2006 Mobile Imaging Summit & 6Sight

Speakers

John Barber
Varioptic
Vice President Business Development

Barber brings a wide range of senior management, and telecommunications experience, joining Varioptic from TTPCommunications, (a "virtual" mobile phone developer and supplier), where he served as Managing Director of the company's Terminals Business.
Prior to TTPCom, Barber was Chief Commercial Officer at Cambridge Positioning Systems, where he led the company's commercial development from its conception, to become the world's leading provider of E-OTD location technology for mobile network equipment and handset vendors.
Barber has worked at Nokia, as deputy MD of the UK network business. He also brings business development experience from Cable & Wireless, management consulting experience from Deloitte & Touche, and engineering experience from Rolls Royce.
Barber is also a former pilot in the Royal Air Force.

Walter Doyle
ULocate
President & CEO

With 15 years in the online and emerging technology space, Walt brings significant industry knowledge and expertise to uLocate.
Prior to uLocate, Doyle was vice president of sales and business development at MapQuest, an AOL subsidiary. There he was responsible for building revenue across the wireless, print, online, and software businesses. During his tenure, MapQuest rebuilt its core software business, launched four consumer wireless products, launched a suite of MapQuest branded print products, and more than doubled its revenues.
Doyle is a veteran of the online and emerging technologies space. Prior to his position at MapQuest, he served as vice president of Net2Phone. There he led strategic initiatives such as the integration of VoIP technology on Yahoo! and MSN instant messaging platforms, and investments in companies such as SpeechWorks and Webex.
Before Net2Phone, Doyle was with ZDNet through its acquisition of SpotMedia Communications, the publisher of GameSpot.com.
Doyle's career began at Dow Jones, Inc. where for five years he served as international sales and marketing manager, directing the expansion of dial-up, broadband and web based products into Asian, European, and Latin American markets.


Jim Dick
Johnson Electric
Senior Vice President Strategic Marketing

At Johnson Electric's headquarters in Hong Kong, Dick is responsible for developing responses to macro market issues and leading the company's strategic planning process.
He has 25 years experience in high technology management throughout the world. Prior to joining Johnson Electric in 1999, he held executive positions with IBM in Europe, Xerox in the USA, and Emerson (Astec) in Hong Kong.
Dick holds a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Paisley.

Edward Dowski
President
CDM Optics / OmniVision Technologies

Dowski is a joint inventor of wavefront coding technology. He co-founded CDM Optics in 1995, which merged with OmniVision Technologies in 2005.
Dowski has a broad range of technical experience ranging from radar systems to digital signal processing to imaging systems. He has been deeply involved in applying Wavefront Coding to a wide variety of applications areas including bar-code scanning, microscopy, endoscopy, biometrics, and miniature cameras. He is now developing next-generation imaging technologies that use optical encoding and signal processing instead of opto-mechanical process ‹eliminating motors and actuators to reduce the size and complexity of the auto-focus function on a camera module.
Dowski holds over 60 granted and pending patents.


Bob Goldstein
AVA Mobile
Founder and President

Goldstein this year launched AVA Mobile, a provider of secure media delivery and collaboration software and services.
Goldstein is co-author with Alexis Gerard of "Going Visual: Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decision Making, and Profits." The book focuses on how businesses are using new technology in the form of digital cameras; camera-phones and video to communicate instantly and precisely to better manage project teams and communicate with clients.
Goldstein began his digital imaging career in 1990 as president and founder of ZZYZX Visual Systems in Los Angeles, where he developed businesses in high volume image scanning, digital retouching, stock photo databases and digital distribution networks, fine art digital printing, interactive media projects, web site design, and digital photography studios.
He then became president of the Altamira Group, which produced the Genuine Fractals line of digital image scaling and compression software.
As a digital imaging consultant, his corporate clients have included Kodak, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard.
He is a senior analyst for The Future Image Report, for whom he authored a study of Internet visual search engines. Goldstein has appeared as a speaker at many conferences including PMA, DIMA, MacWorld, Siggraph, Seybold, PhotoPlus, and the Mobile Imaging Summit. He has been quoted in Forbes.com and WashingtonPost.com and appeared on CNN and NPR.
Goldstein has a business degree from the University of Southern California.

