Richard Jalichandra
President and CEO, Technorati Media

Richard oversees Technorati, which was founded to help bloggers to succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global conversation. As the leading blog search engine and most comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere, Technorati indexes more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time and introduce millions of readers to blog and social media content

Richard is a veteran Internet executive whose media experience includes leadership roles across the media spectrum: as a client, at an agency, as a publisher, and with an advertising network. As CEO of Technorati, he oversaw the acquisitions of BlogCritics.org and the AdEngage self serve advertising platform and the launch of Technorati Media which now reaches an audience of more than 70 million. Prior to Technorati, he worked as an M&A and strategy consultant for several Internet properties and investment firms, and also served as SVP of Corporate Development for Exponential Interactive, Tribal Fusion's parent company. Previously, he was SVP of Business Development for Fox Interactive Media, and was the Vice President of Business & Corporate Development at IGN Entertainment (acquired by Fox Interactive).

Blog: www.jalichandra.com

Joe Kennedy
President and CEO, Pandora

Joe serves as President & CEO of Pandora, a personalized streaming radio site with over 7 million registered users that has played over 4.7 billion songs. Born out of a love for music with 99% of its employees at one time or another working as musicians, Pandora is truly a company wholly dedicated to music. With a database of more than 600 thousand songs, each digitally annotated with musical characteristics from a list of 400, the company generates personalized streaming radio for your computer, mobile phone or home entertainment system.

Joe joined the company in 2004 following a five-year stint at E-LOAN, where he was President and Chief Operating Officer. From 1995 to 1999, he was the Vice President of Sales, Service and Marketing for Saturn Corporation, which he grew to over $4 billion in revenue and established as the top brand for customer satisfaction in the auto industry.

Polly Sumner
President and Chief Adoption Officer, Salesforce.com

The enterprise cloud computing company, Salesforce.com has been a continuous innovative disruptor since its inception, becoming the worldwide leader in on-demand CRM services. As President and Chief Adoption Officer, Polly Sumner is responsible for customer success and ensuring that each and every customer gets maximum value from our products and services. She oversees our Professional Services, Education, Support and Customer Success, and Renewal Management teams.

Sumner's move to salesforce.com in 2008 followed a 20-year career in executive management in the technology industry. Most recently, Sumner was president of global services at Telecordia. Sumner also served as president and CEO of Alphablox, where she grew the company from $5 million to $25 million in two years.

Douglas R. Lebda
Chairman and CEO, Tree.com

Doug Lebda is the chairman and chief executive officer of Tree.com, which is the parent company of LendingTree, HomeLoanCenter.com, GetSmart, RealEstate.com, Domania and iNest. Mr. Lebda, the founder of LendingTree, led the start-up company through a successful IPO, five acquisitions, and expansion into the consumer real estate category, and he grew the business to more than $300 million in revenue.

Mr. Lebda served as the president and chief operating officer of InterActiveCorp (IAC) from 2005 – 2007 before returning to LendingTree to serve as the company’s chairman and chief executive officer. At IAC, Mr. Lebda oversaw more than 60 brands and 20,000 employees.

Rick Klau
Business Product Manager, Blogger/Google

Rick is the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google, where he leads the monetization efforts for the world's largest blogging platform. Rick joined Google as a result of its acquisition of FeedBurner, where he ran FeedBurner's publisher services team.

Rick has lent technology advice to two US Presidential campaigns, ran the campaign weblog for President Barack Obama in his 2004 Senate race, ran product strategy for and managed Google's presence at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, and is the creator of superdelegates.org, a collaborative website that profiles all of the 700+ Democratic National Committee super delegates and presents them in a Google Earth layer.

Interviews with Rick have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, Washington Post, InfoWorld, CIO Magazine, Information Week, and dozens of others. His work has been featured on CNN, in the New York Times, on NPR, and Wired Magazine.

Kevin Weil
Analytics Engineering, Twitter

Twitter, the global phenomenon that's become a house-hold name with over 37 million monthly site visitors, is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. Kevin works on the analytics team, sifting through incredibly large amounts of user data. Previously, Kevin lead the analytics team at Cooliris.

Roy Sekoff
Founding Editor, Huffington Post

Roy Sekoff is the founding editor of the Huffington Post, which at 9 million unique visitors per month, is the number one ranked blog in the US. Huffington Post was recently named one of the 25 Best Blogs of 2009 by Time Magazine and was ranked most powerful blog in the world by the UK based, Observer. Huffington Post features a host of regular and celebrity contributors including names such as Barack Obama, Deepak Chopra, Alec Baldwin, Hillary Clinton and John Cusak to name a few. Before helping to launch HuffPost, Sekoff was a writer and on-air correspondent for Michael Moore's Emmy-winning "TV Nation", and Communications Director for Arianna Huffington's 2003 gubernatorial campaign. He is also currently a frequent guest on a number of cable news and radio shows.

