Global Messaging Awards
2006 Judges
Our distinguished panel of judges occupy a wide range of independent positions across the mobile industry. Their backgrounds reflect the international nature of this event and the countries they come from includes England, Ireland, France, Hungary, and USA.
Angel Gambino
Mtv
Prior to joing MTV in 2005, Angel Gambino joined the BBC in September 2001 to create the Business Development department and soon after became the Controller of the Business Development and Emerging Platforms (mobile SMS, MMS, 3G, mobile internet, WIFI, broadband and new technologies) department at the BBC. In this capacity, Angel has launched the BBC??¢â?¬â?¢s first mobile games, WAP, MMS and video services as well as the BBC??¢â?¬â?¢s first broadband on-demand services. She is responsible for building partnerships with third party distributors and suppliers such as internet service providers, search companies, cable, DSL and mobile operators and application suppliers to enable the BBC to reach new audiences in new ways. She also advises government about the development of on demand and interactive content in her capacity as an Executive Member of the Broadband Stakeholders Group and the Innovation and Growth Team of the DTI.
Prior to joining the BBC, Angel was Managing Director of Broadband Services for Gameplay, a multimedia games company. Prior to Gameplay, Angel served as Director of Corporate Strategy for Animal Fair, an independent multimedia company in New York. Ms. Gambino was a Consultant at Ampersand Holdings where she concentrated on developing new business with Fortune 500 companies and start-ups developing online businesses and electronic payment systems.
Much of Ms Gambino's earlier career was spent as Director of Legal Affairs and other directorships at leading NGOs in the US. Her passion for new media grew after running one of the web??¢â?¬â?¢s first webcasts in 1996.
Ms Gambino holds a Juris Doctorate and two Bachelor degrees.
Graham Trickey
Technical Director, GSMA
Graham Trickey is a Senior Director for the GSM Association in London. Since joining the GSMA in September 2001, he has been responsible for viewing services from an End-to-End viewpoint. He has been directing the association??¢â?¬â?¢s MMS Taskforce, working with operators and vendors globally in to resolve any issues that might impede the success of services based on MMS. He is responsible for the GSMA??¢â?¬â?¢s work on Messaging in general, and also directs the associations WLAN Taskforce.
Most recently, Graham has been responsible for driving the Integrated Messaging Initiative ??¢â?¬â?? which seeks to combine SMS, MMS & email into a single easy to use mobile messaging service.
Graham was previously Director of the End-to-End Solutions group in Motorola, and has 10 years experience within the Mobile Telecommunications Business. Before joining Motorola, Graham had spent more than 15 years in the semiconductor business, working for major names like Inmos,
ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments and Intel.
Guido Gybels
Director of New Technologies, RNID
www.rnid.org.uk
Guido Gybels is currently Director of New Technologies at RNID (Royal National Institute for Deaf People, London, UK). He was born in Leuven, Belgium, but has been living and working in the UK for several years. He comes from a commercial IT background and is a well-respected researcher, developer and author in the world of Internet and programming. He has also studied and published in such different fields as history, linguistics, geography, didactics, docimology and psychology.
After a successful career in Belgium where he was involved in a number of large and innovative commercial projects, he joined RNID in 2001 to drive policy, innovation, research and development in the domain of Internet, broadcasting and Mobile and wireless networking technology. In that role Guido Gybels has established RNID and his New Technologies department as a leading organisation in Technology and standardisation, recently winning the most prestigious award in the Information and Communication Technology arena, a Computing Award for Excellence.
About RNID
RNID is the largest charity representing the 9 million deaf and hard of
hearing people in the UK. As a membership charity, we aim to achieve a radically better quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing people.
Ken Blakeslee
Chairman, WebMobility Ventures
Ken??¢â?¬â?¢s involvement over the past few years has been specifically in the area of private equity investing in the mobile sector, and his previous experience in developing telecoms, IT and web commerce business strategies with Nortel Networks spans 25+ years. His recent focus has been on the emerging new media content, applications and commerce methodologies, and the merging of these with the ubiquitous, personal access of mobile.
Ken has held numerous industry positions including chairman of the Mobile Data Association, vice chair of the UMTS Forum Market Aspects Group, founding member of the Global Mobile Commerce Forum, and in 2001 was named to the GSM Association ??¢â?¬???roll of honour??¢â?¬â?¢ for ??¢â?¬???longstanding commitment to the GSM industry??¢â?¬??.
