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Don Clark - Chief Moderator & Reporter for 4GMF'07 VIP Keynotes
Deputy Bureau Chief
The Wall
Street Journal (WSJ)
Don is based out of the paper's San
Francisco office and is responsible for
shaping the Journal's West Coast
technology coverage, with a particular
focus on events in Silicon Valley. He
has covered technology for nearly 27
years, starting with the St. Paul
Pioneer Press and then the San Francisco
Chronicle before joining the Journal in
1993. Don is heavily involved in the
daily spot news filed from San
Francisco, and
coordinates with other WSJ bureaus on
breaking stories and features about
individual companies and technology
trends. Besides editing and assigning
stories to others, Don continues to
write news stories and features, with
strongest emphasis recently on the
semiconductor and computing hardware
markets. He received a bachelor's degree
in English from UCLA and a master's in
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Julius P.
Knapp
Chief, Office of
Engineering & Technology
U.S.
F.C.C.
Julius Knapp is
Chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering
and Technology (OET). OET is the
Commission’s primary resource for
engineering expertise and provides
technical support to the Chairman,
Commissioners and FCC Bureaus and
Offices.
Mr. Knapp has been with the FCC for 33
years. Mr. Knapp previously served as
the Deputy Chief of OET since 2002.
Prior to that he was the Chief of the
Policy & Rules Division where he was
responsible for FCC frequency allocation
proceedings and for proceedings amending
the FCC rules for radio frequency
devices. Mr. Knapp was Chief of the FCC
Laboratory from 1994 – 1997 where he was
responsible for the FCC’s equipment
authorization program and technical
analyses.
Mr. Knapp received a Bachelor's degree
in electrical engineering from the City
College of New York in 1974. He is a
member of the IEEE EMC Society and is a
Fellow of the Radio Club of America. He
was the 2001 recipient of the Eugene C.
Bowler award for exceptional
professionalism and dedication to public
service and received the FCC’s Silver
and Gold medal awards for distinguished
service at the Commission.
Mr. Knapp lives with his wife and family
in Ellicott City, Maryland.
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Anand
Chandrasekher
Senior Vice President &
General Manager
Intel Mobility Group
Anand
Chandrasekher is Intel Senior Vice
president and General Manager of our
Ultra Mobility Group. This group is
responsible for Intel's low power
products - delivering leading edge
technology for mobile internet devices.
Chandrasekher's responsibilities include
strategic direction, platform planning,
design, development, marketing and
business management.
Prior to his current assignment,
Chandrasekher was Senior Vice President
and General Manager of Intel's Sales and
Marketing Group; in this capacity, he
had responsibility for worldwide sales
and marketing operations and served
Intel's global customer and market
needs.
Previously, Chandrasekher was Vice
President and General Manager of the
Mobile Platforms Group. Chandrasekher
led the team responsible for the
architecture, design, development and
marketing of Intel's platform solutions
for the mobile computing segment. He led
the team that delivered - Intel(r)
Centrino(tm) mobile technology-to the
market; and, under his leadership the
mobile group became the fastest growing
business unit at Intel. He was promoted
to Intel Corporate Vice President in
2003.
Prior to his Mobile Platforms Group
role, Chandrasekher was Vice President
of the Intel Architecture Group and
General Manager of the Intel
Architecture Marketing Group, where he
led strategic planning and marketing
activities for Intel's enterprise,
mobile and desktop platform products -
in this capacity, he was responsible for
the launch and ramp of the Intel(r)
Pentium(r) 4 processor family of
products. In 1997, Chandrasekher formed
and led Intel's Workstation Platform
Group and was its General Manager
through 1999 - under his leadership,
Intel's workstation business grew into a
multi-billion dollar business. From 1995
to 1997 he served as Technical Assistant
to Craig Barrett, current Intel
Chairman.
Chandrasekher earned his bachelor's
degree in computer science and a
master's degree in engineering from
Cornell University. He received an MBA
from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School
of Management. Chandrasekher remains an
active supporter of Cornell's programs
and of the American India Foundation; he
is an elected member of Cornell's
Council of Trustees. He has been with
Intel since 1988.
