Founded in 2007, MobGeo’s executive team has over 50 years combined experience in all aspects of the mobile industry from network operators, aggregators, service providers, social networks, large corporates and small businesses. We also have a deep understanding of CRM, and large ERP solutions.
Valde has spent 14 years in the Mobile industry on the board of various Service Provider and Network Operator companies. As managing Director for Prepaid, he led the commercial roll out for Vodac, South Africa. He immigrated to the UK in 1998 and spent ten years with Vodafone leading their Customer Services strategy in B2B, and the Device Strategy and Supply Chain for the UK and Group Company. Valde introduced and lead the UK Wholesale Strategic offensive as MD of UK Wholesale and most recently served as Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer for Vodafone Romania with responsibility for over $1B in sales revenues.
Simon spent the dotcom years building vertical integration strategies for AngloGold-Ashanti, JPMorgan and the world largest private refinery, PAMP/MKS Finance. This resulted in a live pricing, trading and physical delivery system for gold in all its forms and the launch of two multi-channel jewellery companies in the United States for which Simon was operationally responsible. His move to mobile occurred when friends at NYU built Socialight - the world’s first location based, mobile social network and he joined to commercialise the product. Having seen the potential for an interactive mobile channel, he founded MobGeo to develop commercial mobile technologies.
Bradley has over 10 years experience implementing large-scale CRM and ERP solutions within blue chip organisations. His extensive know how has enabled him to deliver successful large-scale business critical solutions including strategic applications to support an employee case management system across 36 countries and various multi-million-pound transformation programmes. Previous employers include British Telecom, Oracle Professional Services and Deloitte.
Sean has over ten years experience architecting, developing and deploying enterprise-level software. As lead developer at Demon Internet he implemented a complete redesign of their Windows email software. He led the design, development and deployment of a multi-billion-pound web trading platform for Winterflood Securities and is a recognised expert on web and network software development, having received accolades for his troubleshooting work on Apache Foundation software and having acted as technical editor on 'The Definitive Guide to Django', the core text of the Django web development platform. He created the core of the Chisimba web development framework which has contributed successfully to software engineering capacity-building in the developing world.
David is a seasoned executive with a 15 year history in both commercial and operational roles for start-ups and large blue chip companies. Working at mBlox, he was at the forefront of the mobile content revolution and responsible for delivering monetised mobile content to Consumers for the very first time. Commercially this meant scaling the business and doubling revenues by aligning, empowering and motivating key teams toward achieving goals.
David's commercial experience is strengthened by a solid technical background, with a proven track record working in large corporate’s such as The Carphone Warehouse and Deutsche Telekom, where he has enjoyed success in directing and managing board level partner relationships and developing and delivering business strategy.