In 1997 Tom formed SeaPoint Ventures. Prior to forming SeaPoint Ventures, Tom co-founded and was the first CEO of Metawave Communications Corporation, a manufacturer of cellular infrastructure equipment. Before Metawave, he was the first president and CEO of Innova Corporation, a manufacturer of digital millimeter wave radios. Tom spent the first seventeen years of his career at Raychem Corporation where he held a variety of executive positions in Europe, South America and the U.S. His last position at Raychem was Group Vice President of the Industrial Products Group.

Tom is currently Chairman of the Board of Ontela and Zumobi Inc. and a board member of Airspan, Hubspan, Kineto Wireless, Modiv Media, Mojix, and SinglePoint. He is past chairman of Qpass, SNAPin Software, Telecom Transport Management and past board member of Tegic. In addition to his duties at SeaPoint Ventures, Tom serves as venture/strategic partner at Oak Investment Partners, Hunt Ventures and Voyager Capital.

Tom has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a BSIE from Columbia University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Dan is CEO and co-founder of Ontela, where he has taken his experience developing and managing both enterprise and end-user applications to help the company with a novel premise: sell consumer services directly to carriers.

Prior to founding Ontela, Dan managed development of the RealArcade service at RealNetworks, enabling thousands of end-users to play classic games such as Monopoly, Scrabble and Rollercoaster Tycoon on their desktops. He arrived at RealNetworks by way of Wildseed, where he managed software development for the Identity Cellular Phone, from the modem to the Linux platform to the user interface. Dan started his career at Microsoft, where he was responsible for Windows XP user interface components, the critically acclaimed Windows PowerToys, Windows 2000 Storage Management, and consumer storage in Windows 98.

Dan is a frequent speaker, panel member, and moderator at events, from the WTIA, of which he is a board member, to Ignite Seattle, where he has been known to fly an RC helicopter into the audience now and then. He received a B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College, loves unusual cuisines, and blogs about his woodworking foibles at www.nothingseveredyet.com.

Mr. Fotheringham is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CTB Group and a member of the Board of Directors.

Mr. Fotheringham is an internationally recognized leader and successful entrepreneur in the wireless broadband communication industry. Throughout his career he has been a catalyst for innovation and change in telecommunications through numerous direct entrepreneurial activities: acting as advisor on many successful projects for major service providers, system vendors, software application developers and Internet service companies; as a public policy and regulatory advocate for the creation of new telecommunications services, FCC rules and IEEE standards; and, as an inventor and creator of new and innovative products and services.

Prior to joining CTB, Mr. Fotheringham held high-level positions at IP Broadband Satellite Services, ADAPTIX, Broadstorm, Bazillion, and Advanced Radio Telecom (ART). Mr. Fotheringham also serves as a Principal in V. Fotheringham and Associates. Mr. Fotheringham has also served on the Board of Directors of numerous public and private companies. He currently serves on the boards of IP Broadband, Ltd., CanAm Holdings, LLC, Maxband, LLC and SDR Holdings, LLC.

Chris Wade was named CEO of ShoZu in June 2009 after serving on the company’s board of directors since 2002. Wade was an early investor in the company and became executive chairman of the board in 2008. Wade began his technology career in 1982 at Nortel Networks, where he served as senior vice president of public networks. He left Nortel in 1997 to become managing director at DSC, where he ran the company’s international business until it was sold to Alcatel for $4 billion.

Wade then co-founded and served as CEO of Cambridge Positioning Systems, where he spent nine years, until its acquisition by CSR. Since 2007, Wade also has worked with several start-ups in the mobile industry, including ShoZu, Manbujia, China’s first IP roaming billing company, and Mobile Acuity, a U.K.-based mobile image-recognition company. He also serves on the board of Intralink, a sales agency company based in San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo. Wade is a frequent speaker at major technology events, most recently Cambridge University’s Wireless Innovators conference, GP Bullhound’s Innovations in Social Networking conference and Mobile World Congress.

Andy Abramson is on the Advisory Board of Vringo. A veteran of the media, marketing and public relations industries, Andy has more than 34 years of experience in all facets of marketing and corporate communications. He started his career in the marketing department of a professional sports team in his native Philadelphia at age 14 and has been at it ever since. The Industry Standard named Andy among its 25 most influential bloggers. He is also an accomplished Web broadcaster as co-host of the daily “World Technology Roundup,” and he has been named a “Marketing Star” by MarketingCrossing.com. Andy holds a B.S. in Journalism, with a concentration in advertising, from Temple University in Philadelphia where he often serves as guest lecturer. A telecommuting pioneer since 1989, Andy calls Del Mar, CA home, where he overlooks the famed Del Mar race track and enjoys a white and blue water view of the Pacific Ocean along with his oversized 10,000 bottle wine collection.

Founded in 2006, Vringo is bringing about the evolution of ringtones. With its award-winning video ringtone application and Web platform, Vringo revolutionizes the traditional call signature, transforming the basic act of making and receiving mobile phone calls into a highly visual, social experience.

