Speakers

Michael Stroud
CEO and Co-Founder
iHollywood Forum, Inc.
Michael has been a professional business journalist for 25 years, is the co-founder of iHollywood Forum, and a frequent moderator for business forums on digital entertainment. He previously covered technology as a senior writer at Investor's Business Daily, was the Los Angeles Bloomberg News entertainment correspondent for five years. later served as the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for Broadcasting and Cable, and was a correspondent for four years for Wired.com. He is now an independent journalist covering technology, entertainment and the wireless industry. His articles have also appeared in the Sunday New York Times, Business 2.0, and The Red Herring. He received a BA from UC Berkeley in Asian Studies in 1981, and speaks fluent Mandarin.

Timothy Chang
Principal
Norwest Venture Partners
Giordano Bruno Contestabile is Director – Asia Pacific for ARENAmobile, a leading mobile entertainment provider. In his current role, Giordano is in charge of ARENAmobile´s operations in the region, including content licensing and providing, platform deployment and mobile TV activities for more than 40 partners, mainly mobile operators and media groups. Prior to that, he was Country Manager- Brazil for ARENAmobile, where he started operations from scratch to attain market leadership. Before joining ARENAmobile, he was Business Development Manager for Zero9 and Marketing and Communication Manager for Blurum, in Italy, as well as part-time DJ and journalist.

Sebastian Becker
Managing Director
The Brain Behind

Dr. Spincer Koh
Co-founder and CEO
Gorilla Science & Technology Group
Spincer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gorilla Science & Technology Group, an international supplier of software, hardware, and professional services to the Broadcasting industry. As the broadcast market explodes with new channels and content, Gorilla products help broadcasters massively create, repurpose and playout their daily and historical media assets.
Dr. Koh has twenty-years of experience in high-technology industry and work as a consultant to international broadcast organizations, Asia and EMEA governments, and US media institutions. He also acts the Chairman of China Broadband Application and Promotion Association to involve New Digital Media Business Development on DVB-H, 3G-TV, WiMAX-TV and Interactive News Media.

Daniel Brongiel
Managing Director, APAC, Mobile and Devices
Adobe Systems

Jeffrey Soong
CEO
BNS Ltd.
Jeffrey Soong is the CEO of BNS Ltd, a leading Asia-focused IPTV content and technology provider.

Mr Soong has over 20 years of experience in the fields of entertainment, technology, and international finance, and is a recognized expert on the subject of entertainment and technology convergence.

Prior to co-founding BNS, he was CEO of Vodexa Networks, a U.S. technology company with major Hollywood studio clients. Over the course of his career, he has also held senior management positions with SVP International, a TV program production and distribution company, and CSSV Media Ventures and World Entertainment Network.

Mr Soong holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and undertook Ph.D. scholarship studies in Computer Science at Caltech.

Mickey Charles
President & CEO
The Sports Network
While an attorney by training, Mickey's background includes a wide range of interests among which are newspaper syndication, hosting a national sports talk show, being a feature editor on a myriad of topics running the gamut from telecommunications to travel, responding to requests as panelist, moderator and chair-person at seminars, conventions, trade shows and conferences...and still being President and CEO of Computer Information Network, Inc., known within the industry and world-wide as The Sports Network.

He has guested on, and worked with, such shows and networks as "The Today  Show," “Sally Jesse Raphael,” "News Center Four," "PRISM," "Morning," "EveryDay," "Gary Collins Show," "Maury Povich Show," "Newsweek," "NewsInc," “Live Pizza” (ESPN) and others...as well as co-hosting a sports talk show on ESPN and delivering commentary on the NFL for both Mutual Broadcasting and Westinghouse in recent years.  In 1996 he was asked to broadcast weekly sports reports to Tokyo for FM FUJI (network) and "Inter Act QZ."

