Steve Derico, Founder of Bixby Apps
Steve Derico is the founder of Bixby Apps an iPhone App development company in San Francisco. Bixby Apps develops apps for individuals, startups, and Fortune 500 companies like The Nielsen Company & BMW. Prior to Bixby Apps, Steve worked for internet cornerstone, eBay. He has over 8 years of object-orientated programming experience and a degree in Computer Science from Grand Valley State University. Steve is from Detroit, Michigan and enjoys running, baseball, and golfing in his free time.
You can find out more about Steve on his blog, SteveDerico.com or speaker profile at SpeakerFile.com. Follow Steve on Twitter at @SteveDerico.
Eliran Sapir, CEO & Founder of Apptopia
Eli is the Founder & CEO of Apptopia, the marketplace for buying and selling mobile app ownership. He originally started coding (Visual Basic) at the young age of 12, and his passion quickly grew into starting businesses. His first big success was a mobile appcalled GPush, which in 2009 was the 17th most paid for iOS app. It was his experience with GPush, and difficulty in selling what was a very profitable business, that led the concept behind Apptopia.
Previously Eli served as the EIR at GreatPoint Ventures. Even before that he was involved in several startups, including: Oasys Water, GreatPoint Energy, and DVTel.
Eli drives Apptopia’s overall strategic vision while overseeing all facets of the company’s operations. Within months of the site’s launch, Mark Cuban led the company’s $1 million round of funding and now Eli’s main goal is to help people invest and make money through mobile app acquisitions.
Trey Smith, CEO of Secret HQ Games & Top Hat Games
Trey Smith is a game developer from San Diego, CA. He owns Secret HQ Games and a game publishing company called Top Hat Games. Trey and his team have put out many hit games including Maze+, Jump Pack, Monster Magic, Steam Rush and Chase. A bit of an entrepreneur addict, Trey also owns marketing company that teaches people how to create games and apps called Secret Headquarters, INC and has a new company in the works developing high end social and premium games called Kayabit.
You can follow Trey at www.treysmithblog.com.
Clay Kellog, CRO of Chartboost
Clay Kellogg is the Chief Revenue Officer for Chartboost. Clay is responsible for leading the sales and business development teams for Chartboost, a monetization and distribution technology platform that powers over 8,000 mobile games. Clay previously ran the Global Mobile Platform and Partnerships team at Google. He joined Google in May 2010 as part of the company’s acquisition of AdMob where he led the Business Development and Publisher Partnership teams for North America. Before joining AdMob, Clay held various Product Management, Business Development, and Sales management roles at Qualcomm, Autodesk, InfoSpace, and Kivera. Clay holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Gui Schvartsman, CEO of RevMob
Gui Schvartsman founded Best, Cool & Fun Games in April 2010, a successful developer of over 100 apps with over 100 million downloads on iOS, Android and WP7. He created Ant Smasher, with 45 million downloads is one of the Top 10 most downloaded Android games of all time. The game also inspired several viral videos, including this one of a frog playing Ant Smasher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-7bQezFZ44
Gui also started RevMob Ad Network over a year ago. RevMob was founded because Gui wasn’t satisfied with the eCPM provided by other ad networks. RevMob has over 4,000 registered developers all over the world, and partners with top-tier advertisers like PocketGems and TinyCo. The ad network supports iOS, Android, Amazon and the mobile web.
Carter Thomas, CEO of BlueCloud LLC
Carter Thomas is the voice behind Bluecloud, blogging and consulting in the mobile world. He has published over 75 apps in his first year, focusing on marketing and monetization strategies to drive his success. By implementing basic economic principles, he has managed to turn a small investment into a $200K/yr income.
Charlie Hoehn, Marketing Expert
Charlie Hoehn is an author and book marketing consultant, whose clients have included New York Times bestselling authors like Ramit Sethi and Tucker Max. He worked alongside Tim Ferriss for three years, helping him write and market The 4-Hour Body, which sold over 700,000 copies in the first four months. Charlie self-published Recession-Proof Graduate in 2009, which has been read by more than 100,000 people. Most recently, he developed the personal finance app Negotiate It, which hit #5 in the Paid Productivity category. Charlie will talking about the lessons he learned (and mistakes he made) during the launch of his first iPhone app.
Adam Corrado, Director of Business Development at Heyzap
Adam is Director of Business Development at Heyzap, the largest social network of mobile gamers. At Heyzap, Adam works with game developers to leverage the social engagement of their users and drive high-value installs.
Previously, Adam was a management consultant with Boston-based Stax, and an analyst for the Texas Emerging Technology Fund where he helped commercialize promising university-developed technologies.
Drew Ramsey, founder of Analog Nest
Drew Ramsey along with his brother Tyler is the owner of Analog Nest, an app development and publishing company, which in its first year alone amassed nearly 2 Million downloads, specifically in the entertainment and Lifestyle markets. Drew’s passion for marketing and his ability to implement successful strategies have made his apps thrive in a crowded market. In addition, he recently started 3 new app publishing companies, that focus on building brands in untapped niche markets. Drew also owns a globally recognized women’s fashion brand, Idylle Clothing. His fashion background gives him a unique ability to emphasize quality and aesthetics in simple apps. Drew has had the privilege of consulting app publishers and helping others start their own app businesses.”
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