Managing Partner - Sprosty Network
Dave’s is the Managing Partner of Sprosty Network, a consulting firm that is known for its use of technology to translate customer insights into thriving businesses and commercializing connectivity products for scale. A driving entrepreneurial force in the mobile industry, he most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of TigerDirect CompUSA, a $2B technology and computer-related online retailer. At Best Buy, Sprosty is known for his role as founder and CEO of Best Buy Mobile JV, growing the revenue by 6x and reinventing the customer experience. He was also involved commercializing Virgin Mobile, Vonaage, and Ooma, which resulted in him being nationally recognized as a recipient of the TechFellows award for General Management of Entrepreneurialism.
Prior roles include Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Customer Centricity at Best Buy a Managing Partner at The ROIG Group with emphasis on growth consulting. He was also a founding member of and subsequently CEO of MobilWorks in California. Dave has served as Chairman of Speakeasy, Chairman of Peek, and on numerous advisory boards.
CEO, Chairman - ERI
John Shegerian creates profitable impact companies that make the world a better place.
Vice President Supply Chain Strategy & Execution - Assurant
Co-founder, Mobile Disrupt and Co-founder & Managing Partner, Capital Growth Partners
Bob is a wireless industry veteran of more than 35 years. His experience includes management roles with regional, national, and international wireless carriers. In addition, he’s held senior executive roles with an award-winning regional wireless retailer, an accessory manufacturer, and provided consulting services to numerous companies in a variety of wireless industry segments.
Head of CRN/Trade-in - Samsung Electronics America
Senior Vice President - LAN Global
Senior Director, Industry Services - GSMA
Senior Director Product Management - GSMA
Co-Founder of Vendidit and Renew Logic
Gary is a visionary technology executive and is an industry thought leader in reverse logistics. He is the imagineer of both Vendidit, launched in 2024, and Renew Logic, which he started from a single pallet of recyclables in 2016 . Prior to that, he started another electronics recycling company from scratch and brought it to $400M, keeping tens of thousands of electronics (including cell phones) out of landfills. Beyond sustainability in tech, Gary also contributes his time and money to helping dog rescues, including piloting homeless dogs across the country during his travels.
Exclusive Diamond Sponsor | CEO and Founder - Phoenix Innovations
Co-founder, Mobile Disrupt and Co-founder & Managing Partner, Capital Growth Partners
Bob is a wireless industry veteran of more than 35 years. His experience includes management roles with regional, national, and international wireless carriers. In addition, he’s held senior executive roles with an award-winning regional wireless retailer, an accessory manufacturer, and provided consulting services to numerous companies in a variety of wireless industry segments.
Director of Mobile Sales North America - Blancco
George Abdelmalak is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of proven success in the field of consumer electronics and telecommunications industries. Diversity of his experience makes him unique, holding senior level positions at Helio, Hyla Mobile, Blackbelt Defence Software, and P4C Global.
George currently leads the North America mobile team for Blancco technology and continues to be innovate in the product offering and partnerships that will change mobile processing.
VP Business Development – Cellbie Inc
Scott Bell, MBA and Eng.
In the fast paced Wireless industry, he is working to launch his third start-up to disrupt the $100B market for used Smartphones and create an efficient Mobile Marketplace (Cellbie.com). Cellbie has tripled revenue in each of past two years and looks to at least double this year as the marketplace technology benefits expand to more and more partners/ customers. Scott has a breadth of experience including mce Systems, Heinz / Arthurs Fresh and Nortel Networks.
Executive Vice President, Device Processing - Apkudo
Senior Director, Industry Services - GSMA
Director, Business Development - Walmart Marketplace
Director - Monetization and Sustainability - Verizon Wireless
Senior Vice President - LAN Global
VP / GM - Global Trade-In - Allstate
As an intrapreneur, I create capabilities, build teams and scale programs...
