Rafat Ali is the editor of paidContent.org (http://www.paidcontent.org), the news and analysis site covering the business of digital media. He also runs Moco.News (http://www.moconews.net), a news site on mobile content. Prior to this, he was the managing editor of Silicon Alley Reporter in New York City.... He has been called "journalism's poster boy for career independence from news companies" [Editor & Publisher] and "a pioneer in using the Web for an almost real-time business news feed" [CBS MarketWatch]. The site paidContent.org won the European Online Journalism Award for 2003, and Find/SVP's Best of Business Web Award for 2003.

Barry Bealer
President & CEO, Really Strategies, Inc.

Since co-founding Really Strategies Inc., Barry has served as president and CEO of the company, based in Lansdale, Pa. Under Barry's leadership, Really Strategies has grown into a full service firm that helps publishers bring strategy, content, and technology together. As a recent recipient of the Philadelphia 100® Award, Really Strategies has been named one of the fastest growing, privately-held companies in the Philadelphia region. Barry is also an active member of the Software and Information Industry Association content division's board of directors and the education committee of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

Bob Carlson
VP, IBM Webfountain

A seasoned VP at IBM, Bob Carlson is responsible for the technical and business strategy for a project called "WebFountain" at the company's Almaden Research Center in San Jose. Based on three years research in various computer science disciplines at IBM, WebFountain is a combination of advanced technology, vast data sources and key applications which offers companies the ability to quickly discover business insight and then transform their processes, strategies and decision-making based on that insight. Potential applications for WebFountain include marketing and strategic planning, research and discovery, and supporting data-intensive operations. Carlson's team of researchers and consultants is currently working with beta customers to extend the platform's capabilities to new applications in multiple industries.

Dawn Conway
Vice President, Content & Business Development, LexisNexis

Dawn Conway is a 14-year, LexisNexis veteran with an extensive background in online content licensing, marketing, and business development. Currently, she is Vice President of Content and Business Development for LexisNexis, a global leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information. In this role, she is responsible for securing strategic content, and developing and maintaining license relationships. Prior to the current position, Conway held key management positions within LexisNexis sales and marketing departments. She holds a B.A. in History from Regis College and a J.D. from California Western School of Law and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. Conway is a member of the SIIA Content Board.

Jeff Cutler
Vice President, Content Division, SIIA

Jeffrey S. Cutler is a senior executive with over 18 years experience in online, interactive information services. Jeff has been serving as Interim Vice President of the SIIA's Content Division since July, 2003 where he is responsible for defining the issues facing the information publishing industry and for establishing the programs and forums to allow the senior executives of the industry to explore them. Prior to SIIA, Jeff served as President and CEO for Inlumen, Inc. (formerly NewsAlert) before overseeing the sale of Inlumen to Pinnacor (formerly Screaming Media) in November, 2003. In addition, Jeff was GM & COO of Office.com, a Service from Winstar and held previous management positions with Thomson Financial and CompuServe.

Jeffrey Davis
Executive V.P. & General Manager, MarketWatch Information Services

Jeffrey Davis was named Executive Vice President and General Manager of the newly formed MarketWatch Information Services group in January 2004. Marketwatch Information Services combines MarketWatch's existing licensing business with the recently acquired Pinnacor business. Jeff will be leading the integration of the two companies, as well as having responsibility for business strategy, product management, client engineering and implementation, marketing, sales, and customer service delivery. Jeff has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Previously he had been President and COO of Thinking Investments, Inc., a company that developed forward-looking portfolio analytics for institutional, high net worth, and private client financial services firms.

Ken Doctor
Vice President, Knight Ridder Digital

Ken Doctor leads the Knight Ridder Digital's Content Services business initiative. Content Services focuses broadly on leveraging the value of content, through business-to-business and business-to-consumer channels. In his work, Doctor focuses on the broad electronic syndication business of Knight Ridder, directing the licensing of current and archival content to corporate, business, legal and academic markets, wireline and wireless, through networks of syndicators and agents. As the newspaper industry looks to new monetization content opportunities, Content Services works with partners to create winning programs and products and internally within Knight Ridder to connect old media with new.

