Paul Anderson

Co-Founder, Anderson Software

Paul Anderson, MSEE, is an international speaker and trainer. He currently teaches BREW® and C++® courses for Qualcomm. He is the co-author of five textbooks in UNIX®, C, C++ and Java™, including Navigating C++ with Object-Oriented Design, from Prentice Hall. Anderson has contributed articles to Dr. Dobb's Journal, UNIX World and C++ Journal. He is also the co-founder of the Anderson Software Group, a training and consulting firm. For more information about Paul Anderson, visit www.asgteach.com.

 

Eric Albert

Head of North American Operations, Gameloft

Eric Albert plays a key role in accelerating Gameloft's growth in the North American mobile gaming market. Over the last 13 years he has acquired solid experience in the commercialization of technology products and has worked with companies such as Palm, U.S. Robotics, Intel and 3Com. Albert served as director of strategic accounts for Gateway Canada where he managed the introduction of Gateway products in retail chains such as Best Buy and Costco Wholesale. He studied at McGill University in Montréal and holds an MBA with specialization in Technology Management from the Université du Québec à Montréal.

 

Todd Bachmann

Senior Engineer, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Todd Bachmann is a senior engineer for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He is responsible for software development for the next generation of PEKStudio, as well as client development for the BREW Tools Interface Layer (BTIL). Since joining Qualcomm in 2001, Bachmann has worked for several different BREW teams including: tools, OEM engineering, alternative processors, and core BREW API development. Prior to Qualcomm, Bachmann worked as an engineer for Tut Systems designing network appliances. He holds a bachelors degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan.

 

Michael Barboni

Senior Product Manager, Qualcomm Internet Services

Michael Barboni has been with Qualcomm since 1997. As a senior product manager for Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS), he plays a role in the design and support of current and future QIS service offerings. His duties include operator solution design, product launch support and various strategic initiatives. Barboni is also a member of the QIS Professional Services team, where his primary focus is custom-developed solutions designed around deliveryOne™ and marketOne™ offerings.

 

Mark Baysinger

Senior Engineer, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Mark Baysinger is a senior engineer for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He is responsible for the core display architecture of the BREW development environment. Baysinger joined Qualcomm in 2000 to work on Eudora® Internet suite for the Palm® computing platform.

 

Allen Beasley

Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures

Allen Beasley is a managing director with Redpoint Ventures. He currently serves on the board of directors of Amp'd Mobile, Orbital Data, AirPlay, Obopay, and eNet. Beasley also led or was actively involved in investments in ON Semiconductor (ONNN), TopSpin Communications (acquired by Cisco), Intermix (acquired by News Corp), OuterBay (acquired by H-P), and MetaTV (acquired by Comcast and Cox). Beasley holds a BA in economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

 

Jared Benson

Vice President, Creative, Punchcut

As a specialist in mobile user interface and interaction design, Jared Benson oversees the design practice for Punchcut, a leading mobile user interface design and development company. Under Benson's direction, Punchcut works with OEMs, operators, publishers, and major entertainment brands to envision and create the next generation interfaces utilizing mobile technologies such as uiOne™. With a deep passion for mobile technology and a talent for creating rich, intuitive interfaces, he brings a unique perspective to the evolving landscape of mobile user experience.

 

Scott Bergs

Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Midwest Wireless Holdings L.L.C.

Scott Bergs is the senior vice president and COO of Midwest Wireless Holdings L.L.C., a wireless communications and information company providing service to over 450,000 customers located in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Bergs began working in the wireless communications industry in 1991 with MobileComm, a BellSouth Company. He also worked for PriCellular, Inc. before joining Midwest Wireless. In his current role, Bergs is responsible for marketing, product management, sales, customer care, service and repair and broadband service operations for the company.

 

David Berry

Senior Staff Engineer, Manager, Qualcomm Internet Services

David Berry is a managing senior staff engineer for Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS), specializing in the uiOne™ delivery system. He joined Qualcomm in November 2004 following the acquisition of Trigenix Ltd., where he worked as lead engineer on what is now a core component of the uiOne delivery system. Prior to Trigenix, Berry worked on interactive TV and publishing software with Cambridge, UK companies, and at Sun Microsystems on image processing related products. He has a BSc & PhD in electrical and electronic engineering from Heriot-Watt University.

 

Travis Boatman

Executive Producer, EA Mobile

As executive producer for Electronic Arts, Travis Boatman oversees the studio production of next generation mobile titles for EA Mobile, a leading wireless entertainment publisher. Prior to the acquisition of JAMDAT Mobile by EA in February 2006, Boatman brought his experience from the console and PC realm to JAMDAT in 2001, distributing more than 100 mobile games worldwide. Boatman has been involved with the video game industry, in both a publishing and developer capacity, since the early 1990's.

