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As Principal Analyst Dominique
Bonte is responsible for ABI Research?s global
telematics and navigation coverage. His background includes
extensive experience in fixed and mobile telecommunications,
market research and mobile device software applications.
He worked for Orange and BT, as well as holding a variety
of positions at consumer/industrial technology companies
assuming roles in product/marketing management and market
research and intelligence. He later started his own company
in software consulting for mobile devices, where he acquired
extensive experience in mobile satellite navigation software.
He holds an MS in electronics engineering and has earned
several marketing and business degrees |
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Maarten
Oldenhof is Chief Executive Offer of AND
Automotive Navigation Data since 2002. With Maarten
as CEO, AND Automotive Navigation Data started to focus
on digital map development for in-car and personal navigation,
next to the traditional on-line, logistics and GIS markets.
Maarten has a Master of Business Administration. After
his studies Maarten worked for the Investment Management
& Consulting Group B.V as Consultant. As managing director
of football club Ajax Maarten was responsible for the
stock market quotation of Ajax and at Rai Exhibition centre
in Amsterdam Maarten was the Managing Director Exhibitions,
Multimedia & Publishing. |
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Brett
Simpson, Director, Arete Research. Brett
has been covering companies in mobile phones, GPS and
semiconductor markets for over a decade. Before co-founding
Arete in Jan'00, Brett spent two years in the no1 rated
team for European technology at Goldman Sachs International.
Prior to his time at Goldman, Brett had three years
with Ericsson, working in a business development role
covering all aspects of wireline and wireless telecom
infrastructure. He holds a first-class honours degree
in Technology from Robert Gordon University in UK. |
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Shiva
Kalisetty is vice president of Business
Development for ATX, a provider of
customized telematics services to the automotive industry,
based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and D?seldorf, Germany.
In his role at ATX, his expertise is in mobile and embedded
telematics and wireless devices, software, Internet
services and e-commerce. Kalisetty has extensive experience
in conceiving and executing new business initiatives
with public and startup companies. Prior to ATX,
he was responsible for business development and marketing
of the location-based services product portfolio of
Clarity Communication Systems, where he built successful
strategic partnerships with mobile carriers, content
providers, telecommunication infrastructure vendors,
GIS software providers, and handset manufacturers. |
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Fabio
Pressi is Responsible for Marketing and Sales
of Infoblu (Autostrade Group) , the Italian
company that lead the market of traffic and traveller
information services in Italy. Pressi was Director of
Operations for Mizar and he created the first personalised
services for the traveller in Italy after some years as
Business Development for LBS market and Project Manager
in many ITS applications and implementations. Pressi is
an expert in Intelligent Transportation Systems and he
followed the definition of many standards (DATEX, TMC..)
and actually is the unique Italian member of the TISA
Forum for the developing of Traveller Information Services
He holds an Electronic Engineering degree from Politecnico
of Turin. |
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Luca
Pagni is EMEA Sales Manager of Birdstep
Technology Inc. provider of embedded databases,
serving - among others - companies manufacturing portable
navigation devices and infotainment systems. He graduated
Bocconi University in Italy with specialization in IT
industry?s market evolution. In his previous position
as CEO of ObexCode, Luca gained widespread knowledge of
the mobile device market, working in close contact with
manufacturers, service providers, mobile operators. Luca
joined Birdstep in 2006 to lead EMEA Sales of the database
division. |
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Chris
Jones was one of the three founders of industry
analyst firm Canalys in 1999. He led
Canalys into its first market-specific analysis area,
smart mobile devices, in 2000, and is still actively following
the smart mobile device market. Since 2003 Chris has led
the research into the mobile navigation and LBS market
on a worldwide basis. Chris drove the content and recently
keynoted at the Canalys Navigation Forum in Barcelona.
He often presents at public events on mobile trends, especially
around navigation and location-based services, and is
one of the most quoted industry analysts globally on the
subject. |
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Dr.
