Confirmed Speakers

Ken Auletta

Author of "Googled: The End of the World as We Know it", The New Yorker

Ken Auletta has written Annals of Communications columns and profiles for The New Yorker magazine since 1992. He is the author of ten books, including four national bestsellers: Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way; Greed And Glory On Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman; his The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway, and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies, were national business bestsellers. They were published by Random House. A collection of Ken's New Yorker journalism pieces -- Backstory: Inside the Business of News -- was published by The Penguin Press in December 2003. Ken's biography of Ted Turner launched the Enterprise series for Norton/Atlas Book in the fall of 2004. Auletta was among the first to popularize the so-called information superhighway with his February, 1993, profile of Barry Diller's search for something new. He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the Information Age, including Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, AOL Time Warner, John Malone, Harvey Weinstein, and the New York Times; he has dissected media meteors that fell to earth like "push" technology and inter-active TV, probed media violence, the PAC giving of communication giants, the fat lecture fees earned by journalist/pundits, and explored what "synergy" may mean to journalism. His 2001 profile of Ted Turner won a National Magazine Award as the best profile of the year. He covered the Microsoft antitrust trial for the magazine. In ranking him as America's premier media critic, the Columbia Journalism Review concluded, "no other reporter has covered the new communications revolution as thoroughly as has Auletta." New York Magazine described him as the "media Boswell."

Liberty Carras

Senior Vice President, CNNMoney.com

Liberty Carras, senior vice president of sales for CNNMoney.com, is responsible for all of CNNMoney’s advertising sales and strategy.

Carras joined CNNMoney in December 2008. Previously, she was vice president of sales at DRIVEpm, a key business unit in Microsoft’s Advertising and Publishing solutions division. Under Carras’ leadership, DRIVEpm became one of the largest premium ad networks. Prior to joining DRIVEpm, she managed national national agency relations at LookSmart and sold for Lexmark International, Inc.

Carras is a board member of numerous interactive groups and is a frequent speaker at events such as AdTech and the DreamForce/Salesforce.com Global Conference.

Carras received a B.A. from San Francisco State University.

Ken Doctor

Author, Newsonomics, and Industry Analyst, Outsell Inc.

Ken Doctor, a leading news industry analyst, is the author of “Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” (St. Martin’s Press, Feb. 2). It’s a handbook for the digital news decade to come. As news industry analyst for Outsell, and through his own Content Bridges blog, he covers the transformation of the news media, as it moves from print and broadcast to digital, focusing on changing business models and the journalism created.

In his work as an analyst and consultant, he focuses on what’s being lost and what’s being gained and on how sustainable models of contemporary journalism can be built. He believes that the sprouts of the emerging journalism we see today will become mainstream in the next decade.

A veteran of the digital news industry, he combines deep experience as an executive in news strategy, revenue models and journalism. His experience includes 21 years with Knight Ridder, as well as time spent in the worlds of magazines, alternative journalism and syndication.

Michael Hansen

Chief Executive Officer , Elsevier Health Sciences

Michael Hansen was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier Health Sciences in June 2008. In this position, he leads this division in their mission to advance medicine through delivering superior education, reference information and decision support tools to doctors, nurses, health care practitioners and students.

From 2006 to 2008, Michael served as the CEO of Harcourt Assessment, formerly owned by Reed Elsevier. He was previously with Bertelsmann, as EVP of Operational Excellence. Michael started his career at The Boston Consulting Group in New York, where he became a Partner and Chairman of the global Media Convergence practice and was a senior member of the firm’s health care practice. Michael holds a law degree from the University of Bonn, in Germany and an MBA from Columbia University, in New York.

Steven Alperin

Entrepreneur in Residence, MyWire, Consultant ABC , MyWire, Week's Best

After more then 10 years at ABC News, Steven Alperin has launched several businesses aimed at creating viable new business models for content online. These include Week's Best, which is a publishing platform designed to create new publications and paid revenue opportunities for existing brands. As Managing Editor and Senior Broadcast Producer at ABCNews.com, Steven was responsible for growing ABCNews.com from a 13th place site in the news information category with only a few million users to one of the largest providers of original news and information online. Prior to ABCNews.com, Steven was an award winning journalist serving as the Head Writer and producer for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.

