Opening Keynote
Rob Carter, FedEx Corporation
Executive Vice President, Information Services and Chief Information Officer
Robert B. (Rob) Carter is executive vice president of FedEx Information Services and chief information officer of FedEx Corporation. He is a member of the five-person Executive Committee, which plans and executes the corporation’s strategic business activities.
Vivek Chhabra, Marvell
Head of mobile Cellular Business Unit
Vivek Chhabra is the head of the mobile cellular business unit at Marvell. Mr. Chhabra joined Marvell in 2007 from Texas Instruments and brings over 19 years of multidisciplinary experience in the mobile handset business, including software, semiconductors, and enterprise application infrastructure.
Kanwar Chadha, CSR
CMO and Member of the Board of Directors CSR; Founder, SiRF Technology
Kanwar Chadha is CMO and Member of the Board of Directors of CSR. As a founder, SiRF Technology he helped establish SiRF as the leading provider of GPS enabled location technology to consumer markets. Kanwar is well known for his visionary role in evangelizing benefits of location technology for mainstream consumers and holds more than 20 patents in GPS-enabled location technology and communications fields.
Bob Friday, Cisco’s Wireless
Security & Routing Technology Group
Bob Friday is Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Wireless Networking Business Unit of Cisco’s Wireless, Security and Routing Technology Group (WSRTG). Within this group, Bob Friday drives strategic wireless initiatives for the aggressively growing WiFi (wireless LAN) and Borderless Network businesses.
Tom Gregor, T-Mobile
Sr. Manager of M2M Operation & Field Support
Tom Gregor, Sr. Manager – M2M Operations & Field Support, has national responsibility for all sales engineering, and sales operations activities for T-Mobile’s M2M Sales Channel. With over 95 million customers worldwide and telemetry specific sales and support teams in place in many countries, T-Mobile has the most experience in supporting their partners and end users needs.
Philippe Guillemette, Sierra Wireless
Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology
Philippe Guillemette is responsible for driving advanced technology initiatives and long range product and solution strategy for Sierra Wireless. Philippe joined Sierra Wireless in March 2009 from Wavecom, where he served as Chief Technology Officer since 2003 and Vice President of Marketing since 2005.
David Haight, AT&T Emerging Devices
VP of Business Development
David Haight is Vice President-Business Development with AT&T’s Emerging Devices Organization. In his role, David leads the Emerging Devices Business Development team focused on proactively targeting, developing business models to bring new technology to market, and managing strategic partners in industries including personal computers.
Dr. Phil Hendrix, Institute for Mobile Markets Research
Founder
Dr. Phil Hendrix is head of the Institute for Mobile Markets Research (immr), a research organization based in Atlanta that helps companies better understand and capitalize on opportunities presented by disruptive technologies.
Dr. Muzibul Khan, Nokia
Vice President and Head of R&D, CDMA devices
Dr. Muzibul Khan is Vice president and Head of R&D, CDMA devices. In this capacity, he is responsible for Nokia’s CDMA device development and commercialization. He has joined Nokia in June of 2009.
Antti Korhonen, Ekahau Inc.
President and CEO of Ekahau
Antti Korhonen is the President and CEO of Ekahau. Antti has over 20 years of experience in hi-tech industries in the field of international sales, marketing and product leadership. Prior to joining Ekahau in January 2002, Antti worked at Vaisala Inc., Woburn, MA, as the General Manager of the Vaisala’s Industrial Business Division.
Mark Lowenstein, Mobile Ecosystem
Managing Director
Mark Lowenstein is a prominent wireless industry executive, consultant, analyst, and commentator. As Managing Director of Mobile Ecosystem, Lowenstein advises C-level executives on corporate, product, market, and industry strategy across the value chain of the wireless, communications, and digital media industries.
Masaaki Maeda, NTT DOCOMO USA
INC President & CEO
Masaaki Maeda is currently the President & CEO of NTT DOCOMO USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO INC, Japan’s leading mobile telecommunications company.
Jahangir Mohammed, Jasper Wireless
CEO
Jahangir founded Jasper Wireless in 2004 and serves as the company’s chief executive officer. Prior to founding Jasper Wireless, Jahangir founded and served as the CEO of Kineto Wireless. Kineto pioneered the convergence of WiFi and Cellular technologies. Kineto’s technology has become a GSM standard. He continues to serve on the Board of Kineto. Previously, Jahangir worked at AT&T Bell laboratories and Lucent.
Kirk Mosher, Oracle,
VP of CRM Product Marketing
Kirk Mosher is the Vice President of CRM Product Marketing at Oracle, responsible for helping Oracle’s customers understand the value and capabilities of Oracle’s Enterprise CRM solutions, Siebel CRM and CRM On Demand.
Ashu Pande, CSR,
Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Services
Ashu Pande is Vice President and General Manager of the Infrastructure Services and Business Unit at CSR. In this capacity, Ashu is responsible for developing partnerships, product solutions and tools to allow CSR customers to bring Wireless-GPS products to market and further the adoption and acceptance of its patented AGPS solution. Most recently he is working on bringing location-based service into emerging markets.
Biren Patel, Verizon Wireless
Director, Product Development
Biren Patel has over 12 years of experience in technical product management, vendor management, software design and development in the wireless telecommunications industry. Biren joined Verizon Wireless in 2003 and is currently responsible for leading development of LBS infrastructure, applications and services.
Cindy Patterson
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Jasper Wireless
Cindy has 20 years of experience in the wireless industry. Prior to leading global sales and marketing for Jasper Wireless, she built and led the Enterprise Data direct and indirect sales channels at Verizon Wireless. In this role she was responsible for deploying business applications at Fortune 1000, Global 500 and Federal Government customers in the United States. Previously, Cindy was President of the Central Texas market for Verizon Wireless where she launched the Verizon Wireless brand and the 3G data network and led all sales channels including retail, indirect and business-to-business.
Marc Prioleau, Technology Growth Advisors
Principal
Marc Prioleau has worked in the location business for over 15 years with senior executive positions at Trimble Navigation, SiRF, deCarta and CloudMade.
Ronen Soffer, Telmap
Chief Technology Officer
Ronen Soffer accepted the post of CTO after heading the Professional Services Team at Telmap since 2001. Ronen is a primary figure at Telmap and has played a key part in realizing the company’s vision.
Yossi Texerman, Intel
General Manager, Wireless Connectivity Group
Yossi Texerman is the General Manager of the Wireless Connectivity Group (WCG) in the Mobile Wireless Group (MWG) at Intel.
Robin Duke-Woolley, Beecham Research Ltd.
CEO
Robin is Founder and CEO of Beecham Research Ltd. Beecham Research is based in London UK, with offices in Boston MA, Bonn Germany and Berlin Germany, and specializes in the development of the rapidly-growing M2M market worldwide.
