Wolfgang Kasper

Wolfgang Kasper Management
CEO
wolfgang.kasper(at)kasper-management.de

„The M-Days developed their important role in the German market with their successful event in January. Due to the consequent expansion of the events to other “mobile countries” and the support of the international contacts and business opportunities”

Wolfgang Kasper set the cornerstone of his career with an economy engineer study at the TU Berlin. This is the reason he can work for 28 years now in different mobile and telecommunications, internet and media companies at the gateway of distribution, marketing and technology departments. To many he is known as the CEO of RTL mobile GmbH. After his departure from RTL mobile, he now works as a consultant with the aid of his network in the areas of product management, project management, distribution and marketing. He supports start-ups as well as global players at their search, development and marketing of new result- and customer-oriented business areas, products and business models.

Mark Wächter 

MWC.mobi, Founder and Owner,
MMA Global Board of Directors &
Chairman of the expert group Mobile in the BVDW


„The M-Days are an excellent opening event of the year for everyone eager to learn about the newest developments from the experts!"

Mark Wächter is a graduated economist and marketer with many years professional and leadership experience, national and interna tional market know-how in the areas of FMCG / food trade (Unilever), IT / Internet (UUNET / WorldCom) and telecommunications / cellular phones (T-Mobile). In May 2005 he founded MWC.mobi, a management consultancy focusing on the development of Mobile Strategies for companies who (plan to) use mobile phones as a medium to address their target group. Mark is head of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) in Germany and member of MMA’s Global Board of Directors. In 2006 he launched MobileMonday in the German market. Today Mark is Co-Chairman of MobileMonday Germany with 5 chapters live and running. In Europe Mark is respected as Mobile Media evangelist.

Olav A. Waschkies

Pixelpark AG
Director Strategic Marketing & Mobile


„The M-Days achieved despite the dark clouds on the business sky to set a highlight in January to set the direction of the mobile branch. I am very curious to see the strategies and concepts which will be presented in 2010 in Munich by the leaders of the branch.“

Olav A. Waschkies graduated as tradesman at the university of Cologne. Already in the 90ies he acquired funded know-how in the marketing communication area through his freelance activity in the classical advertisement field and in public relation. After an assignment abroad as an assistant professor for marketing and macroeconomics in a private university in Pamplona / Spain he started his career at Pixelpark as project manager. Mr. Waschkies accounts as director strategic marketing & mobile internet in the business field agency major customers from the area of banking and insurances as well as from travel and transportation just as the mobile activities in the business field agencies.Geschäftsbereich Agentur.

Harald Neidhardt

Smaato Inc.
Co-Founder & CMO 
harald(at)smaato.com


Harald Neidhardt is CMO and Co-Founder of Smaato Inc. and was instrumental in conceiving the mobile advertising platform SOMA™. He has over 20 years of experience in marketing and business development, having led interactive agencies and marketing consulting firms in both the US and Europe, among them Pixelpark (US), the North American arm of Bertelsmann’s multimedia subsidiary and one of Europe’s largest Internet solution providers. Harald Neidhardt has a BA in Marketing Communications from Communications Academy, Hamburg.

Harald Winkelhofer

IQ mobile GmbH
Founder & CEO
winkelhofer(at)iq-mobile.at


The graduated ingeneer (FH) Harald Winkelhofer is the founder, leader and executive manager of IQ mobile. Winkelhofer enteres the telecommunications branch after his graduation on the college of higher education Technikum Vienna and could gather experience in the SMS/MMS area working for two Austrian network operators. Then he changed to the management of a mobile service provider where he built a team of product, partner and content managers.

Stefan Gantchev

Velti in Sofia
Business Development Director
sgantchev(at)velti.com


Stephane works as Business Development Director for the CEE region for the Leading Mobile Marketing and Advertising company Velti. He is also co-founder of the Mobile Monday Sofia chapter. Stephane has 10+ years IT and Telecom experience and previously he worked as Head of Value Added Services Innovations in Orange France where he has created the „Orange Trial Factory“ – a partnership program for new innovative value added services startups, particularly in the areas of messaging and mobile advertising. Stephane began his career in Sema Group (acquired by Atos Origin) as IT consultant. He holds and Engineering degree and MS degree and Computer Science from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria and has studied as well one year in a exchange program in Ecole Polytechnique in France.

Stuart N. Willett

Interact Group United Kingdom
Managing Director
sw(at)4oaksmedia.com

Angelique Szameitat

11 Prozent Communication
Project leader M-Days 
Chief editor GFM Nachrichten / GFM News
redaktion(at)gfm-nachrichten.de 


Angelique Szameitat graduated as advertising administrator in an advertising and press agency and operated for two years in the field of conception and organisation of golfing events with VIPs and journalists and was in charge of the marketing von the fist golfing travel site. After changing various positions in public relation, congress and advertising agencies she founded together with her husband the 11 Prozent Communication in 2003. Since 2004 she informs as publisher and editor of the GFM Nachrichten the advertising and media industry about the interconnectedness of the new media - mobile - eGame - social media - IPTV / Web-TV.