Jim Brown

Current

Managing Director, Americas at Silverback-Media

Past

Director at VoCoMo Inc.
Director, Mobile Portals and Messaging at Rogers AT&T Wireless
Director, Strategic Marketing at PLAZMIC

VP, Business Development and Marketing at eFUZION Inc.
Associate Director - Bell Innovation Centre, Bell Mobility at BCE

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Education

University of Toronto
Syracuse University
Ryerson University

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Industry

Wireless

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Jim Brown’s Summary

An accomplished communications professional (14+ years) with a heavy focus in mobile. Expertise in sales and business development, marketing, with expertise in planning, developing, launching and managing product/service companies in B2B, B2C and B2B2C markets. In some cases this has included the development and positioning of patent documentation for international filing. Experience includes work in both nimble start-up and corporate environments. MSc from Syracuse University in Telecommunications, in addition to University of Toronto, Strategic Leadership program. Interested in providing leadership to help companies get to the next level.

CO-FOUNDER of Mobile Monday Toronto chapter. Go to www.mobilemondaytoronto.com.

Jim Brown’s Specialties:

- strategy and positioning, market planning, branding, product/service creation and launch, business development, partnering, product management
- mobile content, mobile media
- software
- aggregation connectivity, mobile eco-system

Jim Brown’s Experience

Managing Director, Americas

Silverback-Media

(Wireless industry)

April 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Managing Director, Americas for Silverback Wireless, tasked with growing business for the North America. Responsible for the corporate development of mobile marketing and applications such as streaming, downloads and iTV programs. This includes strategy, business development, launches and operational tasks in conjunction with the business and technical teams of Silverback.

Co-founder MobileMonday Toronto - www.momotoronto.com
Director

VoCoMo Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)

January 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 11 months)

Co-founder of Voice Courier Mobile Inc., as part of the VCI Group. Helped launch and grow the business, successfully sold in May 2005. Responsible for management of this business unit including acquiring direct SMSC connectivity with Mobile Operators in Canada, aggregation of partner content and management of proprietary text chat/dating platform.
Director, Mobile Portals and Messaging

Rogers AT&T Wireless

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 5 months)

Owner of P& L for consumer data services.
Director, Strategic Marketing

PLAZMIC

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

June 2001 — November 2001 (6 months)

Managed the strategic marketing for Plazmic, a mobile Java software company purchased by RIM in November 2001.
VP, Business Development and Marketing

eFUZION Inc.

(Wireless industry)

September 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 9 months)

A co-founder of eFuzion, a leading edge developer of wireless, commerce, and web-based solutions. eFuzion facilitated and enhanced the exchange of personalized product and service information, and transactions between buyers and sellers using wireless or web based channels. Instrumental in conceptualizing, designing, positioning, and marketing eFuzion’s product offering. Products included the company’s wireless/web commerce platform, permissive push engine, auto-registration tool, and Enterprise Marketing Platform (EMP). Researched, co-wrote and filed an international patent, “Revenue Settlement System and Method for Wireless Revenue Settlement”. eFuzion was successfully acquired by a Boston-based company in November 2000.
Associate Director - Bell Innovation Centre, Bell Mobility

BCE

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

September 1995 — September 1999 (4 years 1 month)

Worked as an Associate Director reporting to the AVP of the Bell Innovation Centre, the business unit responsible for strategizing, testing and launching Bell's next generation communication products and services. While at Bell Mobility efforts were focused on the launch of value-added voice and data services, including mobile banking based solutions.

Jim Brown’s Education

University of Toronto

Certicate in Strategic Leadership, Continuing Education, 2002 — 2004
Syracuse University

M.Sc., Telecommunications, 1997 — 2001

Activities and Societies:

Syracuse Alumni Mentor Association
Ryerson University

Degree, Business Management Degree and Diploma in Telecommunications, 1991 — 1995