James Buckley, CEO, TUNSTALL, UK

James Buckley is the Chief Executive Officer of the Tunstall Healthcare Group, the world’s leading provider of telecare and telehealth solutions.

James leads the management team that delivers Tunstall’s global business strategy ensuring that it is consistent with key market drivers and capable of meeting the demands of changing societies across the 30 countries where Tunstall does business.

With first hand experience of caring for his elderly parents, James is passionate about the pivotal role telecare and telehealth solutions play in meeting the challenges posed by an ageing population and the increase in prevalence of long term conditions.

Brought up in the Midlands, James completed his management training with Sainsbury's, spent 10 years at Cable & Wireless and in the late 1990's settled in Yorkshire where he became Managing Director of a licensed telephone operator.

James, who has one son, enjoys all sports particularly football and rugby.

Vittorio Colao, CEO, VODAFONE GROUP,

Vittorio joined the Board in October 2006 as Chief Executive, Europe and Deputy Group Chief Executive of Vodafone Group Plc. He succeeded Arun Sarin as Chief Executive on 29 July 2008.

Between 2004 and 2006 he was Chief Executive Officer of RCS MediaGroup in Milan, a leading Media Group, publishing newspapers, magazines and books in Italy, Spain and France.

Prior to that, Vittorio held the post of Regional CEO, South Europe, Middle East and Africa, of Vodafone Group Plc, and he was an Executive Director on the main Board. Before the Vodafone acquisition, Vittorio was COO and CEO of Omnitel Pronto Italia, now Vodafone Italy.
Vittorio spent the early part of his career at McKinsey & Co, where he was a Partner in the Milan office, working on media, telecommunications and industrial goods.
Vittorio holds a Business Degree from Bocconi University and an MBA with Honours from the Harvard Business School.

Brian Dolan, Editor,  MOBILEHEALTHNEWS, USA

Brian Dolan, Editor, mobihealthnews. Prior to founding mobihealthnews with business partner Joe Maillie, Brian was a senior analyst with Boston-based research firm Yankee Group, where he led program development for the company’s Mobile Internet World event and helped craft the company’s publication development. Brian got his start in 2005 as editor of FierceWireless, a leading trade publication in the wireless industry. While at Fierce he helped develop a number of online webinars and live events’ programs and also founded publications covering mobile content and IPTV. Brian has spoken at a number of industry events including CTIA, FOSE, Wireless Cities and IPTV Evolution. He has frequently served as an industry expert for newsradio and the consumer press. Feel free to contact him at brian.dolan@mobihealthnews.com

Neil Jordan, Managing DirectorWorld Wide Health, MICROSOFT CORPORATION, USA

Neil Jordan is the managing director of the Worldwide Health Group at Microsoft Corp. As such, he is charged with defining and articulating the Microsoft vision for the future of healthcare, and how Microsoft products, technologies and partner solutions will make it a reality.

He was born and educated in the U.K., obtaining a bachelor of arts honors degree and then a master’s in biological anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He joined Microsoft seven years ago, and for three years he was the head of Healthcare for Microsoft U.K., leading the local team working with the National Health Service (NHS) in England during the unprecedented National Programme for IT, before joining Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., to take up his current role.

Jordan is passionate about the positive transformation that technology can provide to the delivery of healthcare in emerging and developed economies. He is equally passionate about the need to measure and prove that value in not-for-profit healthcare economies, where it is all the more vital to ensure that the benefit realized from a budget spent on technology solutions must balance and should significantly outweigh that derived by spending the same budget on procedures, staff and medication.

Before joining Microsoft, Jordan worked seven years for IBM Corp. with software in a number of industry markets, but with a major proportion of time spent in the world of telecommunications and Internet service providers. Before that, he spent time building healthcare applications in the U.K. for the NHS, and also spent a number of years as a professional classical singer, a passion that he attempts to keep alive to this day through performances and teaching.

Erika Karplus, Vice President,Pharmaceutical Systems, PROTEUS, USA

Ms. Karplus is a member of the Proteus Market Development team responsible for developing the strategy and applications for the Company’s intelligent pharmaceuticals business.

She previously worked as a consultant for Canaan Partners, a venture capital firm, focusing on strategic business planning and market analysis for early stage biopharmaceutical, medical products, and diagnostics companies.

She served as Vice President, Marketing and Strategic Planning, at CytoTherapeutics, Inc., a neurology-focused cell and gene therapy company.

Ms. Karplus was a Principal in the Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals Group of the management consulting firm Booz, Allen & Hamilton for over eight years.

She holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MSE from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in physics from Yale.

