Joshua Gordon, President, Red Pocket Mobile, USA

Joshua Gordon is President and Founder of Red Pocket Mobile, a leading GSM Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) in the United States with a special focus on high value, no contracts consumer wireless offerings.

Prior positions include founder and CEO of Global Direct Telecom; Vice President, Voice, for Verestar, Inc., an American Tower company (NYSE: AMT); Vice President, VoIP for Interpacket Networks; and Director of Strategic Networks for Justice Telecom.

Mr. Gordon’s commentary on telecommunication issues has been published by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, MSNBC and The International Herald-Tribune.

Mr. Gordon received his JD from Harvard Law School, earned an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii-Manoa and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Williams College.

Alex Brisbourne, President/COO, KORE Telematics, Canada

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Ruddy Mc Glashan, Vice President and CTO, Stargate Mobile, USA

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Patrick Parodi, Vice President, Ecosystem Development, Lightsquared USA

Patrick Parodi, vice president of ecosystem development for LightSquared, is responsible for building the company's third-party ecosystem to enable the most advanced and innovative set of services ever seen. He has 20 years of experience working in the wireless and mobile media space in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia. His areas of specialty include fixed and mobile wireless broadband, mobile video, mobile music, and mobile advertising

Josh Berman, Vice President, PrepaYd Wireless, USA

Mr. Berman works coextensively in the telecommunications and financial services industries on offering products marketed towards the underbanked and underserved. At PrepaYd, Mr. Berman's role oversees operations and business development for both Bank Freedom and PrepaYd Wireless. At Bank Freedom, Mr. Berman facilitated the development of the Bank Freedom Prepaid Expense Card, a business banking product used by businesses as a credit card alternative for making business purchases. These prepaid cards can carry balances exceeding $250,000 and are used as budgeting tools to disperse funds to hundreds of employee' prepaid business cards. He has also launched several private label card programs for affinity groups, including a 1.6 Million member union. Mr. Berman co-created PrepaYd Wireless and was responsible for company start-up, business planning and execution of its market strategy. PrepaYd Wireless is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator that offers mobile services to the niche underbanked and underserved markets. PrepaYd Wireless intends to be an industry leader in providing Mobile Financial Services through its mobile devices. Leveraging experience and PrepaYd's subsidiaries in the telecommunications and financial services industries, Mr. Berman has helped implement a secure mobile payments product for making Bill Payments with SMS messaging. Mr. Berman holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from San Diego State University

Dennis Henderson, President, Ready Mobile, USA

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Daniel Neal, CEO, Kajeet, USA

Daniel J. Neal is the CEO and Founder of kajeet. Previously, Mr. Neal served as CEO and Vice Chairman of VCampus Corporation, a pioneering provider of e-learning applications for businesses, educational institutions and government organizations. At USinternetworking, Inc., a leading Application Service Provider (ASP), Mr. Neal contributed significantly to its highly successful IPO and secondary public offering. Mr. Neal founded and ran AppHost™, USi's ASP-enablement business, and served as USi's Senior Director, e-commerce partnering and acquisition integration. Prior to USi, Mr. Neal served as Director of national partnering for Global One Communications, LLC, an international joint venture of Sprint, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom. He also served as a Senior Member at the National Performance Review in the office of the Vice President of the United States. Mr. Neal has been awarded three U.S. patents in mobile technology. Mr. Neal received his A.B. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Uwe Luehrig, CEO, Simfonics

has more than 14 years experience in the mobile industry. Prior to co-founding Simfonics Uwe Lührig was head of product strategy & portfolio management for the German mobile operator E-Plus. In this role he was involved in the first activities of launching MVNOs on the E-Plus network. Before joining E-Plus Uwe co-founded Solomio Corporation a leading provider of integrated subscriber call management services - now acquired by Openwave. He was Director European Business Development for Solomio Corporation. Uwe holds a master degree of economics from Cologne University with thesis on network economics.

Richard Schwartz, CEO, Macheen

Richard Schwartz has repeatedly created and led new organizations to innovate and develop software that has had significant market impact. Macheen Inc., his fourth company, delivers a cloud service platform for connected devices. Prior to founding Macheen, Schwartz was senior vice president of strategy and technology for Openwave, responsible for strategic direction and mergers/acquisitions. He joined Openwave when it acquired his former company, SoloMio, where he was CEO. Prior to founding SoloMio, he was senior vice president of technology at Vignette Corporation.

He joined Vignette in June 1999 when it acquired Diffusion, which he founded and led as CEO. Prior to Diffusion, he was chief technology officer and senior vice president of technology for Borland International during the period of revenue growth from $30M to $650M. At Borland, Schwartz was responsible for overall product and technology strategy.

Schwartz joined Borland via the acquisition of his company Ansa Software. He co-founded Ansa Software, where he was the co-creator of Paradox, the first relational database software widely used by business professionals, selling over 10 million licenses.

