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Insight, Innovation and Intelligence
meet our CHIEF EXECUTIVE RALPH SIMON
The super-conductor, who knows what’s coming next.
As the Founder and Chief Executive of Mobilium Global, our mission is to help creative media entities & companies including television, music, video games and location-based entertainment leverage emerging technologies to open and grow new revenue streams and grow their business. We are opportunity spotters, developing big ideas and forging creative industry projects from the ground up that join music, tech & visual content at the intersection of mobile, broadcasting, copyright, Immersive Entertainment, health/medical, & Artificial Intelligence technologies.
Crisscrossing the globe between offices in London, Los Angeles, Helsinki, and Mumbai, we monitor all the latest emerging consumer lifestyle trends and shifting technology interaction behaviors that present new revenue opportunities for clients, corporates & social media networks.
Our track record of creating new revenue streams at the intersection of creative content and technology began when we introduced the then completely new category of mobile phone ringtones & content, featuring popular music in the Americas, UK, Europe and Asia‑Pacific & South Asia when Mobile Content birthed a whole new business and recognized the imperative of Mobile Content and Apps. Popularly recognised as “the father of the ringtone,” our founder correctly predicted this content category that generated hundreds of millions from this new mobile income source.
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MOBILIUM LATEST – FOCUS & ACTION
Just some of the prominent innovators, business leaders & ground-breakers in technology, AI developers, mobile visioneers & cross-platform entertainment creators we have interacted with.
Our offices and affiliate operations
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mobilium’s team
Leveraging decades of industry knowledge, extensive contacts, and demonstrable success, Mobilium Global’s international footprint delivers for it’s clients and associates around the world.
Our clients include corporations, governments, family offices, entrepreneurial growth‑stage companies, artists & artist managers, and NGO's seeking to accelerate the development of advanced initiatives and projects in the primary global and entertainment markets of the USA and UK, plus, the wider international markets where social media plays an increasingly important role in the Creative Industries’ businesses and economic performance.
As a trusted advisor and facilitator, I lead Mobilium Global’s teams that we then pair with and for each client to identify key mobile opportunities, develop new strategies and map out actionable plans that position the client to successfully operate in the modern, global mobile world using Creative Industry expertise to grow brands, businesses and our clients’ commercial interests internationally.
OUR TEAM MEMBERS INCLUDE
TOP ECONOMISTS
MARKET RESEARCH EXPERTS
FINANCIAL ANALYSTS
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS
MOBILE TECHNOLOGISTS
CODERS
CONTENT CREATORS
LEADING AI PROFESSIONALS
Our Mobilium custom teams work closely with our clients to formulate specific business growth strategies and enhance the international focus and business opportunities for brands, investment professionals and executive teams.
TOP COLLABORATIONS
Top projects we have collaborated on, organised and funded include the legendary Live 8 Global Project, which simultaneously ran in nine major global cities – designed to “Make Poverty History” – for Bono, Sir Bob Geldof Mobilium’s International teams – a landmark event that made history and continues to inspire activists & communities world‑wide
WHAT MOBILIUM & RALPH SIMON ARE KNOWN FOR
Frequent TED Conference & TEDx speaker in the USA, India, Europe, the Baltics, the Nordics, Africa & South America
Popular & distinguished Speaker, interviewer & moderator at major international innovation conferences & the Mobile World Congress
Developed the world’s 1st commercial music ring tone service outside of Korea & Japan
Produced the world’s biggest live, televised events ever (Live 8 with Bono & Sir Bob Geldof, Al Gore’s Live Earth – world’s 1st global eco multi‑country TV event, TED’s ‘Pangea Day’, FIFA World Cup and many more)
Built Africa’s first‑ever Mobile Health Delivery Network
One of the world’s Top 50 executives in mobile innovation
Distinguished music publisher directly responsible for The Village People, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Joy Division, & many more
Co‑founded world’s most successful independent music company Jive Records (Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake & more)
Created the 1st mobile content development company in the industry
SERVICES
SPEAKER and INTERVIEWER
Captivate your audience with fresh interviews & powerful talks
Mobile and digital innovation expert Ralph Simon is a world-renowned speaker and moderator, previously at TED, TEDx, CogX, All about Music and many more.
CONFERENCE CURATION
Let us curate and brainstorm to make your live & online event a global success
Mobilium contributes ideation and expertise to some of the biggest live events ever, including Live 8, Al Gore’s Live Earth, TED Conference’s Pangea Day and FIFA World Cup.
BUSINESS ADVISING
Reach the next level with our high level advisory and angel investment
We offer high-level advisory for innovative businesses, leaders and creatives who are looking to reach the next level on a global scale.
RALPH SIMON
My background in the international music industry includes developing the indie Zomba Group and the Jive Records label, which grew to become one of the world’s leading independent music companies, record labels, & largest independent music publishers and record producer management organisations. This global business was acquired by the Sony/Bertelsmann Music Group in 2002.
I also served as Executive Vice President responsible for running Capitol Records and Blue Note Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and worked with artists that included The Beastie Boys, Radiohead, Frank Sinatra (including his legendary Duets album), The Beach Boys and many others.