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Peter
Taglia
Senior Director of
Mobile Applications
Oracle
Mr. Taglia is
Senior Director responsible for Oracle
Corporation’s Product Strategy for CRM
Mobile Applications. In this role, he
liaison’s with many of Oracle’s product
development departments to coordinate
the formulation of a comprehensive next
generation product strategy for
enterprise mobility. Previously, he
served as Oracle’s Senior Director of
Product Management for Communications
Industry Applications.
Prior to Oracle, Mr. Taglia held
executive business and product
development positions with Sybase,
Telcordia Technologies, Ameritech (now
at&t) and IBM. Mr. Taglia also
represented Telcordia as a strategic
investor on the board of Astracon, Inc
and has written for Information Week.
Mr. Taglia lives in Foster City, CA and
holds a B.S. (Physics) from the
Polytechnic University of New York and a
M.S. (Operations Research) from New York
University.
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Bill Krenik
CTO of
Wireless Business
Texas Instruments
As chief
technical officer, Dr. Bill Krenik is
head of TI’s advanced wireless research
team. In this position, he oversees the
study and review of emerging wireless
technologies and system architectures,
as well as the impact they will have on
the future of wireless communications.
He also defines and launches new
research initiatives, and supports
advanced wireless product developments.
Throughout his career, Krenik has played
an instrumental role in the design of
TI’s silicon and software architectures,
keeping in mind the critical technology
requirements of mobile handset
manufacturers and mobile operators. He
is highly respected for his strategic
contributions to the development of the
industry’s first single-chip mobile
phone solution, now shipping to roughly
15 mobile handset customers in more than
50 handset models. Known as TI’s LoCosto™
family of single-chip solutions, the
popular platform employs the company’s
one-of-a-kind DRP™ technology that
applies digital techniques to formerly
analog functions to achieve substantial
size, power and cost reductions.
Beyond his significant contributions to
TI’s single-chip product roadmap, Krenik
also plays an instrumental role in
shaping TI’s strategy for addressing
future mobile phone technologies. He has
an in-depth knowledge of future
standards, particularly OFDM-based
technologies, which allows him to ensure
that TI’s scalable solutions are
optimized to address multiple networks
in the ever-changing wireless market.
Krenik serves on several academic and
professional boards and was elected a
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in
2005. He is a registered professional
engineer in the state of Texas and holds
more than 35 U.S. patents. He speaks
frequently at professional industry and
technical events and has published
numerous articles and technical papers.
A well-respected industry expert, he
also is frequently quoted in top U.S.
trade and business publications,
including USA Today, EE Times and IEEE
Spectrum.
Krenik has been employed by TI since
1984. He received a doctorate in
electrical engineering from the
University of Texas, Dallas, in 1993. He
also holds a master’s degree in
electrical engineering from Southern
Methodist University and a bachelor’s
degree in electrical engineering from
the University of Minnesota.
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Thomas
Lee
Managing Director
JP Morgan
In addition to
his role as a managing director at JP
Morgan, Mr. Lee is the firm's Macro
Small and Mid-Cap (SMID) equity
strategist, focusing on stocks with a
market capitalization below $4 billion.
His approach in SMID-Cap is theme-based
focusing on fundamentally solid
companies that are generally overlooked
by the street. Prior to joining JP
Morgan, Mr. Lee was a managing director
at Salomon Smith Barney. previously, Mr.
Lee was a vice president at Oppenheimer,
where he covered wireless services.
Prior to Oppenheimer, he was a research
associate at Kidder, Peabody covering
telecommunications services, and
earlier, a public accountant at Price
waterhouse. Mr. Lee is a Chartered
Financial Analyst and a member of the
New York Society of Security Analysts.
Mr. Lee earned a BSE in economics from
the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania with dual concentrations in
finance and accounting.
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Angel
Ruiz
President & CEO
Ericsson
N.A.
Angel Ruiz is
the President and CEO of Ericsson’s
North American operations, a position he
has held since 2001. The Plano,
Texas-based market unit serves Ericsson
customers in the United States and
Canada.
Mr. Ruiz joined Ericsson in 1990 and has
held a variety or sales and managerial
positions within the company, including
heading up the global account teams for
Cingular/SBC/BellSouth (now AT&T). He
was also involved in project and product
management and worked in customer
support assignments in Mexico, Venezuela
and Sweden.
Before joining Ericsson, Mr. Ruiz held
various positions with Sprint, AT&T and
Bell Atlantic.
