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• CMO and Member of the Board of Directors CSR; Founder, SiRF Technology
• Kanwar Chadha is responsible for establishing CSR’s vision, corporate marketing strategies and positioning, strategic alliances and incubating new business ideas. Kanwar joined CSR through its merger with SiRF Technology where he was a founder and helped establish SiRF as the leading provider of GPS enabled location technology to consumer markets. Kanwar is well known for his visionary role in evangelizing benefits of location technology for mainstream consumers and holds more than 20 patents in GPS-enabled location technology and communications fields. He has over 25 years of experience in various marketing and management positions. Most recently, he served as general manager of the multimedia group and director of strategic marketing at S3 Inc., where he led the development of innovative audio and video processing technologies.
• Before joining S3, Kanwar cofounded AQuesT Inc., a developer of multimedia and 3D graphics acceleration products and served as its chairman. Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, he served at Intel in various product marketing positions, including product line manager for the i860 RISC processor and floating point coprocessors 8087/287/387.
• Kanwar received his B.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and later his MS in CIS from the University of Pennsylvania simultaneously with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
  

Anand focuses on marketing strategies and partnerships to scale the Shooger network of local consumers and merchants.

Anand is also co-founder and board member of Voxiva, recognized as one of the most innovative companies in the mobile health space. Previously he was the founding Chief Technology Officer of j2 Global Communications, a leading global unified messaging provider (EFAX, Nasdaq: JCOM). Anand began his career at IBM’s Watson Research Center, working on various mobile technology innovations.

Anand has advised many global organizations on several aspects of technology, markets and strategy and has numerous patents and publications on mobile communications. Anand is actively involved with various non-profit organizations, including the Grameen Foundation, and the Simha Foundation.

Andrew Turner is the CTO at GeoIQ, the company behind GeoCommons, a geospatial visualization and analytics platform. He co-founded Mapufacture, a personalized geospatial search and aggregation system that was acquired by GeoIQ in August 2008 in order to combine real-time feeds with large GIS datasets. Andrew is focused on collaboration and user-generated content around location and time. He is actively involved in open-data projects such as OpenStreetMap and VoteReport, as well as open-source projects like Mapstraction and GeoPress. He regularly speaks at conferences on the benefits of open-source software and geospatial standards to communities and organizations. Andrew wrote the O’Reilly shortcut “Introduction to Neogeography” and “Trends in Where2.0” business report in Spring 2008. He is also published in MacTech and Make magazine on his home-automation hacking.

Previously, Andrew was an aerospace engineer building airships, spacecraft and real-time immersive simulators. He received his B.S in Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Virginia and his Masters from Virginia Tech.

• `Schapsis is the Chief Georilla Officer and founder of Georillas, a strategic Location Based Marketing group that help businesses, agencies, and CMO’s implement Location Based Services into their marketing mix. A Market driven technology evangelist, speaker and writer; integrates cutting-edge technologies into marketing strategies, particularly in areas of digital/mobile marketing, location based marketing & Location Based Services (LBS).
  
  
• Claudio is a member of the Board of Directors of MENG the Marketing Executive Networking Group an organization that associate over 1,800 CMOs in USA. He participates as chairman, speaker, and panel member, in diverse conferences and user-groups in US, Europe, and Latin America. He served also as the Chairman of the 2010 Location Business Summit, and the Location Based Services conference for Latin America 2009, 2010 and 2011.
  

He is responsible for global distribution deals and partnerships across every country outside the United States, and across every digital platform including TV VOD, Online, Mobile, Applications, and across all MTV Networks global brands and properties including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, South Park, The Daily Show, the MTV Europe Music Awards & SpongeBob SquarePants.

Gerry has over 15 years' worldwide digital media business, marketing and operational experience (including ten years' mobile)  and joined MTV Networks in 2006 after six years of driving  the world’s first 3G content partnerships in TV, Music, Sports & Gaming at 3Mobile in Asia & Europe. Prior to that he worked as General Manager of ZDNet Australia, and held a number of senior roles at AltaVista & Yellow Pages, going back to the dawn of the Web in the mid 1990s.

Christopher Peralta is the Head of Location & Advertising services for Nokia in North America. In this role, Peralta is responsible for innovative mobile navigation and location‐aware services that connect users to personalized content and experiences that are both locally and socially relevant.

Peralta has more than a decade of experience in the Mobile Services industry managing large portfolios and key accounts in multiple regions spanning Australia, South East Asia, Latin America and North America. Throughout this time, Peralta has lead and evangelized new mobile Internet behaviors that bring value to consumer’s daily lives through contextually aware experiences.

