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Mr. Guy
Birenbaum
CEO
L’ANNUAIRE UNIVERSELMr. 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
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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 –
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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. |
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Mr. Pedro Díaz Yuste
11888 Director
Telefonica Publicidad e InformaciónPedro 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. |
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Ms. Nancy A. Benovich Gilby
CEO
PocketThisNancy 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. |
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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. |
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