Michael Marquez
Executive VP Strategy, CBS Interactive

Michael is the Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development for CBS Interactive. With hundreds of millions of unique visitors from around the world each month, CBS Interactive is a global top 10 web property and is the largest premium content network online. Marquez previously served as Director of Corporate Development at Yahoo, working directly with its executive management team on all acquisitions, investments and major strategic initiatives. In this role, Marquez played a leading role in the acquisition of 15 companies throughout the world, including Oddpost, Verdisoft, del.icio.us, Bix and Jumpcut. Before going to Yahoo, he also served as a banker at Robertson Stephens, one of the preeminent Internet investment banks. Prior to that, Marquez was a founding member of the Internet Center of Excellence at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), which at the time was charged with overseeing the firm’s first foray into the Internet, as well as developing website strategies for clients.

Seth Sternberg
CEO and co-founder, Meebo

Seth Sternberg is the CEO and co-founder of Meebo, the web's real time communication platform providing instant messaging and group chat to over 40 million people. Meebo launched in 2005 with the goal of bringing instant messaging to the web with investors including Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, JAFCO, Time Warner and KTB. Previously, Seth worked in IBM's Corporate Development group as an M&A Lead.

Joseph Holland
VP, Strategy & Development, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc

Joseph Holland is VP of Strategy & Development for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. In this position, he is responsible for acquisitions, investments, and strategic partnerships across MSLO's media channels. Since joining MSLO in April 2006, he has been involved in a range of transactions, including the acquisition of Chef Emeril Lagasse’s media and merchandising business, as well as investments in Wilton Industries, WeddingWire Inc., and Pingg Corp., where he is a board member.

Prior to joining MSLO, Mr. Holland served as a media analyst at Bear, Stearns & Co. and Soundview Technology Group from 2003-2006. At Bear, Stearns & Co., he was a member of a team ranked "Best of the Street 2006" in The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he worked at IBM Venture Capital Group and in business development roles at eBay and Gaylord Entertainment. He began his career as the founder of an independent record label.

Matt Van Horn
Business Development Manager, Digg

Matt leads content syndication and strategic partnerships for Digg, a user driven social content website with over 35 million unique visitors monthly. One of the top 100 most trafficked sites on the internet, Digg allows users to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. There are no editors at Digg, content surfaces as voted on by users, providing a place where people can collectively determine the value of content.

Matt was also a co-founder of Zimride one of the top online ride sharing websites. Previously, Matt worked at Apple managing higher education marketing.

Ryan Allis
CEO and Co-founder, iContact

Ryan P. Allis is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iContact, the leading provider of email marketing tools for small businesses, non-profits, and political campaigns. Ryan has built North Carolina-based iContact from its start in July 2003 to its current size with more than 170 employees, 50,000 customers, and $25 million in annual sales. In 2005, Ryan was named by BusinessWeek as one of the "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25" in 2005 and was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for the Carolinas in 2008. Ryan is the author of the Wall St. Journal Bestselling book Zero to One Million, published by McGraw-Hill.

Timothy Chi
CEO, WeddingWire

Timothy first developed the concept of WeddingWire shortly after getting married in 2005 (to his lovely wife Tracey). As an experienced entrepreneur, Timothy sought out to assemble a team and build a technology that would help both engaged couples and vendors in the wedding industry. Prior to co-founding WeddingWire, Timothy co-founded Blackboard Inc (Nasdaq: BBBB) in 1998. While at Blackboard, Timothy pioneered many of Blackboard's products and strategic initiatives, helping the company grow to over 600 employees and a valuation of over $750 Million.

Andy Beal
Founder, Trackur/Internet Marketing Pilgrim

Andy Beal is an internet marketing consultant specializing in search engine marketing, online reputation management, and business blogging. Considered one of the world's most respected online marketing experts, Andy has worked with many top companies such as Motorola, GlaxoSmithKline, SAS, Lowes, Quicken Loans, and NBC. His current project is the online reputation monitoring tool Trackur.

Highly respected as a source of internet marketing advice, Andy Beal has had articles published around the world, including BusinessWeek Online, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Guide, and Web Pro News. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed online reputation management book Radically Transparent.

Andy Beal is constantly keeping up-to-date with search engine news and online marketing developments and has appeared on ABC News, CNBC and NPR (National Public Radio) and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Washington Post, and many other publications.

Wil Schroter
Serial Entrepreneur; Founder & CEO, GO BIG Network

Will has founded an amazing array of companies including Virtucon Ventures, a technology incubator for startup companies whose focus is on using the Internet to create a new breed of companies in a host of industries. Virtucon's holdings now include the Go BIG Network, GotCast.com, Affordit.com, and BizPlan.com among other investments. Wil also founded Swapalease.com, and on-line marketing place with over $2 billion in listings, Kelltech Internet Services and the interactive agency Blue Diesel. Wil is frequently featured in national media including NBC, The Wall Street Journal and Red Herring.

Jeanne Hopkins
Chief Marketing Officer, MECLABS Group / MarketingSherpa

As Chief Marketing Officer for MECLABS Group, Jeanne oversees all of the MarketingExperiments, MarketingSherpa and InTouch marketing programs. MarketingSherpa is a leading online research firm specializing in tracking what works in all aspects of marketing (and what does not.) Jeanne has a strong strategic background in leading marketing alliances, content development and optimization, demand generation, acquisition marketing, revenue creation, with success in driving practical corporate, divisional and industry demand generation programs, corporate and product websites & landing pages, and overall company brand for a wide range of consumer and B2B products. She has over 20 years of experience with B2B and B2C companies in both sales and marketing positions including previous work for Symmetricom, LEGO Systems, Hasbro (Milton Bradley board games & puzzles) and several other toy companies in various marketing management roles.

