Telematics Detroit 2013 Speakers

Mr. Driscoll has served as industry consultant on telematics to the Automobile Association of America and has consulted to leading cellular carriers, GPS manufacturers, vehicle navigation systems suppliers and technology companies.

Link created the initial business model and strategic plan for HTI, and has been very instrumental in shaping the future services for consumers, OEMs and dealers. Link is very involved in industry research and is a key contributor to the thought leadership within industry organizations and trade associations.

Link is a proven entrepreneur who previously served as CEO of Altius Solutions, a company he founded in 1999 to support multiple entrepreneurial initiatives involving vehicle telematics. Altius Solutions designed, developed, and manufactured complex vehicle “black boxes” for research purposes. Altius Solutions’ clients included NHTSA, Department of Transportation, Federal Highway and many research universities and academia. Through Altius, Link was able to develop a command of the telematics landscape, industry challenges, and also work with leading edge experts to craft solutions. This experience provided the platform for which HTI was built.

Ms. Livingston has over 20 years of experience in public relations and marketing including more than 12 years in the wireless industry, strategizing and executing the launch of seven new companies or international brands throughout her career, including two wireless companies, 3G Americas and now 4G Americas.

She has led projects and programs in R&D, product development, re-engineering complex software systems, and emerging technology incubation. As a technology incubation leader, she has led the establishment of several COEs in Consumer and Automotive technologies such as Autosar, Functional Safety, Multimedia, RFID, Mobility Applications and Service Oriented Architecture. She has mentored several project teams in complex systems architecture, large projects execution, and emerging technologies.

In her current role as Automotive and Consumer Electronics practice head at iGATE, her responsibilities include defining strategic directions for growth, customer acquisition, solutions and delivery of projects and programs.

Mr. Lutz has extensive experience in dealership technology being the first dealership in the United States to utilize a T1 for Internet capacity at every desk top. He has served on the Route One Dealer Advisory Board, Cobalt Dealer Advisory Board, and the STAR Standards for Automotive Retailer Dealer Board. He is currently the director elect for the state of Michigan at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA). He previously held positions at NADA increasing in responsibility, including chairman of NADA-24, director of Michigan, chairman of Information Technology and chairman of Industry Relations.

T.C. brings more than 15 years of automotive experience to this role. Previously, he led a product marketing team that initiated more than 20 new product concepts. Additionally, this team helped drive hundreds of sales engagements by providing unique consumer-focused market research, trend information and technical demonstrations. His creative approach has led to product placement on both local and national television shows, including an MTV reality show.

T.C. has also been granted seven patents in areas such as: wireless power transfer, display replication, vehicle input devices, and remote vehicle HMI customization. Additionally, he is the co-author of Communicating Outside the Box: A Structural Model for Predicting Consumer Acceptance of In-Vehicle Electronics Implementations, published in 2005 by the Convergence Transportation Electronics Association.

Prior to joining Visteon in 2000, T.C. worked for Ford Motor Co., where he was selected to join the Manufacturing Leadership Program. While with Ford, he held positions in product development, manufacturing, material planning and logistics, and business planning. Prior to Ford, he worked as an industrial engineer for Johnson Controls, Inc.

Since immigrating to the United States, Dr. Patsiokas has become a driving force within the high-tech world of American and International business. Dr. Patsiokas was hired by XM Satellite radio in 1998 as Senior Vice President of Engineering. At XM he was initially responsible for the development of the waveform, custom chipsets, hardware reference platforms and antennas. He was promoted to Executive Vice President of Engineering in 2001 and his responsibility areas expanded to include the implementation of the overall end-to-end radio link, repeater Network Radio design and installation, development of data services and the development and manufacturing of all aftermarket XM radio products many of them receiving Engineering and Innovation awards year after year. Dr. Patsiokas is currently the Corporate Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer for Sirius XM Satellite Radio, America's only nationwide digital satellite radio service. The contributions made by Dr. Patsiokas have enabled Satellite Radio the ability to beam over 130 channels of audio programming as well as data services to listeners anywhere in the United States. His work also led XM to be named Fortune Magazine's Product of the Year; one of Time Magazine's “Inventions of the Year;” Popular Science's 2001 “Best of What's New” in the Electronics category; and “Best of CES” at the 2001 Consumer Electronics Show.

Prior to joining XM Satellite Radio, Dr. Patsiokas worked with Motorola, Inc. for nineteen years, where he was a major contributor in the areas of radio wave propagation, microcellular system design and the development of the cordless telephone second-generation technology (CT2). As Director of Product Development for Motorola's Messaging Systems Product Group, he developed the PageWriter 2000 two-way messaging device, Motorola's first software centric device.

Dr. Patsiokas received the Washington Immigrant Achievement Award from the American Immigration Law Foundation in March of 2002. He was inducted in the Space Technology Hall of Fame the same year.

He participated on the standards board for the development of a then new technology called DVD, and was responsible for the development, sales and launch of DVD players into the U.S. and Europe.

In 2002 Larry was recruited to Sirius Radio as part of a five-man turn-around team and was responsible for the company's first aftermarket products and the development of aviation, marine and OEM in-vehicle data services.

Cyril, 43 years old (2012), Master of Science in Marketing, started his career at the Bolloré group. After that Cyril undertook different missions in auditing and business management. Subsequently he became Managing Director of bartering companies such as T.E.C. or Barterfina. Next, he joined Bestmarques.com as Director of Sales, an on-line sales joint venture with Marie-Claire and Roularta group.

About Telit:
Telit is one of the three world leading manufacturers of cellular, GPS and Short Range modules traded at London’s AIM stock exchange with a 177M$ revenue in 2011 (not audited) and about 450 employees worldwide.

His interest in Windows CE-based handheld computers began in 1999, and he immediately started to write applications for PDAs, which were a novelty at that time. When he returned to Budapest in 2001, his first own mobile solutions were already widely known.