Adam Zawel is INmobile.org's Chief Collaborating Officer, His role is to moderate the community, and act as the catalyst for relevant discussions. Prior to joining inmobile.org, Adam was Director of Wireless US Research with The Yankee Group. He is also a former Peace Corps volunteer.

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 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 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 Abramovich 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.

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).

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, 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.

Michael is Chair of the dotMobi Advisory Group and co-author of the Wiley publication Mobile Internet For Dummies. Additionally, he is Vice Chairman of ooober as well as a strategic advisor to Carlson Marketing, SilverBirch, Graham Sanborn Media and The Centre for Creative Communications at Centennial College. As a global subject matter expert on mobile Internet and digital media initiatives, Michael has been a featured speaker and considered a leading mobile industry futurist. In addition to shaping the early market practices of the Open Mobile Alliance, he was a co-founder of the Wireless Advertising Industry Association (now operating as the Mobile Marketing Association) and the WAP Forum's Developers Expert Group (now operating under the Open Mobile Alliance).

Tim Draper is the founder of the global venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He launched the Draper Affiliate Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in 34 cities around the globe. He founded or co-founded Wasatch Ventures (Salt Lake City), Zone Ventures (LA), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburgh), Timberline Ventures (Woodland, WA), DFJ EPlanet (global), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), and DFJ Dragon (Shanghai). Draper is featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences worldwide.

Ragnar Kruse is CEO and Co-Founder of Smaato Inc. He has over 20 years experience in IT and 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.

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