Contributors & Columnists
Our roster of esteemed authors and commentators is growing daily. Together we are a brave new force in the mobile industry, producing insight that impacts thinking on topics ranging from mobile search and content discovery to mobile advertising and mobile commerce.
Be part of this exciting exchange: MSearchGroove welcomes guest essays, thought leadership columns and commentary from professionals and practitioners on all things digital at the intersection of content and context.
If you are interested in contributing a guest column or in participating in a podcast interview, please contact me directly at peggy@msearchgroove.com
Andreas Constantinou
Title:Director of VisionMobile Ltd
Twitter: @andreascon
Blog: www.visionmobile.com/blog
VisionMobile Ltd. is a market know-how firm delivering industry research and strategy advisory services in the wireless sector. Andreas has eight years experience in research, development and strategy in wireless. He specializes in mobile handsets, the mobile software market, device management, operator strategy, and open source. Andreas has worked on several product and marketing strategy projects for clients including France Telecom, T-Mobile, OMTP, Teleca, Red Bend, Abaxia, and Trolltech, and authored numerous research reports for analyst firms Informa, Ovum, and ARCchart.
Andrew Grill
Twitter: @AndrewGrill
Blog: www.london-calling.org.uk
Andrew, a recognized mobile advertising evangelist, draws from an extensive background in mobile advertising and a career in location based services to provide MSearchGroove with news and opinion on mobile advertising, location, and mobile social networking. He is best known as author of top 50 U.K. blog on mobile advertising London Calling. Andrew held a variety of positions in the telecom industry, most recently serving as General Manager, Sales and Marketing, at Seeker Wireless, a pioneer in location based services. Andrew is currently consulting in the mobile advertising space, connecting companies with smart mobile advertising solutions with brands, agencies, operators and end-users.
Antti Öhrling
Title: Co-Founder, Blyk
Twitter: @Ohrling
Blog: www.blyk.com
Antti is the Co-Founder of Blyk, the messaging media that works with mobile operators to link young people with brands and other stuff they like. He has over 25 years experience as a senior manager in branded goods, retail and wholesale, TV& film and advertising industries. Antti is also founder of Contra Advertising Group, today part of Touch Worldwide. He serves as Chairman of Contra China, an advertising agency specializing in mobile and social media marketing based in Beijing. In addition, Antti is a Fellow at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce) in the U.K. and a regular speaker at lectures on innovative business strategies and brand issues worldwide.
Barry Smyth
Title: Chief Scientist, AMDOCS Interactive (ChangingWorlds)
Twitter:@barrysmyth
Prof. Barry Smyth is the Chief Scientist at AMDOCS Interactive ChangingWorlds, a company specializing in personalized mobile content discovery, pioneering the intelligent delivery of personalized content for the purposes of mobile portal navigation, content recommendations, mobile advertising, and mobile search. Prof. Smyth has chosen to launch a series of Thought Leadership articles on MSearchGroove, providing insights into best-practice for the implementation of personalization strategies to deliver measurable results, as well as the pivotal role of personalization in mobile search, mobile advertising and mobile content services.
Chetan Sharma
Title: Founder and President of Chetan Sharma Consulting
Twitter:@chetansharma
Blog: AORTA
Chetan is a recognized industry expert in strategy and implementation of wireless data and pervasive computing solutions. He has a strong background in developing and launching technologies, products and solutions for the wireless Industry, including extensive experience in managing and delivering all phases of the product development cycle. He has served as an advisor to senior executive management of several Fortune 100 companies in the mobile space. Clients include NTT DoCoMo, Disney, KTF, Samsung, Virgin Mobile, Sprint Nextel, AT&T Wireless, Cincinnati Bell, Reuters, Qualcomm, Reliance Infocomm, SAP, Merrill Lynch, American Express, Infospace, BEA, and HP.
Colm Healy
Title: VP of EMEA services and General Manager of Xiam Technologies for Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS)
Twitter: @Qualcomm
Colm Healy is vice president of EMEA services and general manager of Xiam Technologies for Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS). QIS helps accelerate consumer adoption and consumption of mobile content across all networks and devices by delivering a more engaging mobile experience that is contextual and relevant to consumers’ personal interests. In his current role, Healy manages all business relationship and deployments of Qualcomm’s services solutions within the EMEA region. As general manager of Xiam Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary acquired by Qualcomm in March 2008, he continues to lead the team’s efforts in selling and deploying Xiam’s discovery and recommendations products to a worldwide network of mobile operators including Vodafone, Orange, O2, AIS and Globe.
