Steve oversees the global initiatives for server-based speech technologies and applications. Chambers recently served as SpeechWorks' Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Chief Marketing Officer. Previously, he held Chief Marketing Officer roles at Arbortext, Inc., an XML-based information solutions company; VDOnet, a company specializing in streaming media over the Internet; and PictureTel Corporation, a visual communications company. Prior to PictureTel, he was a consultant for a division of McKinsey Corporation. Chambers holds a BA from Wesleyan University, and an MBA and Masters in Communications and Science degree from Boston University.

Mr. Heath Clarke
Chairman and CEO
Interchange Corporation

Heath has served with Interchange since March 1999. Under his leadership, the company has developed its ePilot Search Distribution Network, www.epilot.com , into one of the top ten paid search engines in the U.S. ePilot currently has over 130 distribution partners, 100,000 network advertisers and processes nearly 1 billion searches each month.

From 1998 to 1999 Heat was VP eCommerce for LanguageForce, Inc., a language translation software company. Prior to this he was Marketing Manager for Starnet, a Canadian Internet company. From 1995 to 1998 he was Special Projects Director for the Berg Group of Companies (Australia), and from 1988 to 1995 he was founder and CEO of Australian Fibre Packaging.

Matthias Collot (29) is the head of the audit and economic studies unit of ART (Autorité de régulation des télécommunications). He joins ART in July 2000 as an expert on interconnection tariffs in the economic and competition service and has acquired a complete experience concerning all the wholesale markets (mobile, Internet, leased lines and voice services). Since January 2003, he is in charge of the audit and economic studies unit and his team covers besides interconnection other subjects as universal service, unbundling of the local loop tariffs, audit and accounting issues.

Before joining ART, Matthias Collot had several experiences during his studies, in telecommunications with a 4-month R&D experience in Bell-Labs, Lucent Technologies in the USA, in industry with a one-year experience in a subsidiary of SAGEM dedicated to high technology optics and in banking with a one-year experience in the acquisition financing of Credit Lyonnais in Germany.

He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines de Paris, two french engineering school.

Antonia Crawford is a director of i-CD Publishing UK Ltd. Antonia spent the early part of her career as a public relations executive before she moved into the arena of political lobbying, working for a specialist lobby magazine, Parliamentary Brief. She was focused on promoting political causes to parliamentarians on behalf of organisations and special interest groups.

In 1997 i-CD Publishing was founded and since then Antonia has been involved in all aspects of the company's business with particular focus on promoting pioneering services, public relations and marketing.

Antonia played a major role in lobbying OFTEL to de-regulate the directory enquiries market, which resulted in i-CD being awarded the first OSIS licence. Antonia has also worked closely with the Information Commission and with other governmental authorities to ensure that 192.com operates within the regulatory framework.

Ms. Katharina Döberl
Manager of Business Development
Eniro 118118 AB

Katharina Döberl, MSc, MBA is manager of Business development at Eniro 118118 AB (former Respons AB) in Sweden. She has held this position since 2001 and worked previously as IT manager at the same company. Before starting at Eniro 118118, Katharina worked at Telia InfoMedia Partner as IT-Project manager and Administrative IT manager at Aftonbaldet.

Paul Elliott is Chief Executive of BT Directories, the BT division responsible for directory enquiries, printed and on-line directories, operator services and emergency services call handling. BT Directories employs over 4,000 people throughout the UK and has been a leader in its field for over 100 years.

Paul joined BT two years ago, having spent most of his previous career in the banking and financial services industry with HSBC Group, where he held senior management positions in sales, customer services and operations. Immediately prior to joining BT, Paul ran the operations for First Direct, HSBC's direct banking subsidiary and one of the UK's foremost customer service businesses.

A graduate of the University of Sheffield, Paul is 38 years old and married with two young children.

Mr. Daniel E. Gallagher
President and CEO
Soleo Communications

Daniel E. Gallagher is the CEO, President and co-founder of Soleo Communications, Inc., a systems integration company specializing in network and automation solutions for operator service providers. Before founding Soleo, he was Senior Vice President at TARGUS Information Corporation, serving in marketing, sales, business development and technical management capacities. He also founded Telephony Computer Systems, which provided intelligent network systems to telephone companies. Before these entrepreneurial activities, he served in a number of management capacities with Nortel and CCI. He has a strong background in voice processing and automation, call processing, billing systems and intelligent network databases. Mr. Gallagher holds an MBA from the U of R Simon School and a B.S/B.A. from St. John Fisher College.

Alex Gaschard is a Frenchman who proclaims his "European" credentials. He may well do so. He followed his first degree in international management from the International Management Institute in Paris with an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands.

In 1990, Mr Gaschard founded and managed Logocap in Paris, a small company which first specialised in corporate gifts and promotional items, but later diversified into services in the mobile communications area. From 1997 to 2000 he held management posts with various divisions of Philips: he was Marketing Manager with Philips DVD Systems in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, before moving to Vienna, Austria as Strategic Product Manager with Philips Business Group Audio. He joined Infobel (Kapitol SA) in 2001 where he was responsible for Business Development & Online Activities. Since October 2003, Alexandre has been working as an independent consultant in the field of electronic directories and DA/DQ.