Mark Anderson

CEO, Strategic News Service

Mark Anderson is most notably known for his accurate forecasts of important shifts in the economic landscape as well as in technology markets, having a 10-year publicly graded accuracy rate of over 96%. He was among the first to publicly predict the global economic collapse, on CNBC Europe PowerLunch in London, in March 2007. Anderson successfully predicted the recent split in the U.S. economy, the Q2 2009 chip rebound, and the March 2009 stock market bottom. His Congressional testimony on revising U.S. broadband policy helped unlock the “River of Money” now fueling startups and media transitions in the U.S., and his well-known term “AORTA” (Always On RealTime Access) became the name of Europe’s first broadband network.

Henry Blodget

CEO & Editor-in-Chief, The Business Insider

Henry Blodget is the CEO and Editor of The Business Insider, an online business media company based in New York. Henry is also a host of Yahoo TechTicker, an online finance show watched by more than 1 million people a month, and a contributor to Bloomberg TV. He frequently contributes to MSNBC, NPR, The Atlantic, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and other organizations.

John Blossom

President & Senior Analyst, Shore Communications, Inc.

Mr. Blossom's career spans more than twenty years of marketing, research, product management and development in advanced information and media venues, including major financial publishers and financial services companies (Citicorp, Quotron and for Reuters Holdings PLC), as well as earlier experience in broadcast media. Mr. Blossom served as a Vice President and Lead Analyst at Outsell, Inc., where he provided research and analysis coverage of content technologies and financial and corporate information markets for major corporate clients, and developed successful online ecommerce services for research reports. For his excellence in qualitative research, Mr. Blossom was recognized with the Vendor of the Year award by Standard & Poor's in 2001. He is also the author of Content Nation from John Wiley & Sons. Mr. Blossom holds a B.A. in English from Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut and post-graduate studies in Management, Marketing, Accounting, Business Analysis, Financial Markets, Structured Systems Analysis, and Advanced Communications Networks.

Nick Bogaty

Senior Business Development Manager, Adobe Systems, Inc.

Nick Bogaty is senior business development manager at Adobe and is responsible for business development for Adobe's digital publishing group. He oversees Adobe's eBook platform including client software, DRM services, authoring software and eBook enablement on mobile devices. Prior to Adobe, Nick was Executive Director of the IDPF and oversaw the creation and approval of the three specifications which comprise the EPUB file format for digital reflowable books. He is based in New York City.

Christopher Brown

Director, Pearson

Chris has been in senior positions at Pearson Education, the leading publisher in education worldwide, for several years including the Pearson School Companies, the K12 Curriculum Group and Pearson Prentice Hall, the secondary publishing unit. He is currently the Director of the Pearson Foundation Research Program which was launched in January 2010.

In addition to his diverse leadership responsibilities, Chris for many years directed the market and developmental research function for the Pearson Education K12 Curriculum Group, representing roughly $1billion in annual revenue. The market research function includes gathering and analyzing market metrics such as market size, educational and other environmental trends, competitive activity & marketing/sales planning and performance research as well as conducting new product development research. A variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, many cutting edge, are employed to meet these goals.

Chris has worked in research for 20 years and has also been a strategic planning consultant. He is a member of the Conference Board's Market Research Council, the Market Research Executive Board, the AEA, and the AERA. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Education Industry Association and currently serves on the Content Board of Directors for the Software Information Industry Association and is Chair of the Consortium for School Networking’s Emerging Technology Committee.

Chris has two children and resides in Ringwood, New Jersey where he enjoys playing jazz music.

Gregory Brown

Senior Director, Strategic Development, DataStream Content Solutions (DSCS)

Gregory A. Brown is the Senior Director of Strategic Development at DataStream Content Solutions (DSCS). Having joined DSCS in 2006, Greg is responsible for strategic planning, acquisitions, alliances, sales and marketing. Greg left the practice of law to enter the information market in 1988 and has remained in and around the information industry ever since. Having served in roles including product development, and product management he has built a passion for applying technological innovation to real world needs while providing impeccable service to clients and increasing corporate growth and profitability.

