MobileBeat 2008

Rich Miner, Google / Android, Group Manager, Wireless Programs

Rich Miner has been developing innovative communications and interface-intensive applications for over 20 years and he has occupied a variety of high-profile technology development roles during that time. He is currently Group Manager of Mobile Platforms for Google, helping to build the Android platform. Rich joined Google through the acquisition of Android, a mobile software platforms company he co-founded. Prior to starting Android Rich was Vice President of Advanced Services at Orange, where he headed the group's R&D activities in North America. He came to Orange through acquisition of another company he co-founded, Wildfire, which made a voice-based personal assistant product that was sold to fixed and wireless carriers. Rich held various positions at Wildfire, including CTO and MD for Europe. He met his founding partner at Wildfire when he helped incubate Avid Technology in his university lab. Rich received his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he was also Co-Director of the Interactive Media Group, leading research projects with such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Apollo, IBM and NYNEX.

Matt Murphy, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers, Partner

Matt Murphy is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; he joined in 1999. Matt manages the iFund at KPCB, a collaborative initiative with Apple and the iPhone platform, which focuses on defining applications for the mobile internet. His expertise is in network communications, compute infrastructure, and mobile applications. Matt is either a Director or works closely with the management teams of Autonavi, Dash, Pelago, M2Z, IPUnity, Kodiak Networks, RGB Networks, Stoke, Aerohive Networks, Ocarina, Xsigo, and eASIC. Previously Matt was a board observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO) and director at Peakstream (acquired by Google).

Prior to KPCB, Matt led product management at a semiconductor start-up (Netboost acquired by Intel), worked at Sun Microsystems where he led business development for the Network Systems Group and was a Product Line Manager for networking platforms. He also worked in strategic and technical consulting for a number of years at Booz, Allen, & Hamilton and Accenture. Matt holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mike Baker, Nokia Interactive, Vice President

Mike Baker is Vice President and Head of Nokia Interactive, where he is responsible for shaping Nokia's newly founded mobile advertising unit. Nokia Interactive is building a global open marketplace for mobile advertising with the largest network of publishers, brands and mobile operators around the world.

Mike has spent his career building companies as an investor, entrepreneur and senior operating executive, with over 20 years pioneering new digital media platforms. Prior to joining Nokia, Mike was the founding investor and later CEO of mobile advertising leader, Enpocket, which was acquired by Nokia in October 2007. Mike came to Enpocket from venture capital firm Grand Banks Capital, which focused on investments in new media, financial technologies, and internet infrastructure companies. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President at CMGI's Engage Technologies, Inc., an innovator in online advertising and behavioral targeting, where he guided the company through its IPO, international expansion and over $2 billion in acquisitions.

Mike holds degrees in law and telecommunications management, frequently writes and speaks about digital media, and is a widely recognized expert in interactive advertising.

Jeff Sellinger, CBS Mobile, EVP & General Manager

Jeff Sellinger is responsible for CBS Mobile business across News, Sports and Entertainment including their 24 hour television network CBS Mobile, mobile video services, in-show interactivity, content, mobile web and mobile advertising. While at CBS, Jeff was also responsible for creating the business model and helping launch CBS Records including bringing artists Senor Happy, Will Dailey and Karmina. Prior to joining CBS, Jeff was a founder of GoldPocket Wireless and led the company's operations. The company's clients included NBC, FOX, Bravo, MGM, Clear Channel, TV Guide, The Food Network, GSN, VH1, Fuse, The History Channel and CBS amongst others. GoldPocket Wireless was acquired by Motricity. Before GoldPocket Wireless, Jeff lastly served as Vice President for the parent company, GoldPocket Interactive. While there, amongst other highlights, Jeff produced GoldPocket's Emmy Award winning application for DIRECTV's NFL GAMETRACKER. He also produced the interactive portion of the United States largest interactive television show; Test the Nation, a live show on FOX television in which nearly half a million people participated.

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in General Management from Boston College.

Michael Bayle, Yahoo! Connected Life, General Manger of Global Monetization

Michael Bayle is the senior director of monetization for Yahoo!'s Connected Life business unit. He is responsible for leading the company's global monetization strategy across mobile, television and PC desktop services. This effort includes leading the cross-company, cross-functional team that devises the business, product and channel monetization strategies. Yahoo! Connected Life encompasses the company's mobile products, broadband services, digital home initiative, PC client experience and strategic partnerships including AT&T, BT, Nokia and Motorola. This includes the new Yahoo! Go suite of services, a revolutionary way to seamlessly connect users to their favorite Web services, wherever they happen to be. Bayle joined the organization in September 2002 to lead business development for some of Yahoo! Search Marketing's largest global partners including MSN and ESPN. He also played a key role in launching Yahoo! Search Marketing's mobile sponsored search trials in Japan in 2004, and in the US in 2005.

