2012 WASPA management committee selected

Birkin, who becomes chair of the PR working group, says, "I am excited to represent the association and our members at a very public level. It is clear that both mobile consumers and the mobile industry are interested in what the association has to say. We will work hard to keep the two-way flow of communication open this year." He is currently interactive director at eXactmobile.

Committee members

• Smartcall Technology Solutions' Janene Matsukis will chair the networks working group, together with Birkin.
  
• Casper de Villiers, Clickatell's co-founder and operations director, has again taken on the responsibility of chairing the finance working group. He has more than a decade of experience in the WASP environment and is the company's representative at the GSM Association. De Villiers has served on the WASPA code of conduct working group in the past.
  
• Leon Perlman, founder of the association, is again taking the role of chairman as well as of chair of the regulatory working group. A former scientist, he has been in the telecommunications industry since the early 1990s. He has also served on its regulatory portfolio.
  
• Dieter van Rooyen, currently the operations director of Integrat, will chair the aggregators working group.
  
• Deon van Heerden, chief operating officer at ViaMedia, is an accomplished entrepreneur and technology professional with more than 17 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies in a number of countries. He will chair the membership working group.
  
• Russel Stromin, an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry and head of Strike Media, will chair the code of conduct working group.