Bret J. Dunlap - President & CEO: As the founder and CEO of Advanced Mobile Solutions, Bret has assumed many corporate responsibilities including managing the company’s strategic direction, sales and marketing, and product development.

Prior to founding Advanced Mobile Solutions, in 1989 Bret co-founded Advanced Telecom Services, Inc. (ATS)--a leading interactive voice response company specializing in 800 and 900 services. ATS has provided audiotext applications for hundreds of media companies within the newspaper, radio and TV industries. Over the last 18 years, ATS has grown its business entirely through internal cash flow, reaching its peak sales year of $61 million in 2001.

Bret held many positions within ATS.  From 1989 to 1996 he served as Chief Financial Officer; from 1997 to 1999 Bret was Managing Director of ATS’ UK office based in London.  From 2000 to 2003 he served as Chief Operating Officer and from 2004 to 2006, he served as President of ATS. 

Bret was responsible for starting the ringtone business within ATS in 2001 through the creation of two B2C websites: www.ringingphone.com and www.monstertones.com.  Bret oversaw the licensing of content, development of an e-commerce site, the mobile technology associated with delivering binary content to disparate handsets through various carrier operating systems, and the day-to-day administration and human-resources necessary to operate the business division.  The ringtone business model was based primarily on subscriptions.  Ringingphone had 28,000 subscribers to its service paying $5.00 per month.  Ringingphone.com reached a top 5,000 Alexa ranking and consistently averaged over 1 million unique visitors a month.  Bret also engineered the sale of ATS’ ringtone business to Zim Technologies in April, 2006.

Bret Dunlap holds a BS in economics from James Madison University in 1981 and an MBA with a concentration in finance & investments from George Washington University in 1983.

David Sawyer, EVP Sales & Business Development: Working closely with founder and CEO, Bret Dunlap, David has been instrumental in strategic, sales and business development areas in establishing Advanced Mobile Solutions.

A veteran of the newspaper publishing and advertising industry, David first worked with newspapers as an Army Photojournalist in 1984. In 1989, he joined the Scripps Newspapers affiliate, United Media/United Features Syndicate, where he marketed interactive audiotext programs to editors, and advertising executives.

David joined Bret and the Advanced Telecom Services’ (ATS) management team as Sr. Sales Executive in January 1993.  David developed and successfully marketed the company’s IVR and web personals solution to newspapers throughout North America.  By 1998, ATS had become the second largest provider of web and telephony personals to the daily newspaper industry (working with 34 of the USA’s top 100 circulation newspapers at the business’ peak in 2001).  Voice personals represented ATS’ dominant revenue stream for many of the ten years David worked full time with ATS.

In December 2003, David joined Builder Homesite, Inc. (BHI) as Director of Business Development (BHI is an Austin, Texas based technology company owned by a consortium of 35 of the largest new homebuilders in the US).  David marketed a private label version of BHI’s www.newhomesource.com, new home search technology to newspapers. Partners would implement BHI’s platform as a locally branded new homes search engine on its websites and regional web portals.

Over the next two years, David more than doubled the client base and increased BHI’s newspaper channel revenue by nearly 300%. He also consulted extensively and proactively with new and existing newspaper partners to improve sales methodology, thus allowing them to dramatically increase adoption of this solution by local builders, and resulting in significant revenue increases for partners. He also created and implemented numerous data and technology enhancements to the core BHI offering to generate more revenue and overall success for newspapers when implementing BHI’s products and data services.

David returned in November of 2005 to co-found AMS. David has extensive knowledge of newspaper advertising operations and online classified verticals with active relationships with more than 600 industry decision makers (at the largest newspapers and newspaper groups in the US),
He is the creative force behind Mobile Classifieds (MyClassifieds2Go) and other AMS mobile product initiatives that will position AMS and its mobile solutions as essential components of the newspaper industry’s success for the future in reaching untapped audiences and developing significant new revenue streams.

A 1983 graduate of Houghton (NY) College, David earned a double major (BA) in writing and speech communications. During his four years in the US Army, he was highly decorated, earning numerous commendations, soldiering and leadership awards including the Meritorious Service Medal, Journalist of the Year for the Training and Doctrine Command, and runner up for Journalist of the Year for the entire army in 1988, before leaving the service in January 1989.

Eric Deininger, Chief Operating Officer:  Eric has 20 years management experience in digital technology, including sales, product management, administration, finance and development management.  Eric managed ATS’ mobile entertainment portals and was a consultant for ATS’ first online venture- a dating source named Webfriends.com.

In addition to management roles in large companies such as Siemens Medical and Automatic Data Processing, Eric has been involved in the startup of two successful technology consulting companies and was a key principal in Medical Imaging Technology Associates, which was sold to a publicly-held company in 1997.

Eric has served in a variety of positions throughout his career, including product manager, corporate development officer, sales, and sales management.  Eric was Chief Operating Officer for Digimax Multimedia and Medical Imaging Technology Associates.

Eric holds a B.A. in economics from St. Joseph’s University (1984) and an MBA with a concentration in finance and management from West Chester University (2000).

Through his three years of managing ATS’ ringtone sites, Eric has a keen understanding of the operational aspects of a mobile content company as well as the technical and administrative complications in the young industry.

Paul Hehn – CFO:  As Chief Financial Officer of AMS, Paul brings many years of experience in managing the finances of a privately held company. 

Paul is currently also serving as CFO for Advanced Telecom Services, Inc. (ATS), an affiliated company of AMS and the principle investor in AMS.  Paul has been with ATS since January 1995 and is responsible for all aspects of the company’s worldwide financial planning and operations. Paul has played a significant role in strategic planning and growth of the ATS, helping establish international operations and implementing the acquisition of Spark Network Services from Infinity Broadcasting. He is a CPA and formerly a senior tax manager in the Philadelphia office of KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Houston with a BS in Accounting.

Robert J. Bentz, Chief Marketing Officer:  As Chief Marketing Officer for AMS Bob has key responsibilities involving domestic and international marketing strategies, and sales and media relations.  

Bob was co-founder of Advanced Telecom Services, Inc. (ATS) in 1989.  In his role as head of marketing and sales, he guided the growth of the company from a start-up to over $61 million in annual sales with offices in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Taiwan, and the Czech Republic. He is the author of the best selling book on the 900 industry “Opportunity is Calling: How to Start Your Own Successful 900 Number.”

The Pennsylvania native and former West Virginia and Connecticut resident is a frequent speaker at industry trade shows and has been interviewed on television and published in numerous publications, including Money magazine. Prior to joining ATS in 1989, Bentz worked in television advertising sales and management positions with Post-Newsweek and Capital Cities/ABC television stations. He received a BS in journalism from West Virginia University in 1981 and an MBA in marketing from Marshall University in 1983.