Industry Leaders at the Forefront of Automotive Content and Apps
Telematics Update only selects the best speakers from the most respected companies with crucial intelligence that will aid your business decisions. Below are some of the speakers that shared their ingenuity and innovations at Content and Apps for Automotive USA 2012.
You can still access the presentation slides and audio from Content and Apps 2012. Click here to take a look at the packages available.
Speakers from Content and Apps for Automotive USA 2012 Included:
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Brian Inouye
National Manager, Advanced Tech,
Toyota
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Carl Rohling
VP Business Development
TuneIn
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| Carl Rohling is a Vice President of Business Development for TuneIn, Inc., a privately held online services company based in Palo Alto, California. He manages strategic alliances, licensing and distribution for both the consumer electronics, automotive and mobile business units. His focus for consumer facing services is centered on the distribution and licensing of the TuneIn application across multiple platforms. TuneIn’s OEM business is based on servicing prominent third parties across automotive, TV, mobile, and digital appliance platforms. Rohling has over (12) years experience in digital media covering both hardware and software in roles ranging from legal, sales and business development.
Previously, Rohling spent (2) years at Creative Labs overseeing their business development activities for the portable audio, speaker and web camera business units. Tying together services and hardware was his achievement in delivering and end-to-end solution for an optimal consumer experience. Prior to Creative Labs, Rohling spent (3) years as Director of Business Development overseeing the ReplayTV, GoVideo and Rio product lines for SonicBlue, Inc. Rohling was involved in SonicBlue’s expansion into into consumer electronics with the acquisition of the ReplayTV and GoVideo product lines.
Rohling was a corporate attorney for Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York City and a litigation attorney for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison working out of their New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo offices.
Rohling attended the University at Albany for undergraduate studies and the University at Buffalo for both his MBA and J.D. |
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Charles Koch
Manager, New Business Development
Honda
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Chris Ruff
President & CEO
UIEvolution
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David Pio
Partner Engineer
Facebook
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Hakan Kostepen
Director, Product Planning & Innovation
Panasonic
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Henry Bzeih
National Manager, Connected Car
Kia Motors
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Johann Jungwirth
President & CEO
Mercedes Benz Research & Development
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Johann Jungwirth is President & CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc, a Daimler Company with it's headquarter in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Within Group Research & Advanced Engineering Johann is responsible for all Infotainment & Telematics North America activities in Palo Alto, CA.
Johann has 16 years of professional experience in the automotive industry with Daimler AG and subsidiaries in Germany and the US, where he managed multiple R&D divisions, teams and projects with the main focus on infotainment, telematics and communication products and strategies. |
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Michael Blicher
Director Business Development
TuneIn
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| Michael Blicher is the Business Development Director of Automotive for TuneIn, the global leader in aggregation of Live Talk, Sports, Music and Events. He is responsible for championing the global awareness and integration of this app into OEM vehicles. In this role, one of his objectives is to evolve the ultimate audio portal utilizing the power of the TuneIn guide to mitigate driver distraction and evolve a new user experience in discovery of content of any type within the vehicle or the cloud.
Blicher holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the Society Information Displays (SID), Tech Enthusiast (CEA), the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), and Optimists International (Chaplain).
TuneIn lets people listen to the world's music, sports, talk and news from wherever they are, with over 70,000 AM, FM, HD and Internet radio stations and more than two million on-demand programs streaming from every continent. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. |
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John Waraniak
Vice President Vehicle Technology
SEMA
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Paul Brown
Director of Apps Research
Strategy Analytics
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As a Director in the User Experience Practice, Paul Brown is responsible for supporting clients in the wireless and digital consumer industries in developing their user experience strategies. Paul’s areas of research include Smartphones, mobile operating systems, mobile accessories, mobile internet services, applications and media.
Having joined Strategy Analytics in 2005, Paul has undertaken thousands of hours of consumer research across the world, and has successfully lead multi-country projects for leading companies within the wireless industry.
Prior to joining Strategy Analytics, Paul worked as a Data Analyst for Anglia Examination Syndicate, Chichester College. Paul holds a BSc in Management Science and Statistics from the University of Wales, Swansea. |
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Keefe Leung
Director of Product Management
Airbiquity
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Massimo Baldini
President
Livio Radio
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| Hailing from Genoa, Italy, Livio Radio President Massimo Baldini brings more than 17 years of global experience in business operations, product development and brand management. The former Delphi boss of Livio Radio founder and CEO Jake Sigal holds more than six patents and has worked with major Fortune 100 brands, including Whirlpool and Procter & Gamble. Massimo earned his master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Genoa in Italy and his MBA from the prestigious University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. In his spare time, Massimo vacations in Sardinia every summer with his wife and three kids and loves going to Lollapalooa annually. |
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Patrick McGinnis
Business Development Executive
Tweddle
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Rob Passaro
Head of BMW App Center
BMW Group
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Tim Johnson
Director, Vehicle Crash Avoidance
NHTSA
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| Tim Johnson was recently named to a newly created position within the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) - director, Crash Avoidance and Electronic Controls Research. In this new role, he has responsibility for the agency’s research programs in several key areas including human factors, intelligent technologies, heavy vehicles, and electronic systems safety. The new office was created to bring these related parts of the vehicle research program together under one roof. This is especially important as NHTSA moves to address the challenges and potentially enormous benefits of crash avoidance technologies, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, automated vehicles, and the safety-critical electronic control systems that are increasingly prevalent.