In 2004 Ken launched and produced ??¢â?¬???Cool and Connected??¢â?¬?? a Wearable Technology Fashion Show which is now an annual feature of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes.
Mike Short
Chairman MDA and VP O2
www.mda-mobiledata.org
www.o2.co.uk
Mike??¢â?¬â?¢s career spans 30 years in Electronics and Telecommunications, with the last 17 years in Mobile Communications. He was appointed Contracts Director of Cellnet in 1989 dealing with major infra-structure investments and UK interconnect agreements. In 1993 the focus moved to establishing Cellnet??¢â?¬â?¢s GSM service and Roaming Agreements.
He was elected Chairman of the GSM Association for 1995/96 and served on their Executive Board for 3 years. He also is a member of the UK Home Office Internet Task Force, UK OSAB (Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board).
Mike has chaired the MDA since 1998, leading the Association as Chairman/spokesperson and on Regulatory matters
He was appointed VP Technology for O2 in 2000 and a Visiting Professor at Surrey University in October 2002. Mike??¢â?¬â?¢s focus today is on Third Generation cellular and steering O2??¢â?¬â?¢s Group Research and Development in mobile.
Mike Grenville
160 Characters
www.160characters.org
As founder of 160characters.org, Mike Grenville works as a telecoms and mobile consultant, journalist and industry event organiser.
He is Chairman of start up company Kwickee that has launched the first mobile information exchange platform. Kwickee is the first and only company to benefit exclusively from Mike??¢â?¬â?¢s investment and extensive knowledge of the mobile data and content markets.
Prior to setting up 160Characters four years ago, he was a key founding member and investor of managed voice and messaging alert services company RealCall (later renamed Adeptra). He helped take the company from initial angel investment through two funding rounds that raised $40 million and his roles included Head of Customer Services and VP Country Operations evaluating opportunities for overseas expansion.
He has extensive experience in travel industry technology. He was Marketing Manager designate in the early stages of internet travel company Deckchair.com having previously spent seven years at global reservations system Galileo International as a founding employee. He was part of a small team that helped establish the Galileo operation across Europe as well sourcing the requirements and managing the development of several key products.
Paul Walsh
CEO, Segala
www.segala.com
Paul Walsh is the co-founder and CEO of Segala, a
worldwide leader in web accessibility and verified mobile
content trustmarks and certification services. The
company was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 2001. Paul is
responsible for setting the company's strategic goals and
direction as well as managing the day-to-day activities.
Since 2004 Paul has grown the company to become a major
independent certifier of web and mobile-based content and
provider of trust marks.
Paul is hugely experienced in the fields of web and
mobile standards conformance. He is a representative on
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Committee
and a key member of the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI)
Steering Council. Paul regularly contributes to W3C best
practices and guidelines and is an active executive of
the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) - a
trading association for the Interactive industry. Paul is
an experienced public speaker on accessibility and
enabling Trust on the internet based on Semantic methods.
Prior to founding Segala, Paul worked with a number of
major mobile companies such as Vodafone, Orange, ADC
Metrica, CMG and others. His roles spanned strategy
realignment and auditing through to initiating radical
cultural change. Before joining the mobile industry, Paul
was an executive at Eqos, a pioneer in the development of
Web technologies for B2B Supplier Management. In 1995 he
became one of the first employees for AOL in Europe where
he was responsible for developing AOL's presence in the
UK and assisting with the launch of other AOL Europe territories.
Philippe Herbert
Partner of BANEXI VENTURES PARTNERS
www.banexiventures.com
Philippe is in charge of investments in IT software at Banexi VP. Before joining BANEXI VENTURES PARTNERS, he was General Partner of Partech International for more than 7 years in charge of the investments in IT software.
His main investments were in: In-Fusio*, JobPartners, I-Progress, Mediapps and Ubitrade* (* common with Banexi Ventures Partners).
Prior to that, he held several positions at Dassault Systemes, the French worldwide leader in CAD/CAM/PDM software, including Director Business Development during 4 years.
He has an MSc. in aeronautical Engineering from ESTACA and an executive degree from HEC.
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