Tomi Ahonen

Tomi Ahonen: Profile

Tomi T Ahonen is a six-time bestselling author of hardcover telecoms/tech books who has also released a series of three eBooks. An independent consultant and motivational speaker in the converging areas of mobile telecoms, internet, media, advertising, credit and banking, social networking and virtual reality, he lectures on these topics at Oxford University, for which developed the short courses for 3G services, 3G business, mobile-TV and 7th Mass Media.

Mr. Ahonen is seen annually at about 20 conferences on six continents. The father of several of the industry's most used theories, tools and concepts, and a founding member of several industry groups, as well as being the holder of a telecoms competitiveness world record, Tomi Ahonen has been quoted in over 300 press articles starting with the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business Week, Economist, etc and is regularly seen on TV; he writes several columns and articles to industry press every year. He blogs daily, tweets, and has profiles on Facebook and Linked In.

Tomi is considered a significant thought-leader for the industry, best indicated by the unparallelled endorsement of his ideas by his peers, as he and his thoughts are referenced in 50 books by other authors. The inventor of the mobile industry's only service-creation tool, the 5 M's / 6 M's (with Joe Barrett of Nokia and Paul Golding of Motorola) is referenced by a dozen other authors, Tomi is also the father of several widely referenced industry concepts and theories, including the Hockey Sticks theory, Connected Age concept, Generation-C for Community, and the 7th Mass Media taxonomy, each of which has also already been referenced in books by other industry thought-leaders.

Tomi Ahonen's first book, Services for UMTS: Creating Killer Applications in 3G (with Joe Barrett) was the world's first book on 3G services. Released in March 2002, the book became the world's best-selling book on 3G topics in only six months after release and has now been translated into Chinese. His second book, m-Profits: Making Money from 3G Services was the world's first business book on 3G and advanced wireless telecoms, which became the world's best-selling 3G book for the months of October and December 2003. Still today the book is considered the bible for the how the mobile industry makes its money today.

Considered the global authority on making money with new wireless services, Tomi Ahonen delivered over 200 papers at industry conferences on six continents dealing with topics relating to 3G and advanced wireless services and digital convergence to industry statistics and forecasts for the future of mobile and digital convergence. He regularly runs full-day to industry analysts, bankers, venture capital community, telecoms consultancies, press and other parties involved in understanding the profit potential of new mobile services of 3G.

Many of the world's largest manufacturers, operators, consultancies, analysts and other interested parties site him as their topmost expert. 11 separate companies and organizations have invited Tomi to present as the independet expert at their press conferences worldwide. Tomi's current reference list reads like the who's who of 3G mobile telecoms, starting with the worlds largest handset manufacturer Nokia, largest mobile networks supplier Ericsson, the largest computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard, biggest IT engineering corporation Siemens, the largest mobile operator group Vodafone, the largest mobile applications developer Buongiorno, the largest mobile internet service provider NTT DoCoMo, etc.

Tomi Ahonen holds an MBA (with hons) in International Finance from St John's University NY and a bachelors degree (with hons) in international marketing with certificates in computer science, international management and foreign policy. He currently resides in Hong Kong.