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CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Wednesday 13 May 2009
9am - 5:30pm
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Meet our speakers
New Business Development ,
Turkcell
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Director Business Development,
RATP - Paris Transport Authority
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Technical Architect, ,
Garanti Technology
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David G.W. Birch is a Director 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..
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m-Commerce & NFC Product Development Manager,
Telefonica O2 Czech Republic
David Brendl works for Telefónica O2 Czech republic and he is responsible for Financial services and NFC products development. David is actually focused on business development activities with important NFC/RFID ecosystem players at Czech market.
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Chief Marketing Officer,
TranZfinity Inc
Mr. Canterbury has over 18 years experience in the secure transaction and payments industries with roles in international business development, sales management, channel management, and marketing. Most recently, Mr. Canterbury was responsible for global sales and international business development initiatives as the Vice President of Global QSR Payment Systems at VeriFone where he played a key role in bringing contactless payment infrastructure to market through partnerships with MasterCard, Visa, American Express and others. His education includes Business Administration and Finance studies at the University of San Diego and coursework through the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
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Head of Marketing and Business Development,
Orange - FT Group
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Mobile Contactless Marketing Manager,
Gemalto
Pimsai Chichareon is Marketing manager for Near Field Communication at Gemalto. She joined the company in March 2001 in Mobile communications’ technical consulting and project management group focused on Asia Pacific region. In 2004, Pimsai transferred to Product marketing division and responsible for competitive strategy. Her current focus as NFC Marketing manager is to support mobile operators and service providers in leveraging the full potential of NFC and its related services. Pimsai has attained a Master of Science in Telecommunications Technology from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
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Chief Operating Officer,
Sabre Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
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Vice President. Innovative Service Development,
Telecom Italia
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Project Manager (Smart ticketing & Telecoms),
Veolia Transport
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Group Technology Manager,
Selecta
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Director,
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
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James Fang is the longest serving Director on the BART Board. He represents the 8th BART District, which includes portions of San Francisco. Voters first elected him to the BART Board in November 1990 and he was sworn into office on December 6, 1990.
He is currently Chairperson for the Board’s Engineering and Operations Committee. He also serves as a member of the Board’s newly-formed Sustainability/Green Committee and as a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission Liaison Committee. Additionally, Director Fang serves as a member of the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Board and the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Project Policy Advisory Board.
In 2004, his fellow board members elected him to serve as President of the BART Board. He previously held the position of President in 1998 and Vice President in 1997 and 2003.
Director Fang is a native and life long San Franciscan who attended public schools in the city before graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, and attending Hastings College of Law. A member of the California State Bar, Director Fang served as a law clerk in the U.S. Attorney's Office and, while in college, was an aide to the late Congressman Philip Burton.
Director Fang served as Director of Commerce and Trade in the Administration of former San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan. He was a member of the Extended Opportunity Program Foundation of City College and the Soo Yuen Association Scholarship Committee, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Chinatown YMCA and the San Francisco Cork, Ireland, Sister City Committee.
Director Fang is the President of Asian Week, the largest circulation Asian-American publication in the United States. He is married and lives in San Francisco.
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Head of Group Interbank Infrastructure & payment Systems Strategy,
DnB NOR & Chair, European Payments Council
Dag-Inge Flatraaker is General Manager and Head of Group Interbank Infrastructure and Payment system Strategy at DnB NOR. Academical background includes; Master Degree in Economics (University of Oslo) 1986 and a mid-career Program at Harvard University (Boston) in Public and Business Administration 1993. He holds key positions both in the Norwegian and European payments landscape, including the European Payments Council (EPC). Among his duties he is an Executive Board Member of EPC, chairman of the EPC Mobile-Channel Working Group and has also formerly chaired both the EPC Nomination & Governance Committee and the EPC Standards Support Group. His professional background also includes a former career in the Central Bank of Norway.
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Head of Commercial Proposition,
BT Global Services
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Project Manager and Reasercher,
Telenor
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Director,
The Human Chain
Tim Jefferson is the Managing Director of The Human Chain, the focused mobile business consultancy. He has led The Human Chain’s NFC activity in developing the NFC Eco system for over three years. This has involved working with NFC value chain players helping them develop the customer experience, identifying the value chain players, monetising the value chain, building business cases and defining go to market strategies around NFC. Tim has over twenty years experience of working within the mobile, fixed telecoms and IT vertical markets. He specialises in helping customers realise the benefits of new mobile technology and products through new service/proposition development, eco-system development, mobilising people, processes and sales channels. He has worked extensively with mobile network operators, technology providers and major brands in projects within mobile product marketing, business development and mobile technology consultancy
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Vice President,
Nordea Bank
Liisa Kanniainen holds Master of Science degree in International Economics. After university studies Liisa worked a few years as a polytechnic teacher and acquired also the Polytechnic Teacher qualification.