Richard Geiger
Research Director, San Francisco Chronicle

Richard Geiger has led the The San Francisco Chronicle's research and archiving operations since 1984. His first assignment at the paper was to automated their manual clipping operation and to bring in an online system. Within days, The Chronicle began transmitting data to information aggregators. Richard is the key contact and negotiator for this information provider and he brings a unique perspective on this key business relationship. He has presented at the Internet Librarian, Online, and SLA conferences.

Paul Gerbino
Publisher, Product News Network

Gerbino joined Thomas Publishing in 1995 as Publisher of the American Export Publishing Group and is now Publisher of Product News Network (PNN). In 2001, PNN launched one of the most comprehensive sources of timely new industrial product news. Today, PNN supplies the latest product news to over 200 web sites, e-marketplaces, news aggregators and print publications that serve the industrial marketplace. He has fourteen years in the publishing industry, working in the hospitality & travel and railroad industries. He has spoken at major industry events including the American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting, Corporate Travel World and several SIIA events including the upcoming Annual Content Forum.

Doug Herrington
Co-Founder & CEO, KeepMedia, Inc.

Doug Herrington has extensive experience in consumer retailing, ecommerce, and marketing. Prior to founding KeepMedia, he was a member of the executive team at Webvan. Serving initially as Vice President of Business Process Design and later Vice President of Marketing, Mr. Herrington helped design, build, and grow the innovative online grocery retailer. Webvan operated in 10 cities across the country, and successfully delivered over 3 million grocery orders with unprecedented levels of consumer satisfaction. Prior to Webvan, Mr. Herrington spent 10 years at the management consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton. As a partner in the firm's consumer practice, Mr. Herrington advised leading companies in retail, consumer goods, and media and entertainment industries. He graduated summa cum laude and phi beta kappa from Princeton University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Michelle Horowitz
VP, Content Development, PR Newswire

Michelle Horowitz is Vice President of Content Development at PR Newswire. In this role, Horowitz oversees PR Newswire's significant partner relationships, product development and partner strategies with key players in the online, broadcast and multimedia markets. Since joining PR Newswire in 2000, Horowitz has been instrumental in developing strategic distribution relationships with major portals including, but not limited to, Yahoo!, CBS Marketwatch and Lycos; wireless distribution partnerships with Palm, Go America and Verizon; and has worked directly with some of PR Newswire's most significant clients including Motorola, Microsoft and Omnicom, on special projects.

Corey Johnson
President, RSiCopyright

RSiCopyright provides a comprehensive suite of tools and services to facilitate the fast, easy, and legal licensing of literary based content. Our turnkey offerings include content marketing services, custom reprints, digital licensing, and Clip&Copy , an online news clipping service. RSiCopyright's users have legal access to articles from hundreds of online and printed publications, including The Associated Press, PRIMEDIA Business, United Press International and VNU Business Media, Inc. RSiCopyright serves more than 50,000 corporate and educational end-users in North America.

Ed Keating
Partner, Easton Consultants

Ed Keating is a Vice President and Partner at Easton Consultants. He consults in the areas of information services, software, and publishing. Ed has spent more than 15 years in the information industry as both an internal manager and a consultant. He has led marketing, product management, and sales organizations at both startup and established information companies. His recent work has focused on improving product processes to enhance organizational effectiveness, and on helping companies enter new markets and launch new products.

Ken Kirkley
Director - Corporate Licensing & Development, ProQuest Information & Learning

Ken Kirkley is the Director - Corporate Licensing & Development at ProQuest Information and Learning, a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide to researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Software and Information Industry Association content division. Ken currently is responsible for the licensing of ProQuest content and services outside the library markets. Prior to ProQuest, he held various positions in product management and business development at NewsBank and Thomson-Gale.

