Speaker profile

Alistair Crane, a tenacious and charismatic entrepreneur, is the CEO and Founder of Grapple Mobile. Grapple works with brands, agencies and businesses to develop cross platform mobile applications that run on all the leading smartphone handsets and is already working with ten of the top European agencies as well as directly with brands and businesses from all the major consumer sectors.

Before Grapple, Alistair was the Head of Media Solutions at NAVTEQ which was later acquired by Nokia for over £5bn, and prior to that, one of the first members of the launch team for Blyk, an advertiser funded mobile network, founded by the Ex-President of Nokia. He was responsible for leading the agency sales effort and played a dominant role in attracting brands such as Nike, Unilever, Bacardi, Ford and Microsoft.