Dr. Martin Cooper is executive chairman and founder of ARRAYCOMM, Inc., and serves on the boards of several other companies. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the personal communications industry and as an innovator in spectrum management. He is an inventor, introduced, in 1973, the first portable cellular radiotelephone, and has been called the father of portable cellular telephony. ArrayComm, LLC is the world’s leader in MAS, Multi-antenna Signal Processing, also known as smart antenna technology.

Dr. Cooper was a founder of Cellular Business Systems, Inc. (CBSI), which provided billing and management services to most cellular companies in the US and is now a part of Convergys, Inc. Before that he was V.P. and Corporate Director of Research and development for Motorola, Inc., responsible for the creation and stimulation of technology throughout Motorola. He joined Motorola in 1954 as a research engineer and advanced through a number of engineering and management positions before becoming a corporate officer in 1969 and vice president and general manager of the Communications Systems Division, which he founded in 1971. That division became Motorola’s cellular business.

Dr Cooper led, during his 29 years at Motorola, the creation of number of major businesses including high-capacity paging, trunked mobile radio, cellular radiotelephone, quartz crystals, oscillators and piezo-electric components, Motorola A.M. Stereo technology and various mobile and portable two way radio product lines. Dr. Cooper was involved in industry and government efforts to allocate new radio frequency spectrum for the land mobile radio services in the U.S. and has testified before the FCC and the Senate. He was granted nine patents in the communications field. He has been widely published on various aspects of communications technology and on management of research and development.

Dr. Cooper is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology from who he received bachelor’s )1950) and master’s (1956) degrees in Electrical Engineering and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy (2004). He serves on this university’s Board of Trustees.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and of the Radio Club of America (RCA) and is a member of ETA Kappa Nu (electrical engineering honorary society) and Rho Epsilon (radio engineering honorary). He was president of the Vehicular Technology Society of the IEEE in 1972 and 1973 and was awarded the IEEE centennial Medal in 1984, and the RCA Fred Link award in 1996. Cooper received the American Computer Museum’s George R. Stibitz Computer and Communications Pioneer Award in 2002, he was an inaugural member of RCR’s Wireless Hall of Fame, Red Herring magazine named him one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs of 2000, and Wireless Systems Design magazine provided him with the 2002 Industry Leader award. He was a winner of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Business Transformation Technology Change Leader Award.

Dr. Cooper has served on technical committees of the Electronic Industries Association and the National Research Council as well as numerous industry and civic groups. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the International Electronics Consortium, is a Fellow of that organization, and serves on its Advisory Board. He serves on the Department of Commerce NTIA Spectrum Advisory Task Force and has participated in advisory groups for the government of Australia and Singapore. Dr. Cooper served as a submarine officer in the US Navy from 1950 to 1953.

Mr. Eiichi Toriyama joined Kyocera in April, 1972. Since then, he has engaged in businesses in the electronic components and telecommunication equipment field. While named the Director of Kyocera in June 2001, he has been responsible for the Corporate Electronic Components Group. After being assigned as the Managing Executive Officer in June 2003, he has been heading the Corporate Communication Equipment Group since October 2006.

Mr. Masashi Yano joined Kyocera in April, 1981. His carrier at Kyocera started in electronic components and ceramic material industries. Since that time, he has been responsible for international sales and stayed in Singapore early 1990s to market the products. Backed by such in-depth business experience, in 2006 he joined the Corporate Communication Equipment Group to be responsible for sales and marketing of the iBurst system.

Mr. Arnaud Saffari is a co-founder and director of OAK Global Group, a systems architect and integrator of advanced wireless systems using iBurst™ technology, which he co-founded in 2002. A serial entrepreneur, Arnaud’s principal expertise is in building professional teams to develop and implement advanced communication systems.

Dr. Mongi Hamdi, a native of Tunisia, is Chief of Science and Technology at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Head of the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development. Prior to joining UNCTAD, Mr. Hamdi worked in the Department of International Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat in New York, where ha was one of the core authors of the World Economic and Social Survey. Mongi Hamdi holds a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. He also holds a Certificate in Macroeconomic Policy and Management from Harvard University. His areas of interest are science, technology and innovation policies, technology transfer and information and communication technologies. He has written widely on science, technology, environment and energy.