Mr. Ruiz holds a bachelor’s degree in
electrical engineering from the
University of Central Florida and a
master’s degree in management science
and information systems from Johns
Hopkins University. Mr. Ruiz and his
wife have one daughter and one son.
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Bill
Sanders
VP of Mobile Networks
Programming
Sony Pictures TV Int'l
As Vice
President of Mobile Networks Programming
and Digital Product Development for Sony
Pictures Television International, a
division of Sony Pictures Entertainment,
Bill Sanders oversees the creation of
film and video related programming and
applications for the global mobile
marketplace outside the United States.
Most recently, Sanders served as
President of Pervasive Media where he
consulted businesses which focused on
entertainment content for mobile
devices; in particular, video for cell
phones.
Prior to that position, Sanders was
Senior Vice President for Big Ticket
Television, a Paramount/Viacom company,
where he oversaw all current network and
syndicated programming and spearheaded
Big Ticket’s entry into enhanced
television.
Throughout his career, Sanders has
served as Vice President of Original
Programming for HBO and Supervising
Producer for the channel’s award winning
comedy series “Dream On”. In addition,
he has held positions at Universal
Television, Warner Brothers Television,
and ABC.
Sanders has a bachelor of arts degree in
communication from Stanford University.
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Ozzie Diaz
Chief Technologist, Mobility & Wireless
Hewlett-Packard Company
Ozzie Diaz is a
member of the PSG/OS&T CTO Office as the
Chief Technologist for Mobility &
Wireless. He provides expertise and
support across HP in areas of wireless,
networking and mobility. He also chairs
the pan-HP mobility team that oversees
and drives the “Always Connected User
Experience” mobility and wireless
strategy across HP.
Ozzie has over a 20-year career
experience from companies across top
Fortune 100 companies as well as early
stage venture-backed companies. Prior to
joining HP, Ozzie led Systems
Engineering, Market and Business
Development activities for a number of
venture-funded companies including
Firetide, AirFlow Networks and Bivio
Networks where he was a co-founder or
member of the senior management team
addressing Enterprise, Service Provider
and various vertical markets with
wireless and security solutions.
Ozzie worked for Cisco’s Service
Provider Line of Business as a Senior
Manager designing and implementing
telecom IP architectures and migration
strategies for Telco’s, Cableco’s,
Cellco’s, ISPs, and CLECs. He also
worked for Motorola as their Lead System
Architect at Motorola’s Land Mobile
Products Sector where he led new
protocol and product specifications for
LMR, iDEN, and cellular radio network
infrastructure.
Prior to joining Fortune 100
corporations, Ozzie spent time in the
defense and aerospace industry,
including 4 years in the U.S. Marine
Corps specializing in avionics and
airborne communications.
Ozzie’s industry standards activities
include North American IPv6 Task Force
Mobility and Wireless Subject Matter
Expert and Steering Committee Member,
Silicon Capitol (Wireless Sacramento)
Advisor and Wireless Subject Matter
Expert, California IPv6 Task Force
Steering Committee Member, Worldwide Web
Consortium (W3C) Steering Council
Member.
Ozzie’s most recent published report was
a paper on the “Utility of Broadband
Wireless: A Technology Roadmap for
Disaster Response” for homeland defense
in cooperation with the Worldwide
Consortium for the Grid (W2COG) and an
industry-wide team of subject matter
experts. He has a Bachelor of Science
degree in Computer Science from
Northeastern Illinois University.
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Len Lauer
Executive VP & Group President
Qualcomm
In his role,
Mr. Lauer is a member of the executive
committee and provides oversight and
direction to Qualcomm Wireless Business
Solutions, Qualcomm MEMS technologies,
Qualcomm government technologies and the
company's mobile TV subsidiary, MediaFLO
USA. Len is currently on the board of
directors for H&R Block and the Nelson
Atkins Museum. prior to Qualcomm, Len
served as chief operating officer for
Sprint Nextel where he directed all of
the company's operations to deliver
converged media and communication
services. While at Sprint, Len held
several executive leadership positions
including president and COO of Sprint
Corporation, president of Sprint PCS,
president of Sprint's consumer services
group, president of Sprint Business, and
president of the global markets group.