 

Kirk Burroughs

Principal Engineer, Qualcomm Internet Services

Kirk Burroughs, a principal engineer for Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS) since 1999, provides system engineering support for both the Qualcomm gpsOne® and QPoint™ product lines. Burroughs also represents Qualcomm at the 3GPP, 3GPP2 and OMA standards bodies.

 

Stefan Butlin

Senior Staff Engineer, Manager, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Stefan Butlin is a managing senior staff engineer for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), specializing in uiOne. He joined Qualcomm in November 2004 following the acquisition of Trigenix Ltd., where he worked as a lead engineer of the handset software for enabling data-driven UIs, now a core component of uiOne. Prior to Trigenix, Butlin spent several years working for Cambridge Consultants Ltd. on a range of mobile telecom technologies. He has an M.Eng. in electrical and information engineering from Cambridge University.

 

Alex Caccia

COO and General Manager Studios, Ideaworks3D

Alex Caccia is COO of Ideaworks3D and is the General Manager of I3D Studio. He is an entrepreneur with start-up experience in manufacturing, media, technology and a background in finance and investment banking. He joined Sportal, a major European dotcom startup in 1999, where he was head of the Applications Development team responsible for developing leading-edge internet technology. In 2004 he began advising the Cloud, a start-up WiFi hot-spot aggregator, and Ideaworks3D Ltd., and in 2004 he was appointed as COO of Ideaworks3D.

 

John Canny

Professor, Univerisity of California, Berkeley

John Canny is a professor in computer science at UC, Berkeley, working in human-computer interaction, IR and privacy. He holds the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professorship. His 1987 Ph.D. from MIT received the ACM dissertation award. His publications span computer vision, robotics, cryptography, IR, HCI and CSCW, with best paper awards in three of these areas.

 

Rupen Chanda

Founding Engineer, Mobile and Devices, Adobe®

Rupen Chanda is a founding engineer in Adobe's Mobile and Devices Business Unit. As an engineering contributor and designer, he is responsible for the delivery of essential mobile technologies such as Flashlite®, Flashcast® and Adobe Reader® LE. He has extensive experience creating products for mobile platforms, including BREW, Windows CE/Windows Mobile®, Symbian™ and Palm®.

 

Ramesh Chandrasekhar

Senior Staff Engineer, Manager, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Ramesh Chandrasekhar is a managing senior staff engineer for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He works on core platform software and underlying OS technologies to enable the next generation BREWarchitecture. He has been with Qualcomm since 1998. Prior to working on BREW, he worked as a software engineer in the Globalstar™ project.

 

Mazen Chmaytelli

Director, Product Management, Qualcomm Internet Services

Mazen Chmaytelli is responsible for the development and execution of Qualcomm Internet Services' BREW and uiOne solutions and offerings, as well as supporting their integration with customers. He joined Qualcomm in 1995 as a systems engineer and has held positions in engineering, subscriber/handset product management and CDMA2000® 1xEV-DO account management. He holds eleven patents and has 22 patents pending in a range of telecommunications designs. Chmaytelli is a member of the California Bar and holds a juris doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law. He earned bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA).

 

Bryan Comeau

Senior Software Engineer, Monotype Imaging Inc.

Bryan Comeau is a senior software engineer in the custom engineering group at Monotype Imaging Inc. He assists companies with the integration of scalable type solutions into products ranging from mobile phones and set-top boxes to PDAs and navigation systems. Comeau holds a bachelors degree in electrical engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.

 

Shawn Conahan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Intercasting Corp.

Shawn Conahan is chairman and CEO of Intercasting Corp., a Location-aware Media Networking Operator (LMNO.) Their award-winning first product, Rabble, is a blogging and social networking application that enables consumers to create and share their own media right from their mobile handsets.

 

Ken Davis

Senior Technical Training Specialist, Qualcomm Internet Services

Ken Davis, a senior technical training specialist with Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS), has spent the last five years developing and delivering successful training programs for BREW application developers, operators and handset manufacturers around the world. In the last year, his focus has been on developing training programs focused on the uiOne offering. Davis' former experience as a UI and database programmer analyst, along with a decade of delivering a variety of technical training programs, enable him to relate effectively to QIS' diverse technical audiences.

