Ken Blakeslee


Ken Blakeslee

Job Title: Chairman
Company Name: Web Mobility Ventures
Country: UNITED KINGDOM

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    		• Innovation Arena
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    		• Innovation Arena
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    		• What Caught My Eye? Media on the move

    Ken Blakeslee

    The chair of WebMobility Ventures, Ken Blakeslee is involved in private equity investment in the mobile sector, drawing on his 25 years’ experience in developing telecoms, IT and web commerce business strategies. His recent focus has been on the emerging new media content, applications and commerce methodologies, and the merging of these with the ubiquitous, personal access of mobile.

    Before founding WebMobility, he as chair of WirelessWorks with The Vesta Group, managing the investments of one of Europe’s top networked venture capital funds. He also served on the board of several companies, all innovatively active in various sectors of mobile investment, product definition and service delivery. Previously he was vice president of business strategy for wireless internet at Nortel Networks.

    He has been chair of the Mobile Data Association, vice chair of the UMTS Forum market aspects group, and in 2001 was named to the GSM Association roll of honour for longstanding commitment to the GSM industry. He brings to IBC innovative ideas for presentations, such as his 'wearable technology fashion show'.