Executive Team

Meet Advanced Mobile's Senior Management Team

Bret J. Dunlap, President & CEO

As the founder and CEO of Advanced Mobile, Bret oversees many corporate responsibilities including, sales and marketing, product development along with managing the company’s strategic direction

Prior to founding Advanced Mobile, in 1989 Bret co-founded Advanced Telecom Services, Inc. (ATS)--a leading interactive voice response (IVR) company specializing in 800 and 900 services. ATS has provided IVR applications for hundreds of media companies within the newspaper, radio and TV industries. Over the last 21 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.com had 28,000 subscribers  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 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.

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). 

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.

David re-connected with Bret Dunlap in November of 2005 to co-found Advanced Mobile. David has identified various vertical markets that the company is presently actively pursuing.  He is the creative force behind Mobile Classifieds, Cars2Go and other related mobile initiatives.  He also assists with product design to ensure Advanced Mobile's products and services are competitively advantaged in their respective markets.

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 22 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- 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.

Application Development Team

John N. Geary, EVP

John has extensive experience as an entrepreneur and senior business leader within the mobile industry.  He was a Founder and CEO for myLEADERBOARD, Inc., a pioneer in the on-site mobile fan enhancement business for professional golf tournaments. 

 John led the design and project management teams which developed the inaugural mobile applications for the U. S. Open, the Ryder Cup and for CBS College Sports. John’s current clients include the Golf Channel, VERSUS/Comcast and the Washington Capitals.  Prior to entering the mobile industry in 2004, he had a successful institutional financial services career representing Fidelity and American Express and was responsible for selling billions of dollars in investment  management services to corporations. John received a B.S.F.S. from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.

Jeff Kase, Chief Technology Officer

Jeff has worked for more than 25 years as a systems programmer with strong experience with both web-based and mobile applications.  As a Founder, Jeff was responsible for developing all of the technology and programming used by myLEADERBOARD, Inc., a pioneer in the on-site mobile fan enhancement business for professional golf tournaments. 

 Jeff also maintains extensive experience in developing wide area wireless networks reaching 100+ acres of coverage.  Jeff’s current clients include the Golf Channel, VERSUS/Comcast and the Washington Capitals. Jeff has previously been the senior software engineer for, and has a proven track record with the start-up of, several technology companies, including Penmanship, Inc., Macromedia, and Cricket Software.  Jeff attended USC and received a B.A. in computer science from Temple University.

Robert Jay Bentz, Chief Marketing Officer

As Chief Marketing Officer for Advanced Mobile 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.

Paul Hehn, Chief Financial Officer

Paul Hehn is an owner and Chief Financial Officer of Advanced Telecom Services, Inc., a leading IVR company and mobile marketing service provider established in 1989 with offices in Philadelphia, Chicago, London, and Prague.  Paul manages all aspects of the Company’s worldwide financial operations including financial reporting, taxation, M&A, asset management, HR, and strategic planning. Paul joined ATS in 1995 as Controller and has served as CFO since 1997.  He has been integral in managing the Company’s domestic growth, negotiation and implementation of successful acquisitions, and the establishment of its international operations.

Paul also serves as the CFO of Advanced Mobile, Inc. which he helped found in 2006 as a spin-off from Advanced Telecom.  The Company is a forerunner in the development of turn-key B2B mobile marketing and custom smart phone applications generating high quality leads for its clients.  Paul oversees the Company’s financial operations as it achieves dramatic revenue growth which began in 2009.
Paul is a CPA, and formerly a senior tax manager in the Philadelphia office of KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP where he served for eight years from 1987 through 1994.  Paul graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Houston with a BS in Accounting in 1987.  He is a member of the AICPA and PICPA and serves as a director on the board of Free For All, Inc.