George MacGinnis, Assistive Technology Programme, NHS CONNECTING FOR HEALTH, UK

George leads NHS Connecting for Health’s assistive technology programme, which was established in response to growing need to support the development and procurement of telehealth technologies that meet the emerging needs of the National Health Service in England, including integration into the NHS’ electronic Care Records Service.

As well as working with the Continua Health Alliance driving the interoperability agenda, George has been involved in setting up a national procurement framework for personal health systems and supporting the Department of Health in the creation of the large scale “Long Term Condition Whole System Demonstrator” projects in England. George has been recognised for his contribution to the Continua Health Alliance with a Key Contributor award.

Chuck Parker, Executive Director, CONTINUA HEALTH ALLIANCE, USA

Charles (Chuck) Parker is the Executive Director of the Continua Health Alliance. This membership-driven company focuses on developing an eco-system of interoperable personal health devices.  Through working with Standards bodies and industry experts, Continua publishes certification standards built upon international criteria from IEEE, HL7, Bluetooth, USB, and others. Chuck leads the many workgroups and day-to-day operations of the Alliance.

Prior to coming to Continua, Chuck was the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Business Development and Marketing where his primary duties were developing and managing new business opportunities focused on increasing the adoption of health information technology, as well as developing quality measurement and pay-for-performance systems. He has led national programs for practice transformation and has served on national committees for assessing adoption requirements. He has been instrumental in developing Quality Measurement programs for CMS, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Bridges to Excellence. Before joining Masspro, Mr. Parker was Director and National Lead for Internet Technologies, Director of Strategic Accounts, and Director of Internet and Physician Office sales at VHA, Inc., a national healthcare alliance based in Irving, Texas.

Mr. Parker has over 20 years of experience in healthcare technology and the strategic design of evaluation and measurement strategies. He served as principal in the development of the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Bridges to Excellence (BTE) Physician Office Link, the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT (ONC) Secure Messaging Pilot program, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Doctor’s Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT) program, including the Office System Survey, a national physician office assessment tool. His experience includes more than eight years in methodology and program evaluation. Considered an authority in his field, Mr. Parker serves in positions of leadership on a variety of professional boards and associations, including the Privacy and Compliance Expert Panel for the Certification Commission on Healthcare Information Technology, the National Governor’s Alliance, the Ambulatory Task Force for the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society, the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, the Massachusetts State Technical Advisory Group, and the Office of National Coordinator’s HIT Definitions Project. He routinely provides testimony to Federal and State authorities regarding HIT.

Currently, Mr. Parker is pursuing a Master of Science degree in Healthcare Informatics at Northeastern University. He earned his BA in Communication Studies and Business Management at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Claire Thwaites, Head, United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership

Claire Thwaites joined the UN Foundation in December 2007; she heads the Partnership between the Vodafone Foundation and the United Nations Foundation. Before her current role, Ms. Thwaites was based in Brussels as head of EU Affairs for Vodafone. In that role she oversaw telecommunications regulatory policy developments and political engagement with the EU institutions. Previously Ms. Thwaites led international government affairs at Vodafone, based in the UK, working with Vodafone’s subsidiaries world-wide to increase political engagement. Prior to that, Ms. Thwaites was vice president of government affairs at Marconi and a senior manager of government affairs at Allied Domecq. She has worked for members of the UK Parliament, the European Parliament and also in the House of Representatives. Ms. Thwaites has a degree in political science from the University of Leicester in the UK

Margarat Parton , CEO, NHS Technology Adoption Centre, UK

Profile to follow shortly

Dr Mike Short,
Vice President,
Telefonica Europe and,
Former Chairman,
GSM Association, UK

Mike’s career spans 35 years in Electronics and Telecommunications, with the last 21 years in Mobile Communications. He was appointed Director of Cellnet in 1989 dealing with major infra-structure investments and commercial agreements. In 1993 the focus moved to launching Cellnet’s GSM service and establishing Roaming Agreements.

He was elected Chairman of the global GSM Association for 1995/96 and served on their Executive Board for 5 years.  He has also served as a member of the UK Home Office Internet Task Force, UK OSAB (Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board) and DCSF Home access to Broadband committees. He is the current Chairman of the UK Government Trade and Investment ICT Sector advisory board and Board member of UK Child Council for Internet safety, as well as Deputy President of IET (from Oct 09)

Mike chaired the Mobile Data Association 1998 - 2008, and is now Honorary President - MDA.

After looking after Cellnet’s 3G strategy and external relations he was appointed VP Technology for O2 Group in 2000, prior to demerger from BT.

Mike’s focus today is on Third Generation mobile, Mobile data applications in the Public Sector and steering Telefonica Europe’s Group Research and Development in mobile. 