Jeff Zhou is Head of Strategy and Marketing for
Division Infotainment Solutions at VDO Automotive AG,
A Company of the Continental Corporation,
since 2004. In this function he is responsible for Strategic
Planning, M&A, Business Development and Marketing. Before
joining Siemens VDO Automotive he worked for four years
as a Venture Manager at Siemens Technology Accelerator
GmbH (a subsidiary of Siemens Corporate Technology) and
was responsible for commercialization of non-core technologies
(e.g. Spin-off, Technology sale and J.V. etc.). His work
led to the successful spin-offs of EnOcean GmbH, Panoratio
Database Images GmbH and sale of Siemens 2D optical inspection
technology. Prior to that Jeff Zhou gained experiences
in Business Development, Sales and Marketing at a start-up
company and at Sartorius AG. Before this he has gained
experiences in strategy development and implementation
at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). Jeff
Zhou holds a PhD in experimental particle physics from
RWTH Aachen and spent several years at CERN in Geneva
and at DESY in Hamburg for fundamental research. |
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Marc
Prioleau Vice President of Marketing, deCarta.
Marc brings 20 years of technology marketing, with emphasis
in location technology and Internet search markets. Prior
to deCarta, Marc directed the high-growth consumer and
enterprise markets for SiRF Technology. Before SiRF, he
held executive positions with Outride Inc. (advanced search
technology acquired by Google) and Trimble Navigation,
where he let marketing for embedded GPS products in the
automotive and mobile computing sectors. He has a BS in
Chemical Engineering/Materials Science from University
of California, Davis and a Master's degree from Harvard
Graduate School of Business. |
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Oliver
Rousselange (41) leads the activities in
Product planning und Marketing of Delphi´s
Entertainment and Communications Productline in Europa.
After he graduated from RWTH Aachen with a degree in Electronics
Engineering he has held several positions as Software
and Systems designer for video and broadcast applications.
In 1998 he joined Delphi. In 2002 he took over the responsibility
for Marketing and Product planning for various product
lines.
Oliver Rousselange
Product Planner and Marketing Manager
Entertainment & Communications Europe |
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Paul
Smith is a geospatial industry veteran with
over 25 years experience in GIS, remote sensing, and location-based
data products. As a Vice President at DigitalGlobe,
Mr. Smith develops key technology partnerships and business
alliances. He joined DigitalGlobe through their acquisition
of GlobeXplorer, where he was Chief Operating Officer
and a founder. Under his direction, GlobeXplorer became
an early leader in earth imagery content display now common
on the Internet. He is a frequent speaker on location-based
web services and has had extensive dealings with map search
portals, navigation and location application companies,
real estate and yellow page listing websites. |
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Christian
Ress, Ford Research &
Advanced Engineering Europe, Telematics & Navigation
Research, Mail: cress@ford.com
1988 - 1995
- Technical University of Aachen (RWTH): Study of Electrical
Engineering, finished as Graduate Engineer since 2001
Research Engineer with Ford Research & Advanced
Engineering, Aachen, Telematics & Navigation Research.Software
development, conceptual work and project management
and for internal and publicly co-funded research projects
focussing on Navigation, Telematics & Connectivity,
e.g. integration of mobile devices, Geman research project
AKTIV, etc.since 2008 Chairman of European ADASIS Forum
(Industry Forum to develop a standardized interface
between Navigation system and ADAS functions, co-ordinated
by ERTICO).
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Henning
Wiefelspuetz, Garmin - is
responsible to manage and develop the overall business
with some major European and global accounts (Car Manufacturers)
within the Garmin OEM Automotive Business Development
team. He has 12 years experience in Automotive. Henning
started his career in the automotive world in a sales
of the first generation in-car-navigation systems (CARiN)
at Philips Car Systems. Before joining Garmin in 2007,
Henning held a number of positions in Business Development,
Product Management, Sales and Marketing with Philips Car
Systems, Mannesmann VDO and Siemens VDO. He holds a Masters
degree in Business Administration |
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Stefan
Brys joined Intel 2006 as
a Business Development Manager responsible for In-Car
Infotainment in Europe concentrating on Aftermarket products
such as portable devices etc. He has more than 6 years
experience within the Consumer and mobile Navigation segment.