Greg enjoys music, running, reading, technology and playing sports with his son. In his spare time, Greg is the President, and founder, of the Eden Prairie Track and Field Association which introduces track and field to elementary age children.

Mark Caron

CEO, Snac Inc.

Back in 2000, Mark Caron unleashed a latent opportunity in a widely overlooked mobile technology known as text messaging. Building on his experience in the 1990s as a co-founder of Omnipoint Communications (now T-Mobile), Mark created MobileSpring/Ztango (now Real Networks) which connected the US carriers and ignited the era of mutli-billion dollar text messaging revenues. He's at it again with Snac, bringing new life to the nearly 150 million US mass-market "feature phones" and smartphones. Working with partners in the media and consumer services space, Snac brings an iPhone-like interface and lightning fast experience to the job of accessing top web services and content.

Gaby Darbyshire

COO, Gawker Media

Gaby Darbyshire is the COO of Gawker Media, overseeing Finance, Legal, Operations and Business Development. Gawker Media is the publisher of nine online blog titles, including the popular and acclaimed Gawker,
Gizmodo and Lifehacker. Gaby has been largely involved in the new media world since moving to San Francisco from London in 1999. In a
short break from the web in 2003-4, she helped launch Oriel Wines, where she built out the global operations from inception to brand launch of a new global wine company, with wines from over 25 regions in 9 countries. Previously, she was Director of Strategy at 4charity.com in San Francisco, a provider of custom technology services to the non-profit industry. Prior to 4charity, she did strategy and legal affairs for eGroups, a global consumer communications platform, acquired by Yahoo! in 2000 (now Yahoo!Groups).

Before decamping stateside, Gaby was a barrister in London, where she worked on environmental cases, and started and ran a non-profit supporting the appeals of death row inmates in the Commonwealth; she
then did a stint for several years as a management consultant advising Fortune 500 clients in the high tech and financial services industries. She holds a MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a law degree from City University, and is a member of the Bar of England and Wales.

Steven Echtman

Founder & CEO, HearPlanet

Steven is Founder and CEO of HearPlanet, publisher of the world’s largest audio guide. The HearPlanet platform contains millions of destinations and the company’s iPhone application, with over 500,000 installs, is a top travel application in Apple’s iTunes App Store. HearPlanet is built to accommodate media of all types on locations and exhibits everywhere in the world. Information can be delivered instantly to personal mobile devices including cell phones, navigation devices, netbooks and more.

Besides an entrepreneur, Steven is known as an Internet developer, media producer and marketing professional. Previously Steven founded Passinglane, a media production and Internet development company. Notable clients have included AIG, Motorola, Mitsubishi (Electric & Motors), Nissan Infiniti, Microsoft, Grey Advertising, K-Swiss, Disney, AOL and Deutsch Advertising. Prior to Passinglane Steven was broadcast producer at Grey Advertising where he produced broadcast and interactive media. Steven is also on the board of Challenge Day, a non-profit nationally acclaimed youth violence prevention program that has been featured on Oprah and will be the centerpiece of an upcoming series on MTV.

David Eun

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, YouTube

David oversees partnerships with leading media and Internet companies working with Google to grow their businesses. He directs sales, business development and management of accounts spanning ad serving technologies, advertising inventory monetization and content distribution via Google's owned and operated properties, such as YouTube and Google Maps.

Prior to joining Google, David was at Time Warner as the Chief of Staff for the Media & Communications Group. There, he worked on strategy, operations, and new business formation, particularly in broadband content and digital distribution. Before joining Time Warner, he was a partner at Arts Alliance, a venture capital firm focusing on digital media, information technology and business services.

David started his career in media at NBC, where he led some of NBC's first cross-media initiatives involving television programming, the Internet, and retail consumer products. He is a former management consultant with Bain & Co.

David is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude in government.

Mark Feldman

Chief Operating Officer, NetProspex

An experienced start up executive, Mark joined NetProspex in 2008 and has helped drive strategy, operations, sales and marketing.

