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John Kosner
Senior Vice President and General Manager,
ESPN Digital Media

John Kosner leads all of ESPN’s Digital Media properties, including ESPN.com, the world’s leading online sports service; ESPN360.com, the premiere sports event broadband service from ESPN; and all content development for Mobile, Interactive Television, Interactive Gaming and other emerging digital media. Kosner was named senior vice president and general manager, ESPN Digital Media in June 2007.

Kosner has overseen ESPN.com since March, 2003 – a period of tremendous growth and industry recognition for ESPN online. Kosner and his team have helped ESPN.com establish a clear leadership position on the Internet and in Mobile, pioneering online video with ESPN Motion, creating an industry-leading paid subscription service, Insider, building a broadband service, ESPN360.com, that airs 3,500 live events annually, achieving 67% audience share among sports mobile websites and launching the most popular sports apps on the iPhone and iTouch, including ScoreCenter and ESPNRadio.

In 2009, ESPN debuted local sites in Chicago, Boston and Dallas.

ESPN Digital Media has also received numerous awards. In May 2009, ESPN Digital Media won its second consecutive Street & Smiths Sports Business Award for Sports Online. In three years since the creation of Sports Emmy Awards for digital media content, ESPN.com has received 12 nominations, winning six awards. ESPN.com has also captured two Online Journalism Awards, including the Award for General Excellence. Also in 2007, ESPN.com was named to the "Hot List," Adweek’s top 10 list of web sites.

In June 2008, Kosner was named to The Hollywood Reporter’s Digital Power 50, which highlighted individuals plotting the course for content on emerging digital platforms, ranking 24th. And in October, 2008, Sports Business Journal ranked Kosner as the Most Influential in Online Sports.

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.

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.

Brad Hill
Director, Weblogs (Part of AOL)

Brad is the Director of Weblogs, the world's largest blog publisher and operator of some of the most reputable new-media brands such as Engadget, Joystiq, and Autoblog. Brad oversees the entire Weblogs team, responsible for managing over 500 bloggers and 15,000 blog entries per month. It's been said that Brad knows more about professional blogging than anyone in the world, and has authored over 20 books about the Internet and online media including "Blogging for Dummies" and "Google for Dummies".

Gian Fulgoni
Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, comScore

Gian is the executive chairman and co-founder of comScore, a global Internet information provider offering consumer behavior insight based on a massive, global cross-section of more than 2 million consumers. Through its proprietary technology, comScore measures what matters across a broad spectrum of behavior and attitudes delivering seamlessly integrated behavioral and attitudinal research. Gian has long been involved with the growth of hugely successful technology businesses, previously serving on the boards of U.S. Robotics, Platinum Technology and YesMail.com prior to their respective acquisitions by 3Com, Computer Associates and CMGI in multi-billion dollar transactions.

Jennifer Sargent
CEO and Co-founder, HitFix

Jen serves as CEO of HitFix, a unique offering bringing the world of insider entertainment to fans of movies, television and music while providing an insider view on the news, events and information that matter most. Jen has over a decade of online advertising and marketing experience from around the world. Most recently, Jen was the head of Online Marketing & Development for Reed Business Information (parent of Variety.com) managing the growth of 60 ad-supported sites.

Stephen Bozzo
CIO/SVP, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM

Stephen Bozzo is 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, where he is responsible for all aspects of E-Commerce, IT Planning, Development, Delivery Management and Infrastructure. One of the pioneers of Internet retailing, 1-800 FLOWERS.COM, which ranks number 31 on Internet Retailer's Top 500 list, recently launched the first online store on Facebook. Prior to joining the company, he served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the International division of MetLife Insurance Company.

Michael Marquez
Executive Vice President Strategy & Corporate Development, 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 numerous 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.

Doug Miller
Vice President, Expedia

As Vice President of Media Solutions for Expedia, Inc., the world's leading online travel company, Doug Miller oversees advertising sales and business development efforts across Expedia North America's largest Web sites - Expedia.com, Hotels.com, and Hotwire. In addition to leading ongoing efforts to build strong relationships with advertisers and travel partners, Miller leads all product development, sales, analytics, yield management and operations related to the advertising businesses.

Prior to joining Expedia, Miller worked for Ticketmaster as Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development. Before joining Ticketmaster, Miller served as New Markets General Manager for Citysearch.

Ricci Wolman
Director of Online Marketing, The Body Shop

Ricci Wolman is the Director of Online Marketing at The Body Shop, where she manages all online marketing and merchandising efforts for The Body Shop's US and Canadian websites. The Body Shop is a global retailer of natural beauty products and is famous for its social activism and ethical values. During her tenure with The Body Shop Ricci has launched a social media campaign, rebranded both the US and CA sites and pushed customer-relevant content across key categories. Prior to her current role, Ricci served in a strategy and planning role for the The Body Shop's e-commerce division.

