
Sara Brown
Vice President of Marketing, Multi-Tech Systems, Inc. - IMC Chairman

Sara Brown
Vice President of Marketing, Multi-Tech Systems, Inc. - IMC Chairman
Sara Brown is responsible for all marketing communications at IoT systems provider MultiTech. Brown is a strategic marketing professional dedicated to driving quantifiable business results with data-driven outreach to IoT/M2M user markets. For nearly 20 years, she’s boosted revenue of organizations big and small; including Sierra Wireless, Telit, and Wavecom. www.multitech.com/

Kim Bybjerg
Vice President IoT & Mobility, Tata Communications - IMC Vice Chairman

Kim Bybjerg
Vice President IoT & Mobility, Tata Communications - IMC Vice Chairman
Kim Bybjerg is Vice President IoT & Mobility at Tata Communications, a leading global digital infrastructure provider that powers today’s fast-growing digital economy. With a leadership position in emerging markets, Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national enterprises and communications service providers.
With extensive experience in the IoT field, Kim has been involved in countless IoT projects across Europe and outside, being responsible for the go-to-market strategy, the commercial and product strategy, as well as the execution of these strategies.
Prior to Tata Communications, Kim has been CEO of Teleena and Director Business Development in Europe, Middle-East and Africa for Jasper (now Cisco-Jasper), a large provider of IoT SaaS services for Telecom operators. Before that, he has been Managing Director at JHB Group, which envolved out of two technology companies: mobile payment enabler, Liquix, and smart-metering company, Xemex. As Director M2M Northern Europe at Vodafone, Kim has been developing the M2M activities for one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. Before Vodafone, he already setup the M2M business for KPN, where and for which he also established a partnership with Jasper.
Prior to becoming an expert within the IoT space, Kim held various Management positions at Orange, Siemens, IBM and AT&T. www.tatacommunications.com

Arne Aßmann
Head of Strategy and Business Development, 1NCE

Arne Aßmann
Head of Strategy and Business Development, 1NCE
Arne Aßmann is the Head of Strategy and Business Development at 1NCE. Prior to 1NCE he worked over 9 years as Analyst and Consultant for the research Company Statista to serve enterprise clients in the telco, media and IT sector. Arne produced market forecasts, business cases and developed go-to-market strategies. His industry focus and specialization is on M2M and IoT. www.1nce.com

Syed Zaeem Hosain
CTO, Aeris Communications

Syed Zaeem Hosain
CTO, Aeris Communications
Mr. Hosain is responsible for the architecture and future direction of Aeris’ networks and technology strategy. He joined Aeris in 1996 as Vice President, Engineering and is a member of the founding executive team of Aeris. Mr. Hosain has more than 38 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer, and telecommunications industries, including product development, architecture design, and technical management. Prior to joining Aeris, he held senior engineering and management positions at Analog Devices, Cypress Semiconductor, CAD National, and ESS Technology. Mr. Hosain is Chairman of the International Forum on ANSI‐41 Standards Technology (IFAST) and Chairman Emeritus of the IoT M2M Council (IMC). He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. www.aeris.com

William L. Yan
President, Americas, AVSystem

William L. Yan
President, Americas, AVSystem
A passionate tech industry veteran, Mr. William Yan has played key executive roles in both emerging and well-established companies on a global scale, culminating at C-level executive positions with full P&L responsibilities. In his career, Mr. Yan has built and managed a global team of Marketing, Sales, Business Development, and Professional Services professionals. Working extensively with telecom and broadband service providers’ Network Operations, Engineering and Architecture, and Customer Care teams, Mr. Yan has built a core domain expertise in the telecom / broadband network management, OSS/BSS, and Service Management platforms. avsystem.com

Mehrdad Negahban
Founder and CEO, beamLive

Mehrdad Negahban
Founder and CEO, beamLive
Mr. Negahban has more than 25 years of industrial experience in development and marketing of advanced communication products and Internet-based solutions. He was an employee or a consultant for several world-class companies. Currently he is the co-founder and CEO of BeamLive Inc. the inventor of “Mobile IoT Communication” built on a configurable mobile cloud platform. Mr. Negahban has more than 10 publications in IEEE journals, seminars and conferences. Has been granted 12+ International and US patents. In 1999 he founded Valence Semiconductor as a world-class mixed-signal communication and RF system-on-chip company. His recent focus is on broadband IoT and mobile connectivity serving public safety, transportation and smart cities.

