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List of Speakers
We are pleased to announce confirmation of some fantastic speakers!
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Conference Chairman
Jonathan Raper,
Editor-In-Chief,
The Journal of Location Based Services
Presentation Title:
Expert insight into the future of In-Car Navigation |
Speaker Bio |
| Jonathan Raper is CEO of the location-based services startup Placr Ltd. and Visiting Professor at the giCentre, City University London. Placr are open data aggregators offering added-value data products through the Placr DataStore, smartphone apps such as UK TravelOptions and microsites such as http://www.tube-radar.com. Jonathan is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Location Based Services (http://www.informaworld.com/jlbs), Steering Committee Member of the UK Information and Communication Technology Knowledge Transfer Network and a member of the Mayor of London's Digital Advisory Board. |
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Jack Bergquist,
Market Analyst, Automotive & Transport Group,
IMS Research
Presentation Title:
Expert insight into the future of In-Car Navigation |
Speaker Bio |
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Richard Robinson,
Director of Automotive Multimedia and Communication Service,
Strategy Analytics
Presentation Title:
Debate what content and services to offer on top of navigation to generate new revenue streams |
Speaker Bio |
Richard Robinson, Director, Automotive Multimedia and Communications service, (AMCS) has an industry background with over 10 years experience in automotive, where he directed and developed Navigation, Infotainment and Telematics products for the mass market. He has leveraged his industry experience to create highly detailed analysis and forecasts of Automotive systems, semiconductors and service markets.
Mr Robinson has a background in car-navigation and Human-Machine-Interfaces (HMI) design. At Alpine electronics where he led interface design breakthroughs including the world’s first production automotive-interface using Macromedia Flash in 2004 (Jaguar XK), which was also used in the Land Rover Freelander 3 and the Jaguar XF. He was also a key HMI consultant on several award-winning OEM navigation systems for Honda and Acura , including the first navigation head unit with a DVD-Audio drive and surround sound (2004 Acura TL) (JD Power No.1: 2001-2005).
Mr Robinson focuses on the strategic issues and challenges that have been thrown up by the migration of Infotainment/Telematics from the traditional automotive focus of the past, to the highly dynamic consumer and connectivity-lead focus of the future.
Prior to joining Strategy Analytics Mr Robinson was Principal Analyst leading iSuppli’s research on automotive infotainment and telematics.
Richard has BA from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
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Geert Verhoeven,
Product Manager - New Media Planning,
Pioneer
Presentation Title:
Debate what content and services to offer on top of navigation to generate new revenue streams |
Speaker Bio |
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Engineering Degree in Electronics 1982 |
| 1982 - 1987 |
RF and Microwave Designer |
| 1987 - 1992 |
Product Manager Cell Phones at Uniden |
| 1992 – now |
Product Manager at Pioneer Europe
GSM / DAB / DVB / Navigation |
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Jean Cherbonnier,
CEO and Co-founder,
NAVX
Presentation Title:
Debate what content and services to offer on top of navigation to generate new revenue streams |
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Ph.D in Telecommunications from the Swiss Federal Institute (Lausanne)
Worked 4 years at IBM, and 3 years at Arthur D. Little. Co-founded K-Mobile in 1999, a leading provider of content for mobile phones. K-Mobile was acquired by AG Interactive in 2004. End of 2005, Jean co-founded NAVX, a community platform of geolocalized content, providing real-time information, content and services for GPS. Jean is a serial entrepreneur with outstanding expertise in Marketing and Business Development. |
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Holger Weiss,
CEO,
AUPEO!
Presentation Title:
Debate what content and services to offer on top of navigation to generate new revenue streams |
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Holger has 10+ year track record in managing technology driven companies with focus on consumer centric services. He was with gate5 from the early days - a company active in mobile navigation, which was acquired by Nokia in 2006. For Nokia Holger acted as director Maps Ecosystem development. Since summer 2010 Holger is CEO of AUPEO!.
Founded in 2008 in Berlin, AUPEO! is the leading provider of personalized audio streams for Internet capable hardware devices and offers radio stations that compile an individual music program for users and recommends songs to them. The recommendation technology is based on an algorithm from the Fraunhofer Institute, inventors of the MP3 format. AUPEO! works together with numerous manufacturers of Internet capable audio devices and can be found on the web at www.aupeo.com, as iPhone and Android apps, as well as being available on netbooks, connected TVs, nearly all web radio devices and many smartphones. Partners include Acer, ASUS, MINI, Philips and Loewe, among others. |
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Martin Kaiser,
Director of Roadmap Service Solutions,
Bouygues Telecom
Presentation Title:
Debate what content and services to offer on top of navigation to generate new revenue streams |
Speaker Bio |
Martin joined Bouygues Telecom in the year 2000 and has been working for this French telecom operator for 3 years in different marketing functions before becoming the Head of CRM (post-paid clients) in 2003.