Schwartz holds a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA. After completing his PhD, he was a visiting professor in Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and then served as senior computer scientist at Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) prior to founding his first company. He has been board member and investor in several companies and high-technology incubators. He holds a number of patents and is the author of numerous publications.

David Traynor, CEO, Aspider Solutions, USA

David Traynor joined the company in 2007 to head the Americas business for ASPIDER, and in 2008 was appointed VP Marketing for ASPIDER Solutions. David has been instrumental in building the company positioning and articulating the core competencies and value propositions for the business. Previously David held senior positions at FairMarket (now Ebay), Firefox/FTP (now NetManage), Retix and HP.

Namit Garg, Senior Business Line Manager, Carrier Solutions, Redknee, Canada

Namit Garg is the Manager for the MVNO/E portfolio team at Redknee. He is responsible for the product direction for Redknee's Real Time Rating and Charging solutions currently deployed in major customers such as Vodafone, Digicell, Sprint iWireless and KPN Spain.

Namit has 10 years of technical and management experience in creating, implementing and marketing telecommunications solutions for mobile network operators. He has experience in both the business and technical aspects of OSS/BSS infrastructure and value-added data services, working closely with operators to deploy real-time charging and billing solutions, as well as end-to-end device realization.

Namit started his career in software design at NORTEL and then joined TELUS Mobility to gain end-to-end product life cycle experience. As a Manager at TELUS, Namit's team launched several key wireless services such as WNP, LBS, PoC and VAS mobile apps. Last year, he moved into business line management role at Redknee. Namit holds a major in Bachelor of Engineering from University of Waterloo, with also a minor in Management. 

Daniela Maria Siaulys, Sustentabilidade, MVNO, Copa e Olimpíadas, Brazil

Daniela Siaulys is the managing partner of White Mountain.

Main focus of consulting work

• Strategy, retail, world cup ,Rio 2016 games and MVNO
• World Economic Forum consultant in Brazil
• Coordinator of two international studies involving 17 countries about digital consumption habits and sustainability.

Professional Background

• More more than 15 years of international experience in top management positions.
• CEO of Southwestern Bell in Brazil for 7 years.

Sacha Visram, Chief Executive of Former UK MVNO Desi Mobile

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Martyn Gould, COO, Former UK MVNO Desi Mobile

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Thomas Gregor, VP, Product Development & Sales Support, RACO Wireless, USA

Tom has 15 years of experience in the wireless communications industry. He joined RACO Wireless in May 2011 as vice president, Product Development and Sales Support.

Most recently, he had national responsibility for all Sales Engineering and Sales Operations activities for T-Mobile's M2M Sales Channel.

Joining Omnipoint Communications in 1996, Tom designed and led the infrastructure build of the mobile network operator's IT network. Through the Voicestream Wireless acquisition, Tom managed and led teams of IT professionals.

He joined T-Mobile in 2002 through another acquisition, as part of the Sales Engineering team. Here, he led the success of wireless data adoption for enterprise customers and M2M solution partners. He has developed and designed the connectivity requirements for T-Mobile's M2M program and created the T-Mobile M2M SIM product portfolio.

Tom earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Providence College and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Whitey Bluestein, Corporate Development and Strategic Advisor at Bluestein & Associates, LLC

For more than 25 years, Whitey Bluestein has worked in strategy and business development in both corporate and start-up environments. Over the past decade, he has focused on the wireless prepaid, wholesale, payments, applications and service space, helping companies refine strategy, win deals and accelerate growth domestically and internationally.
As a strategic advisor and dealmaker, Bluestein has managed complex business relationships and negotiated joint ventures and alliances in the US, Europe, Asia and Canada. A former attorney, he has negotiated deals and managed strategic alliances with Verizon, Disney, Best Buy, Qualcomm, AT&T, T-Mobile, MetroPCS, British Telecom, RadioShack, Orange, Nokia and other noteworthy companies. One industry veteran observed that, "Whitey Bluestein has negotiated more wireless deals in his career than anyone in the US."

See also www.whiteybluestein.com

Alex Besen, Founder and CEO, Besen Group, USA

Alex Besen is the Founder & CEO of The Besen Group LLC. He provides advisory and training services to corporate executives in the mobile industry.

His client references include: Avea, Banque Populaire, Clearwire, Cosmote, Fenerbahce, LeClerc Mobile, LightSquared, Mportal, MpowerLabs, SpeechPhone and few others.

He manages the firm's network of independent consultants and channel partners and interacts with his advisors. He has over 16 years of hands-on experience in the mobile industry working for operators and vendors in North America and Europe in numerous roles including business development, marketing, project management and finance. He has been working with mobile network operators in developing their wholesale business models, advising MVNOs to launch their mobile and mobile data services as well as helping MVNEs with their service portfolios.

Previously, he worked at Ericsson with mobile operators on MVNO and UMTS projects in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.  He was also responsible for identifying potential partners and hosting workshops at Ericsson Mobility World (a mobile data laboratory) where developers create, optimize and commercialize mobile applications.

