Pinkard Alan "Pinky" Brand is the Director of Global Sales for dotMobi (Afilias Technologies Limited), a wholly owned subsidiary of Afilias Limited, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services.
Afilias provides registry and DNS services for more than 20 million domains, including more than 1 million active paid .mobi domains registered worldwide.
dotMobi
was founded by 14 visionary mobile operators,
network & device manufacturers, and Internet content providers, including
Ericsson, Google, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom
Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, Telecom
Italia, Visa and Vodafone. dotMobi was recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine in its "2009 Global Companies to Watch", and received technology innovation awards in Europe in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
Mr. Brand oversees sales, channel development and market evangelism of dotMobi's goMobi service that allows any business to publish a mobile website in minutes that works on any phone. He also shares responsibility for sales of DeviceAtlas, the world's premier mobile device detection database as well as .mobi domain names via a network of 250+ resellers in over 120 countries.
Mr. Brand
has been involved in the domain name industry since 1996 and the mobile Internet industry since 2006. He co-founded
two multinational domain name registrar and portfolio management
companies that count the world's most recognized trademark holders as
clients---generating total revenues in the tens of millions of dollars.