David Mandelbrot
Vice President, Search Content, Yahoo! Inc.

As Yahoo!'s Vice President of Search Content, Dave Mandelbrot manages Yahoo!'s Content Acquisition Program. Through this program, Yahoo! partners with leading content rights-holders to better enable Yahoo! to create the best online search product. Before joining Yahoo!'s Search team, Dave was Yahoo!'s VP of Media and Entertainment where he managed Yahoo!'s Movies, Games, Finance, News, Sports, TV, Health and Yahooligans properties. Before joining Yahoo!, Dave was in legal and business development roles at Netscape Corporation and Electronics for Imaging. Dave holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law.

Christine Mason
CEO, Open Road Technologies, Inc.

Ms. Mason is a specialist in launching and leading early stage ventures. As Managing Director for Chicago based ClickMarkets, Ms. Mason and her team participated in the development of 14 new ventures, all in various stages of commercialization, among them: Mobitrac, LeadAmerica, Go Beam, Talking City, StarThis, and Infinet Broadband. As co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of MetalMaker, Inc., she delivered an internet based supply chain ASP serving the global metals industry. Prior to that, Ms. Mason led a $90 million department (trade strategy and e-commerce) for an international consumer goods company. She spent 6 years in mergers and acquisitions and new venture consulting, working primarily with mid-market manufacturing companies domestically and abroad. Ms. Mason is a faculty member at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, where she teaches New Venture Creation. Ms. Mason is a frequent speaker and published author.

Cynthia Murphy
Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Dialog, a Thomson business

Cynthia Murphy joined Dialog as senior vice president of strategic marketing in May 2001. In this role, Cynthia leads all worldwide marketing programs, including market segmentation, development and implementation of a global branding strategy and brand advertising, coordination of global sales initiatives, and strategic competitive intelligence and market research. In addition, Cynthia is responsible for all worldwide Knowledge Center operations. She is based at the Dialog worldwide headquarters in Cary, N.C., USA.

David Myers
Executive Director, Licensing, Ovid Technologies, Inc.

David Myers, Executive Director - Licensing, joined Ovid Technologies Inc. almost 4 years ago. In his tenure, he has drafted, negotiated and closed over 300 licensing agreements with publishing partners, customers and distributors. He joined Ovid from WeFusion, Inc. where he was Vice President of Business Development. Prior, he was Vice President of Business Development for Marco Polo Technologies. In these roles, David led the development of the strategic plan and developed and led the effort for new product licenses, new strategic partnering and acquisition targets.

David "Skip" Prichard
Senior Vice President, Sales, ProQuest Information & Learning

Skip Prichard is Senior Vice President of Sales for ProQuest Information & Learning, a leading electronic publisher of proprietary content and information solutions. Appointed in 2003, Skip is responsible for sales of all print, microform and electronic products to academic, public, and corporate libraries. Prior to joining ProQuest, Skip worked for LexisNexis and served as Vice President of Global Enterprise Sales. While there, he designed the national accounts program for Nexis and helped launch the first Reed Elsevier global accounts program. Skip is a licensed Maryland attorney and enjoys complex negotiations.

Greg Reinacker
President, NewsGator Technologies

Greg Reinacker is the founder and President of NewsGator Technologies, which builds industry-leading content aggregation software and services. Greg's background includes extensive technical consulting work in the travel industry, as well as several successful commercial software ventures. Greg is widely recognized in the weblog and RSS arenas, was a panelist at Demo 2004, and is a vocal proponent of business uses of RSS and syndication technologies. Greg's personal weblog is at http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog, and more information on NewsGator Technologies is available at http://www.newsgator.com.