Mikaël Schachne
VP Mobility Solutions, BICS

Mikaël Schachne
VP Mobility Solutions, BICS
Mikaël Schachne joined the international division of Belgacom in 2001 which was then spun-off and merged with Swisscom International and MTN International. After having successfully led the product development and management of new international mobile data services such as Signalling, GPRS Roaming eXchange (GRX), SMS Hubbing, MMS Hubbing, Instant Roaming and Open Connectivity Roaming Hubbing, he’s now in charge of Mobility Solutions at BICS. The portfolio which has been built across the last 10 years is now supporting international mobile communications needs for more than 500 Mobile Operators and MVNOs across the world. Mikaël Schachne previously worked for Winstar Europe and Mobistar where he gains extensive expertise in the implementation of telecommunications networks in the fields of GSM, GPRS, Wireless Local Loop, IP and SS7. He graduated from the Brussels University Applied Science Faculty (Belgium) as a Civil Electrical Engineer specialised in Electronic and Telecommunications and holds a master in Business-to- Business Marketing from the Vlerick Management School in Leuven, Belgium. bics.com

Scott Wilken
VP of Technology, Digi International

Scott Wilken
VP of Technology, Digi International
Mr. Wilken joined Digi in October 2017 as Vice President of Technology. Mr. Wilken previously served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of KING, where he was responsible for Research and Innovation, Product Development and Information Technology. Mr. Wilken rebuilt the company’s development operations and defined an IoT-focused product roadmap. Earlier, Mr. Wilken was the CTO of MultiTech Systems, where he led all technology units and created systems to maximize the company’s innovation. Before MultiTech Systems, Mr. Wilken spent 13 years with Logic PD, most recently as Vice President of Engineering. www.digi.com

Jaap Groot
CEO, Fractus Antennas

Jaap Groot
CEO, Fractus Antennas
Ir Jaap Groot is an experienced international executive with strong entrepreneurial skills who has created momentum, revenue growth and leadership in the IoT & M2M marketplace through outstanding commercial and business development skills and through creating relationships with industry leaders that are centered on solving strategic business issues.
Jaap holds a Master Degree (Ir) from the Technical University in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and he has founded, built and sold businesses during his career. Over the past 25 years Jaap worked for Roadshow (now Descartes), Qualcomm, MiX Telematics, Sigfox and Semtech, and has been driving Industry Alliances as Vice President Europe at the LoRa Alliance and Co-Chair of the IOT Workgroup at the Wireless Broadband Alliance. He currently is the CEO of Fractus Antennas in Barcelona.

Volkhard Bregulla
VP Global Sales Manufacturing, Automotive and IoT Services, HPE

Volkhard Bregulla
VP Global Sales Manufacturing, Automotive and IoT Services, HPE
Volkhard Bregulla leads HPE’s Global Industries Manufacturing and Distribution (M&D) for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mr. Bregulla and his organisation are responsible for addressing and solving business and technology issues and as a result delivering significant business outcome for HPE’s clients in the M&D Industry. The responsibility includes the entire HPE portfolio of technology products, services as well as business solutions.
In his current role, he is responsible for the business relationship and industry specific content HPE develops, sell and delivers as solutions together with a select set of strategic partners and channel organizations to enable the New Style of IT and Business in the Digital economy. www.hpe.com

Ajay Joseph
Chief Technology Officer, iBasis

Ajay Joseph
Chief Technology Officer, iBasis
Volkhard Bregulla leads HPE’s Global Industries Manufacturing and Distribution (M&D) for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mr. Bregulla and his organisation are responsible for addressing and solving business and technology issues and as a result delivering significant business outcome for HPE’s clients in the M&D Industry. The responsibility includes the entire HPE portfolio of technology products, services as well as business solutions.
In his current role, he is responsible for the business relationship and industry specific content HPE develops, sell and delivers as solutions together with a select set of strategic partners and channel organizations to enable the New Style of IT and Business in the Digital economy. www.hpe.com