Tim Schigel
CEO, ShareThis

Tim leads ShareThis, a viral sharing tool that makes it simple and easy to share any online content. After launching less than a year ago, ShareThis can now be found on 50,000 websites with a 40% monthly growth rate reaching over 100 million monthly unique visitors. Previously, Tim led technology investing at Blue Chip Venture Company, an early stage venture firm with $600 million under management, investing in leading companies such as Advertising.com, Nielsen Buzzmetrics and Third Screen Media.

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.

Jeramie McPeek
VP Digital, Phoenix Suns

Entering his 18th season with the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns this fall, Jeramie leads the organization’s digital and social media efforts. Under his direction, Suns.com has twice been named the top team site in the NBA and received the Website of the Year Award from the NBA in 2007. In his role as vice president of digital for the Suns and the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, McPeek oversees eight in-house websites, as well as the Suns' social media channels on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube.

In addition to his position with the Suns, McPeek is the "editor at large" for the NBA's official publications and has had nearly a thousand articles published in national magazines over the last 14 years.

Eric Bosco
Former SVP at AOL

As the former Senior Vice President of Operations and Product Management, Eric Bosco lead Platform-A's advertiser, publisher and campaign operations and was responsible for Platform-A product management, driving an integrated product roadmap across Platform-A.
Prior to joining Advertising.com, Eric was vice president of communications and community products at AOL, where he was responsible for the development of AOL's instant messaging, email and social networking platforms. Eric joined AOL in 1996 and was one of the original creators of the AOL Instant Messaging (AIM) system.

Wayne Sutton
OurHashtag

Wayne Sutton is an entrepreneur, strategist, and producer with a passion for video blogging and social media. For more than four years, he's provided counsel to business leaders ranging from founders of small start-ups and representatives of non-profit organizations to CEOs of large and small corporations. For some, understanding the social media landscape is difficult. Wayne enjoys helping industry leaders maneuver through the ever-changing Internet environment. Wayne has seen the web mature to allow video to become a popular medium to share information online. Wayne covers online technology, gadgets, industry news, conferences, product reviews, and the people behind them on his online video channel.

Mark McGuire
President, Alice.com

Mark co-founded and serves as President of Alice.com, an online household shopping platform for cosumer packacked goods. Alice organizes all your products, finds coupons and deals for you, reminds you when you might be running low, and helps you order. Previously Mark co-founded Jellyfish.com and NameProtect.com, two start-ups he took from conception to exits, generating over $70 million of shareholder value in the process.

Scott Savitz
Founder and CEO, Shoebuy.com

Scott Savitz founded Boston based Shoebuy.com, one of the largest retailers of footwear and related apparel, in 1999 and currently serves as Shoebuy.com's Chief Executive Officer. Shoebuy.com, with 5.5 million visitors per month, is ranked as one of the Internet’s Top Ten most visited apparel shopping sites. In 2006, Shoebuy.com was purchased by IAC/InterActive Corp. which owns other leading web properties including Match.com, Citysearch, Evite.com, and Ask.com. Prior to founding Shoebuy.com, Scott was a Director at BancBoston Robertson Stephens specializing in the investments of large high-tech corporations.

Cliff Reeves
Emerging Business Team, Microsoft

Cliff Reeves has been at Microsoft since March, 2001 and is currently the General Manager of Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. The Emerging Business Team leads Microsoft’s work with the startup entrepreneur and investor community. Most recently, Cliff led the development of Microsoft’s BizSpark program – which provides startups access to all of Microsoft’s software, essentially free for three years. Before that, Cliff led the Product Management Team for Widows Server, and was the General Manager for the .NET Platform Strategy Team, working with large Enterprises and ISVs on advanced .NET Projects.

Cliff started his 30+ year career in the software industry with IBM. He has held a wide range of software product-development roles in the areas of database, application development, and communication and messaging systems. He was vice president of product management at Lotus Development Corp, and was closely involved with IBM’s acquisition of Lotus in 1995.

