Leading Experts in Mobile Handset Retailers

Michael Cote is an Independent Telecommunications Consultant. He specializes in enterprise mobility, sales and distribution strategy, online strategy, smart phones, and customer care and billing. Mr. Cote has over 15 years of sales, marketing, and operational experience in the telecommunications industry....

Andrew Crowl is the Principal of Digital Plus, Inc. The company is an independent retailer of wireless phones. Currently they offer for sale the products of Sprint Nextel, Cricket & T-Mobile. Corporate operation is sustained through the operation of six retail stores in the Cincinnati, Ohio trade area....

Peter Curnow-Ford is the Chairman at Eisar Ltd, a handset manufacturer. He is responsible for the development, sales, marketing and branding of mobile and cellular handset products from Chinese and Taiwanese handset manufacturers into EMEA. He is also the Chairman of Bluenowhere Ltd, a municipal wireless...

Nigel Dixon is the Chief Executive Officer at Wireless Intelligence, a London based market data and analysis consultancy for the wireless industry. He is currently also consulting Abilis Systems, a Kudelski Group company which provides true single-chip CMOS solutions for OFDM-based radio communications...

Ken Eisner has a decade of senior executive experience in e-commerce and wireless. He runs a stealth Web 2.0 e-commerce firm and a consultancy focused on e-commerce, mobile, m-commerce, and new media. A sample client is SaaS e-commerce platform provider Demandware (platform for Timberland, House of...

Robert Gilstrap is the President at Peachnet Communications, Inc., a wireless retailer and reseller. Peachnet represents Cingular Wireless, Nextel, T-Mobile, Sprint PCS, DirecTV, Dish Network, Direct-Way, StarBand Sirius Satellite Radio. They also represent smaller companies in the prepaid cellular...

Ira Horowitz is the President at I-Wireless Inc., a company providing cellular wholesale distribution and liquidation he is also COO of a firm that specializes in importing the latest GSM phones (appx 2500/month) for distribution to tier 3 carriers. He has over seven years of experience in product distribution,...

Hong Jiang, PhD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer in HJ Solutions, a technology consulting firm. Dr. Jiang has expertise in the Chinese mobile industry. She focuses on Chinese operators’ reorganization efforts, 3G wireless developments including the domestic standard TD SCDMA and wireless...

Gregg Kail was a reseller manager at AT&T, a long distance and data communications providers. He started with AT&T in the equipment unit that became Lucent and Avaya. He has worked for Pacific Bell SBC before moving to Cingular/AT&T for four and a half years. He is experienced in equipment, data and...

Jason Ma is a Board Advisor, Senior Counselor and Former Chief Executive Officer at IvyMax, a leading online education technology and in-center service provider of college and test prep. He is also Chief Executive Officer at Congruent Partners. He is Senior Advisor at Silicon Valley-China Wireless Association....

Vivek Nasta is a Co-Founder of floVector, a telecom venture focused on wireless devices, technologies, and software, and a Managing Director of a consultancy focused on the handset supply chain. He was most recently a Senior Product and Portfolio manager at Nokia. He was responsible for the design of...

Stuart Newstead is Chief Executive Officer of Ellare, an independent consultancy. He is a highly respected 25-year senior management record in fixed and mobile telecoms, specializing in wireless data strategies, MVNO, spectrum auctions, triple play, fiber to the home (FTTH/FTTC/FTTN), ICT and convergence,...

Jen O'Connell is the President of Voice of Wireless, Inc., and consults for the wireless industry developing new product strategies such as Mobile Banking, Mobile Device Management, Location Based Services as well as developing mobility strategies for other industries. She has over 12 years of Tier...

Steve Ospalak was most recently the Director of Subscriber Equipment and Channel Support in the Products and Services Division of Telus Mobility, a wireless CDMA (3G- 1X) and iDEN network service provider. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the Global Device Strategy Council (DSE) for CDMA, with Verizon....

Tal Raeside is the Managing Director at Insight Strategic Services, an independent consulting firm. He is a telecom, media and technology veteran with over 15 years experience. He has expertise in mobile phones, converged devices, operators, applications, new media, advertising and networking. He has...

John Salisbury is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Go Wireless, Inc., a wireless retailer. He has over 12 years of experience in the wireless industry. Previously, Mr. Salisbury was the General Manager of the Paging Division, General Manager for the Los Angeles Market, Director...

Ron Solanki is the Chief Executive Officer and the President of Solanki Group Inc., a management consultancy to major US, Asian and European Electronics Corporations in the areas of business strategy, portfolio management, business development, manufacturing, and supply chain management. He also serves...

Ian Wood is the Founding Partner of Wireless Foundry, a telecom and IT consultancy founded in 1998. His clients include France Telecom/Orange, SonyEricsson, Vodafone, Openwave and Qualcomm. He was among the first employees of Motorola Cellular Communications in Europe, where he joined in 1985, and rose...