Previously, he co-founded a pharmaceutical services firm that grew to $6MM in revenue in 3 years. Before that he was the 8th employee at AgION Technologies, a venture-backed pioneer in silver-based antimicrobial additives where he led a division that marketed products to the pharmaceutical industry. While in school he worked at Bunyip Information Systems, an early Internet company and inventor of the Archie search technology for FTP.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Management Information Systems from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Jim Fowler

Founder and CEO, InfoArmy

Jim Fowler is Founder and CEO of InfoArmy and serves on the Board of Directors of CrowdFlower. Prior to InfoArmy Jim founded Jigsaw in 2003 and was CEO until it was acquired by Salesforce in May, 2010 for $175M. Jigsaw was awarded an Infocommerce Model of Excellence in 2005, and it is best known for pioneering Crowdsourcing in the BtoB information industry and for creating the business category of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS). Before his career in technology Jim was owner and operator of Lookout Pass, a ski resort in Idaho, and served in the US Navy as a Diving and Salvage Officer. Jim is a graduate of the University of Colorado and lives in San Mateo, California with his wife and son.

Sharon Gillenwater

Principal and Founder, Boardroom Insiders

Sharon is an expert in marketing strategy, account-based marketing and CXO engagement programs. For more than a decade she operated her own consulting firm, San Francisco Group, creating marketing strategies and programs for Fortune 100 technology companies. In response to her clients' increased focus on CXO engagement and strategic account marketing, she founded Boardroom Insiders, a content company that provides the most in-depth executive profiles on the market today. Boardroom Insiders customers include Dell, Citrix, Accenture, UPS, USPS, McKinsey, Juniper, Cisco, Avaya, ConAgra and more. Born and raised in San Diego, California, she worked as a freelance writer before earning a master's degree combining international relations and business from the University of California, San Diego. Today Sharon lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons and enjoys cooking, walking the hills around Dolores Park, Bikram yoga and singing in local rock bands.

Brett Goldberg

Founder, SYNQWARE

Brett Goldberg has spent his entire career in the B2B sector as a CEO and software developer. He loves disruptive technologies and is particularly focused on technologies with applications in the Event and Media industries such as barcoding, RFID, and mobile. He is the founder of SYNQWARE, whose mobile tagging platform (www.qrsynq.com) allows tradtional media publishers to add interactivity to their pages. He chairs the Technology Committee of the Gift and Home Trade Association.

Dick Harrington

Chairman and General Partner, The Cue Ball Group

Richard J. Harrington is chairman and general partner of The Cue Ball Group. Cue Ball is a private investment partnership with a hybrid venture and growth equity focus in consumer and media businesses.
Prior to this appointment, Mr. Harrington was president and chief executive officer of The Thomson Corporation. During his 10 years as CEO, Mr. Harrington led the transformation of Thomson from a diverse holding company with interests in publishing into an integrated operating company to a leading global provider of electronic information, software and services to business and professional customers. Under his direction, Thomson’s market value more than tripled and the company became a celebrated case study in how a large business can adapt quickly and repeatedly to take advantage of changing markets.

Prior to becoming CEO of The Thomson Corporation, Mr. Harrington held a number of senior leadership positions within the company since 1982, including CEO of Thomson Newspapers, and CEO of Thomson Professional Publishing.

Mr. Harrington holds a B.S. degree in accounting from the University of Rhode Island. In 2002, he was also presented an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from URI. Mr. Harrington began his professional career with Arthur Young & Co., where he became a licensed C.P.A.

Mr. Harrington serves on the boards of directors of Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX), Aetna, Inc. (NYSE: AET), Milliken & Co., the Norwalk Community College (NCC) Foundation and the University of Rhode Island (URI) Foundation.

Nancy Harvey

Executive Director, Wolfram Research Inc.

Nancy M. Harvey is Executive Director at Wolfram Research, Inc. where she is responsible for domestic sales and business development for Mathematica®, global business development, marketing, and public relations for Wolfram|Alpha™, and Wolfram Solutions. Recently, she conceived and directed the innovative go-to-market campaign that earned Wolfram|Alpha a place on Time magazine’s top 50 websites just four months after launch. This effort was immediately followed by the rollout of a developer API, an iPhone app, and a consultancy service that provides custom Wolfram|Alpha enterprise solutions.