David Morken
CEO, Bandwidth.com

David Morken is the CEO, President and co-founder of Bandwidth.com. Bandwidth.com offers IP voice (VoIP), hosted VoIP, data and managed network services, powered by our nationwide, 100% IP voice network and supported by in-house, 24/7/365 customer service. Along with business partner and Chairman Henry Kaestner, Morken has overseen the growth of Bandwidth.com into one of the emerging leaders in IP communications, cloud-based telephony, and open source telecom software. In 1994, Morken co-founded the Internet's first online tax filing service, efiling.com

Brooks Bell
President, Brooks Bell Interactive

As President and Founder of Brooks Bell Interactive, Brooks leads an experienced and talented team to develop online conversion strategies, creative solutions, and A/B test plans for a set of national clients, including Chase Bank, Nickelodeon, The Wall Street Journal and AARP. Prior to founding Brooks Bell Interactive in 2003, she was a Co-founder and Creative Director at novelProjects, a boutique web design firm.

Keith Moore
Chief Marketing Officer, iContact

Keith Moore is Chief Marketing Officer for iContact Corporation, an industry leader in email marketing services to small and mid-sized businesses. Mr. Moore has built a successful career around targeted customer acquisition, Internet marketing and online conversions. Prior to iContact, Keith was a GM and SVP at LendingTree.com & GetSmart.com, while they were part of IAC and under its new parent company Tree.com.

Alex Withers
Managing Director of Digital Media, United States Golf Association

Alex Withers is Managing Director of Digital Media at the United States Golf Association, a position he has held since August 2007. Withers is responsible for the USGA's overall online and digital media functions. Since joining the Association, Withers has created an ambitious strategy for taking the USGA into the digital world.

With a Digital Media staff of nine, Withers re-launched usopen.com with interactive features including custom player tracking, real-time leader board updates, message boards, near-HD live streaming championship video and an in-depth multimedia course section which brought fans closer to the U.S. Open and presented the USGA course set-up strategy to create the toughest test in golf. With a unique visitor increase of over 700%, usopen.com set an internet record on playoff Monday for the most viewed sporting event online with 615,000 concurrent users and 2.9 million streams accessed.

Keith Collins
Senior VP & CTO, SAS

Keith Collins is responsible for driving corporate technology strategy through a focus on customer- and partner-facing activities for SAS, one of the largest software companies in the world with over 45,000 customers. Collins fosters close working relationships with marketing and sales to ensure that SAS technologies are aligned with customer needs and market demand. He has been instrumental in leading SAS' evolution as a provider of industry-specific solutions that deliver the benefits of powerful analytic technologies into the hands of users.

Collins led the effort to develop the company's breakthrough SAS Business Analytics Framework that is redefining business intelligence as it is known today. He is responsible for the daily operations of Research & Development and he oversees Information Services and Technical Support.

Andy Beal
Founder, Trackur/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.

Joe Colopy
CEO, Bronto

Joe Colopy is Founder and CEO of Bronto Software. As chief architect of Bronto’s strategic vision and direction, Joe has successfully led Bronto from concept to a leading email marketing company focused on serving online retailers, interactive agencies, and marketing departments.

Prior to founding Bronto in 2002, Joe's past professional experience has been with market leaders Red Hat, Harvard Business School and Dell Computer. Recognized as a thought leader within the online marketing community, Joe is frequent speaker at national conferences and has been featured in media outlets such as NPR's Marketplace, Entrepreneur Magazine, MediaPost, DMNews, ClickZ, Internet Retailer and BtoB Magazine.

Timothy Seward
Founder & President, ROI Revolution, Inc.

Timothy is founder and President of ROI Revolution, Inc., a data driven PPC Management Company focused on delivering profitable PPC results. ROI Revolution manages millions of dollars per quarter of ad spend in the PPC accounts of 65 clients throughout the USA, Canada and the UK.

ROI Revolution is one of the few companies in the world that has been handpicked by Google to be one of seven charter Google Analytics consulting partners (since August 2005) and one of only three Google Analytics Seminar Leaders worldwide, as well as being an AdWords Qualified Company.

Dan Murphy
SVP Research and Ad Traffic, Univision Interactive

Dan Murphy serves as Senior VP of Research & Ad Traffic at Univision Interactive Media and has served as co-chair for the IAB Ad Operations Council since inception. Dan's been working in the interactive world since 1994 working with Sportsline (CBS Digital), Relevant Knowledge (comScore MediaMetrix) and Univision Interactive Media. He also serves on the Council for Research Excellence, IAB Research Advisory Board and MRC Internet Committee.

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.

Josh Resnik
VP and General Manager, Gannett Digital Media Network

Josh Resnik is Vice President and General Manager of the Gannett Digital Media Network, Gannett's network of web sites attracting approximately 25 million monthly unique visitors. Josh oversees strategy, products, business development, marketing, and related aspects of the business operations of the network. Josh also serves on the Board of Directors of three companies in which Gannett has invested, including the Metromix local entertainment network and the Livestream.com (formerly Mogulus) live video streaming solution.