In the last 5 years Mike has also been appointed Visiting Professor at Surrey University, De Montfort and Lancaster Universities, and to the Boards of Coventry University Board and Ravensbourne College . He was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 2008 for services to the Mobile Communications industry. He is a Fellow of IET/BCS/RGS and a Member of the Royal Television Society

Paul Williamson,
Head of Wireless Medical,
Cambridge Consultants, UK

Paul Williamson is leader of the Wireless Medical Business at Cambridge Consultants. Cambridge Consultants offers a rare combination of professional Wireless system development, and Medical product design capability. Work within the Cambridge Consultants Wireless medical team has delivered new products for health and fitness in the home, the latest developments in low power radio for medical implants, and wireless patient monitoring systems for hospitals.

Thierry Zylberberg,
General Manager Health Business,
France Telecom, France

Thierry ZYLBERBERG is Executive Vice President in charge of Strategic Partnerships and is also General Manager of the newly created Health Line of Business at France Telecom.

Previously he was Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing of the Major Account Division of France Telecom.

He has served in various positions within the FT Group, including General Manager of France Telecom in Mexico, managing the controlling interest France Telecom took in Telmex in 1990, and providing assistance and consultancy to Telmex in its newly deregulated market; Marketing Director, Professional Products and Services in France Telecom, where he was in particular responsible for the development of such products as ISDN, PBX, modems and Centrex.

He helped create and managed the Theseus Institute, a Business School focusing on the impact of Information Technology on corporate management and strategy.

He is a graduate from Stanford University, Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.

Rory O'Neill,
Director of Solutions Marketing,
Research InMotion, UK

Biography coming soon!

David Sanderson,
Director of Business Development,
Medapps, USA

David Sanderson has over 25 years of management experience with Global 1000 companies in consumer products, technology and consulting. He has built global businesses at major corporations, working and living in Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has managed sales and marketing programs for a variety of companies in the consumer product and technology industries. His background with major global companies and start up experience in the enterprise software/consulting field has enabled him to develop significant expertise in growing companies’ revenues and positioning in the marketplace.

He developed the ‘next solution’ for the extended enterprise, called Global Relationship Management (GRM) which offers solutions for the complex operating international environment that companies face in managing their daily business globally including marketing, business intelligence and collaboration modules. In the past three years he has worked with the M2M vertical with applications in GSM technologies in healthcare and security. He worked with GPI as a Principal with worldwide clients such as ST Microelectronics, Nike, Schneider Electronics, Depuy Spine (J&J) etc. Previously, he was Vice President of Marketing at Axeda Systems, Inc. He also served as Vice President, International Rockport Company, a Division of Reebok International.

David speaks Spanish, German and French and serves on the board of Assist (an international educational nonprofit.) He was also a lecturer in international management and marketing at Boston University and is a frequent presenter at various industry conferences topics such as Marketing Planning Guide and Managing Indirect Sales Channels. He has a degree in Economics from Union College and an MBA from Northeastern University.

Doug Chambers,
Director of Strategy,
GSMA, UK

In his role as Director of Market Development, Doug has responsibility for identifying opportunities for collective action by the mobile operator community and leading the strategic initiatives and projects to deliver them. Previously to this he was Global Marketing Head of Enterprise Devices at Vodafone Global, where he spent 12 years working at both national and international level. Before joining Vodafone he was Northern European General Manager at Racal Redac.

Mohamad Arif Ali,
Clinician,
MD CPHIMS, USA

Dr. Ali received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his medical degree from Saba University. He has done clinical research while also completing one year in surgical training at the University of Connecticut and three years of Internal Medicine Training at Allegheny General Hospital. He has done marketing, research and development and assisted in getting a patent approval for a pre-stained quality control slide. While in medical school he continued to share his technical expertise by giving lectures and presentations and assisted two Health systems with EHR design, implementation and training.

Currently, he practices Internal Medicine in a private practice while also providing EHR, E-prescribing, CPOE, order sets, mobility, wireless medicine and workflow consulting. He is a member of the HIT Task Force for the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He has been a member of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and is currently on the Board of Directors for Western Pennsylvania HIMSS, Chair of the WPHIMSS communications committee, Co-Chair City of Pittsburgh Mayor’s Youth Commission Health & Wellness Subcommittee and Senior Medical Advisor to ProcessProxy The Healthcare Smartgrid™ Company.

Dr. Ali has authored articles in newspapers and journals while also speaking at local, regional and national events.

Allan Cockell,
CEO,
t+Medical, UK

Photo and biography coming soon!

Natasha Avila,
Founder & Managing Director,
E-medicis

Natasha started e-medicis after 10 years experience as Technology Consultant and Manager in the USA, UK and France. In General Electric Healthcare she was responsible for the European operation services for the medical information systems product line. She has a Master in Engineering from Cornell University and a Master in Business Administration degree from Cambridge University.