Harvey brings 25 years of management consulting and executive management experience to strategic business vision and marketing, new business development, and partnerships. She is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, has her PhD in Chemical Physics from the University of Minnesota, and received her Master’s Degree in Business from the Wharton School. She is an avid amateur downhill skier and travels broadly.

Ross Joel

CEO & Co-founder, ORLive, Inc.

Since co-founding the company in 1994, Ross has worked to instill a culture of continuous growth and innovation, and was instrumental in the transformation of a traditional broadcast production company into the medically focused internet broadcasting company ORLive is today. Before co-founding Story Line Pictures in 1994, Joel spent nine years as a television anchor/reporter for NBC-affiliated TV stations in Vermont and Hartford, Connecticut. He was nominated for a News Emmy Award in 1994 for his work on an investigative series on lead poisoning in children. He is also a published magazine writer, with his work appearing in national publications such as Bon Appetit. Additionally, Ross is a former gubernatorial appointee to the Connecticut Film Commission.
Ross holds a B.A. in Political Science from Union College and a Master’s degree in Journalism from New York University. He is also a graduate of the Kursverksamheten School of Language at the University of Lund, Sweden. He currently resides in West Hartford, CT. with his wife and two children.

Sachin Kamdar

Chief Executive Officer, Parse.ly

Sachin Kamdar manages all operations for Parse.ly including: finances, logistics, hiring and business/customer development. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from NYU and a master’s degree in Education from Pace University.

Before Parse.ly, Sachin spent two years as a math/economics teacher for an alternative high school in Brooklyn. He spent nights and weekends integrating technology to improve classrooms, to solve the administration’s information management problems, and to provide new software tools for the school’s staff. Due to the value of these services, he transitioned from teaching to become a technology consultant for schools across NYC.

James Kollegger

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Genesys Partners, Inc.

Jim Kollegger is CEO of Genesys Partners, Inc. a venture capital/investment
banking/development firm that specializes in early stage information
technology ventures. He is one of the pioneers of the digital information
industry and an industry leader who helped build the Information Industry
Assn., who named him their first "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1987.

Genesys Partners follows a jewel-in-the-rough strategy, with a strong
hands-on approach to developing its portfolio companies. Genesys was
financial and strategic advisor to Wave Systems (NASDAQ: WAVX), Folio Corp.,
the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX); Solbright Digital Solutions; Ingram
Entertainment, e-workflow provider Knovel, analytics venture Enkata, and
legal videobank pioneer Courtroom Connect.
He was founder and CEO of EIC/Intelligence, one of the industry's first
database publishers, sold to Reed Elsevier in 1988. EIC tracked new
technologies from laboratory to marketplace for large corporate, government
and academic clients. Databases included artificial intelligence,
biotechnology, CAD/CAM, environment, energy, robotics, and
telecommunications.

He is co-founder of the annual Information Industry Summit, now in its 11th
year, and anchors the popular CEO Outlook keynote panels, featuring industry
luminaries such as Ken Auletta, Esther Dyson, Tom Glocer, Ted Leonsis, and
Martin Sorrell.

Andrew Lack

CEO Multimedia Group, Bloomberg LP

Andrew Lack joined Bloomberg in October 2008 as CEO of its multimedia group where he is responsible for the Company’s expanding television, interactive, and radio operations.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr. Lack was Chairman & CEO of Sony Music Entertainment where he led the Company’s roster of major international artists and vast catalog of recorded music from around the world. During his tenure at Sony, he merged Sony Music with the Bertelsmann Music Group and started Sony BMG’s theatrical film business.
Before joining Sony Music Entertainment, he was president and chief operating officer of NBC, where he oversaw entertainment, news (including MSNBC and CNBC), NBC stations, sales and broadcast and network operations. He was responsible for expanding the "Today" show to three hours and creating the show's streetside studio in New York's Rockefeller Center.
From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Lack was president of NBC News, which he transformed into America's most-watched news organization.
Before going to NBC, Mr. Lack spent much of his television career at CBS News, where he created and served as the executive producer of the groundbreaking newsmagazine West 57th (1985-89). He joined CBS News in 1976 and by the next year had become a prominent producer for 60 Minutes. Mr. Lack's broadcasts at CBS earned numerous honors, including 16 Emmy Awards and 4 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Journalism Awards.

