Christophe Garnier is the founder of mSmart. He has 12 years of experience with technology companies in the software, internet and mobile industries spanning both enterprise and consumer markets. Prior to forming mSmart, Christophe launched the first U.S. mobile marketing start-up focused on one2one SMS: mia. He attained $1.5M in sales in 18 months with advertisers and ad agencies such as: Coca Cola, MC Donald’s, Miller Beer, FoodTV, Omnicom and Ogilvy among others. He raised a total of $2.8M in funding from both Angels and Venture Capital.
\n\nBefore that, Christophe co-lead the launch of Enpocket (now Nokia) where he was responsible for the strategic business development of the U.S. operations. His responsibilities included the commercialization of company technologies including platform licenses, campaign strategy and production for brands and media clients. Prior to this, Christophe was at Mobile365 (now Sybase). In that position, Christophe co-lead to the launch of the company in the U.S. and spent 4 years building relationships with content companies, advertisers, media and technology companies such as Google, Warner Music, Sony Music, Oracle, Kodak, Yahoo, Zingy and Motorola among others. Christophe was also involved in various projects with geographic responsibilities covering Europe & Asia.
\n\nPrior to this, Christophe was at Logitech where he was responsible for the online marketing efforts of the B2C division including advertising planning and affiliates partnerships. Christophe got his start in the technology arena in 1998 as he was in charge of various marketing, sales and management roles at young company Activ System, one of the first web agencies in Paris. Christophe holds a BA in economics from the I.E.A Business School of Paris.
" /*** Timothy O’Brien ***/ ,"O'Brien formed Prana Consulting Services LLC in 2004 to respond to requests from IBM and others to provide strategic consulting. Prana Consulting specializes in transforming businesses especially content providers and service providers- to become more streamlined, integrated, and responsive to emerging new business opportunities. Prior to Prana Consulting Services, Mr. O'Brien worked from 1999-2004 as a Partner for IBM Business Consulting Services. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. O'Brien founded and served as Managing Director of One Abstract, Inc., a small boutique San Francisco-based digital media consulting and production firm. Prior to these consulting engagements, he built a large-scale network integration firm in Washington, D.C. that doubled in revenues to $10 million a year before being acquired in 1989. The company implemented over 1,000 enterprise networks in its five-year history.
Mr. O'Brien earned his B.A. degree from Stanford University in Drama/Mass Media/Communications. He also studied at the Stanford London campus participating in a six-month British multimedia research program working with the BBC and ITV.
French-born Patrice Peyret is the co-founder and CEO of Plastyc, a Web-payment provider serving teens. He also joined Nexit as Venture Partner in June 2005. Prior to his roles with Nexit and Plastyc, Mr. Peyret founded Mobileway, a global network for the delivery of SMS, MMS, mobile marketing and more. He Mobileway to become the global leader in SMS and MMS aggregation before he brought the company to merge with Inphomatch to become Mobile 365, a company sold to Sybase in 2006 for $450M. Mr. Peyret has also served in senior technical roles for Sun Microsystems and Gemplus, the world’s largest smart card vendor as he sold his first company Integrity Cards to Sun Microsystems in 1994. Mr Peyret is a serial entrepreneur and a recognized pioneer of the mobile industry.
" /*** Nihal Mehta ***/ ,"Innovating marketing technologies through three successful startups to date, Nihal Mehta, is a noted expert in the emerging adoption of wireless technologies for media properties and consumer brands. Named a BusinessWeek 'M-Commerce Baron' in 2006 and named one of AdAge's Top 20 Marketers in Their Twenties in 2005, Nihal is currently CEO and co-founder of mobile social networking BuzzD. Prior to BuzzD, Nihal co-founded ipsh!, one of the first full-service mobile marketing agencies in 2001, which was sold to Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) in 2005. Nihal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy and a BSE in Computer Science. In his spare time, Nihal enjoys deejaying around the country and practicing jedi mind tricks on unsuspecting victims.