 

John DeAguiar

Director of Product Management, Autodesk

John DeAguiar is responsible for leading product strategy and implementation for Autodesk Location Services. John has extensive hands-on experience with development and deployment of LBS platforms, infrastructure and applications in North America. John's deep experience with location services has been characterized by innovation, with a number of LBS-related patents to his credit. Over the last 15 years, John has held a variety of technical and management roles at Autodesk. He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 

Jim DeLoach

Principal Engineer, Manager, Qualcomm Internet Services

Jim DeLoach joined Qualcomm with the SnapTrack® acquisition in 2000, and focuses on location technology systems engineering. He helps wireless operators overcome technical hurdles to speed gpsOne® and QPoint™ deployments, and improve system quality and customer satisfaction. DeLoach teaches the CDMA-U and UMTS-U Location-based Services classes, and represents Qualcomm at the ESIF and NENA standards bodies.

 

J. Scott Dinsdale

Executive Vice President Digital Operations & New Technology, Sony BMG

As EVP Digital Operations & New Technology, Scott Dinsdale is responsible for connecting Sony BMG's roster of artists to a global array of digital distribution partners and for guiding its interests in emerging technology. Dinsdale has served as business development director to Accenture LLP, EVP Digital Strategy for the MPAA, CIO and CTO of BMG Entertainment and VP, Applied Technology for Merrill Lynch. Scott is an accomplished entrepreneur, sits on the Advisory Board of InformationWeek magazine, and was Dean and Founder of Stanford's IT Executive Boot Camp.

 

Chris Early

Studio Manager, Microsoft Casual Games

Chris Early is studio manager for Microsoft Casual Games. A gaming industry veteran, Chris leads Microsoft's Casual Games in expanding Microsoft's casual gaming audience and game experiences across multiple platforms. Microsoft's approach to casual gaming reaches beyond the traditional online segment, tapping into diverse markets that span MSN® Games, MSN Messenger, MSN Games for Mobile and Xbox® Live Arcade. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris served as chief operating officer of GameSpy and executive vice president and general manager of Mplayer. Chris holds a BA in Economics and International Management from Claremont Men's College.

 

Kurtis Fechtmeyer

Managing Director, East Peak Advisors

Kurtis Fechtmeyer is a managing director at East Peak Advisors, an investment banking boutique focused on the communications and internet sectors. He has over a decade of advisory experience and three years prior experience as an entrepreneur in digital media. His banking clients have included, among others, M7 Networks (now Motricity), SkiWest (now Overstock.com), Netgear, Viewsonic, Powerwave, MDSI, Proxim and Vyyo. Prior to his banking career, Fechtmeyer was a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Dewey Ballantine. He received an A.B. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Columbia University.

 

Mike Flom

Chief Executive Officer, Portable Internet, Inc.

Mike Flom is founder and CEO of pioneering LBS developer Portable Internet, which introduced the first wireless voice nav and mass-handset tracking systems in the United States. Flom founded the ERP division of Information Builders, helped launch the IBM® Information Warehouse, and developed American Express'® first e-commerce applications. He is a Gerson-Lehman Group Scholar.

 

John Gatti

Staff Engineer,Manager, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

As a staff engineer, John Gatti coordinates and participates in the development of call processing and other core software components. Most recently he has focused his efforts on the uiOne solution. John joined Qualcomm in 2001.

 

Jeremy Gilbert

Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Internet Services

Jeremy Gilbert is a senior engineer in Qualcomm Internet Services' (QIS) BREW OEM engineering group. Gilbert joined Qualcomm in 2002 and is responsible for providing technical assistance to OEMs as they integrate BREW products into their mobile device software.

 

Iain Gillott

President, iGillottResearch, Inc.

Iain Gillott has been involved in the wireless industry, as both a vendor and analyst, for more than thirteen years. He is a frequent speaker on industry issues and trends and has addressed audiences around the world and at many of the leading industry trade shows, including CES, SuperComm®, WiMAX World, the BREW Conference, 3G Americas and CTIA. He has also been a guest lecturer on the wireless industry at the University of Texas and at Thunderbird. He is frequently quoted in various publications, including Investors Business Daily, The Wall Street Journal, Telephony, RCR, Newsweek International, Wireless Week and Business Week and has appeared on CNN, CNBC and TechTV.

 

Vishal Gondal

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Indiagames

A serial entrepreneur, Vishal Gondal started his first company, FACT, at 16, and by 1999 he had founded Indiagames. Today Indiagames is one of the leading global game companies publishing in over 50 countries. Under Gondal's leadership, Indiagames was featured amongst Red Herring Asia's Top 100 companies in 2005. Among Gondal's notable achievements and recognitions, Gondal is featured among the 20 Fab Indians to watch out for in 2006 by The Week magazine and among the top 50 executives in the mobile content space nominated by Mobile Entertainment Magazine.

 

Gustavo Guevara

Director of Product Development 3G, Iusacell

Gustavo Guevara plays a key role in the acceleration of data and applications usage in Iusacell, a wireless company providing service to over 2,000,000 customers in all of Mexico. Guevara has been working in Iusacell since 2004. Before joining Iusacell he represented Mexico before the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development in various working groups. In his current role, Guevara is responsible for marketing, product management and sales of the consumer data services.