Liisa Kanniainen has around 13 years experience with the mobile IT Industry, focusing on the mobile financial services. Liisa has led several pioneering projects during the early days of mobile financial services. First she worked at Digital B.V. in the Netherlands, then the next 6 years in Finland at Nokia Corporation. During her Nokia Mobile Phones years Liisa worked in various management positions in product development. Her last position at Nokia Ventures was Head of R&D, mobile commerce.
In 2001 she changed to Nordea Bank and Mobey Forum in order to full time concentrate on creating the cross-industry collaboration required for making the mobile financial services market as the Mobey Forum Workgroup Executive. In Nordea she has been in charge of mobile financial services on corporate level. In Mobey Forum she carries since Feb 2007 the full operational responsibility of all activities and daily management of the Forum as the Executive Director of the cross-industry consortium.
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Product Manager NFC,
mobilkom austria AG
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Marketing / m-Commerce,
mobilkom austria AG
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Marketing Manager,
Transdev Plc
Masrketing Manager of a major UK bus and tran operator
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Oyster Development Manager ,
Oyster Card
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SVP - Growth Ventures and Innovation,
Citibank, N.A.
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Senior Vice President Business Development,
TranZfinity Inc
Steve McRae (SVP Business Development) Mr. McRae brings over 19 years successful experience in international B2B, consumer marketing and sales. Mr. McRae most recently was the Senior Director of Global Managed Services for VeriFone, Inc. where he created and lead global managed services to over $55 MM in revenue providing transaction processing, estate management, and value add applications to merchants and resellers worldwide. Mr. McRae is a frequent speaker to industry events including Electronic Transaction Association (ETA) annual conference and CARTES. Mr. McRae is a serial Entrepreneur having started and sold several businesses in management (marketing, sales, finance, operations, production, and quality control) consulting, consumer technology, cross border money transmittal service, and prepaid card solutions. He holds an MBA in International Marketing and Economics from University of Maryland and is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC).
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Vice President and E-Business Head Asia Pacific,
Citibank, N.A.
Satish Menon is Senior Vice President and Asia Pacific Venture Leader driving Asian operations for Citi’s Growth Ventures Team. Besides Venture investing, the team looks at developing and incubating cutting edge, business transformative solutions for Citibank.
Satish is based in Singapore has over 15 years of extensive experience the Mobile, Internet and Banking space including 8 years in Citi where he was the eBusiness Head (Internet and Mobile) Head for Asia Pac. He has also driven several successful Mobile innovations for Citi India in previous roles.
Satish is a regular speaker in industry forums and his views on Mobile have featured in leading international publications in the US and Asia such as American Banker, Boston Globe and Asian Bankers Journal.
Prior to Citibank, he has worked in other multinationals such as Hutchison Telecom and Godrej-GE.
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Mick Mullagh is the Chief Executive Officer of ViVOtech, Inc. Mr. Mullagh is an experienced wireless industry leader who has served as the head of two wireless carriers and two growth stage start ups. With 18 years of executive-level experience Mullagh has a successful track record of building and managing fast-growth businesses. Prior to joining ViVOtech, Mr. Mullagh served from 2001 to 2004 as President and CEO of Telephia, the market leader in performance information for the mobile telecommunications industry, leading the company through three years of extremely rapid growth in revenues and margins. From 1997 to 2000 he was CEO of Whisper Communications, a provider of last mile wireless telemetry networks.
From 1992 to 1997 Mr. Mullagh served in various leadership positions at Rogers Wireless, Canada’s largest wireless carrier (formerly known as Cantel AT&T), including President and COO and Executive Vice President of Marketing and Technology. There he was responsible for the launch of Canada’s first Digital PCS network. During his tenure the company underwent considerable growth of its operating margins, customer base and national network, and saw substantial reductions in churn and customer acquisition costs. From 1977 to 1992, Mr. Mullagh worked at BC Tel (now a part of Telus Corporation), Canada’s second largest telecommunications company, where he rose to the position of President and COO of BC Tel Mobility. Under his leadership, it became the most profitable cellular company in North America. Mr. Mullagh graduated from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, with an honors degree in Economics. He later received a Master’s degree in Economics from Simon Fraser University in Canada.
