Syed Zaeem Hosain is responsible for the architecture and future direction of Aeriss networks, development programs and technology strategy. He joined Aeris in 1996 as Vice President, Engineering and member of the founding executive team of Aeris.Mr. Hosain has over 32 years experience in the semiconductor, computer and telecommunications industries, including product development, architecture design and technical management. Prior to joining Aeris, he held senior engineering and management positions at Analog Devices, Cypress Semiconductor, CAD National and ESS Technology.Mr. Hosain is Chairman of the International Forum on ANSI-41 Standards Technology (IFAST) and represents Aeris at the CDMA Development Group (CDG). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Jason Collins is Vice President of Emerging Technology and Innovation at Alcatel-Lucent. This responsibility includes driving innovation by developing ecosystems and executing via agile prototyping of technology, service concepts, and business models. Jason pioneered the development of several working innovation centers in conjunction with partners. Jason’s career began in communications research at Georgia Tech and includes over 15 years of experience in telecom service providers from large traditional telecoms to startups where he headed up product management for innovative services such as programmable QoS based VPLS and MPLS networks, VoIP and early cloud-based managed business application services. He holds a patent for video over DSL as well as several patents pending for unique service delivery models and service diagnostic processes.

Mike Wunderlich is an M2M veteran with over a decade of focused M2M industry experience. Mike has actively participated in the evolution of the M2M market, from vision to mature concept, which businesses are applying to achieve serious tangible benefits. His success in these areas has fostered a unique blend of technical know-how, business savvy and practical thinking about how technology can be an enabler for business challenges.

Roberto De La Mora marketing responsibilities include the solutions related to Unified Voice and Video Communications and Infrastructure, Unified Communications Endpoints, Cloud Collaboration and Collaboration-enabled Desktop Virtualization.

In this capacity Mr. De La Mora provides guidance and strategic direction for WW field marketing teams and business units, and supports the sales organization by defining the value proposition of the solutions under his charter, as well as the competitive and market positioning for them. His team develops the programs and initiatives required to successfully execute on the strategy, ensure the alignment of the channels, sales, technical operations and support teams, serves as a liaison between Cisco’s Business Units and customers and sales teams.

Frequently Mr. De La Mora participates in industry events and user forums as a speaker on business value of technologies such as Unified Communications, Collaboration, Conferencing, Desktop Virtualization, Video, Mobility and Cloud. He also interacts frequently with key customers as one of Cisco’s business technology experts.

Mr. De La Mora is an experienced international executive with a 22-year career distinguished by achievements in sales growth, channel management, business and market development, marketing and product management, with a track record of rapid promotion and delivery of measurable results. He worked for companies such as Siemens, Lucent Technologies, Avaya, and he joined Cisco at the end of 2003 as the responsible for Unified Communications for Latin America.

Mr. De La Mora holds an MBA from the Instituto Mexico-Aleman de Capacitacion Industrial y Comercial in Mexico City, Mexico, with post-graduate diplomas in Production & Materials Management, Sales Management and Industrial Finance and Accounting. He graduated with honors as a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from the UNIVA, in Guadalajara, Mexico

Peder Ulander is vice president of product marketing for the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix, overseeing the company’s marketing strategy for its cloud infrastructure and server virtualization products. Ulander joined Citrix in 2011 when the company acquired Cloud.com, where he was chief marketing officer. Ulander has more than 15 years of marketing and sales strategy experience and has been named “The Most Interesting Man in the Cloud” by Cloudcast.net.

Prior to Cloud.com, he was head of strategy for Pure Networks and helped drive its acquisition by Cisco, where he then went on to oversee the Seattle-based Consumer Networking Software group. Ulander served as senior vice president of marketing at Sun Microsystems, where he managed the Solaris OS team and was responsible for launching Java into the open source market by re-licensing, building a community and launching the open source Java platform. Ulander has also held a number of management positions at software companies such as MontaVista Software and Cobalt Networks. He studied economics at Santa Clara University.

As senior strategist with Compass Intelligence, James Brehm’s primary responsibilities are to increase client value by evaluating, recommending, and creating innovative market strategies for Compass Intelligence’s high-tech clientele. Additionally, Mr. Brehm directs the content, product development, and vendor / customer relations activities as it relates to the M2M syndicated and portal services. This includes leading and conducting primary and secondary market research, market sizing, forecasting, and other analyst responsibilities where needed.