Prior to joining Sprint, he was
president and CEO of Bell Atlantic - New
Jersey. Previously, Mr. Lauer held a
variety of management positions in
marketing and sales at IBM.
Len earned a bachelor's degree in
managerial economics from the University
of california at San Diego.
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Rasoul
Safavian
VP & CTO, Americas
Bechtel Communications
Rasoul brings
more than 20 years of experience in the
wired and wireless communications
industry. He is charged with
establishing and maintaining the overall
technical vision for Bechtel’s American
markets and providing guidance and
direction to its specific technological
activities. In fulfilling this
responsibility, he is well served by his
background in cellular/PCS, fixed
microwave, satellite communications,
wireless local loops, and fixed
networks; his working experience with
major 2G, 2.5G, 3G, and 4G technologies;
his exposure to the leading facets of
technology development as well as its
financial, business, and risk factors;
and his extensive academic, teaching,
and research experience.
Before joining Bechtel, Dr. Safavian
oversaw advanced technology research and
development activities, first as vice
president of the Advanced Technology
Group at Wireless Facilities, Inc., then
as chief technical officer and vice
president of engineering at GCB
Services. Earlier, over an 8-year period
at LCC International, Inc., he
progressed through several positions.
Initially, as principal engineer at
LCC’s Wireless Institute, he was in
charge of CDMA-related programs and
activities. Next, as lead systems
engineer/senior principal engineer, he
provided nationwide technical guidance
for LCC’s XM satellite radio project.
Then, as senior technical manager/senior
consultant, he assisted key clients with
the design, deployment, optimization,
and operation of 3G wireless networks.
Dr. Safavian is quite familiar with the
Electrical Engineering departments of
four universities: The George Washington
University, where he has been an adjunct
professor for several years; The
Pennsylvania State University, where he
is an affiliated faculty member; Purdue
University, where he received his PhD in
Electrical Engineering, was a graduate
research assistant, and was later a
member of the visiting faculty; and the
University of Kansas, where he received
both his BS and MS degrees in Electrical
Engineering and was a teaching and a
research assistant. He is a senior
member of the IEEE and a past official
reviewer of various transactions and
journals.
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Akira
Arutaki
Ass. Senior Vice
President
NEC Communications
Akira ARUTAKI
received his B.E. degree in electrical
engineering and M.E. in electronics and
communications engineering from Tohoku
University in 1978 and 1980,
respectively. Joining NEC Corporation in
1980, he was engaged in research and
development of PCM, ISDN and ATM
systems. From 1987 to 1990, he stayed at
Washington University in St. Louis, MO,
as a scholarship recipient, and was
transferred to NEC America, Inc. in
1990. After coming back to Japan in
1994, he managed research and
development of IP based communication
systems such as routers, Mobile/Ethernet
switches and VoIP/QoS servers. From 2003
to 2006, he was the General Manager of
System Platforms Research Laboratories
covering R&D activities in computer and
communication platform arenas. He is
currently the Associate Senior Vice
President of NEC Communication Systems,
Ltd. and the Visiting Professor of
Kyushu Institute of Technology. He
received the Network Systems Research
Award of the Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers
(IEICE) in 1999. He is a co-author of
“Multimedia ATM-LAN (in Japanese)”
published from Triceps in 1994 and “Wide
Area Ethernet Technology Overview (in
Japanese)" published from the IEICE in
2005. He is a member of the IEICE of
Japan.
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Atish
Gude
Senior Vice President of
Mobile Broadband
Sprint-Nextel
Atish Gude
serves as the senior vice president of
Mobile Broadband Operations in Sprint
Nextel’s new 4G Mobile Broadband
business unit. Sprint recently selected
mobile WiMAX as the technology platform
for building its next generation mobile
broadband business. Atish was appointed
the head of operations to build and run
operations. In this role, he is
responsible for building the network and
operations including sales, marketing,
product/ service delivery, network and
customer management.
Prior to this role, Atish was the senior
vice president of Corporate Strategy for
Sprint Nextel. Atish’s team has driven
the company’s three year strategic plan
including the company’s SmartGrowth
coverage strategy for managing growth
and profitability, managing Sprint’s
Balanced Scorecard and performance
metrics and developing Sprint’s
broadband strategy including program
managing two market trials.