Fred Yentz
Founder and CEO, IoT Launch LLC

Fred Yentz
Founder and CEO, IoT Launch LLC
An experienced technology executive with proven success and strong global business development experience within the Internet of Things and Industrie 4.0 market sectors. Fred has successfully launched world class Industrial IoT software and cloud based IoT service platforms targeting customers from small innovator companies up to and including fortune 500 corporate customers. Fred brings both deep industry knowledge as well as a vast network of ecosystem partners and industry relationships which can be leveraged to solve the many challenges faced by companies on their digital journey.
Fred is the founder and CEO of IoT Launch LLC. Prior to IoT-Launch, Fred has served as President of Telit IoT Platforms, CEO of ILS Technology, VP and General Manager RadiSys Corp – Industrial and Telecom divisions as well several leadership positions with IBM’s Manufacturing System Products Division, IBM PC Company and IBM System Products Division.

Romil Bahl
President and Chief Executive Officer, KORE

Romil Bahl
President and Chief Executive Officer, KORE
Romil Bahl serves as CEO of KORE. He brings almost 30 years of consulting, information technology, professional services, and IoT experience in high-growth and turnaround environments. Throughout his career, Romil has been instrumental in enabling breakthrough growth in information and professional services organizations. He has risen to complex challenges where he has crafted growth strategies, tapped new emerging markets and energized global teams. His leadership approach reflects deep expertise in developing strong client relationships and creating teams that are driven to innovate and excel.
Prior to KORE, Romil served as President and CEO of Lochbridge, a leading technology solutions provider in the IoT, Connected Car and digital enablement space. Before that, he was EVP and GM of Global Industries for CSC, leading the industry go-to-market dimension across the entire approximately $9 billion commercial business unit, creating global growth strategies and expanding CSC’s global footprint into offerings such as cloud, cybersecurity and big data. Earlier, Romil was CEO of a data analytics-focused public company and had leadership roles at A.T. Kearney, Infosys and Deloitte Consulting.
Romil earned an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Directorate of Marine Engineering & Technology in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. www.korewireless.com

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Scott Schwalbe
CEO / CO-Founder, NimbeLink

Scott Schwalbe
CEO / CO-Founder, NimbeLink
As Co-Founder and CEO of NimbeLink, Scott has a long history of building profitable businesses and successful teams. In his role at NimbeLink, he is responsible for corporate vision, strategy, and the overall leadership of the company. Prior to founding NimbeLink in May of 2013, Scott held leadership roles for several industry-leading companies, including Logic PD, HDM, and Celestica. He also served and retired after 20 years in the U.S. Navy as a Cryptologic Linguist. He earned his BS at New York University and his MBA from Cardinal Stritch University. nimbelink.com |

Sam Colley
CEO, Pod Group USA

Sam Colley
CEO, Pod Group USA
Sam has specialized in business development within the global M2M/IoT ecosystem for over 8 years having worked in the UK, Spain and North America. Currently Sam is CEO of Pod Group USA and is based in San Francisco, where he runs all North American operations. Since being in the USA Sam has helped establish Pod’s reputation as an MVNO in the market, built out a successful partner program and continues to actively help expand Pod’s global footprint. www.podgroup.com

Jonathan Weiss
Vice President, Emerging Technologies, Software AG

Jonathan Weiss
Vice President, Emerging Technologies, Software AG
Jon is an innovation and technology thought leader with extensive experience in leading customer engagements. Jon has spent the last decade working with some of the world’s largest companies, including Fortune 50 organizations, seeking to undergo digital transformations in their manufacturing facilities, supply chain initiatives and enterprise applications. He has a passion for helping companies reduce cost, increase efficiency and create new revenue streams by leveraging emerging technologies.