Josh has an extensive background spanning multiple media platforms. Prior to Gannett, Josh was Assistant General Counsel at AOL, where he was responsible for strategic alliances and partnerships for AOL Media Networks, an AOL business unit generating more than $1.5 billion in annual revenue from online advertising, search, and e-commerce. In that role, Josh was instrumental in establishing and sustaining relationships with some of the leading companies on the Internet, including strategic alliances with Google, eBay and Amazon.

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.

Don Brown
President & Cofounder, Twitpay

Don Brown is currently the President and a co-founder of Twitpay, which is dedicated to bringing commerce to Twitter. Twitpay enables users to send payments without registering for an account. Previously Don worked at IBM, Earthlink, Compucredit, and Safenet. He has over 15 years of experience in IT, as a software architect, infrastructure architect, security architect with deep data warehousing and analytics expertise.

Norm Cloutier
Director of Analytics, McClatchy Interactive

As Director of Analytics for McClatchy Interactive, Norm oversees the online audience and metrics for its 29 daily newspapers including more than 100 separate web sites serving more than 40 million monthly visitors. He has been dedicated to internet publishing since 1995, serving in director roles as diverse as editorial, business development and product management. McClatchy is the 3rd largest newspaper company in the US.

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.

Jay Goldman
Co-CEO, Rypple

Jay has been providing a human side to technology for over ten years, as a technologist, user experience specialist, and visual designer. His career has been focused on the interaction between people and technology, and his insights have helped to greatly improve products on mobile, web, and desktop platforms, including IBM DB2 and Mozilla Firefox. Jay authored The Facebook Cookbook for O'Reilly Media, has been instrumental in the continued growth of the BarCamp community in Toronto and serves as the host of Mr. Mobile, the weekly video podcast from Butterscotch.com

Jason Caplain
General Partner and Co-founder, Southern Capitol Ventures

One of the faces of the internet economy in the southeast, Jason is a general partner and co-founder of Southern Capitol Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with portfolio . A frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, Jason is very active in the technology scene of the southeast and mid-atlantic. His blog can be read here.

Andrew Lacy
COO, Tapulous

Andrew serves as COO of Tapulous, the iphone application developer responsible for such apps as Tap Tap Revenge, Twinkle, Fortune and Collage. Andrew possesses experience building several internet and enterprise startups in Australia, India and the US in internet and bioscience areas with his current interests surrounding consumer social applications.

Ron Garmon
CEO, VueLogic

As CEO of VueLogic, Ron is responsible for leading the company's overall business strategy and guiding day-to-day operations. Ron brings over 20 years of international executive management experience to the VueLogic team. Ron’s brings extraordinary depth and understand to the issue of managing and monetizing consumer data in privacy protected environments. Ron’s commitment to improving consumers experience and a site owner's profitability while ensuring data privacy are foundational to VueLogic's solutions.

Prior to founding VueLogic, Ron served as Senior Vice President of Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX), where he led operations in 21 countries across 5 continents. In his role as Senior Vice President his assignments included - International CIO, President Equifax Secure, President Equifax Check Services International and Chief Operating Officers Equifax Check Services.

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."

David Jones
Partner, Southern Capitol Ventures

David is a Partner with Southern Capitol Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm serving technology companies in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Prior to joining Southern Capitol, David served as a senior information technology consultant for Deloitte Consulting and served as a Naval Aviator flying over 1900 hours in the P-3C Orion.

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.

Jake St. Peter
Founder & President, Coalmarch Productions

Jake St. Peter founded Coalmarch Productions in 2003. In his capacity as founder and President he has guided the growth of the company to its current state of 12 employees and over a million dollars a year in revenue. During this time he has cultivated business relationships with Bicycle Playing Cards, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and Ticketmaster, to name a few. Jake has over 10 years of experience with online marketing and search engine optimization, and is an expert on emerging Internet trends and online business development.

Dan Forootan
President, StreamSend

Dan founded EZ Publishing in 1998 as a web-hosting and design company. The web-hosting solution quickly became popular with resellers because of its fully automated platform enabling resellers to create their own hosting and pricing packages. As the hosting business grew, the company diversified into email marketing and launched StreamSend Email Marketing, an affordable, dependable and easy-to-use web-based solution. StreamSend quickly flourished and has since become EZ Publishing's flagship product.
Forootan is an ardent proponent of the integration and use of analytics in business and email marketing. He was a pioneer in offering automatic Google Analytics Integration within the StreamSend application and continues to promote the benefits of effective tracking and measurement of email campaigns.

