Jamison Ching
Product Line Manager, Digital Media
NETGEAR
Mr. Ching is a technology marketing professional with more than 15 years of diverse experience in launching, growing and managing new businesses and products within commercial and consumer marketplaces. Mr. Ching joined NETGEAR in early 2006 as a product line manager, responsible for developing strategic alliances both domestically and internationally and growing and managing all lifecycle phases of NETGEAR's digital media products in the consumer marketplace.

Prior to joining NETGEAR, Mr. Ching founded and served as the general manager for UonTV, a nationwide "Do-It-Yourself TV Broadcasting" channel. Previously, Mr. Ching served as a senior Digital TV marketing manager and a senior product line manager at Conexant Systems. Mr. Ching also co-founded STC Networks, where he functioned as the CTO and CEO, and has worked for other major tech-industry companies such as Motorola, Sony and National Semiconductor.

Mr. Ching earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.



Rob Haitani
Product Design Architect
Palm

Rob Haitani, Product Design Architect at Palm, Inc., designed the original user interface for the Palm OS and led interface design of Palm products as they transitioned from PDAs to smartphones. Rob joined Palm in 1993, where he was product manager for the first Pilot and subsequent generations through the Palm V. His work included the FEP text input design for the Japanese version of the operating system. In 1998, Rob became part of the founding team at Handspring. He was responsible for the UI design of the Treo line of smartphones, including the Windows Mobile version Treo 700W. Today, he focuses on strategic future design initiatives at Palm. Before Palm, Rob spent five years in the computer video and display divisions of Sony in Japan. He holds a bachelor's degree from Yale College.

Michael Hurlson
Vice President and General Manager
Wireless LAN Business Unit, Broadcom
As Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom's Wireless LAN business unit, Michael Hurlston has overall responsible for the industry leading 54g™ and Intensi-fi™ Wi-Fi product lines.

Mr. Hurlston has over 7 years of experience in the wireless industry spanning MMDS, 802.16, 802.11, and Bluetooth technologies, with many additional years addressing other networking technologies. Previously, as Director of Business Development he was instrumental in Broadcom's rise from zero market share in wireless LAN to market leadership today. Prior to Broadcom, Mr. Hurlston was vice president of Marketing at Oren Semiconductor where he was involved in technical innovations in both the broadcast digital television and wide area wireless markets.

Before joining Oren, Mr. Hurlston was director of Marketing at IC WORKS, where he developed spread spectrum clocking technology and co-authored several papers on the subject. He has been an active participant and contributor to the 802.11g committee of the Wi-Fi Alliance.

Mr. Hurlston holds an MBA and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering both from the University of California, Davis.

Mark Jacobstein
Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing
loopt, inc.
Mark has a myriad of responsibilities within loopt, the most important of which include overseeing marketing, assuring that loopt’s products are safe and secure, and developing internal processes and procedures for the successful deployment of loopt’s products.

Most recently Mark was President of Publishing and a member of the founding team for Digital Chocolate, one of the world’s largest publishers of mobile games.

Mark is perhaps best known as the originator of fantasy sports on the internet. In 1994, Mark founded Small World Sports, the Internet’s first fantasy sports Web site, where he served as CEO before selling the company to The Sporting News. Prior to its sale Small World’s community had grown to more than three million members playing dozens of fantasy games.

Mark also founded Small World Software, an Internet technology consultancy, which he sold to iXL in 1998. Mark served as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for iXL’s New York office.

Mark studied Computer Science at Harvard, where he graduated cum laude in 1992, before starting his career as a software developer at Bloomberg L.P.

Geng Lin, Ph.D.
Vice President of Software Engineering
Netopia
Dr. Geng Lin joined Netopia in May 2006 as Vice President, Application and Server Software Engineering, responsible for Netopia’s service assurance and remote device management platforms. Before joining Netopia, for 5 years, Dr. Lin was employed by Cisco Systems, most recently as a Director of Engineering in the Network Management Technology Group. Dr. Lin received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Beijing University, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of British Columbia.

Dr. Lin is a recognized leader in the area of network management and service assurance. At Cisco Systems, Dr. Lin managed several engineering organizations and was responsible for coordinating Cisco’s connected home management initiatives as well as leading research and development in the areas of network middleware and service assurance platforms. Prior to Cisco, Dr. Lin served as Director of Product Strategy for Nortel Networks' Network and Service Management Division. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Architect for the OneVision Enterprise Network Management program at Lucent Technologies, and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He speaks frequently at industry conferences and trade shows, and serves on the Editorial Board of Journal of Network and Systems Management and International Journal of Web Services Research.