Mr. Thami's initial experience was in the Petro Chemical Industry before becoming actively involved in the telecommunications industry that included being Secretary General of the African telecommunications forum. He is chairman of Wireless Business Solutions and CEO of wireless broadband provider iBurst. Launched in April 2005, iBurst is a 60% black-owned South African company and currently provides more than 60 000 subscribers with high-speed wireless Internet connectivity. iBurst (through its shareholder Wireless Business Solutions) holds a National Mobile Data Telecommunication license and has been issued with WiMAX spectrum by ICASA. iBurst offers the speed of DSL in a mobile environment, exceptional reliability and is IP-based allowing a network to be established quickly and affordably

Mr. Ramiz Sharif is the director of Datacell Azerbaijan – British LLC. Before joining Datacell LLC Ramiz Sharif has been occupied at the ministry of transport of Azerbaijan Republic as a leading specialist in the field of international relations and implementation of advanced technologies to the transport sector since 2003. From 1998 to 2003 Mr.Ramiz has held a wide range of senior management positions in the state railway company, including the head of telecom structures and computing division. Mr. Ramiz Sharif has a master’s degree in finance as well as MBA by Azerbaijan State Economic University and a Bachelor degree in public administration by Caucasian University, Baku.

Mr. Kevin Leong Kong Hoy, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MoBif Berhad Group. He is responsible for the overall operations of the Group including strategic planning, technology development and organisation development for the Group. He obtained a Master of Science in Information Technology from Warwick University, United Kingdom.

After his graduation in September 1992, Kevin started his career as an Engineer in Seagate (M) Sdn Bhd and worked his way to become IT Director before leaving in December 2003. In Seagate, he was responsible for the IT divisions in 3 separate manufacturing plants located in Penang, Ipoh and Thailand where he managed the automation engineering of the plants with the objective to fully automate its production lines. He was also the chairman of Seagate Engineering Council to implement the “Advanced Manufacturing System Concept” for Seagate. He has 14 years of vast experience in the ICT industry and corporate management. Under his leadership, MoBif Berhad Group was transformed from a small business entity into a diversified business group, amongst the principal activities are iBurst (High Speed Wireless Broadband), Vision Inspection System, Internet Surveillance & Security System, VoIP Based Communication Solution and VoIP SoftSwitch Total Solution.

Mr Kevin has successfully formed an international alliance for wireless broadband technopreneurs, iBurst Association (iBA) , registered with the Malaysia Registrar of Societies (ROS) on 20 th September 2007. iBA is a non-profit consortium with its vision to position iBurst as the preferred solution and global standard for mobile broadband wireless access. Kevin is also appointed as a President of iBurst Association (iBA)

Mr. Tarabay has considerable experience in the information and communication technology sector. Mr. Tarabay is the founder, share holder and CEO of several successful companies including Cedarcom which operates the second largest wireless data services company, Fiberlink Networks which is the second largest ISP in Corporate and the 4th in dial up or residential ISPs.

Mr. Tarabay was a founding member and treasurer of ITIA and currently a member of the ICT Committee at the American Lenanese Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Tarabay was a former member of the Board of the telecom committee at PCA. Mr. Tarabay graduated form the University of the Americas in Mexico with Honorable Mention, holding a Bachelor degree in Business Administration with a concentration in management, finance and marketing.

Dr. Karim Taga is Managing Director in the Vienna office of Arthur D. Little’s German, Austrian and CEE operations. He specializes in telecommunications and he is leading the TIME (Telecommunications, Information Technology, Media and Electronics) practice in Central Europe.

His interests are primarily focused on three functional areas:
· Business strategies and marketing concepts
· Corporate Finance and business planning
· Leading the ADL MBWA Mobile Broadband Wireless Access competence center
Prior to joining Arthur D. Little in May 1997, Dr. Taga worked for several years at Ericsson in the business area Private Networks.

Karim Taga received a Master of Science in 1989 from the Ecole Supérieure de l’Energie et des Matériaux, Orléans France with a master thesis accomplishment at the University of California Berkeley. After his studies he worked as a research assistant at the Vienna University of Technology where he developed an infrared fibre optical sensor. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 followed by an MBA in International Business from the Webster University St Louis Mi in 1993.

