Simon Buckingham has worked in the mobile content and messaging industry for more than 15 years since 1991 when he joined the network operator group Vodafone. At Vodafone, Simon worked in many areas of the business including marketing, personnel, Vodafone's German subsidiary, technical operations and product management for SMS text messaging. In his final role at Vodafone, he ran their business partners program.

In January 1999, Simon founded Mobile Streams and over the last eight years has built the company into the leading mobile media specialist, with 13 subsidiaries across North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe. Mobile Streams completed its IPO and strategic investment from Liberty Media in early 2006. Simon is also CEO of zoombak, Liberty's Media's mobile subsidiary. He holds a first class BCom with German degree from Birmingham University in the UK and was shortlisted for Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005. He is based in New York.