Speakers who already have
confirmed for
WTS 2006 include the
following:
Mike Lazaridis
Founder, President, and Co-CEO
Research In Motion
Dr. Charles Elachi
Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Vice President, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Donald Schilling
Chairman
LINEX Technologies
Poonacha Machaiah
Senior Director of Seamless Mobility/Wireless Broadband Services
Motorola, Inc.
David Cavossa
Executive Director
Satellite Industry Association
Dr. Raymond Pennotti
Managing Vice President - Professional Services, Lucent Worldwide Services
Lucent Technologies
Simon Aspinall
Director, Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Mobile Worldwide
Cisco Systems Inc.
Minhyung Eom
Project Leader, DMB Broadcasting
Korea Broadcasting System
Vassiliki Cossiavelou
Press and Communications Attache, Greek Embassy
Beijing, China
Theresa Swinehart
General Manager, Global Partnerships
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Dr. George Rittenhouse
Vice President - Wireless Research
Lucent - Bell Laboratories
"Next Generation Wireless Vision"
David Turner
Senior Program Manager
Platforms Product Management
Mobile & Embedded Devices Division
Microsoft Corp.
"Service Interoperability - The Future"
Dr. Jason Redi
Division Scientist
BBN Technologies
"Future Directions In Wireless Networking Research"
Mike Seymour
Vice President, Broadband Wireless Division
Alcatel, North America
Julie Ask
Research Director
Jupiter Research
"Outlook for Consumer Adoption of Mobile Data Services"
Charles S. Golvin
Principal Analyst
Forrester Research
"Wireless’s Next Stage: The X-Internet"
Dr. Depankar Neogi
Senior Advisor and Manager
Arthur D. Little Inc.
"Business Opportunities and Challenges in Mobile and Broadband Markets"
Jonathan Atkin
Managing Director, Equity Research Division
RBC Capital Markets
"Wireless Services Overview"
Omar Javaid
Senior Director Business Development
QUALCOMM MediaFLO
"MediaFLO: A Quality Viewing Experience?"
Joe Fabris
Director of Wireless Solutions
Palm Inc.
"It's All About Choice: Palm"
Dr. J. P. Shim
Professor of MIS and Director of the International Business Strategy Program
Mississippi State University
"Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) Cellular Phone: Revisited"
Dr. Francois Cosquer
Chief Security Architect
Alcatel North America
"Wireless Security: A Done Deal"
Kevin Moncrief
Principal, West Coast Security and Technology Solutions Practice
Ernst and Young
Brandon R. Brown
Managing Consultant
Nexus Integration Services
"Wireless Network Security Design"
Robert J. Brown
Director of Enterprise Security
WesCorp
"Wireless Security: The Corporate Perspective"
Dr. Phil Dafesh
Associate Director
Digital Communication Implementation Department
The Aerospace Corporation
"The Impact of Modernized GPS Signals on Achieving the E911 Mandate"
Thomas Damiani
Consultant
"Spurring Innovation: The FCC's E911 Mandate"
Ryan Jones
Director of Marketing, Wireless Segment
SiRF Technology
"E911's Impact on Consumer GPS Technology"
Susan Sherwood
Manager E911
Verizon Wireless
"The Impact of the FCC's E911 Mandate on Wireless Carriers"
Dr. Daniel Docter
Senior Investment Manager
Intel Capital
"Intel Capital Overview"
Joe Muscat
Partner and Americas Director, Venture Capital Advisory Group
Ernst & Young LLP
"State of Venture Capital & Exit Opportunities"
James C. Shevlet, Jr.
Managing Director and Co-Head of Carlyle Mezzanine Partners, L.P
The Carlyle Group
Tutorials and Workshops
Dr. Suman Das
Member of the Technical Staff
Wireless Technology Research Department
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
D. Kent Stevens
Wireless/Optical Architect, Western Region
Nortel
 Mike Lazaridis
is President and Co-CEO of Research In Motion, a company he founded while a student at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
At RIM, Mike is responsible for product strategy, research and development, product development, and manufacturing.
Mike is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator, and engineer of extraordinary talent.
Since founding RIM he has earned more than thirty patents and dozens of industry and community awards for his
innovations in wireless radio technology and software.
Mike supports his community and country through generous philanthropic gifts made possible by his success in business.
His most noted commitment established Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2000. In its short history,
Perimeter has established itself as a leading centre for fundamental research and has attracted the attention of
the world's scientific community.
In recognition of his leadership and innovation Mike was named Canada's Nation Builder of the Year for 2002 by
readers of The Globe and Mail. He holds an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from the University of
Waterloo and in June 2003 was named the University's 8th Chancellor.
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Dr. Charles Elachi
was born April 18, 1947 in Lebanon. He received a B.S. in physics from the
University of Grenoble, France and the Diplome Ingenieur in engineering from
the Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble in 1968 where he graduated first in the
class, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical sciences from the California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena in 1969 and 1971, respectively. He later
received an MBA from USC (1978) and an M.S. degree in geology from UCLA (1983).