The scope of his work deals with all aspects of the IP value chain; from delivery infrastructure and communication management to end user content and applications. Brehm is frequently quoted by media outlets such as The New York Times, Business Week, Computerworld and Wireless Week. He is a regular contributor to CNBC and has an ongoing blog on connected devices and M2M / any-to-any device communication. Brehm has also spoken to various groups on topics including mobile applications, mobile commerce, emerging wireless devices and vertical market deployment of Web-enabled services.

Brehm joined Compass Intelligence after spending nine years in multiple roles with Frost & Sullivan. Most recently, Brehm served as Senior Consultant in Frost & Sullivan’s Information and Communication Technology practice where he led much of the bespoke research for Frost & Sullivan’s wireless customers.

Prior to Frost & Sullivan, Brehm worked in marketing, sales management and business development roles for Rackspace Managed Hosting and Interland (now Web.com), two of the largest pure play Web hosting companies in the U.S. His responsibilities included research on the competitive landscape of the market, developing new product offerings, assessing emerging markets, improving the overall value chain for Global 1000 clients, due diligence, and acquisition analysis. Brehm entered the high-tech arena in the mid-1990’s working in sales management within the telecom arena for MCI and later working for Gateway Inc. in multiple roles including product marketing, product management, training and sales management.

Carl has become known throughout the Communications community for his ability to connect people (and, thus, businesses); be it in formal conference settings or through the well-planned serendipitous encounter. Carl’s diverse experience in technology spans the areas of Costing, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. Carl’s technology experience along with his expertise in building a relevant, thought provoking conference program, makes him an invaluable asset to Crossfire Media. As CEO of the company, Carl directs the programs and services offered by Crossfire Media. As Community Developer he looks to facilitate discussions about advances in technology, market drivers and business obstacles.

Jürgen Hase joined Deutsche Telekom AG in 2011 to head the M2M Competence Center. Within Deutsche Telekom he is responsible for the international M2M business. Jürgen has worked more than 20 years in the telecommunications industry and in the M2M sector. He is also Chairman of the M2M alliance.

Matt Jennings is the Vice President of iDigi Applications at Digi International. Prior to Digi, Jennings was the founder and president of Utiligent. Utiligent was acquired by Digi to create a new business unit tasked to provide custom built, business-focused remote monitoring applications utilizing cloud technology. Jennings has many years experience in the data management and device management field with Global Tier one companies, and before that an extensive career with Accenture where he developed strategic business plans and created infrastructures for wholly owned subsidiaries.

Yukon Palmer is the founder and President of FieldLogix, which provides the first green GPS fleet management solution in the US. He started FieldLogix in 2002 and has grown it to an installed base of thousands of vehicles throughout the U.S, Canada, and Mexico. He founded his company with a $3,500 initial investment based on a business plan he wrote in the MBA program at San Diego State University.Yukon has also received considerable personal recognition, including:One of San Diego’s Metro MoversSan Diego Metropolitan Magazine - 2011One of San Diego’s Young InfluentialsSan Diego Daily Transcript – 2010Yukon is a co-chairman of the Machine to Machine Communications Services Special Interest Group forCommNexus and has been featured in numerous publications and he has appeared as a guest editor for Telematics Weekly. He holds both a Bachelors and MBA degree from San Diego State University. He regularly volunteers at San Diego State University as a mentor for the Lavin entrepreneurship program and participatesas a judge for the Venture Challenge Business Plan Competition.

Craig brings 15 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur in the communications space to Firespotter Labs, a start-up focused on making complex telephony products easy to use. Products in the Firespotter family include TechCrunch award-winning ÜberConference, Nosh, NoshList and Jotly. Firespotter is funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures. In past lives, Craig was CEO of Dialpad Communications, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005 (now Yahoo! Voice), co-founder and CEO of GrandCentral Communications, acquired by Google in July 2007 (now Google Voice), and Entrepreneur in Residence at Google Ventures. He was also a technology venture investor at Sterling Payot Capital and TeleSoft Partners and a corporate attorney at top-tier law firms in Silicon Valley, where he represented companies ranging from early stage start-ups to Cisco Systems. Craig is a graduate of UC Berkeley (BA), Georgetown University (MBA) and Boalt Hall School of Law (JD).

