Jeff Mikan is a Lead Member of Technical Staff with Cingular Wireless. He is leading the IMS data Services rollout including the design of first IMS Service. Jeff was they key member of the projects for launching the first Simultaneous Downloadable IM Client in the world and for the first Wireless Village IM Client in the US. Jeff has developed several Client and Server Strategies for Cingular Wireless and is responsible for vendor management for IM Clients and Servers. Jeff has also worked with Synergetic Technologies as a software consultant and with Schlumberger Industries as a Design Engineer. Jeff is a Bachelors of Computer Engineering with High Honors from Georgia Institute of Technology.     

Jouni is currently a director of an applications business development group called Mobile Solutions for Siemens Networks. Jouni's team is responsible for US market strategy for applications turning ideas into concepts and commercial products for Mobile and Fixed operators. He has been working closely with Siemens IMS product line for more than 3 years and comes from a telecom and IT background with prior work history with Compaq and Logica.

Mr. Swanburg is a 25-year veteran of technology. He spent the first 11 years of his career at TRW where he was awarded a Special Commendation by the Under Secretary of State for VHSIC Technology Enhancements in 1985. He has also held management positions at Nortel Networks where he led a team of engineers who produced the first Frequency Modulation Internet Protocol Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) system. Awarded a patent for a unique design in RF PCS antennas at Electromagnetic Sciences he also has several other patents pending related to Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystems (IMS). Most recently Mr. Swanburg has been involved with the implementation of IMS related applications development for Cingular Wireless, the largest wireless communications company in North America. He has been a guest speaker at the Georgia Institute of Technology and media events such as the Residential Broadband Conference and Broadband Asia-Pacific, 2000. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering emphasis, with honors.

J. Michael Cummins joined the faculty of the Dupree College of Management at Georgia Tech in July, 2001.  He is teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in information technology management and is the Chief Technology Officer for the College.  He also serves on the advisory board of several new venture technology companies. 

Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Dr. Cummins was the Chief Marketing Officer at Equifax Inc.  He developed an internet business strategy for this leading Fortune 500 information company, and created an internal incubator focused on product innovation and development.  He also had general management responsibility for the $25m Consumer Information Services Business unit, which provides credit information products and services direct to consumers over the internet.

Prior to joining Equifax, Dr. Cummins was Director and Chief Executive Officer, Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT) and a member of the faculty at Georgia Tech from1996-1999.  Before that, he was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a member of the marketing faculty at Emory University’s School of Business (1993-1996).  From 1987 to 1993, Dr. Cummins served as the Associate Dean for External Relations and Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems, University of Miami School of Business. 

His earlier career included a range of experiences spanning the three sectors of academia, business, and government.  These included: a faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business; serving as the Director of Strategic Planning for the international telecommunications satellite consortium, INTELSAT; and leading a deregulation policy initiative in international telecommunications while Director of the International Facilities Planning Division at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC. 

Dr. Cummins received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Northwestern University.