Chairs

David Birch, CEO, Consult Hyperion

David G.W. Birch is CEO of Consult Hyperion, the IT management consultancy that specialises in electronic transactions, where he provides specialist consultancy support to clients around the world. Before helping to found Consult Hyperion in 1986, he spent several years working as a consultant in Europe, the Far East and North America. He graduated from the University of Southampton with a B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics. Described by The Independent newspaper as a "grade-A geek", by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation as "one of the most user-friendly of the UK's uber-techies" and by Financial World as "mad", Dave is a member of the editorial board of the E-Finance & Payments Law and Policy Journal and of the advisory board for European Business Review, a columnist for SPEED and UK correspondent to the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce. He has lectured to MBA level on the impact of new information and communications technologies, contributed to publications ranging from the Parliamentary IT Review to Grocery Trader and wrote more than 100 Second Sight columns for The Guardian. He is a media commentator on electronic business issues and has appeared on BBC television and radio, Sky and other channels around the world.

Francesco Iarlori, International Business Developer - ICT Advisor -Independent Journalist, TheBestAdvise.com project

Francesco Iarlori has been active in the mobile industry since the mid 90s and has been an active management consultant liaising with multinational companies since this time. Past work includes the Iridium project in Arizona for Sun Microsystems and the WISHES project in Europe, which supported the first mobile payments systems in North and Southern Europe (involving Nokia, TeliaSonera, and Gemalto). Francesco joined Omnitel in 1999 (now Vodafone Italy) where he participated in the Omnitel 2000 project (for Vodafone live!), subsequently moving to set up the Vodafone Business division. Francesco Joined TTYL (the Telenor mobile branch) in 2001 and was instrumental in implementing the first cross messaging solution over a mobile across Europe. Within Siemens he participated to defining and selling global solutions for media & content download, RFID-SMS parking systems and UMTS wireless camera systems. Since spring 2007 he has worked within the Value Partners Group working in the mobile commerce and mobile advertising arena developing new business models and aiding technological adoption such as NFC and QR codes within the retail and brand sectors. Franceso holds a degree in computer science from Pisa University (Italy) and is an active columnist in industry magazines and blogs, as well as covering advisory roles within UN and EC projects.

Speakers

Alexandre Berthaud, Remittance Specialist, Payment Systems Development Group, World Bank, US

Alexandre Berthaud is Remittance Specialist at the World Bank Payment Systems and Development Group, where he leads the Secretariat of the G8 Global Remittances Working Group. He also coordinates the Global Public-Private Partnership on Remittances. Prior to this, he was the General Manager of Envíos Confianza, a Remittance Service Provider composed of microfinance institutions in Mexico, where he started an M-banking project for rural areas.

Alexandre holds a BA in Political Science and a Masters in Development from Sciences Po Paris. He also graduated with a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.

András Vilmos, SEMOPS / SafePay Systems, Hungary

András Vilmos, managing director of SafePay Systems Ltd. has held different leading management positions at major companies. A few years ago he launched his own financial consulting company focusing on mobile payments and mobile banking systems.

To design and develop a real time universal electronic payment service, Mr. Vilmos organized the SEMOPS (Secure Mobile Payment Service) consortium. Currently, Mr. Vilmos is coordinating the implementation of the service in multiple countries.

Mr. Vilmos is also project manager of the StoLPaN project, which will define the commercial and technical frameworks for a single-platform multi-application NFC environment hosted in mobile handsets.

Mr. Vilmos has a number of patents related to online payments and is the author of various publications on the topic of e- and m-payments.

Ashish Desai, Head of Moible Payments, Bharti Telesoft

Ashish Desai, drives the Mobile financial services division in Bharti Telesoft. He was responsible for the development and architecture of Mobiquity - Bharti Telesoft's Mobile Financial Services product. He has experience of designing solution and structuring products across emerging markets of South Asia , Middle East and Africa.He has experience in working in India, Americas and the EMEA region in the area of Market & Industry Assessment, Product and Technology Management, Business Process Re- engineering, Business Contingency Planning, New Product Development. His 12 years of experience spans both telecommunications and Financial services Industry. Ashish is a leading media spokesperson in the area of mCommerce. He is frequently quoted in top-notch publications internationally and has also written columns for the online portal of CNBC in India. Ashish holds an MBA and Bachelors in Engineering (Electrical) from Bombay University.

Christian Séré-Annichini, Head of New Business Development, SFR, France

Christian Séré-Annichini is in charge of the New Business team within SFR (major French telco), which includes the mobile NFC topic. SFR has been leading mobile NFC developments in France, and is a member of the Pegasus (NFC payment) and Ulysse (NFC transport) groups. Christian joined SFR in 2003, as Head of Terminals and SIM Cards marketing from 2003 to 2007. He worked previously in the automotive industry (Peugeot, 1994-1999) and strategic consulting business (McKinsey & Co, 2000-2003).