Chris Lamb

SVP Alliances, the OpenCalais Initiative, Thomson Reuters

Chris Lamb is SVP, Alliances for ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters company specializing in text analytics and natural language processing. He spearheads business development for the OpenCalais Initiative, which supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters mission to deliver pervasive, intelligent information.

Chris is an expert in the commercialization of new and emerging technologies, identifying market opportunities and forging alliances with start-ups and large enterprise alike. Previously, he headed up strategic alliances for Thomson Reuters Collaboration Services. Prior to joining the company, Chris was the founding CEO of eDial (acquired by Alcatel in 2004), where he raised $32M in venture funding. He brings more than twenty years of experience in the Internet and networking infrastructure industries to his work with Thomson Reuters, and holds five U.S. Patents.

Paul Martino

CEO and Co-founder, Aggregate Knowledge

Paul is the CEO and cofounder of Aggregate Knowledge, which is the fourth company that he has founded over his 20 year technology career. Paul was previously the CTO and founder of Tribe Network, which was recently acquired by Cisco. In addition to being a serial entrepreneur, he has held senior business development positions at Intertrust and SkyPilot. The highly scalable architecture of the Aggregate Knowledge discovery platform is based on the research work Paul did on massively parallel graph algorithms while a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University. Paul also holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Lehigh University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Princeton.

Erik Mikisch

CEO, HaraBara

Erik Mikisch was most recently SVP, Sales and Marketing for BeliefNetworks, Inc, a technology company in the predictive analytics and semantic intelligence space. Erik also worked 7 years for ThomasNet.com, one of the most successful B2B-oriented portals in the U.S as Vice President of Business Development.
Prior to ThomasNet, Erik held various positions, including SVP, Sales, Services, and Support at w-Technologies, Inc., President at Ramdor, Inc., Vice President of Sales at Netaccess, Inc. (Xircom/Intel), Vice President, Asia Pacific Operations, Director, Americas, and Director, EMEA at FTP Software, Inc, General Manager, International Division, Primavera Systems, Inc. (Oracle).

Cheryl Milone

CEO, Article One Partners, LLC

Cheryl Milone is the founder and CEO of Article One Partners, the world’s largest patent validation community (www.ArticleOnePartners.com). Ms. Milone created the global online community to add a crucial level of review to the U.S. patent system—strengthening legitimate patents and reducing unjust patent monopolies. A sought-after industry expert and speaker, Milone has advocated before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to procure patent rights. In January 2010, Milone was invited to join President Obama’s select group of the nation’s top CEOs, advising the White House on streamlining government operations, improving customer service, and maximizing returns on information technology investments.

Prior to founding Article One, Milone was a patent attorney, co-founding the electronic patent group for Darby & Darby, P.C. She’s held positions counseling on intellectual property rights at Roger & Wells, L.L.P. and Kenyon & Kenyon, and worked as a patent counsel and sales officer for a patent research company.

Ms. Milone is co-inventor of a patent for “Expandable Braid Device and Method for Radiation Treatment,” and has six additional patents pending. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, was a member of the Ethical Law Review, and holds a degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University.

Patrick Murphy

Founder and CEO, Brand Thunder

Patrick started Brand Thunder with the promise of turning the most-frequently used application on the computer, the Internet browser, into an engaging communication vehicle between a brand and its online consumer. The company now delivers thousands of downloads a day to the fans of world-class brands. Before founding Brand Thunder, Patrick was a product and program manager at AOL where he was responsible for browser distribution and video-search partnerships. Patrick’s background in web-marketing spans from Chase Bank to Swiss Re. He received his B.A. in Finance from Capital University.

Robin Neidorf

Director of Research, Free Pint Limited

Robin Neidorf is the Director of Research for Free Pint Ltd., a UK-based publisher providing practical insight on tools, trends and resources in the information industry (http://www.freepint.com/). Robin manages internal, external and custom research projects for FreePint and its customers around the world. Prior to joining FreePint in 2006, Robin ran a research and communications consulting business for 10 years. As a consultant, she focused on strategic planning, using information to make better decisions, and creating effective audience-focused communications across different media. She currently sits on the Content Division board of the SIIA.