Marc brings more than a decade of mobile experience in business
development and product strategy to Nokia. His personal passion for
mobile and web convergence, LBS, AR and social networking give Marc a
finger on the pulse of the geo-mobile-social ecosystem. Prior to Nokia,
Marc held strategic roles at Rocket Mobile, FunMobility, Zapptrio and
Yahoo! Mobile.

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Janice Partyka is contributing editor and columnist for GPS World Magazine’s Wireless Pulse and provides insight on location-aware mobile technology and applications. Over 10,000 mobile location executives subscribe to her monthly column.

As principal of JGP Services, Janice helps mobile location-based solutions and applications companies create targeted product offerings and marketing strategies. She has served in leadership capacities throughout the wireless industry, in marketing, business development, media and government relations. Most recently, Janice was vice president of external affairs for TechnoCom Corporation. Janice served as a twice-elected member of the board of directors of the E9-1-1 Institute and was telecom liaison to the Intelligent Transportation Society’s World Congress.

Janice Partyka holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

• Christian is General Manager at MapQuest responsible for overall strategy and direction of the company. He oversees business operations including product management, business development, marketing, sales, and finance and planning. Previously he was VP of Operations at MapQuest responsible for strategic partnerships and the B2B business group, where he managed product, revenue and distribution of the web-service technology platform. Prior to joining MapQuest, Christian was an original member of Driveoff.com, an online auto buying service, where he was VP of Business Operations. Christian also founded Navidec, a software development company focused on Internet applications and services. Prior to Navidec, Christian started ACI Components, a technology import and distribution firm for Japanese manufacturers.
  
  
• Christian holds a MS degree in Finance from the University of Colorado, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
  
  
• SVP & General Manager of MapQuest

Byron has over 20 years experience in the automotive, software, high-tech and venture industries. As Managing Director of GM’s Advanced Technology Office in Silicon Valley, Byron has dual roles reporting to GM Global R&D and GM Ventures. He began his career in the automotive industry as a GM Scholar with GM’s Harrison Division (Delphi), before a stint as a visiting scientist with Daimler Benz research labs in Stuttgart, Germany. Byron was instrumental in developing the charter of BMW’s Technology Office in Palo Alto, CA, where he was the Manager of Advanced Technology and technical director of a 30-person engineering and marketing team and a $4 million budget where he oversaw the discovery and implementation of new and advanced technologies into BMW’s vehicle development process. After leaving BMW, Byron was the co-founder and CTO of a Photovoltaic Solar startup where he led the development team in releasing its first product launch and participated in venture fundraising. Byron has consulted for several high-tech Silicon Valley companies in the electronics and software industries and is a founding board member of SmallTech LLC. Byron holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in German Language and Literature from MIT. His PhD was completed at the University of California at Berkeley in the Vehicle Dynamics and Control Laboratory, focusing on engine emissions modeling and control, embedded electronics and digital signal processing.

• Robert Acker has been a pioneering entrepreneur in the connected car space for the past 14+ years. As employee #1 at XM, he wrote and implemented the original business plan for XM Satellite Radio and launched the service globally. Acker led Real Music's Rhapsody music business and built and launched the first internet-connected GPS device, Dash Navigation, and led RealMusic’s Rhapsody music business, among other key accomplishments. Today, Acker is GM and Vice President of Harman’s Aha Radio, a division that is revolutionizing radio for today's connected consumers.
  
  
• Throughout his career, the automotive industry has been looking to Acker as a thought leader and visionary, and he is often quoted on trends and issues surrounding car technology in publications such as The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and Automotive News. He has been a featured speaker at top industry events, including CES, Web 2.0 Summit, Where 2.0, CTIA and Telematics Detroit, among others. Acker holds both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from MIT, and a MBA from the Harvard Business School.
  

Joel Hoffmann is the Business Strategist for Intel's expanding Automotive Solutions Division. In this capacity, he leads the strategic focus for next generation automotive use cases, providing direction for silicon development that applies to cars several years out. He is also responsible for driving the infotainment group toward a common vision, which includes spearheading Intel's founding charter relationship with GENIVI, a key part of that future environment. Within GENIVI, Hoffmann has been involved since inception, developed the original name and branding concepts, and provides a gateway to the $40B of diverse interests being driven by Intel to advance innovation.

Since joining Intel Corporation in 2000, Hoffmann has been instrumental in establishing an early incubation of connected vehicles for DaimlerChrysler, now Chrysler, by promoting standards-based software and open hardware alignment. This activity continues with his leadership of Intel's Connected Car vision.

With a background of sales, marketing and technical experience in automotive, telecommunications and consumer electronics, Hoffmann applies this diverse skill set to lead the GENIVI Marketing group, resulting in rapid growth of the alliance since launch

• Chief Engineer Advanced Infotainment & Driver Interface, Delphi Electronics & Safety
  
  
• Doug Welk is the chief engineer of Delphi Automotive’s Advanced Engineering group that supports the company’s Infotainment and Driver Interface Product Business Unit, globally.
  