Mr. Johnson’s federal career, which started in 1993, includes a wide variety of research experience at NHTSA as well as other federal agencies and commissions including the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Transit Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Mr. Johnson attended the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with an electrical engineering degree. |
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Joel Sucherman
Senior Director for Digital Products
NPR
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| For more than 20 years, Joel Sucherman has been a pioneer in the field of digital media. Sucherman is Senior Director for Digital Products at NPR, helping to guide digital strategy and leading the group that builds NPR’s presence on emerging platforms. Prior to his work in public radio, Sucherman’s role could best be described as chief digital evangelist for USA TODAY, helping a traditional print organization re-imagine storytelling on various platforms. An accomplished multimedia journalist, Sucherman led teams that pioneered some of USATODAY.com’s most innovative work, including its first, award-winning iPhone app. Sucherman is a former Capitol Hill correspondent. He was an early ‘backpack journalist’ and founded the first streaming media unit at USA TODAY. |
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Karen Neuman
Partner
St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson, LLP
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Karen is an internationally recognized expert in privacy and data protection law, and a founding partner of St. Ledger-Roty Neuman & Olson (SLRNO) LLP. With well over two decades of experience in diverse markets of the communications industry, including digital media, Karen combines strong legal skills with a broad strategic vision to provide value added legal and strategic counsel to senior management and general counsel of both new entrants and established entities.
Karen's practice broadly focuses on risk assessment/mitigation, compliance and strategic counseling, while assisting organizations to integrate their legal and business strategies. In particular, she has developed a niche practice in privacy laws and industry self-regulatory programs governing mobile app and social media privacy, FTC privacy compliance involving a wide swatch of industries, cross-border data transfer rules and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
Karen is a frequent speaker on current and developing issues involving privacy and data protection law and is the founder, editor of, and a regular contributor to the SLRNO Privacy & Information Law Update. She has served on the Legal and Government Affairs committee of a major retail industry trade association and on the Infrastructure Advisory Committee of a Silicon Valley-based project involving the use of open source technology to develop digital credentials for 21st century learning and reputation management. |
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Puneet Mehta
CEO and Co-Founder
MyCityWay
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As CEO and co-founder of MyCityWay, Puneet Mehta is pioneering the next-generation intersection of mobile and local by building a cloud-connected, self-learning discovery and mobility platform that brings together various aspects of the urban experience in a connected way.
Mehta spent much of his career on Wall Street, building complex technological platforms to power robust financial systems. Under Mehta’s leadership, MyCityWay has applied the technology once reserved for high-powered algorithmic trading to build a mobile application that taps into situational-awareness and personalization as the key pegs to create a unique mobile experience. Puneet and his team have earned the backing of investors including NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and BMWi Ventures.
Before founding MyCityWay, Mehta held many technology executive positions, where he built situationally aware, self-learning orchestration engines that ran businesses or helped people make real-time decisions to run their businesses – in everything from trading platforms to supply chains. He has served as SVP for technology strategy and architecture for Citi Capital Markets, VP of technology for capital markets at Merrill Lynch, VP of technology for JP Morgan and held leadership positions at Johnson Controls and IBM. |
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Geoff Snyder
Director of Automotive Business Development
Pandora
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| Geoff Snyder is Director of Automotive Business Development for Pandora. Geoff has been instrumental in the extension of Pandora into the vehicle, which is the traditional home of radio. As consumers demand a better in-car music experience, Geoff has developed relationships with representatives of the world's top automotive brands and has worked as a liaison between engineering and business development teams to make personalized radio on-the-road a reality. Before joining Pandora, Geoff worked for 10 years with the founding team of Openlane, a company that provides software services for the auto industry. Geoff holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Harvard. He also enjoys playing the guitar and is grateful his kids are young enough to think he’s good at it. |
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Erik Terjesen
Director - Technology Licensing
Qualcomm
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| Erik Terjesen is a Director of Qualcomm's Technology Licensing program with a focus on wireless power technology and applications. He has been active in the operations of the Qualcomm Halo program since its inception, and served as the acquisition and integration lead for the recent purchase of HaloIPT by Qualcomm. His prior experience at Qualcomm included strategy and M&A projects with the company's corporate development arm, the Strategic Finance group. Before Qualcomm, Erik worked in the venture capital and investment banking sectors with HarbourVest Partners and Robertson Stephens. Erik received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his BA from Harvard University. |
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Chia-Lin Simmons
V.P., Marketing & Content
aha by Harman
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| Chia-Lin Simmons has been creating, distributing and marketing digital media since the infancy of the Internet. She spent her career bringing content onto the devices where it will be seen and heard by consumers – from the cassette player, to the iPad, and today to the car. Over the last 16+ years, she has helped companies such as Audible (an Amazon company), CNET, Harman International, NewsCorp, Playphone, TimeWarner and Wired generate revenue via groundbreaking content distribution deals.