 

Arnold Gum

Staff Product Manager, Qualcomm® CDMA Technologies

Arnold Gum oversees the CDMA 2000® development and adoption of Qualcomm gpsOne® technology. Gum joined Qualcomm in February1997 as the third-party program manager for Eudora®, and transferred to Qualcomm's handset division (QCP) in 1998 as advanced wireless technologies product manager. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Gum worked at Hewlett-Packard (HP) for 10 years. Gum received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He also graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. degree in psychology from Colorado State University.

 

Steven Hooper Jr.

Partner, Cascadia Capital, LLC

Steven Hooper is a member of Cascadia Capital's Emerging Growth Origination team, where he is charged with leading the firm's efforts in the wireless and communications industry. In addition to covering industry trends, he is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with growing companies, strategic buyers and financial investors across the Wireless and Communications landscape. Hooper graduated Cum Laude from Colby College, where he was a Baker Scholar and holds a B.A. in economics with a minor in computer science.

 

Kevin Hunter

Product Development Engineering, Manager, Sprint Nextel

Kevin Hunter is a development manager in the Device Realization group for Sprint Nextel. In his current position, he plays a key role in the design and engineering for many of Sprint's wireless data products and platforms. Kevin has been with Sprint for 5 years where he has had the opportunity to contribute and lead on many different product and technology initiatives. More recently, he was instrumental in the successful launch of Sprint's Power Vision service.

 

Kosei Ito

Producer, Square Enix Co., Ltd.

As producer of mobile products, Kosei Ito oversees the major mobile games under the Square Enix Mobile brand. He has elevated the mobile game industry in Japan by producing Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII, a subscription based network RPG that created a stir with 1.6 million accesses on its initial launch day. Ito is currently devoted to the highly anticipated North American mobile titles, Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII and Dirge of Cerberus Final Fantasy VII - Lost Episode.

 

Jay Kumar Jain

Director & Co-Founder, Astute Systems Technology Pvt. Ltd

Jay Kumar Jain is the director and co-founder of Astute, a leading mobile content developer and publisher. Holding a Masters Degree in Finance, Jain is the draftsman behind Astute. Under his leadership, in just twenty months the company has developed over 130 unique and innovative titles and was the recipient of the Diamond BREW award at the BREW 2005 Developers Conference in India. His expertise in planning, visualizing and monitoring of the market has made him a strategic player in wireless world.

 

Robert Juncker

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Gearworks, Inc.

Since mobility has existed, Robert Juncker has had a passion for plotting its tracks and keeping a pulse on its future. He co-authored the first book on WAP in the US, and has been a public voice and evangelist of the technology since its early days. Juncker acts as a advisor to many large mobile organizations, including Fortune 50 organizations and wireless carriers.

 

Vishy Kalyanakrishnan

Senior Staff Engineer, Manager, Qualcomm Internet Services

Viswanathan "Vishy" Kalyanakrishnan is a managing staff engineer for Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS). He is part of the OEM engineering team and works primarily with OEMs to assist with the integration of BREW onto various devices. He joined QIS in 2001 and has played a key role in the porting of BREW onto multiple OEM handsets and facilitating their commercialization process worldwide. Before joining QIS, Kalyanakrishnan spent four years as a senior software engineer on Globalstar™ and Qualcomm's Network Switching Products group.

 

Nagraj Kashyap

Director, Business Development, Qualcomm Ventures

Nagraj Kashyap is the director of business development at Qualcomm Ventures and heads up North American operations. He serves as a board observer for Bitfone, WaveMarket, Digit Wireless, Airplay Networks and Digital Orchid, and is actively involved with the Qualcomm Ventures investment in Airvana. Kashyap has over 10 years experience in the telecommunications industry and has worked in various engineering and management capacities. He has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an MS in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Brian Kelley

Senior Director, Technology, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Brian Kelley is a senior director of technology for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He is responsible for the BREW development environment platform architecture. Kelley has been with Qualcomm since 1997. Prior to working at QCT, he worked in the Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS) and Qualcomm Consumer Products (QCP) divisions.

 

Mohammed Khorakiwala

Engineer, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Mohammed Khorakiwala is an engineer at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He is responsible for PEK automation and uiOne automation. He joined Qualcomm in 2003, and since that time has been working with the BREW tools team. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Khorakiwala worked as an engineer for Interlink Networks designing their RADIUS servers. He holds a bachelors degree in computer science from the University of Michigan.