Alan Scott
Vice President & Director, Global Marketing, Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters company

Alan Scott brings over 17 years of executive-level marketing and sales experience in the technology and venture capital industries. Before joining Factiva, Alan was responsible for all aspects of marketing, events, business development, and emerging markets with Giga Information Group. Before that, Alan was managing director of Marketing for Spencer Trask & Co., a New York-based venture capital concern. Prior to that, Alan was a principal consultant with Prescients, a full-service marketing consultancy. Alan spent over 13 years at Gartner where he was most recently Group VP of Field and International Marketing. During his time with Gartner, Alan helped drive revenue from from $23 million to over $850 million. Alan led the team that introduced the electronic delivery of Gartner's research via CD-ROM, Lotus Notes, automated Fax and Audio conferences. He also held positions as a Sales Executive, Sales Manager and VP of Sales Training during his tenure at Gartner.

David Seuss
CEO, Northern Light Group, LLC

C. David Seuss, Chief Executive Officer, joined Northern Light in July of 1996, as employee number 18. Mr. Seuss describes that time period as when "there were 17 engineers and me in a basement." Under Mr. Seuss's leadership, Northern Light has won many industry awards for outstanding products. To name just a few of these, Northern Light won three PC Magazine Editors' Choice awards in a row for being the best Web search engine, earned a position as a "Top 100" company in eContent magazine, was designated "Best of the Web" by US News and World Report, was picked for the "Top 100 Companies That Matter" by KMWorld magazine, was designated "Best of the Web" and "a professional researchers dream" by Forbes magazine, and won the "Web Business Award for Online Excellence" by CIO magazine.

Patrick J. Spain
Chairman & CEO, HighBeam Research

Patrick Spain is the founder of HighBeam™ Research, LLC. Spain created HighBeam™ Research as Alacritude, LLC to serve as a vehicle for building an online research service for individuals. Spain is a cofounder and was former chairman and CEO of Hoover's, a leading online provider of company information headquartered in Austin, Texas. Spain was among the first to recognize the value of online information services and the Internet to build brand, expand sales reach and reduce marketing, selling and distribution costs for publishing companies. Prior to Hoover's, Spain worked in the telecommunications industry first as a lawyer and then as a business executive, as a real estate developer and as an economic consultant. Spain sits on advisory boards of several private technology companies and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in Ancient History and a J.D. from Boston University.

Chris Skudder
President/CEO, ECNext

Chris Skudder has 25 years of experience with a wide variety of growing technology-based businesses. He's held positions in sales, marketing, and customer support. Prior to joining ECNext he was with NTL, the largest broadband internet provider in the UK. While there as COO of the Consumer business he led the division's growth from startup through $800 million in revenue, and through several rounds of financing. While with CoreComm, he oversaw the development of web-based systems which completed telephone and internet provisioning from customer input to carrier completion without human intervention, and with industry-leading completion rates. He's launched innovative and profitable online marketing campaigns - many closely linked with more traditional sales efforts. His familiarity with on-line behavior and on-line selling and marketing is well suited to helping market research and business publishers profitably start and grow their on-line selling channels. Chris earned his Bachelor's degree from Williams College in Massachusetts and his MBA (Baker Scholar, with high distinction) from Harvard Business School.

Keith White
General Manager, Congressional Quarterly

Keith White is the General Manager of Congressional Quarterly's professional publishing division, managing marketing, advertising and circulation sales, product development, human resources and financial services for the company. Mr. White brings over 15 years experience as a writer, editor and business executive in online and print publishing. Prior to joining CQ in 2001, Mr. White was Vice President of Publishing and Product Development for LexisNexis, where he ran two business units and product development for the $1.5 billion news, legal and public records business. Mr. White has also held sales, marketing, product management and editorial positions with The Washington Post, America Online, and Reader's Digest, and has launched some 30 new products with incremental revenues of over $100 million. Mr. White's writing has appeared in numerous national publications, including The Washington Monthly, Utne Reader, and Reader's Digest. He is co-founder of a literary journal that was anthologized in a book published by W.W. Norton and Co in 1997. Mr. White holds a B.A. in English literature from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was a Batten Fellow.

Bennett Zucker
Executive Director, Customer Success, Tacoda Systems, Inc.