Brian Hermes
PerkinElmer
Global Director, Mobile Phone Imaging Sales

Hermes has spent more than 16 in sales and marketing leadership positions. His current role at PerkinElmer is to support mobile phone designers and manufacturers with the best lighting and photo sensor solutions.
PerkinElmer is the number one provider of xenon flash lamps to the digital still camera market, and is rapidly expanding into the mobile phone market. Hermes is involved in many facets of business development, technology partnerships, sales efforts, and marketing campaigns to grow PerkinElmer's xenon flash lamp and sensor business.
Hermes' previous roles at PerkinElmer include flash lamp development team leader for the University of Rochester Omega EP Fusion research laser [the world's most powerful laser], and improving surgical lighting with medical endoscope imaging companies while establishing the Cermax Xenon brand as the xenon lamp market leader.
Hermes grew up in Ohio, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Dayton. Since moving to Los Angeles, Hermes completed a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Sam Jadallah
Mohr, Davidow Ventures
General Partner

Sam Jadallah brings extensive operating, business development and investing experience to his role as general partner. He invests in software and Internet services that power emerging communication networks.
Prior to MDV, Jadallah was managing director of ICG where he led the west coast and Asian operations and served as a member of ICG's senior management team and acquisition committee.
Jadallah spent 12 years at Microsoft; his final position there was vice president, worldwide enterprise sales. In that position he led worldwide marketing and sales efforts to commercial and academic customers. Jadallah also led Microsoft's service channel efforts. Additionally, he led Microsoft's efforts in distribution, anti-piracy, TechNet, and training and certification.
Jadallah also served as general manager of Worldwide Business Strategy directly for Steve Ballmer and general manager of Corporate and Developer Support, where he led the creation of the award-winning customer support service for Microsoft's line of server and developer products.
Current investments include Adapt Technologies; Done Right!; InnerWorkings; Medio Systems; Personal Bee; Scalix; and Tiny Pictures.
Jadallah also serves on the board of trustees for Case Western Reserve University, and on the board of advisors of the TiE Software SIG.
Jadallah studied computer engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.

Marion Knoche
GfK Marketing Services
Division Manager

With GfK since 1979, Knoche is now the Division Manager for marketing services in Nuremberg, Germany.
Knoche is in charge of international service to worldwide imaging clients, product development, and worldwide data homogenization. She is responsible for the world wide Imaging Retail Audit, as well as the optical product groups, healthcare area, and ad hoc research at GfK Marketing Services. She has studied international market research, psychology, economics, geography, and history at Oxford college and French colleges.


Kostas Mallios
Microsoft
Senior Director, Office of the CTO and Rich Media

As Sr. Director, Mallios manages the business of the corporate CTO/ Sr. VP and leads the Rich Media Group, incubation and strategic partnerships. He focuses on emerging opportunities for Microsoft.
Mallios joined Microsoft in 1996. As Director in Venture Integration, Mallios drove acquisition integration for 14 acquisitions. Mallios was involved with the Business Solutions Division formation by leading the integration of Navision, the largest international acquisition in Microsoft history, and on the core business team leading the Great Plains acquisition. During this time, Mallios co-authored the MS Acquisition and Integration Frameworks.
Prior to his acquisitions related work, Mallios was Director in the Enterprise Program Management group which worked to identify product development opportunities with Microsoft's strategic ISV partners and their ecosystems. Mallios started at Microsoft as Product Manager for Developer Community Marketing and managed the Visual Studio product launch event, developer partner and community affinity programs.
Before joining Microsoft, Mallios held various senior positions in publishing, consulting and services businesses.
Mallios is a graduate of Siena College with a BS in Marketing Management and received his MBA in Management at Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Mallios is an avid photographer, sailor and hiker.


Jean Pierre Mars
CAP-XX, Pty Ltd
Vice President Applications Engineering

Mars has over 25 years of hardware and embedded software design experience. He has been with CAP-XX for 5 years where he is responsible for development of new supercapacitor applications, circuit design with supercapacitors, and development of supercapacitor models for circuit designers.
Prior to joining CAP-XX he held senior technical positions with Racal Defence Electronics (Principal Engineer), Chubb Electronic Security (R&D Manager, Australia), CAE Pty Ltd who design and manufacture flight simulators (Technical Director, Australia), and Honeywell Industrial Control (Manager of AssetMax business unit for Asia Pacific).
Mars has a B.E. Electrical (1st class hons) and M. Eng. Sc. from the University of NSW, Australia, and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Russ Mason
Clear Channel Outdoor
Corporate Director of Digital Services

Clear Channel Outdoor is one of the world's largest outdoor advertising companies with 54 offices in the U.S., and a presence in 66 countries with over 750,000 display faces around the world.
In 1991 Mason initiated the company's digital media effort by digitizing its billboard inventory images and creating an archive, which has since grown to nearly 1,000,000 images.
Mason has been a key player in the creation of a digital information workflow in which images are used extensively throughout the enterprise: from sales through marketing, operations, IT and accounting.