Timo Ahopelto,
Co-Founder,
Lifeline Ventures

Timo Ahopelto [timo (AT) lifelineventures.com] co-founded Lifeline Ventures after being Head of Strategy at Blyk. Timo was part of the very first Blyk team, working broadly across the entire business with the key responsibilities in Blyk's media industry offering, country expansion, funding and analyst relations. Blyk - the mobile engagement media - has been broadly cited as the company who brought the media business model into the mobile telecoms - the only mass media channel not funded by advertising today.

Prior to Blyk, Timo was the Co-Founder and Founding CEO of CRF Health. Today, CRF Health is the global market leader in electronic patient diaries in clinical R&D, and among the top 3 venture-funded technology companies in Finland measured in revenue and profit. Under Timo's leadership, in just five years, CRF Health grew to serve nearly all the top 20 pharmaceutical companies with phase I-III clinical programs running in over 60 countries.

Timo has also worked at McKinsey & Company and Nokia, focusing on projects in new venture development. He has a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Management and Telecommunications Software from Helsinki University of Technology.

Marcia Rankin, Head of Digital Channels and Innovation,Department of Health NHS Choices

Biography coming soon!

Neil Campbell, Founder,Scottishhealthcare.co.uk

 Photo and biography coming soon!

Dr Stephen Ladyman MP, Former Minister of Transport andEx-Pfizer R&, UK

 Stephen Ladyman has a scientific and technical background, starting his career as a radiation biologist and then moving into IT management in medical research environments. Before he became an MP he was Head of Computer Support for Pfizer Central Research in Sandwich, Kent.

 After election as the Member of Parliament for South Thanet in 1997 he held a number of backbench positions included Chair of the All Party Autism Group (1999-2003) and he was on the Environment, Transport and the Regions Select Committee and its Transport Sub-Committee from 1999 to 2001.

 In 2001 he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for the Armed Forces and in 2003 was appointed Minister for Community at the Department of Health, leading the publication of the National Service Frameworks for Children and Long Term Conditions and the Green Paper on Adult Social Care. In that position he was a strong proponent for the role of ‘telecare’ and assistive technology in the health and social care sectors. Between 2005 and 2007 he was Minister of State for Transport with a portfolio that included roads and shipping.

 He remains the MP for South Thanet and is now also Vice Chair of the Labour Party focusing on campaigns in the South East of England and Chair of the South East England Regional Select Committee. He also advises ITIS Ltd., a company that collects and distributes traffic information.

Graham Palmer,Country Manager, Intel, UK and Ireland

 Director & Country Manager, Intel UK & Ireland

 Graham Palmer is Director & Country Manager for Intel, UK & Ireland. In his capacity, Graham is responsible for all sales development, marketing, branding and strategic initiatives undertaken by Intel in the UK and Ireland.

 Since joining Intel in 1988, Graham has held a range of marketing and communication roles including CPU and Graphics product marketing, PR and brand management, whilst more recently leading the UK digital home sales team. Prior to taking up the role of Country Manager in August 2005, Graham managed Intel's EMEA advertising, online and campaigns team.

 Graham is married with 3 children.

Donald Jones,VP, Health and Life Sciences,Qualcomm

 Donald Jones serves as vice president of business development for Qualcomm Incorporated. He is responsible for leading Qualcomm’s expansion of wireless technologies into the consumer health, healthcare and medical device markets. Mr. Jones is also a founding board member of the West Wireless Health Institute in La Jolla, California, a global leader in wireless health research.

 Prior to joining Qualcomm, Jones spent 22 years developing and growing healthcare enterprises. He has served as chief operating officer of MedTrans (now American Medical Response) the world’s largest emergency medical services provider. He was instrumental in AMR’s move into emergency physician practice management, launching what has become the largest medical practice in the US serving over hospitals. Mr. Jones was also founder and chairman of EMME, Mexico’s largest member-based, subscription health service; and as senior vice president of HealthCap, a venture capital backed startup, and at the time, the second largest provider of women’s healthcare in the United States. Jones has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, having been involved in over 130 acquisitions. In 2000, the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS) named Jones One of the 20 Most Influential People in EMS.