Sridhar Ramachandran
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer , Somos

Sridhar Ramachandran
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer , Somos
Sridhar (Sri) Ramachandran is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Somos, a leading trusted data management company. In his role, he oversees the company’s technology strategy and long-term vision.
Sri is an accomplished executive with a broad spectrum of experience in public and private companies in the telecommunications and cloud services industries. He has deep domain expertise in Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, VoIP, and cloud, as well as extensive experience leading cross-functional agile teams.
Over the last 20 years, Sri has brought his technical vision and leadership to several leading tech firms. Most recently, he served as the Vice President and Americas Head of IoT & Mobility Solutions at G+D Mobile Security Inc. Prior to that role, he held CTO positions at Numerex (now Sierra Wireless), Utilidata, Inteconnections division of Telcordia Technologies and NexTone (now Ribbon).
Sri has a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Dennis Kish
COO, Taoglas

Dennis Kish
COO, Taoglas
Dennis is responsible for all aspects of America’s business, including sales, marketing, customer support, engineering, and operations. Prior to joining Taoglas, Kish served as President of the Fiber business at Google, where his team brought a triple-play (internet, TV, and telephone) service to market across the US.
Kish’s general management experience also includes roles as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Vice President and General Manager of ST-Ericsson’s Connectivity & Peripherals business unit, and Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Connected Entertainment Business at NXP Semiconductors. Kish holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University. www.taoglas.com

John Keever
CTO, Telit IoT Platforms

John Keever
CTO, Telit IoT Platforms
Mr. Keever is the CTO of Telit’s IoT Platforms division (formerly ILS Technology), which he founded in October 2000. He has more than 24 years of experience in automation software engineering and design. Mr. Keever came to Telit from IBM Corporation, where he served as IBM global services principle responsible for e-Production solutions architectures and deployment. Mr. Keever has over 18 years of plant floor automation experience with IBM, and is the former world-wide development and support manager for Automation Connection, Distributed Applications Environment, PlantWorks and Data Collection hardware and software products. He served as lead marketing and solutions architecture at IBM, where he was responsible for General Motors, BMW, Chrysler, Tokyo Electron, Glaxo-Wellcome, and numerous other global manufacturing companies. Mr. Keever has both hardware patents and software copyrights. www.telit.com

Carl Bellanca
Head of Sales, u-blox Americas

Carl Bellanca
Head of Sales, u-blox Americas
Carl Bellanca is a veteran of the electronic components industry with 25 years’ experience in various sales and management positions across its value chain – in distribution, as a manufacturer representative, and as a supplier. As Head of Sales for u-blox Americas, Carl will implement the company’s sales strategy in the Americas, growing the distribution network, forging new partnerships, and promoting the growing portfolio of u-blox solutions and services. He brings with him deep insights into products and markets relevant to u blox. Following two decades as VP Sales and co-owner of Ontec Electronic Marketing Inc in Rochester, NY, Carl held the position of Regional Sales Manager for the Wireless Connectivity Solutions group at Future Electronics. He has been VP Sales – East at u-blox America since 2018. www.u-blox.com

Ludovico Fassati
Head of Vodafone IOT Americas, Vodafone

Ludovico Fassati
Head of Vodafone IOT Americas, Vodafone
Ludovico joined Vodafone in August 2014 thanks to the acquisition of Cobra Automotive Technologies. Ludovico is now leading Vodafone IOT business in the Americas based out of the New York City office. Before this he was heading Vodafone IoT Vertical Market Development with responsibility for driving new business, new technologies (as NBIOT and IOT Satellite) and developing vertical industries such as smart metering, home automation, industrial equipment and m-health.
Prior to joining Vodafone, Ludovico was the CEO of Cobra Telematics (now Vodafone Telematics) leading 450 employees in 7 different countries. Ludovico started his career in the Private Equity industry in Italy and in the UK leading investments in different sectors such as logistics, luxury goods, gaming, renewable energies and food.
Ludovico holds a degree in economics and financial institutions from Università L. Bocconi of Milan (Italy). As well as his native Italian, he is fluent in English and French. www.Vodafone.com
IMC Chairmen Emeritus