In 2005 Martin has build a dedicated team responsible for developing multi-media usage on i-mode and WAP services. From 2007 to 2009 he is responsible for the company’s commercial relationships with over 200 content providers world-wide.
In 2009 Bouygues Telecom he created a department under Martin’s responsibility dedicated to Bouygues Telecom’s services roadmap for fixed and mobile services. This roadmap serves as a major input for the development of future service plate-formes’ and IT architectures. It also orients the marketing strategy for future services to be developed and commercialized.
Before joining Bouygues, Martin was Consulting Manager with KPMG Peat Marwick’s Paris Office (1997 – 2000) implementing Marketing Strategy for companies in the service and industrial sector.
Following his initial studies in native Germany (Universität Saarbrücken), followed by a BSc (Honours) in Economics and a MBA from the University of San Diego, California, Martin began his career as a consultant with ‘DML & Associés’ in Paris, a strategy consulting firm specialized in industrial restructuring programs.
Married with two children, Martin is teaching a corporate strategy course at ‘Sciences Po Paris (IEP)’ and is a member of the ‘Club Économique Franco Allemand (CEFA)’ in Paris. |
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Juha Lahtela,
Managing Partner,
Sunder Business Solutions Ltd
Presentation Title:
Making money from advertising |
Speaker Bio |
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Roger Jollis,
Director - OEM and Mobile Marketing,
Garmin International
Presentation Title:
Making money from advertising |
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Jeff Zabel,
Product Manager,
BMW
Presentation Title:
BMW Apps and MINI Connected – iPhone application integration |
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Jeff Zabel is Product Manager for MINI Connected and BMW Apps at BMW AG. Jeff is responsible for development of the in-vehicle interfaces for BMW and MINI vehicles to enable MINI Connected and BMW Apps applications.
Prior to his current role at BMW AG, Jeff worked in the BMW Technology Office Palo Alto scouting new US technologies and developing new partnerships for BMW in the telematics, navigation, speech recognition and connected services sector. Past accomplishments include creating the BMW Send to Car feature allowing the transfer of business listings directly from Google Maps to BMW’s navigation system and for the world premier of in-car Google Local Search.
Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Santa Clara University and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. |
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Peter Virk,
Infotainment Technical Specialist,
Jaguar Land Rover
Presentation Title:
Joining forces: Jump on board the smartphone and vehicle integration gravy train |
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Dr Marcus Heitmann,
Senior Manager,
Deutsche Telekom
Presentation Title:
Joining forces: Jump on board the smartphone and vehicle integration gravy train |
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Dr. Marcus Heitmann is leading the project field AutoMobile from T-Labs, the central research and development institute of Deutsche Telekom. The main task of the project field is the development and integration of Internet and online services for drivers and vehicles with a special focus on services, platforms, usability and business aspects.
Prior to joining T-Labs he was a member of the T-Systems global automotive team and acted as strategic portfolio elements manager Car ICT steering the further development of the business area Internet and online services for vehicles. Prior to that he was responsible for information technology and vehicle electronics integration projects at the Volkswagen Group. |
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Floris Van-de-Klashorst,
Director, Head of Nokia Automotive,
Nokia
Presentation Title:
Joining forces: Jump on board the smartphone and vehicle integration gravy train |
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Hakan Kostepen,
Director, Product Planning & Innovation,
Panasonic Automotive Systems Company
Presentation Title:
Joining forces: Jump on board the smartphone and vehicle integration gravy train |
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Hakan Kostepen is Director of Product Planning Strategy & Innovation of Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America. “Global” Product Planning Strategy & Innovation group leads the “in car” integration and development of all Panasonic Company domain company technologies and products to optimize the “in car user experience” for automotive OEM customers and end consumers.
Mr. Kostepen has broad Systems Engineering and Advanced Product Development experience with Panasonic, Automotive Systems, Ford Motor Company, Visteon, EDS, and US Air Force. Along with various Automotive “Real Time” Embedded Systems Applications and Advanced Automotive Infotainment Systems Software Development, he was also responsible for “industry first” Jaguar S-Type Voice Recognition Infotainment System, European Ford Focus Telematics application with Vodafone. Mr. Kostepen was also part of Ford Motor Company and Qualcomm Joint Venture Wingcast and took various responsibilities within Ford Motor Company related to Advanced Technologies Integration, Concept and Product Design & Development.
