Conference: Developing Applications for Mobile Devices Track

As CEO of Cascada Mobile, Alan Lysne guides the company's growth and strategic direction with responsibility for identifying new opportunities and markets. Alan has over 13 years of experience in the communications and mobile software industry both in start ups and large companies. Prior to joining Cascada Mobile, Alan was a VP at Comverse where he ran the Toronto office and oversaw the self service and CRM software groups. Previously, Alan was the co-founder and CTO of Davinci Technologies which was acquired by CSG Systems and subsequently Comverse. Before starting Davinci, Alan was a management consultant at Accenture serving telecommunications clients across North America. Alan holds an Honors Electrical Engineering degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Alex Muller founded Slifter in 2005, a mobile marketing company focused on using wireless and LBS technologies to connect consumers with local retail stores. A year later, Alex launched the first location based product search engine for mobile devices. Slifter enables shoppers to search and share nearly 250 million products and promotions at over 150,000 U.S. locations, such as Best Buy; Toys"R"Us; Circuit City; Wal-Mart; Home Depot; Macy's and more, straight from their cell phones. Previously, Alex Muller co-founded, Evolve Living in 1999, a San Francisco-based company that used Internet applications to help businesses manage environmental and other non-financial performance metrics. A year later, Muller went on to coordinate the development and release of the consumer site PSN.com, a Latin-American version of ESPN.com. While at PSN.com he lead the company's adoption of sophisticated internet marketing techniques, created a beta version of PSN mobile, as well as a CRM database of opt-in SMS consumers. In 2001, Ecos Technologies purchased Evolve Living and its intellectual property. At this time, Muller returned to the company to serve as the SVP of Product Development and Management. At the start of 2004 Muller joined Linkshare to lead their product team, where he was responsible for the technology development and strategy across all their product lines. Muller designed the "next generation" product data distribution system that moved 100 million products per day for online mega-online retailers, like Overstock, Shop.com, Walmart and Target. . Muller received his MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, and an MS in Engineering from CMU. Previous to his graduate studies he received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University.

Mr. Birnbach is an industry expert on the topic of "Mobility in the Enterprise," and his firm - Vaultus Mobile Technologies is a pioneer in the wireless/mobility software arena. He has 25 years experience in the software industry in both software development and sales and marketing. Prior to joining Vaultus, he served as an executive with Marketsoft, where he led the sales organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He has also held management and executive positions with Onyx Software and Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Birnbach holds an M.S. in Management of Technology from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Jeanne Kolesnik is Business Development Director of Paragon Software Group's mobility division, encompassing mobile productivity applications for Enterprise, SMB and consumer markets worldwide. The division's initial goal was focused on localizing mobile software development for the Russian and Eastern European markets, and later, the development of hand-writing recognition applications along with a new and universal focus in Education, Security and Time Management. Currently, Paragon Software Group is a leading developer of innovative software for the PDA and smartphone software market. The company employs more than 200 IT professionals worldwide, and has offices in Germany, Russia, Switzerland, United States and Japan. With a decade of experience, Kolesnik has been involved in building stable partnerships with key telecom industry players all over the world, including platform enablers, mobile devices manufacturers, operators, distributors, publishers, online sales channels, and linguistic companies. As the director of Paragon's developer programs, she gained extensive experience creating value-added projects for Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, Vodafone, Orange, Merriam-Webster, Oxford, DUDEN, PONS, and Intellicast. She also oversees the development of new markets (iPhone & iPod software) and new regions (e.g. MEA, India, APAC). Additionally, she represents the company at industry events including Mobile World Congress, CeBIT, Symbian Smartphone Show, Nokia Application Summits in EMEA, India and APAC and a number of other special events organized by Nokia, UIQ, and Symbian. Kolesnik is the company's branch director in the Netherlands and oversees all international business development activity and initiatives. Kolesnik became Business Development Director after holding a variety of management positions in marketing, sales, PR and quality assurance.