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Ed Hodges

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Ed Hodges is the Head of Mobile for RBS’s Business & Commercial division. His responsibilities include building the mobile channel, defining the future of NFC and Merchant Payment Services while encouraging the use of Agile development techniques within the bank.

Ed recently worked with Tesco setting up their mobile application development team and advising on mobile strategy while delivering the first wave of Tesco’s apps including the successful iPhone Grocery app.

Ed was previously Head of Mobile at Touchnote the award winning photo-messaging and mobile postcard service.

Before Touchnote Ed co-founded and was Marketing Director of Howler Technologies which developed a software based, packet processing platform using IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine - designed for the telecoms infrastructure market.

Recent Milestones

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  Ed Hodges — Users able to submit queries to advisors and receive guidance in real-time. Natwest and RBS recently embarked on a NFC agreement with Visa Europe to expand the contactless payments technology to two millions Brits, which has now been followed up with a (3/27/13)
  Posted 4/1/13 at 3:28am via mobile-ent.biz
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  Ed Hodges — Tesco launches iPhone Grocery App with TV campaign in UK. (1/7/11)
  Posted 4/1/13 at 3:33am via youtube.com
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  Ed Hodges — Touchnote inks global deal with Sony Ericsson for postcard app. (5/19/10)
  Posted 5/20/10 at 9:01pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ed Hodges added to Howler Technologies.
  Posted 5/20/10 at 9:06pm
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  Ed Hodges added a position as Co-Founder, Business Dev & Marketing Director at Howler Technologies.
  Posted 5/20/10 at 9:04pm
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  Ed Hodges added a position as Strategy Consultant, Telecoms & High Tech at Accenture.
  Posted 5/20/10 at 9:06pm
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  Ed Hodges added a position as Consultant - Mobile Application Development at Tesco.
  Posted 4/12/11 at 8:00am
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  Ed Hodges added a position as Head of Mobile at Royal Bank of Scotland.
  Posted 3/22/13 at 1:58am

Videos

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Touchnote inks global deal with Sony Ericsson for postcard app (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
Mobile Chat from NatWest and RBS to offer in-app customer service (mobile-ent.biz) [edit]
Tesco Grocery Shopping App (youtube.com) [edit]