At Samsung, my teams & I built Trade-In programs + scaled to hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental annual revenue. Now at SquareTrade, my job is to do that but on (legal) steroids and on a global scale
Specialties:
- Thought leadership
- Trade-In & used Consumer Electronics
- Asset Monetization, 2nd life of the device
- Reverse Logistics
- Business Strategy & Development
- Product Sales & Marketing (Omni-channel, B2B, B2C)
- Contract & Account Management
Other:
- P&L management
- Pricing/Ops, FP&A
- Campaign Management
- Customer Experience & Retention
- Process Improvement & Lean Services / Lean Six Sigma
Chief Strategy Officer - Reebelo
An individual with vast experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments with well-rounded knowledge, applicable from start-up to blue-chip level. Proudly fitting the profile of a 'crazy one,' I believe you can always find a better way of getting things done.
Vice President of Sales - Fortegra
I am a sales and account management professional, dedicated to initiating and developing relationships with my clients and partners to bring best-in-class warranty programs to market by ensuring they have the training, support and strategic recommendations to maximize customer experience/retention and revenue through excellence in people, product, and process.
Senior Director Product Management - GSMA
Exclusive Diamond Sponsor | CEO and Founder - Phoenix Innovations
General Manager, Home & Hard Goods - eBay, Inc.
Chief Strategy Officer - Reebelo
An individual with vast experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial environments with well-rounded knowledge, applicable from start-up to blue-chip level. Proudly fitting the profile of a 'crazy one,' I believe you can always find a better way of getting things done.
Co-founder, Mobile Disrupt and Co-founder & Managing Partner, Capital Growth Partners
Bob is a wireless industry veteran of more than 35 years. His experience includes management roles with regional, national, and international wireless carriers. In addition, he’s held senior executive roles with an award-winning regional wireless retailer, an accessory manufacturer, and provided consulting services to numerous companies in a variety of wireless industry segments.
Director of Mobile Sales North America - Blancco
George Abdelmalak is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of proven success in the field of consumer electronics and telecommunications industries. Diversity of his experience makes him unique, holding senior level positions at Helio, Hyla Mobile, Blackbelt Defence Software, and P4C Global.
George currently leads the North America mobile team for Blancco technology and continues to be innovate in the product offering and partnerships that will change mobile processing.
VP / GM - Global Trade-In - Allstate
As an intrapreneur, I create capabilities, build teams and scale programs...
At Samsung, my teams & I built Trade-In programs + scaled to hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental annual revenue. Now at SquareTrade, my job is to do that but on (legal) steroids and on a global scale
Specialties:
- Thought leadership
- Trade-In & used Consumer Electronics
- Asset Monetization, 2nd life of the device
- Reverse Logistics
- Business Strategy & Development
- Product Sales & Marketing (Omni-channel, B2B, B2C)
- Contract & Account Management
Other:
- P&L management
- Pricing/Ops, FP&A
- Campaign Management
- Customer Experience & Retention
- Process Improvement & Lean Services / Lean Six Sigma
Vice President Supply Chain Strategy & Execution - Assurant
CEO - HOBI International, Inc.
Craig Boswell is co-founder and President of HOBI International, Inc. In this capacity, Craig has been extensively involved in the design, development, and deployment of electronics demanufacturing and recycling techniques. Craig’s background includes nine years experience as an electrical engineer for Texas Instruments, Inc. As a member of Texas Instrument’s engineering staff, Craig managed electronics design projects and was extensively involved in development and deployment of electronics manufacturing techniques. Craig holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Dallas and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. In addition to his managerial duties, Craig is HOBI’s chief industry consultant on demanufacturing, design for disassembly, and reverse logistics programs. Craig has published and presented numerous papers on the recycling of electronic products and the keys to designing more recyclable products.
Managing Partner, Three Horizon Advisors
VP of Business Development - ServiceCentral
Chief Revenue Officer, Walker Technical Solutions
Sr. Director Supply Chain Strategy & Change Management - Asurion
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