As Senior Director of Marketing at Motorola, Rick is responsible for positioning products, applications and services with wireless carriers and developing successful marketing plans. Prior to joining Motorola, Rick served as Director of Product Management for the industry-leading Good Mobile Messaging solution from Good Technology where he oversaw product management direction for application device porting, OS support strategy, international expansion, financial forecasting and application feature development. Before that, Rick led product marketing for Palm, Inc. in Europe and held key wireless product management positions in North America.

John Ellis is the Director of Enterprise Verticals within Motorola's Ecosystem and Software Experiences team. John and his team are responsible for defining, launching and marketing enterprise capable Android mobile devices to our worldwide customer base.

John has over 19 years of experience throughout the telecommunications industry in both the infrastructure and handset businesses. He has held numerous leadership positions in Motorola with multiple international experiences including expatriate positions in both Europe and Asia. John has undergraduate degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Spanish from Valparaiso University, an MS in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Harshul Sanghi manages the West Coast office of Motorola Ventures, based in Sunnyvale, California. Harshul’s role includes identifying, executing, and managing strategic investments in venture backed companies that will accelerate the realization of Motorola’s strategy. Harshul has over 20 years of experience in digital media, wireless, consumer electronics, software, and semiconductor industries. Harshul, a serial intrapreneur and entrepreneur, enjoys working with entrepreneurs to drive the adoption of disruptive market technologies. Harshul is a Charter Member of the TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Organization and a board member of the Strategic Venture Association in Silicon Valley.

Jason and his team define Motorola's strategy and roadmap for enhancing the Android operating system and core applications used across the Motorola handset portfolio.

Jason previously led the product team managing Motorola's imaging-focused smartphone and web services product lines, as well as Motorola's mobile advertising server platform.

Prior to joining Motorola, Jason founded Mobius Audio, a portable media player startup, product managed the Windows Mobile platform at Microsoft during the launch of Microsoft's smartphone efforts, and planned navigation and multimedia systems at Audi AG as a test driver and product manager. He has also held nuclear research and engineering roles at Sandia National Labs, Florida Power, and Wisconsin Electric, and received a Master's in Engineering Management from Dartmouth College, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida.

Ravin Singh
Ravin Singh manages the Location Based Services and Mobile Healthcare partners within the Software Applications & Ecosystem Partnership Management team. His responsibilities include working with industry leading developers to discover, develop and deliver rich experiences that differentiate Motorola products. Ravin holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas in Austin.

Craig Detter
Craig Detter is a software engineering manager on the Location Platform team. This Chicago-based team is driving location-based software for Motorola's Android phones. Since joining Motorola in 2000, he's managed the Linux-Java middleware software delivery teams (including the Java component) for the ROKR E8 and Tundra phones. Prior to that, he worked in the Public Safety Applications group managing software teams developing applications for first responders.

Craig has a total of 28 years of software development experience (including a creating a start-up business in Madison, Wisconsin). Craig holds a BBA degree in Information Systems Analysis and Design with a double major in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Claudia Backus leads Motorola’s global Ecosystem team responsible for managing the complete developer lifecycle and enabling rich product experiences working closely with Motorola’s network of 3rd party developers and partners. Her team’s responsibilities include the MOTODEV program, developer outreach, market development, technology evangelism and software operations. Prior to joining Motorola, Claudia held marketing and product management positions in leading technology companies including Palm, TiVo, eBay, Creative Labs, and Cybermedia. At Palm, her team was responsible for solutions product marketing, market development, and the Palm PluggedIn Developer Program.

Mark Murphy is the founder of CommonsWare and the author of the Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development (a.k.a., Beginning Android), The Busy Coder's Guide to Advanced Android Development, and Android Programming Tutorials. In addition, he writes the Building 'Droids column for AndroidGuys and the Android Angle column for NetworkWorld. He is also started the CommonsWare Android Components (CWAC), a set of open source Android libraries.

A three-time entrepreneur, Mr. Murphy has been a software developer for over 25 years. Mr. Murphy has delivered presentations and training sessions on a wide array of topics internationally.

Paul's Partnership management team is responsible for working with partners, developers and technology enabling companies to discover, develop and deliver core functionality and rich experiences that differentiate Motorola products. This team provides the entire lifecycle of partner relationship management across the full range of Motorola platforms and business units while driving delivery of compelling solutions in key market segments from enterprise and productivity to games, music, entertainment and many more. Previously, Paul led the Palm Developer Network where his team was very involved in the Palm Economy and the launch of the Treo family of products. He is a retired Air Force Officer and is also an experienced entrepreneur, having started and managed several technology companies.

Eric Cloninger is the Senior Product Manager for MOTODEV Studio and the lead for the Eclipse Foundation Tools for Mobile Linux (TmL) project. At Motorola, he leads teams of developers working on Eclipse open source projects and products targeting Motorola's next generation of Android mobile devices. When he's away from the IDE, Eric spends his time hiking, kayaking and photographing the world around him. Eric is an alumnus of Oklahoma State University.

Scott Lyons serves as a Director for Entertainment Market Development in the Ecosystem and Market Development team of Motorola. In this role, Scott is responsible for identifying and developing strategic alliances with key developers. Prior to this role, Scott spearheaded the music marketing strategy and created platforms for preloading music across a broad range of Motorola devices.