  
• Doug is responsible for defining technology strategy for automotive cockpit electronics and leading teams of experts in the creation of next-generation products for connected vehicles.
  
  
• Current projects focus on the areas of open computing platforms, automotive apps, portable device connectivity, software defined receivers, intelligent transportation systems and in-vehicle HMI.
  
  
• Doug is also chairman of the GENIVI Alliance where he helps lead the definition and implementation of a common, industry-standard Linux software platform for in-vehicle infotainment products.
  
  
• Doug graduated from Purdue University and holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He began his career at the Delco Electronics division of General Motors, which later became Delphi Automotive and has been actively engaged in the development of key technology including Radio Data System (RDS) receivers, navigation systems, multiplexed data busses, and broadband data connectivity. Doug has several patents, intellectual property disclosures and technical papers in these areas.

• Magnus is a positioning and Location Based Services Specialist at Sony Ericsson. He works at the Technology department with research and is responsible for the strategy for the positioning area. The last year he has focused on the challenges related to indoor positioning and navigation. Prior to spending all his time in the positioning area he lead the development of IMS services and before that he lived a happy life developing Instant Messaging clients.
  
  
• He filed 10 patents last year and holds a Master of Science in Electronics Engineering from Lund University.
  

Barry Tremeer is a Product Manager for Traffic in TomTom's Licensing Business Unit. In this role, he is responsible for developing TomTom's real time and historical traffic products to meet the needs of customers in a broad range of market segments including Consumer, B2B2C, Enterprise and Government. The TomTom traffic products are already contributing to a better understanding of road network performance, geo-marketing and demographic studies, dynamic navigation on PND, Smartphone and internet portals, as well as to the on-going use in road management centres.

Tremeer holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and has a background that includes 20 years in the automotive industry at Rover and Volvo in product and market planning roles - including helping establish the first commercial RDS-TMC service in the UK. Over the past 12 years, Tremeer has worked in product and business development roles in telematics and traffic information companies including NavTrak, ITIS and as a consultant - establishing traffic information services in Europe and around the world.

Alan Beiagi is Director of Product Management for TomTom. He is responsible for driving the overall consumer product strategy for PNDs (portable navigation devices), content and services, and accessories for the Americas.

Alan has been involved in the global LBS industry since its inception. Prior to TomTom, Alan was General Manager of Mobile at MapQuest, where he led MapQuest’s mobile product strategy and key relationships with mobile operators. Alan also held senior positions with Webraska, a global innovator in LBS, where he oversaw the Professional Services team in North America, and with GeoDecisions, a firm specializing in transportation related geospatial technologies for the US Government and military, where he served as Director of the Advanced Technologies.

Alan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Penn State University.

Mike Cottle joined deCarta in 2005 and has over 28 years of successful experience in the software and Internet industries – 17 of those at the Executive level – leading worldwide sales and Custom Engineering teams. Prior to joining deCarta, Mike was Vice President of Sales for Digital Chocolate, a leading developer of mobile applications and games. Mike was Vice President of Worldwide Sales with HearMe, a developer of VOIP and Internet Infrastructure software technology where he led the company’s worldwide sales team to successive quarters of revenue growth and to a successful IPO. Mike has also held VP positions with companies such as Markmonitor, MultiGen, Inc, Strategic Mapping Inc. and MapInfo as well as sales and sales management positions at Sybase, Interleaf and Xerox Corporation. Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Dallas.

Mike has extensive knowledge of the challenges that mobile network operators face and has spoken at a variety of conferences, including Detroit Telematics in 2009 and 2010 and Fleet & Asset Management Europe in 2010.

George Percivall is an accomplished leader in the development of information systems and international standards for geospatial information. As OGC's Chief Architect, he is responsible for the overall vision for the OGC baseline and its evolution through developments by OGC members. As Executive Director of OGC's Interoperability Program, he is responsible for managing OGC's Interoperability Program, which involves planning and executing testbeds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments etc., and for running OGC's compliance testing program.Prior to joining OGC, Mr. Percivall had leadership roles on several NASA projects. He was Chief Engineer of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) for the Landsat/Terra release; Principal engineer for NASA's Geospatial Interoperability Office; and, represented NASA in OGC, ISO TC211, and CEOS. He was the Director of the Geospatial Interoperability Group of GST, Inc. Previously, he led developments in Intelligent Transportation Systems with the US Automated Highway Consortium and General Motors Systems Engineering. He holds a BS in Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois - Urbana.

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