LiMo Foundation Blog

Igor Netto

Product Manager Mobile, Opera Software ASA

In my career I had the rare opportunity to be able to build a round experience in multiple areas of mobile industry in software development, and product management. I have been continuously working in a fast paced, top quality, international framework, in companies with a very strong mobile pedigree: Symbian, Access, and Opera.

Andrew Till

VP Solutions Management, Teleca

Andrew till is responsible for the Solutions Management function within Teleca. In this role Andrew is tasked with driving the development of forward looking solutions roadmap designed to meet the current and future needs of Teleca’s customers. Andrew joined Teleca in January 2009 from Motorola where he held a wide range of roles both within the European and global multimedia organization. Andrew Till holds a degree in international Business Administration and Italian from Brunel University.

Lefty Schlesinger

Director of Open Source Technologies, ACCESS

David “Lefty” Schlesinger is Director of Open Source Technologies at ACCESS Co., Ltd., ACCESS’ representative to the LiMo Foundation Architecture Council and the Chair of the LiMo Foundation Open Source Council. He works principally on ACCESS’ open source strategy and community relations, and represents ACCESS in a number of industry and community initiatives. Lefty is well-known in the open source community and is a frequent presenter and panelist at open source-related and industry conferences and events, and has spoken in the past year at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, the GNOME Users & Developers European Conference (GUADEC), the Ottawa Linux Symposium, Open Source in Mobile, Interop, LugRadio Live USA, and AJAXWorld’s iPhone Developers’ Summit.

Ajit Jaokar

Author and Telecom Specialist

Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext (www.futuretext.com) focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies. His thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog on his blog the OpenGardensBlog (www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com). His consulting activities include working with companies to define value propositions across the device, network, Web and Social networking stack. He has worked with commercial and government organizations globally including The European Union, Telecoms Operators, Device manufacturers and others in various strategic and visionary roles. His talks include CEBIT 2009; MWC (2007, 2008, 2009) ; European Parliament ; Stanford University; MIT Sloan; Fraunhofer FOKUS ; CTIA 2008, 2009. Media appearances include BBC, CNN money and others. Ajit chairs Oxford University's Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford.

Teemu Pohjola

Project Manager, Design at Movial

Teemu started his career and dove into the world of web design as so many others at the height of the dot-com bubble. Since then, he's been designing user experiences and services for a number of platforms, and sometimes the platforms themselves. Though he has now swayed to design project management, he has never forgotten his love for hands-on design work. Teemu believes that there is always room for improvement in every product or service, and loves to challenge predominant conceptions - even if it wouldn't always be the easy route to take in a project. Teemu holds a master's degree in Arts, with additional studies in marketing.

Patanjali Somayaji

Director, Engineering at Azingo

Patanjali is Director of Engineering at Azingo, Inc. At Azingo, Patanjali leads the Platform and Product Team which is responsible for defining Azingo's mobile platform roadmap, product implementation, and technology integration. Patanjali drives Azingo's integration of Open Source and LiMo technology adoption. Prior to Azingo, Patanjali headed Codito Technologies, an embedded Linux company which was acquired by Azingo in 2006. Codito developed software programmability solutions for embedded multi-cores, and provided embedded Linux software solutions to leading semiconductor companies and OEMs.

Peter Vescuso

Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Black Duck Software

Peter is responsible for developing Black Duck’s brand and market position for management of open source software in a multi-source development process, at-scale. He has over 20 years experience in marketing and business development in the telecom and computer industries having worked at Cantata Technology (formed by the merger of Excel Switching and Brooktrout Technology), Compaq Computer, Hewlett-Packard and Apollo Computer.

Tim Haysom

Chief Marketing Officer

Tim Haysom is the CMO of OMTP, having moved from Orange in 2007, where he served as Industry Relations Manager. Tim has spent over 17 years in the mobile telecoms industry, working first on the standardization of the GSM system, through the launch of the Orange network and moving through innovation and strategy roles. Tim has extensive knowledge in the areas of technology evaluation, business case development, due diligence and the overall environment of the global mobile telecoms, media and internet industry. He participates as a speaker at industry conferences and is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Tim holds a B.Eng. degree in Electronics from the University of Southampton.

Richard Kinder

Vice President, Technology at Red Bend

Richard Kinder is VP Technology at Red Bend, where he is responsible for building relationships and technology strategy to enable the company’s vision of Mobile Software Management. Previously Richard worked in technical sales and marketing positions at leading mobile software providers including Symbian and Palm. He started his career at Sun Microsystems and was an early member of the JavaSoft Europe licensing team. He holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Imperial College, London.

Jason Whitmire

General Manager, Wind River’s Mobile Solutions

Jason Whitmire has more than 14 years of executive marketing and management experience in semiconductor and system software. He currently serves as General Manager of Wind River’s Mobile Solutions business and is a Member of the Board of the LiMo Foundation. Previously he was a managing director of FSMLabs, where he headed the worldwide wireless and EMEA businesses, and he was a founder of the software business at Comneon, the wireless software subsidiary of Infineon Technologies, where he led the company’s licensing business for four years. Additionally, Jason has held senior product management, marketing and business development positions at two European mobile network operators. Jason got his start in the wireless arena in 1993 while representing the US government in international spectrum and privatization negotiations.

Yuki Endo

International Business Development Manager, Acrodea, Inc.

Yuki Endo is responsible for International Business Development for Acrodea,Inc and participates in the Advanced UI group for LiMo Foundation.

