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Top 50 Mobile content execs revealed
Tim Green Dec 2 2005, 11:00am
Steve Jobs has made it into the first ever list of mobile content’s biggest hitters, even though Apple has yet to enter the mobile market directly. The Apple CEO lines up in Mobile Entertainment’s Top 50 list alongside execs from companies as diverse as Google, China Mobile and Fox.
It’s a measure of the large shadow cast by iTunes – which is now in the video business, don’t forget – across the mobile sector that Jobs was nominated. So far Apple has stayed out of the mobile market except for licensing iTunes to Motorola for use in its Rokr phone.
ME polled dozens of content insiders to come up with its half century. The aim was to identify visionary thinkers and senior execs whose decisions shape the future of mobile content.
Tim Green, executive editor of ME, said: “Everyone’s looking at mobile content to either monetise or market their IP. That’s why, alongside the key players from mobile companies like Glu and Nokia, our respondents suggested execs like Jobs and others from EMI, Yahoo and so on.”
The full list comprises: Peter Adderton (Amp'd), Phillip Alvelda (MobiTV), Ray Anderson (Bango), Nikesh Arora (Google), Greg Ballard (Glu), Markus Berger de Leon (Jamba), Michael Bornhausser (SDC), Simon Buckingham (MobileStreams), Andrew Bud (Mblox), Ted Cohen (EMI), Julia Dimambro (Cherrysauce), Graeme Ferguson (Vodafone), Jeremy Flynn (Vodafone), Jason Ford (Sprint Nextel), Geoffrey Frost (Motorola), Vishal Gondal (Indiagames), Chris Gorog (Napster), David Gosen (I-play), Michel Guillemot (Gameloft), Trip Hawkins (Digital Chocolate), Martin Higginson (Monstermob), Ben Hirsch (Orange), Lucy Hood (Fox Mobile), Paul Jacobs (Qualcomm), Wang Jianzhou (China Mobile), Steve Jobs (Apple), Jay Kim (WiderThan), Patricia Langrand (France Telecom), Mitch Lasky (Jamdat), Mitch Lazar (Yahoo!), Wang Lei Lei (TOM Online), Takeshi Natsuno (NTT DoCoMo), Patrick Parodi (Alcatel), Gilles Raymond (In-Fusio), Richard Robinson (Linktone), Neeraj Roy (Hungama), Jim Ryan (Cingular), Rikko Sakaguchi (Sony Ericsson), Mike Short (O2), Ralph Simon (Mobilium), Anthony Stonefield (USA Wireless), John Stratton (Verizon), Makoto Takahashi (KDDI), Rob Tercek (Venture Intellect), Anssi Vanjoki (Nokia), Jim Voelker (Infospace), Lincoln Wallen (EA Mobile), Tim Walsh (THQ Wireless), Barney Wragg (Universal Music), Matti Zinder (Spin3)
