavefront, a wireless commercialization centre in Vancouver. She started WIP to make the path easier for mobile developers and is a firm believer in the power of grassroot communities.

Giselle Tsirulnik

Mobile Marketer
Giselle Tsirulnik is the associate editor at Mobile Marketer. She covers ad networks, advertising, content, e-mail, media, messaging, legal/privacy, search, social networks, television and video. Previously she was an associate editor at DM News, where she covered postal, search marketing, list marketing and CRM news. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, where she still reside. She has a BA in English with a concentration in Literature and Writing and a minor in computer science, both from New York’s Pace University.

James Cameron

Camerjam
James is the founder of Camerjam, an events company with a passion for all things mobile. Camerjam's philosophy is to move away from traditional conference formats and create interesting event designs that provide the perfect environment for participants to broker business deals. James has been producing mobile conferences since 1999 and prior to founding Camerjam, was instrumental in building up IIR’s Mobile Content portfolio of events covering mobile advertising, mobile internet, mobile messaging and location based services.

Jim Cook

MobiAdNews
Jim Cook is the Editor of MobiAD News (www.mobiadnews.com) and an experienced mobile business development consultant. His mobile expertise spans 10 years in mobile content, mobile technology, and mobile advertising. Prior to getting involved in mobile, Jim worked at Apple Computer and Hewlett Packard Europe in the product marketing and e-commerce areas. Jim was on the executive team of mobile startups PacketVideo (mobile video) and Cambridge Positioning Systems (location based technology). In 2007 he co-founded MobiAD News, an online publication and newsletter focused entirely on mobile advertising and marketing. Jim is also the Chairman of the Mobile Council of the Internet Advertising Bureau (UK).

Jörg Sievert

SAP Ventures
Jörg Sievert covers Europe and Israel for SAP Ventures and provides a tight linkage to SAP's headquarter in Walldorf, Germany. Prior to joining SAP Ventures, Sievert led Business Consulting for BEA Systems for Central and Eastern Europe and provides significant experience in developing and executing solution selling strategies for SW products and is well connected in several industries. Before joining BEA, he spent several years as investment executive with 3i's global SW group, focused on investments in German speaking Europe and serving on numerous boards as observer. Sievert also spent several years in strategy consulting with Booz-Allen and Hamilton, working with clients in several industries across Europe. Sievert has lived in Germany, Austria, UK, and the United States. He holds a Master in Computer Science and received a Ph.D. in distributed systems, both from the University of Karlsruhe, and is a member of the ACM and GI.

Sievert currently serves as board member for RIB Software AG,as board observer for Alfresco Inc., Dacos GmbH, iTAC AG, and Onventis GmbH, and as member of the investors' committee of MVP.

Kei Shimada

Infinita
Kei is the Founder and CEO of Infinita Inc, a leading mobile research, consulting and development firm based in Tokyo. His company is consisted of a team of multinationals and helps clients across the globe create world-class services on connected devices.

Lubna Dajani

Mobile Monday New York
Lubna Dajani is founder and CEO of Stratemerge Inc, a multinational management and marketing consultancy firm with offices in NY, London and Milan. She is also the Co-founder of the NY chapter of MobileMonday, the global networking phenomenon dedicated to the enablement of innovation and entrepreneurship. Ms. Dajani is an engaging moderator & public speaker who is widely recognized as a visionary & innovator of insightful user-centric solutions.

Ms. Dajani launched her entrepreneurial career having achieved influential positions with leading companies in media, information & communication technologies such as GE, Viacom, Microsoft, Nokia, DotMobi, IWO, & a host of global network operators. Lubna is passionately engaged in several cause related initiatives.

Mark Wächter, Mobile Monday Germany & BVDW

VP Business Development
Mark Wächter, aged 42, is a graduated economist and marketer with many years professional and leadership experience, national and international market know-how in the areas of FMCG / food trade (Unilever), IT / Internet (UUNET / WorldCom) and telecommunications / cellular phones (T-Mobile). In May 2005 he founded MWC.mobi, a management consultancy focusing on the development of Mobile Strategies for companies who (plan to) use mobile phones as a medium to address their target group. Mark is head of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) in Germany and member of MMA’s Global Board of Directors.

In 2006 he launched MobileMonday in the German market. Today Mark is Co-Chairman of MobileMonday Germany with 5 chapters live and running. In Europe Mark is respected as Mobile Media evangelist.

Matthäus Krzykowski

Mobile Cordinator, Venture Beat
Matthäus is a freelance writer for VentureBeat covering the mobile space. He is also a startup founder, consultant, conference organiser and regular speaker on the global circuit. At VentureBeat, Matthäus writes many of the analysis and trend pieces on various mobile themes.

In addition he was coordinating the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco for the second year running. He is either to be found in San Francisco or Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Matthew Snyder

ADObjects
Matthew is a 25 year+ consumer electronic and mobile veteran with a career that spans from designing, developing hardware for award winning consumer video products at Sony Corporation in the late 80’s to developing new mobile businesses in music, video, search, advertising, and location-based social media during his 12 years at Nokia Corporation. Matthew was a pioneer in the emerging areas of mobile search and mobile advertising, and can be quoted to be one of first individuals to coin the phrase “mobile search” globally in 2003.

