Digital Hollywood Spring, March, 2006
Speaker
Anthony Stonefield,
CEO, USA Wireless

Anthony Stonefield, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, USA Wireless: Listed as "one of the top 50 mobile content executives" (Dec. 05, Mobile Entertainment Magazine), Stonefield has spent the last thirteen years productizing applications for digital media distribution and marketing. He and his team pioneered digital song distribution (in cooperation with AT&T Labs) in 1995; and, in 2000, popularized ringtones in the Western World--creating today’s $900 million US ringtone market. Stonefield’s company, Moviso, was acquired by Vivendi Universal (Nasdaq: VU) in 2002, then acquired by InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP) in 2003, where it drove five consecutive record revenue quarters for InfoSpace Mobile—the United States’ leading mobile content, applications and entertainment marketing company—and helping double that company’s stock price in 14 months. Stonefield recently founded USA Wireless to develop innovative wireless telephony applications that enable brands and content providers to offer compelling mobile entertainment experiences. Through a set of applications that bridge text, multimedia and voice products and services, the company aims to expand the mobile entertainment paradigm. He has executive produced the worldwide mobile program for the Live 8 event, the world’s first celebrity-based mobile video show, Twins TV, and the mobile charity part of Melissa Ethridge’s "I Run for Life" breast cancer campaign. Stonefield is an advisory to venture funds and industry analysts, and has served as an expert panelist on digital entertainment on five continents. He earned his bachelor's degree in natural science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.