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MobileBeat2009, our event next Thursday, is less than a week away (tickets here).

We’ve got speakers coming from every corner of the ecosystem, including the major carriers, device makers, start-ups, and more — to guarantee we have a rich debate about how applications are driving the entire sector. Yesterday, I posted on the marketing/advertising expert speakers. Now I’m announcing some of the remaining venture capital and other investors joining us. I’ve already mentioned a few investors in past posts, including Matt Murphy, of the iFund of Kleiner Perkins, Marc Faucher, who will be speaking for the BlackBerry Partners Fund (taking Rich Segal’s place at the last minute), Nagraj Kashyap of Qualcomm Ventures, and Bob Borchers, the former iPhone 3G S marketer who has just joined Opus Capital.

Here are the latest:

Richard Wong, Accel Partners
Richard joined Accel in 2006 and currently serves on the board of AdMob, one of the largest mobile advertising players, and Parature. Rich also works closely with the management team of Getjar Networks. Through pre-Accel associations, Rich also serves as a board advisor to Plaxo, Sana Security, and Simplicita. Prior to Accel, Rich was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave and Chief Marketing Officer and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications. Preceding Covad, he was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on software and consumer technology.

Jake Seid
Jake has over nine years of venture capital experience and has helped complete more than 20 investments at Lightspeed. In addition to his US focus, Jake also co-leads Lightspeed’s India initiative. Prior to Lightspeed, Jake was a product line manager for Cisco Systems. He was responsible for launching and managing the industry’s first DOCSIS-based cable modems and routers, which won “Best of Show” and “Best Networking Hardware” at Comdex ‘99. Jake serves on the Board of the MIT-Stanford Venture Lab and the Advisory Board of Nexus India Capital, an India-focused venture capital firm.

Stephan Noll, T-Mobile Ventures
Sorry, no picture or bio for Stephan yet. But T-Mobile is Germany’s largest carrier, and Europe’s fourth largest. It was also the first carrier to support a Google Android phone.

Stephen Saltzman
Stephen’s focus is on mobility (including wireless networking, fixed-mobile convergence, and building out the ecosystem for Intel’s Mobile Internet Device platform) and cleantech (primarily in clean transportation) and his current portfolio investments include AeroScout, AirMagnet, Jajah, Ozmo Devices, Soonr and Vocera. Prior to joining Intel Capital, Saltzman was the founder and general manager of Intel’s Wireless LAN Operation. Saltzman also founded and served as CEO of Now Software, which became the largest Macintosh-only software publisher in the world in 1994. Saltzman is a former Inc. Magazine-Ernst & Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year finalist and a former Oregon High-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.

Peter Barry, Vodafone Ventures
Sorry, no picture or bio for Peter yet. But suffice to say that Vodafone is the world’s largest carrier by revenue, and Peter’s mandate is to make investments on its behalf.

Tim Chang, Norwest Venture Partners
Tim will be speaking on our “Day of reckoning panel,” which will focus on how bandwidth intensive applications my force carriers to crack down on data usage (see our joint-column here about what that means for the U.S. carrier landscape). Tim focuses on investments in wireless and digital media as well as business development initiatives in Asia-Pacific. Tim led NVP’s investments in and joined the boards of directors of 3Jam, Brite Semiconductor, Lumos Labs and ngmoco. Tim also led NVP’s investment in PCH International, a turnkey global supply chain services firm based in Shenzhen. Tim works with the boards of deCarta, Double Fusion and Veveo. Prior to joining NVP in 2006, Tim was a principal at Gabriel Venture Partners.

Greg Tarr, Cross Pacific Capital
Greg Tarr, of Cross Pacific Capital, will be a judge of the MobileBeat Top Startup Competition. He has partnered with Globe Telecom-Singtel, Vodafone, Sumitomo, Vesbridge & CDP Capital. Board, Consulting, VP Operational roles include 20+ Silicon Valley/Asian startups working with Partners of Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures, Sutter Hill, Blue Run. He was recruited by Kleiner Perkins to Pelago & IP Unity/Movius Advisory Board and as Kodiak Networks 1st Employee in Asia securing the Asian reference customers as VP Asia/Japan. He Serves the Advisory Board of Networks in Motion and Board Observer/Catalyst in the formation of Jibe Mobile.

Scott Raney
Scott Raney is a partner with Redpoint Ventures, and will also be a judge of the MobileBeat2009 Top Startup Competition. At Redpoint, he focuses on information and consumer technology with a particular emphasis on enterprise software and infrastructure, mobile technology and services, and social gaming. Scott serves on the board of directors of adap.tv, JumpTap, mig33, Heroku and LetsTalk, and is involved with Redpoint’s investments in Gaia Online, Sparkplay Media, Scribd, Cortina Systems, MobiTV, Kodiak Networks and VMOps. Prior to Redpoint, Scott worked at NorthPoint Communications, Bain & Company, and VideoPort Technologies.

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