Mr. Kostepen has been very active with various automotive industry conferences and events such as Society of Automotive Engineers – Convergence, Wi-MAX Forum and has published various technical papers. Mr. Kostepen received his BSEE from Istanbul Technical University, MSEE from University of North Dakota, and MSBA from US Air Force/Central Michigan University.
Mr. Kostepen is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE US), Session Member of SAE Convergence 2008, ITS NY 2008, IEEE, and several other professional societies and holds several patents in Advanced Automotive applications and technologies. |
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Egil Juliussen,
Principal Analyst and Fellow, Automotive Research Practive,
iSuppli
Presentation Title:
App stores and apps: Drive more consumers to your app, keep them engaged and create longevity |
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Thorsten Kueper,
Assistant Manager, Customer Engineering Department,
Alpine Electronics
Presentation Title:
Combat driver distraction |
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Jochen Katzer,
Product Manager Automotive,
Navigon AG
Presentation Title:
Capitalise on current market trends and use eco conscious navigation to win over consumers |
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Steve Wollenberg,
Co-founder and VP Business Development,
Automatiks
Presentation Title:
Capitalise on current market trends and use eco conscious navigation to win over consumers |
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Karl Margraf,
Global Account Manager,
Intel Corporation
Presentation Title:
Capitalise on current market trends and use eco conscious navigation to win over consumers |
Speaker Bio |
| Karl Margraf joined Intel in 1985 and currently acts as Global Account Manager in the Embedded Sales Group at Intel EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) covering Key T1 customers in the Automotive Industry. For the past four years Karl was engaged in developing and executing Intel’s In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) Strategy, including the Energy Efficient Platform Strategy, a period in which Intel became a well recognized player in the Automotive Industry with major design wins at Premium Car OEMs. Before acting in Sales, Karl held various positions both in Sales & Engineering at Intel. He has graduated as a Diplom-Ingenieur (Master’s Degree) in Communication Technology at the FH Augsburg, is married, enjoys his three teen-age children and lives in Munich. |
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Candido Peterlini,
Director of Product concept - Infotainment
Fiat Group Automobiles, Turin
Presentation Title:
Capitalise on current market trends and use eco conscious navigation to win over consumers |
Speaker Bio |
Candido Peterlini business life has been almost exclusively lived in the future. Through innovation and marketing roles all over the world at Philips and more recently at Fiat Group, Candido’s focus has been developing the products and services that we will want in order to lead, easier, happier and more sustainable lives.
Through an intimate understanding of the worlds of technology, sustainability and consumer insight, he takes complex interrelated challenges of modern life and brings products and services to market in a simple and inspiring way – from the development and launch of Blu-Ray in the USA and interactive television in Europe, to Ecodrive at Fiat – where through technology integrated into the car, drivers can reduce their Co2 emissions by up to 16%.
Candido is currently Director of Product Concept Infotainment where he is also leading a project bringing ‘the connected car’ to life, launching a whole new generation of cars, where you will be able manage every element of your motoring needs from purchase to end of life from a touch of a button.
Candido Peterlini was graduated in Business administration at Università Cattolica Milano |
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Christof Hellmis,
VP Products Location Services,
Nokia
Presentation Title:
LBS Focus: Discovering what’s next on the mobile navigation radar |
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Ralf Hug,
Founder and President,
Trajectory Group LLC
Presentation Title:
Take advantage of the connected PND boom |
Speaker Bio |
Ralf Hug is Founder & President of the Trajectory Group, a strategic business development and advisory firm in Chicago with deep industry experience in the automotive, telematics, M2M, GPS navigation, LBS, wireless and consumer electronics space. His services include: Management Advisory, Marketing Strategy and Planning, Inbound and Outbound Marketing, Business Development, Product Strategy and Launch as well as Interim Management.
Previously Ralf Hug was Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Airbiquity, a Seattle-based Telematics Service Provider that offers managed services solutions to leading automotivie OEMs and M2M players such as GM/Onstar, Ford Sync, Toyota, BMW, Nissan Leaf, Shell and Motorola.
