As Director of Global Marketing for LiMo Foundation, Andrew Shikiar is responsible for helping develop and articulate LiMo's vision and market strategy. Shikiar possesses significant strategic marketing and business development expertise in a variety of cutting-edge technologies and market-shifting industry initiatives.

He served as Membership Director for industry consortia such as the Liberty Alliance Project and Blade.org -- helping grow the membership base for both organizations through direct engagement with industry leaders and development of value-add programs and services. Shikiar also served as Executive Director for POSSIE.org -- a coalition of ISVs that successfully raised awareness and drove changes by Microsoft in the security model of Windows 2000 in order to facilitate broader market participation and opportunity for email technology vendors.

Shikiar has held commercial-focused executive and managerial roles in technology as well. At Sun Microsystems he helped drive the company's Java and Liberty Alliance launch initiatives, including serving as Group Marketing Manager for Sun's Identity Management products. In addition, he was a founding executive at Radical Communication, where he helped raise nearly $20 million in venture financing and drove market adoption of interactive video and email marketing technology solutions.

Shikiar has extensive public speaking and media experience. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CNN and a variety of technology trade publications, and has spoken at conferences and events around the world.