Volkhard Bregulla
IMC Chairman 2018-2019

Volkhard Bregulla
IMC Chairman 2018-2019
VP Global Industries Manufacturing & Distribution, HPE
Volkhard Bregulla leads HPE’s Global Industries Manufacturing and Distribution (M&D) for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mr. Bregulla and his organisation are responsible for addressing and solving business and technology issues and as a result delivering significant business outcome for HPE’s clients in the M&D Industry. The responsibility includes the entire HPE portfolio of technology products, services as well as business solutions.
In his current role, he is responsible for the business relationship and industry specific content HPE develops, sell and delivers as solutions together with a select set of strategic partners and channel organizations to enable the New Style of IT and Business in the Digital economy. www.hpe.com

Syed Zaeem Hosain
IMC Chairman 2017-2018

Syed Zaeem Hosain
IMC Chairman 2017-2018
Mr. Hosain joined Aeris in 1996 as a member of the founding executive team, and as CTO is responsible for the company’s networks, development programs and technology strategy. With over thirty-five years experience in the semiconductor, computer and telecommunications industries, and prior to joining Aeris, he has held senior engineering/management positions at Analog Devices, Cypress Semiconductor, CAD National and ESS Technology. Mr. Hosain is Chairman of the International Forum on ANSI-41 Standards Technology (IFAST), Chairman of the Global M2M Realization Forum (GM2MRF), and is on the Board of the Mobility CDMA Development Group (MDG, formerly CDMA Development Group). www.aeris.com

Joel Young
IMC Chairman 2016-2017

Joel Young
IMC Chairman 2016-2017
Joel Young founded IoT Advisors, a consultancy, in 2017. Mr. Young had been Sr. Vice President and CTO for Digi International since 2006. He joined Digi in July 2000 as Vice President of Engineering. Prior to joining Digi, Young served as a Vice President for Transcrypt International, a provider of encryption products, in various engineering, sales and marketing positions from February 1996 to June 2000. He held various engineering and management positions at AT&T and AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1986 to 1996. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and holds 16 patents in various telecommunications and machine connectivity technologies.

Alexander Bufalino
IMC Chairman 2015-2016

Alexander Bufalino
IMC Chairman 2015-2016
Alexander Bufalino has been Chief Sales Officer of 1nce since January 2018.Prior to that, Alexander served as SVP Sales & Marketing at Kore Wireless, one of the leading managed service providers for IoT and M2M. From 2005 through 2016 Alexander worked for Telit Communications PLC, most recently as Chief Marketing Officer, and was responsible for building the brand into a global leader in M2M / IoT business. Prior to Telit, Alexander served as Sales Director for Southern Europe at Siemens AG from 1998, before joining EnOcean GmbH in 2002 as International Sales Director. Alexander is a qualified banker and has participated in a business management training program.

Alex Brisbourne
IMC Chairman 2014-2015

Alex Brisbourne
IMC Chairman 2014-2015
Alex Brisbourne co-founded KORE in 2003 and served as its President and CEO until 2017, and currently retains a board seat with the company. He has over 30 years of experience in the networking and telecommunications industry in companies in Europe, North America, and Asia. As Managing Partner at Aegis Communications Investments L.P. he oversees investment in emerging media and communications initiatives.

Jürgen Hase
IMC Chairman 2013-2014

Jürgen Hase
IMC Chairman 2013-2014
Jürgen Hase is the CEO of Unlimit, Reliance Group’s IoT Business and has worked with the global telecommunications industry for more than 25 years to develop, implement and execute new businesses in different global markets.
Jürgen was Director-IoT/M2M with Ooredoo at the Group level, based in Qatar, responsible for implementing the IoT business for Ooredoo in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, in multiple vertical segments such as Automotive, Telematics, Smart Cities, Healthcare, Insurance, and Energy. Before Ooredoo, he was Vice President of the M2M Competence Center at Deutsche Telekom (DT) for over a decade. As one of the founders, he helped DT develop this unit as one of the leading global players in the field of IoT.