" /*** David Yon ***/ ,"David Yon has over 10 years of international product and marketing experience with mobile, digital media and web/e-commerce technologies. He is currently VP Marketing at Music IP, leading the product strategy and overseeing the development of award winning mobile music services in both Europe and North America. He is actively involved in customer presentations, business development and M&A activities. Prior to Groove Mobile, David was the head of Products at MusiKube, turning cutting edge technologies like audio fingerprinting and barcode scanning into innovative mobile music discovery solutions. The company was acquired by For-Side / Zingy in 2005. Before MusiKube, David spent 6 years on the fast track at Nortel, first as a Marketing Manager in Europe, then as Director of e-Business in the Bay area. He holds a MBA from the CERAM European Business School, and a Bachelor in Finance from the University of Nice, France.
" /*** Adam Ingberman ***/ ,"As our VP of Application Development, Adam is responsible for managing the development of the overall mSmart technology by providing strategic direction and planning for the development projects.
\n\nPrior to mSmart, Adam spent eight years as Vice President, Application Development for iVillage, where he successfully managed numerous application development projects and implementations for the major online women's website. He also established iVillage's Quality Assurance Department, which prepared test plans for new applications to ensure that they met iVillage and industry standards.
\n\nHe also acquired experience in quality assurance for Acclaim Entertainment.
" /*** Gregg Alwine ***/ ,"As CEO at Corsis, Gregg role is to guide the company forward while maintaining a hands-on role in key decision making for client work. Gregg brings a true entrepreneurial spirit to both the growth of Corsis as well as to the needs of our clients. He is an accomplished technology architect and business strategist.
\n\nPrior to Corsis, Gregg has successfully managed and grown several marketing agencies, with a focus on developing and building out their technology practices.
\n\nGregg served as Executive Vice President and CTO of Aspen Marketing (#4 promotion agency in the country by PROMO Magazine in 2000), directing the agency's technology services, business development and agency acquisition efforts.
\n\nGregg is also a successful entrepreneur. As an owner of B-12 Promotions, one of the nations top promotion agencies and a 1999 PROMO Magazine "Hot Shop," Gregg extended B-12's capabilities while stabilizing and expanding the agency's service offerings and client base. Earlier, Gregg served as Vice President of Integrated Media Promotions at Marden-Kane, Inc., a leading promotional marketing agency, providing integrated technology and marketing solutions to over 200 of the Fortune 500 list.
" /*** Peter Fuller ***/ ,"Peter Fuller is a pioneer in the US mobile marketing space, having played a crucial role as part of the first leadership team of the Mobile Marketing Association in 2000 and then as its executive director from 2002 – 2005. During this time, he created many leadership committees to develop standards for SMS, MMS, WAP, consumer privacy and the common short code.
\n\nIn addition to helping grow the mobile marketing industry, Peter has 13 years of technology marketing experience. Most recently, he helped venture capital firms US Venture Partners and Alloy Partners launch security company netZentry. Prior to that, he launched Sequoia Capital’s first anti-spam investment, Corvigo. The company sold for eight times its series A investment just six months after its launch.
\n\nIts acquirer, Tumbleweed Communications, hired Peter to turn its struggling marketing department into an outbound, lead generation focused machine. Within six months, Peter’s programs added more than $12 million to the pipeline.
\n\nIn 2000, he launched and marketed CMGI investment Radiate, which was an Internet advertising company. Radiate grew from 100,000 daily users to more than 25 million in just 18 months. Peter has also marketed Novell (Volera startup), Quantum, First Data, and many other companies. He also founded an industry association in 2001, worked as a journalist for five years and now serves on several boards.
" /*** Fabrice Grinda ***/ ,"Mr. Grinda is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully transposed and adapted business ideas between the U.S., Europe and Latin America. Mr. Grinda is currently the Founder & CEO of OLX a leading online exchange and Community Company.