Adrian is a Partner at Ignition. Adrian invests in telecommunications and wireless companies and represents Ignition as a director on the board of SinglePoint, Twisted Pair Solutions, Melodeo, Xeround, and is an observer on the board of Telecom Transport Management and mFoundry.

Prior to Ignition, Adrian spent 12 years in leading technology roles at Nextlink, AT&T Wireless, McCaw Cellular Communication and British Telecom Research Laboratories. Adrian’s responsibilities have included the radio architecture and evolution of the LMDS broadband fixed wireless technology, the browser transport mechanism for integrated cellular voice and data solutions and the TDMA air interface design and specification.

Adrian joined British Telecom Research Laboratories in the UK in 1989 and worked on the ETSI standards for the Digital European Cordless Telecommunication (DECT) technology, developing DECT testbeds for voice, data and wireless video applications.

Adrian is the author of a number of patents associated with cellular technology as well as co-author of the book "IS-136 TDMA Technology, Economics and Services.”

Jason and his team define Motorola's strategy and roadmap for enhancing the Android operating system and core applications used across the Motorola handset portfolio.

Jason previously led the product team managing Motorola's imaging-focused smartphone and web services product lines, as well as Motorola's mobile advertising server platform.

Prior to joining Motorola, Jason founded Mobius Audio, a portable media player startup, product managed the Windows Mobile platform at Microsoft during the launch of Microsoft's smartphone efforts, and planned navigation and multimedia systems at Audi AG as a test driver and product manager. He has also held nuclear research and engineering roles at Sandia National Labs, Florida Power, and Wisconsin Electric, and received a Master's in Engineering Management from Dartmouth College, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida.

Paul W. Garnett is Director, Policy and Regulatory Affairs in Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, where he dispenses legal and regulatory advice and develops policy positions on issues impacting the mobile, gaming, and other Microsoft businesses. Prior to joining Microsoft, Paul spent seventeen years in Washington, DC, where he held a variety of jobs focusing on telecommunications policy. Paul was Assistant Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, at CTIA-The Wireless Association, where he represented the U.S. wireless industry before the Federal Communications Commission and on Capitol Hill. Paul also worked at the Federal Communications Commission in its Wireline Competition Bureau, worked as an Attorney in Swidler Berlin’s (now Bingham McCutchen’s) telecommunications practice, and was a Consultant in Price Waterhouse’s (now PricewaterhouseCoopers’s) telecommunications privatization practice group. Paul earned his bachelor’s degree in political science at Union College and his law degree, cum laude, at the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. Paul is also a graduate of the Columbus School of Law’s Institute for Communications Law Studies. Paul lives in (recently annexed portions of) Kirkland with his wife, daughter, and three nieces.

Director, Mobility Product Management, AT&T Business Solutions. Based in Redmond, WA, and a former Microsoft Corporate Counsel, Mireille manages a product team that is focused on delivering mobile line-of-business applications for the enterprise. Her current responsibilities cover solutions for government, education, healthcare, utilities and life sciences. Among other initiatives, Ms. Gotsis launched the first “smart grid” solution offered by the wireless industry to the utilities sector, and spearheaded the deployment of an enterprise-scale customer relationship management (CRM) solution to over 1,500 AT&T sellers. She is a frequent keynote and panel speaker at mobility and industry conferences, including OAUG (Oracle Application User Group) Collaborate; Dreamforce; PharmaForce; Insurance Accounting & Systems Association (IASA); Towards an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR); Center for Connected Health Symposium. Mireille is a graduate of Stanford University (B.A.) and UCLA (J.D.).

Travis Beaven is the VP of Products at UIEvolution, responsible for product ideas and execution that deliver results in a complex world beyond the PC. Since joining UIEvolution in 2003, Travis has led product strategy and delivery of connected services for leading brands such as AT&T, Samsung, Disney, ESPN, Fox Interactive, MySpace and NTT Group. Before joining UIEvolution, Travis worked as a Lead Program Manager at Microsoft within the Exchange and SQL divisions. There he managed product development for the enterprise business and planned forward-thinking product strategy for the company. Travis also helped design and deploy the software engineering process for the company.

Prior to Microsoft, Travis served as a Creative Art Director for several Advertising and Design agencies. During this time he helped launch national advertising and marketing campaigns, as well as design creative product strategy for leading service companies within software and mobility.

Throughout his lifelong career in telecommunications, Gowri Shankar has focused on bringing new technologies to market and building multimillion-dollar sales organizations.

As a founding member of the Sprint PCS launch team, Gowri led the creation of the first nationwide telesales and e-commerce distribution channels in the wireless industry, thereby laying the foundation for Sprint PCS's industry-leading enterprise sales strategy.

In addition to his work with Sprint, Gowri was general manager for eAssist, a CRM software company. There, he developed eAssist's international strategy and was responsible for the organization's expansion into nine European countries.

Gowri holds a BS degree in accounting from the University of Madras and an MBA from the University of Missouri.