 

Jasmit Sing Kochhar

Staff Engineer, Qualcomm Internet Services

Jasmit Singh Kochhar has been with Qualcomm since 1997 and is currently working on the next generation distribution system for BREW. He has a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Decision Science and Engineering Systems. He has written for professional journals such as International Journal of Production Research, Computers and Operations Research, and INFORMS Interfaces and trade publications such as InformIT, and has presented papers on numerical optimization techniques at numerous conferences. He is currently leading the efforts to expose the functionality of BREW using web services.

 

Christen Krogh

Vice President of Engineering, Opera Software ASA

Christen Krogh has served as VP of engineering at Opera Software since 2001. He has supervised all deliveries of Opera's products, initialized innovations in browser technology, and built the engineering organization to industrialize an award-winning browser. Krogh received his bachelors degree in computer science from Glasgow University and his Ph.D from the University of Oslo. Before joining Opera, Krogh worked as a research scientist at the Center for Industrial Research and subsequently as a research director at SINTEF Teleco.

 

Martin Kropat

Product Manager, Qualcomm Internet Services

Martin Kropat is a product manager for Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS). He is part of the BREW Developer Relations team responsible for working with third-party LBS, mobile search, browser and BREW extension developers to assist in their development of applications for the BREW system. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2005, Kropat held various product management roles at Siemens Mobile and Siemens Communications.

 

Haruko Kurata

Product Manager, Embedded Technologies, Moderati, Inc.

Haruko Kurata is a product manager at Moderati, Inc., where she manages the embedded audio engine licensed to Qualcomm in the CMX™ audio solution. A subsidiary of Faith, Inc., Moderati supports the parent company's software based sound solutions for mobile devices, as well as being a mobile content provider. As part of the embedded technologies group, Kurata investigates new mobile technologies.

 

Kyu Lee

President, GAMEVIL USA, Inc.

Kyu Lee is President of GAMEVIL USA, Inc. GAMEVIL is one of the premier mobile game publishers in the world and is well known for revolutionizing the sector with its original and innovative mobile games, backed by unparalleled expertise in advanced mobile and network technology. Kyu has been with GAMEVIL since its start in 2000 and has played a key role in the evolution of Korean mobile gaming. Kyu has a B.S. in Pysics from Seoul National University and is currently on the advisory board of GDC Mobile.

 

Tricia Lee

Product Manager, Midwest Wireless

As product manager, Tricia Lee has been instrumental in bringing BREW services to customers of Midwest Wireless and other providers throughout the world. She was responsible for Midwest Wireless' initial launch of BREW in 2003, and in 2004 worked with Qualcomm to launch Midwest Wireless' BREW hosted service. In just two years, the number of providers offering BREW to their customers through Midwest Wireless' BREW hosted service has grown to more than 20.

 

Youngil Lee

Executive Vice President, Com2uS

Youngil Lee co-founded Com2uS in 1996 after graduating from Korea University. From 1997 to 1999, he worked at Infobank Korea and later returned to Com2uS full time to head up the development team. Having firmly established Com2uS as a market leader, Youngil established Raymobile in 2003, a joint venture in China. As CEO, he steered Raymobile to success with over 50 game launches on China Mobile and China Unicom. In 2005, TIME named Lee a Global 20 Tech Guru. Today he holds the position of executive vice president at the Com2uS headquarters in Seoul.

 

David Ligon

Senior Product Manager, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

David Ligon is responsible for the strategic definition and development of the Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) product offerings for wireless 2D and 3D graphics, gaming and content. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Ligon worked at Apple Computer, Inc. where he led an architecture group that developed a video processor and was also responsible for the initial CODEC and effects microcode for that architecture. Ligon also worked for Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), where he was responsible for developing algorithms for advanced 3D graphics and 2D imaging hardware, multiprocessing and high-bandwidth data transfer architecture.

 

Johan Lodenius

President, Nordisk Mobiltelefon Terminal AB

Johan Lodenius is a partner of Nordisk Mobiltelefon AB, a CDMA 450 MHz operator with licenses in Scandinavia and Ireland. He is responsible for all handset products and applications. Previously, Lodenius spent nine years as senior VP of marketing and product management at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, was a product manager at LSI Logic and a product manager at Ericsson.

 

Laurence Lundblade

Principal Engineer, Manager, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Laurence Lundblade is a managing principal engineer for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) where he works on a number of the security systems, including the BREW application signing system, the BREW mutual authentication protocol and various security-related BREW APIs. Prior to his current role, Lundblade worked in the Qualcomm Eudora® products division where he served on the team responsible for creating the Eudora Internet Suite browser and email client for the Palm OS™ platform.