He is currently the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Vice President
of the California Institute of Technology, where he is also a Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science. He taught "The Physics of Remote Sensing"
at Caltech from 1982 to 2000. Elachi was Principal Investigator on numerous research
and development studies and flight projects sponsored by the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration. He was Principal Investigator for the Shuttle Imaging
Radar series (SIR-A in 1981, SIR-B in 1984 and SIR-C in 1994), was a Co-Investigator
on the Magellan imaging radar, and is presently the Team Leader of the Cassini Titan
Radar experiment and a co-investigator on the Rosetta Comet Nucleus Sounder Experiment.
He is the author of over 230 publications in the fields of space and planetary exploration,
Earth observation from space, active microwave remote sensing, electromagnetic theory,
and integrated optics, and he holds several patents in those fields. In addition, he has
authored three textbooks in the field of remote sensing. One of these textbooks has been
translated into Chinese.
In his 30 year career at JPL, Dr. Elachi played the lead role in developing the field of
spaceborne imaging radar from a small research area to a major field of scientific research
and application. As a result, JPL and NASA became the world leaders in the field of spaceborne
imaging radars, and over the last decade, developed Seasat, SIR-A, SIR-B, SIR-C, Magellan, SRTM
and the Cassini Radar. He received numerous national and international awards for his leadership
in this field.
During the late 80's and 90's, as the Director of Space and Earth Science programs, Dr. Elachi
was responsible for the definition and development of JPL flight instruments and missions for Solar System Exploration, the Origins program, Earth Observation and Astrophysics. During this period more than 45 flight missions and instruments were conceived, developed, and flown.
In the mid to late 90s. Dr. Elachi chaired a number of national and international committees
which developed NASA roadmaps for the exploration of neighboring Solar Systems (1995), our Solar
System (1997), and Mars (1998).
In January 2001, Dr. Elachi was appointed as the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and
Vice President of Caltech.
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Dr. Elachi has received numerous awards, including the Takeda Award (2002), the NASA Outstanding
Leadership Medal (2002), the Wernher Von Braun Award (2002), the UCLA Department of Earth and Space
Science Distinguished Alumni Award (2002), Dryden Award (2000,), the NASA Distinguished Service
Medal (1999), the COSPAR Nordberg Medal (1996), the Nevada Medal (1995), NASA Outstanding Leadership
Medal (1994), the IEEE Medal of Engineering Excellence (1992), the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Distin- guished Achievement Award (1987), the W.T. Pecora Award (1985), the NASA Exceptional Scientific
Medal (1982), and the ASP Autometric Award (1980 and 1982).
In 1988, the L.A. Times selected him as one of "Southern California's rising stars who will make
a difference in L.A."
In 1989, Asteroid 1982 SU was renamed 4116 Elachi in recognition of his contribution to planetary
exploration.
In 1989, at the age of 42, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 1993-1995
he was a member of the NAE 4th Decadal Committee. In 1995, he chaired the NAE membership committee.
He served on numerous NAE committees.
He is a fellow of IEEE and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and is a member
of the International Academy of Astronautics.
He was a member of the University of Arizona Engineering School Advisory Committee and the Boston
University Center of Remote Sensing Advisory Council. He is a member of the UCLA Science Board of
Visitors.
Dr. Elachi participated in a number of archeological expeditions in the Egyptian Desert, the Arabian
Peninsula and Western Chinese Desert in search of old trading routes and buried cities using satellite
data, some of which were featured in National Geographic Magazine.
He has lectured and given keynote speeches at numerous international conferences and universities
inside and outside the U.S., including China, Japan, Australia, France, England, Holland, Denmark,
Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Kenya, India, Morocco, and Brazil.
He also was a speaker at the Caltech Alumni Day and the Watson Lectures.
He is married to Valerie Gifford and has two daughters, Joanna and Lauren. His outside interests
include skiing, woodworking, history and travel. He is a member of the Pasadena Twilight Club and
chaired the JPL United Way Campaign in 1988-1989.
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 Dr. Donald Schilling
taught at both the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and the City College of New York, where he held the Position of Herbert
Kayser Distinguished Professor. He retired in 1992 and is now Professor Emeritus. Professor Schilling has held a variety of
private-sector positions to develop commercial applications of spread-spectrum technology, including CEO of InterDigital
Communications Corporation (1992-1994), and he is currently Chairman of LINEX Technologies. From 1996-98, Dr Schilling
headed the TIA 46.1 Standards Committee, WIMS, which joined with ETSI and ARIB to form the 3GPP Wideband CDMA Standard.
Dr. Schilling has authored or co-authored twelve textbooks, over 200 papers, and holds more than 100 patents.
He has been very active in the IEEE and the Communications Society. He helped start the IEEE Communications
Society Magazine, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), MILCOM, and INFOCOM. He served
as Editor of the Transactions on Communications and Director of Publication (1968-1978). He was President of
the IEEE Communications Society from 1980-1981 and was a member of the IEEE Board of Directors from 1982-1983.
Among his honors, he is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received the Donald W. McLellan Meritorious Service
Award in 1978, the Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award in 1998, MILCOM's Technical Achievement Award
in 2000, and has served as a member of the US Army Science Advisory Board.
