GSMA RCS Business Messaging Awareness Lab #19 – New Jersey, United States

Petja has been responsible for NG Communications within Deutsche Telekom’s Global Headquarter Services since August 2009. In this role, he is responsible for driving innovation & proposition design for fixed and mobile communication services, delivering these products to the 15 national companies of DT.

Since joining DT in 2000, Petja has held several leading positions at DT and T-Mobile Deutschland in the area of Marketing and Product Management.

Before joining Deutsche Telekom, Petja accompanied the advent of the Internet as a strategy consultant to local Telco carriers and led a start-up creating multimedia product & company presentations.

David has over two decades of experience in building enterprise grade mobile products and solutions with innovative SaaS companies. As Senior Vice President of Product Marketing and for Mobivity ,David and his team manage the core products of the re·currency platform as well as new products leveraging RCS, SMS and MMS. Prior to joining the team at Mobivity, David was Vice President of Mobile Products at Emarsys, and has held previous positions with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Motorola Networks, and PacketVideo. David holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, and currently lives in Carmel, IN.

Ron Nessim is actively engaged in building innovative RCS products at Summit tech. He has been participating in GSMA working groups and RCS since 2008, and works with the product team at Summit Tech to deliver commercialized services using RCS and IMS on a global scale. Summit Tech is known for implementing best in breed solutions for MaaP, RCS Plugins, 5G RCS, Connected Cars, Enriched Calling, Connected Living, mHealth, Virtual Reality (VR) Calling, IMS Drones, Robots and RCS cryptocurrencies.  Still working on getting new social media quotes that haven’t been used in the past for other GSMA events, preferably something relevant to Asia.

Teresa Walter has been in high technology sales and business development for over 20 years.   She joined Syniverse in 2017 as Vice President of Business Development.   In this role, she is responsible new business development, strategic engagements and go to market strategy globally.   Before joining Syniverse, Teresa served as founder and CEO of Urbane Mobile, a device accessory company that catered to consumers’ needs for mobile personalization.  Prior to this, she spent 14 years at Cisco in a number of sales leadership, business development and sales roles, including overseeing a $300 million business as Director of Global SP Sales. In this role, she led go-to-market strategy, field enablement, and sales activities for Wi-Fi and Small Cells.   While at Cisco, she was also instrumental in driving the Connected Women program within the service provider team globally. Prior to Cisco, she worked for Riverstone Networks where she helped build their international sales strategy and spent two years working in Tokyo running global accounts.  Ms. Walter earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from The American University and currently resides in Dallas, Texas.

James Lapic is senior vice president of technology at Zipwhip where he oversees technology and IT innovation. An early member of the Zipwhip team, Lapic joined in 2011 and played a critical role in unlocking the technology capabilities to text-enable landlines and toll-free numbers, a major catalyst for the company’s pivot to business text messaging. Lapic is a self-taught IT professional that has strategically grown his career and teams for nearly 20 years, having previously serving in an IT management role at SinglePoint. A Seattle sports fan through and through, he holds season tickets to every major Seattle sports team, a passion second only to spending time with his family skiing and snowboarding.