Mark Thomas

Current

• Director, Nokia/Ovi Email Service at Nokia

Past

• Director, Strategic Alliances and Partnerships at Nokia
• Director, Business Development at Nokia
• Senior Director, Strategic Alliances at Openwave

• Independent Business Development Consultant at Independent Consultant
• VP Business Development and Sales at Geoworks
• Director, Business Partnerships at Inktomi
• Director, Platform Marketing at Commerce One
• Group Product Manager, Java Platform at Netscape
• Developer Relations Manager, Internet and Components at Apple Computer

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Education

• University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
• University of Califonia, Berkeley

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Industry

Computer Software

Mark Thomas’s Summary

Contact me at mark@digitalthomas.com

Mark Thomas’s Experience

• Director, Nokia/Ovi Email Service

  Nokia

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

  December 2007 — Present (10 months)

  Responsible for Nokia's overall Email Service offering. Develop and launch a service offering for the entire range of Nokia handsets to make mobile email accessible to the masses

• Director, Strategic Alliances and Partnerships

  Nokia

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

  May 2007 — December 2007 (8 months)

  Responsible for Nokia Enterprise Software Solutions alliances and developer program team. Manage team of 35 business alliance executives and software developers to deliver superior enterprise oriented third party solutions for Nokia platforms. Develop new partnerships and business models to enhance the reach of Nokia software solutions. Pioneer free internet service model with respect to enterprise solutions.

• Director, Business Development

  Nokia

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

  June 2005 — May 2007 (2 years)

  Responsible for Enterprise partnerships and alliances for messaging. Managing partnerships and delivery of email partner solutions that ship bundled with Nokia phones. Worldwide responsibilities include software development and alliance management.

• Senior Director, Strategic Alliances

  Openwave

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

  April 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  Business Development position chartered with leading the Openwave strategic alliances strategy.

• Independent Business Development Consultant

  Independent Consultant

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  September 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 8 months)

  Independent consultant focusing on strategic alliances and channel strategies. Client engagements include various assignments to develop the OEM Business Development relationships, and corporate channel strategies and processes.

• VP Business Development and Sales

  Geoworks

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; GWRX; Computer Software industry)

  May 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 5 months)

  Executive team member hired to manage the business development team responsible for corporate M&A, strategic partnerships and developer programs for wireless developers, carriers and systems integrators. Responsible for building a developer community for always-on rich client 2.5 and 3G wireless applications and services and enabling wireless carriers as platforms for third party wireless data solutions.

• Director, Business Partnerships

  Inktomi

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; INKT; Computer Software industry)

  March 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 11 months)

  Responsible for turning Inktomi’s flagship caching product into a platform for network based value added services. Created a developer program and hired and managed the Strategic Alliances, Business Development and Developer Product Marketing teams for Wireless and Network Products divisions. Formed marketing campaigns for recruiting, signing and co-marketing wireless internet caching platform partners

• Director, Platform Marketing

  Commerce One

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CMRC; Computer Software industry)

  January 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 3 months)

  Developed product and partner strategies needed to establish MarketSite as the industry’s leading business to business eCommerce portal solution.

• Group Product Manager, Java Platform

  Netscape

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 1998 — January 1999 (9 months)

  Managed product definition, strategic alliances, customer research, outbound marketing, and program management for Java, JavaScript and CORBA within the enterprise.

• Developer Relations Manager, Internet and Components

  Apple Computer

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)

  June 1991 — March 1997 (5 years 10 months)

  Alliances Manager for Internet and Component software developer products. Built and managed team responsible for the definition of the software components strategy, product plans and the implementation of related developer marketing programs for Macintosh system software. Responsible for product definition, developer positioning and marketing for OpenDoc, Cyberdog (Web browser), Netscape plug-ins and Java components.

Mark Thomas’s Education

• University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

  MBA, Marketing, Finance, 1989 — 1991

• University of Califonia, Berkeley

  BA, Economics, January 1983 — August 1985