Speakers

Mobile Money Canada will bring together some of the leading experts in Mobile Money from around the world to share their insights and experience with attendees.

The following are some of the confirmed speakers to date. If you are interested in presenting something interesting related to Mobile Money, please click here.

    - Robin Dua, President, EnStream LP.
    - Brent Ho-Young, Managing Director, DonRiver Inc.
    - Anant Tailor, DonRiver Inc..
    - Long Van, DonRiver Inc..
    - Hesham Fahmy, DonRiver Inc.
    - John-Pierre Kamel, Excellis Consulting.
    - Amar Varma, Extreme Venture Partners.
    - Christopher Dean, Associate, Western Union Digital Ventures.
    - Eric Feeley, Director of Product Management, Telepin Software.
    - Frank Maduri, President, MTAC Group.
    - Jason Hurlbut, Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Business Development, CPNI Inc.
    - Joe Salesky, Founder, Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer, ClairMail.
    - Matt Krogstad, VP - Business Development, M•Com.
    - Patrick Kelly, SVP, Business Development, Monitise Americas .
    - Sundeep Madra, Extreme Venture Partners.
    - Thomas Purves, Business Leader, Product Innovation, Visa Inc.
    - Kate Zilla-Bâ, COO, Mondato.


Robin Dua
Robin Dua

Robin is President of EnStream LP, a mobile commerce joint venture company owned by Bell Canada, Rogers Communications Inc., and TELUS Corporation – Canada's three leading wireless operators. Robin leads the company's drive to develop transformational mobile commerce solutions.

Robin has a proven product development track record of turning vision and concepts into successful technology businesses. Robin was previously Director of Product Development for Speedpass Network, the electronic payment division of ExxonMobil Corporation. During his five year tenure, Robin was instrumental in making Speedpass the largest contactless payment network in the world.

Prior to Speedpass, Robin was Vice President of Internet Services for Primus Telecommunications. Robin previously served as Founder & CEO of GlobalServe Communications, Canada's largest independent Internet Service Provider.

Robin holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and a MBA from The George Washington University. He holds several patents related to mobile payment, wireless and Internet technologies.

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Brent  Ho-Young
Brent Ho-Young

Mr. Ho-Young is a highly sought after expert in the Mobile Financial Services industry. He has helped wireless operators, banks, international remittance providers, and application service providers develop Mobile Financial strategies and commercialize their product offerings.

Mr. Ho-Young founded DonRiver's Mobile Practice and as its lead, is responsible for its mobile financial service offerings, market research, and overseeing client consulting engagements.Brent also serves as the chief editor of a recognized Mobile Financial Services information portal that provides brings industry insight and news to professionals around the world (www.mobile-financial.com).

Prior to joining DonRiver Inc, Brent Ho-Young served as a technology consultant with a global management and technology consulting firm focused on defining and implementing operational software solutions for Tier 1 wireless operators and telecommunications service providers. Mr. Ho-Young holds a Bachelor?s degree in Engineering & Management from McMaster University and is a former President of the Harvard Business School?s Summer Venture in Management Program?s (SVMP) Alumni Association.

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Anant Tailor
Anant Tailor

Mr. Tailor is a highly-regarded Solution Delivery Expert, with over 10 years of experience in leading large business and system integration initiatives. He has led the successful delivery of several Mobile Financial Services Platform initiatives – each one contributing to his wealth of practical implementation knowledge. Mr. Tailor has a deep understanding of the Mobile Marketing, Mobile Remittance, and Mobile Wallet eco-systems, and is well-tuned to the needs of businesses and consumers that play a part in each of these areas.

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Long Van
Long Van

Mr. Van has comprehensive industry knowledge in enterprise wide integration and business integration initiatives in the telecommunication and financial communities. Garnering his 8 years of experience in these industries, Mr. Van now focuses on architectural and implementation of mobile financial services initiatives for numerous local and global clients.

Mr. Van currently works closely with global remittance providers to formalize product solutions and offerings that can be leveraged by financial institutions and network operators globally. These product offerings will serve as the foundational building blocks for scalable and extensible mobile financial services platforms. Such services will include enterprise integration to payment, banking, remittance, billing, and carrier gateways. The accumulation of both solution design and hands-on development experience allows Mr. Van to share his knowledge in breadth and in depth in this specialty.

Prior to joining DonRiver in February of 2006, Mr. Van served as an Enterprise Application Integration technology consultant for various top tier global management and consulting firms including Accenture, Deloitte and CGI. Mr. Van focused on business integration and systems integration across all business lines within the Communications sector. Mr. Van earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from The University of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. In addition to his formal education, Mr. Van received a Diploma in Information Technology Management from the Canadian Information Technology College in Toronto and has extensive experience in the software industry.

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Hesham Fahmy
Hesham Fahmy

Mr. Fahmy has over 12 years experience in enterprise software development with a wealth of expertise in systems integration, Web Services, SOA and the design of Integrated Development Environments. He is widely regarded as an expert in the area of Web 2.0 technologies and realizing business value out of their adoption. Mr. Fahmy?s current focus is on creatively adopting these technologies to the mobile financial industry to drive rapid deployment of solution offerings and high subscriber penetration.

Prior to joining DonRiver, Mr. Fahmy spent 10 years filling various development and leadership roles in R&D at IBM Canada Ltd. During this tenure Mr. Fahmy successfully led various teams in the development of various WebSphere Integrated Development Environments targeted towards systems integration, SOA and WebServices. Mr. Fahmy was the recipient of various technical achievement and innovation awards at IBM. Mr. Fahmy currently holds one patent in this domain, along with 6 other patents pending.

Mr. Fahmy holds a Master of Engineering degree in Software Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from McMaster University.

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