No stranger to the Internet, Bayle has been working in the sector for more than 11 years. He began his career as director of business development at IDG, creating one of the Internet's first affiliate programs and playing an instrumental role in the direction of the Webby Awards. Next, he became one of the earliest employees at LinkExchange before the company was acquired by Microsoft in 1998. At Microsoft, he was the international business development manager, negotiating partnerships with large OEMs, telecommunications companies and leading portals in overseas markets to distribute the bCentral brand and product offerings. Before coming to Yahoo!, he held a senior business development director position for a start-up company specializing in international e-commerce.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and his Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Rick Segal, JLA Ventures, Co-Manager of Blackberry Partners Fund

Prior to joining JLA Ventures, Mr. Segal was President and Chief Executive Officer of Microforum, a leader in providing integrated e-business solutions in a wide array of industry verticals. Mr. Segal joined Microforum in July 2000 from Chapters Online Inc., a leading Canadian e-commerce company, where he held the position of President and Chief Operating Officer (1997-2000). Mr. Segal began working with Chapters Inc. in 1997 as a consultant on the technical development of the Chapters e-commerce venture. Based on this successful collaboration, he was named the President of Chapters Online in August 1998.

Prior to joining Chapters Online, Mr. Segal was a partner at the international firm of TMS Consulting from 1996 to 1998. Mr Segal worked at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington from 1992 until 1996 as Director of technical services for the Internet Customer Unit. Mr. Segal is also the author of four books on Network Management and Windows software development.

Mr. Segal serves as a director of Paymentus, Planeteye, HealthUnity, b5media, MusicIP Corporation, Sirit Inc., and Truition Marketplace Solutions.

Brandon Lucas, Myspace, Sr. Director, Mobile Business Development

Brandon Lucas oversees mobile business development for MySpace, the world's most popular social network. His previous experience in mobile includes business development positions with Vodafone, U.S. Cellular and The Walt Disney Company. Brandon has a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of Chicago GSB, and is an avid weekend outdoor adventurer.

Jed Stremel, Facebook, Director of Mobile

Jed Stremel oversees Facebook's mobile strategy transforming how individuals find and express information relevant to their life. Prior to Facebook, Jed played key partnership, business operations, and strategic roles at high-growth businesses. He spearheaded mobile initiatives for Yahoo! building the company's efforts to empower seamless communications across SMS, WAP, Java, BREW, and other mobile technologies. At Tellme Jed managed distribution, promotion, and licensing relationships with leading online and telecommunications partners. Jed holds a law degree from Santa Clara University and a bachelor's degree in economics and public policy from Duke University.

Michael Arrington, TechCrunch, Editor

Editor of the popular tech blog TechCrunch, was formerly a corporate attorney at O'Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini, working with technology companies, where clients included Apple. Prior to founding TechCrunch in 2005, he worked various start-ups, including RealNames, Achex, Zip.ca, Pool.com and Razorgator.

Dan Farber, CNET News, Editor-in-Chief

Dan Farber is editor in chief of CNET News. He has more than 25 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. Prior to joining CNET News, he was editor in chief of ZDNet, where he developed the site's network of more than 30 bloggers covering key technology topics. Prior to joining ZDNet, Dan served as vice president and editor in chief at Ziff-Davis' flagship computing news publications, PC Week and MacWeek. He was also a founding editor at Macworld and part of the editorial staffs of PC World and PC Magazine. He is based in San Francisco.

Om Malik, GigaOmni Media, Founder

Founder of the GigaOmni Media blog network, and a leading writer on the telecom industry. Malik has more than 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news, including writing for the Red Herring, Forbes.com and more recently Business 2.0 magazine. His contributions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and MIT Technology Review. Malik wrote the book Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. GigaOmni publishes blogs GigaOM, NewTeeVee, WebWorkerDaily, Earth2Tech & OStatic.