Lisa Pierce is the Managing Vice President in Gartner Research, where she leads the Unified Communications, Network Systems and Services team. Ms. Pierce’s team addresses all the major network-related infrastructure, applications and operations issues that confront enterprises across the world.

Prior to joining Gartner, Lisa was the President of Strategic Networks Group, a company dedicated to improving the quality of emerging telecommunications and IT services, and the service experience, that enterprise customers receive from key network suppliers.

She is an expert on emerging enterprise-class telecom/network services, including telecom cloud (IaaS, PaaS and select SaaS applications), next generation network and performance management, SIP Trunking and Unified Communications services (particularly hosted UC, collaboration/conferencing and FMC services), broadband access, 3G and 4G services, managed network services, switched Ethernet (VPLS) and MPLS services. In addition to strategic architectural considerations, her work has extended to sourcing, performance assurance, and customer satisfaction.

Previously, Lisa was the Vice President of Telecommunications Services Research at Forrester Research/Giga Information Group for over ten years, and served in several leadership capacities, including as a Technology Practice Director and as the first elected Chair of the Giga Research Fellows. During her tenure, she was twice named as one of the Top 10 most influential IT analysts. Prior experience includes four years’ consulting on network signaling protocols for a boutique network engineering firm.

Lisa’s career in network communications began at AT&T, where her work focused on developing and introducing entirely new classes of business services – in product development, product management, new services market research, statistical modeling and forecasting. Across the globe, these services still generate billions of dollars of revenue today. The development teams she led were awarded 6 patents.

A member of the IEEE, Ms. Pierce is a frequent industry speaker and media commentator. She has also served a Contributor to Saugatuck Technology, UC Strategies, GigaOM Pro, No Jitter/Enterprise Connect, and DM Radio. Lisa holds an MBA in marketing and statistical modeling from Willamette University, and a B.A. with Honors from Gordon College.

Charlie Vogt is President and CEO of GENBAND. Since joining the Company in 2004, Vogt has been instrumental in GENBANDs growth from $5 million to an estimated $750 million in 2010.

Vogt directs one of the most exciting and dynamic telecom equipment suppliers in the communications market. Vogt successfully steered GENBAND through one of the most difficult market environments ever encountered in the telecom industry, while achieving 130% percent compound annual growth and growing from a single product company into a global market-share leader. GENBANDs growth and strategic acquisitions, including Tekelecs IP switching division, NextPoint Networks and Nortels IP switching division, have transformed the company’s product and service portfolio, customer profile, global footprint and financial performance.

Under Vogt’s leadership, GENBAND has successfully secured business with two-thirds of the world’s largest service providers in the broad markets of fixed, mobile and cable. Today, GENBAND arguably possesses the most enviable IP switching and networking portfolio and employs 2,200 employees spanning 50 countries.

Vogt has received numerous awards for his leadership and corporate growth, including: Global Telecoms Business Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful People, Dallas Metroplex Technology Business Councils Corporate CEO of the Year and “Fast 50”, Collin County 60 “#1 Fastest-Growing Company”, INC 500 America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies”, Deloitte’s “Technology Fast 500”, Saint Louis Universitys Entrepreneurial Alumni Hall of Fame and Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year. In addition, Vogt has been recognized for his philanthropic efforts in both the corporate and educational sectors.

Vogt serves on the Board of Directors of Kentrox (Chairman), Procera Networks (PKT) and Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). He is also an active member of Young Presidents Organization.

Prior to joining GENBAND, Vogt was instrumental in the operational and financial growth of five standard-setting technology companies that either became public companies or were acquired. Vogt was President and CEO of Taqua, which was acquired by Tekelec in March 2004. Before joining Taqua, Vogt held executive leadership positions at Santera Systems which was acquired by Tekelec in 2005; Accelerated Networks which executed an IPO in 2000 and Ascend Communications which was acquired by Lucent Technologies in 1999. Earlier in Vogt’s career, he held sales leadership positions at ADTRAN, Motorola and IBM.

Vogt holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from Saint Louis University, where he also played Division I baseball. He is married and has three children.