Jan Palmen

SVP, Publishing Services, Innodata Isogen

Mr. Palmen was elected Senior Vice President of Innodata Isogen in July 2007. Prior to that, he was Vice President, responsible for building and sustaining relationships with many of the Company's leading Publishing clients.

Prior to joining Innodata Isogen, Mr. Palmen was chief operating officer at SPI Technologies, Inc., a leading competitor of the Company, from 1995 through 1998. Prior to SPI, he was general manager, production for Reed Elsevier from 1991 through 1995. He was also a member of the steering committee for global SGML implementation.

Before that, he spent three years with United Dutch Publishers as head of sales and production and two years with a global management consultancy company as a strategic consultant.

He holds a M.B.A. degree (1979) in marketing, economics and logistics management and a B.B.A. degree (1976) in economics and marketing, both from Erasmus University in Amsterdam.

Ari Paparo

Product Management Director, Google

As Product Management Director for Google, Ari Paparo helps lead the product vision for technologies in the areas of rich media, search and display. As a thought leader in the online marketing industry, Paparo regularly speaks at industry events including Ad:Tech, iMedia, OMMA and local interactive marketing events.

Prior to joining Google, Paparo served as the VP of Advertiser Products for DoubleClick where he was in charge of ad serving technology solutions. Products under Ari’s leadership included DoubleClick Rich Media and Video, DoubleClick In-Stream, DoubleClick Mobile, DART for Advertisers and MediaVisor.

Throughout his career, Paparo has developed Internet marketing strategies for leading brands and interactive agencies, with an emphasis on emerging technologies, blogs and syndication. He was a founder and COO of Blink.com, a venture-supported personal information management service.

Ari earned his MBA from Columbia and is a lifelong New Yorker.

William Park

Chief Executive Officer, DeepDyve, Inc.

William “Bill” Park joined DeepDyve as chief executive officer in 2008. Prior to DeepDyve, Mr. Park served at Acxiom Corporation, a global leader in customer information management, where he led the company’s 3D organization, a $225 million business providing data, digital and direct marketing solutions to Fortune 1000 and mid-tier companies. In this position, he oversaw all aspects of sales, services, development, and operations domestically and internationally, generating record revenues and profits. Prior to Acxiom, Mr. Park founded and served as chairman and CEO of Digital Impact, a leader in online direct marketing solutions for the Fortune 1000. Acxiom acquired Digital Impact in 2005. Prior to founding Digital Impact in 1997, Mr. Park held numerous management positions at technology and enterprise software companies. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and earned an MBA degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Fernando Pereira

Research Director, Google

Fernando Pereira is research director at Google. His previous appointments include chair of the Computer and Information Science department of the University of Pennsylvania, head of the Machine Learning and Information Retrieval department at AT&T Labs, and research and management positions at SRI International. He received a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, he has over 100 research publications on computational linguistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and logic programming, and several patents. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1991 for his contributions to computational linguistics and logic programming, and he was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1993.

David Prichard

President & CEO, Ingram Content Group, Inc.

Skip Prichard is President & Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Content Group Inc. Ingram Content Group provides a broad range of physical and digital services to the content industry. Ingram is a leading wholesaler of trade books, spoken audio, magazines, and a leading provider of demand-driven printing and digital solutions for publishers. Ingram’s operating units are Ingram Book Company, Lightning Source Inc., Ingram Digital, Ingram Periodicals Inc., Ingram International Inc., Ingram Library Services Inc., Spring Arbor Distributors Inc., Ingram Publisher Services Inc., Tennessee Book Company LLC, and Coutts Information Services. Ingram Content Group employs thousands of associates its its operations throughout North America and Europe.



Prior to his appointment at Ingram Content Group, Mr. Prichard was President and Chief Executive Officer of ProQuest Information & Learning, a respected global publisher and information provider serving the education, government, and corporate markets with offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Earlier in his career, Mr. Prichard held various executive positions at LexisNexis.