Bob Butler
CEO, Best Thinking, Inc

Bob Butler is currently CEO and founder of Best Thinking, Inc., developers of BestThinking.com and ReallyWho.com. BestThinking is an open access publisher and syndicator focused on quality content that requires all contributors to use their real identities. ReallyWho.com is a provider of identity verification for the social web on sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Most recently, he was a COO/GM for LexisNexis, one of the world’s largest online content providers with nearly 4 billion searchable documents and a leader in identity verification. Previously, Mr. Butler was the CEO and founder of Time Matters Software. Time Matters is one of the most widely used information and document management systems in the US legal market.

Dr. John Morkes
Co-Founder & Principal, User Research, Expero

Dr. John Morkes is Co-Founder and Principal at Expero and heads the User Research group. John is a recognized leading expert in content usability research, collecting data, and validating requirements and UI designs with end-users through a variety of techniques. His recent clients include Intel, Ford, TiVo, Dell, Pfizer, Charles Schwab / CyberTrader, Trilogy, and Symantec / WholeSecurity. Previously, John was director of Trilogy's Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) team and established that company’s usability program and usability lab. While at Trilogy, he led efforts to improve usability of Nissan and Ford websites, which Forrester Research rated as the two best consumer sites in the industry. He also has worked as a usability engineer for Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems (with Dr. Jakob Nielsen) and as a journalist for Wired and Research & Development magazines. John is a published researcher and a frequent speaker at International user experience conferences.

David Eckoff
Co-founder,Spitter; President, Revolutionary Ventures

David Eckoff is co-founder of Spitter, a real-time social news network for sports fans; and president of Revolutionary Ventures, a consulting company that specializes in taking revolutionary ideas from the drawing board to market. For the past three decades, Eckoff has been an innovator in start up companies and Fortune 500 alike. Previously, he served as Vice President, New Product Development & Innovation at Turner Broadcasting (CNN, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network); Senior Director at RealNetworks; Senior Vice-President at Rivals.com; and Founder of Inside Carolina.
In his consulting work, Eckoff helps businesses create new growth through innovation. Clients have included Kleiner Perkins backed Zazzle.com, live interactive broadcasting platform Ustream.TV, 3D Virtual World innovator Kaneva, and more.

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.

Dean Gels
Director, RBC Capital Markets

Dean is an investment banker focused in the technology sector and a founding member of RBC's Internet practice. His team partners with leading Internet companies seeking access to growth capital and advice on strategic alternatives. RBC Capital Markets is a premier investment bank with over 3,000 professionals and support staff operating in Asia and Australasia, the UK and Europe and in every major North American city.

Sam Matheny
General Manager, News Over Wireless

Sam Matheny is General Manager of News Over Wireless, which is part of CBC New Media Group, LLC. Sam's focus is on strategic media applications, where he is currently engaged with mobile wireless content delivery. News Over Wireless works with broadcasters and wireless phone carriers to provide news and information on mobile phones through video channels, downloadable applications, mobile web sites and SMS. News Over Wireless is partnered with 139 television stations reaching approximately 90 million US television households and has on-deck relationships with AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and other national and regional carriers.

Joseph Dickerson
User Experience Architect, Fiserv

Joseph Dickerson currently serves in a lead role within Fiserv's Innovation team, where he is focused on integrating Web 2.0 technologies and improving the usability of the Fiserv’s suite of banking applications. Fiserv, a Wisconsin-based Fortune 500 company with over 16,000 clients, is the largest provider of IT services to the US financial industry. Previously, Joseph worked at Cingular Wireless/AT&T's human centered design group, where he implemented processes in user testing and design and was instrumental in setting up Cingular’s first usability lab.

Jason Dowdell
Director of SEO, Triangle Direct Media

Jason is a nationally-recognized SEO expert, having consulted with hundreds of businesses including Motorola, Yellowbook, eDiets, LA Times and Cox Communications. He is responsible for the development and capabilities of TDM’s On-Demand SEO Platform: SEOTool; as well as day-to-day SEO execution for TDM's 200+ clients. Prior to joining Triangle Direct Media, Jason worked as Director of Marketing at Voxeo Corporation and served as Director of Search at Websourced. He was CEO/Founder of search marketing firm Global Promoter, which was acquired by WebSourced in 2004. Before entering the search marketing industry in 1998, Jason was an Information Systems Engineer for NASA.

Page Sands
Director of Web Strategy & Social Media, R2 Integrated

Page Sands joined R2i in 2007 as the Director of Web Strategy & Social Media. Bringing several years experience in technical Web development, Page helps organizations use Web-based tools to engage customers online. As someone who believes that "markets are conversations", Page draws from a variety of Web-based tools and media formats to create content that is portable and shareable.

