Dave P. Whalen

Carrier Access Corp. engages in the development of broadband equipment solutions for communications service providers. Its products enable customers to consolidate and upgrade access capacity for the implementation of converged voice, video, and data services at lower costs. The company was founded By Roger L. Koenig and Nancy G. Pierce in 1992 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Forest Investments, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the investment and acquisition of businesses, securities and assets that has significant long-term value creation. It operates through the following segments: Durable Medical Equipment, Investment Management, Real Estate, and General Corporate. The company was founded on December 16, 1994 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Palm, Inc. manufactures handheld computing device products. It provides mobile products that help people to stay connected with their family, friends and colleagues, access and share information. The firm sells their products through Internet, retail, reseller and wireless operator channels and at Palm online stores. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

SignalSoft Corp. develops wireless location services. The company was founded by David A. Hose and Mark H. Flolid in 1995 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Sony Network Communications, Inc. engages in the provision of Internet services. It offers Internet of Things, information and communications technology, and network connection. The company was founded on November 1, 1995 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Kyocera Wireless Corp. manufactures and supplies wireless phones and accessories that use the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) platform technology. Its products include handsets with accessories such as clips, car kits, batteries, and headsets. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA

Aepona provides software products and service delivery solutions to Telcos globally, empowering them to embrace fully the emerging Network as a Service (NaaS) business model and unleash the full potential of their network assets. Over the past 2 years, Aepona has been at the forefront of the mobile industry's evolution towards a new type of business model Network as a Service and its award-winning Universal Service Platform has become the solution of choice for mobile operators implementing NaaS strategies globally. More recently, the emergence of Cloud Computing, and its extension into the mobile domain, has brought a new dimension to NaaS: the vision of a global, interconnected ÒMobile CloudÓ where application providers and enterprises will be able to access valuable network and billing capabilities across multiple Telco networks, making it easy for them to enrich their services Ð whether these applications run on a mobile device, in the web, in a SaaS Cloud, on the desktop, or on an enterprise server. Aepona is now poised to become a leading player in the Mobile Cloud Computing marketplace. Its Universal Service Platform is a comprehensive, carrier-grade solution that contains all of the essential business and technical functions for Mobile Cloud Computing. Moreover, through its work with both individual operator NaaS implementations and the GSMA Commercial Pilot, Aepona has gained unparalleled operational experience as well as commercial insights to the business models that will underpin this new era for the mobile telecoms industry.