Hamid-Reza Nazeman,
Country Manager Germany und Central Europe, Qualcomm

Mr. Nazeman has more than 18 years international management experience in the area of mobile and fixed telecommunications. Now he works as Countra Manager Germany and Eastern Europe at Qualcomm. Finaly he was in charge of the investment portfolio in the telecommunications and technology sector of Emirates Investment & Development. This included post-acquisition integration as well as setting the strategic direction and development plan of the affiliated companies. Before, he held executive management positions as Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Marketing and Sales Officer, and Director of International Marketing at Orascom Telecom, Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile Croatia, and T-Mobile International based in Algeria, Croatia, Austria, and Germany, respectively. Mr. Nazeman received his Masters of Computer Science from the Technical University of Aachen (Germany) and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (U.S.A.).

Klemens Schrattenbacher,
Alliance Manager Central Eastern Europe , Research In Motion

Klemens Schrattenbacher joined Research In Motion in 2007 as Alliance Manager Austria and Switzerland, where he currently works as Alliance Manager for Central and Eastern Europe. In this role he is primarily responsible for Business Development with Enterprises who are offering software and/or services on BlackBerry devices. Additionally, he is responsible for research the market in new topics and to broaden the BlackBerry map for the wireless telecommunications market such as developer relations. In his role at Research In Motion he has been responsible for managing the relationship with RIMs Alliance Members, market analysis, consulting support to clients and telecom providers and management of quantitative and qualitative event series as well as running workshop with clients and carriers. Prior to joining Research In Motion, Schrattenbacher worked for T-Mobile Austria, initially responsible for supporting corporate customers. He was head of Business Sales Technical Support over several years and was responsible for the change in support delivery from voice to converge products at T-Mobile. Schrattenbacher has an MSc in Information Management from Vienna, Austria which included his theses over Mobile CRM Solutions in 2006.
 

Matthias Schodits,
Geschäftsführer, YOC Central Eastern Europe GmbH

Matthias Schodits ist seit Juni 2009 als Geschäftsführer der YOC Central Eastern Europe GmbH tätig. Er zeichnet für den Aufbau des Geschäftsbereiches Mobile Marketing in Österreich und den umliegenden zentral- und osteuropäischen Ländern verantwortlich. Schodits war von April 2006 bis Mai 2009 als selbstständiger Handelsvertreter und Region Manager Central Eastern Europe für die YOC AG tätig. 2001 absolvierte er an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien in der Fachrichtung Wirtschaftspädagogik mit Spezialisierung auf Informationswirtschaft. Nach seinem Studienabschluss gründete er gemeinsam mit zwei Partnern die CityChannel Werbe und Netzwerk GmbH mit Niederlassungen in Wien, München und Prag wo er als Geschäftsführer von 2001 bis 2004 für die Bereiche IT und Finance verantwortlich war. Ferner war Matthias Schodits von 2001 bis 2006 als Referent an der Donau Universität Krems sowie mehreren österreichischen Fachhochschulen aktiv.

Mirko Nedeljkovic,
Managing Director and Founder, mineus s.r.o.

Mirko Nedeljković has over 15 years of professional experience in interactive media on PC, mobile and TV. He started as an entrepreneur and teacher at college of arts in Braunschweig and later worked for razorfish (1999-2001) in Hamburg and New York as Client Partner and Head of Broadband & Future TV. Afterwards he founded mineus GmbH in Hamburg and mineus s.r.o. in Prague. mineus is a service provider whose customers are mainly companies from the publishing and media business for whom mineus is developing web, mobile and TV applications at the development unit in Prague. Additionally mineus is developing own cross platform products and services. Mirko's Eastern European background together with a Western professional experience enables him to connect both worlds. He is consulting Western companies in selecting and acquiring Eastern European mobile companies and startups. Mirko is founder of MobileMonday Prague, which aims to improve the local networking and international exchange among the mobile business in the Czech Republic.

Gerrit Rode,
Associate, Solidground GmbH

Gerrit Rode is a Senior Associate at SolidGround, where he is responsible for Sales and Business Development. He has several years experience in the wireless and reatail space. In particular, he has been project manager on mobile and digital marketing projects at Coca Cola, Vodafone and others always with a focus on increasing retail sales and customer loyality. The past two years he also has been in charge of growing SolidGround's business in the APAC region out of Kuala Lumpur. Previously, he held various positions in the shipping and tobacco business with an international scope. For British American Tobacco, he led projects in the Trade Marketing and Supply Chain Management space in Germany and Hungary. For a Dubai based tanker management company he was in charge of managing a fleet of large oil tankers. He studied at University of Hamburg and the University of Hagen and holds a diploma in Business Administration.

Malte Prien,
Head of Business Development, TIC-mobile GmbH

Jana Vyhlídalová,
Director for information & advertising services, Telefonica O2

She is currently working for a major telecommunications company, Telefonica O2, as director for information and advertising services (since January 2008).  There Jana is responsible for mobile advertisement sales and development of advertising services. Before she worked for four years as the marketing communication manager, preceded by several years in various advertising agencies. Further she lecture at university campuses in the field of International Marketing for the Anglo American College, and occasionally marketing communication at the University of Economics, Prague.

Ralf-Gordon Jahns,
Co-founder, research2guidance

Ralf has a track record of more than 15 years in the telecom and media industry, and has worked previously as a partner for Cap Gemini Telecom Media & Networks. He has published various market studies dealing with current topics, including “Mobile TV”, “Mobile Content” and “Fixed Mobile Convergence”, and has helped more than 30 clients in the telecom and media industry to develop new business opportunities.

Carsten Szameitat,
Editor of www.GFM-Nachrichten.de and CEO, 11 Prozent Communication

Carsten Szameitat is a observer of the digital market. He examine carefully the new business portfolio fort he media- and advertising industry. As the editor of the print publication GFM Nachrichten www.gfm-nachrichten.de/ www.gfm-news.com, which have the items telecommunication/ mobile, social media, IPTV, eGame Marketing, he gives an overview to his partners. Carsten tracks the development of the digital markets since 2006. Also he organizes the biggest Eastern-European congress fair M-Days - The home of MOBILE, the App-Days and many more. Before that Carsten founded 11 Prozent Communcation with his wife Angelique and he worked for the brands Red Bull, Henkel & Söhnlein and Weinkellerei Gallo in the marketing branch.