Adam Cairns, CEO, Airedale NHS Trust, UK

 Adam Cairns is the Chief Executive of Airedale NHS Trust. He has spent his entire career in the National Health Service, holding a variety of senior posts in Yorkshire and the North West. Previous posts include Director of Service Contracting and Director of the Yorkshire Heart Centre at the United Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust. Following the merger of the two Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trusts Adam was appointed Director of Acute Medicine and Cardiovascular Services. Immediately prior to moving to Airedale NHS Trust he held the post of Director of Communications and Corporate Affairs at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Sharifah Amirah, Principal Analyst, Telecoms Europe, Frost & Sullivan, UK

 Sharifah Amirah joined Frost & Sullivan in 2005 and is currently based in London. She leads Frost & Sullivan’s EIA Telecoms research team. The team’s focus is on identifying new service areas for industry players to maximize current investments. Her personal research interest includes mobility and convergence services, data retention and environmental sustainability within telecoms.

 Prior to joining Frost & Sullivan, Sharifah had gained 6 years of Telecoms corporate strategy and business development experience in South East Asia. She has led business units within regional public listed telecommunication companies, overseeing a spectrum of ICT products and services. Her strong financial background is reflected through her involvement in numerous corporate exercises as well as participation in the Malaysian 3G Bid and the market liberalisation process - providing input in the financial modelling of both. Sharifah has also had hands-on operational telecoms experience, having been responsible for the pioneer launch of Broadband services in Malaysia.

 Her financial and operational experience in both the Asian and European Mobile & Fixed Telecoms sectors enables her to provide strategic inputs into our client’s business models as well as growth strategies. Some of the key clients she interacts with include Nokia, LG, HTC, Sony Ericsson, CISCO and IBM, Telefonica-02, France Telecom and BT. Sharifah also engages with our Financial Services clients e.g. Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital and Legatum particularly in discussing trends and opportunities in the Mobile sector.

Rajeev Chaudry, Mayo Clinic, USA

 Photo and biography coming soon!

Ray Jordan, CEO,D2i Solutions, UK

 Ray co-founded D2i Solutions in 2000 to specialise in collaboration solutions in Healthcare. HE has designed and implemented solutions that support multi-disciplinary solutions, and cross agency collaboration, including child protection, End of Life care, Long Term conditions. He has pioneered solutions that are able to meet Information Governance requirements and the challenges of mobile working. He has focused his work in Healthcare over the last 15 years into Community and Primary Care solutions. Concentrating on security and confidentiality issues, he has advised many healthcare organisations on meeting compliance requirements.

 Prior to establishing business in healthcare, Ray has focussed his efforts on aligning investment in technology with business objectives and strategy. He founded IBMs European consultancy practice, and has consulted with multi-national organisations worldwide.

Tobias Alpsten,CEO, iPLATO Healthcare, UK

 Tobias Alpsten is the CEO of iPLATO Healthcare, a London based venture capital backed company specialised in mobile health. Over the last three years, iPLATO Healthcare services have grown to cover more than 5 million patients and 800 healthcare provider organisations in the United Kingdom. Between 2000 and 2006 Mr Alpsten ran a company that provided consulting and mobile application development services to clients such as Bank of America, Citi, the International Herald Tribune and Astra Zeneca. He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the ENST de Paris. Mr Alpsten started his career with four years at Accenture in Paris working on BPO transactions and supply chain strategy projects.

Kent Dicks, CEO, Medapps, USA

 Mr. Dicks is CEO, Chairman and Founder of MedApps, Inc., a Mobile Wireless Health Monitoring company headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. With over 26 years experience in the technology industry, Mr. Dicks has positioned MedApps at the forefront in developing new telehealth solutions for remote patient monitoring. Mr. Dicks’ innovation with MedApps has centered around the introduction of wireless technology for the transmission of medical data from patient to healthcare provider and data depository (online electronic health record). Mr. Dicks background in information technology includes work with a number of Fortune 100 companies such as Texas Instruments and American Express, among others. He was previously founder and owner of a leading Arizona staffing and human resources firm, specializing in top-secret contract work from 1996 to 2007.

 Mr. Dicks leadership and vision has been distinguished though the work with his various companies over the years. Recognitions include the Entrepreneurial Success Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration, Dell / NFIB’s Top 10 Innovative Companies in the U.S., Nokia Mobile Rules -Best Business Plan (International), and the Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Award for Wireless Point of Care. Mr. Dicks earned his degree in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University’s College of Business.

Anders Edlund, Vice President, Bluetooth Special Interest Group, Sweden

 Anders Edlund is the Marketing Director for the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). Edlund has devoted the past ten years to Bluetooth wireless technology - first at Swedish telecommunications leader Ericsson and then at the Bluetooth SIG. Over the years, Edlund has become a distinguished spokesperson appearing in conferences and hundreds of press articles and TV news stories worldwide.

 Edlund joined the Bluetooth SIG in August 2002 with the goal to assure that Bluetooth wireless technology becomes a true global consumer technology. He is responsible for developing the marketing activities as well as making sure that Bluetooth wireless technology is effectively and accurately communicated to its members, influencers and end users. Edlund is also responsible for developing the business potential of ultra low power technology to new industries.