Kiran is Director of Product Marketing at HP Cloud Services. He has had over 15 years experience covering cloud, enterprise software and mobile platforms. Prior to this, Kiran was Sr Director for Yahoo’s instant messaging and mobile products. He was also Director for Oracle’s enterprise CRM products and led marketing at a couple of small companies in cloud, mobile and security. He has an Engg degree and an MBA from Wharton School of Business. He spends his free time with his wife and 2 daughters in kids sports leagues, and enjoys travel.

Stéphane Paccaud currently oversees the business development of the HP Machine to Machine offering, with responsibilities to develop the HP vision, to grow the customer base, to develop alliances, and to support the solution roadmap evolution. Stéphane has been working with HP for more than 8 years, in various business development and alliance management roles in EMEA and globally. Most recently, Stéphane developed and introduced innovative solutions for the automation of smart metering and smartgrid processes. In his first years in HP, Stéphane developed channels to market and strategic partnerships for the HP telecoms software with System Integrators and equipment providers.Prior to joining HP, Stéphane had spent 4 years with ALU (Lucent Technologies at the time) in EMEA product management and business development roles, where he developed and introduced innovative convergent charging solution for pre and postpaid, voice and data schemes. Before that Stéphane was working as project and product marketing manager for 4 years at SFR, the largest privately owned telecom and internet provider in France, where he launched more than 10 innovative offerings on the market place, including one of the first voice portals using speech recognition.Stéphane has also earlier spent several years in various industries as management consultant and engineer (aerospace, automotive, insurance).Stéphane holds an MBA from INSEAD, an engineering Master degree from the ISAE (Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace), and has spent 2 years as postgraduate student in Russia at the MAI (Moscow Aviation Institute).

Guri Ahluwalia’s background is dually in Information Technology and Embedded Product Engineering. He is an expert at optimizing and architecting the use of technology in IT functions, in software products, and in software-intensive hardware products. Guri has performed at broad strategy planning, deep architecture development, and run-time operations. Guri’s recent work has been in optimization and cloud delivery for IT and customer Software Products. His interactions are at CxO and xVP level. Guri led the pre-IPO financial and technical readiness of the infrastructure for a Financial Services customer with $800 million in IT. He produced the roadmap for world-wide cloud delivery to 17 countries of a SaaS mobile product for a $6B High-Tech customer. Overall in his career so far, Guri is credited with taking 6 programs in IT or Product Engineering from start to finish – for internal enterprise roll-out or for commercial market launch.

In his current position, Mike has responsibility for the portfolio of cloud services and for development of IBMs strategic cloud delivery platform. He joined IBM in 1986 as a software engineer for IBM network management software. He has held a variety of positions with IBM, including: Manager of Channels for IBM Networking Software in Asia Pacific, market strategist for IBM Retail Store Solutions, Director of Market Management for IBM TotalStorage Open Software, and Director of Strategy for IBM Tivoli Software. He also worked for Medic Computer Systems, a healthcare software company, where he was responsible for marketing strategy and analyst relations. Mike has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Duke University.

Fred Yentz joined ILS Technology as senior vice president and chief operating officer in January 2007, bringing with him more than 20 years industry experience in the technology solution market. Prior to ILS Technology, Fred Yentz served as Vice President and General Manager of RadiSys Corporation, a leading provider of embedded solutions for the telecommunications, enterprise data, medical equipment and the industrial automation marketplaces. While at RadiSys Corporation, Fred served in many capacities including the oversight of World Wide Sales, Marketing, Professional Service, Business Development in addition to General Manager of Enterprise, Communication and Commercial operating divisions. Fred also worked for IBM where he held various positions with responsibility for Engineering, New Business Development and Management. Mr. Yentz is named as an inventor on two U.S. patents and has received IBM’s First Level Plateau Invention Achievement Award. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), National Science and Technology Education Program (NSTEP), and is chairman of the Industry Advisory Board for Florida Atlantic Universitys College of Engineering. Mr. Yentz holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University (1988), a Master of Business Administration (1996) from the University of Miami, and a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems (1997) from the University of Miami.

Jim Wert is the Vice-President of Engineering for ILS Technologys deviceWISE family of products, his responsibilities include product development, network operations and support. Jim has been with ILS Technology for 10 years and began his time designing and developing the product that he now owns. For the past three years, Jim has also held the Vice-Chair position in TIAs TR-50 standard on Smart Device Communication, and is a vocal advocate for standards in the M2M/IoT community.