Dr. Schilling received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York
in 1956, his M.S.E.E. from Columbia University in 1958, and his doctorate from the Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn in 1962.
Poonacha Machaiah
is the Senior Director of Seamless Mobility/Wireless Broadband Services at Motorola, Inc. Mr.
Machaiah joined Motorola from Vibrant Solutions where he was responsible for strategic engagements
and involved himself in the sales of revenue assurance applications and cost management solutions
to service providers.
Prior to that, for two years Mr. Machaiah was the vice president/general manager of the Visonael
Corporation overseeing all worldwide sales, professional services and operations. Before Visonael,
he worked at Dimension Enterprises as Executive Director of IDC/ASP Practice, when Nortel Networks
acquired it in 2000. He continued at Nortel's Global Professional Services division, where, as the
vice president of business enabling solutions practice, he was involved with; operations management,
strategic planning, business development and technology design.
Early in his career, Mr. Machaiah also worked for Iridium LLC & Sprint, in various leadership roles.
Mr. Machaiah first started his career at Nomadic Technologies as a software engineer where he developed
technology for robot path planning and motion control. He holds an MBA from the College of William and
Mary in Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the B.M.S. College
of Engineering in India.
 David Cavossa
is the executive director of the Satellite Industry Association has been with the organization since 2001,
originally as the Director of External Relations. In his current role, he helps coordinate the education,
outreach, regulatory and legislative strategies for the commercial satellite industry on a broad range of
issues ranging from regulatory, trade, export controls, space transportation, broadband, and the protection,
planning, and acquisition of commercial SATCOM by the U.S. Government. As one of the chief advocates for the
commercial satellite industry he deals with a wide range of commercial, civil and military space issues on a
daily basis.
During his tenure at SIA Mr. Cavossa has re-focused the efforts of the association on educating the public,
press, policy-makers, and the government users of commercial satellite services of the critical role satellites
play in our national, economic, and homeland security.
Before joining the SIA Mr. Cavossa worked at NASA Headquarters, first in the Office of External Relations and
then in the Office of Legislative Affairs where he was exposed to a variety of NASA programs and their impact
and perception on the American public. While at NASA he participated in NASA's education and outreach campaign
for Congressional Staff as well as staffing the NASA "War Room" during the 2001 NASA Appropriations floor votes
in Congress.
David obtained a Masters Degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy from the George Washington University (GWU)
Space Policy Institute as a Space Policy Fellow. David also holds a Bachelors Degree in Physics/Astronomy and
Political Science from Wheaton College, in Norton MA.
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Dr. Raymond Pennotti
is Managing Vice President - Professional Services, Lucent Worldwide Services at Lucent Technologies,
where he is responsible for working with clients on network
planning, design, integration, optimization, and program management
services. Dr. Pennotti moved to LWS from Lucent's AT&T wireless
communications business unit, where he was responsible for field
introduction of the first TDMA system in the U.S., and deployment and
technical support of large-scale CDMA systems.
Previously, he had global responsibility for system test and field test,
deployment and technical support of GSM and UMTS systems. This role was incorporated into Lucent
Worldwide Services when it was formed in 2000. He worked in data
communications and data networking for AT&T, and when the company
acquired Paradyne, Dr. Pennotti participated in the consolidation of the
two companies, serving as Vice President, Networking Products. During
the 1970s, he worked on fundamental issue for cellular radio systems at
Bell Labs and authored a series of Technical Feasibility Studies on
spectrum allocations, which were submitted to the FCC.
Dr. Pennotti earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute
of Brooklyn, where he conducted research on channel assignment in
cellular mobile telecommunications systems.
Simon Aspinall
is Director of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Mobile
organization worldwide. He leads a team that is responsible for driving,
identifying, and developing new business opportunities with mobile
operators-linking the mobile, service provider, and business sectors.
Since its inception, the IBSG Mobile team has built relationships with
80 percent of the leading operators in Europe, along with key operators
in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. The team has assisted these operators in
entering and developing new markets, making operational improvements, and
applying Internet business solutions. Aspinall is a frequent speaker at
industry events and a commentator on the IT, telecoms, and networking sectors.
Aspinall has held a number of senior management roles at Cisco, leading
the European field operations team with responsibility for new business
solutions, Cisco Powered Networks marketing, service consulting, business
consulting, and market intelligence for the European telecommunications
business.
Before Cisco, he spent eight years at Mercer Management Consulting, a firm
providing management, financial, and marketing consultancy to the worldwide
telecommunications sector. Aspinall was also the founder and non-executive
director of an Internet incubator with operations in five countries. He holds
an MBA (Insead) and a master's degree in engineering and computing science
from Oxford University.
Minhyung Eom
leads the Digital Multimedia Broadcasting team at the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS).
He joined the flagship public broadcaster of South Korea in 1985 and took part in TV show
production, programming, and new media policy-making before taking on the head position of
the DMB team in 2004, when it was officially launched.
In 1990, Mr. Eom was arrested by the military government for leading the KBS unionists`
anti-government demonstration on the liberalization and democratization of broadcasting.
However, he was pardoned and reinstated to his previous position at KBS three years later.
