Dr Bimal Jalan one of India’s best-known economists
New Delhi, India. r to l: Dr Bimal Jalan, with Mobilium Global chief Executive Ralph Simon just after Dr Jalan was inducted into the India Business Hall of Fame at the 2017 India Business Leadership Awards in Delhi. Dr Jalan is one of India’s best-known economists and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He is credited with having successfully managed and protected India during the East Asian financial crisis & its aftermath, substantially strengthening India’s balance of payments position & promoting wide-ranging reforms in India’s financial sector. He was nominated to the Upper House of the Indian Parliament, the Rajya Sabha by the President of India for distinguished service to India. Before taking over as Governor of the Reserve Bank, Dr Bimal Jalan held several high level positions in India and abroad. In India, he has served as Chief Economic Adviser to the Government, Banking Secretary, Finance Secretary, Member-Secretary of the Planning Commission, and Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. He represented India as Executive Director on Boards of International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington D.C. during 1988-89 and 1993-96 respectively. Earlier, he was Director (Economic Affairs) of Commonwealth Secretariat in London.
India’s Minister of Finance, Defence & Corporate Affairs, Arun Jaitley
New Delhi, India. r to l: India’s Minister of Finance, Defence & Corporate Affairs, the honourable Arun Jaitley & Mobilium Global chief executive Ralph Simon meeting at the Indian Business Leaders 2017 Awards held in India’s capital, New Delhi this week. The Awards honoured India’s top companies & leaders in Indian business & the emerging ‘Young Turks’ of India’s next generation of top business leaders. Cabinet Minister Jaitley has the awesome responsibility of running India’s finances and national defence for the nation’s 1.3bn people.
Tapio Anttila, Finnish honorary consul in Medellin, Colombia
l to r: Ralph Simon, Mobilium Global chief executive flanked by a Ruta 9 Medellin security man and to the right, Tapio Anttila, the Finnish honorary consul in Medellin & owner of the Nordika business in Colombia - visiting the key innovation hub and fulcrum in Medellin, the driving city of Colombia’s new future as one of the top innovation areas in South America and maybe, in the world. No Narcos or Escobar, just hipsters, geeks and start-up maniacs.
ColCap at the Club Nogal in Bogota, Colombia
Flanking Mobilium Global chief executive Ralph Simon are the organizing team of the highly successful annual conference of Colombia’s top Private Equity & VC investors, known as ColCap at the Club Nogal in downtown Bogota. This March 2017 event saw a capacity audience of some of South America’s top investment professionals, all keen to hear Mobilium talk about what is coming next in tech & mobile investments.
Bogota, Colombia
Mobilium Global chief executive Ralph Simon interviews two of the world’s leading experts on global investment in technology, natural resource extraction & security. Seen l. to r. Ralph Simon & interviewees Frank Holmes, CEO of US Global Investors - successful investment specialists in natural resource & mining investments and Arik Arad, President of Aracon Consulting New York & Pegasus Capital Advisors New York - Arik is one of the world’s leading specialists in security & security intelligence investment.
Colombia’s Top Investors & VCs at the Colombia Capital Conference
Mobilium Global Chief Executive, Ralph Simon, addresses Bogota, Colombia’s Top Investors & VCs at the Colombia Capital Conference in South America in March 2017
Digital Entertainment World Congress 2017 in Los Angeles
Ralph Simon, Mobilium Global chief executive interviews the global tech visionary and Virtual Reality Master, Nolan Bushnell in Los Angeles recently. Bushnell founded Atari and the first video game, Pong and has been acknowledged as one of the world’s tech visionaries for nearly three decades.
Jay Brown and Phil McIntyre Interview in Munich, Germany
Interview with Rihanna’s manager, Jay Brown, chief executive of Roc Nation & Phil McIntyre whose Philymack company in LA manages Nick Jonas (ex Jonas Bros) & Grammy nominee, Demi Lovato - this session focussed on the subject of what makes for today’s modern “Storytelling":
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Jimmy Wales and Craig Palmer Interview in Vienna
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder and Craig Palmer, CEO of Wikia’s Fandom, Wikipedia’s commercial arm. This session was designed to hear Jimmy Wales’ vision for non-profit Wikipedia and for-profit Fandom/Wikia - which CEO Craig Palmer runs in Silicon Valley very successfully. Interview took place in Vienna, Austria.