Digital Hollywood Spring, March, 2006
Speaker
Eric Harber,
VP of Corporate and Business Development, Qpass

Eric Harber is Vice President of Corporate and Business Development at Qpass, a global leader in mobile commerce solutions. In his role he provides worldwide leadership for partnerships, strategic investments, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, and all strategic alliances. Eric has almost 20 years of extensive management experience creating, building and launching products, services, and companies globally. His industry expertise spans mobile, telecommunications, networking, media and entertainment, and e-commerce. Prior to joining Qpass, Eric was General Manager and Executive Vice President of ChannelAdvisor Corporation, where he built relationships with customers and partners including Google, eBay, Amazon, Motorola, Sprint, Sears and IBM, establishing ChannelAdvisor as a leader in e-commerce/online marketplace software and services. Previously, Eric helped to start, grow, and lead Pinpoint Networks (now Motricity). Eric held various executive leadership positions there, formulating strategy, driving execution by successfully selling to major mobile operators, and managing dramatic growth for the company. Eric was also part of the original executive team that built and successfully sold Netsation, a venture-backed networking software company, to Nortel Networks. He subsequently held global marketing responsibility at Nortel and also brings expertise from his leadership positions at Citigroup, Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), and his own consulting firm. Eric has held several board and corporate advisory board positions, and currently serves on the Americas board of the Mobile Entertainment Forum. Eric studied at Oxford University and earned a degree in Engineering from Stanford University, as well as an MBA from Duke University. Eric is an author, lecturer, and frequent speaker on a variety of global industry topics including mobile and media issues.