Andrew Shikiar

Director of Global Marketing, LiMo Foundation

As Director of Global Marketing for LiMo Foundation, Andrew Shikiar is responsible for helping develop and articulate LiMo's vision and market strategy. Shikiar possesses significant strategic marketing and business development expertise in cutting-edge technologies and market-shifting industry initiatives. He served as Membership Director for industry consortia the Liberty Alliance Project and Blade.org. At Sun Microsystems he helped drive the company's Java and Liberty Alliance launch initiatives. In addition, he was a founding executive at Radical Communication, where he helped raise nearly $20 million in venture financing and drove market adoption of interactive video and email marketing technology solutions.

Gyanee Dewnarain

Marketing Manager, LiMo Foundation

As marketing manager for LiMo Foundation, Gyanee Dewnarain contributes to all aspects of LiMo’s marketing activities including, marketing planning and programme management, market intelligence and strategy development, content development, events planning and management, web strategy development, and member coordination. Prior to joining LiMo, Gyanee has occupied a broad range of marketing functions in companies ranging from start-ups such as Carrier IQ to large corporations such as Gemalto and Alcatel. Gyanee started her career as a telecoms engineer in the mobile division of Alcatel in Paris. Gyanee holds an MSc in Telecommunications from UCL, London. Over the past 10 years, Gyanee has been closely involved with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as a youth alumni, participating in the realisation of various projects in emerging markets.

David J. Kordsmeier

Software Engineer, Aplix Corporation

David J. Kordsmeier (@dkords) is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience working in the wireless industry. An avid blogger, podcaster, and proponent of Open Source Software, David believes we can achieve great social change through Digital Literacy. David is currently leading the Java Technology Project for the LiMo Foundation.

Matt Swan

Technology Manager, LiMo Foundation

Matt Swan is Technology Manager at LiMo Foundation where he is a member of the Architectural Steering Committee. He is a mobile industry professional having spent the last twelve years in the mobile OS and application space in a range of technical and project lead roles. During his years at Symbian he was deeply involved in the development of the core telephony and networking frameworks, before taking on leadership of the Comms Porting Group within Symbian’s Customer Engineering dept and managing a number of successful engagements with licensees including Sony Ericsson and DoCoMo. At Skype he led several projects including the 3 Skypephone and the Skype service for 3’s handsets before taking some time off to do voluntary work on a safari reserve in South Africa.

John Rizzo

VP of Technology Strategy, Aplix Corporation

John has a deep passion for technology and where it will bring us in the future. He has vision but also has a very realistic view on how to achieve success. John is a futurist and innovator but knows that without business success even the best innovation will fall to the wayside. John is an adept executive who gets the job done by using cutting edge business, strategic and technical skills. His experience is drawn from various responsibilities that include: coding as a senior software/staff engineer for advanced technology teams, technical business development, software architecture, mergers and acquisitions experience, advising start-ups in the mobile space on technology/investments/product positioning/customer goals and his current role as VP of Technology Strategy for Aplix Corporation. John's background includes: designing/architecting mobile data systems and applications, evangelizing products and ideas, technical business development, international sales, leading and executing w

Mal Minhas

CTO, LiMo Foundation

Mal Minhas is Chief Technology Officer within LiMo Foundation. Since his appointment, Mal has also taken on the role of Chief Information Officer. Mal joined LiMo in April 2009 and is a software leader with fifteen years' experience of mobile software development, engineering management and systems architecture. His technical expertise covers wireless comms, device integration, runtimes and OS platform evolution through to backend infrastructure, web frameworks and cloud computing. During his career Mal has worked on a wide variety of mobile technologies and devices within companies including Psion, Symbian, Apple and Adobe. Early on he was part of the Psion engineering team that built the Symbian OS platform. Later he became a founder member of Symbian's System Architecture Group collaborating closely with key stakeholders such as Nokia and Sony Ericsson. He moved on to work within Apple's Applications team on phone connectivity and most recently, at Adobe, he focussed on mobi

Andy Bush

Director of Business Development, LiMo Foundation

Andy Bush is the Director of Business Development at the LiMo Foundation, an industry consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices. Bush has over 23 years international management experience in technology based companies ranging from multinationals to start-ups Prior to joining the LiMo Foundation, Bush set up the European Operations for SavaJe Technologies, where over 4 years, he developed business relations with the major European Mobile Operators and Mobile technology companies. He has also held senior positions at Sun Microsystems as New Technologies Manager and at Digital Equipment as Internet Business manager. Bush equally runs his own Mobile Consultancy Business.

Andrew Savory

Open Source Manager, LiMo Foundation

Andrew Savory is the Open Source Manager for LiMo Foundation, where he works to ensure understanding of and compliance to open source principles and to facilitate contributions back to open source communities. He has over a decade of firsthand insight of working with industry leaders using and engaging with open source. Andrew has worked with open source software starting with Linux in 1994 and founding the Linux user group ALUG (Anglian Linux User Group, http://www.alug.org.uk/) shortly after. He was the founder of one of the earliest open source software solutions providers in the UK, Sourcesense (http://www.sourcesense.com/), and instrumental in the creation of the Association For Free Software, a UK offshoot of the Free Software Foundation. In 2003 he was a founder of the first open source business alliance, Orixo, (http://www.orixo.com/). An active contributor to the open source community, Andrew is a Member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Jonathan Harris

Technology Strategy Director