 Between 1997 and 2002, Edlund worked for Ericsson, where he was heading up the marketing activities of bringing the Bluetooth wireless technology to the market. In doing so, he played a key role in the formation of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group and the development of Bluetooth wireless technology from the very beginning. In addition to managing the world-wide registration of the trademark, he built a marketing strategy with convincing user scenarios.

 Over the years, Edlund has acquired solid business, product management and marketing experience. His previous business expertise is in satellite communication and industrial computer science.

Robert Istepanian,Director- MINT, Kingston University, UK

 Robert S. H. Istepanian is a Professor of Data Communications in Kingston University, London and a visiting Professor in the Division of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, St. George’s University of London. He is the founder and director of the Mobile Information and Network Technologies Research Centre (MINT) in Kingston University.

 He completed his studies and obtained his PhD from the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department Loughborough University, UK in 1994. Since then he held several academic and research academic posts in UK and Canada including senior lectureships in the Universities of Portsmouth and Brunel University in UK and was also an associate Professor in the Universities of Ryerson, Toronto and adjunct Professor in the University of West Ontario in Canada. He was the 2008 Leverhulme distinguished visiting fellow at the Centre for Global e-health Innovation University of Toronto and the University’s Health Network, Canada.

 He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology (Formerly IEE) and Senior Member of the IEEE. He is investigator and co-investigator of several EPSRC and EU research grants on wireless telemedicine and other research /visiting grants from the British Council and the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and Leverhulme Trust. He was also the UK lead investigator of several EU -IST and e-Ten projects in the areas of mobile healthcare. He is also a member on several experts and grants review committees and more recently was a member for the Canada Foundation for Innovations experts’ panel and their strategic healthcare projects.

 He currently serves on several IEEE Transactions and international journals’ editorial boards including IEEE Transaction on Information Technology in Biomedicine (since 1997), IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Int. J. of Telemedicine and Applications and Journal of Mobile Multimedia. He has also served as guest editor of several special issues of the IEEE Transactions including IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (on seamless mobility for healthcare and m-health systems, 2005) and IEEE Transactions of NanoBioScience (on Microarray Image Processing, 2004).

 He was the co-chairman of the UK/RI chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology in 2002. He is recipient of the 2009 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology outstanding IEEE Transactions paper on m-health systems. He also served as expert and reviewer on numerous funding bodies in UK and Canada. Also invited keynote speaker in several international conferences in UK and USA and Canada including, the Harvard and Partners Telemedicine conference on ‘Optimising Care Through Communication Technologies’ (Boston-2005) and the second International Conference on Smart homes and health Telematics, ICOST (Singapore-2004) and the ‘Building on Broadband Britain’ Conference (London-2005). He was also on the technical committee of the IEEE HealthComm International Workshops (Nancy, France2002), (Los Angeles, 2003) and (Seoul, 2005). He also served on the technical committee and chaired several national and international international conferences in UK (IET) and Canada including IEEE conferences including the Telemed conferences of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, the 2000 World Medical Congress, Chicago and the IEEE- Engineering in Medicine and Biology International Annual Conferences (IEEE-EMBS 97, 98, 99, 06, 07,08)

 He has published more than 170-refereed journal and conference papers and edited three books including chapters in the areas of mobile communications for healthcare, m-health technologies and biomedical signals processing

Dr Joel Selanikio, CEO and Co-Founder, DataDyne, USA

 Joel Selanikio is a pediatrician, and former Wall Street computer consultant and CDC epidemiologist, with a passion for combining computer science and public health to address health inequities in developing countries. A noted social entrepreneur, he leads DataDyne.org's efforts to develop and promote new technologies for health and development, and is a pioneer in the use of mobile technologies for public health. A winner in 2009 of both the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability and the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare IT, Dr. Selanikio's work has been reported on by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and the Washington Post, among others.

 In his former role as an officer of the Public Health Service, Dr. Selanikio served as the Chief of Operations for the HHS Secretary's Emergency Command Center in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2005, he was given the Haverford Award for Humanitarian Service for his work in treating tsunami victims in Aceh, Indonesia (for which he was profiled in the Washington Post).