Mr. Eom changed his career direction at KBS from program production to policy and planning
in 1997. Since then, he has been involved in a variety of tasks related to broadcasting
laws, policies, regulations, new media, media fusion, cooperation with the government and
related institutions and bodies.
He participated in the Digital Audio Broadcasting project in 2003 and played a leading
role in transforming DAB into DMB. In 2004, as the chairman of the association of the
12 candidate T-DMB service providers, he established the T-DMB (Terrestrial DMB) business
model and policy. Since 2005, Mr. Eom has been the managing director for the three major
terrestrial broadcasters and three smaller licenses were finally selected as T-DMB service
providers. He is also the vice president of the Korea Mobile Industry Association.
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 Vassiliki Cossiavelou
is currently the Press and Communications Attache for the Greek Embassy in Beijing, China. Ms. Cossiavelou is an
expert on the state of the Chinese telecommunications industry and its ever-growing role in the wireless
telecommunications arena. Ms. Cossiavelou has extensive industry experience in the area of telecommunications
and networking with such companies as IBM, Mobil and Interface-Altec in Europe. She has worked on related
information systems projects with NATO and the European Union.
Ms. Cossiavelou is completing her Ph.D. at Aegean University in the Cultural Technology and Communications
Department related to the impact of emerging telecommunication technologies on the broadcasting and news/mass
media industries. She has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics (Computer Science specialization) from the University
of Ioannina and Masters degrees in both Applied Mathematics from the University of Patras and Cultural Policy,
Administration and Communication from Panteoin University of Athens.
 Theresa Swinehart
is General Manager, Global Partnerships at ICANN, a position she has held since 2004. In this capacity,
she leads ICANN's efforts in globally coordinating ICANN's planning activities and work with regional
communities. Theresa continues to lead ICANN's outreach activities, building relationships with all
interested participants and regional organizations (both those in the private sector and governmental
organizations). Theresa is also in the process of concluding her work with the ccNSO launching group.
Theresa joined ICANN in 2001 as Counsel for International Legal Affairs, where her work involved ICANN's
Governmental Advisory Committee, country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs), and other global coordination
activities. Previously, she was Director for Global E-Commerce at MCI, responsible for international issues
relating to e-commerce, such as data protection, ISP liability, and monitoring emerging technical areas
such as ENUM (telephone numbering on the Internet). Theresa also actively participated in the global
Internet community's discussions that led to the 1998 transition of the Domain Name System to private
sector management and the establishment of ICANN and served as a North American representative on the
ICANN Domain Name Supporting Organization's Names Council from 1999-2001.
Theresa is fluent in English and German, and conversant in other languages. She holds a law degree
from American University (USA), Washington College of Law (USA), a postgraduate degree in International
Studies from Universität Wien (Austria), and a BA in International Relations from the University of
California, Davis (USA).
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 Dr. George Rittenhouse
is Vice President of Wireless Research, Bell Laboratories, where he heads several projects, including MIMO system development, network optimization, wireless IP networks, and fourth generation wireless.
Dr. Rittenhouse joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff where he developed a high-speed 0.1 um NMOS
process for optical networking. He later joined the Wireless Research Laboratory at Bell Laboratories where his research
focused on RF front-end radio architectures and cellular system engineering. In 2000 he was promoted to Director of the
Wireless Technology Research Department. In 2001 he received the Bell Labs Fellow award.
Dr. Rittenhouse is active on several national policy and standards boards, working with FCC and Homeland
Security subgroups on the scientific side of wireless in the post 9/11 era. He has numerous publications and
patents in the areas of wireless systems and circuits. Dr. Rittenhouse received an undergraduate degree in
physics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
David Turner,
Senior Program Manager, Platforms Product Management, manages the Industry Standards & Leadership
team within the Mobile & Embedded Devices Division (MED) at Microsoft. He is responsible for defining
MED’s standards strategy and leading their engagements within industry standards organizations such
as OMA, GSMa, NFC Forum, OMTP and CTIA. David is Microsoft’s primary Board member in the NFC Forum,
alternate Board member in OMA and a member of the CTIA WIC Leadership Council.
Before working in MED, David was a principal driver of XML and Web services technologies
in Microsoft’s Developer Platform Division since early 1998 and he was Microsoft's
representative to the W3C Advisory Committee for over three years. Prior to joining
Microsoft, David shipped a variety of SGML and HTML authoring products and other Internet
development tools. In total, he has been working with XML and structured information
for over 12 years.
David has a degree in Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
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Jason Redi,
received a BS from Lehigh University, and an MS and PhD from Boston University in 1998. He is
currently a Division Scientist
at BBN Technologies. He has been the principal investigator on a
large number of programs focused on the research, design, and field
testing of ad hoc and sensor networks. Recent projects include the
first demonstration of ad hoc networks fully utilizing directional
antennas, and the first demonstration of an ad hoc network using MIMO
technology. Most recently he has been focused on the DARPA
Connectionless Networks program which is designing sensor network
technology that uses orders of magnitude less energy than current
sensor networks.