\n\nHe previously founded Zingy Inc. and sold it to the Japanese mobile content giant For-Side for $100M in 2005. Zingy is still one of the largest mobile media company in the Americas, selling ring tones, wallpapers and games to carriers, media companies and consumers.
\n\nThe New York-based company has now over employees and generates over $100 million in yearly content sales. Prior to founding Zingy, Mr. Grinda was the founder and CEO of Aucland, one of the largest auction sites in Europe and co-founder of Deremate, the largest auction site in Latin America. Before founding Aucland in 1998, Mr. Grinda served as a consultant in the New York office of McKinsey & Company, where he worked for large financial institutions. Mr. Grinda has a B.A. in economics from Princeton University.
" /*** Alex Besen ***/ ,"Alex provides advisory and consulting services to executive managers in the mobile data industry. He manages the network of independent consultants, channel partners, and interacts with his advisors. Alex has extensive hands-on experience in the mobile industry working for operators and vendors in North America and Europe in numerous roles including business development, marketing, project management and finance.
\n\nPrior to founding The Besen Group, Alex developed opportunities with mobile operators in North America and Europe for Mantas (formerly known as Sotas).
\n\nPreviously, Alex worked at Ericsson with mobile operators on MMS, GPRS, MVNO and UMTS projects in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. He was also responsible for identifying potential partners and hosting workshops at Ericsson Mobility World (a mobile data laboratory) where developers create, optimize and commercialize mobile applications.
\n\nPrior to this position, Alex was a Business Development Manager at T-Mobile USA (formerly known as Omnipoint Communications) where he was responsible for partnerships, joint ventures and provided billing, customer care, marketing and vendor financing solutions to mobile operators.
\n\nAlex holds a BS degree in Management from the University of Tampa and an MBA from the American University. He is fluent in French, Turkish and proficient in Italian. Alex is an active member of mobile forums and international associations including CTIA and GSM World.
" /*** Chiranjeev Bordoloi ***/ ,"Chiranjeev Bordoloi has 14 years of technology deployment and management consulting experience mostly within "Big 4" management consulting environments. He has managed team sizes between 5-80 resources as a Project Delivery Executive at IBM Business Consulting Services on projects ranging from $500K to $50 Million. Mr. Bordoloi's relevant experience for this engagement includes delivering complex online video delivery projects for major media industry clients; working on discrete components of end-to-end video asset management workflow from media ingest to user interface design/development. He has also developed the new media strategy for presentation to the President of North America's most visited Hispanic online media property. He has also delivered a $6 Million CRM project work-stream within a $160 Million program for Vodafone and defined global delivery strategy for multi-million project portfolios with distributed resources in UK, Ireland, New York, and the US West Coast.
\n\nCJ is responsible for project delivery, using Agile methodologies, for vendor selection, use case definition, business requirements, process definition, UML diagrams etc. to achieve business case. He mapped multiple client requirements to multiple vendor platforms based on:\n\n
With 15 Years of experience in interactive content and phone applications, Fred Francq is considered as a pioneer in the development of premium services. Fred joined ATARI France in 1991 to develop the telematic service of the French subsidiary, initiating and promoting video games tips and tricks database for the Minitel (Text-based services, pre-Internet).
\n\nRecruited by LAGARDERE, leading communications company in France with global operations in magazine publishing, TV and Mobile services where he created and implemented pay per call strategy for magazines such as Elle, Playboy, Marie Claire, Playstation Magazine and many more
\n\nFred created and opened more than 500 phone services within 6 years, such as horoscopes, sweepstakes, voting, fan clubs, voice chat, crank calls, erotic lines, movie showtimes, weather forecast, Santa Claus Christmas stories
\n\nIn 1999, he started, PLURIMEDIA (LAGARDERE MOBILE), the first company in Europe to syndicate content for mobile carriers. He developed a one million item content portfolio and created and designed multi access services (Web, Voice, WAP, SMS) for clients: France Telecom, Orange, Bouygues Telecom and SFR
\n\nFred moved to the US in 2001 to launch celebrity voice mail greeting services with Nextel, Boost and VERIZON.