John Keever founded ILS Technology and began serving as executive vice president and chief technology officer in October 2000, John has more than 28 years of experience in automation software engineering and design. Mr. Keever came to ILS Technology from IBM Corporation where he was IBM global services principle responsible for e-Production solutions architectures and deployment. Mr. Keever enjoyed over 18 years of plant floor automation experience with IBM, and is the former world-wide development and support manager for Automation Connection, Distributed Applications Environment, PlantWorks and Data Collection hardware and software products. His prior experience within IBM includes lead marketing and solutions architecture responsibilities for General Motors, BMW, Chrysler, Tokyo Electron, Glaxo-Wellcome, and numerous other global manufacturing companies. Keever has been awarded both hardware patents and software copyrights.Mr. Keever holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University, a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering with minors in both Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from North Carolina State University and has completed postgraduate work in Computer Engineering and Operating Systems design at Duke University.

Steven Johnson has 15 years senior management experience with Sanders Associates, Telco Systems, and Lockheed Martin. Most recently he served as CEO of Abrena, Inc, a business development consulting firm focused on assisting European and North American firms to expand in the United States. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of Transcept Inc, a telecommunications infrastructure company. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Board of Directors for the SIP Forum, an industry organization with members from the leading SIP technology companies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master’s in Business Administration from Boston University.

Joel Schroeder leads the implementation of Inmarsat’s M2M strategy across the global business.Appointed as Director of the M2M Program in February 2012, Mr Schroeder is responsible for developing and maintaining a robust channel and partner programme, as well as driving the evolution of Inmarsat’s M2M service portfolio to meet market requirements and demand.Mr Schroeder joined Inmarsat’s Washington, DC office in April 2009 as Market Development Manager, Land Business. In this role he was responsible for leading global market development in the Utilities and Aid sectors, with a focus on new revenue generation and channel development. He also managed the commercial relationship with Inmarsat partner, SkyWave, around the launch of new M2M products and services. Previously, Joel held a number of high-profile business development and operational roles both in the US and internationally, most recently as a consultant to EDS managing an IT service contract with Shell Oil in West Africa, based in Ghana. Prior to this, Joel was partner and managing director at satellite communications service provider I-LINX, which supplied the government, international development and corporate sectors. Previously, Joel spent almost three years working in the UK as senior manager, business development for Global Telesystems (GTS). Joel started his career in Moscow as Director, Business Development at US West International.Joel received an MA in International Communication from American University, Washington, DC and a BA in Political Science and French from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN. Joel also speaks French and Russian.

Narayan Menon is Vice President – R&D at InterDigital, responsible for leading the research and development of advanced wireless networks. In this role, Narayan drives the innovation and implementation of next-generation wireless solutions covering next-generation cellular and Wi-Fi technology, connectivity & bandwidth management, cognitive radio, machine-machine (M2M) communications, multimedia delivery and advanced radio and baseband solutions building on LTE and WLAN/PAN networks. Prior to this, he has led and participated in numerous technology initiatives at InterDigital, including the development of the company’s HSPA chipset. Narayan has over 20 years of experience in the wireless field, holding leadership roles at Siemens Mobile Networks, Omnipoint Technologies and Hughes Network Systems in the development of TDMA, GSM/GPRS and early 3G systems.Narayan holds Engineering degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and an Executive MBA from Hofstra University in New York, and is an inventor on over 30 U.S. patents.

With over 15 years as a sales and marketing executive with a proven track record of exceeding sales targets and delivering exceptional results, Bob joined KORE from Firethorn (a Qualcomm company), where he headed the expansion of their unique mobile payments services. Prior to Qualcomm, Bob was the Vice President, T-Mobile Hotspots and Broadband Services and Vice President of Mobile Apps. Bob has extensive experience in switching, routing, security and network management as the former Vice President of US Sales and Service for 3Com Corporation.

Skip Chilcott is a Senior Product manager at Microsoft focused on the Unified Communications products and services. A 15 veteran of the communications and collaboration technology explosion starting with web conferencing in the mid-1990s, he has spent the last 9 years at Microsoft involved with the Unified Communications, Real-time Collaboration, Messaging, Productivity, and Cloud Services for large enterprises and small businesses. He has been deeply involved with the introduction and marketing of innovative and disruptive technologies and solutions including Lync, Office 365, Office Live, BPOS, Live Meeting, Office Communications Sever, and more. He has a passion for helping businesses both large and small to maximize success, productivity effectiveness, and growth through the use of innovative technology during a time of a rapidly evolving business and communications landscape.

