Instructor Biographies

Andrew Seybold

Alan Reiter

Barney Dewey


Andrew Seybold, Senior Partner Andrew Seybold Group, LLC

Andrew Seybold has been involved in both the communications and computing industries for the past thirty-plus years. Today, Mr. Seybold is considered by many to be the premier industry analyst within the microcomputer and communications fields and a leading authority on the mobility and wireless communications industry.  

Mr. Seybold currently heads the Andrew Seybold Group, a highly regarded consulting firm specializing in the connected mobility space where mobile computing and advanced communications technology meet. He also heads Andrew Seybold’s Outlook, Inc., a newsletter and conference company. Mr. Seybold is editor-in-chief of Forbes/Andrew Seybold’s Wireless Outlook, a monthly newsletter published jointly with Forbes. In the eight years prior to the launch of this newsletter, he published Andrew Seybold’s Outlook, a monthly publication covering mobile computing and communications from an end-user’s perspective. He has written several books and has contributed monthly columns to a variety of trade magazines. Mr. Seybold is highly sought after as a speaker and panelist.

Andrew Seybold’s Outlook produces University 4Mobility tutorials and the Wireless Data University, which is held in conjunction with the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, and the Summit 4Mobility, an executive-level, invitation-only conference that is convened yearly to examine the state of the industry and where it is headed.

Prior to founding his present company in 1991, Mr. Seybold served as vice president and chief analyst for Dataquest’s mobility practice and in a number of technical and management capacities with several communications companies, including Motorola, General Electric, and RCA.

He was a founder and editor of The Seybold Report on Professional Computing, which later became Andrew Seybold’s Outlook on Professional Computing with which he established himself as a premier industry analyst as computing moved to the desktop. As computing left the desktop, Mr. Seybold’s newsletter evolved to cover mobile computing and communications — a convergence of his two disciplines. His expertise was the subject of a full-page article in the Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Seybold is a co-founder and permanent board member of the Portable Computer and Communications Association (PCCA), a not-for-profit computer and communications industry association, and he is a member of the IEEE, APCO, ARRL, and a Fellow in the Radio Club of America. Mr. Seybold is also active in his local community.

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Alan A. Reiter President Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing

Alan A. Reiter has been analyzing leading-edge wireless communications and computing products and technologies since 1978.  Mr. Reiter specializes in anticipating and leveraging changes in the wireless, Internet and portable computing markets to help jump-start new businesses and create innovative solutions for existing businesses in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America through his consulting, public conferences and corporate tutorials.

Leading-Edge Consulting:  In mid-1996 Mr. Reiter launched the pioneering consulting firm of Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing in Chevy Chase, Md.  The consulting practice includes analysis of wireless data in vertical and horizontal business markets as well as the consumer marketplace.  Wireless subjects analyzed include:  “smart” devices, access to corporate databases, information services, e-commerce (banking, stock trading, financial data, shopping), portals and gateways, entertainment (games, gambling, audio/video services), security and advertising transmitted to wireless devices. 

Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing analyzes the integration of the Internet and intranets with wireless networks (one-way and two-way paging, cellular, PCS, packet radio, spread spectrum) and the development of new operating systems and platforms (Windows CE, PalmOS, Java, Symbian, the Wireless Application Protocol).

Wireless Internet & Mobile Computing performs work in the U.S. and abroad, and its clients run the gamut from multinational corporations to small startups.

Ground-Breaking Publications and Associations:  Mr. Reiter established the world's first:  cellular magazine, cellular conference, wireless data newsletter and wireless data conference.  He also helped develop Telocator Network of America, the first independent U.S. trade association (now known as the Personal Communications Industry Association) to represent what was then considered the new public paging and wireless telephone industries. 

Publications and Commentary:  Mr. Reiter provides commentary about high-tech issues on WMAL-FM in Washington, D.C.  Also, he is a columnist for the new mBusiness magazine on wireless business issues.

Publicity and Education:  Mr. Reiter’s analysis about wireless communications and computing has been quoted in scores of consumer and trade publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Jose Mercury News, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Fortune, Computerworld and InfoWorld.  He has been interviewed on numerous TV and radio programs, including CNN, ABC and National Public Radio.

Mr. Reiter speaks around the world at public conferences and tutorials, and at corporate meetings.  He is known for his no-holds-barred presentation style.

Mr. Reiter completed post graduate courses at the U.S. State Department Foreign Service Institute on science, technology and foreign affairs and at George Washington University on electrical engineering for telecommunications.  He has an M.S. in Broadcasting and a B.A. in Honors English and Writing.

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Barney Dewey, Partner, Andrew Seybold Group, LLC

Barney Dewey has been involved on both the communications and computing industries for thirty years. In 1997, he joined the Andrew Seybold Group, LLC, a highly regarded consulting firm specializing in the connected mobility space where mobile computing and advanced communications technology meet. He also joined Andrew Seybold’s Outlook, Inc., a newsletter and conference company. In July 2000, Mr. Dewey and Mr. Seybold launched Forbes/Andrew Seybold's Wireless Outlook, a monthly newsletter published jointly with Forbes. 

Andrew Seybold’s Outlook produces University 4Mobility tutorials and the Wireless Data University which is held in conjunction with the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, and the Summit 4Mobility, an executive-level, invitation-only conference that is convened yearly to examine the state of the industry and where it is headed.

Prior to joining the Andrew Seybold Group, Mr. Dewey served as vice president for Notable Technologies, Inc. where he was responsible for developing and implementing a new wireless-based business direction for the company. As vice president at Calera Recognition Systems, he led the product strategy activities and the marketing team and brought a number of new OCR products to market.

During the 1980s, Mr. Dewey led the peripheral products marketing group at Apple Computer. He also held a senior position in Apple's new business development group where he led the product strategy and planning for a number of new business proposals in computing and communications. These included wireless push services, multimedia services, and satellite information delivery. He was also responsible for the communications and connectivity strategy for the firm's handheld computer products.

Mr. Dewey spent ten years with Motorola designing and implementing wireless communications systems. He received a Bachelor of Science and a MBA from California State University, Long Beach in 1971 and 1977 respectively. Mr. Dewey has had a General Radiotelephone Operator License issued by the FCC for nearly thirty years.

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