Dr. Redi is author of over 30 papers and patents in the area of mobile
communications. He is the Vice-Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE, General Chair
of ACM SenSys, and has been on a wide number of technical program
committees including those for MobiCom, MobiHoc, and SECON. He was
previously the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Mobile Computing and
Communications Review (MC2R), and is on the editorial board of Ad Hoc
Networks Journal, Wireless Communications and Networking Journal, and
the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Sensor
Wireless Networks. Dr. Redi is a senior member of the IEEE,
member of ACM, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Order of the Engineer.
Mike Seymour
Mike Seymour is the Vice President of Alcatel's Broadband Wireless Division in
North America. In this capacity, he is responsible for business development,
marketing, strategy and go-to-market plans for all market segments in NA.
He joined Alcatel as a result of Alcatel's acquisition of PacketVideo Network
Solutions (pvNS) in 2003 where he held various positions during his tenure,
most recently as the Vice President of Engineering and Program Management. In
this role, he was responsible for gaining customer acceptance of pvNS products
and solutions with top-tier customers.
Mr. Seymour began his career at Motorola as a Systems Engineer supporting
Motorola's CDMA Radio Access Network products where he was part of the team
that deployed the first CDMA systems in the world.
He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Iowa.
Julie Ask
Ask is a Research Director with JupiterResearch. Ask focuses on evolving
trends in the telecommunications - specifically wireless - industry,
examining both the marketing and technology issues these companies face
as they look to deploy new technologies and services to enhance their
businesses. JupiterResearch's wireless coverage examines business models,
technology trends, and consumer behavior and attitudes to provide strategic
advice and insight to those in the industry or those looking for a presence
on the "third screen." Ask joined JupiterResearch in May 2001.
Ask's telecom experience dates back to her research at COMSAT Laboratories
where as an engineer she did microwave circuit design - the focus of her
graduate work. After graduating, she began her career in as an engineer in
Germany. After earning her M.B.A., she worked for almost five years as a
management consultant within the both the Operations Management and
Communications Groups at Booz Allen & Hamilton where her primary area
of focus was telecommunications strategy in the US and Europe. Prior to
joining Jupiter Research, she worked as a Business Development and Product
Marketing Manager for a wireless data company, Livemind, a start-up in San
Francisco.
Ask holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology as well as an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. She
lives in San Francisco.
Charles S. Golvin
is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. As part of Forrester's Devices,
Media, & Marketing team, Charles' research focuses on consumer communications and
home networking. His coverage includes wireless carriers, mobile phones and handheld
devices, home networking, instant messaging, and public access wireless LANs. Charles'
research and analysis have been widely cited in publications including Business Week and
The New York Times, as well as on CNN and CNBC.
Prior to joining Forrester, Charles held senior technology positions at Citigroup,
providing strategic technology guidance across business units in consumer and corporate
finance. Among his projects were initiatives in consumer mobile banking in Japan, mobile
commerce in Japan, and mobile payments in the US. His previous experience covers a wide
variety of technologies and markets, including CAD for integrated circuit design, 3-D
graphics for film and broadcast, consumer entertainment software, interactive television,
and production systems for game development.
Charles holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Dr. Depankar Neogi,
a Senior Advisor and Manager in the Boston office of Arthur D. Little Inc., has over
12 years of experience in business strategy, mergers and acquisitions and technology
management for companies in the telecommunications, networking, and information systems
industries. His advisory activities cover a wide range of critical and complex issues
that are continuously faced by competitors in the high tech and telecommunications
sectors. At times when standards are evolving and operators are evaluating many
different pre-standard technologies, he has advised operators on how to objectively
assess the long term impact of technological changes and investment strategies to
migrate their networks and solutions towards converged models.
Before Arthur D. Little, Dr. Neogi worked in the strategy and business development
group of Motorola's Networks Division focusing on areas of M&A, partnerships as well
as providing technical leadership in seamless mobility and fixed-mobile convergence.
He was instrumental in evangelizing Motorola's corporate vision of seamless mobility
in the CTO's office. He has also been involved with standardization work in PacketCable
and 3GPP driving cellular-interoperability and IP Multimedia Subsystem among fixed and
mobile networks in the standards groups. He joined Motorola through its acquisition of
the startup Winphoria Networks, where he architected, designed and developed what has
become Motorola's wireless softswitch platform. Before Winphoria Networks, he worked
as technical manager and software architect for Inktomi (now Yahoo) and Comverse
Networks. He has received several US and International patents, several publications
including International Journals, and has been an invited speaker at key International
conferences and symposiums. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School in New
York City, Ph.D. and M.S. in engineering from University of Massachusetts and B.S. in
engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India all with high honors.
Jonathan Atkin
, a Managing Director in the Equity Research Division, has been with RBC Capital
Markets since 2000. Previously, he held equity research positions with Alex Brown,
Toronto Dominion, and Ferris Baker Watts, covering wireless, wireline, and Internet
service providers. Previously, Jonathan was a senior consultant at BIA Companies,
worked in corporate strategy at Daimler-Benz AG, and was a policy analyst with the
United States Congress. Jonathan has BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering
from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia University.
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Omar Javaid
is senior director of business development for QUALCOMM MediaFLO.