Robbie Allen
Founder & CEO, StatSheet Network

Robbie is the Founder & CEO of the StatSheet Network, a collection of web properties that are giving sports fans interesting new ways to visualize sports stats. Since he founded StatSheet in 2007, Robbie has developed and launched four websites (Statsheet.com, StatPlot.com, StatFix.com, StatTweets.com), won a NCIDEA grant, been banned from Twitter, and developed a new sports content platform.
After becoming the leading source for College Basketball stats on the web, Robbie is now expanding the StatSheet Network to cover all mainstream sports.

Jeff Spalding
Executive VP, Market Operations; Peak 10

Jeff joined the executive management team of Peak 10, Inc. in June of 2001. He is responsible for sales, marketing, product management, managed services, strategic partnerships and market operations.
Jeff joins Peak 10 with over 20 years of IT sales and management experience. He spent a majority of his career at IBM and rapidly moved up the sales management ranks to assume the position as North America's Business Unit Executive. Prior to joining Peak 10, he was the head of sales for Osprey Systems, a SAP and e-commerce consulting and software firm.

John Conway
Director of Creative Services, WRAL.com

John Conway, as Director of Creative Services for WRAL.com, has led the media site to a number of awards including this year’s winner of the national Edward R. Murrow Award for best local TV Web site. Conway first joined Capitol Broadcasting Company in 1995 as Managing Editor of what was then called WRAL OnLine. He was later promoted to Director of New Media and General Manager. WRAL.com also has been a finalist four times (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009) for Editor & Publisher’s prestigious international EPpy Awards for best local TV Web site.

John Rowley
VP Business Development, Alloy Media/AMP Agency

Rowley is a serial start up enthusiast who launched Business 2.0, ON DEMAND and Cable World magazines. He was a partner in MRA Group, one of the pioneering ad agencies behind the behavioral science marketing movement. His present role of VP Business Development for Alloy/AMP Agency has him deeply involved in the creation of nontraditional marketing platforms for companies who are looking to shake hands with their customers.

Joe Dittmar
IBM - Web Sphere Commerce

Joe Dittmar is the World Wide Executive for Web Sphere Commerce. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the E-commerce and Multi Channel segments of the Retail Industry to IBM. Prior to joining IBM, Joe served as the Chief Information Officer and Head of E-commerce for Music123.com/Woodwind & Brasswind, where he rationalized the supply chain, formalized business process standards and replaced the e-commerce platform for the 4th largest Musical Instrument Retailer in the world. Prior to the musical instrument business, Joe was the founding member and Director of the E-commerce team at Abercrombie & Fitch. Under his leadership A&F launched three branded e-commerce businesses including Abercrombie.com, abercrombiekids.com and Hollisterco.com as well as A&F's Internationalization, RFID, and Supply Chain Visibility Programs.

James Mitchell
Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs

James is a research analyst and the head of the Communications, Media, and Entertainment business unit. He covers internet companies worldwide such as Google, eBay, and Baidu, and has worked on the initial public offerings of a number of internet companies such as Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba.com. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as a vice president in the Hong Kong office and also worked in the Sydney office. He was named managing director in 2005. Prior to joining the firm, James was a vice president at Salomon Brothers, serving in equity sales in London, equity strategy in Singapore and as head of research in Bangkok.

Max Haot
CEO & Co-founder, Livestream

Based in New York, Max is co-founder and CEO of Livestream. Max is an expert in online video and live broadcast technologies. He previously founded ICF a media asset management platform which was sold to Verizon Business in 2005. He held positions as VP of Digital Media at Verizon Business and Senior Vice President at IMG Media - the television and interactive arm of the sport marketing giant (www.imgworld.com).
Max is a recognized digital content industry pioneer and is regularly invited to speak and contribute at industry events/forums for the broadcast, broadband and mobile industry.

Phaedra Boinodiris
Gaming and Interactive Marketing Manager, IBM

Phaedra Boinodiris is a Serious Games Program Manager at IBM where she is helping craft IBM's serious games strategy in technical training, marketing, and leadership skill building. She is the founder of the award-winning INNOV8 program, a series of games that teaches and evangelizes Business Process Management. INNOV8 is being used in over 1000 schools worldwide and is now available for public consumption.
Prior to working at IBM, Boinodiris has been an entrepreneur for 10 years, starting two companies in custom application/social network development and videogame consulting. She co-founded WomenGamers.Com, a popular women's gaming portal on the Internet and started the first scholarship for women to attain degrees in game design and development in the US. She was honored by Women in Games International as one of the top 100 women in the games industry.