Giordano Bruno Contestabile
Director, Asia Pacific
ARENAmobile
Giordano Bruno Contestabile is Director - Asia Pacific for ARENAmobile, a leading mobile entertainment provider. In his current role, Giordano is in charge of ARENAmobile's operations in the region, including content licensing and providing, platform deployment and mobile TV activities for more than 40 partners, mainly mobile operators and media groups. Prior to that, he was Country Manager- Brazil for ARENAmobile, where he started operations from scratch to attain market leadership. Before joining ARENAmobile, he was Business Development Manager for Zero9 and Marketing and Communication Manager for Blurum, in Italy, as well as part-time DJ and journalist.

Richard Robinson
CEO
Dada Mobile Asia
Presently Richard Robinson is the CEO of Dada Mobile Asia based in Beijing. Richard is initiating and overseeing all business operations across Asia Pacific for this global mobile entertainment player.

Richard is also on the Asia Board of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (www.m-e-f.org), a global trade association representing all participants in the mobile entertainment value chain. He also serves as a Board Advisor for ACL Wireless (www.acl-wireless.com) a dynamic New Delhi-based wireless instant messaging company (voted #1 fastest growing tech company in India in 2005 by Deloitte Consulting).

Henry E. Juszkiewicz
CEO
Gibson Guitar Corp.

Alex Kanakaris
Founder and Chairman
Wi-Fi TV Inc.
Alex Kanakaris has revolutionized the world of television and movie delivery over the Internet. Mr. Kanakaris is the author of "Signs of Intelligent Life" on the Internet, and the creator of Wi-Fi TV.com, which features over 450 live TV stations on many topics, Spanish language stations, Live Chat, the Wi-FiTVPhone, online parties for up to 25 participants, Personal Wi-Fi TV Channels, and a high level of interactivity.

Ben Reneker
Senior Analyst
SNL Kagan
Ben Reneker is a Senior Analyst at SNL Kagan, and heads up the company's international media markets research team in addition to following emerging media technologies, digital rights management and mobile entertainment. He is the lead analyst on SNL Kagan's Latin American Multichannel Markets, Asia Pacific Multichannel Markets and Global Multichannel Markets databooks, in addition to the company's web-based Global Multichannel Markets continuous information service. Mr. Reneker also serves as a consultant for Kagan Media Appraisals, specializing in global pay-TV markets, IP-VOD systems and new media business models.

Gary Wang
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Tudou.com
Mr. Wang was formerly the Managing Director of Bertelsmann Online China, Corporate Development Director of Bertelsmann China Group, and undertook various management positions at Hughes Electronics. Gary holds MBA from INSEAD and MsCS from John s Hopkins University.

Jason Yin
Managing Director
In-Stat China
Jason Yin is Managing Director for In-Stat China. In this role, Mr. Yin is responsible for managing and expanding the high-tech market research firm's business on mainland China, including managing an in-region analyst staff. Mr. Yin comes to In-Stat from Microsoft China where he was most recently a Licensing Manager in the Enterprise and Partner Group. Prior, he was an ERP consultant for Price Waterhouse China and a Stock Analyst and Investment Banker for China Securities Company. Mr. Yin holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Maastricht School of Management in The Netherlands, and a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of International Business and Economics in China. Coverage: Consumer Convergence, Wireless/Wireline Service, Information Technology, Internet

殷建松
总经理
In-Stat China
殷建松先生是In-Stat China的总经理。他的职责包括管理和扩展这个高科技市场研究公司在中国大陆的业务与发展， 包括管理在整个区域中的分析师队伍。 殷先生到InStat之前，曾在微软（中国）有限公司的企业与合作伙伴事业部担任许可制制度经理。 在此之前，他在普华永道国际管理咨询公司担任过ERP咨询顾问， 在华夏证券有限公司担任过证券分析师。 殷先生毕业于荷兰马斯特里赫特管理学院MBA和对外经济贸易大学国际金融专业。 研究范围：消费者融合、无线和有线服务、信息技术