 

Vicki Mealer

Director, Product Management, Qualcomm Internet Services

Vicki Mealer is responsible for the products and solutions within BREW, including uiOne, marketOne and deliveryOne. She joined Qualcomm in 1997, and held various project management positions in Qualcomm's Corporate IT group. Within QIS, Mealer has played a key role in the design, delivery and evolution of the BREW Delivery System and was instrumental in establishing the first QIS office in Europe and initiating business development in the region. She has a Bachelor Degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University and a Master's Degree from Ohio State University.

 

Seamus McAteer

Chief Product Architect and Senior Analyst, M:Metrics

Seamus McAteer has been assisting clients in the wireless and portable computing sectors since the early 1990's. McAteer founded M:Metrics in 2004 to measure consumption of mobile content and wireless applications. M:Metrics builds on work he carried out at Zelos Group, a boutique advisory services firm. Prior to founding Zelos Group, McAteer was a research fellow with Jupiter Research and a senior analyst with SRI International. McAteer speaks regularly at major trade events such as CTIA 2005, GDC Mobile and JavaOneSM and is extensively quoted in venues such as NPR, New York Times and Business Week.

 

Mike McMullen

Product Manager, Product Realization, Sprint Nextel®

Mike McMullen is an LBS Product Manager with Sprint Nextel. He has been working on CDMA location based services for five and a half years and held key roles developing Sprint's location strategy. He was instrumental in bringing Sprint's Control Plane and User Plane location platforms online and working with partners to deliver "best in class" applications. McMullen has seven years experience in telecommunications and sixteen years in product/project management. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from Kansas State University.

 

Jesse Money

Director of Consumer Multimedia Services, Verizon Wireless

Jesse Money is the director of consumer multimedia services for Verizon Wireless. He is responsible for the creation, design, product development and management of all consumer data services, including V CAST™ and Get It Now®. Money has over fifteen years of software and product development experience. Prior to joining Verizon, he spent three years at Sprint® PCS, where he led the service architecture network team. Money holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Texas Tech, and a Master in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University.

 

Mahesh Moorthy

Senior Director, Engineering, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Mahesh Moorthy is a senior director of engineering for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies(QCT). He is a BREW client software lead and has been with the team since the inception of BREW. Moorthy joined Qualcomm in 1996, serving as a software developer and senior engineer on the Globalstar project. Previously, he worked with IBM T.J Watson Research Center in New York as a software engineer.

 

Drew Morin

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, TeleCommunciation Systems (TCS)

As SVP and CTO for TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), Drew Morin is responsible for the technical direction and coordination of TCS' development activities across business units. He holds a BS degree in systems engineering from the University of Virginia and a Master of Science degree in systems engineering from George Mason University.

 

Anup Murarka

Director, Technical Marketing, Adobe®

Anup Murarka, director of technical marketing at Adobe Systems, is responsible for defining strategy for Adobe's mobile agenda. Murarka has held engineering and management positions at technology companies including Apple® Computer and 3DO Company. Murarka has spent many years developing video games and marketing embedded software for computer equipment manufacturers.

 

Apul Nahata

Staff Engineer, Manager, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Apul Nahata is a software lead for the BREW SDK® and contributes to the design and development in various areas of BREW client products. Nahata joined Qualcomm in 1999 and began working as a software engineer on Eudora® products. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Nahata worked as a software development consultant with several companies including Fujitsu Business Communication Systems and SABRE Decision Technologies

 

Eitaro Nishijima

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, EitaroSoft, Inc.

Eitaro Nishijima was integral in the inception of Q3D-integrated mobile phones with KDDI in Japan and helped establish the evaluation and performance guarantee for OpenGL®ES in all Q3D-loaded devices. In 2005, Nishijima presented a mobile version of 3DUI and Project Looking Glass, at JavaOne™ 2005. Currently, he is focusing wholeheartedly on the development of stable high-speed games for the mobile phone.

 

Prapti Patel

Engineer, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Prapti Patel is a product development engineer in the game audio group at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. Her current role is to help developers achieve their audio goals using Qualcomm's game audio solution and ensure that new feature development is aligned with the needs of developers. Prapti's previous experience working with the Graphics Firmware team gives her a unique perspective on using audio for games on mobile devices. Prapti earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an M.S. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

 

Srinivas Patwari

Staff Engineer, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Srinivas Patwari is a staff engineer at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). His area of work involves design and development of multimedia APIs for BREW. Prior to joining Qualcomm, he worked in the wireless systems division of AT&T Bell Labs and Center for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) in Bangalore, India where he worked on switching software.

 

Kitty Ressler

Vice President, Engineering and Manager, QPoint™ Product, Qualcomm Internet Services

Kitty Ressler is responsible for Qualcomm's QPoint assisted-GPS technology, including product development and management, product implementation and launch. She oversees the productization of the server side of Qualcomm's location offering in support of commercial location-based and location-assisted applications as well as E911 and other emergency service requirements. Ressler joined Qualcomm in 2000, after three years with SnapTrack® where she played a key role in driving the rollout of handset-based location for E911. Ressler has thirty years of engineering, business and management experience, including fifteen years with GTE (now Verizon).