Inma Martinez
Twitter:@inma_martinez
Blog: http://inmamartinez.com/
Inma Martinez is the President of Stradbroke Advisors in London. She works closely with entrepreneurs and Venture Capital firms across Europe, US and Australasia to fund innovation in growing companies and emerging sectors. Inma also works with large companies including Nokia and Apple in the launch of non-standard technologies. After working in the financial markets at Goldman Sachs and other financial institutions, she joined Cable & Wireless in 1998 where she established one of the world’s first IP and New Technologies Advisory. In 2000 she founded Escape Velocity, hailed by the industry as the first real-time personalization engine for mobile data services. The company was selected by Lehman Brothers as one of the Top 20 Software startups to watch and created the path to today’s mobile applications. She was also appointed CEO of Jutel Visual Radio, the Finnish company behind this innovative Nokia music service which launched worldwide in 2006. She has also been involved in the launch of other mobile services with global scale (Nokia’s Widsets) and continues to support the success of the mobile industry from her role of advisor and investor, speaking at many mobile and technology events.
Jakomi Mathews
Blog: http://themusicvoid.com
Jakomi Mathews is a digital music and media practitioner who has held executive positions at the helm of many successful mobile media and music initiatives in the U.K. His career has given him insights and access to an impressive network of industry leaders and innovators. Jakomi, who established a digital technology and content consultancy in 2006, joined Oplayo in 2007 as a Business Strategy and Development Director. A brave voice in the mobile music industry, he has provided technology and digital marketing strategy consulting to clients including Diageo, Synrgzy, Hutchinson 3G, Find Tunes, jTV, and a number of recording labels.
John Puterbaugh
Title: Founder & Chief Strategist, Nellymoser
Twitter: @jdputerbaugh
Blog: Mobile musings and wireless wanderings
Nellymoser enables media companies and network operators to establish and grow their mobile businesses, providing a mobile services platform that effectively gives customers everything they need to deliver extensible, Mobile 2.0 services that engage broad audiences with rich, interactive experiences. John has over 15 years experience in creating and developing interactive multimedia solutions for IP networks, mobile phones and other consumer products. Before Nellymoser, he was CTO of Reelworks, which provides voice technology solutions for the film and entertainment industry. John is a frequent speaker at industry events – including the CES, CTIA, Game Developers Conference, Digital Music Forum, and 3GSM – on a wide range of topics such as technology roadmaps for Mobile TV, on-deck and off-deck strategies, and business models for mobile music.
Martin Wilson
Title: Managing Director, Indigo 102
Twitter: @indigo102
Blog: www.indigo102.com/blog
Martin Wilson has been involved in digital media for over 14 years, during which time he gained a wealth of experience in the fixed line and mobile Internet. In January 2008, Martin established Indigo 102, an independent consultancy, to assist organizations (including digital advertising agencies, directory publishers, media owners and online service providers) take their brands – and value propositions – mobile. In this role Martin has supported the development and launch of mass market mobile services across three continents.
Matthew Snyder
Title: CEO and Founder, ADOStrategies
Twiter: matsnyder2001
Blog: http://www.adostrategies.com/blog/
Matthew is the founder of ADOStrategies is a cross-media strategic consultancy focused on revenue-generating, customer acquisition, brand building and business development solutions for clients determined to make the most out of mobile. Clients/Partners include: Bing, CBS Radio, Canadian Music Week, Nokia and Mobility Ventures, as well as a variety of media companies and major brands. During his career at Nokia, where he held a number of positions including Device Program Manager and Global Director of Strategy in the Multimedia Group, Matthew architected Nokia location-based services strategy and mobile search application. MSearchGroove is proud to be an associate of ADObjects, joining a vibrant team of professionals including Chetan Sharma, Founder and President of Chetan Sharma Consulting, a management consulting and strategic advisory firm, and Roman Kikta, a renowned venture capitalist, wireless pioneer, seasoned entrepreneur and author. Feel free to contact Matthew directly (matt@adostrategies.com).
Pamir Gelenbe
Twitter: @gelenbe
Pamir Gelenbe is an Entrepreneur in Residence with Newtonmore, a family office based in London. His most recent investment is Seatwave, Europe’s leading fan-to-fan ticket exchange. He is still looking for a fantastic mobile media company in which to invest. If you know one, Pamir can be reached at gelenbe@gmail.com.
Dr. Rick Hangartner
Title: Chief Scientist, Strands
Twitter: @strands
Blog: http://blog.strands.com/
Dr .Hangartner is Chief Scientist at Strands, a company developing technologies to better understand people’s taste and help them discover things they like and didn’t know about. To this end, Strands has created a social recommender engine that is able to provide real-time recommendations of products and services through computers, mobile phones and other Internet-connected devices. Dr. Hangartner has nearly 30 years experience developing computing hardware and software in the aerospace, data communications, heavy-trucking, and supercomputing industries. Prior to joining MyStrands, he worked for seven years at Cray, Inc., developing high performance computing hardware and software.