R. Michael Young
Director, Liquid Narrative Group
Department of Computer Science, NC State University

Michael is an associate professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. He founded and is co-director of the NCSU Digital Games Research Center and directs the Liquid Narrative research group. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2000 and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Game Development from 2007 through 2008. He is an associate editor of the IEEE journal Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games and an editorial board member of the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting.

Richard Kristof
Co-Founder and CEO, American Research Institute

Mr. Kristof has over 16 years of professional training development experience and has served in several executive management positions. He provides strategic planning, oversees sales and marketing, including client relations for American Research Institute and PowerU. Mr. Kristof is an evangelist for advanced learning technologies including next generation corporate university infrastructure and serious gaming for adults. He co-founded the North Carolina Advanced Learning Technologies Association and currently serves on the board and as its Treasurer. He also co-founded the IDEAL Technologies foundation, a non-profit with the mission to develop talent to fuel the growth of the advanced learning technologies industry.

Annie Williams
Chief Business Development Officer, Emma Email Marketing

Annie has led Emma's business development team for 7 years, overseeing sales efforts targeting small businesses, midsize organizations and agencies around the U.S. and beyond. Emma prides itself as the “Web’s most stylish email marketing and communications company.” A summa cum laude graduate of Webster University Conservatory in St. Louis, she's worked in sales and marketing for the last 12 years. She was in two off-Broadway shows and once took a class called "Circus Skills" in which she learned trapeze, high-wire walking and the unicycle. Annie was Emma's very first employee.

Douglas W. Miller
President & CEO, Evryx Technologies Inc.

As President & CEO, Douglas oversees Evryx Technologies, the global leader in mobile search with brands in the U.S. (LinkMe Mobile), UK (SnapNow), Japan (ShaLink) and China (Evryx China). Founded in 2001 by scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Evryx uses its patented image recognition technology to transform mobile phones into extraordinary Discovery DevicesTM. Simply by taking a photo of the product they see, consumers link to brands and receive instant information – from comparing prices on products, to making purchases directly through their mobile phones. With five issued patents, and 29 pending globally, Evryx is the only company to combine visual, voice, and audio recognition technology. Currently, through its U.S. brand LinkMe Mobile, Evryx's patented image recognition technology powers the visual search component of the wildly successful Barnes & Noble Bookstore app for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, rocketing toward one million downloads in the three short months since its release.

Juan Benito
Founder, Cooperative Entertainment

Juan Benito co-founded Red Storm Entertainment in 1996 and was Executive Producer for the original Rainbow Six. More recently, Juan founded the Raleigh studio of Atomic Games and has created a variety of games and applications at Virtus, Forterra Systems, Destineer Publishing, and Columbia University, where he received his undergraduate degree. He is currently working on a new venture to be formally announced next year.

Shaun McCabe
Production Director, Insomniac Games

Shaun McCabe is the Production Director at Insomniac Games' Durham studio. A six-year Insomniac veteran at the Burbank studio prior to moving to the Triangle, Shaun worked on Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Ratchet: Deadlocked and Resistance: Fall of Man as a sound programmer before becoming lead gameplay programmer for Resistance 2. Prior to joining Insomniac, Shaun was an engine programmer at Interplay Entertainment Corp.

Jud Bowman
President & CEO, PocketGear, Inc.
Co-founder & former CTO, Motricity, Inc.

Jud is the President & CEO of PocketGear, and led the acquisition of PocketGear from Motricity in June 2008. Prior to PocketGear, Jud co-founded Motricity in September 1999 and was instrumental in raising $400 million of venture capital and growing Motricity to more than $100 million in annual revenues and 500 employees globally. As Motricity's Chief Technology Officer, Jud was the chief architect of one of the industry's leading mobile content delivery platforms that delivers more than $1 billion of content to mobile phones per year and was named the 2006 Best Service Delivery Platform by the GSM Association, Best Content Service Delivery Platform by Mobile Entertainment magazine and honored by Frost & Sullivan as the Premium Mobile Content Platform of the Year in 2005.
Jud has been named as one of the world's "Top 100 Young Innovators" by MIT's Technology Review and one of "Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs" by BusinessWeek in 2007. He was also recognized as a winner of the Carolinas' Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2001.

David Spitz
COO, ChannelAdvisor

As Chief Operating Officer, David Spitz is responsible for products, services and finance operations. Prior to ChannelAdvisor, Spitz founded and successfully exited multiple venture-backed software companies and was most recently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at The Aurora Funds, a venture capital firm with over $200 million under management. Prior to Aurora, David was President of Avesair, a mobile marketing company, which was acquired by Inphonic. Prior to Avesair, David was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Netsation, a network management software company acquired by Nortel Networks.