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Principal Consultant, Enterprise Services,
T-Systems
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Director - Product Management,
SmartTrust AB
Mr. Nyholm has a background of working within the mobile industry for 10 years and IT Security sector for 12 years and specializing in Public Key Infrastructure, mobile banking and Trusted Services Management solutions. Prior to joining SmartTrust, Mr. Nyholm worked as IT Security Manager at Nordbanken heading the IT Security Group. Prior that he has been working as a Security Consultant at Infosec, Systems Manager at Hewlett-Packard and Security Expert within the Swedish National Taxboard.
Mr. Nyholm holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Stockholm. He is married with two children and his hobbies include golf, cooking and literature and he drives a custom model of a 1600 cc motorcycle.
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Executive Manager,
Transit System Compliance - San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
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Senior Policy Advisor,
Financial Services Authority
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.
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Chief Executive Officer,
Venyon
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Industry Relations Manager,
OMTP
David Rogers is the Director of External Relations for OMTP, liaising with standards bodies and other members of the mobile phone industry. He is the Chair of OMTP’s Incident Handling task, Programme Manager for the ‘Advanced Trusted Environment: OMTP TR1’ and is currently working on the BONDI mobile web initiative.
In 2007 he authored the OMTP’s security whitepaper, ‘Mobile Handset Security: Securing Open Devices and Enabling Trust’. David joined OMTP in 2006 after 8 years at Panasonic Mobile. Whilst there, he headed up Panasonic’s Product Security initiatives in Europe, including investigating hacking against mobile devices. He also managed a development team specialising in hardware, software and security solutions for service centres worldwide. Prior to this David worked for Fujitsu Microelectronics Ltd, in their Newton Aycliffe DRAM fab.
David continues to champion the pioneering work in the mobile phone industry on embedded security within handsets. This started with the ‘Security Principles Related to Handset Theft’ and the ‘IMEI Weakness Reporting and Correction Process’ in 2003, progressing to the current work on the ‘Advanced Trusted Environment: OMTP TR1’ which sets up future security sensitive enablers such as m-commerce. He has advised the UK Home Office and international law enforcement agencies on a number of mobile phone theft, security and forensic issues.
He is a regular speaker at conferences on the subjects of hacking, mobile forensics and handset security.
David holds an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford and a HND in Mechatronics from the University of Teesside. He is also a member of the British Computer Society.
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Alexander Rolfe graduated from Manchester University in 2000. After a period of time with Guardian Media Group he was taken into employment by European Card Review – Europe’s leading payments magazine – as the m-commerce editor. In May 2002 the decision was taken to launch a sister magazine to European Card Review, which covered the ever widening market of m-payments. Thus Mobile Payments World was born. Alexander is now the publisher of European Card Review, a partner at ECR Publishing and remains the editor and publisher of Mobile Payments World.
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Global Business Development Manager, NFC,
NXP
Steffen Steinmeier is Director Marketing NFC at NXP Semiconductors. He is responsible for developing and driving winning NFC solutions, fostering an NFC ecosystem, establishing crucial business relationships and alliances to support the worldwide rollout of NFC.
Mr. Steinmeier started his professional career with Philips Electronics in Germany, where he held various positions in strategic purchasing and project management. Since 1998 he is in the semiconductors business, responsible for the european sales management and global business development for identification solutions for the smart card, banking, transport and telecommunications industries.
He holds a university degree in industrial engineering.
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Vice President Marketing Strategy,
T-Mobile International AG
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Technical Director,
StoLPaN
András Vilmos, Managing Director of SafePay Systems Ltd. and Project Manager of StoLPaN, has pursued a long carrier in corporate finance. A few years ago Mr. Vilmos launched his own company active in business and financial consulting.
In the past few years Mr. Vilmos was actively involved in the development of mobile payment solutions, and the introduction of mobile banking.
As Project Manager of StoLPaN, Mr. Vilmos coordinates the research and development activity of the 18 member international consortium to establish an open platform mobile NFC application for the support of a range of contactless services like payment, ticketing and loyalty programs.
Mr. Vilmos holds patents related to electronic transactions and is the author of a number of publications on the topic of “e” and “m” payments.
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comments from our delegates
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