Before he joined Intel he was a Product Manager for a
large German Consumer Company responsible for portable
Navigation devices. Since more and more consumers value
access to digital entertainment and productivity tools
during the hours they spend in their Car Intel has the
right solutions to serve these needs with Low Power iA
products and a brought ecosystem. |
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Since 2001, Carsten
Leininger, 34, holds the post of Managing
Director of the iPUBLISH GmbH; as such,
he is responsible for the business development in the
field of virtual travel management and consulting. As
Travel Scout Company, iPUBLISH is a digital spin-off of
the GANSKE VERLAGSGRUPPE which includes, amongst others,
the publishers Jahreszeiten Verlag, Hoffmann und Campe
as well as Gr?e und Unzer. Under the brand name MERIAN
scout, iPUBLISH produces travel guides for navigation
systems since the beginning of the 1990s, being the market
leader in that segment since. In addition to this executive
function for iPUBLISH, Leininger took over the post of
Managing Director of the GANSKE subsidiary TRAVEL HOUSE
MEDIA in 2004 which produces the printed MERIAN travel
guides and sells all ADAC, MERIAN and MICHELIN print products
on the German-speaking book market. |
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Kate
Edwards, Chief Executive Officer, Jentro
Technologies GmbH
Kate has over 12 years of executive experience in successfully
growing software and media services companies. Prior to
joining Jentro, Kate was CEO of CenterPost Communications,
the market leader in delivering robust, multi-channel
communications so that companies can deliver personalized
messages to their customers over their channel of choice.
CenterPost completed a successful sale to West Corporation
in February 2007. Prior to CenterPost, Kate also served
as CFO and VP of Operations for BEZ Systems, Chief Strategist
at CCC Information Services, General Manager at Playboy.com,
and served in both the Audit and Mergers & Acquisitions
practices at Arthur Andersen. |
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Christian
Bubenheim, Vice President, Product Marketing,Magellan
Christian Bubenheim brings to Magellan nearly 20 years
of experience in consumer electronics, during which
time he drove the successful launch of new product categories
and of existing categories into new geographies at companies
such as Apple Computer, Compaq and Intel.
Bubenheim
served at Magellan for nearly two years as senior director
of consumer marketing before taking the role overseeing
all of product marketing for the consumer business.
At Magellan, Bubenheim lead the
worldwide team that created and launched the market-leading
portable vehicle navigation system, the Magellan RoadMate™.
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With almost 20 years experience in
the field of electronics and software systems for automobile,
aeronautical and industrial applications, Aaron
Solomon founded Mobile Devices
in 2002. Before creating Mobile Devices, Aaron Solomon
was the Director of the automobile business unit for a
large engineering company in France and also managed their
marketing activities Aaron obtained a post-graduate degree
(DEA) in Electronics and Instrumentation from the University
of Paris VI |
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Eric
Chan most recently was the Head of Product
Management and Co-Founder of Caboodle Networks,
mobile search recommendation software using semantic web,
where he file two patents in the area of mobile search.
After starting Caboodle in 2003, he sold it to MCN in
2007. He has also held business development, product and
marketing positions at Mobile Complete and Keynote, focused
on partnerships and strategic alliances with Clickatell,
Microsoft, Nokia, SonyEricsson, Sun Microsystems, Sybase,
Symbian, and others. He led Product Marketing at Pixo,
content download server software, acquired by Sun Microsystems
in 2003. In addition, Chan is an Adjunct Faculty and Consulting
Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon University. He holds an MS in Software Engineering
and BS in Business Administration, both from Carnegie
Mellon University. He also hosts a professional blog,
Mobileslate,
covering topics in mobile and wireless. |
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Michael
Lightfoot, Head of Business Development for
Multimap. Since joining Multimap, Michael
has been responsible for a broad range of initiatives.
He has been responsible for securing some of Multimap?s
most strategic customers including BP, Hertz, Amadeus,
Yamaha and Vodafone. Most recently Michael has been focused
on building Multimap?s presence in the mobile convergence
space, with launches of both B2B and B2C products. Michael
has over 7 years experience in the Geo-spatial industry
and has been instrumental in championing the adoption
of location in many business-critical IT projects. Michael
is also a passionate evangelist of mobile and the role
?location? plays in that digital experience. Before joining
Multimap, he was responsible for evangelising Microsoft?s
geo-spatial products throughout EMEA. |
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Joern
Watzke, Vice President (VP) Product Line
Management (PLM) NAVIGON AG, worked in
several responsible business positions in the field of
management and technical production before, as for example
Director Product Realization, Manager Product Definition
and as Software Developer at the Head Office of Siemens
AG / BenQ Mobile in Munich. As a technical engineer and
VP PLM he is currently leading following divisions and
projects at NAVIGON AG since October 2006: Product Roadmap,
Definition, Variant management, Design, Lifecycle Management,
content, Partner Management, etc. |
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Lew
Boore, Vice President of Marketing, NemeriX
Lew Boore
is Vice President of Marketing for NemeriX’s global
operations and is responsible for NemeriX’s market
strategies, which include product marketing, marketing
communications, strategic alliances, and partner programs
across all regions. With 20 years in the semiconductor
industry, Lew’s experience encompasses numerous
positions in product development, sales, strategic business
development and marketing. His roles have also included
pioneering wireless business opportunities and strategic
partnerships in Asia, EMEA, and South America.
