Jordi Guaus
Product Manager
e-laCaixa

After collaborate in the XXV Olympic Games Barcelona 92 in the Technological Operations Information Center I was involved in various projects as a Consultant. In 1995 I joined Airtel (Mobile Network Operator, currently Vodafone) and I participated in the launching of the commercial service being in charge of products and services development for the corporate market. In 2000 I changed to "la Caixa" Group in order to develop the mobile financial services portfolio of "la Caixa". In the last 2 years I has been leading several payment projects based in intelligent and contactless cards and also using new form factors as mobile handsets.
www.lacaixa.com

Liisa Kanniainen
Executive Director
Chair of the Task Force
Mobey Forum

Vice President, Nordea

Liisa Kanniainen holds Master of Science degree in International Economics. After university studies Liisa worked a few years as a polytechnic teacher and acquired also the Polytechnic Teacher qualification. Liisa Kanniainen has more than 12 years experience with the mobile IT Industry, focusing on the mobile financial services. Liisa has led several pioneering projects during the early days of mobile financial services. First at
Digital B.V. in the Netherlands, then the next 6 years in Finland at Nokia corporation. During her Nokia Mobile Phones years Liisa worked in various
management positions in product development. Her last position at Nokia Ventures was Head of R&D, mobile commerce.

In 2001 she changed to Nordea Bank and Mobey Forum in order to full time concentrate on creating the cross-industry collaboration required for making the mobile financial services market as the Mobey Forum Workgroup Executive. In Nordea she is in charge of the mobile financial services on corporate level and in Mobey Forum she is since Feb 2007 responsible for all activities and daily management of the Forum as the Executive Director of the industry consortium.
www.mobeyforum.org

Olli Welin
Development Manager
TeliaSonera Ltd.

I work as a Development Manager in TeliaSonera Ltd. and I have long experience in telecommunication business, international standardisation
work and mobile payment. I work currently on issues related to RFID, NFC and mobile payment. I am a member of GSMA Pay-Buy-Mobile working group, Mobey Forum and RFIDLab Finland.

TeliaSonera is the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic region and also holds strong position in mobile communications in Eurasia, Turkey and Russia.
www.teliasonera.com

Pasi Koistinen
TeliaSonera Ltd.

Pasi Koistinen has 15 years business experience from food industry and retailing where he held COO and CEO positions in branded consumer goods operations. Last nine years he has been at TeliaSonera working with new businesses, R&D and product management; during 1999-2001 he founded and headed the start up Sonera Mobile Pay specializing in parking, vending and POS-payments through mobile phone. Currently he is Director at TeliaSonera, having Mobile Financial Services and industry transformation as interest area.
www.teliasonera.com

Pekka Laaksonen
Senior product manager
Nordea Bank

Pekka Laaksonen has been working in Nordea since 1999. His current responsibilities include the development of the netpayments and mobile payments within Nordea markets. He has experience from the online payments and mobile banking, card business and mobile payments.
Having also worked as a business controller for eBanking and eBusiness he has the hands on knowledge about the numbers behind the business.
He is also a member in the EPC's SEPA E/M Payments Working Group and Mobey Forum's Enrolment Task Force and a member in the ePayments & eID Coordination Body of the Finnish Banker's Association.
www.nordea.com

Norrie Taylor
NCR

Norman G. Taylor was born in Dundee and graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Dundee College of Technology in 1977. On graduating his first appointment was with Ferranti, Edinburgh in the airborne radar development group before joining NCR, Dundee in 1979. During his time with NCR he has worked in various design and development roles covering five product generations of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). During his early career he managed projects in Product Design Engineering and Media Handling Module Development. Following this he took up the position of Senior Consultant within Technology Development covered the leadership of media handling, security and intelligent systems technologies for NCR’s Financial Solutions Group. As part of this function he developed and managed NCR’s Advanced Mechatronics Research Centre at the University of Dundee. His current role of Strategic Architect within NCR’s Advanced Development group extends beyond the current product development programs and the financial business to encompass the creation of future solutions for NCR and its customers. His recent focus has been in the area of mobile phones, including NFC, and their impact on self service across all industry sectors. In this role he has been NCR’s Mobey Forum representative and has participated in various demonstrator developments and taskforce activities. He is also an honorary lecturer at the University of Dundee and a Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow.
www.ncr.com

Juha Remes
Task Force Executive Mobey Forum
and Vice President
Valimo Wireless Ltd

Juha has been heading various security and mobile related projects in banking, mobile operator and other service sectors. He has been actively involved in several Mobey Forum Task Forces and he is one of the key associates in the creation of the Enrolment Business Model Analysis Whitepaper by contributing his business and technical knowledge to Mobey Forum.

He has wide-range knowledge of mobile technologies, IT systems and globalizing businesses. He has more than 10 years of experience working in the mobile technology field. He has been working seven years building global businesses in ABB group, setting up new operator in Finand, World Access and last seven years being Vice President of Valimo Wireless Ltd.
www.valimo.com

Kevin Murphy
ABN AMRO

www.abnamro.com

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