As Vice President of Marketing at NAVIGON, Ralf Hug was responsible for launching the company and brand in the fastest growing consumer electronics category propelling the NAVIGON brand to a #4 market position within 6 months. He was responsible launching several innovative GPS products while managing strategic planning and analysis, product management and marketing for NAVIGON’s consumer electronics, automotive and wireless business in North America.
Previously to that Ralf Hug was in a senior marketing and management position at Garmin International where he was responsible for launching several navigation devices worldwide.
Prior to Garmin Ralf Hug managed the Accessories and Telematics business for Mercedes-Benz USA. His responsibilities included product management, marketing and sales, launching several innovative programs such as the iPod integration kit and satellite radio as well as managing the TeleAid Telematics offering. Additional appointments include senior marketing and management roles at Philips Electronics in the US and Europe and other major technology companies.
Ralf Hug is based in Chicago, Illinois and holds a Master’s of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance from the University of Bayreuth in Germany, and regularly speaks at industry events in the US and Europe. |
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Stephane Petti,
Business Development Manager - Automotive,
Orange Business Services
Presentation Title:
Take advantage of the connected PND boom |
Speaker Bio |
Stéphane has joined Orange Business Services in May 2010, in the international M2M competence center, based in Brussels where he is in charge of developping the activity in the automotive sector and help making connected cars a reality. He worked before during 10 years in Aisin AW co. (Toyota group) where he held several R&D positions from powertrain, to ITS. The last 4 years he was managing the advanced engineering group in the Navigation department of the EU subsidiary.
Stéphane holds a PhD in Robotics form the School of Mines of Paris, where he enjoyed working on autonomous vehicles. He has a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Kansas and a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Compiègne.
He enjoys Belgium life since more than 12 years with his wife and two kids. |
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Henning Wiefelspuetz,
Automotive OEM Business Development Manager,
Garmin Europe Ltd
Presentation Title:
Take advantage of the connected PND boom |
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Ronen Bitan,
Chief Product Officer,
NDrive
Presentation Title:
Take advantage of the connected PND boom |
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Since 2002, Mr. Bitan has been deeply involved in both developing and commercializing various navigation software solutions. At NDrive, Ronen overlooks the overall strategies, features and directions in relation to products. He led the initiative to integrate social media features (e.g. Foursquare & Facebook), which created the world's first "Navigate to a Foursquare Venue" application. One of Ronen's major responsibilities at NDrive is to ensure that product decisions are aligned with long term corporate vision as well as market demands and industry trends.
Prior to NDrive, Ronen assumed the VP of Business Development role at Ituran GPS, an Israeli GPS solutions distributor. At that time, Ronen successfully managed the solution integration and product launching of a new navigation software. The new product, which was sold on multiple platforms, created a major market buzz. Before Ituran GPS, Ronen worked as the Director of Content, EMEA at Destinator Technologies, where he contributed to product development as an expert in the areas of Traffic and LBS Content. |
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Henk Hoff,
Board Member,
OpenStreetMap
Presentation Title:
Profiting from the rise of the consumer-generated generation |
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Uri Levine,
Co-Founder and President,
waze
Presentation Title:
Profiting from the rise of the consumer-generated generation |
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Uri has 20+ years of extensive experience in marketing and business development in the wireless arena. Prior to waze, Uri was an independent strategic consultant and earlier, the VP of Marketing at Openwave (OPWV). Before Openwave, Uri held senior engineering and product management positions in Celltrex and Comverse.
Uri holds a B.A in Economics from Tel-Aviv University. |
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Andre Gueziec,
Founder,
Beat the Traffic
Presentation Title:
Profiting from the rise of the consumer-generated generation |
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Andre Gueziec is the founder and CEO of Triangle Software LLC d.b.a Beat the Traffic, the fastest growing provider of vehicle traffic reporting solutions for broadcast media. Triangle's mission is to help drivers "Beat the Traffic" and build industry leading traffic visualization for the media.
Andre has combined 10 years of academic research and software engineering experience with another 10 years of entrepreneurship and leadership, building and scaling Triangle. Before founding Triangle, Andre held a number of senior engineering positions in several Silicon Valley companies, including Borland, and Multigen. Andre was also a researcher at INRIA, New York University and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Andre is the author of about forty research papers and is an inventor of about 20 patents.
Andre earned a PhD in Computer Science from University Paris 11 Orsay, and a Masters of Economics from Paris I Sorbonne.