Mr. Sasan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He has extensive knowledge and experience in computing, networking and research and development of both hardware & software aspects of medical electronic instruments. In addition Sasan has over 13 years of telecom and IT experience in systems engineering, planning and operations, predominantly in wireless environments.

He joined Wireless Business solutions (operating as iBurst) in 1999 as Engineering and Operations Manager until 2002 when he was appointed as Chief Technical Officer.

Sasan Parvin identified iBurst as the best WBA technology for mobile data and IP internet in 2003. After extensive research and traveling to US, Australia and Japan he then pioneered the iBurst technology in SA in 2004. He established iBurst’s highly professional, dedicated and skillful technical team that have together been building the network from late 2004 to present. He has been instrumental in building the network access technology (iBurst), the transport network as well as the core-IP and services network. Mr. Parvin has been instrumental in the iBurst deployment, while at the same time negotiating multiple contracts and service agreements with various providers for the provision of IP bandwidth, equipment, development of application and services, as well as maintenance and operations.

He has been responsible for overseeing and managing the technology evaluation and selection, engineering, radio and coverage planning, design implementation, maintenance and operations of WBS’ National Wireless Mobile Data Network which is today know as iBurst – one of the leading providers of the broadband internet access in Southern Africa. This includes setup and management of the internet and value added services/platforms.

Mr. Dave Palmer is the Vice President of Moovera Networks. Moovera is a manufacturer of industrial strengh wireless communications products that bridge Wi-Fi and Ethernet with carrier-elass Networks. Mr. Dave has more than 15 years experience in the telecommunications industry and has held senior position in Fujitsu, Philip and Apartel. He is currently leading the worldwide sales at Moovera Networks.

Mr. Dan E. Khoo is the CEO of WCIT 2008 Sdn Bhd, the company formed to organize the 16th World Congress on Information Technology in Kuala Lumpur next May. He is also the Vice President of Business Strategy and Transformation of Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn Bhd (MDeC), the body responsible for the development of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor.

He brings with him more than 20 years of experience in the Information Technology and media industries. Throughout this time, he has played leading roles in organisations that are a unique blend of content, media and technology.

With 11 years of his career spent pioneering and developing IT journalism in Malaysia, Khoo has the distinction of having started and co-started the computer sections of the two leading Malaysian English dailies – The Star and The New Straits Times – respectively. After leaving the print medium, Khoo went on to successively lead two Malaysian IT firms, the second of which he helped take public as executive director and CEO in 1997.

In December 1998, at a time when the Malaysian dotcom scene was still in its infancy, he again played a pioneering role when he formed e-Asia Sdn Bhd to specialise in the Internet advertising industry. In accordance with its business model of affiliation and representation, the firm went on to represent local and international media giants such as The Star, The New Straits Times, TV3, Yahoo! and Microsoft Network (MSN). A year later, he sold a majority stake in e-Asia to Nasdaq-listed chinadotcom corporation. Khoo was then appointed to the management board of Hong Kong-based 24/7 Media Asia, a subsidiary of chinadotcom.

Khoo continues to play an active role in promoting Information Technology and the Internet in Malaysia and around the region, holding, and having held, many leadership, advisory and supporting roles in industry and trade associations, government agencies, and policy development bodies.

He was Chairman of the Association of the Computer Industry Malaysia (PIKOM) from 1995 to 1997 and continues to serve as an Adviser and a member of the association’s Board of Trustees. He was also a member of the original board of directors of the Multimedia Development Corporation, In the regional arena, Khoo was President of the Southeast Asia Information Technology Organisation (SITO) from 1996 to 1998. SITO is a regional industry organisation with members that represent the IT industries of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, India.

Khoo was also a Director of ASOCIO (Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization) from 1995 to 1997. ASOCIO has 20 members representing Japan, Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. It has seven guest members from USA, UK, Canada, Spain, France, Russia and Kenya.