 Dr. Selanikio holds a bachelor's degree from Haverford College, and an MD from Brown University, and is a graduate of the Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship of the CDC. He continues to practice clinical pediatrics both as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and on the Emergency Response Team of the International Rescue Committee, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Bright B. Simons, Director of Development Research,IMANI; Coordinator of the mPedigree Network, Ghana

 Bright B. Simons is the Director of Development Research at IMANI, and the Coordinator of the mPedigree Network, a mobile supply chain standards developer. He performs a range of functions for IMANI related to social marketing, research and alliance management. These duties have involved speaking engagements around the world and led to numerous quotations in the international press, ranging from opinions in the Asian Times to appearances on the BBC. In 2009, he joined the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Community at Davos. Bright, a TED and Ashoka Fellow, is a member of the Evian Group, and an active member of other development-focused societies in Africa and elsewhere, including the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Mobile Communications of the World Economic Forum. He is a recipient of numerous awards, ranging from Marie Curie and Commonwealth Vision Grants to a PPARC Scholarship in Gamma Ray Astronomy. Through his work with mPedigree, he nurtures comprehensive and sometimes groundbreaking insights into the changing landscape of mobile health innovation.

Alison Bloch, Strategic Advisor mHealth,GSMA, USA

 Alison is the mHealth Advisor for the GSM Association’s Development Fund where she leads the mHealth Programme with a focus on accelerating the market for commercially and socially viable health solutions primarily in developing nations. She has deep experience helping complex public and private health organizations with issues related to strategic direction, operational management, and organizational effectiveness. Alison’s areas of expertise include strategic planning, process improvement, relationship management between disparate stakeholder groups, and the design and application of technological solutions to deliver upon goals and objectives for both non-profit and for-profit entities. She also serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the mHealth Alliance.

 This experience has included advising the global health chair of the Clinton Global Initiative on ways to harness technology for sustainable international health interventions that engage end users as well as consulting to McKesson Corporation on strategic business opportunities to use technological solutions to improve the delivery of critical health care business processes in hospitals and health institutions. For a newly created foundation in Haiti, Alison helped the board determine its value proposition and establish a strategy to use culturally appropriate technology solutions to improve access to healthcare services. At a large California-based community health network, she developed a capital planning strategy to improve health service offerings and coordinate patient information and billing across health centers.

 Previously, Alison has worked in clinical research in hematology and oncology while at Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital where she managed cross-functional teams of physicians, hospital staff and administration, patients, government bodies and private sector sponsors for investigational drug trials. She has also worked as a strategy consultant for Katzenbach Partners where she focused on business strategy and technology process redesign for the pharmaceutical and related health industries.

 Alison holds a BA in Economics from Barnard College, Columbia University and earned an MBA and a Masters in Public Health with a concentration in technology from the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and School of Public Health respectively. While at Berkeley, Alison received a fellowship through the Blum Center for Developing Economies to develop healthcare-based information and communication technology initiatives in East Africa.

Dr Ruchi Dass, Vice President- Lifetime Wellness Rx International (An Apollo Group of Hospitals Initiative)

 Biography coming soon!

Chris Toumazou, Co-Founder and CEO, Toumaz Technology

 Professor Chris Toumazou FRS is recognised globally as one of the foremost innovators in the area of mobile/wireless healthcare. Toumaz Technology’s Sensium™ intelligent wireless body monitoring system is being acknowledged across industry as a genuine technological breakthrough (for more information about Sensium, please see below). Sensium has been profiled extensively in worldwide media, and was featured on Click (the BBC’s flagship technology programme) last year. Sensium is now being used as the foundation for solutions targeted for use in hospital ward environments, telecare and care home settings, pharmaceutical trials, lifestyle and wellness programmes, and elite sports performance optimisation.

 In addition to his commercial activities, in 2003 Professor Toumazou raised £26 million to create the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London, a multidisciplinary research institute focusing on personalised medicine. This 2.46min video offers a great high-level overview of the latest breakthrough innovations coming out of the Institute in the area of personalised "digital healthcare", including the Sensium wireless body monitoring system. Chris was asked to make this video in response to his recent win of the prestigious World Technology Award 2009 for Health and Medicine. Past winners of the awards include Craig Venter for the Human Genome Project and Sir Tim Berners-Lee for the invention of the worldwide web.

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Rachel O'Connell,Vice President AOL and Chief Safety Officer, Bebo

 Rachel is passionate about the potential to harness social networking services to facilitate social innovation, increase positive social capital, deliver support services, democratise information exchange and to educate. She is chair of the EU Safer Social Networking taskforce which developed a set of best practice standards (Safer Social Networking Principles) for the online industry; these were launched in February 2009.

 Rachel has led the development of the Be One platform (www.bebo.com/beone), which is a centralised repository of non-profits, support organisations and charities. Bebo actively encourages voluntary organisations to set up a presence online (whether that be on Bebo or elsewhere), the philosophy underpinning this approach is to ensure that young people have 24/7 access to services and support they may need.

 Prior to joining Bebo, Rachel was Director of the Cyberspace Research Unit at the University of Central Lancashire.

