Based in Barcelona, Ric is a Global Business Developer within the mobile sector. Ric was previously at Golden Gekko, Europe's largest developer of business critical mobile solutions, following a two-year stint at GeoMe, an LBS start-up which he co-founded in 2008. He was formerly with the GSM Association as Mobile Programs Director, chairing the Technology Showcase Committee for the Mobile World Congress and establishing the Barcelona.mobi project with the dot.mobi consortium.

Ric has a successful mobile technology blog since 2008 with over 100,000 readers which is featured in the official Mobile Monday Bloghive and W3C Mobile Web Initiative Blog. He has specific expertise in Location Based /Location-Aware Services, Mobile App Marketing, Social Media, Privacy Management and Mobile Web and App Monetisation Strategies. He holds an MBA from EADA Business School in Barcelona.

You can read his blog at: www.mobverge.blogspot.com . His book, Location-Aware Applications (ISBN 9781935182337) was published by Manning Publications (USA) in July 2011: http://www.manning.com/ferraro/ and was described as ´the Rosetta Stone of location-based mobile services” . It is available on Amazon.com worldwide.

Prior Speaking Commitments:

Sep. 2008: Mobile Web Europe (Informa), London

Oct. 2008: KoreaComm 2008, Seoul (Guest of the Korean Government),

May 2009: Mobile Location Services (Informa), London

Feb 2010/11: QTel Innovation Exchange Forum (Exicon), Barcelona

Nov 2010: Mobile Gaming Forum, Malta

May 2011: AppWorks Oslo, Oslo (Keynote)

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