 

Carla Riney

Staff Product Manager, Qualcomm Internet Services

Carla Riney is responsible for the definition and execution of features and functionality for BREW™ delivery product offerings, enabling the distribution of compelling content and services to the wireless community. Before joining QIS in 2003, Riney spent five years as a senior manager for Qualcomm's corporate information technology department supporting infrastructure deployments and system integration efforts.

 

Ray Rischpater

Chief Architect, Rocket Mobile Inc.

Ray Rischpater is the chief architect at Rocket Mobile, Inc. Rischpater has focused on mobile computing since 1995. He is the author of eight books and 48 articles on mobile and wireless computing, including the titles eBay Application Development and Software Development for the Qualcomm BREW Platform.

 

Brian Rodrigues

Senior Director, Product Management, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Brian Rodrigues is a senior director of product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) where he oversees its CDMA 2000® chipsets and system software product developments. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 1999, Rodrigues worked for LSI Logic Corp. in the United States and Europe, where he held various product marketing positions in the communications and ASIC divisions, and was an ASIC design center manager at National Semiconductor in Swindon, United Kingdom.

 

Mark Rolston

Senior Vice President, Creative, frog design

A founder of frog design's digital media group, Mark Rolston has been responsible for extensive groundbreaking new media design work and user interface. He oversaw the design of dell.com which launched in 1999, marking the birth of one of the most profitable web sites on the Internet. Rolston's client roster has featured many of the world's largest brands, including Dell™, HP, SAP, Ford, Disney, Microsoft® and Yahoo®. He is an internationally recognized expert on design, digital media, user interface and mobile communications.

 

Brent Sammons

Product Manager, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Brent Sammons joined Qualcomm in 2003 as the liaison between CMX™ and Audio Engineering and the mobile developer and operator community. He keeps developers abreast of the latest CMX and audio technologies and ensures that CMX technologies continue to be relevant to the needs of the community. Sammons has over 12 years of combined experience in the mobile, multimedia, software and web development communities.

 

Takashi Shigeno

General Manager, Mobile Service Planning Department, "au" Service & Product Planning Division, "au" Business Sector, KDDI Corporation

Takashi Shigeno joined KDDI in 1986, and held roles in customer service, customer management/billing systems and sales planning for the fixed phone business. In 1998, he played a key role in founding KDDI's Brazilian cellular operation. In 2001, he served as the head of the data business planning group of KDDI, where he lead the data strategy development of the "au" business and the "au" EVDO service development, including marketing/sales strategy, service planning, infrastructure deployment, etc. Shigeno's current responsibilities cover service/application planning and development for "au".

 

Kelly Soden

Engineer, Alltel

Kelly Soden is an engineer for Alltel Communications, where he is responsible for supporting wireless data applications including WAP, SMS, MMS and BREW. He joined Alltel in 1998 and has served in a number of roles supporting both wireline and wireless products. Soden began working with Alltel's implementation of the BREW Distribution System in 2005, quickly becoming the company's leading engineering expert. He has been instrumental in implementing leading edge features within the BREW Delivery System such as groups, BREW Zone web service, prepaid BREW, and most recently uiOne.

 

Aditya Srivastava

Staff Engineer, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Aditya "Adi" Srivastava is a staff engineer for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He joined Qualcomm's SnapTrack® team in 2003 and has been with the BREW client software team since 2004. He has been instrumental in the design and development of new features and interfaces for BREW related to filesystems, vocoders, events, alarms and application management.

 

Isaias Sudit

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Loc-Aid Technologies

Isaias Sudit has built three businesses, all within the location based service industry. Veridian, now General Dynamics, acquired the very first venture, Datumtech, in 1997. His second venture, Datumcom, was founded in 1995 and became the leading international supplier of vehicle-based positioning services and infrastructures, later transitioning telematics. With the decision to develop applications for the mobile user, LOC-AID® Technologies was founded and is focused solely on this developing LBS market. Sudit received both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in mechanical and manufacturing engineering from Ohio State University.

 

Sam Sun

Staff Engineer, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Sam Sun is a staff engineer for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He is the development lead for the BTIL project and the BREW Tools suite. Prior to joining the QCT division in 2002, Sun worked as a systems engineer for Littlefeet Inc., a telecommunications startup company, and as a software developer in Qualcomm's infrastructure division. He holds a bachelors degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College.

