Michael Breen

Michael is an industry veteran of the mobile sector, and over the last 20 years has been developing next generation Mobile Internet services. At MasterCard, he is responsible for driving new initiatives in mobile payments, wallets and applications for mobile operators, financial institutions and retailers.

Michael first moved to Asia as Director for Market Development and Strategy for Amdocs, a market leader in software and services for service providers in the communications, media and entertainment industry. Working with customers such as Telstra, SingTel International and Axiata he was responsible for regional go to market strategy, solution sales and product innovation.

Prior to joining Amdocs, Michael was a founder member of Genie (a British Telecom venture that later became O2) where he was responsible for the management of countrywide and international level service roll-outs. During his time at O2, Michael was responsible for the product development of O2 Active, the company's flagship mobile data offering.

Michael began his career at publishers Reed Elsevier where he was responsible for executing the online strategy for some of their premium titles. He worked closely with Microsoft in the UK and USA, to help Reed become one of the world's leading electronic publishers.