As part of the Marketing team and the voice behind the newsletter and site announcements, Vanessa oversees the marketing and promotional activities at VisionMobile. Whilst relatively new to marketing , Vanessa has spent the last five years embracing the internet and the vast number of opportunities that come with it. She is always interested in the latest developments in internet marketing and is keen to try out new strategies and ideas to increase her knowledge base.

Prior to VisionMobile Vanessa has worked in both the healthcare and photography industry in a number of roles that has provided her with a diverse range of skills and knowledge. She has a strong interest in internet marketing and has been involved in launching a number of websites relating to holistic health, food and most recently gardening.

Åse has 10 years experience working in the telecom industry including UIQ, Symbian and Teleca. Åse teaches VisionMobile’s 360 degree training course on mobile open source and is responsible for licensing and open source advisory projects.

Åse's expertise lies in software sourcing and licensing, including risk analysis and policy development, legal assessment, process assessment, corporate training, planning and intellectual property management for both proprietary and open source software.

While at Teleca, Åse Stiller was global business developer for mobile platform integration of the Obigo messaging and browsing products from 2001 through 2006. Åse worked with OEM and ODM customers in Asia, USA and Europe and program managed the integration of Obigo to two different mobile operating systems.

While at UIQ, Åse was responsible for software sourcing, strategic partnerships, supplier management and open source processes.

Timo's background in mobile and telecoms spans over 20 years. During this time he has seen mobile phones and other devices shrink in size and multiply in functionality, as well as witnessed industry grow from small to very large.

His work experience includes working in Opera Software as a member of the management team responsible of mobile business unit as well as business development. Prior to that he worked in Symbian in various positions, most recently responsible of several Technology areas and as member of all-licensee Technology Committee. His background also includes Board level representation and extensive public speaking.

Timo has an MSc in Human Computer Interaction from University of London (UCL), and has a lifelong passion in evolving computers to the point that truly intuitive interaction with humans can occur.

Elizabeth has over 15 years experience in the telecom and new media sectors always focusing on leveraging market insights and technological innovation to create profitable products and services. Her work experience expands across new ventures and startups, multibillion network operators and international consultancies including eDreams, Orange and Gartner.

Elizabeth’s strategic and operational experience provides her with extensive expertise in: corporate and business strategy development, commercial planning, the identification of end users requirements, service structure and development, market analysis and business due diligence.

From 2004 through 2008 she was Consulting Director at Gartner assisting with Global Telecom Providers, Handset Manufacturers and SIs to identify and capture new market opportunities.

During her time at Orange (2001 – 2004) she was responsible for seeking and developing growth driven commercial opportunities for the Executive board based on a deep understanding of new developments in the industry, including customer and competitive dynamics, technological change and cross-industry developments.

Prior to that she was also a Marketing Director at eDreams, a Business Consultant at PWC and a Marketing Manager at BioChemicals.

Elizabeth holds an MBA from London Business School.

Matt is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Aroxo, an online trading portal. At Aroxo he created the company strategy, wrote the technical documentation, sourced developers and designers, managed the development, built a heavy-hitting board and is currently planning a high-profile launch campaign.

Prior to Aroxo Matt has worked for T-Mobile and Orange. Whilst at T-Mobile ran the Instant Messaging project, during this time the IM team (circa 30 FTEs) developed TMO's IM requirements, performed its customer and market research, sourced developers, participated in standards bodies and designed and developed the product.

Whilst at Orange Matt was a corporate strategist guiding the board on its overall business positioning. He worked on projects such as the launch of the world's first Microsoft handsets, Orange's instant messaging strategy and Orange's 3rd party service strategy. Matt also ran a number of Orange's major partner relationships, including Microsoft, Symbian and Sun.

Matt is first and foremost a practical person, always thinking through how ideas can really be applied to an organisation.

Dimitris has 5 years experience in research and analysis in the telecoms market. His areas of expertise include Next Generation Networks, IMS, LTE, WiMAX, OFDM, mobile handsets and identifying emerging strategies for the operator business. He has written several white papers and award winning strategic reports on behalf of analyst house Informa and has also worked on several consultancy projects for leading telecoms companies, including global operators, vendors and service providers.

Dimitris holds a PhD in 4G networks with several publications and has been a frequent speaker and chair of technical sessions during his academic and work career.

Jean-Marie is a veteran of the GSM industry.

As the co-founder of Purple Labs SA, he was actively involved in the growth of the company from 2001 until its sale to Esmertec in early 2009, first as the COO and more recently as SVP Corporate Development.

Prior to funding Purple Labs, Jean-Marie was part of the funding team of Sensei Ltd (1998-2001), acquired by VTech. Beforehand, he was involved in the setup of Philips worldwide operations center in France.

Before joining the GSM industry, Jean-Marie was a consultant in real-time embedded systems. A regular speaker at numerous conferences, Jean-Marie is also lecturing with French engineering school Supelec since 1992.

Peggy Anne Salz tracks not only the global mobile telecoms industry, but also the business models and trends that will shape its future. Her drive to separate the reality from the hype and spark debate about issues impacting the mobile industry at all levels has won her international recognition as a brave new voice in the mobile content market. Her most recent report, Mobile Search & Content Discovery’the first of its kind’establishes Peggy as an authority on mobile search and content discovery technologies enabling media companies and mobile operators to monetize the Long Tail of hit-and-miss content. She is currently working on a follow-up report for VisionGain that will identify and analyze the breakthrough mobile search technologies that will help deliver the right content to the right users with the right results including voice and camera search, behavioral targeting and recommendation engines.

As a committed independent thinker and free agent, Peggy has established a successful writing career based on vision, insight, versatility, and over 15 years of industry experience. She comments on daily developments in mobile search and mobile advertising for MoCoNews.net, a site recently described by the Wall Street Journal as “the required reading of the mobile content industry.” She is also a regular contributor to magazines and online destinations such as Mobile Communications International, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Europe, Mobile Media, MusicAlly, and New Media Age. Peggy also writes ‘Agile Minds,’ a monthly column for eContent magazine documenting the breakthrough technologies and companies that will influence the next-generation Internet widely referred to as Web 2.0.

Not one to sit back and watch, Peggy proactively shapes industry debate in the mobile space. Her speaking calendar includes engagements at mobile search and mobile advertising conferences worldwide, where she both chairs the events and leads roundtable discussions. Peggy founded her site and independent consultancy in response to the overwhelmingly positive feedback from her mobile search reports and her in-depth analysis for clients in the media and technology business.

Graduating with honors from the University of Pittsburgh, Peggy earned a B.A. in Philosophy of Science, Political Science, and Economics. She is a Fulbright fellow and a member of the International Who’s Who of Professionals.