Scott has over 12 years of international development experience in the high tech and music sectors respectively. He has also acted in an executive producer role across a variety of big scale live TV and Webcast events.

He began his career at MTV in the mid 90’s spearheading promotions for The MTV Video Music Awards and MTV Movie Awards. Scott then joined WPP’s interactive agency Digit as Commercial Director and was instrumental in building up the company’s reputation within the digital advertising world.

John Ellis
John Ellis is the Director of Enterprise Verticals within Motorola's Ecosystem and Software Experiences team. John and his team are responsible for defining, launching and marketing enterprise capable Android mobile devices to our worldwide customer base.

John has over 19 years of experience throughout the telecommunications industry in both the infrastructure and handset businesses. He has held numerous leadership positions in Motorola with multiple international experiences including expatriate positions in both Europe and Asia. John has undergraduate degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Spanish from Valparaiso University, an MS in Computer Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Monica Hamilton
Monica Hamilton is Director, Enterprise Experience for Motorola Mobile Devices where she is responsible for defining the software strategy for enterprise, prosumer and SMB targeted devices.

With over 20 years of wireless and high tech industry experience in alliances, business development, strategic marketing and sales. She has an adept understanding and visionary perspective of the wireless marketplace. Prior to her role at Motorola, Monica held positions in leading technology companies including Handango, Freescale Semiconductors, E-Pen in Motion and Nokia

She earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a minor in Economics from Colorado State University.

Edwin Bisek, Manager of Application Testing Services, is responsible for coordination of all testing and signing services related to pre- and post-loaded third party applications for Motorola products. Prior to joining Motorola, Edwin spent over 7 years at PalmSource, Inc and Palm, Inc., where he, among various other activities, co-developed the PalmPowered logo certification program for Palm OS licensees, and the Premium Support Services for the vast Palm OS third party developer community. He holds a B.S degree in Electrical Engineering from the T.H. Rijswijk in the Netherlands.

Christian is responsible for the overall architecture of Motorola's software tools for external developers. As part of this role he is overseeing the creation of Motorola's first end-to-end Eclipse based IDE, MOTODEV Studio, the first version which supports developers of mobile Java applications was publicly released in August 2007.

Within the Eclipse open source community he is leading the "Tools for Mobile Linux" project, which aims to create an end-to-end tooling environment for Linux based mobile devices.

Prior to Motorola, Christian has worked at SUN Microsystems' embedded Java group. He then co-founded Gatespace inc. which created managed network devices based on the OSGi standard.

He holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from University Erlangen (Germany) and an MBA degree from University of Santa Clara.

Ingrid Kelly, Director of Market Development, manages the team that is responsible for delivering key differentiated third-party experiences for Motorola devices. Ingrid has 17 years of software industry experience and prior to joining Motorola has most recently spent 11 years working in Apple's Worldwide Developer Relations group. Ingrid holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Economics from Wellesley College.

Eric Cloninger
Eric Cloninger is the Senior Product Manager for MOTODEV Studio and the lead for the Eclipse Foundation Tools for Mobile Linux (TmL) project. At Motorola, he leads teams of developers working on Eclipse open source projects and products targeting Motorola's next generation of Android mobile devices. When he's away from the IDE, Eric spends his time hiking, kayaking and photographing the world around him. Eric is an alumnus of Oklahoma State University.

Suzanne Alexandra
Suzanne is an Android Developer Advocate with the MOTODEV team, helping Android developers create the best applications for Motorola mobile devices. Suzanne blogs about Android for MOTODEV and SiliconAngle.com and occasionally co-hosts a MOTODEV podcast on BlogTalkRadio. She has extensive experience as a technology author and developer advocate in companies such as Adobe, eBay, and Sun Microsystems. You can find Suzanne tweeting about Android as @suzalex

Eric is the Senior Product Manager for developer tools at Motorola. He is responsible for development of the MOTODEV Studio IDE. Eric has over 25+ years of experience in the IT/Telecom/Software Industry and has worked for large companies like National Semiconductor, DEC, Itochu and Northern Telecom as well as startups like Soniya and MobilePlay. Eric is experienced in all aspects of producing large scale international hardware/software and professional service business products and solutions. He holds the skills and the techniques required to assure they delivery as defined and scheduled. Eric holds an MS and an MBA from the University of California at Davis, 1993.

Scott Lyons serves as a Director for Entertainment Market Development in the Ecosystem and Market Development team of Motorola. In this role, Scott is responsible for identifying and developing strategic alliances with key developers. Prior to this role, Scott spearheaded the music marketing strategy and created platforms for preloading music across a broad range of Motorola devices.

Scott has over 12 years of international development experience in the high tech and music sectors respectively. He has also acted in an executive producer role across a variety of big scale live TV and Webcast events.

He began his career at MTV in the mid 90’s spearheading promotions for The MTV Video Music Awards and MTV Movie Awards. Scott then joined WPP’s interactive agency Digit as Commercial Director and was instrumental in building up the company’s reputation within the digital advertising world.

Peter and his team are responsible for working with strategic ISVs and partners to identify and champion strategic marketing initiatives that bring increased visibility to Motorola and its ecosystem. Responsibilities include the Motorola Solutions Catalog, MOTODEV Fast Track program and strategic partner marketing account management. Prior to Motorola, Peter created and managed Palm's PluggedIn Program and later the Palm Developer Network. Peter is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara, CA and received a B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Business Economics.