Javaid joined QUALCOMM in 2003 as senior director of business development for
QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions (QWBS). Javaid brings more than a decade
of technology and entrepreneurial experience to QUALCOMM, ranging from strategic
business planning to advanced information systems planning, development and implementation.
Prior to joining QUALCOMM, Javaid was the chief technologist for Wireless Knowledge,
overseeing and driving thought leadership and enterprise client development for
Wireless Knowledge.
Previously Javaid was the founder, chairman, and chief technology officer at
Mobilocity, Inc., a professional services firm providing mobile technology
solutions. In this capacity, Javaid was instrumental in establishing
Mobilocity as one of the world's leading mobile and wireless consulting
firms. In addition to his entrepreneurial experience, he has held key
technology leadership roles in Deloitte & Touche LLP, Advance Publications,
and The University of Michigan.
Javaid holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and cellular and molecular
biology from the University of Michigan.
Joe Fabris
is Director of Wireless Solutions at Palm Inc. where he is responsible for
developing and implementing go-to-market strategies for the company's
enterprise customers. He joined Palm through the merger of Handspring and
palmOne in 2003. Before working in the handheld and smartphone world, Mr.
Fabris worked for ten years at Microsoft in various positions, including
Systems Engineer, Sales Executive, and Marketing Director. He received the
"Chairman's Award" from Bill Gates in 1992 and 1997 for being the country's
top sales executive. Prior to Microsoft, he spent five years at IBM as a
Mechanical Engineer and Marketing Representative. Mr. Fabris holds a BS in
engineering and an MBA from California Polytechnic State University at San
Luis Obispo. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Villa Montalvo,
and The Tech Museum of Innovation.
Dr. J. P. Shim,
John Grisham Faculty Excellence recipient, is Professor of MIS and Director of the
International Business Strategy Program at Mississippi State University. He received
his Ph.D. from University of Nebraska, MBA from Seoul National University, and
completed the Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program. Dr. Shim was
John Grisham Faculty Excellence winner in 1994 and received numerous grants and awards,
including NSF, DOE, Microsoft, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, U.S. EPA, Mississippi Institution
of Higher Learning, Korea Sanhak (school-industry) Foundation, and is a seven-time
recipient of outstanding faculty awards. Professor Shim has authored and co-authored
over 150 research articles, including Communications of the ACM, IEEE, Journal of AIS,
Decision Support Systems, Interfaces, CAIS, Computers & Operations Research, and other
leading journals. He consulted with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, EPA, and several other ICT
companies. He was a keynote speaker at International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing,
a frequent speaker at companies and universities in 15 different countries. His current
research interests are DMB, wireless telecommunications, DSS, podcasting, and blog.
 Francois Cosquer
is Chief Security Architect for Alcatel North America where he currently coordinates the security effort
for Alcatel Strategic Solutions. Francois is acting chair of the ATIS TOPS Council Focus Group on Network
Security. He has been speaker and chair for security sessions at USTA Telecom, Supercomm, VON, CTIA Tower
Summit, Global Mobile Enterprise, Wireless Industry Congress, Globecom and Broadband Services Forum.
Francois came to Ottawa in 2001 to lead Alcatel's Corporate Security Research Center.
Prior to joining Alcatel, he worked in Europe for a number of Research Institutions, Equipment
Vendors and Telecom Operators. Francois' 15 years experience covers networking, operating systems,
middleware and multimedia applications. He is author of several international publications and
co-author of LNCS book on Advances in Distributed Systems. He is Advisory Board Member at the
Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering and for the European Security & Dependability
Task Force. Francois graduated in Electronics and Computing and holds an MSc in Computer Science and
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering.
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Kevin W. Moncrief
is an Ernst and Young Principal leading the West Coast Security and Technology Solutions (STS)
Practice. His areas of expertise include Information technology consulting and services. Mr.
Moncrief has consulted with major corporate clients in the use of advanced technologies for
business applications. He has over 25 years of experience assisting clients with the selection
of information systems technology and application solutions in the pharmaceutical, medical
device, and chemical industries. He is also a former Information Security Officer for the
United States Air Force and Military Policeman for the U.S. Army National Guard. He has
spoken at major conferences such as the 2005 Computer Associates CIO Compliance Conference
and 2005 Microsoft Computer Security Summit on computer security issues and concerns. He is
currently pursuing his PhD on ERP II.
Brandon Brown
is currently the Managing Consultant of Orange County, CA and Nevada for Nexus Integration
Systems. In this role, he is ultimately responsible for the design check and implementation
of large scale deployments to include traditional TDM, IP Telephony, Network Infrastructure,
Network Solution Security and Wireless Communications Architectures. He manages a team of
highly skilled engineers, technicians, and project managers and consultants. Mr. Brown was
previously engaged as Manager of Network Engineering for eTelecare Global Services where he
was responsible for the design and deployment of data and VoIP networks in their Asian Call
Center Practice. Mr. Brown is a Veteran of the United States Marine Corps where he graduated
from that institutions Computer Science School's Networking Systems Program and participated
in many deployments around the world in which he was responsible for the design, deployment
and support of both non-secure and secure networks no matter what the environmental conditions.