David Birch,CEO, Consult Hyperion

 Biography and Photograph coming soon!

Jof Arnold, Founder and CEO,Gymfu.com

 Starting with designing robots to inspect and repair nuclear reactors at the age of 18, Jof's career has taken him from motorsport and spacecraft through to sports cars, fuel injection systems and finally mobile. After a spell as a director of social-filtering startup i-together, in Jan 2009 Jof co-founded GymFu.com to produce a suite of innovative and motivating motion-detecting fitness games. Drawing on the fantastic feedback from the GymFu community, the team are now focussing on a new stealth startup with a disruptive approach to wellbeing - interested parties are welcome to contact Jof directly for invites to the closed testing.

Michael Clay, Open Development,Verizon Wireless, USA

 Michael is regarded as a highly accomplished senior-level sales business development executive with 20-year professional track record generating new business opportunities for optimum revenues within the wireless and mobile broadband service industries. Extensive expertise in device certification, product development, application integration and large-scale maintenance service programs for a wide range of technical products and vertical industries. Michael is specifically focused within the Wireless Healthcare and Consumer Electronics segments. Experience and outstanding analytical abilities leveraged to identify new market opportunities, facilitate and integrate innovative business applications, and understand clients’ unique resource requirements. Recognized for strategic planning that positioned companies at the forefront of sales revenue and product development within the tier-1 communications industry on a global level.

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Marc Berrebi,CEO, eDevice

 Marc Berrebi is the Chief Executive Officer of eDevice, a pioner and leader in wireless solutions for healthcare equipment.

 In this role, Marc leads the company's vision and the strategy toward growing markets with high ROI (return on investment). Having started connecting medical devices in 2002, eDevice has accumulated a substantial experience in building end to end connectivity solutions with the leading companies of the medical device world. With tens of thousands of connected devices all over the world, eDevice has one of the largest installed base on communicating helthcare equipment.

 Prior to eDevice, Marc co-founded in 1989 and was President of Marvin Software, the world leader in financial calculation software. Marvin was acquired by The Reuters Group in 2000.

 Marc co-founded also Com6, a company specialized in Customer Relationship Management. Com6 did an IPO on the French stock market in 2000 before merging with Business&Decision.

 Before that, Marc was consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and VP Sales of a major French PC distribution company.

 He holds a MBA from ESCP (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris).

 Marc has been awarded the Transformation Award by the University of Wharton / Infosys and has been featured by TIME Magazine as one of the 25 European Tech leaders who are changing the way we work, live and play.

 Passionate about new trends in society, he is, under a different name, an organizer of major street-art events all over the world, has written three art books (the latest was about women as ordinary heroes), and produced an award winning film about the Middle-East conflict.

Neil Campbell, Specialist, Scottish Healthcare

Neil Campbell is a Specialist in Scottish Healthcare. In this role, Neil provides up-to-date knowledge and information on Healthcare Technology as well as creating links and networks between users and providers of this service. The current healthcare technology platforms include mobile working, telehealth and telecare.

Neil has more than 16 years of sales and marketing experience in healthcare and working with the NHS across the UK including, Scotland, Ireland (North and South), Wales and England.

Neil helps healthcare technology companies to enter the NHS Markets successfully by providing them with rapid understanding the processes and procedures required to successfully engage with the NHS.

Neil is passionate about mobile healthcare and its possibilities. Neil provides marketing and communication services that help NHS organisations, healthcare technology companies and patient organisations achieve their healthcare goals of improving patient care across NHS.

To contact Neil please phone 01383 622612, email neil@scottishhealthcare.co.uk or go to his website scottishhealthcare.co.uk

Frederic Luu,
Vice President Sales Marketing,
EMEA & Japan

Frederic Luu  joined Digi International in 1997 and quickly developed the Southern Europe, Middle  East and African headquarters in Paris,   France, as well  as the company’s distribution channel across this region. He is now the Vice  President Sales Marketing EMEA & Japan responsible  for the sales teams in Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands,  Belgium, Denmark and Japan.

Frédéric Luu has over fifteen years experience managing direct and indirect sales  in France and across Europe in the high speed networking and communications market. Before joining Digi, he was Sales Director for Southern Europe at Proteon International, where he implemented a new Internet/Intranet strategy. Prior to this Mr Luu was Southern Europe Manager  for Thomas-Conrad, where he created the subsidiary.

He is a graduate of the Ecole Superieure de Commerce in Tours, with a major in Marketing and Computer  Science.

Whenever he is  not travelling on business throughout the EMEA region Frederic Luu lives in Paris, France.  He is fond of sports and in his spare time  runs marathons and teaches scuba diving.