David Meyer, MVNO Manager, Experian

D. Meyer was graduated 1996 from ESIEA (French engendering school specialized in IT, electronic and Automatic) After two years working in the IT Integration department of British Telecom he joined the Program Management at Bouygues Telecom for four years. In charge of the coordination of Bouygues Telecom IT commercial system, he managed more than 60 people around projects as the integration of PREVENTEL solution with the Bouygues telecom information system. Changing mobile area for fixed line and DSL operator he built as business engineer at neuf telecom the private label offer for bank and run businesses like "Cario" with Credit Agricole and "Guideo" with Banque Populaire (two virtual internet service provider offered fixed line and DSL branded with their name) Three years ago he joined Experian and propose to penetrate the MVNO business. Working first on the marketing of the MVNE offer of Experian, he’s in charge today of the BU dedicated to MVNO. Successful with Carrefour mobile and tele2, his mission consist on developing new MVNO deals worldwide, marketing new offers for telco and making partnerships with MNOs.

Dominic Peachey, Senior Policy Adviser, Wholesale & Prudential Policy Division, Financial Services Authority (UK)

Dominic read Geography at the University of Oxford and pursued postgraduate studies in demography in Mexico between 1973 and 1976. From 1976 to 1996, Dominic worked in the Corporate Finance Division of Kleinwort Benson Limited, the UK Merchant Bank. His merchant banking career embraced the full range of corporate finance activities: mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and secondary offerings (equity and debt), capital reconstructions, project financings and privatisation advisory work in the UK, mainland Europe, South East Asia and Latin America. In 1997 Dominic moved to the UK National Audit Office where he worked as a consultant on the forensic audit of the privatisation of Railtrack PLC. In 1998 he moved into financial supervision first with the Building Societies Commission and then, from 1999 to 2000, he worked for the Financial Services Authority as a supervisor of retail financial institutions. Since 2000 he has worked as a Policy Advisor in the Wholesale and Prudential Policy Division of the FSA. Dominic's policy responsibilities include Operational Risk, professional indemnity insurance and outsourcing but his major area of expertise covers electronic money, e-banking, mobile banking, and electronic and cross-border payment services. He was responsible for implementing into UK Law the European Union Directives on the regulation of electronic money. He also advised the European Commission on the application of e-money regulation to payments by mobile phone. He has also worked on the prudential and technical side of the Payment Services Directive.

Eckhard Ortwein, CEO and Co-founder, paybox, Germany

Eckhard Ortwein is CEO and co-founder of paybox solutions AG, the trendsetting company for mobile payment enterprise solutions, working for leading operators such as Maxis and Celcom in Malaysia, Vodafone and o2 in Germany, mobilkom and One in Austria, and Vodafone Egypt. As Co-Manager Mobile Commerce, he made mobilkom Austria the leading provider of mobile Commerce worldwide and built the first national mobile Payment consortium. Eckhard has 15 years industry and consulting experience for global corporations and start-ups in the telecommunications, financial services, and consumer goods industries. As a visionary driver of m-Payments and m-Commerce, he is a recognized m-Payment expert, speaking at high-profile industry events and publishing regularly on mobile topics. Prior to paybox, Eckhard worked for Procter & Gamble and for Arthur D. Little on IT-enabled innovation projects in Germany and in the USA. Eckhard holds a Master of Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Hadi Nahari, Principal Security Architect, Ebay Inc. USA

Hadi Nahari is a software security professional with over 17 years of experience in all aspects of software development lifecycle, including extensive work in design and architecture, verification, proof-of-concept, and implementation of secure software systems. Hadi has worked on large scale, high-end enterprise solutions, as well as resource-constrained embedded systems, with primary focus on security, cryptography, complex systems design, and Vulnerability Assessment & Threat Analysis. Hadi is a frequent speaker in U.S. and international security-related events and has led and contributed to various security projects for Netscape Communications, Sun Microsystems, United States Government, Motorola, MontaVista, etc. Hadi is currently Principal Security Architect at eBay.

Hugh Cockwill, Chief Operating Officer, The Light Agency

Hugh is the Chief Operating Officer with The Light Agency in London, where he joined in July 2007 to steer successful expansion and development. He has extensive Commercial and Information Technology experience from many years with Procter & Gamble, working in Europe, the US, and in Global roles. His experience spans all areas of the business from Commercial to Research and Innovation with particularly recent extensive experience of collaborative working with Retailers and Suppliers. He is passionate around delivering success based on managing all elements of change - culture, systems and processes. He has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and an MSc in Operational Research from Birmingham University.