Atish joined Nextel in 2000 as the vice
president of Strategic Planning. Prior
to joining Nextel, Atish was a senior
manager with Deloitte Consulting. Atish
was responsible for sales, management
and delivery of business transformation
services (including strategy, process
improvement and IT) to clients in a
number of industries including
telecommunications, retail,
manufacturing, health care and financial
services.
Atish has an MBA from the University of
Chicago and a BS degree in computer
engineering from Syracuse University. He
has also served as a member of the Board
of Directors of Virgin Mobile, USA and
currently serves as a Board member of
the United eWay, a subsidiary of the
United Way of America.
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Michael
Goguen
Managing Partner
Sequoia Capital
Michael Goguen
focuses on cleantech, semiconductor and
systems investments. Prior to joining
Sequoia Capital in 1996, Michael spent
10 years in various engineering,
research, and product management roles
at DEC, SynOptics and Centillion, and
was a director of Engineering at Bay
Networks (NT). Michael was also a
Technical Chairman of the ATM Forum.
Michael has a BS in Electrical
Engineering from Cornell University and
an MS in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University.
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Willie W.
Lu
Chairman & Chief Architect
4GMF Mission, US& CN
Prof. Willie W.
Lu is executive director of U.S. Center
for Wireless Communications (USCWC) in
Palo Alto, California, and a special
advisor on emerging technologies and
strategies in several China information
and communications authorities as well
as a technology expert committee member
and examiner for European Commission’s
FP6 and FP7 programs. Prof. Lu was
member of Technological Advisory Council
of U.S. Federal Communications
Commission (US FCC-TAC), and a senior
principal architect and vice president
of Siemens and Infineon Technologies. He
is also an internationally very well
recognized and accredited senior expert
in emerging wireless technologies and
has been a senior technical advisor for
22 wireless communication authorities in
more than 10 countries. He is an
independent technical examiner for lots
of high-tech venture capitals in the
United States, Europe, Asia, and other
places, and is listed in major Who's
Whos in the world. He has guest edited
around 50 special issues on emerging
wireless communications in IEEE, IEICE,
ACM and other major publications, and
has had over 180 papers published in
major professional publications as well
as about 80 papers in SCI index. Prof.
Lu is member of the editorial board of
IEEE Spectrum, the flag of IEEE. He has
been technical program chairman of
numerous IEEE conferences including
GLOBECOM’03, WCNC’02, VTC’03, and
WWC’00-06, and wireless feature editor
of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications
(former J-SAC Wireless), and others. He
is a frequent keynote and featured
speaker at lots of global technical fora,
and a prominent wireless pioneer on the
worldwide basis. He is a member of IEEE,
ACM, IEICE, CIC and Sigma Xi, and an
adjunct professor at many world-class
universities in the world. Willie is
also the founding chairman of the
prestigious World Wireless Congress,
Global Mobile Congress and Fourth
Generation Mobile Forum (4GMF), and has
been a distinguished and notable Chinese
wireless expert overseas by various
Chinese authorities since 1996.
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Rob Trice
Nokia Growth Partner
Nokia
Corporation
Rob Trice,
Partner, brings a variety of domestic
and international operational and
business planning experience to Nokia
Growth Partners. He joined BlueRun
Ventures in late 2000. Previously, he
worked at DIRECTV in Los Angeles and
Tokyo. Rob also worked as a policy
analyst at a Washington, D.C. based
think tank, the Center for Strategic &
International Studies. He holds a Master
of Arts from George Mason University and
a Bachelor of Arts from the University
of Virginia. Rob is based in Menlo Park,
California.
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Dennis
Cheek
Vice President
Ewing Marion Kauffman
Dennis Cheek
joined the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation in 2005 as Vice President of
Education. He supervises the
foundation’s national work in youth
entrepreneurship, the future of
learning, and improving mathematics,
engineering, technology and science
education in K-12 schools as well as
community initiatives in the Kansas City
Metro area. Dennis has a diverse
background including serving as a
classroom teacher of science, social
studies, and religious instruction in
Germany, the United Kingdom, and the USA
at middle and high school levels, high
school science department chair,
district curriculum developer,
superintendent of ten area career and
technical schools, senior administrator
for 13 years in the state education
departments of NY and RI, Vice President
for Venture Philanthropy at the John
Templeton Foundation and a senior
consultant to Science Applications
International Corporation. He has served
as an adjunct faculty member at eight
colleges and universities, most recently
in the M.S. program in science education
at Penn State-Great Valley and the M.Th.
program at Continental Theological
Seminary in Belgium. Cheek edits the
Journal of Technology Studies and serves
on the editorial boards of the
International Journal for Technology and
Design Education, Journal of Science
Education and Technology, The Science
Teacher, and Odyssey, a science magazine
for young adolescents. He has authored,
edited, or contributed to over 700
publications and multimedia products. He
was a member of the 2004 and 2006 Board
of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige
National Quality Award and a founding
member of the Steering Group of the
international Campbell Collaboration.
