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Event Speakers & Chair
Angus
Robinson is the founder and CEO of Brandsh, a mobile and social media agency which was
founded in late 2006. Since its inception, the company has grown from strength
to strength and now consists of two distinct divisions: Brandsh, a mobile
and social media agency, and Mobmedia, a digital media services division. Under
Angus’ guidance, the company is well positioned to provide a holistic approach
to mobile and social media campaigns.
Kim Dushinski is the president and founder of Mobile Marketing Profits, a marketing firm that provides mobile marketing education and consulting services to corporations, marketing professionals and entrepreneurs. She is the author of the best-selling book, The Mobile Marketing Handbook: A Step by Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Mobile Marketing Campaigns which has been adopted as a university text book for mobile marketing students. As an advocate for smart, effective mobile marketing she leads workshops and speaks about how to profit with mobil. In addition to her own blog writing at MobileMarketingProfits.com she writes a column at Mobile Marketing Watch and is co-host of the Mobile Presence radio show at Webmaster Radio. Kim is a successfull entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing as a Marketing Director at a travel agency, desktop publisher, business marketing consultant, an Internet marketer, and partner in a book publicity firm. She lives in Colorado, USA with her husband, Ken, their daughter, Anya, and their dogs Luci and Dezi.
First
National Bank Mobile and Transact Solutions Head of eWallet Product House, Yolande
van Wyk is a leading thinker in the Mobile Payment and Mobile Banking space.
Llew is the Vice President – Online
Marketing & Products at Clickatell.com, a mobile network aggregator
covering over 750 mobile networks in more than 220 countries. He’s responsible for
the strategic direction of Clickatell’s Online business, as well as the company’s
overall Online Marketing, Online sales channel and the key Mobile Marketer customer
segment, amongst others. Before Clickatell, Llew was CEO and
co-Founder of KeyJam.net, a boutique web business consultancy, as well as co-Founder
and Head of Online Marketing at incuBeta.com (now Clicks2Customers.com), at the
time, a leading online marketing agency on 3 continents. Llew is a
member of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council Advisory Board for Africa, which includes CMOs from some of the largest and
most influential companies in South Africa. He is a also
member of the global Advisory Boards to the Forum to Advance the Mobile
Experience (FAME), and the Customer Experience Board, along with a select group of CMO-level executives from global Fortune 500
companies.
Brett StClair spent 14 years working in mobile media all over the globe – engineering, implementing and selling mobile operator infrastructure from London to Mongolia. After a decade in London, Brett returned to his birthplace, Johannesburg, in 2005 to start his own mobile media agency. Brett is now utilising his extensive knowledge of the South African and African mobile media market as Country Manager for Admob, the world’s largest mobile advertising platform. His passions are family, freedom, the frenetic buzz of developing mobile technology, fine humour and, occasionally, a round or two of golf.
Duncan started out in the
mobile industry in 2002 creating comedy content fro IVR lines. This led to the
founding of the first South African content studio creating completely local
and made for mobile content. The studio provided content to Vodacom and MTN.
Previous to his position at loveLife as Mobile Marketing Specialist, Duncan was
the Head of Content for Starfish Mobile International, Africa’s largest content
aggregator with presence in 16 African countries, partnering with all major
networks. As the Mobile Marketing Specialist at loveLife, Duncan drives their
mobile strategy and runs their mobile social network.
Lauretta is a marketing and communications specialist with over 15 years hands on experience in Southern Africa. She is a co-founder and Board member of Botswana based Dawn Anna Investments (Pty) Ltd. and Managing Director of its South African subsidiary myMOBworld. Born in South Africa and educated in the United States, her entrepreneurial flair dates back to 1995 when she returned to South Africa after an 8 year professional career in the accounting faculty. Her return to South Africa led to a career shift into the marketing and communications arena where she developed and implemented diverse research drive campaigns and initiatives for both blue chip and public sector organizations. A specialist in mobile marketing, Lauretta is a Mobile Marketing Winner$ Team Leader and co-founder of the Thinking Mobile™ Conference Series. She also currently serves on the Boards of Kisura Investments and Pontech International.
Vino has spent considerable time working in the Telecoms industry, holding senior positions at Telkom SA, BMI-T, Nokia-Siemens Networks and Vodacom SA. In 2008 he joined MTN as Senior Manager, Multi National Corporates.