DETAILED BIOGRAPHY
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Simon began his career co‑founding the Zomba Group of music companies (including record label Jive Records) in the 1970s, building it into the world’s leading independent music and music publishing company. In the early 90s, he came to the USA and established a media company in Silicon Valley. In the mid 90s he was appointed Executive Vice President of Capitol Records and Blue Note Records in Hollywood and built Capitol Records & EMI’s emerging new media business into a successful and significant global enterprise that established new business models for the record and music publishing industry. He is known for discovering Will Smith and publishing YMCA.
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In 1997, Simon correctly predicted that mobile phones would become the indispensable voice/social networking‑and‑music companion for consumers and their increasingly mobile lifestyles. He created a start‑up called Yourmobile and persuaded US and UK music publishers to embrace this new mobile medium by granting what would become the very first ring tone rights. Yourmobile became the first commercial ring tone company in the Americas, Europe, UK, Australia, and Africa, and spurred a new and international mobile entertainment industry. By 2003, Vivendi Universal purchased Yourmobile, renaming it Moviso, where Simon remained as an advisor. Today, Simon is popularly known as the ‘Father of the Ring tone.’
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Between 2005 and 2009, Simon served as the mobile producer for three of the highest-profile, live global broadcast events in recent history. Live 8, Bono and Sir Bob Geldof’s nine‑city global concert, brought mobile connectivity to nine capital cities and an international television audience of over 800,000,000 viewers. This enormous people‑powered call‑to‑action resulted in the G8 countries reducing the debt of the world’s poorest nations. He was also the Mobile Producer of Al Gore’s Live Earth, the world’s first eco-centric global impact event that spanned 10 countries and brought the vital message and visibility of global climate change to a worldwide audience of over 500,000,000 television viewers and online participants. In 2009, Simon was the Mobile Producer for the TED.com’s Prize-winning project, Pangea Day, a global multi-platform broadcast featuring short films from international filmmakers, from around the world. By integrating a mobile/SMS layer to all these worldwide events, Simon helped set the standard for integrating mobile technology as an essential element in global television and major global event broadcasting.
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The influential trade publication Mobile Entertainment magazine named Simon as one of the world’s Top 50 Executives in Mobile Entertainment for 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010, and in 2007, he received its special award for Outstanding Contribution to the Global Mobile Entertainment Industry.
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In early 2014 Mobilium Africa, its pan‑Africa subsidiary launched the first comprehensive, pan‑African and Africa‑specific mobile health delivery network known as the Smart Health Hub. With one billion Africans and some 800 million African mobile subscribers, Africa has the deep potential for mobile device growth across all sectors playing a key role in the development of the global mobile industry. Mobilium Africa has worked with The Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria & the World Health Organisation (WHO), the official participants in Smart Health Consortium, as is SafePoint Single‑Use Syringes, and the support of the World Health Organization Maternal & Newborn Health arm (PMCNH). Smart Health Hub is part of a wider range of mobile commerce, software and innovation that Mobilium has begun to bring to the entire African continent embodying mobile health, mobile wallet technology, mobile payment systems and new ways of using mobile gamification, mobile social messaging, mobile social music and mobile social lifestyle research into creating better lives for digital citizens everywhere.
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Simon also works closely providing high‑level mobile media and content guidance and counsel to global thought leaders, media companies, media properties, and creative artists to identify global mobile revenue opportunities and shape their mobile strategies worldwide. In addition, he works closely with the GSM Association, the global governing body of the international mobile phone industry. The GSMA organises the annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – 106,000 attendees and over 170 Ministerial delegations.
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Internationally, Simon is known as a highly impactive and popular speaker and moderator on all aspects of mobile commerce, content and the creative digital industries. He has delivered keynote addresses at major international gatherings, including:
The annual Music Matters/All That Matters/Digital Matters conferences (Singapore)
South Asian Mobile Conference (Colombo, Sri Lanka);
Music Matters India (Mumbai)
Presidential Innovation Forum Conference (Moscow);
Mobile World Congress (Barcelona)
Pioneers Tech Festival (Vienna)
TED Global (Oxford)
Connected Creativity (Cannes)
The World Copyright Summit (Brussels and Washington, D.C.)
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) annual conference
The Kofi Annan Centre for ICT Excellence (Accra, Ghana)
MusExpo (Los Angeles)
The Wireless‑Life Sciences Alliance conference (San Diego)
Rutberg Wireless Influencers’ Conference (Palos Verdes, California)
SXSW (Austin, Texas)
Brilliant Minds in Stockholm
SLUSH in Helsinki
The Eurasian Partnership in Yerevan, Armenia
DLD Tel Aviv & Munich
The African Leadership Network in Mauritius
Africa 4 Tech in Marrakech, Morocco
Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine in San Diego
and numerous other high‑level speaking engagements around the world.
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Currently, he serves on the boards of several companies, including Hungama Digital Media Entertainment (India’s major mobile Bollywood content producer), and The World Summit Awards and World Youth Summit Awards – the United Nations and its Millennium Development Goals annual global mobile apps competition. Simon is a board advisor to the Wireless‑Life Sciences Alliance (San Diego, California), the global leader in the fast-growing wireless connected health industry, and is Chairman Emeritus of the influential Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas, which he founded. The MEF is the global voice of the international mobile content industry.
He also serves on the Global Business Council for Education (GBC‑Education) – the GBC came into being at the urging of the Rt Hon. Gordon Brown MP, former British Prime Minister, and now Special Education Envoy for the UN Secretary‑General, Ban Ki-Moon. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK and a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the USA.