Sam Altman, Loopt, CEO & co-Founder

Sam founded Loopt to improve the way friends communicate. His primary responsibility within Loopt is driving the product vision, assembling a passionate team to realize that vision and making sure people have fun while they're at it.Sam studied computer science at Stanford University, focusing on security and machine learning. He also helped build an autonomous helicopter navigation system while in school.

Omar Hamoui, AdMob, Founder & CEO

Omar is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the mobile industry. After earning a degree in Computer Science at UCLA, Omar founded and ran several companies in mobile software and services. At the time, he was frustrated by the lack of available options when it came to promoting and monetizing mobile products. Omar realized that mobile service and content firms needed better ways to advertise and make money on the mobile Web. While earning his MBA at the Wharton School, Omar began to think more seriously about the untapped potential of mobile advertising, and created AdMob to address this growing opportunity. Today, Omar has taken a leave from Wharton to focus on AdMob, and is now running one of the fastest growing and most innovative companies in the mobile world.

Jason Devitt, Skydeck, CEO & Founder

Jason developed the idea for Skydeck while an entrepreneur-in-residence at iHatch, a venture capital firm that focuses on the mobile market. Previously Jason co-founded Vindigo, one of the first companies to publish content and applications for mobile phones in the US. Products included Mapquest Mobile, MovieGoer, and the Vindigo City Guide. Jason led the company from inception in 1999 to over $10 million in revenue and profitability in 2005. An advocate for open networks, open devices, and open development platforms, Jason has testified on these issues before Congress and the FCC. He holds a US patent related to location-based services.

Prior to founding Vindigo Jason spent four years working for the technology-driven investment firm D. E. Shaw & Co. in London and New York, where he structured OTC equity derivatives. Jason grew up in Ireland and has a Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering and a Diploma in Law from UCD and the King's Inns in his hometown of Dublin. His personal blog is at www.brash.com.

Rich Wong, Accel Partners, leading mobile investor & on boards of Admob & Parature, also works as advisor to Getjar & Plaxo

Richard joined Accel in 2006, with a focus on mobile infrastructure and services, and the enterprise software space. Rich currently serves on the board of AdMob, the largest mobile advertising player and Parature, a leader in SaaS-based customer support. Rich also works closely with the management team of Getjar Networks, the largest mobile development community and free mobile apps download portal. Through pre-Accel associations, Rich also serves as a board advisor to Plaxo (acquired by Comcast) , Sana Security, and Simplicita (acquired by Sandvine).

Prior to Accel, Rich was SVP/GM of Products at Openwave. In this capacity, Rich launched several of OPWV's most successful new products such as the Edge security gateway (anti-abuse), integrated messaging, and location-based services. Rich was previously GM of Messaging Products, and Chief Marketing Officer from 2001 to 2003. Previously Rich was the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP/GM of Value-Added Services at Covad Communications, the DSL provider. Preceding Covad, he was a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on software and consumer technology. Rich started his career as a Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble.

Mr. Wong holds a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Tim Chang, Norwest Venture Partners, Principal

Tim brings a combination of operational, technical and international business experience to Norwest Venture Partners. Tim focuses on investments in wireless and digital media as well as business development initiatives in Asia-Pacific. Tim has recently invested in and joined the board of directors of 3Jam, a multiparty mobile text messaging platform and service, and Lumos Labs, a web-based provider of scientifically-tested brain training games. Tim also works with the boards of deCarta and Double Fusion.

Prior to joining NVP in 2006, Tim was a principal at Gabriel Venture Partners where he was actively involved in over a dozen wireless-related deals and led Gabriel's investments in Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by Qualcomm), Eyespot, Sequoia Communications, Sandbridge, and Kajeet. He also contributed to the boards of Placeware (acquired by Microsoft) and Arula Systems (acquired by Raritan), TestQuest, NextG Networks, and IPWireless. Tim built Gabriel's wireless sector practice and helped establish business development capabilities through strong, strategic relationships across the wireless value chain, particularly in Asia-Pacific.

Prior to joining Gabriel, Tim spent more than five years working in Japan. He was a product manager at Gateway Inc. where he successfully launched direct-marketed PC servers in the Japanese market and quickly grew an enterprise product line into a full offering of network desktops, workstations, servers and configurable turn-key solutions. Prior to Gateway, Tim was a development engineer for General Motors. As a tri-lingual engineer based in Tokyo, Tim led project teams in China, Korea and Japan in the development, testing and sales of advanced chassis control systems for clients such as Toyota and Daewoo.