Jan Van Wijnendaele, Business Development Manager, Belgacom Group - Enterprise Business Unit

Jean A. K. Diop, Vice President, Capgemini’s C4-Benelux

Jean A. K. Diop is a Vice President in Capgemini’s C4-Benelux: the Strategic & Business Consulting practice of the Telecom Media & Entertainment practice group based in Utrecht (The Netherlands). He leads the Mobile Financial Services strategic & business consulting group for C4 Global.
With more than 18 years of executive & consulting experiences, Jean is specialized in telecommunications strategy development & realization, financial business planning, technology network/products operations excellence, and executive board advising. Using Capgemini Telecom-in-a-Box methodology, he has coached & managed the launch of several operators & ISPs worldwide. He led from the start the creation, launch & expansion of RaboMobiel, the 1st European triple AAA Bank to enter & successfully dominate the Mobile Financial Services areas in Europe. Prior to joining Capgemini, Mr. Diop worked internationally and in The Netherlands at Booz Allen Hamilton, PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consultants Services and Lucent Network Systems Technologies. He is a frequent speaker at seminars/conferences on a number of telecommunications related issues, including mobile banking & payments, marketing IP-based broadband data services, strategies for wireless multimedia solutions, technologies of the New Economy, impacts of WTO telecom agreements, telecom project financing, and telecom market trends and technological developments. He also teaches core consulting skills (especially business case & collaborative consulting) at Capgemini University, and is an MBA business school lecturer & faculty member for strategy, marketing & finance.

Jonathan MacDonald, Senior Consultant to the CEO & Chairman, Global Mobile Strategy, Ogilvy Group, UK

Jonathan MacDonald started freelance consulting in 1991. Since then, he has consulted over 100 companies as well as building several of his own businesses and accepting a few Directorships.

Currently his prime contract is Ogilvy where he is the Senior Consultant to the CEO & Chairman and is structuring the Global mobile strategy. Prior to this, Jonathan was a Director of the world's first purely ad-funded Mobile Network: Blyk. As one of the original team, Jonathan shaped the overall business strategy in the sales, operations, analytics and creative departments.

Before this, Jonathan was the Commercial Director of Ministry of Sound, CEO of a Sky TV Channel, Chairman of the Music Industries Association.

He is also the founder of a communications movement called Every Single One Of Us which seeks to unite a wide cross-section of mobile operators, advertising agencies, big-name brands and members of the public; to educate the industry and encourage discussions about emerging business models and to facilitate a step change in communications.

Jonathan is an award winning keynote speaker, a recognized author and is known globally as one of the thought leaders in new media, speaking at many of the advertising and marketing conferences internationally.

Jonathan MacDonald, Senior Consultant to the CEO & Chairman, Global Mobile Strategy, Ogilvy Group, UK

Graduate of the 1986 promotion in Electrical Engineering at Laval University (Canada) Martin Nappert has 21 years of experience in the field of Telecommunications. He has spent 12 years with Nortel Networks where he created and directed the Multi Media Carrier Switch Business Unit, with assignments in Canada, and expatriation in France and in the USA. In 2000, he joined Maple Optical Network as EMEA VP of Business Development, in the field MPLS and G-MPLS Routing for Carrier Networks. In 2002, he joined FERMA as Chief Technical Officer where he extended the portfolio towards Next Generation Networks. He continued in this role after the acquisition of FERMA by eServGlobal where he drives the entire portfolio strategy in the fields of Charging, Payment, Messaging, and Retention.

Martin Nappert, CTO, Eserv Global, France

Mary Carol joined Visa Europe from 02 UK in February 2008 to lead Visa's mobile product development. Her role at Visa Europe focuses on how mobile cuts across the business to drive Visa Europe's key strategic objectives. At O2 UK, she led a team that delivered the O2 Wallet NFC trial, currently Europe's largest and most comprehensive trial of Near Field Communications. The service brought together a number of industry leaders and suppliers to test this capability on a large scale in the UK with consumers. Prior to that, she was Head of Marketing at Upaid, a small start up company based in London and Paris that worked with banks and operators across Eastern Europe and North Africa to launch some of the early SMS based mobile payments services offered on the market. Mary Carol has over 8 years, experience in delivering mobile payments solutions to the market. Her specialty is working where financial and mobile services intersect. She has a particular interest in Near Field Communications and contactless services as well as mobile user interface. Mary Carol holds a Masters from the Institut d’etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) after having completed her BA in the United States at the University of the South (Sewanee). She is fluent in French and Italian.