Blaine Mathieu
Corel
General Manager, Digital Imaging

As the General Manager of Corel's Paint Shop family of digital imaging and photography products, Mathieu is responsible for overseeing Corel's business in these fast-growing markets on a global basis.
During his three years at Corel, Mathieu has developed and led a number of key groups including Corel's first-ever Market Strategy and Intelligence team; Corel's eMarketing team, combining global database marketing, web publishing, and eStores; and Integrated Marketing, driving all demand generation and channel marketing in the Americas.
Prior to joining Corel, Mathieu was closely involved with strategic and product planning at Adobe Systems in San Jose as a leader in its Worldwide Research and Planning group, where he built a significant part of the foundation for Adobe's understanding of its current and emerging markets.
Before that, Mathieu was a senior analyst and consultant at GartnerGroup, specializing in e-commerce and the Internet.
He has been interviewed and quoted as a technology expert by media such as Time, CNN, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, Interactive Week, PC World, and many others and has been published in numerous technology and trade publications.
Mathieu holds an MBA from Athabasca University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta, both in Canada.

Jérôme Meniere
DxO Labs
Founder, Chairman and CEO

DxO Labs is a software and intellectual property licensing company, developing applied mathematics for still and video image processing.
The company was spun-off from Vision IQ in 2002. Meniere founded Vision IQ, a computer vision surveillance company, in 1995.
Prior to that, he was associate director of the LBO fund Europe Strategy, and a member of the LBO team at bank Paribas.
Meniere holds a diploma from the Ecole Centrale de Paris in engineering, and studied business at Stanford University and at the Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

 

Guy Michrowsky
Dblur Technologies
VP sales & marketing

Michrowsky founded VideoPoint, a London-based start-up which promoted the establishment of an automated, multimedia point of sale network throughout the UK.
He then joined the Fantine Group, a pan-European business development acceleration company, and rose to sales and marketing VP at.
Guy holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in international business management from Surrey University in the UK, and is currently reading for his MBA at the Recanati School of Business at Tel Aviv University.


Evan Nisselson
Digital Railroad
Founder and CEO

Nisselson has worked in the photography industry for 16 years and has focused on digital imaging applications since 1996. Additionally, he has been a photo editor, software developer, lecturer, moderator, contest judge, published photographer, and digital imaging consultant.
In 2003, Nisselson was a digital imaging consultant to Virgilio, the number-one Italian Internet portal, and its parent company, Telecom Italia. He created their new consumer digital imaging channel strategy, financial plan and product roadmap. Virgilio launched their phase 1 channel in March 2004.
Six years ago at Eyetide Media, Nisselson collaborated with the founders to secure $2M in funding, hire senior management, and create a new business model for an image-based marketing business delivered via the Internet.
In 1997, he conceived and managed the first broadband Internet photography portal for Excite@Home, which became a multimillion-dollar joint venture with Intel.
Nisselson has also worked as a photo editor at SABA Press Photos and as an assignment editor on photo book projects. He continues to work on documentary photography projects.

Jeff Reed
Logicalis USA
Chief Technology Officer
President of ActiveSymbols

As CTO for Logicalis, Reed's challenges range from overseeing teams installing enterprise-level computer systems involving hardware and software from vendors like HP, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, and EMC to brain-storming new products to fit market gaps from those vendors and others. Reed's responsibilities include overseeing Logicalis' professional services P&L and the company's extensive R&D efforts across both products and services.
Until 2000, Reed was co-owner and VP of technology with Puget Sound Systems Group, a Seattle-based technology solutions provider. Reed initiated and managed the sale of PSSG to Logicalis for $56 million in 2000, staying on with Logicalis to ensure its continuity as a viable and healthy company.

Jeff Reed is President and founder of ActiveSymbols, a spin-off of Logicalis Inc. ActiveSymbols is bringing mobile consumers together with brand marketers via a unique and patented brand image database technology. ActiveSymbols Enterprise Server (patent-pending) is an enterprise-class scalable platform enabling image and object recognition (computer vision), text recognition (OCR), biometrics (facial recognition), and linear (1D) and 2D barcode decoding from everyday consumer devices such as camera phones and PDAs. We like to call it "visual searching in the palm of your hand.

Reed helped guide the integration of the three companies and played strategic roles growing the combined businesses from $150M to over $300M. He has managed several key divisions, including software development services, managed services, infrastructure services, product marketing and vendor channel relations, where he managed relationships with key like HP, IBM, Cisco, Sun, Microsoft, Sybase and EMC.
Reed's technical background is broad, including expertise in the use of wireless data technologies for business process automation.
Reed's avocations and parallel careers include his completion of a Ph.D. in ancient history and religion with specialization in early Judaeo-Christian history, artificial intelligence, and linguistics from Sheffield University in England. He has published three books and over 20 articles about ancient history, first century religion and linguistics and has a master's in Greek.