Lew has held
management and senior management positions at Hewlett-Packard,
M/A-COM, PSElect, Memec, LLC and Xitron Technologies.
His previous role before joining NemeriX was Vice President
of Marketing of u-Nav Microelectronics, a GPS chipset
provider. |
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Holger G. Weiss has over 7 years track record in location based services and personal navigation. He just returned from Hongkong where he led for 1.5 years Nokia’s global sales unit for navigation software on PNDs. Currently he serves as Head of Nokia Maps Partnership Management, Context Based Services in Nokia´s Services & Software Business Group. In this position he is responsible for hardware and development partnerships within the Nokia Maps platform.
Mr Weiss joined Nokia in 2006 and is located in Berlin, Germany. |
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Fatima
Vital, senior marketing manager at Nuance,
is responsible for marketing Nuance?s market leading speech
technology solutions to the automotive industry. Fatima
started her career in 1995 as marketing manager at Philips.
Since then, in a number of different marketing roles and
assignments she gained extensive experience in marketing
speech technology to different markets. In 2002, Fatima
joined ScanSoft as marketing manager for network speech,
and in October 2005 she became responsible for automotive
speech marketing at Nuance (formerly
ScanSoft). |
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Hakan
Kostepan is responsible for Product Planning
& Strategy of Panasonic Automotive
Systems Company of America. He has a broad Systems Engineering
and Advanced Product Development experience with US
Air Force, EDS, Ford Motor Company, and Panasonic Automotive
Systems. Along with various Advanced Automotive Driver
Information / Multimedia Systems development, he was
also responsible for Jaguar S-Type Voice Recognition
Systems Application. Mr. Kostepen received his BSEE
from Istanbul Technical University, MSEE from University
of North Dakota, and MSBA from US Air Force/Central
Michigan University. Mr. Kostepen is a member of Eta
Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi and several other professional
societies and holds patents in Advanced Automotive applications
and technologies. |
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Christian
Riesenberger has been working for PTV
since 1992 when he joined as a consultant and project
manager for several international projects in the field
of transportation and traffic telematics. In 1999 he
established the business unit Mobility within PTV AG,
targeting the automotive and telematics industry as
well as the wireless and internet industry. Headed by
Christian, PTV Mobility expanded internationally, with
the foundation of PTV Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. in 2006
completing this successful process. Since 2004 he oversees
all sales and marketing activities of PTV Mobility.
Christian holds a master degree in business administration/logistics. |
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Jed
Rice, VP - Market Development, Skyhook
Wireless At Skyhook Wireless, Mr. Rice is responsible
for identifying and creating new market opportunities.
Previously, he held a range of key positions managing
market development at edocs and Siebel. Mr. Rice also
worked as a corporate attorney after serving four years
as an officer in the United States Army. He is a frequent
speaker and commentator on a variety of topics in location
based services. |
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Rainer
Horn, Managing Partner ? SpaceTec Capital
Partners AG Mr. Horn is Managing Partner of SpaceTec Capital
Partners. Prior to joining SpaceTec in 2007 Mr. Horn was
a Member of the Management Team of Booz Allen Hamilton
as Director Business Operations. He led the Space Services/
Telematics team with clients in SatNav and Earth Observation
Services. His consulting experience further spans automotive,
telematics, transportation, internet services, telecommunications
as well as state, federal and European institutions. Mr.
Horn holds an international dual degree from ESB Reutlingen/London
and a MBA from INSEAD (France). SpaceTec Capital Partners
is active in the growing ?Satellite Information Business?
and invest venture capital into application markets at
the interface between information and satellite technology.