Tim began his career in venture capital in 1999 during his time at Stanford Business School as part of the founding team of CTR Ventures K.K., a venture accelerator in Tokyo focused on seed and early-stage mobile consumer applications for the Japanese market.

Tim currently serves on the advisory boards of the Wireless Communications Alliance (WCA), IBD Under the Radar, Digital Hollywood, VC Task Force Wireless SIG, Silicon Valley Chinese Wireless Association, as well as the IBF Wireless Investor Summit.

Tim holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MS in electrical engineering/system engineering as well as a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.

Shawn Carolan, Menlo Ventures, Managing Director

Shawn joined Menlo Ventures in 2002 and has focused primarily on connected software and services. He represents Menlo Ventures on the boards of CinemaNow, GalleryPlayer, IMVU, PlayPhone, Playspan and TeleNav, and is involved with the firm's investments in ePAC and MobiTV. Before joining Menlo, Shawn was a management consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, after spending most of his career in software development and engineering management positions. He was Manager of Software Architecture for Open Port Technology, a start-up that created Internet-based messaging software for data carriers, where he authored US Patent #6,965,569. Prior to that, Shawn worked at Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group and Wireless Data Group, Sprint PCS, and the University of Illinois' Center for Computational Electromagnetics. Shawn is a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.) and the University of Illinois, Champaign (B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering).

Gregory Gorman, Tertius

Gregory is a consultant with more than two decades of experience in mobile (including at HP and Bell Atlantic). He is co-organizer of the Mobile 2.0 conference. His firm advises startups on business strategy, building mobile ecosystem partnerships and fund raising. Among his clients is Soonr, a MobileBeat best company nominee that lets you read documents on the go.

Matthew Fix, Vodafone Ventures

Matthew is a Principal at Vodafone Ventures, a $200M fund focused on the mobile and digital media space. Matthew has invested in and is an active board observer for Amobee, Evolution Robotics, and Caringo and also works with the boards of SNAP-in and Brilliant Telecom. Prior to joining Vodafone Ventures at the end of 2006 he was at Intel Capital, with a focus on software, open source, and Internet/digital media. Investments include Financial Engines, Datallegro, Spike Source, Black Duck, BayPackets (acquired by Genband), and Incesoft.

Prior to Intel Capital, Matthew worked at a boutique merchant bank and for Robertson Stephens. He also founded a small communications company while an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, traded equity options on the floor of the pacific exchange, and was in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Matthew has an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Satya Mallya, Orange, Director at Orange Labs

Mallya and his group in South San Francisco is responsible for innovation in mobile, road-mapping products, technology, terminals, personalization and emerging wireless standards. Satya is also responsible for managing the Orange Developer Center and hosts Edge and 3G base stations enabling developers to test their applications on Orange devices and network. Prior to joining Orange in 2002, Satya worked at Bell labs(now Lucent), Octel communications, Aspect Software, Caritasoft and Humanconnect.

Dr. Richard Koo, Augmentum, SVP of Augmentation Services

Koo has over 15 years' experience in designing, developing and deploying enterprise software systems. Prior to Augmentum, he was chief architect at Vitria Technology. At Vitria, Dr. Koo also oversaw Vitria's offshore outsourcing partner in the development of a broad, multi-platform line of connectivity products. Before Vitria, Dr. Koo held senior engineering positions at Tibco Software and Sun Microsystems.

J.H. Kah, SK Telecom

JH Kah, SVP, Business Development, SK Telecom Americas: JH Kah currently heads business development and corporate venture capital at SK Telecom Americas, subsidiary of SK Telecom, world leader in telecommunication. Previous to current position, he was in charge of Global Business Development and Data Business Strategy rolling out June, SKT's 3G service. Before joining SK Telecom, he was EVP at SK Communications, internet portal subsisdiary of SK Telecom. He was CEO of Lycos Korea until it was merged with SK Communications. JH also worked as an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Meagher and Flom LLP during 90s specializing in M&A and corporate finance in telecommunication and technoology sector.

Mike Rowehl, SkyFire

Mike is an mobile entrepreneur, hacker and programmer. He's now architect at mobile browser company, SkyFire. He's the organizer and co-founder of the Silicon Valley chapter of Mobile Monday and co-organizer of Mobile 2.0. He's the former Director of Technology at AdMob, and co-founder of Mowser (a mobile content adaption service sold to dotMobi in May of 2008).