Prior to this position, he was employed at T-Mobile USA (formerly known as Omnipoint Communications) where he was responsible for partnerships, and joint ventures and provided billing, customer care, marketing and vendor financing solutions to mobile operators.  

He began his mobile career with Pocket Communications based in Washington, DC where he managed the company's auction activity for C-block spectrum licenses as well as other activities associated with market research, market segmentation, pricing plans and market distribution strategies.  

He holds a BS degree in Management from the University of Tampa and an MBA degree in International Business from the American University. 

Jean-Louis Carrara, VP Business Development, Telecommunications, North America, gemalto, USA

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Bryan Stanley, Director of Strategic Initiatives, PC Management, USA

With over 20 years experience in telecommunications, Bryan Stanley is responsible for business development and implementation of GSM/Fixed Mobile Convergent (FMC) customers for PC Management. Bryan has deployed FMC services with Rural ILECs, CLECs and Cable Operators in the U.S. Bryan’s experience has also included the operations, sales and marketing of CenturyTel’s wireless mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) business and was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Xspedius, a leading eastern U.S. CLEC. Through these experiences Bryan understands the challenges that face today’s telecom providers. At PC Management Bryan has developed one of the only fully hosted turn-key GSM and VoIP converged solutions in the U.S. developed for all telecom carriers…fixed or mobile. With the success of the PC Management’s FMC products Bryan has recently launched a cloud based mobile network and back office solutions focusing on rural wireless carriers.

Heidi Wilson, Senior Market Manager, mHealth, TELUS Health Solutions, Canada

Heidi Wilson has over 15 years experience in B2B marketing, primarily in emerging technology, healthcare and financial services. For the past three years at TELUS she has brought mHealth solutions to Canadian healthcare organizations and their patients, with a focus on workflow and chronic disease management applications. Prior to her current mHealth mandate at TELUS, Heidi was at the Canadian Medical Association, managing a portfolio of online services for physicians and launching the CMA's social network for physicians; she also spent four years at GE Capital in new market and new product development, and held a variety of marketing roles in technology start-ups. Heidi holds a Bachelor of Arts from DePauw University and received her MBA from McGill University in 1999.

Emil Liedtke, Senior MVNO Business Development Manager, T-Mobile, USA

Emil Liedtke, Senior MVNO Business Development Manager at T-Mobile, is responsible for defining strategic objectives, developing, and executing T-Mobile’s Wholesale MVNO program.

As the primary owner of the executive relationship with MVNO partners, he strives to enhance and strengthen existing relationships, enable partners to achieve commitments, and collaboratively generate revenue enhancing opportunities. He is also responsible for the evaluation and prioritization of new MVNO products and services. Additionally, while at T-Mobile, he managed projects in the wholesale roaming business tasked with reducing annual expense.

Prior to T-Mobile, he managed various initiatives involving Data Management, Business Process Improvement, Enterprise Data Warehouse, and implementing the ITIL framework.

Emil holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Oregon State University.

Todd Bricker, Partner, CSMG, USA

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Mike Roberts, Principal Analyst and Head of Americas, Informa Telecoms and Media, USA

Mike Roberts is Principal Analyst and Head of Americas at Informa Telecoms & Media with a focus on operator strategy in North and Latin America and global mobile network technology including mobile broadband, LTE and femtocells. Mike is based in the US and manages Informa's research teams in North and Latin America. His work appears in the Americas and other sections of Informa's Intelligence Centres, World Cellular Information Service (WCIS) and World Broadband Information Service (WBIS). His recent research includes contributions to a series of reports on major US operators, and to the global reports Future Mobile Broadband: HSPA & EV-DO to LTE Networks, Devices & Services; and Future Mobile Networks: Operator Transformation Strategies, Systems & Drivers. Mike was previously based in London, UK and has been tracking the global mobile, wireless and fixed markets for more than a decade. He regularly presents to clients and at key industry events, judges industry awards and provides expert commentary to the press on mobile operators, vendors and technology.

Dan McDuffie, CEO, Wyless Group

Dan brings nearly 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and internet industries to the Wyless team. In 2006 he started Wyless Incorporated and leveraging both global and national partnerships, he has grown the Group's US and Global presence into the formidable global player that it is today.

Before joining Wyless , he worked in the international long distance Telecom business, for companies including Comtel Group, Clariti International and Interoute Telecom, the Pan European fibre operator, where he was VP of Business Development and part of the strategic board.

He is a member of the Wyless Group Board.

Jasper de Rooij, CEO Simpel Mobiel

As the founder of one of the largest Dutch MVNOs, Jasper de Rooij has developed strategic innovative business approaches to build brand in a highly competitive market. By using a strong and unique blend of advertising via national TV, radio and online campaigns he has managed to achieve a firm brand position in the Dutch MVNO market. Recently he has also spearheaded the sponsorship of two leading Dutch soccer teams, and as sports in general, to reinforce brand identity as a proven mobile provider.