Mr. David Brunnen is managing director of ABFL Groupe Intellex – a business development consultancy – and an Associate of Personal Broadband UK Ltd. David has been actively engaged in iBurst/IEEE 802.20 opportunities since 2002 and created the first European ‘pioneer project’ in Belfast Northern Ireland. He has led the regulatory campaign for appropriate spectrum provision in the UK and Ireland – resulting in a successful bid by PBUK for identical spectrum bands in both Northern Ireland (UK) and the Republic of Ireland.

He is a regular editorial contributor to telecoms trade magazines and on-line publications. He is an active member of the UK’s Broadband Stakeholders Group and leads the Networked Services SIG for the UK’s Communications Management Association.

He is also active in the field of ‘next generation access’ (i.e. fibre to the home), the European Centre for Connected Health and a number of advanced transport-related applications for iBurst. Many of his recent editorial features can be access via www.groupe-intellex.com He is a member of the strategy panel for the UK government’s Sciencewise programme and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Prior to founding his current business he had a long career with British Telecom and introduced the UK’s first email service (Telecom Gold) in 1981. His wider interests include offshore sailing and creative writing.

Mr. Chris Doolittle is CEO for Redwood Wireless Broadband Internet, America’s first iBurst® wireless technology deployment in Sioux Falls, SD. Not a stranger to cutting-edge rollouts, Chris has pioneered deployment of 1xRtt and EVDO in varying markets, and has been involved in the installation, operation and support of 1x, EVDO, Alvarion 2.4, Waverider 900, Wave IP 5.8, and GSM GPRS.

Redwood Wireless Broadband Internet is a division of Redwood County Telephone, a century-old corporation in Wabasso, MN, and an early innovator in wireless infrastructure.

Mr. George Ezzat is the former Chief Technology Officer of Africa Online Holdings. Africa Online is a Pan-African ISP that has presence in 9 African countries and operates in many other African countries through a network of affiliates and partnerships. George is a self-motivated and highly enthusiastic professional; a leader with strong technical and business development abilities developed over 8 years in the Internet industry in Middle East and Africa. He has a proven track-record of delivering cutting-edge solutions for the Internet and IP market. He also has extensive experience in Research & development, risk and project management. He has developed an array of solutions tailored for Governmental institutions, Telecoms, ISPs, Multi-national companies, embassies and universities in Africa and Middle-East. These solutions include connectivity, security, content management, redundancy, VoIP, interactive entertainment on many different media. George joined Africa Online in November 2002 on secondment from GDBC, then permanently in August 2003. George is extremely passionate about his work and has been working tirelessly to improve Africa Online's bouquet services despite several constraining circumstances.

Previously, George was CTO for GDBC, he designed and implemented two satellite hubs, one in the Nilesat Teleport in Cairo and one in BT- Martelsham Teleport. Before that He was a Senior Engineer in United Communication which used to provide I-Skysat / Zaknet services in Middle East and North Africa. His primary responsibilities then were to provide technical support to a large segment of the Egyptian telecommunications market as well as many key organizations in Middle East. George was born on March 9, 1977, Cairo, Egypt. He received a bachelor's degree in Computer and management science in 1999

Mr. Patrick Clough is a telecom finance professional with over 18 years of fixed and mobile operator experience. Prior to founding iBand in 2004 he started a hotspot operator, Bizzgo, in 2000 which he led as CEO until it was sold to Meteor Networks in January 2004. Prior to this he was Finance Director with Dolphin Telecom France, a European mobile Push-To-Talk operator, where he raised EUR 95 million for the French operation and managed the EUR 230 million annual budget. Between 1989 and 1998, Patrick arranged or participated in over EUR 2.5 billion of network launch investments in the Telecom and Media sectors for BNP-Paribas (Vice President and Head of Telemedia Finance), Natexis Credit National (Assistant General Manager) and Fuji Bank. Patrick holds a First Class Honours Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering, and a Master of Business Administration with highest distinction, both from the University of Western Australia. Patrick is a member of the UK Institute of Directors.

Mr. David Keane has 15 years of experience in the telecommunication field, working with internetworking vendors, software companies and telecommunications companies. He has managed projects dealing with the creation of next generation networks and broadband infrastructure environment, covering the gambit of technologies from switching, and transmission to value added services. He spent over 5 years with Xylan (later Alcatel) responsible for implementing broadband infrastructure networks in Asia and in Australia. Mr Keane was the co-founder of Veritel Wireless (now BigAir Group Limited) and was responsible for selling the first commercial iBurst services in Australia in 2003. Mr Keane grew Veritel from startup to over 10,000 customers within 2 years and was successful in implementing the first retail market expansion for wireless broadband.

