Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group

Berge oversees Yankee Group's new growth mission, providing thought leadership for the firm's research, consulting and events in the mobile, telecom, IT, applications, media and entertainment industries worldwide. Working with the company's diverse research groups, Ayvazian ensures Yankee Group is aligned with clients to help them visualize, navigate and generate value from current and future business opportunities. As a senior industry analyst and consultant, Ayvazian directs a wide range of research and consulting projects across a broad group of topics, including communications industry structure, broadband service provider strategy, mobile network infrastructure, enterprise networking strategy, information technology and applications.

Eliot Weinman, President, Trendsmedia, the Events & Publishing Division, Yankee Group

Eliot Weinman is the president of Yankee Group's events and publishing division. Weinman is charged with producing groundbreaking global industry events and publications that investigate the challenges and opportunities of the global connectivity revolution. Weinman has created more than 150 tradeshows, dozens of trade publications and has consulted many of the world's leading technology companies. He is conference chair of WiMAX World Conference & Expo, the world's largest WiMAX events in the USA , Europe and Asia . Before Yankee Group, he founded and sold four successful integrated media companies, the most recent of which is Trendsmedia, the events and publishing division of Yankee Group.

Laurence Deforeit, Director, Strategic Marketing Carrier Networks, Nortel

Laurence Deforeit is Director, Strategic Marketing Carrier Networks at Nortel. In this role, Laurence is responsible for promoting Nortel's WiMAX, 4G, IMS, VoIP and multimedia solutions including the direction of Nortel's participation to high profile events worldwide. Since joining Nortel in 1990, Laurence has held a number of management positions in Carrier, Wireless, Enterprise and Corporate marketing and combines expertise in diverse marketing functions.

Adlane Fellah, CEO/Founder, Maravedis Inc.

Adlane Fellah is CEO and founder of Maravedis Inc. a world-leader and pioneer in Broadband Wireless and WiMAX market research and analysis. He is a leading industry analyst and authored various landmark reports on WiMAX, Broadband Wireless and Voice over IP (VoIP). Mr. Fellah is regularly asked to speak at leading wireless events and to contribute to various influential portals and magazines such as Telephony Magazine, WiMAX Trends, WiMAX.com, to name a few… Fellah is a member of the Program Advisory Board for the WiMAX World conference since 2004 and an active member of the World Communications Association International and the European Broadband Wireless Association. Prior to founding Maravedis, Fellah held various positions at Harris Corporation in charge of market intelligence and business development for several product lines.

Caroline Gabriel, Founder, Rethink Research Associates

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. It provides published market reports, customized research projects and business model consulting, and holds one of the world’s most comprehensive research databases of operators and vendors in broadband wireless, particularly WiMAX.

Zeus Kerravala, SVP, Enterprise Technology, Yankee Group

Zeus Kerravala is senior vice president of Yankee Group's Enterprise Research. Kerravala manages the research and consulting agenda that enables Anywhere EnterpriseTM clients to meet the demands of the global connectivity revolution. Kerravala's expertise involves working with customers to solve their business issues through the deployment of infrastructure technology.

Rizwan Khaliq, Global Business Executive, Digital Communities, IBM Global Government

Philip Marshall, VP, Enterprise Research, Yankee Group

Philip Marshall, Ph.D., is vice president of Yankee Group's Enabling Technologies-Telco group. Dr. Marshall leads telecom technology research, which arms clients with the knowledge and tools to capitalize on the global connectivity change. He manages analysts focused on service providers' perspective to investigate market and service opportunities and trends for telecommunication systems. Dr. Marshall joined Yankee Group in 2000, holding various roles including managing Yankee Group's wireless technology research.

Monica Paolini, Founder, Senza Fili Consulting

Monica Paolini is the founder and president of Senza Fili Consulting. She is an expert in wireless technologies and has helped clients worldwide to understand technology and customer requirements, evaluate business plan opportunities, market their services, and estimate the market size and revenue opportunity of specific services. She has frequently been invited to give presentations at conferences and has written several reports on wireless broadband technologies.

Scott Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer, Clearwire

Scott Richardson is chief strategy officer of Clearwire Corporation, a leading provider of wireless high-speed Internet services. A WiMAX innovator, Richardson joined Clearwire earlier this year to drive the company’s global mobile wireless broadband efforts. During two decades in the wireless and chip industries, Richardson has worked with key industry leaders to define and shape WiMAX standards with the goal of delivering next-generation wireless broadband networks around the world. Prior to joining Clearwire, Richardson led Intel’s broadband wireless efforts from its inception, driving the company’s 802.16 silicon products for WiMAX Certified wireless equipment and devices. At Clearwire, Richardson is responsible for driving Clearwire’s evolution to mobile broadband, establishing strategic partnerships and setting technology direction.

Roberta Wiggins, Research Fellow, Yankee Group

Roberta Wiggins is a research fellow in Yankee Group’s Enabling Technologies Service Provider group with an expertise in mobility. Wiggins focuses on the evolution of broadband wireless, including emerging cellular and disruptive high-speed wireless technologies, such as Wi-Fi, WiFi-mesh, WiMAX, OFDM and TDD-WCDMA and the adoption of wireless broadband solutions in the consumer, enterprise and municipal markets. She is a leader in forecasting the evolution of broadband solutions, the demand for services and supporting technologies. She assists vendor/carrier clients on strategic initiatives, including market positioning in an increasingly competitive environment and capitalizing for investments in broadband wireless by exploiting opportunities in new service categories.