SpaceTec Capital Partners is based in Munich. www.spaceteccapital.de |
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Joanne
Blight, Director, launched the Automotive
Multimedia and Communications Service (AMCS) Service for
Strategy Analytics in 1999, focused upon
the global Automotive multimedia and communications service
, infotainment and communications markets. With her extensive
knowledge of the evolving product and services marketplace,
Ms. Blight provides business development insights to the
client base of leading automotive, consumer electronics,
software and wireless companies worldwide. |
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Dr.
Brona Collins is Key Account Manager in the
Professional Services Department. She received her Ph.D.
from Trinity College, Dublin in 1998. The Hitachi-funded
research applied an artificial intelligence model of reasoning
to machine translation. Brona then joined L&H Belgium
as Project Manager for the TTS product, RealSpeak. She
returned to Ireland in 2001 to work as Localisation Manager
for Berlitz, and HMI design consultant for the IDD. From
2003-5 she worked in Freiburg, Germany as programmer of
database interfaces and self-assessment tools for an environmental
NGO called ICLEI. In April 2005, she joined SVOX
to put her experience with speech solutions, interface
design, and technical project management to use by managing
several key automotive accounts |
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Rob
Van Essen graduated within Cartography
(Geography) from the State University Utrecht in 1990.
Currently he is globally responsible for Tele Atlas Strategic
Research and Development which comprises map research,
prototypes of maps and map related functionalities, advanced
engineering and standardisation. He is convenor of ISO/TC204
SWG 3.1: GDF |
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Dr.
Aldo Ofenheimer is Management Assistant of
the TeleConsult Austria GmbH covering
the field of precise positioning and reliable navigation,
particularly the areas of development and combination
of navigation-, telecommunication-, and information technologies,
and services for applications in the context of transport
and mobility. His work within the European automotive
R&D scene includes technical consultancy, system design
and analysis, and predictive computational modelling.
Aldo Ofenheimer is also involved in several national and
European R&D activities dealing with the development of
strategies for new products and services for tomorrow?s
automotive industry and car drivers. |
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Dr.
Egil Juliussen is principal technology analyst
for TRG. He has more than 25 years experience
in the computer, communications, and telematics industries
and has published over 400 industry reports, conference
papers, and publications. Dr. Juliussen's first technology
report (IBM's Billion Dollar Baby, co-authored with Portia
Isaacson, Ph.D. in August of 1981) accurately predicted
the impact of the personal computer. His areas of expertise
include information technology products such as PDAs,
mobile communications, Internet appliances, and vehicle
telematics. He is a frequent speaker at telematics conferences
around the world and is a member of the Society of Automotive
Engineers (SAE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE). |
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Giles
Shrimpton joined TomTom
in May 2007 as Managing Director Automotive and is responsible
to manage and develop the overall business with Car Manufacturers.
Before joining TomTom, Giles Shrimpton held a number of
Senior Sales, Marketing and General Management positions
with Philips Electronics, Siemens VDO and Valeo mainly
focused on the Automotive market. He has a wide international
experience including being based in the UK, Holland, Belgium,
France and USA. Giles Shrimpton holds degrees in Systems
Analysis and Management. |
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Robert
S. Marshall, President & CEO
Bob Marshall co-founded AWS, the parent company of WeatherBug,
in 1992 and currently serves as company president and
CEO. Marshall pioneered the networking of weather instrumentation
and cameras using the Internet parlaying this capability
into the single, largest network of weather stations and
Internet cameras in the world. Marshall is responsible
for developing innovative delivery methods of time sensitive
information via unique advertising platforms and the most
notable temperature next to the clock ion the PC.
Prior to launching AWS, Marshall served as a program manager
and lead engineer at BBN (formerly Bolt, Beranek and Newman,
the company credited with starting the Internet) on a
number of advanced military sensor, signal processing
and networking programs. |
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Marc
Alyari is the product marketing manager for
navigation on mobile
phones at Webraska.
Prior to joining Webraska, Marc worked with In-Fusio as
the Head of Development and then as a Sales Project Manager
for France.
He helped to the launch of the first downloadable gaming
services at Orange France and managed the launch of Java
gaming services at Vodafone Live! for SFR. Marc also worked
for Schlumberger - Smart Cards (now Gemalto) as a Project
Manager and coordinated the development of the first Java
Card for GSM market.
Marc Alyari holds an Executive MBA from ESSEC (Paris)
and two M. Scs; one in Robotics from Université
Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris) and another one in Automated
Production from ISAII (Arles). |
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