Mr. Brown's industry credentials include the Certified Information Systems Security Professional
(CISSP) Cisco Systems Network Professional (CCNP) and Cisco Systems Design Professional (CCDP).
Mr. Brown is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona's MSBA IT-Audit program class of 2003 with accreditation
thru the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) and holds his Bachelors in CIS from Campbell
University in North Carolina.
Robert J. Brown
is the Director of Enterprise Security for WesCorp, the nation's largest Corporate Credit
Union with $25B in assets and more than 1,000 member/owner credit unions located throughout
the United States and Guam. Mr. Brown has overall responsibility for identifying, assessing,
and managing risks to WesCorp information and systems. This includes strategic and tactical
security planning, policy development, IT risk assessment, and implementation and administration
of security technology. He joined WesCorp in 2005 from the Security and Privacy practice at
PricewaterhouseCoopers where he was responsible for managing key client projects in the areas
of compliance, governance, and risk. He was also a founding Partner of an INC 500 security
services firm and was a Senior Consultant for one of the first commercial firewall vendors.
Mr. Brown has more than 10 years' experience in the information security field and is a
regular speaker at conferences and events for organizations such as SANS and ISSA as well
as industry-specific groups including the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Association
of Certified Fraud Examiners, Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals, and others.
He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified
Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certifications as well as numerous technology-specific
credentials.
Dr. Phil Dafesh
is the Associate Director of the Digital Communication Implementation Department at The Aerospace Corporation.
He has worked at The Aerospace Corporation for 17 years in the areas of signal design, modulator and receiver
design, performance assessment, hardware system implementation, reconfigurable electronics, GPS and spread-spectrum
systems. He also has experience in electro-optical sensor research, detector design, focal plane array testing and
spectroscopic analysis of nanostructure devices, as an MTS in Laboratory Operations and the Sensor Systems
Subdivision.
Phil's current work involves management and technical direction of staff involved in the design, assessment
and development of next-generation GPS and communication systems including signal structures, digital
receivers and transmitters. He also directs efforts in the development and application of reconfigurable
transceivers, hardware proof of concepts, GPS modernization, and investigation of advanced signal processing
technologies. He has conducted research in software-defined radio technology, signal detection and processing,
optical spread spectrum communications and real-time, rapid communication system simulation. Dr. Dafesh has
authored or co-authored 29 publications and is the recipient of one patent, 5 invention awards and one ESD
individual achievement award for "Leading the Development of the Aerospace Flexible GPS Digital Receiver."
Phil received B.S. degrees from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in Electrical Engineering and
Physics with a math minor. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCLA specializing
in solid-state device physics, with minors in physics and applied math. He is currently a member of IEEE, ION,
Sigma Pi Sigma and Tau Beta Pi.
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Thomas Damiani
is a private consultant specializing in applications, products, and services related to mobile phone
and Global Positioning System (GPS) systems. He has represented clients at global standards bodies
developing GPS-based location technology standards, performed market studies focused on the
location-related mobile phone regulatory environment, conducted market and system architecture
studies concerning application of mobile phone systems to asset tracking and management and
advised clients on GPS-related patents.
Prior to beginning a consulting practice, Mr. Damiani spent over thirty years in industry where
he held various marketing, product development, program management and technical positions.
His GPS experience began in 1975 and has involved civil GPS receivers and components, GPS
military receivers, GPS satellites, and mobile phone GPS applications. At Rockwell
International he was responsible for commercial GPS marketing activities in the Asia
Pacific region, developed product requirements for GPS chipsets and board-level products,
managed chipset development activities, led GPS satellite marketing and business development
activities, managed an engineering department, and developed GPS real-time navigation software.
Mr. Damiani holds a MSEE from Purdue University, a BS from the University of Minnesota
and has done MBA course work at the University of California, Irvine.
Ryan Jones
is the Director of Marketing for the Wireless Segment at SiRF Technology.
SiRF Technology is a global market leader in driving the creation and consumption
of location solutions. As Director of Marketing, Ryan is responsible for defining,
marketing and implementing SiRF's worldwide "Location" product strategy aimed at
tier 1 and 2 wireless carriers, network infrastructure providers and wireless handset
manufacturers. As a 6 year member of SiRF's management team, Ryan has been involved
in sales, marketing and business development roles.
Susan Sherwood
is an E911 Manager for Verizon Wireless, a position that she has held since 2004. In addition to managing E911 Phase I and II deployments her responsibilities include policy development, and regulatory and legislative support.
From 2001 to 2004 Ms. Sherwood was a Sprint PCS Principle Engineer, leading a project team in deploying the A-GPS handset-based location technology in three FMAs. She also served as the E911 Phase II Deployment Manager and provided E911 regulatory support to the business.
In 1999 and 2000, Ms. Sherwood led an internal Sprint team in the development of product requirements for an E911 Phase II location technology that would satisfy the FCC Report and Order 94-102. She worked closely with the Technology Development in the selection and development of the chosen technology.
Susan Sherwood is a member of ESIF, NRIC, E911 Institute and Chair of the NENA PSAP Service Integration Committee.