Selina Lo
CEO
Ruckus Wireless
Ms. Lo is known for her ability to capitalize on emerging trends, create new markets and innovate new technology. Previously Ms. Lo was the former vice president within Nortel Networks' Content Business Unit, which acquired Alteon WebSystems, a public networking equipment supplier, in 2000 for $7.8 billion. At Alteon, Ms. Lo served as vice president of Marketing from its inception through IPO and the Nortel acquisition. Prior to Alteon, Ms. Lo was the vice president of marketing at the Centillion Business Unit of Bay Networks which was purchased by Bay Networks in 1994. Ms. Lo's career also includes several management roles at Network Equipment Technologies and Hewlett Packard. She holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. She has a lot of shoes.

Ajay Mishra
Task Group Chair, Wi-Fi/Cellular, Wi-Fi Alliance
Product Manager, Wireless Networking BU, Cisco Systems
Ajay brings approx. 15 years of experience in wireless and networking industry (Motorola, Cisco, Airespace, Interwave) where he has held several senior level positions in wireless business development, strategic alliances, product management and engineering.

Ajay brings approx. 15 years of experience in wireless and networking industry (Motorola, Cisco, Airespace, Interwave) where he has held several senior level positions in wireless business development, strategic alliances, product management and engineering.

At Motorola, Ajay designed World’s first GSM phone in 1990, later he delivered Motorola’s first CDMA handset in 1993.

He is former chair and founding member of Wi-Fi Cellular Convergence Marketing Task Group at Wi-Fi alliance. The membership has now grown to 350 individuals and 40+ companies (carriers, handset, chipset vendors, system and test vendors).

Ajay has been a frequent speaker at industry events: CTIA, N+I, Fixed Mobile Conference, CableLab CTO conference, Handset Forum. He holds an MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Chicago.

Gerry Purdy, Ph.D.
VP and Chief Analyst, Mobile & Wireless
Frost & Sullivan
Dr. Purdy is Vice President and Chief Analyst, Mobile & Wireless at Frost & Sullivan. He is responsible for generating and conducting custom consulting, conducting growth workshops for clients to assist them in their market and product strategy and producing high quality deliverables to clients.

For more than 16 years, Dr. Purdy has been consulting, speaking, researching, networking, writing and developing state-of-the-art concepts that challenge people's mind-sets and developing new ways of thinking and forecasting in the mobile computing and wireless communications industry. Often quoted, his ideas and opinions are followed closely by industry watchers who read his insightful column, “Inside Mobile & Wireless.”

From 2002 to 2006, Dr. Purdy was Principal Analyst at MobileTrax. He also spent five years as a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures in Menlo Park where he identified, attracted and recommended investments in emerging companies in the mobile and wireless space.

Dr. Purdy holds a B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Tennessee, an M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Exercise Physiology from Stanford University. Dr. Purdy is also a member of The World Futurist Society.


Ron Risdon
President
Lagotek Corporation

Ron Risdon has over thirty years of successful background in bringing new companies and concepts to market. He is currently president of Lagotek Corporation, a wireless whole home automation core technology company that has developed a patent pending new approach to smart home systems for the residential mass market. As a lifelong entrepreneur, his early years included ownership of firms in the music industry, commercial office products and printing. His computer software career began in 1990. Since that time, he has launched several new companies that have grown to industry leadership. These firms cover a broad range of software disciplines from speech recognition to fiber optic compression. His background includes many technology innovations such as the worlds first commercial distributed speech recognition platform, launched with a large wireless carrier. As President and CEO of several successful start-up companies, he was the principle management representative for a NASDAQ initial public offering and a secondary public offering.

Sriram Viswanathan
Vice President, Intel Capital
Director, Mobility Sector
Intel Corporation
Sriram Viswanathan is managing director of Intel Capital for Intel Corporation. As the head of the mobility sector, Viswanathan is responsible for investments on a worldwide basis in the mobile area. He is also responsible for the cellular and handheld sector, mobile communications sector and mobile platforms sector.

Previously, Viswanathan served in a variety of positions for Intel Capital, including director of the eHome and broadband sectors and director of the mobile communications sector. He also served as director for the Hollywood/media programs, leading Intel's activities in the media industry in support of Intel's content efforts.

Viswanathan joined Intel in 1993 as a technical marketing engineer for corporate demos, responsible for showcasing Intel's leading technologies in industry events supporting Intel's top executives.

Viswanathan received his bachelor's degree in physics from American College in 1984. In 1987, he received his second bachelor's degree in computer science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science. Viswanathan received his master's degree from UCLA Anderson School of Business in 1997.