Mr Keane is currently the CEO of Nicholls-Price, a leading broadband solutions consultancy with offices throughout Asia, and Australia. Here he is responsible for business operations including the company P&L accounts, as well as product development and leading the consulting team on broadband issues.

Ms. Joanne Wilson has more than 20 years of professional experience in the telecommunications industry, specializing in wireless standards, regulatory and market access issues. She a Senior Advisor to CompassRose International, Inc., which advises and assists companies, governments, and NGOs in strategic management, business development and operations, policy and regulatory issues, etc..
For more than six years prior to joining CompassRose, Ms. Wilson was VP, Standards for ArrayComm, LLC. In that capacity she developed and successfully executed strategies leading to the adoption of the iBurst™ system as both an American National Standard (ATIS.0700004.2007) and as an international standard by the Radiocommunications Sector of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-R). Ms. Wilson is a founding and still active member of the IEEE 802.20 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (MBWA) Working Group. She is a regular member of U.S. delegations to the ITU-R Working Groups and conferences addressing standards and spectrum for 3G and systems beyond 3G (IMT) and MBWA systems and has had a leadership role in the development and adoption of ITU-R Recommendations and Reports.

Prior to ArrayComm, Ms. Wilson had a 15 year career with AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where as Global Public Affairs Director she addressed global spectrum and standards matters. Ms. Wilson is an alumnus of the Brookings Institution’s Congressional Fellows Program and former legislative aide to Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill. She holds BS and MS degrees in EE from Southern University and A&M College, and Stanford University, respectively.

Mr. David Ramsay has over 20 years experience in the IT industry, commencing in 1985 with Unisys (Burroughs).
David was responsible for setting up the Unisys Network Enable Communications group in Australia in 1992 and grew the business from zero to over $20m within 3 years. In 1995 David left to take the position of Country Manager for US Networking start-up, Xylan Corp. David was responsible for all areas of the business from sales & marketing, technical support and channel development, through to financial responsibility for the Australia / New Zealand region. He grew the business to US$10m within 3 years. In 1999 Xylan was acquired by Alcatel France for over US$2b. David then took on the role of Telco Marketing Director for the Asia/Pacific region and was the "face' of the company, becoming heavily involved in delivering seminars and associated public speaking engagements.

In 2000 he left to form his own start-up in the broadband market, and took the company from conception to a public listing on the ASX.

Core duties range from a corporate restructure, financial responsibility, sales & marketing, business planning and execution, through to global expansion and he has now positioned the company for significant growth in the coming months and years.

Dr. Moedjiono is responsible for advising and coordinating the international relations in the field of ICT development and the strategy and policy to bridge the digital divide in Indonesia. He was the Deputy Minister of Communication and Information of the Republic of Indonesia for ICT Development.

Before joining the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Moedjiono served in the Indonesian Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral (Ret) and had been assigned in several positions, inter alia, as the Chief of Naval Data Processing Center and the Naval Chief of Staff Assistant for Personnel.

Moedjiono has experienced in the Indonesian Navy personnel database design, naval wargaming systems analysis and combat modeling, Department of Defense and Armed Forces organization development, e-Government policy and development, World Summit on the Information Society document preparation, and speaker in several seminars in ICT field. He is also a lecturer and director of postgraduate study in computer science, Budi Luhur University.

Moedjiono has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the US Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California, USA) and a Doctor of Science degree in Computer Science from the George Washington University (Washington, DC, USA).

Dr. Herbert Bauer has worked in telecommunications for more than 15 years. After obtaining a Masters and PhD degree in electrical engineering, he was involved in the develpment of ATM backbone systems for Newbridge Networks in Canada. He then spent 10 years consulting telecommunications operators, service providers and equipment manufacturers in Europe and Asia. Herbert currently heads the Europe expansion of Poynting Antennas of South Africa, the leading manufacturer of antennas for cellular and wireless data networks.