Norman Frankel, CEO, Mi-Pay, UK

Patrick Van Eecke, Professor ICT law, University of Antwerp and Partner, DLA Piper 

Patrick Van Eecke is a partner in the Technology, Media & Commercial department of DLA Piper in Brussels. He advises telecommunication companies, internet service providers, software developers, governments and companies using IT and telecommunications facilities and services. He is extensively involved in diverse research and consulting projects for the European Commission and several national governments. Patrick has advised high-profile clients, including Philip Morris, Coca Cola Enterprises, America On Line (AOL) and KBC. Patrick is a partner who holds the global co-chair of our international E-business practice group, steering our multijurisdictional E-business legal strategy. This entails focusing on Internet law, data protection, eCommerce and eGovernment.

Richard Wray, Communications Editor, The Guardian, UK

Richard Wray is the Guardian's communications editor. He has closely watched the rise of the internet and the threat it poses to current ways of doing business. Previously he was a staff writer for the Industry Standard magazine, communications correspondent for the451.com and financial reporter at AFX News, a newswire owned by Agence France Presse.

Rita Pires Teixeira, Head of Content and Data Services, TMN - Portugal Telecom Group

Rita joined the Portugal Telecom Group in October 2003. She has had several positions as project and department manager in PT Comunicações (the Fixed line company), Sapo (the Internet company) and TMN (the Mobile company). During this period she also took a year to do an MBA at Insead in France and Singapore. Prior to that, she was a consultant for Diamondcluster International, a consulting company specialized in telecoms, where she completed several projects in Portugal, India, Belgium and Colombia.

Her actual role is as Head of Content and Data Services Department. This is a service management, development and research department, in charge of a vast portfolio of services like Mobile Broadband, Wi Fi, Mobile Payments, Mobile TV, Music, Ring tones, Ring back tones, Games, Location Based services, etc.

Robyn Durie, Regulatory Council, T-Mobile UK, UK

Robyn is Regulatory Counsel at T-Mobile (UK), a position she has held for 5 years. Her job involves the legal aspects of all regulatory matters, including spectrum, and competition law. She also heads up the regulatory and competition department. Her responsibilities include all spectrum matters, competition litigation, major transactions and advising on the regulatory aspects of mobile tv.
Prior to joining T-Mobile she was a partner at Linklaters for 11 years, heading up their communications practice. In her deep dark past she worked in television for 3 years for Rupert Murdoch in Australia.

Roy Vella, Director of Mobile, Royal Bank of Scotland

Mr. Vella joined RBS is April 2008 and is responsible for the overall strategy and implementation of Mobile efforts including the development of new products and services, stored value functionality, mobile enabled payments, customer acquisition and the management of joint venture partners. Previously to RBS he spent five years with PayPal starting out as Director of Business Development in the US Merchant Services group, and then as Head of Mobile Payments leading the mobile payments initiative in Europe.

Previous to PayPal, Mr. Vella worked as the VP of Sales & Marketing at 4charity, Inc. (a software startup focusing on corporate philanthropy for the Fortune 500), and, prior to that, as a Partner at Quantum Technology Ventures (a corporate VC firm focusing on the storage industry). As an entrepreneur, Mr. Vella co-founded NetAbacus Corporation, a web-based purchasing service for small businesses, serving as the VP of Marketing/Strategic Relations. When the market turned in mid-2000, he facilitated the acquisition of NetAbacus by Biztro and the combined entity became Rivio, where he was responsible for channel marketing and customer acquisition.

Before graduate school, he began his career in Client Service at the Leo Burnett Company in Chicago, working with such clients as Sony Consumer Electronics and Miller Brewing. Actively involved in the non-profit sector, Roy serves on the Board of Directors of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association and is also the Board President Emeritus of Variety Children's Charity of Northern California. Formerly, for over 8 years he was the Board Treasurer of BATS Improv, an improvisational school and theater company.

Roy received a BA in Mathematics (with High Honors) from the College of the Holy Cross, a JD from Stanford Law School, and an MBA (with certificates in Global and Public Management) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently lives in London with his wife, Karen, their son, Griffin, and daughter, Xan, and dog, Mizu. While hobbies have truly taken a back seat to family life these days, he enjoys outdoor sports and travel adventures.

Sebastien Mesnil, CEO, Carrefour Mobile, France

Shailendra Pandey, Senior Analyst, Informa Telecoms & Media Industry Research.

Shailendra is a senior analyst and covers Mobile Content & Applications within Informa Telecoms & Media’s Industry Research division. Shailendra focuses on providing in-depth analysis and forecasts on topics including mobile music, games, TV/video, mobile Internet, mobile marketing and advertising, social networking, user generated content, and mobile payments and transactions.

Victor Koss, VP, Financial Services, Booz and Company
Mr. Victor Koss has over 15 years experience with Booz & Company, consulting to major financial institutions and governments in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, with a functional emphasis on strategy, performance improvement and business transformation. His key sector focus is on card and payment businesses, retail banking and SME banking. Mr. Koss is based in London, UK, and is a member of the UK Management Team. Mr. Koss holds a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Engineering with honours from Monash University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.