He also is a graduate of the Ecole Centrale Paris (French "Grande Ecole") |
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Martin Hauschild,
Department Manager,
BMW
Presentation Title:
Combine intelligent traffic technologies to produce the most accurate traffic data and improve quality |
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| Martin Hauschild has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen, Germany. Martin started at BMW in 2002 working on various research projects on Telematic Services with a deep focus on Probe Data. At the same time he was involved in many national and international research project and an active member of ISO’s TC204 Probe Data standardization committee. In 2007 Martin took over the responsibility of BMW’s traffic technology team in charge of developing traffic information services as part of BMW’s ConnectedDrive product offering. Today Martin serves as Department Manager Mobility and Traffic Services. |
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Petter Djerf,
Director Sales & Operations,
Mediamobile Nordic
Presentation Title:
Combine intelligent traffic technologies to produce the most accurate traffic data and improve quality |
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International experiences.
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2007 – 2009 Lived in Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 Project Manager for the IT/Sales integration of the merger between Schenker AG and Bax Global (California based company with 12000 employee’s world wide)
2003-2008 Sponsor for Schenker’s International Qualifying Program for young potentials (3 times x 1 year)
2001-2006 6 years in a German - Global organization with at least 75% of my projects outside Scandinavia.
1994 – 1997 Participation in Various NATO exercises, mainly at Sea
1993 I served the US Navy in Red Sea Operations as a navigation officer. This was a part of the international embargo of Iraq (Desert Storm)
1990 I was trained in a special program for Swedish Navy Cadets. On board the HMS Carlskrona we sailed from Mexico to Malaysia during 3 months as training in International Relations and general officer education
Specialties
Project Management, Leadership, Sales & Marketing, Strategy work, Telematics, Web Automation, Collaboration concepts, CRM |
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Fabio Pressi,
CEO,
Infoblu S.p.A
Presentation Title:
Combine intelligent traffic technologies to produce the most accurate traffic data and improve quality |
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Philipp Nagele,
Director Partner Relations,
Mobilizy/Wikitude
Presentation Title:
Augmented reality: The latest craze or the essential feature? |
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Born in Salzburg, Philipp studied Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Applied Science in Salzburg and received his M.S. in Computer System Engineering from University of Halmstad, Sweden. Prior to working for Wikitude, Philipp worked at VeriSign Inc. and T-Mobile Austria as Product and Innovation Manager.
Philipp is also the co-founder of the Austrian branch of MobileMonday, an innovative networking event series where hot topics in the mobile industry are shared in a relaxed atmosphere. Since the first event in 2009, MobileMonday membership has grown considerably and is well established in the Viennese Event Calendar. |
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Frank Gaget,
Director of Customer Marketing, EMEA,
NAVTEQ
Presentation Title:
Take Advantage of the Connected PND Boom |
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Mike Cottle,
VP of Worldwide Sales,
deCarta
Presentation Title:
Coming soon. |
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| Mike 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. |
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Wolfgang Reelitz,
Vice President Automotive Sales,
TomTom
Presentation Title:
Sponsor Presentation: TomTom |
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| Wolfgang Reelitz joined TomTom in January 2006 as Vice President Automotive Sales. His main focus is to further develop the automotive strategy within TomTom for original equipment installations. Prior to working for TomTom, he gained a wealth of experience in sales, engineering and program management for BorgWarner, Dunlop and Pirelli. Wolfgang holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Berufsakademie Mannheim in Germany. |
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Ivar Zantinge,
Vice President Partner Development,
TomTom
Presentation Title:
Combine intelligent traffic technologies to produce the most accurate traffic data and improve quality |
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Ivar Zantinge has a strong track record in the international Telco, Internet & CE industry. He has worked in various roles for a.o. T-Mobile, KPN, Telfort and Alcatel-Lucent.
Ivar was hired by TomTom in 2007 to help expand its LIVE services across the globe. Today, in his role as Vice President Partner Development at TomTom’s Content Production Unit, he manages TomTom’s strategic partnerships and provides executive leadership in the procurement of connectivity, services & map content. |
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John Blackett,
Vice President Product Marketing,
TomTom
Presentation Title:
Take advantage of the connected PND boom |
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John Blackett joined TomTom in 2010 as Vice President Product Marketing in their consumer business. His main focus is on developing and bringing to market new consumer products and services. Prior to working for TomTom he spent over 15 years in business management functions in the technology sector including semiconductor, consumer electronics and other consumer durable businesses.
John holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and a MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management where he gained a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Engineering. |
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David Murdoch
VP Navigation
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Tel: +44 (0) 207 375 7246
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