As a scientist for Motorola, The Robotics Institute, and the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), Dr. Smith has worked on wireless sensor and control systems developed for the FBI, CIA, DOD, DOE, NASA, and USPS - from autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles to particle accelerators. In 1993, he co-founded and served as President and CEO of OnRamp Technologies, a pioneer Internet Service Provider, subsequently acquired by Verio, which is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT communications. In 2002, Dr. Smith founded SensorLogic, a leading Telemetry Service Provider (TSP). He also co-founded Via; Vericenter; Vaultnet; Memorial.com; Advanced Home Automation; and Ublip, which was acquired in late 2008 by Numerex, a company at the vanguard of the machine-to-machine communications industry. Dr. Smith is currently Chief Technical Officer of Numerex. He has served or serves on the boards of several prominent high tech companies. In February 2010, he was elected Chairman of TIA TR-50 Smart Device Communications Engineering Committee.

Prior to joining Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Pittampalli was a PARTNER in Alcatel-Lucent Corporate Marketing organization promoting Internet of Things (M2M) market growth program. Prior to this role, he led the Alcatel-Lucent corporate market intelligence team as Senior Director forecasting global telecom market trends, sizing, shares supporting CFO’s office, product groups and regions. A registered professional engineer with Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Dr. Pittampalli is also a Registered Patent Law practitioner with a Mini-MBA from Wharton School of Business. In year 2003, Dr. Pittampalli was awarded Bell Labs’ highest honor, Bell Labs Fellow, for his outstanding technical contributions and leadership in advancing wireless communications technology and Standards. He joined OMA after more than twenty eight years of employment with AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent.

John W. Sammon III founded Par LMS, a leading real-time monitoring and control solution for cold chain assets and cargo, which was acquired by ORBCOMM Inc. in January 2012. Mr. Sammon now works to continue the advancement of real-time cold chain technologies into new and existing markets as Senior Vice President of Business Development for ORBCOMM. Mr. Sammon has over 10 years of experience in the business and regulatory factors that are driving M2M technology adoption in temperature-controlled markets.

William Molesworth is ORBCOMMs Vice President of External Networks and manages the companys terrestrial wireless business. He is a 12-year veteran of ORBCOMM and has previously held Vice President positions in business development and partner/alliance management. Bills career spans a broad range of technology industries with extensive experience in the consumer electronics manufacturing, telecommunications, wireless IT solutions, and M2M communications markets.

Mike is responsible for Ovum’s U.S. Enterprise Practice. Based in southern California, Mike is focused on North American and global enterprise telecom markets. This includes WAN, managed, and advanced voice, video and data services to address Global MNC, large enterprise, and SMB customers. His focus areas also include data center services, emerging cloud and hosted services, enterprise mobility services and related product development, market launch, and channel programs of enterprise services.Mike leads the design, development, and implementation of Ovum’s research and advisory services on enterprise network services and managed solutions in North America with a major emphasis on the global, tier 1 carriers, infrastructure vendors and providers. Mike works directly with clients to help them understand and implement recommended strategies from Ovum research, consulting experience and his extensive telecom services expertise. He is a regular contributor to Ovum’s enterprise research, and provides analysis of industry, vendor, and product trends included emerging managed services such as SIP trunking, unified communications, VoIP, video and complex managed services. Mike has over 27 years in the telecoms and Internet services industry including executive positions at large carriers, CLEC, and a data center provider. Before joining Ovum, Mike was a consultant advising carriers, vendors, and enterprise customers on business development, marketing and go-to-market strategies. This included the development, introduction, marketing and sales of data, voice and video enterprise services including advanced managed services. Mike was one of the first published authors to write about ISDN applications for IT personnel (Mastering ISDN by Sybex – 1997). Mike is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University (BBA & MBA) and Columbia University executive management program.