Larry Schwartz

President, Newstex, LLC

Larry Schwartz is a co-founder of Newstex and President of the company. Larry has guided numerous entertainment and new media ventures, from start-up through growth, development and maturity, including Bolenka Games Online (Trivial Pursuit Online), GFI Group (Nasdaq:GFIG - financial), Wizard World (publishing), Patron Technology (technology) and Tickets.com (Purchased by MLB.com). Larry attended Bates College and the Yale University Graduate School of Drama. He serves on the Content Board of Directors for the Software Information Industry Association, and is a frequent speaker on content, product development, start-ups and turnarounds. When he's not adding value to content, Larry is a show manger for hunter/jumper horse shows, is on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Horse Show Association and maintains several horse web sites and blogs (www.chsaonline.com, www.srostables.com). Larry, a confirmed gadget geek, also spends time on Broadway with his theatrical agent wife and two daughters.

David Sidman

Founder & Chairman, Linkstorm

David Sidman is the founder and Chairman of Linkstorm (formerly Content Directions), an advertising technology company that makes online advertising more useful to the consumer, and therefore better-performing for the advertiser. Tests with Cisco, IBM, E*Trade, Wal-Mart, American Express and many others have proven that when a display ad is overlaid with Linkstorm's unique navigation menu, its click-through rate increases 2x-5x. Prior to founding Linkstorm, he served as director of new publishing technologies for John Wiley & Sons, where he helped the U.S.' oldest independent publisher to transition its print business to the Web through a combination of strategy development, internal projects enabling organic growth, and external acquisitions/investments. Prior to Linkstorm and Wiley, he held senior management positions in the technology, finance and information businesses of Barclay's Bank, Moody's Investors Service, Shearson Lehman Hutton/American Express, Mercantile Stores and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is a graduate of Harvard College.

Amiad Solomon

CEO, Peer39

Amiad is the CEO and Founder of Peer39. Together with Peer39 scientists, research and development and marketing groups, he developed the core patents covering Peer39's unique semantic analysis technology and business practices. Prior to founding Peer39, Mr. Solomon was a sales and business development executive at IDX (acquired by GE). Mr. Solomon is one of the world's leading experts on the application of semantic technology to next-generation online advertising. He is a sought after speaker at industry conferences and events, including Jupiter's Web3 Event (keynote), OMMA, AlwaysOn OnMedia and Technology conferences, and many more.

Anthea Stratigos

Co-founder & CEO, Outsell, Inc.

Anthea Stratigos co-founded Outsell, Inc. with Greg Chagaris, creating the leading research and advisory firm focused exclusively on the information and publishing industry. She established the company's research agenda and served as the firm's first chief analyst. As CEO, she draws upon her deep experience in research and analytic businesses to drive product development, operations, marketing, and general management to lead all facets of the organization. Anthea is also Outsell's primary spokesperson, identifying, writing, and speaking extensively about key trends in the industry. She chairs Outsell's Leadership Council, a member-service for CEOs and senior executives of publishing and information-provider firms, and has an ongoing and trusted relationship with industry leaders across the publishing and commercial information marketplace. Anthea is a board member of American Business Media and sits on the board of directors of Innodata Isogen, Inc.

Matt Turner

Senior Consultant, Mark Logic Corporation

As a Senior Consultant for Mark Logic, Matt Turner leads the design and development of information applications for customers in the media industry. He has authored numerous articles on XML products and publishing systems, and has spoken at many conferences including the XML conference, OpenPublish, Seybold Seminars and Documation. Matt’s blog, Discovering XQuery, can be read at: http://xquery.typepad.com.

Matt has more than 14 years of experience in the implementation of leading edge content technologies. Prior to joining Mark Logic, he served as Senior Technical Director for Sony BMG Music Entertainment, where he developed identity and community applications for artist promotion and was an architect on the digital music distribution team.

Previous to his position with Sony BMG, Matt was Senior Technical Director for 550 Digital Media Ventures, a Sony Group Company, where he reviewed technology investment opportunities and was Director of Technology at PC World Online, where he developed one of the industry’s first XML based publishing systems and developed a cross publication publishing platform for the WebIDG network.