Rupert Young, AT&T, Director, Strategic Business Development

Director, Strategic Business Development and Venture & Equity Alliances Chartered with finding new businesses for AT&T to enter both quickly and profitably, Rupert focuses on looking for emerging opportunities that can be quickly translated into new, market facing offers. Also has responsibility for all of AT&T's Equity Alliances - from strategy to governance through life cycle management.

Rupert joined PacBell in 1995 after graduating from a co-op master's program at BellCore/MIT. Initially he worked in a small R&D subsidiary Telesis Technologies Laboratory working on emerging multimedia/web technologies, VoIP, DSL, and later IP over optical and metro Ethernet. In 2000, he joined SBC's strategic partnership group to help start the hosting business and later was part of the team that formed the strategic relationship with Yahoo for broadband services. In 2002, he joined the strategic marketing organization developing 3-5 year roadmaps and plans for entering emerging markets such as managed services, hosting, application services, and most recently seamless mobility and mesh wi-fi services for business customers. In 2006 with the creation of the AT&T Business Development organization, he was brought in to be the lead the development of AT&T's strategy, business model, product, partnerships, and sales for muni wi-fi services. In 2007 Rupert moved into his current role.

Ross Levinsohn, Velocity Interactive Group, Partner

Over the past 20 years, Ross had been on the forefront of media innovation and transformation. In 2004, he was tapped by News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch to devise the digital strategy for the company. In executing that plan, he helped transform the company to become the global leader amongst its peers in the digital media space through dynamic investments and strategic management, including the acquisitions of Myspace and IGN.com, which helped vault the company to create a digital powerhouse. He also oversaw the acquisitions of Askmen.com, Scout.com, Newroo, KSolo, amongst others.

As President of Fox Interactive Media, Ross managed all day-to-day operations for the company from its inception until December 2006. Under his leadership, the FOX Network of sites became one of the largest on the Internet with record setting growth with more than 140 million monthly users. He also oversaw a partnership with Google, which will yield the company nearly $1 billion in advertising from the search and monetization leader.

Previously, Ross served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Fox Sports Interactive Media. In this role, he oversaw the online, wireless and broadband presence for Fox Sports. Earlier in his career, Ross held senior management positions with AltaVista Network, an early pioneer and leader in search, CBS Sportsline, where he oversaw all content and development for the top rated sports site and pay cable giant HBO. He also spent time in advertising at Saatchi and Saatchi and in sports management and marketing with ProServ and Lapin and Rose Communications.

Ross currently serves on the board of music leader Napster.com, storage and media management leader Fabrik, Inc., Virtual World innovator VSIDE, and one of the leading Internet holding companies in India, Fuse+Media.

John Smelzer, FOX Interactive Media, SVP & General Manager

John Smelzer is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile for Fox Interactive Media (FIM), a role in which he is charged with overseeing the mobile extensions of FIM's online assets, including FOXSports.com, IGN.com, MySpace.com, MyFOX.com and others. His group, which was formed in March 2006, manages diverse FIM-branded mobile product offerings on a global basis, spanning the wireless product spectrum from WAP to video.

Smelzer joined FOXSports.com as Director, Business Development in August 2001. In this role, he secured FOX Sports' place as an industry leader in broadband video. Promoted to Vice President in 2003, Smelzer pioneered Fox Sports' mobile business, including the top-ranked FOX Sports mobile video offering, available on all major carriers and aggregators. Smelzer also led negotiations with Microsoft for the exclusive distribution of FOXSports.com on MSN.

As Senior Vice President of Business Development for FIM (July 2005 ­ March 2006), Smelzer helped lead the formation of the new division of News Corp. while overseeing third-party partnerships, including the acquisition of rights to produce AmericanIdol.com and other entertainment programming.

Previously, Smelzer was the Director of Business Development for NBCOlympics.com (1999-OE01), Senior Business Affairs Counsel for the NFL (1995-'99) and staff counsel for the 1994 World Cup Organizing Committee (1993-'94). Prior to his career in media, Smelzer was an associate at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, Calif., and Jeffer, Mangles, Butler & Marmaro in Los Angeles, Calif.

Smelzer earned a B.A. from UCLA in 1987 and a J.D. from NYU in 1991.

