In Doug’s first year at Hipcricket®, the company achieved record sales and passed the industry-leading 80,000 campaign count. The year was capped off by a 3-year-deal with MillerCoors to be the mobile marketing and advertising partner for America’s second-largest beer company.

Doug’s passion for mobile is rooted in his belief that the mobile device will be the personal gateway to all of the information individuals will need or desire.

Over his eighteen year career, Stovall has created and directed the mobile sales and services units for Acuity Mobile, Merkle, Inc., TeleCommunications Systems (TCS), Aether Systems and Xpedior.

At Merkle, a provider of interactive and digital marketing services, Doug served as vice president of mobile business development. In that role, he created and directed a mobile sales organization and implemented a corporate customer acquisition strategy. Doug previously served as the vice president of sales at Acuity Mobile, where he built and managed direct and indirect sales and business development organizations for the provider of interactive mobile marketing, advertising and content delivery solutions. He was part of the executive team that successfully sold Acuity Mobile to NAVTEQ, a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) company, in 2009. He was a member of the M&A team at TCS who led the sale to venture capital firm New Venture Partners. Doug was key member of team that was awarded the Frost & Sullivan Engineering Award for Merger and Acquisition Strategy for the sale of Aether Systems to TCS.

Doug also has experience building strategic partnerships with carriers and handset manufacturers. He won Motorola’s 2006 U.S. Enterprise Mobility Award and was recipient of Intermec’s 2005 New Partner of the Year Award.

Doug is a frequent speaker at mobile industry events. He lives in Seattle with his lovely wife, three children and two fish.

His most recent position was as executive vice president and CFO for Talyst Inc., which was named one of Fast Company magazine’s “Fast 50 Reader Favorites” in March 2007 — an honor bestowed on firms that readers believe provide the most innovative and progressive “profit-driven solutions for what ails the planet.” At Talyst, that work involved providing software and equipment solutions that improve efficiency and patient safety at acute care hospitals, delivery networks, and long-term-care pharmacies. For his own contributions, Tom received the Puget Sound Business Journal’s CFO of the Year Award in the Small Private Company category.

Immediately before joining Talyst, Tom was vice president of finance and administration and CFO for WizKids, a Bellevue, Wash. company that creates and sells collectible miniature games. Tom joined the company in 2001; by 2003, he was directing its sale to the Topps Co.

Tom started his career in public accounting performing audit and tax work for companies in a variety of industries. He spent more than 15 years at Seafirst Bank (now Bank of America), where he was senior vice president and controller. From there, he stepped into his first CFO role, at a commercial leasing company. He subsequently served as interim CFO for two software companies, working on both funding and financial operations.

Tom is active in his professional community as a member of Financial Executives International, the American Institute of CPAs, and the Washington Society of CPAs.