At Nokia, he was Head of Strategy and Business Development in Nokia’s Multimedia Business Group, and launched a new form of Advertising Network Exchange called the “Nokia Ad Connector. That effort led to the acquisition of Enpocket for the consolidated Nokia Advertising Strategy. Just Prior, He spearheaded the mobile search strategy that was the first “federated mobile search client with mash-up Navteq maps globally” to incorporate Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Yandex, Baidu and the entire family of Local Directory companies Pan-Europe that included Eniro, Fonecta, Yell, Seat, Telefonica, and over 20 others. He was also responsible for launching Nokia’s first music device and service, Managing Nokia’s first phone program out of Japan, and headed up Operations for Nokia’s entry in to the Gaming Business.

He has collaborated in many mobile industry efforts through organizations such as the MMA (Mobile Marketing Association), IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) and MEF ( Mobile Entertainment Forum). In addition, He chaired the IAB’s first Mobile Advertising Conference in July 2008 and initiated mediabistro.com’s new event series- “ThinkMobile” as Program Director and Chair in March 2009. He is a frequent keynote speaker, conference chair and Advisor to many mobile industry events. He is a strong believer in the “Feels-Free or Freeium business model” as a mass-adoption driver powered by sponsorship and advertising for mobile.

Michelle Sklar

bnetTV.com
Michelle Sklar is Vice President of Programming and Content Management for bnetTV.com as well as being the Host and Producer for bnetTV’s On-air programming. Ms. Sklar manages and facilitates bnetTV’s Online and Mobile Broadcast sponsorship events and leads in business development for partnerships, innovative media services and distribution.

Over the last 5 years, Ms. Sklar has met with nearly 5000 companies, associations and esteemed analysts to discuss their innovations, opinions, experiences and predictions for the Emerging Technology – and in particular the Wireless industry. Ms. Sklar is also the editor of bnetTV’s weekly newsletter publication. bnetTV.com has been a pioneer in streaming video and niche market content creation and delivery.

Peggy Anne Salz

MSearchGroove
Peggy Anne Salz is the chief analyst and founder of MSearchGroove, an online network specializing in analysis and commentary on mobile search, mobile advertising, and social media. Her drive to spark debate about issues impacting the industry at all levels has won her international recognition as a brave new voice in the mobile content market. Her report, "Mobile Search & Content Discovery," was regarded as the first in-depth study of its kind, establishing Salz as an authority on mobile search and content discovery technologies, enabling media companies and mobile operators to monetize content and services. She has established a successful writing career based on vision, insight, versatility, and more than 15 years of industry experience. Her work, which includes more than 300 articles on mobile content, has appeared in magazines and online destinations such as The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Media, New Media Age, and in the Agile Minds column in EContent magazine, among many more.

Tim Green

Mobile Entertainment UK
Tim Green is executive editor of Mobile Entertainment, the world's only dedicated trade magazine for the mobile content community. The magazine is complemented by its web site, email digest, awards and networking events. Tim has been writing about mobile content since 1999, first as mobile editor of games industry magazine MCV and then as a senior analyst with Screen Digest.

Ragnar Kruse

Smaato
As a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years experience in IT, Ragnar Kruse understands the unique challenges in bringing new technologies to market. He has built up several companies from inception to market launch in both the US and Europe.

At Intershop Communications, a leader in E-Commerce software solutions, Ragnar was VP of Sales and Marketing in San Francisco. During his tenure, Ragnar was instrumental in the company’s growth and ushering it through a successful IPO on NASDAQ and the “Neuer Markt” in 1998. More recently, Ragnar held key management positions at high-tech companies in the U.S. and Europe including eCharge and Xtramind. Through his many years in IT, Ragnar maintains strong relationships with companies in the telecommunications and mobile sectors, including Deutsche Telekom, Telekom New Zealand, Telstra, Telia, Cable & Wireless, Siemens, T-Online, T-Mobile, France Telecom, HP and SUN.

Ragnar started his career as an entrepreneur. In 1980, he founded IPT GmbH, a computer retail business that imported products into Germany from the USA and Taiwan. In 1987 he expanded his business by starting DTP Partner GmbH, a distribution company in Hamburg. DTP Partner was the exclusive distributor of several desktop publishing solutions such as Corel and was instrumental in establishing international distribution agreements with American and Taiwanese companies. Ragnar studied law at the universities of Hamburg and Munich, Germany.

Rudy de Waele

dotOpen/mTrends
Rudy De Waele is a Belgian living and working in Barcelona, Spain. He was one of the first writing about the web and mobile convergence and is considered a super node in the Mobile 2.0 Ecosystem.

Rudy is the organizer of Mobile 2.0 Europe and co-organizer of Mobile 2.0 Silicon Valley and the founder of MobileMonday Barcelona and Madrid. He is also the organizer of the Mobile Peer Awards.
Rudy is co-Founder of dotopen, a social platform for decision makers to connect & collaborate.

Rudy is also a regular jury member in various competitions on mobile applications and services, such as the MEX: The Mobile User Experience Conference and Awards, Under The Radar – Mobility, the Vodafone Mobile Clicks Awards and the TechCrunch Europas Awards.

Trey Harvin

mobiThinking
Trey Harvin, a longtime Internet and technology expert, is CEO of dotMobi. Mr. Harvin is charged with building on the success of dotMobi to date and taking the company forward with more innovative products for expanding the use of the mobile Web.

He served as Vice President of Business Operations at leading Internet company VeriSign and was Vice President of Product Development at Network Solutions and was Network Solutions' Chief of Staff. Also, he has held senior executive and management positions at several wireless and Internet start-up technology companies.

Mr. Harvin holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Finance from Georgetown University as well as a BA from the College of Charleston. He has also completed post-graduate international business studies at the University of Oxford.