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Michael Becker, North American Managing Director, Mobile Marketing Association
MICHAEL BECKER is a leader in the mobile marketing industry. Mr. Becker is EVP of Business Development for iLoop Mobile, Inc., a leading and award winning mobile marketing software and application solutions provider. Michael Becker has over 17 years of technical and business development experience and has worked in the global telecommunications—mobile marketing and instant messaging, medical, electronic book, and custom solution test industries. In addition to his role at iLoop Mobile, Mr. Becker is both an active mobile marketing industry evangelist and academic. Mr. Becker sits on the DotMobi MAG Steering Committee, is Chairman of the DotMobi Education Committee and member of the DotiMobi MAG Mobile Internet in Developing Countries Task Force. In addition, Mr. Becker sits on the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) North American Board of Directors (2004, 2005, 2007), is the Co-chair of the MMA's Academic Outreach Committee and Co-editor of the MMA International Journal of Mobile Marketing. Mr. Becker is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Business Administration at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, focusing his research on the emergence of the mobile channel and its use for marketing; he is specifically researching the emerging phenomenon of Mobile Enhanced Customer Managed Interactions. Mr. Becker is also a Ball State University Center for Media Design Industry & Research Fellow, and has authored over 30 articles on mobile marketing and is the editor of a number articles and speaking series on wide range of mobile marketing topics. Mr. Becker holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Saint Mary's College of California and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
Mr. Becker's recent honors include:
• MMA 2007 Outstanding Individual Achievement Award
• MMA 2007 Innovation Award for iLoop Mobile mFinity Platform
• MMA 2007 Overall Excellence Award for Company/Committee for Academic Outreach Committee
• ASAE 2007 Gold Circle Award for Peer Reviewed Print Journal [MMA International Journal of Mobile Marketing] from an association with a budget of $2 million less
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Michael Becker, North American Managing Director, Mobile Marketing Association
MICHAEL BECKER is a leader in the mobile marketing industry. Mr. Becker is EVP of Business Development for iLoop Mobile, Inc., a leading and award winning mobile marketing software and application solutions provider. Michael Becker has over 17 years of technical and business development experience and has worked in the global telecommunications—mobile marketing and instant messaging, medical, electronic book, and custom solution test industries. In addition to his role at iLoop Mobile, Mr. Becker is both an active mobile marketing industry evangelist and academic. Mr. Becker sits on the DotMobi MAG Steering Committee, is Chairman of the DotMobi Education Committee and member of the DotiMobi MAG Mobile Internet in Developing Countries Task Force. In addition, Mr. Becker sits on the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) North American Board of Directors (2004, 2005, 2007), is the Co-chair of the MMA's Academic Outreach Committee and Co-editor of the MMA International Journal of Mobile Marketing. Mr. Becker is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Business Administration at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, focusing his research on the emergence of the mobile channel and its use for marketing; he is specifically researching the emerging phenomenon of Mobile Enhanced Customer Managed Interactions. Mr. Becker is also a Ball State University Center for Media Design Industry & Research Fellow, and has authored over 30 articles on mobile marketing and is the editor of a number articles and speaking series on wide range of mobile marketing topics. Mr. Becker holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Saint Mary's College of California and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
Mr. Becker's recent honors include:
• MMA 2007 Outstanding Individual Achievement Award
• MMA 2007 Innovation Award for iLoop Mobile mFinity Platform
• MMA 2007 Overall Excellence Award for Company/Committee for Academic Outreach Committee
• ASAE 2007 Gold Circle Award for Peer Reviewed Print Journal [MMA International Journal of Mobile Marketing] from an association with a budget of $2 million less
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Steven Gray, Chief Operation Officer, Money Mailer Direct Marketing
Steven Gray is Chief Operating Officer of Money Mailer Direct Marketing. Prior to his appointment, Gray was the Senior Vice President of National Accounts for eight years for Harte-Hanks Inc. Previously, Gray held an array of both sales and marketing positions at Moore Marketing Services.
Michael Hanley is an Assistant Professor of Advertising and a Senior Research Fellow in the Digital Policy Institute at Ball State University. He is recognized as one of the leading academic mobile marketing researchers in the U.S. He is Co-Editor of the International Journal of Mobile Marketing, Co-Chair of the Mobile Marketing Association's Academic Outreach Committee and Recipient of the Mobile Marketing Association's 2007 Award for Overall Excellence.
Jeannette Kocsis, SVP, Digital Marketing, The Agency Inside Harte-Hanks
Jeannette Kocsis oversees the Digital strategy programs at Harte-Hanks. Jeannette provides direction and support for Web site conversion strategy, digital marketing, communication programs and the Web data that informs strategy. She has created search engine strategies and link placement campaigns, going back to 1996. She came to Harte-Hanks in 2000 to build the Search Engine Marketing practice.
Jeannette is the author of the Conversion Point™ whitepaper series, the methodology used by our Digital Practice.
Jeannette is a regular contributor for DMNews, and presents frequently at industry events and webinars on search marketing, Web site conversion metrics and optimization, and branding online. Jeannette serves on the DMA SEMC Segment Advisory Committee and was the 2007 Vice Chairperson on the Operations Committee of the Direct Marketing Association’s Search Marketing Council. Jeannette is on the Program Advisory Committee for DMA08 and an Echo Award judge.
Michael J. O'Farrell is Chair of the dotMobi Advisory Group and co-author of the Wiley publication Mobile Internet for Dummies. Additionally, he is Vice Chairman of ooober as well as a strategic advisor to SilverBirch, Carlson Marketing, Graham Sanborn Media and The Centre for Creative Communications at Centennial College.
As a global expert on mobile and interactive digital media, Michael is widely considered an industry leading futurist. In addition to shaping the early market practices of the Open Mobile Alliance, he was a co-founder of the Wireless Advertising Industry Association in 2000 (now the Mobile Marketing Association).
Juliet Randall, Senior Director, Marketing Mobile, Western Union
Steve Roberts launched ShopText in November 2006. Prior to ShopText, Steve's marketing and internet experience includes COO of McCann Erickson's $200 million relationship marketing company MRM Partners, CFO of McCann's $650 million marketing services companies and CFO of Modem Media (acquired by Digitas in 2004), where he led the company's IPO in 1999, and drove its profitable growth to a run rate of $160 million in revenue. Prior to Modem Media, Steve held several global and international P&L management positions at United Technologies. Prior to joining UTC in 1990, Steve structured debt financing for radio, paging, cable and newspaper acquisitions and leveraged buyouts in the Corporate Finance Group of Continental Bank (now Bank of America). Steve has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Middlebury College.
Gowri Shankar, SVP of Sales & Business Development, SinglePoint
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.
Description
Part I: Familiarizing Yourself with the Mobile Marketing Landscape
In Part I of the intensive mobile marketing workshop you'll be introduced to the mobile marketing landscape and ecosystem of players, a landscape that can be quite confusing if you do not have a map to help you navigate it. We'll define mobile marketing, review mobile marketing strategy, tactics, and objectives, as well as provide you with an overview of key players within each sphere of the mobile marketing ecosystem. You'll also be introduced to various ways to monetize the mobile channel. You'll learn how to identity, qualify and select strategic partners and how to select from the various options for deploying mass and niche market campaigns. We'll even touch on the intricacies of launching global mobile programs. This session will wrap up with a keynote from a leading mobile marketing practitioner , who will leave you with critical success factors for successfully launching mobile marketing initiatives from the publisher's/brand's prospective.