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Peter Kerckhoff is Senior Vice President Content & Portal for T-Online. Peter holds an MBA from the University of Cologne and the Columbia University, New York. After finalising his studies, he started his professional career at the National Savings Bank in Bonn where he completed a two year traineeship.

In 2001, he joined the Belgacom Group, the incumbent Belgian operator, as Product Manager for residential terminals linked to the broadband offers on DSL lines.

Ivano Costa received his Ph.D in Telecommunication from Polytechnic of  Turin (Italy) in 2001 and his M.S. Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1998.

In 2003 Claus Michael Drastrup founded FastTV as one of two partners. 

Marc Overton is Vice President of Strategy and Business Performance for Orange UK.  He has responsibility for developing a single multi-play vision and business strategy across both Orange UK and sister company Wanadoo UK. 

Michelle Garden manages the marketing mix for Telkom Media's products and services, and is responsible for the formulation of bundling and content value propositions across a range of converging technologies. 

He is a twenty year veteran of the communication industry. He has been a VP for marketing, sales, services and technical divisions.

In his present job at Kabel Noord he tries to develop new broadband based services for the benefit of his company, Kabel Noord and of it’s shareholders, the five municipalities where our network is situated. These services should have a positive effect on employment, tourism, education, health care and the local government.

Ms. Lo is known for her ability to capitalize on emerging trends, create new markets and innovate new technology.

Robin is Director, Xbox Live for Europe in Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division. His main focus is on business development activities, with Broadband operators and entertainment companies (right holders) as main partners.

Mr Johansson has more than 25 years of experience from the datacom industry. Joining Ericsson in 1979, he became responsible for product marketing of packet switching equipment and multi service networks.

As Director of Marketing and Communications for Microsoft Corporation’s Microsoft TV division, Ed Graczyk is responsible for establishing the company as the leading provider of software that enables network operators, consumer electronics manufacturers, and TV content providers to create and deliver enhanced TV services worldwide.

Jean-François EREAU is presently Strategic Marketing Director at Alcatel-Lucent Mobile Broadcast, Alcatel-Lucent internal venture in charge of Mobile TV. Prior to that Jeff was marketing director at Alcatel Alenia Space, in charge of satellite applications for Media & Entertainment markets. 

Paolo Pastorino holds a degree in Physics (M.S.) from the University of Torino, ITALY, and a Master in Telecommunications and Information Technology from COREP/SSGRR, Italy.  His experience ranges from the design of optoelectronic devices to advanced residential/SOHO networking solutions.

Dr. Monk serves on the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA)  Board of  Directors and as Chairman of the MoCA Specification Working Group. As Chief Technology Officer for Entropic Communications he is responsible for new technology, standards activities and patents.

Frank Pauli is responsible for Connected Planet content and services programs within Philips Consumer Electronics (PCE).

Victor holds the position as product owner of Digital-TV over broadband and Triple Play at Canal Digital Sweden.

In 1993 Ferdinand Maier was appointed Managing Director of Ruwido Austria GmbH, where he had already completed his apprenticeship for tool design and construction. Since 1996 ruwido had been a member of Knowles Electronics Inc., Itasca, IL

Venkat R. Uppuluri has over 16 years of product marketing and management experience in wireless communications and networking industries.

Currently a Senior Product Development Manager, Priefert has been involved in educating others about the needs of the household manager in using the Internet for over the past 11 years. 

Caroline Gabriel co-founded Rethink Research Associates in 2002. Rethink is a London, UK-based market research and consulting company specialized in technologies and business models for service providers and vendors, in the broadband wireless, 3G, fixed/mobile convergence and wireline broadband markets.

Tricia Parks is the founder and CEO of Parks Associates, a market analyst and research company dedicated to providing meaningful information and counsel to companies offering technology-based products aimed at improving people's lives.

Ben is the solutions marketing manager for Motorola’s WiMAX portfolio in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

As Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Product Development for Syndesis, Mark Nicholson is responsible for the company’s long-term technology strategy and for driving the definition, direction and development of the Syndesis software suite, which provides an immediate return on investment for the world's most important telecommunications companies.

Age 52 Head of the Siemens GAMMA intelligent building management products in the UK and President of Konnex UK.

The world wide protocol adopted by Siemens for their GAMMA products is KNX (formerly known as EIB.) The Konnex UK association is part of a network of international Konnex associations.  

Thomas Hott (48) is CEO of ProSyst Software GmbH. ProSyst is a leading provider of embedded Java and OSGi compliant software. ProSyst offers client and server side OSGi service platforms as well as generic and custom applications that will allow devices to evolve and adapt their capabilities by installing new software components on demand.

Mr. Volinskey joined Metalink in September 2004. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Volinskey served as VP of Business Development at RFWaves, a company focused on low cost radio ICs for consumer electronics.

Jeremy Kloubec is a Principal Solution Practice Lead for Infosys' Concept to Market Service Acceleration. He is in charge of providing solutions to communications service providers who wish to rapidly launch value added services in the IPTV, fixed and mobile domains.

Dr Jas Saini is Vice-President for Consumer Devices for NDS Ltd. In this role he is responsible for co-ordinating the company strategy and establishing strategic alliances in relation to consumer devices necessary to provide end-to-end solutions.