Cheek has served on numerous panels and
advisory boards including those of the
National Academy of Sciences, National
Academy of Engineering, American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, National Science Foundation,
and the U.S. Department of Education. He
holds a B.A. in history/secondary
education from Towson University, B.S.
in biology from Excelsior College, M.A.
in history from University of Maryland
Baltimore County, Ph.D. in curriculum
and instruction/science education from
Pennsylvania State University, and Ph.D.
in theology from Durham University. He
has undertaken additional postgraduate
study in archaeology, educational
administration, information sciences and
policy, law, national security studies,
and scientific visualization.
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Derek Kerton
Principal, Wireless Practice
The
Kerton Group
Derek Kerton is
the head of the Kerton Group's Strategy
Consulting
Practice and an internationally
recognized telecom industry expert who
consults for companies throughout the
telecom value chain (NTT DoCoMo,
SKTelecom, Disney, ESPN, Broadcom...);
sits on the boards of Aegis
Mobility, KeyZap, and The Telecom
Council; publishes research and
analysis across the industry; advises
the financial community on telecom
issues (Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch,
Dow Jones, Sands Capital); and has
been interviewed on CNN, CNBC,
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Stephane
Maes
Chief Architect & Chief
Technology Officer
Oracle Mobility
Stéphane H.
Maes is Chief Architect and CTO at
Oracle, Mobile, Voice and
Communications, in charge of:
• Product architecture for SDP (Service
Delivery platforms\) and end to end
OSS/BSS/SDP integration
• Technical strategy for SDP and end to
end OSS/BSS/SDP vision
targeting Telecommunications service
provider and as well as enterprise
markets.
At Oracle since 2002, Dr. Maes has also
been driving Oracle-wide standard
activities related to mobility, voice
and communications.
In the past, Dr Maes has been
responsible for architecture, technical
strategy and evangelization successively
for:
• Oracle AS wireless, including AS
(Application Server) and EBS (E-Business
Suite) mobile development tools, OCS
mobile and voice components, Oracle
Light and Telco middleware
• Oracle Collaboration Suite (OCS), Real
Time Collaboration and Communications
(OCS)
• OCS 11g
Dr Maes is widely credited for the
evangelization of the use of IT
technology concepts in Telcos with work
significant impact on industry wide
standardization of the service layer (OSE,
Parlay, 3GPP/2, …), Policy enforcement
(e.g. OSE PE, PEEM, …), SOA for Telcos,
OSS/BSS/SDP integration, Parlay/ISM/OSE
integration, open standard based mobile
email etc. His work led to the widely
adopted OSE (Open Mobile Alliance
Service Environment) now endorsed by OMA,
Parlay, 3GPP, 3GPP2, ETSI, TSPAN, ITU,
TMF and more.
Before Oracle, Dr Maes was at IBM, T.J
Watson Research Center where he was
driving:
• Large Vocabulary Speech recognition in
challenging acoustic environment
(Broadcast telephony, in car)
• Speaker recognition and biometrics
• Embedded and telephony speech engines,
architecture and middleware
• Multi-channel, multimodal,
multi-device and conversational
middleware, tools, standard and
evangelization.
• IBM Pervasive Computing platform for
service provider
Some highlights at IBM include invention
and design of conversational biometrics,
speechML (IBM contribution to VoiceXML),
XForms and DI authoring and fundamental
of multimodal and multi-device
authoring. Also at IBM, on assignment to
Pervasive Computing division, he joined
the architecture and standard team and
focus on the definition of an overall
strategy for the mobile space and key
related architecture initiative like
SPDE (Service Provider Delivery
Environment), WSXL (precursor to WSRP
and JSR 168), SIP and MRCP (including a
proposal to control speech ad telephony
engines as web services).