Steve Vintz
CFO, Vocus

At Vocus, a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management with over 3,500 worldwide customers, Vintz oversees all financial, legal, investor relations, human resources and administration functions. Vintz has led the company through a period of rapid growth and expansion, including an initial public offering, a follow-on offering and three acquisitions. Under his leadership, Vocus has received numerous accolades for its financial success including 11 consecutive years among the Deloitte Fast 500 list of fastest growing technology companies in North America and recognition by Forbes as one of America's 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies.

David Iankelevich
VP, Sales and Business Development, eMarketer

eMarketer provides market research and trend analysis on Internet, e-business, online marketing, media and emerging technologies. eMarketer aggregates and analyzes information from over 3,000 sources, and brings it together in analyst reports, daily research articles and the most comprehensive database of e-business and online marketing statistics in the world. David is responsible for managing the new business sales team, increasing sales and driving the overall e-marketing strategy. His years with eMarketer have given him an insider's view on the evolving internet landscape as well as a unique insight into how clients use digital and traditional marketing research.

David Jones
President & Chief Executive Officer, Peak 10

David co-founded Peak 10 in 2000 and has led the company to a top market position as the leading independent data center operator and managed services provider in the United States. Peak 10 has been named to Inc. magazine's annual ranking of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the country for two consecutive years. David is chairman of the board of directors for the North Carolina Technology Association and is the former chairman of the Business Innovation and Growth (BIG) Council.

Rich Lee
Founder & CEO, Hosted Solutions

Rich founded Hosted Solutions in June of 2001 and has since led the company to become one of the fastest growing, most profitable data center and managed services providers in the United States. The company delivers a full suite of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions to its customer base of more than 800 companies ranging from SMEs to Fortune 100 businesses. In April 2008, Hosted Solutions was acquired by private equity firm ABRY Partners for $144 million.

With more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience, Rich has continued to innovate while keeping the company focused on strong business fundamentals and operating results. Prior to forming Hosted Solutions, Rich founded MPInet in 1996, which quickly grew to become the largest privately held ISP in Florida before being acquired by Duro Communications. Rich was named Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" for the Carolinas in 2009.

Mark Rockett
Founder & CEO, Rockett Interactive

Mark is the Founder & CEO of Rockett Interactive, an agency that delivers comprehensive online advertising and media management services specializing in digital media, including: display and search engine advertising campaigns, search engine optimization, research/data intelligence, ad serving, measurement and campaign optimization.

He has overseen the growth of the company to achieve Inc. Magazine's 2008 rating as the 8th fastest growing privately held company in the U.S in the advertising/marketing sector (87th overall.)

Jim Tobin
President, Ignite Social Media

Jim is president of Ignite Social Media, one of the nation's first social media agencies. In that role, he and his team work with clients including Intel, Nature Made, The Body Shop, Comcast, UNICEF and more developing and implementing social media marketing strategies. Jim is the co-founder of the Triangle Social Media Club, is one of the most read authors on Social Media Today, and was named one of the most influential bloggers in the business in January 2008. Jim is also the author of the best-selling book, "Social Media is a Cocktail Party."

Barg Upender
CEO, Co-founder; Mobomo

Barg is the CEO & co-founder of Mobomo, a leading mobile application development company focused on developing applications for smart phones in the consumer and enterprise markets. Mobomo has deep expertise in Apple iPhone, Google Andoroid, Palm Pre, RIM Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and Symbian OS. Barg is a serial entrepreneur and technologist with 20 years of experience in commercial software product development. Barg was founding partner of web development firm Intridea and he founded and sold Concentric Methods, a biomedical software development company.

Scott Voigt
VP of Marketing, Silverpop

Scott is responsible for managing a team of professionals that defines and promotes the company's growing suite of product offerings. He guides Silverpop and its client base in the implementation of products that integrate Web analytics, targeted email marketing, social networking, new RSS technologies and other advanced solutions to maximize online relationships.

Prior to Silverpop, Voigt served as COO at Innuvo LLC, a developer of Web 2.0 development tools. He also was a member of Noro-Moseley Partners and has served in roles at nFront, a pioneer of Internet banking solutions.

Matthew A. Mooney
Founder & Managing Director, MPI Search

Matthew has spent two decades in retained executive search. Prior to founding MPI Search, Matt spent ten years with Russell Reynolds Associates as a key member of the Global Technology Practice. As Managing Director and Head of the Communications & Convergence Practice for the Americas, he worked with leading companies around the world to recruit talent at the senior executive level. Matt works with a diverse range of companies across the Convergence, Media, Internet, and Communications segments, ranging from early stage start-ups to large multinationals. He is a leader in leveraging a complex range of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies to elevate the art of retained executive search.