ANDREW SEYBOLD - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Company Founder
• Principal Analyst
• Principal Consultant

Company founder Andrew M. Seybold is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on technology and trends shaping the world of wireless mobility. A respected analyst, consultant, commentator, author, and active participant in industry trade organizations, his views have influenced strategies and shaped initiatives for telecom, mobile computing, and wireless industry leaders worldwide. Andrew Seybold is one of the world's leading authorities on technology and trends shaping the world of wireless mobility. Mr. Seybold is a respected analyst, consultant, commentator, author, and active participant in wireless industry trade organizations. His views have influenced strategies and shaped initiatives for many of the world's most respected names in the wireless industry from Verizon to Nokia. He is founder and CEO of Andrew Seybold, Inc., a wireless industry consulting firm that advises wireless mobility companies from start-up to Fortune 1000 and is an active participant in Public Safety communications. Mr. Seybold is widely known throughout the wireless communications industry for his keen perspective as well as his track record for accurately predicting trends in mobile wireless technology and convergence. Mr. Seybold is a frequent speaker at leading industry events such as CES and CTIA shows, and at corporate events for companies including Verizon, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and others. He has served on the Motorola Research Visionary Board and IBM's Mobile Computing Advisory Board, among others. Mr. Seybold is a Fellow in the Radio Club of America for his contributions to the wireless industry, recipient of the Radio Club of America Sarnoff Citation, and the APCO Presidential Award 2011. He was recently honored with two awards from APCO, the Associated Public Safety Communications Officials organization: The President's Award and a special recognition award. He also received the National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) President's Award for his contributions to Public Safety communications and has been recognized by the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPTSC) for his contribution to Public Safety Broadband communications. Andrew Seybold's COMMENTARY is possibly the most widely read e-newsletter among executives of leading wireless network operators, as is his Public Safety Advocate. He co-founded the Andrew Seybold Wireless University in 1995, which has been attended by thousands of industry professionals and continues to be the only in-depth education program of its kind in the wireless industry. As a trusted authority on wireless technology and business issues, Mr. Seybold has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. He is author of Using Wireless Communications in Business and two other books. He writes for Forbes.com and many industry publications including Wireless Week, Urgent Communications, Fierce Wireless, and others.

Job Titles:

• Partner

Bob Hirsh joined Andrew Seybold, Inc. in 2003, bringing his extensive experience in wireless infrastructure and strategic partnerships to the company's clients. Mr. Hirsh hails from Verizon Wireless and its predecessor, Bell Atlantic Mobile, where from 1993 to 2003, he served in various directorships and strategic roles. His business development and creative marketing skills were honed from the earliest days of his business career. During the 1980s, he led an international sales team to impressive results with an innovative, ground-breaking medical product line for IBM. Once at Bell Atlantic Mobile, he used these organizational and support skills to assist the company with its initial entry into the "new" field of wireless data, defining support infrastructure for the initial launch of CDPD and establishing the structure for numerous alliance partner programs. Early on, he realized the importance of forming alliances to bring together middleware providers (an industry staple today), resellers, and agents to greatly enhance the distribution process, exploring and implementing a variety of distribution channels. Mr. Hirsh played a key role in helping ensure a smooth transition in the various mergers that occurred during his time at Bell Atlantic Mobile. These activities commenced with the Nynex Mobile union and concluded when Verizon was formed as a result of the union of GTE, US West, AirTouch, and Bell Atlantic/Nynex Mobile. His last several months at Verizon were spent assisting with the transition to 3G technologies. Prior to Verizon, Mr. Hirsh worked for IBM in a variety of national and international sales and marketing capacities, encompassing PCs, mainframes, medical equipment, and multimedia. He has be instrumental in many startup and established wireless companies' strategic direction, sales, distribution, compensation, and marketing plans.

Job Titles:

• Vice President Strategic Programs, at & T Business Solutions - Mobility Product Management

Andrew M. Seybold, CEO and Principal Analyst of Andrew Seybold, Inc., is one of the most respected and influential analysts in the wireless industry today. For more than twenty-five years, he has served the industry and shaped initiatives for world leaders of the wireless industry, including Verizon, Nokia, AT&T, Motorola, and Qualcomm. His firm has provided wireless consulting and education services for startups to Fortune 1000 companies such as Dow Chemical, Ford Motor Company, and Microsoft. Andrew Seybold has consulted to some of the industry's most talented and successful entrepreneurs. He was a key consultant to a number of companies that introduced products and services that have had a significant impact on wireless including Research In Motion's popular BlackBerry, Hewlett-Packard's first handheld device, first two-way pager, Good Technologies' first products, and AT&T's push-to-talk offering. He also introduced RadioMail to Dell for the first-ever notebook wireless email offering. He has served on the Motorola Research Visionary Board, IBM's Mobile Computing Advisory Board, and a number of other prestigious advisory boards. Mr. Seybold is a Fellow in the Radio Club of America in recognition of his contributions to the wireless industry, he co-founded and served as a board member of the Personal Computing and Communications Association (PCCA), and he currently serves on the board of CommNexus San Diego. Andrew Seybold's Outlook for Mobile Computing newsletter and his Andrew Seybold/Forbes Wireless Outlook newsletter were must-reads and today his COMMENTARY and PUBLIC SAFETY ADVOCATE are arguably the most widely read e-newsletter among executives of leading wireless network operators. He co-founded Andrew Seybold Wireless University in 1995, which has been attended by thousands of industry professionals and continues to be the only in-depth educational program of its kind in the wireless industry. As a trusted authority on wireless technology and business issues, Mr. Seybold has been featured in the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Using Wireless Communications in Business and several other books, and contributes regularly to Mobile Enterprise Magazine, FierceWireless and FierceContent, and Wireless Week. Andrew Seybold is among the wireless industry's foremost speakers and is recognized worldwide for his keen perspective and track record for accurately predicting trends in mobile technology and convergence and is a featured speaker at major industry and customer events and conferences.