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Daniel Docter
is a Senior Investment Manager with Intel Capital where he has worked for nearly
six years. Daniel covers the southern California region for Intel Capital
(San Diego to Santa Barbara), and also supports the worldwide investment
activities of the Intel Communications Infrastructure Group, which includes
broadband access, enterprise and telecomm network, and semiconductor investments.
Daniel received his PhD. from the University of Bradford, England in 1993 in solid-state
physics, and spent more than 11 years working on components and systems for optical and
RF communications applications at AT&T Bell Labs (6 yrs) and Hughes Research Labs (5 ½ yrs).
He has more than 50 journal publications and more than 10 patents to his credit in areas of
material science, semiconductor fabrication, optoelectronic integration, and microwave
device and circuit applications. Prior to joining Intel Capital, Daniel worked for
Merrill Lynch in the Private Wealth Management Group where he advised clients involved
in initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions. Daniel lives in Los Angeles
and is active in supporting the southern California entrepreneurial and venture
capital communities.
Joe Muscat
serves as a Partner in the Audit and Advisory Business Services group for Ernst & Young LLP in Palo Alto. His clients include public and private life science and technology companies such as Alza, Boston Scientific, Connetics, MIPS Technologies, Molecular Devices, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems and VeriFone.
Joe is also the Americas Director of the Venture Capital Advisory Group (VCAG). As the leader of the VCAG effort, Joe coordinates the venture capital relationships with a number of leading venture capital firms. Joe also works closely with the Area Venture Capital Advisory Group professionals and certain clients to understand how changing market conditions and regulatory environments affect E&Y's offerings.
Joe serves as Chairman of the Ernst & Young IPO Transformation - CEO Retreat. The Retreat hosts 100 rapidly growing private companies considering an IPO or other strategic transaction. Joe has also spent significant time helping companies position themselves for a successful initial public offering and realizing this value in the aftermarket. He has performed research on the characteristics of successful public companies and is a frequent lecturer on this topic.
Previously, Joe was a Managing Director of the Ernst & Young Corporate Finance LLC - practice based in Palo Alto. Joe has advised companies on strategic transaction opportunities including initial public offerings, private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alliances.
Mr. Muscat holds a B.S. in Commerce - Accounting with Honors from Santa Clara University. He is a C.P.A in California and member of the AICPA and California Society of CPAs.
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James C. Shevlet, Jr.
is a Managing Director and co-head of Carlyle Mezzanine Partners, L.P. (CMP). CMP is a $435 million fund affiliated with The Carlyle Group, one of the largest global private equity firms with more than $35 billion under management and 37 funds in 14 countries.
CMP's strategy includes investing in senior debt, second-lien debt, subordinated debt, preferred stock and minority common equity securities. CMP invests in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth financings across a broad group of industries. The Fund's investments usually include some form of current return and participation in equity upside.
Prior to joining Carlyle in September 2003, Mr. Shevlet was a Senior Vice President with TCW/Crescent Mezzanine Partners and Trust Company of the West, where he was responsible for investing and managing a portfolio of mezzanine capital across three private partnerships. Prior to joining TCW, Mr. Shevlet was a Vice President and Principal of Pacific Mezzanine Investors, LLC, where he analyzed and structured a variety of mezzanine transactions. Mr. Shevlet has over 16 years of experience in the private debt and equity markets.
Mr. Shevlet graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan and received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Suman Das
is a Member of the Technical Staff in the Wireless Technology Research Department, Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies at Murray Hill, NJ. At Bell Labs he has worked on
developing a research prototype of a Bell Labs
multiple antenna (MIMO-BLAST) based CDMA system. He was one of the
primary architects of a base station router with a novel collapsed architecture
for next generation cellular radio networks. Currently his research is in the
area of 4G wireless system design, distributed MAC algorithms and interference
avoidance protocol design.
Dr. Das has published over 25 IEEE conference and journal articles and been
author/co-author of 12 patents. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer
Science and
Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1994 and
his MS and PhD degrees from Rice University, Houston, Texas in 1997
and 2000 respectively.
D. Kent Stevens
is a Wireless/Optical Architect with Nortel's Western Region. He has been at Nortel
since 1992 and is responsible for emerging technologies like wireless (WiFi, WiMax)
and Nortel's industry leading Optical Transport(Sonet/WDM) products supporting the
design of many Enterprise Private Build and Carrier Managed Networks.
After receiving his BS in MIS from San Diego State University, Stevens started with
Startel Corporation writing system software(Firmware) for an 80x8x Multibus based
Analog/Digital ACD. As digital telephony was being introduced into the marketplace,
he began work at Rockwell Digital Products supporting the design of numerous system
level products using Rockwell TDM Chipsets and was responsible for products
(ATM, PRI, Frame Relay, SMDS, T1 interface controllers) homologation tested with
most of the Worldwide carriers. Stevens also served in a Pre-Sales Engineering
position with Synoptics Communications. His initial role was working as an SE, then
Area Switching Specialist with primary responsibilities including Network Design
support for the emerging Ethernet Switching and ATM markets.
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