Alexander Gregori is a visionary,
entrepreneur and mobile marketing specialist. He worked in Germany and South
Africa, building and managing companies in such diverse industries as eventing,
television- and radio production, real estate, public relations, marketing and
communications and the music industry. A BA graduate of the University of
Cape Town, Alexander ventured into mobile marketing by launching MOBmix in
2007, a mobile channel that offered pay per download content. In 2008 he
co-founded Dawn Anna Investments (Pty) Ltd., for which he serves as a Board member and CEO. The company has a subsidiary
in South Africa and specializes in mobile marketing and m-commerce solutions
for the African market. As Mobile Marketing Winner$™ Team Leader Alexander is author of nationally and internationally published articles on mobile marketing and co-founder of the Thinking Mobile™ Conference Series. In 2009 he launched myMOBworld.mobi, a mobile internet based shopping mall and information portal on the mobile internet, featuring a US$ based payment solution.
After graduating with a B.Com from University of Port Elizabeth, Sean Pashley joined the magazine industry as a sales executive and worked on a variety of magazine titles ranging from lifestyle & motoring to finance. He was roped into the murky world of editorial during this period and had a number of articles published. After 5 years, Sean migrated into the world of newspapers where he joined the behemoth that is the Sunday Times. As the Client Service Manager, he had dealings with some of the country’s most recognized brands and garnered a deeper appreciation of their perspectives on media and how they perceived its integration into marketing mix. With a decade of print and press experience under the belt, Sean moved out of the corporate environment and started a non-traditional media agency. Fresha Media represented a plethora of innovative media options which and, in some instances, planned media strategies for clients who were seeking an alternative means of addressing their consumers. One of the contracted relationships was with Starfish Mobile – one of the first mobile marketing agencies to ‘enter the fray’. After a couple of meetings with the founders, the proverbial light bulb went on as Sean cottoned on to the possibilities. He joined Starfish Mobile permanently in May of 2005 as a Sales & Marketing Manager and was subsequently promoted to Managing Director of the South African operations in early 2006. In late 2007, Sean was brought in as Chief Commercial Officer for Starfish's international operations.
Paul Stemmet joined
MXit in July 2007, as General Manager responsible for the operational running
of MXit from ensuring unilateral growth to achieving ongoing development and
maintenance of MXit's technical infrastructure of which Paul is able to offer great
insight based on his cumulative experience within ICT. Paul holds an Honours Degree in Information Systems and a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Systems from the University of Cape Town and a National Higher Diploma in Informatics from the Cape Technikon. His international career has included a technical directorship in Germany and consultant positions in Britain , the EU, East Europe, and Saudia Arabia. Locally Paul has worked at Intec Systems, Denel, Metropolitan Life and as Regional Manager for Sybase iAnywhere.
Angus Robinson is the founder and CEO of Brandsh, a mobile and social media agency which was founded in late 2006. Since its inception, the company has grown from strength to strength and now consists of two distinct divisions: Brandsh, a mobile and social media agency, and Mobmedia, a digital media services division. Under Angus’ guidance, the company is well positioned to provide a holistic approach to mobile and social media campaigns.
From the Cape flats to a successful entrepreneur. Andrew Cardoza is the
Chief Technical Officer and founder of Mobilitrix. Andrew is an experienced
L.E.O (Low-Earth-Orbiting) micro-satellite, GSM/GPS communications specialist.
His niche is on low-bandwidth micro-satellite communications e.g.: GPS and
mobile. Andrew successfully collaborated with the University of Stellenbosch
SUNSAT micro-satellite project funded. SUNSAT was a university project that was
dedicated to the building and launching of a small satellite into orbit. Andrew worked for several years in a R&D team, based in Technopark, Stellenbosch,
developing GSM/GPS vehicle tracking solutions for international and local use. Andrew Holds a B.Sc. Honours degree in Computer Science (Cum Laude), B.Sc. Eng (Electronics) and an M.Sc in Engineering, all from University of Stellenbosch. Speaker Engagements If you would like to submit a speaker request for the Thinking Mobile™ Conference Series, please email Mobile Marketing Winner$ team leader and Speaker Relations Manager Alexander Gregori. |