Elan Roth
TransChip
Vice President of Business Development

Roth joined TransChip in March 2005. He previously served as senior director of product marketing for CEVA, a Nasdaq-traded, fabless semiconductor company, where he was responsible for CEVA's product marketing, business development and strategic partnerships. He was previously director of sales for North America at CEVA and it's pre-merger company, DSP Group.
Before CEVA, Roth was director of marketing and sales for M-Systems, a NASDAQ listed flash disk pioneer. Prior to M-Systems, Roth served in various marketing and engineering positions at IBM's Research Group in Haifa, Israel and at Control Data Corporation (CDC) in Tel-Aviv.
Roth also served as a project manager at the Israel Defense Force's Training and Development Center where he was responsible for the production of multimedia-based military simulators. Roth obtained B.Sc and MBA degrees in computer engineering from The Technion - Institute of Technology, Israel.

Andrew Tiller
Cognima
Chief Technology Officer

CTO at Cognima, the London-based software company behind ShoZu. ShoZu is an open gateway service that makes it simple to transfer photos, videos and text between a mobile phone and online photo sharing sites or blogs.
At Cognima, Tiller is responsible for the ShoZu service roadmap, and for the underlying technology (a generic, robust data replication framework designed for mobile networks).
Before Cognima, Tiller was VP of Product Marketing with Geneva Technology, the Cambridge-based provider of telecoms billing software, where he created a successful strategy for the mobile billing market.
Tiller holds a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Queens' College, Cambridge.
His early career was spent in the fields of computational chemistry, molecular modelling and criminal intelligence analysis. Tiller lives with his wife and three daughters in Cambridge.

Ron Tussy
Imerge Group
President and Principal Analyst

Tussy's expertise includes the IT, imaging, and wireless industries, and he has over 23 years of executive experience. His specific expertise is in NAND flash, imaging sensors CMOS and CCD for consumer, automotive, security and medical applications, multimedia handsets, micro and large display technologies including small-molecule-based OLED, P-OLED, thick film dielectric, handset components and process chips, manufacturing, digital printing, channel dynamics, and digital cameras.

Prior to founding Imerge in 1996, Tussy was an executive analyst at International Data Corporation, where he pioneered and built IDC's digital cameras and scanners research programs. Prior to IDC, he was a WW product line manager at Apple, and was on the team that delivered the world¹s first consumer digital cameras to market in 1994.

Imerge provides decision support to more than 550 institutional investors, VC¹s and fund managers whose portfolios exceed $2B. Some of its largest clients include Salomon Smith Barney, Goldman Sachs, Bain, Fidelity Investments and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

Tussy has been a guest speaker at PMA/DIMA, Lyra's Digital Photography Conference, KioskCom, Seybold SF and other events. He is quoted frequently in main stream media including the Wall Street Journal, NY Times and SF Chronicle, and has made radio and television appearances.

Tussy conceived and published a NY Times Best Selling photo book, "15
Seconds: the Great California Earthquake of 1989," setting speed publishing records and establishing the first usage of desktop four color digital separations, and prepress.

Kristina Hooper Woolsey
New Media Consortium Board

Woolsey is currently a Co-Principal Investigator on project funded by the MacArthur Foundation on "New Media Literacies." She was an Osher Fellow at the Exploratorium, where she continues to consult on projects related to science learning and media including the development of a web site for the Institute for Inquiry.

Woolsey is in her second term as a member of the New Media Consortium Board, a consortium of 200 major universities and museums, and one of two designated "visionary board members." From 1998 - 2004 she served as a technology consultant for the James Irvine Foundation on a five-city after school program.

Woolsey was Distinguished Scientist at Apple Computer from 1984-1998.
Dr. Woolsey received her Ph.D. in cognitive science at UC San Diego, with a focus on visual representations, leading her to a postdoctoral fellowship in architecture and landscape architecture. She was on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz, where she investigated the development of geographic knowledge and the relationship between spatial abilities and mathematical competencies. As a visiting faculty at MIT in 1978, she was a principal on the Aspen Movie Mapping project.

She is a co-author, with Scott Kim and Gayle Curtis, of VizAbility, an award winning CD/ book product that provides participants with experiences in seeing, drawing, diagramming and imagination.

She was the executive producer of multimedia titles such as Life Story, the Visual Almanac, Animal Pathfinders, Disappearing Ducks, Countdown, and Planetary Taxi, produced when she was Director of the Apple Computer Multimedia Lab.