Throughout its career at Oracle and IBM,
Dr Maes has published many papers and
received numerous patents and industry
recognitions.
After graduating and before joining IBM,
he pursued this line of Research as
Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ where he
developed new techniques for robust
speech processing in noisy environment.
Dr. Maes holds Bachelor, Master and PhD
degrees simultaneously in Electrical
Engineering and Physics from the UCL,
Louvain, Belgium. He completed his PhD
jointly at CAIP (Center For Computer
Aids To Industrial Productivity),
Rutgers University, NJ. He also
successfully graduated from the
International Space University. His
academic work was sponsored by several
grants from the European Union
(Erasmus), the European Space Agency (ESA),
DARPA and the prestigious National Funds
for Scientific Research (FNRS). While at
IBM, he also successfully completed IBM
MBA program.
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David
Wood
Executive Vice President
Symbian
David Wood
joined Psion as a software engineer in
June 1988, and gradually moved into
roles involving software architecture
and system integration. He was an early
adopter of object-oriented technology
within Psion in the late 1980s and saw
this come to fruition in popular
handheld devices such as the Series 3
and Series 3a. From 1994 to 1997 he
oversaw the development of the upper
layers of the software system that
eventually became known as Symbian OS.
He was a founding director of Symbian on
its formation in 1998. From 1998 to 2002
he headed Symbian's Technical Consulting
department, building and directing teams
that worked with Symbian's customers to
create the world's first smartphones.
From 2002 to 2004 he was EVP of
Partnering at Symbian, creating partner
programs to foster sustained commercial
success for companies in the Symbian
ecosystem. As EVP of Research, David is
now responsible for understanding and
guiding Symbian's response to disruptive
trends in technology, business, and
society. David has an MA in Mathematics
from Cambridge University and an
honorary doctorate in science from the
University of Westminster.
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Hiroyo Ogawa
Executive Director
NICT, Japan
Dr. Hiroyo
Ogawa joined the Yokosuka Electrical
Communication Laboratories, Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone Public
Corporation (NTT), Yokosuka, in 1976. He
has been engaged in the research and
development on microwave and
millimeter-wave integrated circuits,
monolithic integrated circuits,
microwave photonics, millimeter-wave
access systems, and satellite
communication systems. In 1998 he joined
the Communication Research Laboratory,
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
(MPT), and he has been researching,
developing and standardizing
millimeter-wave wireless access systems.
He is now an executive director of New
Generation Wireless Communications
Research Center, National Institute of
Information and Communications
Technology (NICT), Japan.
He is a fellow of the Institute of
Electronics, Information and
Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan
and a fellow of IEEE.
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Scott
Sobers
Sr. Director of Global
Solutions
IBM
Scott Sobers is
the Global Program Director for Service
Provider solutions within the Tivoli
business unit, International Business
Machines Corporation. He is responsible
for managing Tivoli’s solution and
marketing strategy for the Communication
Service Provider industry on a worldwide
basis.
Sobers joined IBM in February 2006 via
the acquisition of Micromuse Inc. With a
strong interest in both market strategy
and market management, he has been
actively involved in one of Tivoli’s
most recent acquisitions, Vallent, and
is currently leading a cross-brand
marketing program within IBM.
He has more than 15 years marketing
experience including both business and
consumer marketing from companies such
as AOL Time Warner, PeopleSoft, and
Software AG. He has extensive experience
and a proven track record in strategy
planning, marketing plan development,
channel development, acquisitions and
building teams that resulted in
successful alliances and marketing
initiatives, product and service
development, introduction to market and
achieving significant profit and revenue
targets.
Sobers has been a featured speaker at
numerous conferences worldwide such as
3G World Congress, CTIA, VoIP World,
Internet Telephony and many others. He
has also contributed to many
publications, including InfoWorld,
WirelessWeek, Pipeline, Telephony
Online, and Von Magazine. He is also
actively engaged with the TeleManagement
forum and has been a voting
representative.
Sobers earned a bachelor’s degree in
economics from the University of
Maryland and an MBA from Georgetown
University. He currently resides in
Washington, D.C.
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Gary
Kovacs
Vice President of
Mobile & Devices
Adobe
Gary Kovacs is
vice president of product management for
mobile and devices at Adobe. In this
role he is responsible for Adobe’s
mobile marketing strategy,
communications and market intelligence.
