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Albert is a founding Director of Phonevalley in India. His current responsibility is to head the business of mobile across the Publicis Media Group of companies in India. Over the past two years Albert has helped launch Phonevalley India and grow substantially the mobile communication proportion in the media pie across categories and clients.
Prior to joining Phonevalley Albert was Director International Clients in Beijing China for Ogilvy and Mather. He has held 360 degree regional leadership roles in key communication networks. An ardent communications professional who believes wireless digital will impact consumer behavior dramatically, more so in digitally shy countries like India.
Albert has won numerous National (Indian) and International awards - Cannes Lions, ABME - Asia Brand & Marketing Effectiveness, EMVIES, & ABBYS.
 

Jean-Claude Perrin, is LTE Workgroup Chairman at SIMalliance. The Workgroup has published a white paper and a recommendation on what the UICC profile in LTE should look like. Both documents can be downloaded from www.simalliance.org.

Jean-Claude is also Vice President LTE at Gemalto Telecom. His role is to define and implement the strategy and major changes in the Company product, solution & service offerings linked the LTE mobile broadband disruption.

During his 20 year career with the Smart/SIM Card Solution Industry, Jean-Claude held several International Marketing, Sales and Business Unit Management Positions, always working on leading edge subjects.

Jean-Claude has a Master degree in Business Administration (IAE Paris – Sorbonne) and graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon

Johan is Head of the IMS Products Business Unit at Genaker. He's spent more than 10 years in the Telecom and IT industry, including 6 years at the Ericsson Mobile Platforms Unit. Johan joined Genaker 3 years ago. He is currently leading the development of all products in the IMS area, including the cross-platform RCS Clients in the consumer area (awarded the "Best RCS Innovation" Award in the RCS Developer Challenge 2010 by the GSMA) and PTT clients in the corporate area.

John Darnbrough has over 18 years experience in the telecoms industry.  First working at Cellnet as GSM Product Manager in the UK, John helped to position Cellnet to launch one of the world's first GSM networks during 1992-93.  John then joined Analysys, Europe's leading independent strategic telecoms consultancy, where he advised telecoms operators, vendors, regulators and investors on a variety of strategic business issues.  In 1997 John joined Nortel Networks where he held a number of management positions in product marketing and business development for GPRS and UMTS in Nortel's Wireless Internet division, where he specialised in mobile data applications.

In 2001, John joined WaterCove Networks, a vendor of next-generation mobile data network equipment, as Director of Strategic Partnerships, where he developed and managed OEM, reseller and marketing relationships with major players in billing, mediation, application platforms and network infrastructure.  John was also closely involved in WaterCove’s European sales and business development initiatives.

Since January 2004 John has been working as an independent management consultant and analyst, providing professional consulting services to the mobile telecoms sector.  Most recently he has been working with the GSMA, helping the mobile operator community to develop and launch next generation mobile communications services based on the Rich Communications Suite. 

John received his MBA from London Business School in 1991 and his first degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bristol University in 1985
 

Mr José Ferrari Careto is Board Member of Anacom, the Portuguese regulatory body for electronic communications and spectrum management.

Mr Ferrari Careto, who was also Vice-President of APDC (Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications, a non profit private organisation), holds a Degree in Economics and has a large experience in the communications industry, both from the regulatory and operational points of view: he served as Board Member of several telecommunication operators, some of them during its start-up phase, and he participated in the first management team of Anacom, back in 1989, as Director for Studies and Planning. Mr. Ferrari Careto holds also experience in the energy sector, where he served as a Board Member during 3 years.

Mr José Ferrari Careto is 48 years old, is married and father of 3 children.

Executive MBA from IESE Business School. Master in Services and Security in IP networks from Technical University of Madrid. Master in Production Management. M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from the UPM. From the beginning he has been involved in wireless networks, firstly in Motorola, and from July 1996 in Telefónica Móviles Spain. He was the IMS Project Director in Telefónica.

Founder of the WIMS 2.0 initiative (www.wims20.org), where are merging telco and internet worlds to create innovative services and business models, that he is personally leading.

Luis is a socio-technologic, analyzing how technologies are modifying behaviours and trends in the society. He is responsible of bringing innovation to the user.

In parallel, he is leading a new way of working with third parties, based on trust relationships with the aim to reduce time to market and capitalize innovation.

With high innovative and creativity skills, Luis is a promoter of the change inside his organization. Luis also is a consultant in 2.0 strategy issues helping organizations to capitalize the value under the web 2.0 wave.

He represents Telefónica in different national and international congresses and fora. Luis is a usual writer in specialized magazines about businesses and strategy, as well as he is the author of different books. The latest published is “IMS. A Development and Deployment perspective”

He teaches in Spanish universities, makes in-company courses for external enterprises and is part of Talento3C, the leader company in 2.0 learning services. He is reachable at luisangel.galindo@gmail.com

Martin Strasser has about 15 years experience in the mobile and optical communications industry and since 10 years he is with Huber+Suhner who is a global supplier for passive interconnects for mobile communications. Mr. Strasser is a leading expert for installation solutions for remote radio systems which established as predominant systems for 3G and 4G. He and his global market team work with all leading system vendors, globally and locally, and with mobile operators and installers to establish and further develop optimum installation scenarios.

Mr. Strasser graduated in electrical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and specialized on mobile communications, especially on adaptive antenna systems and modulation formats for mobile communications. After graduation, he worked on a master thesis about optical communications and received several national and international awards for his work. In 2001, he received his PhD from the Vienna University of Technology. Mr. Strasser is author of several papers and publications about optical and mobile communications. 

Nuno Saraiva is a Senior Solution Architect at Ericsson Portugal with main focus on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Fixed/Mobile convergent Services. Mr. Saraiva has graduated in Electronics Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico - Lisbon Technical University, in 1999. Having worked for Telepac and Nortel Networks in Network Design roles, and later for Nokia Networks, as a Solution Architect. He has participated in projects varying from IP Network Design, Charging and Content Based Billing solutions, Mobile Packet Core as well as Messaging and Video Streaming solutions, and from 2004, Mr. Saraiva has been heavily focused on IMS Applications and involved in a variety of IMS Projects throughout Europe and Latin America, with both Mobile and Fixed Operators, and with Applications ranging from PSTN Network modernization, IP Centrex, Push to Talk, Presence, Video Sharing, Instant Messaging and Next Generation IN based services, amongst others.

Paulo Simões has 15 years experience in mobile communications, heading projects and R&D. He has been involved in introducing most of the messaging services at TMN and most of the service network architecture. His current research topics involve SDP, Machine-to-Machine, IMS, RCS, Femtocells, m-commerce amongst others. He has a Master degree in Genetic Engineering.