\n\nHe joined Qmobile in 2005 and launched numerous fan club based exclusive services on BET, including Melyssa Ford, Vida Guerra, Carmen Electra, Coco, Omarion and Marques Houston.
" /*** Jonathan L. Sanchez ***/ ,"Prior to joining Electric Artists, Jonathan Sanchez served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer of IAC, reporting directly to IAC Chairman & CEO Barry Diller. In this capacity, he created and lead the global communications strategy for IAC and its 64 consumer brands, including corporate reputation and issues management; consumer, business & financial media relations.
\n\nHe served as Chief Communications Officer of Euro RSCG Worldwide and Creative Director of its public relations agency, Euro RSCG Magnet. During his time as CCO, in 2006, Euro RSCG Worldwide received the highest accolades in its industry, being named Global Agency of the Year by Advertising Age in the US and Network of the Year by Campaign in the UK.
\n\nIn the UK Jonathan served as Managing Director of Euro RSCG Biss Lancaster, where he ran the networks public relations business in the UK and worked on clients as diverse as Bayer and British Aerospace. In two years, he transformed the business into the fastest-growing consumer and healthcare agency in the UK, with his leadership of the global Bayer HealthCare Levitra business earning the agency \"Ethical Healthcare Campaign of the Year\" from PR Week in 2006.
\n\nHe spent 4 years as a Board Director of the renowned UK PR agency Freud Communications, where he headed up the company’s consumer business. In this role, he managed the 10-brand Unilever business as well as running the Nike, British Telecom, and Nestlé consumer accounts.
\n\nJonathan began his career in television and radio, where he was an acclaimed producer and presenter. He lives in downtown New York with his partner and they both own a beach-hut in Whitstable, England.
" /*** Ann Isabelle Fish ***/ ,"Ann Isabelle Fish has over 10 years of professional experience in the technology industry, performing in various leading roles including: Senior Project Manager, Technical Consultant, and Senior Developer. Focusing on innovative technology solutions, she has served clients in the mobile, publishing, entertainment, internet media, real estate, finance, academic, shipping, and pharmaceutical industries. Her successful project accomplishments span across a wide variety of organizations in different markets, including: Fortune 500, Fortune 1000, national publishing media, global shipping providers, national pharmaceutical firms, local and nationwide education markets, national live entertainment event logistics, global internet media publishing and the first U.S. electronic options exchange.
\n\nAnn has extensive experience with all levels and operational aspects of project engagements, dealing with local, national and international development teams. She has successfully developed, managed and deployed numerous enterprise-level applications with complex data, specification and content requirements. She has consistently utilized a wide scope of technology within each project, including the latest and most innovative software and hardware configurations.
\n\nAnn started her formal education in the Baltic city of Riga, Latvia, culturally known as "Paris of the North". She completed her collegiate career after she moved to the United States, earning a B.S. with honors in Computer and Information Science. Currently, she resides and works within the picturesque boroughs of New York City, culturally known as "The Big Apple".
" /*** Francois Briard ***/ ,"Prior to joining mSmart, Francois Briard has been responsible for the management and development of Web-based applications for Out-of-Home Media advertising world leader JCDecaux for 7 years.
\n\nAs a leading company in Digital Signage, JCDecaux's licensed Web technologies incorporate cutting edge online management of digital assets, playlist scheduling, and remote deployment of spots to its high definition screens across the largest airports in North America. Francois' other responsibilities with JCDecaux NA included supervising the creation and maintenance of the company's custom Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites, streamlining communication between departments through browser based workflow software, providing the company back office with tailored Expense & Absence reporting tools, and integrating third party software such as SAP.
\n\nFrancois Briard attended New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies majoring in Business Management. He has been residing in the United States for the past 12 years.
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