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Mike Baker

Mike Baker

Mike Baker has been pioneering digital media platforms for 20 years and is a widely recognized thought leader in interactive advertising. Before co-founding DataXu, he was vice president at Nokia, where he created and ran Nokia Interactive. Baker came to Nokia through its acquisition of mobile advertising leader Enpocket in 2007, where he was the founding investor and CEO. (More...)

Doug Britt

Doug Britt

Doug Britt is a Vice President of Data Services for Virgin Mobile USA. In this role, he is responsible for directing the strategy, product management, and business development for all services in the mobile data portfolio.

Prior to joining Virgin Mobile, Doug held the same role with Helio, and previously was the Vice President of operations and business development for AGmobile. (More...)

David Lawee

David Lawee

As vice president of corporate development, David manages a worldwide team responsible for all of the company's acquisitions and investments. Previously, David was vice president of marketing, where he managed all of Google's consumer, advertiser and partner marketing, globally. (More...)

Mike Lee

Mike Lee

Michael Lee is Chief Strategy Officer for Rogers Communications Inc. Mr. Lee is responsible for strategy development, business development, and strategic partner management for the Rogers Communications' group of companies which include Rogers Cable, Rogers Wireless and Rogers Media. (More...)

Morteza Mahjour

Morteza Mahjour

Morteza Mahjour, Chief Information & Operations Officer, is responsible for leading the day to day activities of the Technology and Operations organization within RBC. The mandate includes the alignment of Technology and Operations with RBC's business strategies, outcomes and objectives to ensure continued focus on enabling leading advice and s ervice for RBC clients that is backed by technological and operational excellence. (More...)

Jeff McDowell

Jeff McDowell

Working in the capacity of Vice President, Global Alliances, at Research In Motion Limited (RIM), Jeff McDowell currently leads the Corporation's Alliance program, which is accountable on a global basis for partnering with Independent Software Vendors, Solution Providers and System Integrators to further the BlackBerry platform through the deployment of applications and service offerings. (More...)

James Powell

James Powell

James Powell is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Thomson Reuters and member of the Thomson Reuters Executive Committee.

Mr. Powell oversees the company's technology initiatives and strategy, including the application of newly emerging technologies to advance the development and delivery of intelligent information.  (More...)

Bruce Rothney

Bruce Rothney

Bruce Rothney is a Deputy Chairman and has experience in all facets of investment banking.

He joined the firm in 1991, and from 1991-1998 served as Co-Head of the Communications and Technology Group and was responsible for many of the firm's senior corporate relationships in these industry sectors. In 1999, he moved to New York to manage the U.S. Corporate and Investment Banking Division. (More...)

Jason Spero

Jason Spero

As Vice President & Managing Director of North America for AdMob, Jason Spero is responsible for the company's strategy and operations in North America. This includes leading the company's sales, business development and marketing teams. Jason brings more than seven years of experience in product, marketing and general management functions in the mobile space. (More...)

Yossi Vardi

Yossi Vardi

Yossi Vardi is one of Israel's early tech entrepreneurs. For 39 years he founded and helped build over 50 tech companies in diverse areas of software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics, clean water and others. In 1969, at the age of 26, he co-founded and was the first CEO of Tekem, one of the very first software houses in Israel (which became the largest software company at the time, was sold to Tadiran, went public and now is part of Ness). He also co-founded Alon oil company, ITL (International Laser Technologies, went public), Granite Hacarmel (went public) and others. In 1996 he became the founding investor of Mirabilis - the creator of ICQ, which sold to AOL just 19 months after it released its product for over 400 million dollars. (More...)

Chris Ahearn

Chris Ahearn

Chris Ahearn is president of Reuters Media at Thomson Reuters, where he oversees the publishing and distribution of news and information services to media and business professionals. Reuters Media is a global division which includes the News Agency and Publishing business lines. Prior to his appointment as president of Reuters Media in 2002, Mr. Ahearn was the executive vice president of the Reuters Research & Advisory business, where he developed the Reuters Knowledge product line. (More...)

Scott Dyer

Scott Dyer

Scott Dyer is Chief Technology Officer for Corus Entertainment Inc., responsible for leading all of the Company's divisional and corporate technological undertakings. In this role, Scott has operational and strategic responsibility for the hardware, software, personnel and technical resources of Corus' core and new media businesses. (More...)

Elias Mendoza

Elias Mendoza

Elias Mendoza is Vice President of Corporate Development, where he heads IBM's M&A, Divestiture, Investment and Integration efforts globally. Prior to this role at IBM, Elias was Managing Director of Corporate Development for Growth Markets and Japan, with responsibility for sourcing, executing and integrating IBM's inorganic activity across those geographies. (More...)

Elias Mendoza

Jonathan Ehrlich

Mr. Ehrlich is the Head of Consumer Marketing for Facebook. From November 2003 until 2007 he was the Executive Vice-President, Online at Indigo Books & Music Inc. (TSE: IDG), Canada's largest book retailer, where he was responsible for building the Online business from $40m to over $100m. (More...)

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