Speaker Biography
Andrew Bud
Vice Chair
Mobile Entertainment Forum
Andrew Bud is co-founder and Executive Chairman of mBlox Inc., the world’s leading mobile transaction network. Prior to assuming the role of Executive Chairman in 2003, Andrew was the CEO of mBlox, which he co-founded in 1999 and led to profitability.
From 1988 to 1996, Andrew was head of mobile technology for Olivetti SpA in Italy. In 1994, he became the founding technical head of Omnitel (now Vodafone Italia). From 1989 to 1996, he led the European development of DECT (the predecessor of WiFi), and launched Europe's first wireless LAN system.
Between 1996 and 1999 he was a Director at Connect Communications Group, a leading European provider of corporate telecommunications services, and was the Group Marketing Director with Azlan plc, the £200m European distributor of internet technology. His earlier background was in mobile technology R&D with PA Technology.
Andrew is a Board member of the global Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), which he helped found in 2001 and to which he was re-elected in 2003 and 2005. Bud is the Vice Chairman. In April 2005 he was appointed to the Board of ICSTIS, the UK regulator of premium-rate telecoms services.
Andrew is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IEE, and is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.
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