John Horn joined RACO Wireless as president in May 2011 after serving as a leader at T-Mobile for more than nine years. At T-Mobile, John developed and managed indirect distribution for the California Launch – the largest launch in wireless history – and also launched the M2M Channel. During the last six years, he has focused specifically on developing T-Mobile’s M2M program and go-to market strategy. He also helped T-Mobile earn recognition as the market leader for M2M services. John is heading the migration of the T-Mobile M2M business to the RACO Wireless platform. RACO Wireless has been a T-Mobile partner for 10 years and is backed by the T-Mobile network. In 2007 and 2008, he was named an M2M Pioneer.Prior to T-Mobile, John has served as a manager, director and VP of other telecom companies for more than 22 years. He has managed direct and indirect distribution models in both the business and consumer channels. John earned a degree in Political Science from the University of California at Davis. He has eight children.

Creating value for foodservices organizations is the objective that has driven Jason Cocco since joining RTI in 2011. His role encompasses identifying untapped market opportunities in new and current verticals and geographic markets and launching differentiated offerings to solve our customers needs. He manages the new product development process, executes M&A opportunities and works cross-functionally to cultivate innovation across RTI. Jason develops strong ties with our business partners and works closely with the engineering and development teams to evolve the RTI TOM solution as industry needs change and grow.Jason brings more than 15 years of product development and general management experience within the consumer goods, high-tech and retail industries from past leadership positions with The Nielsen Company, Accenture and Procter & Gamble.He has a bachelors degree in environmental engineering technology from the University of Dayton and an MBA from the University of Michigans Ross School of Business. Outside of work, you can find Jason in the kitchen rolling pasta and uncorking a bottle of his own Viognier wine.

Dave is VP of Business Development for Sansay and brings more than 15 years experience working with next-generation service providers with roles in marketing and business development. At Sansay, Dave is responsible for new initiatives, strategic partnerships, and channel development activities. Prior to Sansay, Dave served in a variety of roles over 10 years at BroadSoft including the strategic partnerships, the launch of BroadCloud, and product marketing. Dave worked for service providers in roles at NextWave Wireless and with Evincio, leading go-to-market for VoIP over wireless broadband and managed IT applications. Dave has also worked as a management consultant with the consulting firm of PRTM (now part of PwC) with a focus on innovation management and operational excellence. Dave has an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and BA/BS degrees in Economics/Chemistry from the University of Maryland, College Park.

David Tipping is the vice president and general manager of the SBC Business at Sonus Networks, Inc. Prior to this role, Tipping served as Sonus’ vice president of product marketing and product management. Tipping has served in several executive and management roles during his tenure with Sonus, including vice president of Sonus Worldwide Systems Engineering, vice president of Sonus’ Service Providers for the Americas division and as technical director of Sonus’ Eastern region. Previously, Tipping spent four years at Enterasys/Cabletron Systems – a Siemens enterprise communications company – as a senior systems engineer supporting customers in the Midwest and New England. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of New Hampshire.

As Vice President of Professional Services for Spireon, Inc., Mike Edwards spearheads the company’s efforts in developing customized solutions that align customers’ business, needs and challenges with a realized maximum return on investment. His move to Spireon in May of 2012 was a natural fit for the leading provider of mobile resource management and business solutions bringing with him a proven track record for implementing and driving results as a valued customer.Prior to joining Spireon, Edwards served as the Business Process Manager for Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC), where he was responsible for logistics process design and operational audits. He was instrumental in generating significant cost savings through managing and optimizing the performance of their trailer operations using real-time business intelligence. Born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, Edwards is a numbers guy who is performance driven, holding over 12 years expertise in accounting, technology, compliance, and logistics and while working with companies such as Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, KPMG, Textron, CCBCC and now Spireon. Edwards is a certified public account and is Six Sigma Certified.Edwards hold a BA in Accounting from University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

As the Chief Marketing Officer of Spireon, Inc., Brad Jarvis oversees all marketing functions and programs for the company and its comprehensive family of Mobile Resource Management (MRM) and Business Intelligence Solutions. Following the merger between ProconGPS, Enfotrace and PFS, LLC, Brad was instrumental in developing and launching the bold new Spireon corporate identity and brand which has since gained significant recognition across the multiple vertical industries the company serves.A senior global marketing executive, Jarvis has contributed to the rapid growth of a number of companies through innovative products, brands and initiatives. Jarvis’ previous experience includes his tenure as the Vice President of Global Marketing for HID Global, and as the head of product marketing for Printronix, an auto identification and logistics company as well as Lantronix, a provider of embedded device networking solutions. Jarvis also spent 14 years with Xerox in a range of senior management positions in sales and marketing, including as director of corporate strategy. Jarvis received his BS and an MBA from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.