Robyn Cobb
CMO, Cliqset

Robyn Cobb leads Cliqset's marketing efforts with more than 15 years of experience in personal and professional branding. An avid proponent of social media, she believes that social services and networks, such as Cliqset, are a key means to building relationships, engaging with community, and developing irresistible brands. Robyn has extensive background in technology marketing with expertise in social media, communication technologies, optoelectronics, electronic assembly, and advanced semiconductor technology. Prior to Cliqset, she served in high level marketing roles for Siemens, Universal Instruments, and Premiere Global Services.

Michael Rappa
Director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics

Michael Rappa is the founder and director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University, and the originator of the Master of Science in Analytics - the first such degree program of its kind in the nation. Prior to joining NC State as the Alan T. Dickson Distinguished University Professor in 1998, for nine years he was a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rappa is perhaps best known as the creator of Managing the Digital Enterprise, an innovative and award-winning educational Web site devoted to the study of management in the digital world. The site is a valued resource used by several million learners and hundreds of university instructors from around the world.

Paul Jones
Director, ibiblio.org

Paul Jones is the director of ibiblio.org, a project that includes the Site Formerly Known as MetaLab and SunSITE, a large contributor run digital library and one of the first www sites to be created. Paul is co-author of The Web Server Book (rereleased as The Unix Web Server Book) and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill including an advanced class on Virtual Communities and Vernacular Video.

Brian Williams
CEO & Co-Founder, Viget Labs

Viget Labs Co-Founder and CEO Brian Williams has led the web consulting firm to hundreds of engagements with clients ranging from web companies like Squidoo and Odeo to notable brands like National Geographic, PBS, and Choice Hotels. Brian is a founding member of the Potomac Officers Club, a DC-area non-profit organization that boasts more than 500 CXO members, where he served as the CIO. In 2009, Brian was named one of Washington's top 100 tech leaders by Washingtonian Magazine.

Syed Zaidi
CTO, DoublePositive

Syed Zaidi is CTO of DoublePositive and has been with the company since its inception. As CTO, Syed is responsible for developing the company’s enterprise architecture, business systems, IT standards and policies, information security, and strategic and technical operations.
Syed began his career as a consultant for Booz Allen & Hamilton. During his consulting tenure Syed designed, developed, and led many high profile projects in both the public and private sectors. In the past, his clients have included Accenture, The State of Maryland, The Commonwealth Fund, Allegis Group, and Microsoft. Syed built an outstanding reputation as a consultant by focusing on solving business problems through the pragmatic use of technology.

John Cooper
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, ArchPoint Partners

John has a long and successful track record in developing the strategy and creating the environment to achieve an optimal outcome for his clients. Prior to founding ArchPoint, he was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Technology banking group at Montgomery & Co. Prior to joining Montgomery & Co. in January 2003, John was the senior managing director in Microsoft's Corporate Development and Strategy group. While there, he developed and led a senior team responsible for a number of key investments and acquisitions and effected more than 30 transactions.
Immediately following his tenure at Microsoft, John served as president of the California-based venture capital group ThinkTank LLC, an affiliate of SoftBank. He has also held senior corporate development and strategy positions with American Express Corporation, First Data Corporation, and HBO & Company (now part of McKesson).

Jim Russell
Partner/EVP Director of Digital Strategy McKinney

Under Jim's leadership, McKinney has earned top awards from the industry's most prestigious shows, including The One Show Interactive, the BUZZ Awards, Media Creativity Awards and the IAB's own MIXX Awards. He joined McKinney in 2003 from Circle.com in Boston, where his work for BMW's MINI was named Most Innovative Marketing Campaign of 2002 by Business 2.0. He has been the strategist in the development of online channels for a range of clients including MINI, Qwest, Verizon, Virgin Mobile, and Southern Comfort. He started his career at Accenture, first in artificial intelligence and then at their Center for Strategic Technology at Palo Alto.

Matt Berry
CTO & Co-Founder, DigitalSmiths

Matt Berry is a successful entrepreneur and senior technology executive. Matt has started and built several technology companies. In each instance, he was instrumental in not only the development of the company, but also the technical direction of the product. After exiting his last venture, Shortgrass Technologies, he took over a business development position at a publicly traded semiconductor engineering firm in Austin, Texas. As Digitalsmiths' CTO, Matt is responsible for leading the global development strategy for the company’s market-leading product, Digitalsmiths VideoSense®.