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pic Mr. Guy Birenbaum
CEO
L’ANNUAIRE UNIVERSEL

Mr. Birenbaum is the creator of two comprehensive and enhanced data bases listing almost every individual and French company. Those lists are used by many organizations in direct marketing, survey and polling, telecommunications, phone books published on paper as well as on Internet combined with maps and itineraries.

Mr. Birenbaum has also been the founder of companies that deal in direct marketing and phone books. He won the first major lawsuits on directory issues against the French national phone operator.

pic Mr. Gerson V. Brisola
Vice President, Marketing & Development
ISx, Inc.

Gerson V. Brisola has executive management responsibility for ISx development, services and marketing programs. In this capacity, he led the development and 2003 launch of the ISx FlexiQ™ platform, a new generation, end-to-end solution for delivering information services.

Brisola has managed a wide range of telecommunications development projects in operator services, intelligent networks, in addition to initiatives in computer network and system management. Prior to joining ISx, Brisola led a series of world-wide development projects for IBM. Brisola has 18 years experience in advanced product development utilizing ISO 9001-certified quality management systems.

Brisola holds an engineering degree from the State University of Campinas – Brazil.

pic Mr. Aloke Chaudhuri
Vice President -- Product Management
Soleo Communications

Aloke Chaudhuri is a technology pioneer and visionary with a wealth of leadership experience in the network and telecom industry across a wide array of Fortune 100 corporations and leading start up companies. Currently, as VP of Product Management at Soleo Communications, Aloke is responsible for strategic product planning, new business development, and global sales support of managed services covering wireless, VoIP and circuit switched telephony markets. Prior to joining Soleo, Aloke was Chief Technology Officer at NetLink, responsible for strategic, operating, and fiscal results of the engineering organization worldwide. Before joining NetLink, Aloke was VP of Technology at Xenon, where he led the company’s technology vision and product development roadmap for the IP Telephony and Enterprise Solutions market. Before Xenon, Aloke held several senior management positions at Motorola. He led development, integration, and deployment initiatives for MPEG-2 compliant digital set-top boxes and SNMP based network management systems in broadband access networks. Aloke’s work on Route Optimization and Traffic Management in ATM Networks earned him the prestigious Motorola Technical Excellence Award and ultimately led to a U.S. patent. Prior to Motorola, Aloke assumed several technical and business development positions with Nortel, and played key roles in product development and marketing for SS7 based telephony solutions and integrated network management systems. Aloke earned an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Canada, and a BS in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Jadavpur University, India.

pic Mr. Pedro Díaz Yuste
11888 Director
Telefonica Publicidad e Información

Pedro Díaz is 11888 Director of Telefonica Publicidad e Información (TPI), and he is in charge of the operations and marketing of 11888, the leading DA service in the Spanish market. Pedro first joined the company in 1997, as yellow pages Product Manager.

TPI is the leading YP publisher in Spanish-Portuguese spoken markets.

Prior to TPI, Pedro worked for over four years in Andersen Consulting, in projects related to Sales & Marketing.

Pedro has a degree in Telecom engineering from the ETSIT of Madrid, Spain, a PDD from IESE and he is CPIM from the American Production and Inventory Control Society.

pic Ms. Nancy A. Benovich Gilby
CEO
PocketThis

Nancy has been building successful startups for the last 18 years. She has helped
raise eight rounds of funding and has developed a unique, integrated approach to
company and market development, an approach that has generated three case
studies at the Harvard Business School. Most recently Nancy co-founded and served
as VP of engineering and product development at MarketSoft. Nancy's leadership in
product strategy and development contributed to another four successful companies,
including Firefly, purchased by Microsoft; Wildfire, purchased by Orange; Component
Software, co-founder, folded into Sun to become what is Java today; and On
Technology, a successful public company. Nancy holds an M.S.E. and a B.S.E. from
the University of Michigan.

pic Mr. James Glasspool
Director of Marketing
Volt Delta Europe Ltd

James Glasspool is responsible for the positioning and marketing of Volt Delta’s products to the European market. He has worked at Volt Delta since 1995 in a variety of sales and marketing posts. He also represents Volt Delta at the EIDQ Association and served as chairman of the EIDQ New Services working group and most recently as chair of the EIDQ Business Strategy working group.

Before Volt Delta, James worked for over 12 years in marketing and business development roles with Fujitsu and also at a multi-media based training company.

James holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics & Business Studies from the University of Liverpool and a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Married with a son and daughter, James also has a range of interests: he holds a Private Pilots License; is a keen yachtsman with a Yachtmasters skipper’s ticket; enjoys hill walking; and regularly participates in triathlons.

  EDM05 Gold Sponsors:  

Information Services Extended, Inc. (ISx)

         BTSLogic
 

EDM05 Silver Sponsors: 

  varetis
      VoltDelta
      Soleo Communications
      InfoNXX / The Number

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