 

Hitotaka Suzuki

Director/CTO, HI Corporation

Hitotaka Suzuki has specialized in Human Interface Technology for more than 10 years. Suzuki is responsible for the R&D Department that focuses on User Interface development including HI's proprietary 3DCG real time rendering engine MascotCapsule®. Beginning on July 1, 2005 Suzuki has also served as CEO for HI Corporation America Inc.

 

Nagender Telkar

Engineer, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Nagender Telkar is an engineer at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He is currently working on the development and support of the BREW Debugger. Telkar joined Qualcomm in 2004 as a software developer and has worked with different aspects of BREW Debugger from design considerations to porting the BREW Debugger to various platforms. He has a masters degree in computer science & engineering from Arizona State University.

 

Brett Toerien

Manager, Operations, Qualcomm Internet Services

Brett Toerien is operations manager for Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS) where he is responsible for overseeing the TRUE BREW® testing program and managing the operational support for application commercialization. Toerien joined Qualcomm Wireless Systems in 1996 to work on the Globalstar project before coming on board with QIS.

 

Chris Verbil

Manager, Applications Engineering, Qualcomm Internet Services

Chris Verbil is responsible for special integration projects, product demonstrations and LBS developer support. He assists in the marketing of Qualcomm's QPoint™ solutions to cellular carriers, handset manufacturers, and infrastructure vendors. His group maintains the AGPS servers (PDE) that are accessible to developers prior to commercial launch. Prior to joining Qualcomm in 2000, he served as installation project manager for Trimble Navigation's 9-1-1 business unit, delivering and installing GPS/AVL systems to public safety agencies worldwide. A retired U.S. Navy flight officer, he holds an M.A. in Education from San Jose State University and a B.S. in Aviation Management from Metropolitan State College in Denver, CO.

 

Marcie Vu

Vice President, Morgan Stanley

Marcie Vu joined Morgan Stanley in August, 2002 to focus on covering Internet, entertainment software, mobile entertainment and other software clients. Vu has six years of technology and telecommunications investment banking experience. Prior to Morgan Stanely, she spent 2 years at Yahoo. She has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS in economics (finance) from the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania).

 

Rob Walker

Principal Engineer, Manager, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Rob Walker is a managing principal engineer for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He joined Qualcomm in 2001 to work on the BREW client software development team, where he is a software lead for various BREW subsystems, including networking, filesystem, threading and dispatching.

 

Carl Washburn

Chief Executive Officer, VOCEL

Prior to VOCEL, Carl Washburn was director, strategy and marketing, North American Region, for Siemens Information and Communication Mobile LLC. He also worked in Siemens Health Services where he was the product manager for HealthBand, an application enabling physicians to access patient information using mobile phones, which received an IBM Solutions Excellence award. Washburn directed the development of HospiceConnect and was nominated as a Computerworld Smithsonian Laureate. Washburn holds a M.B.A. from University of Utah and a marketing degree from Brigham Young University.

 

David Welch

Associate Director of New Product Innovations, Verizon Wireless

David Welch is responsible for the design, specification and implementation of new consumer products and services for the V CAST™ 3G network as well as off-spectrum opportunities. He was the product lead for the Ringback Tones service and the recently launched V CAST Music service. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, he spent three years at Sprint® PCS where he led the Network Architecture team. He has over 18 years of solutions architecture and product development experience and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Kansas.

 

David Westendorf

Senior Director, Kodak

David Westendorf graduated in 1990 from the University of Notre Dame. He was employed with Chiat/Day Advertising from 1991-1996 and then held various positions with Sprint PCS, PocketMail and Palm. Since 2004, he has been employed with Kodak.

 

Theodore Witkamp

Chief Technology Officer, RiffWare

Theodore Witkamp serves as a co-founder and CTO of RiffWare LLC. He is responsible for all architectural issues associated within the company, including the development of RiffWare's BREW supplemental framework. This framework allows RiffWare to quickly create unique applications with a high quality user experience. Witkamp holds a BSCS from Purdue University.

 

Rob Witman

Chief Executive Officer, RiffWare L.L.C.

Rob Witman serves as founder and CEO at RiffWare L.L.C. Prior to starting RiffWare, he served as a senior robotics engineer at Evolution Robotics, where he worked since the company's inception. When not designing new technology, Witman makes use of his diverse background to analyze and monitor outside technology developments. Witman holds a MSME from Purdue University.

 

Howard Yeh

Staff Engineer, Manager, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

Howard Yeh is a lead engineer in the multimedia DSP department at Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. He helped develop key audio DSP features that have become part of the core voice and multimedia software in Qualcomm MSMs. Howard has worked on CMX since its inception, giving him extensive experience in MIDI. Currently, Howard's focus is to make the latest game audio features a reality on mobile handsets. Howard earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. from the University of Michigan.