Steve Hegenderfer, Microsoft, Group Manager, Windows Mobile

Steve Hegenderfer is Group Manager of Windows Mobile Solutions Delivery at Microsoft, responsible for conducting and analyzing market research that helps Microsoft deliver effective mobility solutions for medium and large businesses and partnering with these businesses to deploy Microsoft's full range of mobility products. Steve is an industry veteran with over 15 years experience in architecting software and managing Sales Life Cycles, business processes, and organizational development. Prior to his current role, Steve, who joined Microsoft in 2005, was a technology evangelist responsible for broadening Microsoft's partnerships with the mobile technology industry. Steve holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Washington.

Sandi Isaacs, Paramount Digital Entertainment, SVP, Interactive & Mobile

As Senior Vice President of Interactive & Mobile, Isaacs is responsible for overseeing the interactive games unit under Paramount Digital Entertainment and the mobile business for Paramount Mobile Entertainment.

In her interactive role, Isaacs has worldwide responsibility for the videogame business at the Studio and oversees a team of professionals responsible for the development, production, publishing & licensing of videogames based on Paramount Pictures intellectual property.

In her mobile role, she oversees a global team responsible for Paramount's mobile business initiatives including distribution, marketing, content production & business development.

Ms. Isaacs joined Paramount Pictures in 2000. Prior to that, she was with Activision and Disney Interactive. Isaacs has more than a decade of interactive entertainment industry experience and an extensive background in business development, licensing and product development.

Jeff Brody, Redpoint Ventures, early mobile investor, on boards of Danger, MobiTV, WebTV

Jeff Brody is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, Jeff was a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital, a firm he joined in 1994. Jeff is focused on investments in new technology companies spanning both enterprise and consumer customers. He currently serves on the board of directors of Danger (acquired by Microsoft), Fraud Sciences (acquired by eBay), HomeAway, JumpTap, Kodiak, LifeSize, Loopnet (LOOP), Mobilygen, MobiTV and ZING Systems (acquired by Dell).

Jeff was an early investor and director of Concur Technologies (CNQR), GetThere (GTHR), mySimon (acquired by CNET), NextCard (NXCD), Onebox (acquired by OpenWave), ViaVideo (acquired by Polycom), and Web TV (acquired by Microsoft).

Prior to joining Brentwood, Jeff spent six years with Comdisco Ventures. Before Jeff joined Comdisco, he was an Associate at Crosspoint Venture Partners and co-founded a mobile telecommunications company. Jeff also worked as a field engineer for Schlumberger Ltd. in Europe and Africa.

Jeff received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Lars Kamp, Accenture, Executive, Strategy

Lars is an Executive in Accenture's Strategy Practice; he joined in 2001 and worked for Accenture's offices in Vienna and Rome before transferring to San Francisco in January 2006. Lars has worked with the leading global mobile operators and handset OEMs in Asia, Europe and the U.S. His wireless experience started with the early network migration from 2G to 3G along with the transformation of the mobile industry from a two-product to a multi-product industry. From 2004 to 2005, he managed operations and service creation for FreeMove, an Alliance of T-Mobile, Orange, Telecom Italia Mobile, TeliaSonera and formerly Telefonica Moviles, with over 370 million customers worldwide and member operations in 51 countries. More recently, he helped new owners of spectrum in the U.S. to set up operations and define initial 4G network and mobile device strategies. Together with the Plug & Play Tech Center, Lars also organizes the San Francisco Mobile 2.0 Meetup, a monthly networking event for executives in the mobile industry. Lars went to graduate school in Passau, Germany (Dipl.-Kfm.) and Verona, Italy where he was a European Union Erasmus Scholar. He is fluent in four languages.

Stephen Saltzman, Intel Capital, Senior Director, Strategic Investments

Focused on mobility (including wireless networking, fixed-mobile convergence, and building out the ecosystem for Intel's Mobile Internet Device platform) and cleantech (electric vehicles and the smart grid). He joined Intel Capital in 2002. His portfolio exits include 3eTI (NASDAQ: EFJI), IPass (NASDAQ: IPAS) and SyChip (Murata). Prior to joining Intel Capital, Saltzman was the founder and general manager of Intel's Wireless LAN Operation, where he led its growth into becoming the leader in the Wi-Fi market. Saltzman also founded and served as CEO of Now Software, which became the largest Macintosh-only software publisher in the world in 1994. The company also reported five consecutive years of more than 100 percent compound annual sales and profit growth. In 1995 Saltzman started a children's educational software company called Active Arts, which became an expensive way to learn that he wasnąt invincible. 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.

Mike Marquez, CBS, EVP of Strategy & Corporate Development

Bio coming soon.