Works since 18 years in the area of mobile data communication for Nokia and TelecaNow as Business Development Manager with Symphony Teleca Corporation he helps Enterprises to enter mobile and cloud space

John is the General Manager responsible for M2M solutions for ThingWorx. John came to ThingWorx from the Palantiri Systems acquisition, where he was founder and CEO. John has over 25 years of experience in the electronics, software and device networking industries. As manager of the electronics group of the University of Rochesters Laboratory for Laser Energetics, he was responsible for the development and deployment of what was at the time the largest networked microprocessor control system in the world. In his following years as CTO of Questra Corporation, Mr. Canosa was the main driver in that companys transition from a traditional consulting firm to a leader in the M2M software space.

John is a contributing editor at Embedded Systems Design magazine and was recently named an M2M Pioneer by M2M Magazine for his strategic vision and the advancement of machine-to-machine technology.

Madhu Raman is seasoned business leader and a prolific inventor. His current cloud based inventions center on the B2B2C extensions of the M2M world that he refers to as Machine-to-Physical (M2P) services. Currently Madhu is putting the finishing touches to a mobile-cloud centric business heading the M2P efforts of an Incubation Unit within a major Multi-Services Operator (MSO).

A pioneer who has enabled key MSO firsts in the world, Madhu has served as a source of ideation and vision leadership to global corporations that provide innovative consumer centric business (B2B2C) services via mobile, cable, fiber and satellite connectivity..

Different Machine-to-Physical (M2P) inventions by Madhu enable execution of a wide gamut of cloud based services including actionable real-time insights via predictive learning systems, contextual Social-Local-Mobile marketing, data-anonymization services, indoor positioning centric services, machine identity services and smart-building services.

As a Chief Technology Adviser, Madhu has headed numerous acquisitive diligence efforts for venture capital backers around the world as well as created emerging digital media service product roadmaps adopted for execution by some of the largest broadband ecosystem players in Asia, Europe and North America.

Madhu’s extra-professional interests include mentoring student-inventors and supporting their forays into entrepreneurship and whenever possible volunteers in homeless shelters.

Erik Kling has over 20 years experience in the communication technology field covering hardware, software, services and solution elements of the industry. Erik has held senior sales and product management roles at Siemens Communications and wireless startup companies along with over ten years specifically in the M2M space. Erik Kling joined Vodafone in Sept. 2010 as Regional Sales Director M2M based in New York. His responsibilities include building and developing the M2M regional sales team including Latin America, driving M2M solutions into Vodafone Global Enterprise accounts along with additional customers and markets and defining, developing and nurturing the M2M ecosystem within the market place.Erik’s experience has spanned the globe with multiple roles in Europe, based in Spain and Germany and over 10 years in the Americas. Erik was born in Germany, lived in Spain, Mexico and Canada and is already over 10 years in the US.

As M2M Business Development Manager, Broc Jenkins is responsible for building Wilson’s presence in the M2M market, and for working with customers and departments inside Wilson to develop the companys M2M product strategy. Since joining Wilson in 2009, Jenkins has worked as a technical support technician and as Technical Support/Customer Service manager. Due to his extensive knowledge of Wilson cellular signal booster products he also has been the companys primary trainer of new employees and of retailers who join the Wilson retail network. Jenkins is currently studying Business Administration at Dixie State College located in St. George, UT where Wilson is headquartered.

Peter Bernstein is a seasoned writer and professional with deep experience in the communications and IT industries. As a top-level industry analyst, Peter has keynoted major technology events and has been cited numerous times by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Business Week, Fortune Magazine, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Communications Week, among other publications. Bernstein has authored or co-authored market research studies, CEO speeches, white papers, articles, and other content for major companies in the technology markets. His experience includes work with Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Equant, France Telecom, HP, Siemens, Verizon, Nortel, Wave Systems, and many more. He held the position of director of global marketing and communications at Telcordia. Having been on Advisory Boards for 15 technology start-up firms, Bernstein most recently worked as a consultant to C-level executives on all aspects of marketing communications strategy and tactics – from concept to cash, crisis management, brand stewardship, and helping establish metrics, manage processes and leadership practices.