Today, Simmons serves as VP of Marketing & Content for Aha by Harman the next-generation cloud-based infotainment platform that safely delivers web content to drivers right through the radio. Leading content companies such as MOG, Rhapsody, CBS Radio, Slacker, NPR and ESPN and dozens more across music, audio books, entertainment, travel, location based services, group deals and search categories work with Simmons to reach drivers safely and cost-effectively. She leads global marketing, business development and content programming for the division’s mobile, automotive and home products.
Prior to joining Aha in 2010, Simmons was VP of Marketing and General Manager of Playphone North America. At AOL/TimeWarner she forged and managed social media partnerships with MySpace and Facebook. As VP of Strategic Alliances at Audible (acquired by Amazon), Simmons launched the company’s wireless business and was responsible for driving adoption of the #2 audio format (behind MP3) via major partnerships with Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Palm, SanDisk, Creative, Garmin, Best Buy, Amazon and others.
Simmons is a sought-after speaker and she can be found sharing insights on content monetization and marketing via her podcast “On Digital Media”. She graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from U.C. San Diego and received her MBA from Cornell University, where she was a Park Leadership Fellow. Simmons also has a JD from George Mason University School of Law and is a licensed New York attorney.
Areas of Expertise:
- Creation and distribution of digital entertainment content
- Connected cars/automotive
- Digital marketing and advertising
- E-commerce
Speaking Resume:
- Connected Cars, November 2012 -- Successful Partnerships for Content Delivery Within the Vehicle
- Mobile Excellence Awards, October 2012 – Women in Mobile Technology panel
- Digital Hollywood, October 2011 and May 2011 – “The Social Experience: Personalized Communication, Personalized TV, Personalized Apps, Personalized Commerce"
- iWant Series, May 2011 – “Women in Mobile 2011”
- Digital Hollywood, October 2010 — “Advertising and Micro-Commerce, Games and Games Networks — Mobile, Broadband and Console”
- Spring VON.x Conference & Expo, March 2008 — “Adding Syndicated Content to IPTV”
- Digital Hollywood, November 2007 — “All Video-All The Time: Next Generation in Media Technology”
- PodCamp NYC, April 2007 — “Mobilecasting and Wireless Digital Media Distribution”
- Women’s Congress / Women in Technology International, March 2007 — “Web 2.0 Digital Business Media Economy”
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Kerry Johnson
Automotive Product Manager
QNX Software Systems
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| Kerry Johnson has more than 24 years’ experience as a software design manager, product manager, and project manager in companies such as Nortel, CrossKeys, and Research in Motion (RIM). He currently works as an automotive product manager at QNX Software Systems, where he is responsible for product roadmaps and bringing new technology to market. |
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Mark Fitzgerald
Senior Automotive Analyst
Strategy Analytics
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Praveen Chandrasekar
Global Program Manager - Automotive & Transportation
Frost & Sullivan
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Functional Expertise
More than 8 years of automotive strategy consulting and research experience, having worked on more than 25 projects at a global scale. Specific expertise in:
- Go-to market strategy formulation
- New market entry and diversification strategies
- New business model analysis and evaluation
- Voice of customer and willingness to pay analysis
- Due diligence activities
- Competitive intelligence and benchmarking
Industry Expertise
Experience base covers a wide range of industry sectors, forming long standing relationships with senior executives in the
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- Automotive Telematics and Infotainment
- Automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
- IT and Telecoms
- Electric Vehicles
What I bring to the Team
- Core expertise and experience in research and consulting for the automotive market
- Industry recognized expertise in the area of telematics and infotainment in Europe
- Extensive client management, business development and presentation skills
- Experienced project manager handling large teams with successful execution track recor
Career Highlights
Before Frost & Sullivan, experience in production and design functions in leading automotive firms:
- Intern, Research and Development, Lucas TVS India Pvt Ltd
- Intern, Production Department, Tractors and Farm Equipment India Pvt Ltd
Education
- Executive Program in Business Management from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
- Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
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