Kovacs is a veteran of the mobile
industry. Prior to joining Adobe in
2004, he led the successful creation of
Zi Corporation, a NASDAQ-listed
technology company specializing in
embedded software and services for
mobile and consumer devices. As
president of Zi Corporation, Kovacs
envisioned a technology to bridge the
usability gap between humans and
computing devices. He developed the
company from initial traction to a
repeatable product business with more
than 100 major customers shipping over
50 million mobile devices annually.
Kovacs also spent 10 years at IBM in
positions of increasing seniority
including product management and
marketing, corporate marketing, sales
leadership, and general management
within the global software division
based in New York.
Kovacs holds a bachelor of commerce and
an MBA, with distinction, from the
University of Calgary.
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Sanjiv R.
Parikh
Head of Emerging
Business
Microsoft
Sanjiv Parikh
is a senior Director for the Emerging
Business Team at Microsoft, based in
Silicon Valley. The Emerging Business
Team manages Microsoft’s interaction
with venture capitalists and start-ups
world wide to accelerate innovation and
foster the software ecosystem. Within
the Emerging Business Team, Sanjiv is in
charge of engagements with mobility
oriented start-ups, venture capitalists
and enterprises.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Sanjiv was
Managing Director of FairWinds Ventures,
a private equity advisory and investment
firm. He advised large corporations and
assisted early/mid-stage companies with
their private equity needs: which
included M&A, spin-outs, financings, and
interim management.
Previously, Sanjiv was a Managing
Director of Atrium Capital. Atrium
Capital is a 16 year-old Sand Hill Road
venture capital firm which, in addition
to having its own financial fund,
managed the venture capital activities
of Fortune Brands, Hallmark Cards, R.R.
Donnelley & Sons and W.W. Grainger.
Atrium’s investments include AdForce,
B2BWorks, DigitalPersona, FieldCentrix,
InfoUSA.com, MapQuest, MetaTV, Multex
and RedEnvelope.
Prior to joining Atrium Capital, Sanjiv
helped launch RightWorks Corporation; an
enterprise software company in supply
chain management and procurement that
was sold to Internet Capital Group for
$1.25 billion and is currently part of
i2 Technologies.
Previously, Sanjiv was a Principal with
Mehta & Company, Inc.; a merchant bank
specializing in private equity finance
and turnaround management. Sanjiv
invested in and helped turnaround
several portfolio companies in various
operating capacities, including: a $50
million nationwide healthcare services
firm and a $100 million European seat
belt manufacturer, among others.
Outside of work, Sanjiv has been
actively involved with The Indus
Entrepreneur (TiE) in Silicon Valley
since 1994. He organized the venture
capital seminar for the 1994, 1995 and
1996 annual conferences. He is currently
a Charter Member and on the board and
faculty of the TiE-Institute which aims
to further education for entrepreneurs.
Sanjiv also serves on the Board of
Directors of the Wharton Club of San
Francisco, a community and professional
development organization of The Wharton
School.
On a personal note, Sanjiv is an avid
sailor, having been sailing for over 25
years both competitively and for
leisure. Sanjiv has sailed off the
coasts of California, Maine, Maryland,
Florida, and in the Mediterranean off
the coasts of France, Italy and Greece.
Sanjiv holds an engineering degree from
the University of California at Berkeley
and an MBA from The Wharton School at
the University of Pennsylvania.
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Mohammad
Shakouri
Vice President
Alvarion
Dr. Mohammad S.
Shakouri, VP of Business Development of
Alvarion, has 20 years of experience in
wireless system, microwave and fiber
optic networks. Previously 3 years at
Lucent, Shakouri was responsible for
managing, building and developing
network solutions for European and South
American broadband wireless markets.
Shakouri also spent 14 years in
technical and management positions with
Hewlett Packard developing microwave and
fiber optic communication components and
systems. He co-founded the wireless
systems division, where he was
responsible for engineering team
developing low cost residential digital
wireless systems for US and Asian
markets. Shakouri earned his doctorate
in electrical engineering from Stanford
University on Subpicosecond GaAS Wafer
Probe Systems. He was WCAi and WiMAX
Board member and IEEE MTT-SVC Chair.
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