Breakfast Keynote Speaker:
Martin Nisenholtz
CEO, New York Times Digital
Martin Nisenholtz was named chief executive officer of New York Times Digital in June 1999 after having served as president of The New York Times Electronic Media Company since June 1995. During that time, he was responsible for the development and delivery of electronic products centered around the content of the newspaper. In October 1998, he was given the additional corporate responsibility of leading the Company's new media activities. Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Nisenholtz was director of content strategy for Ameritech Corporation, where he was responsible for guiding development of new video programming opportunities and interactive information and advertising services.

Luncheon Keynote Speaker:
Brewster Kahle
Digital Librarian, Director and Co-founder, Internet Archive
Brewster Kahle, has been working to provide universal access to all human knowledge for more than fifteen years. Since the mid-1980s, Kahle has focused on developing transformational technologies for information discovery and digital libraries. In 1989 Kahle invented the Internet's first publishing system -- WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) -- and in 1989, founded WAIS Inc., a pioneering electronic publishing company that was sold to America Online in 1995. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive (www.archive.org), the largest publicly accessible, privately-funded digital archive in the world. At the same time, he co-founded Alexa Internet, that was sold to Amazon.com in 1999. Alexa's services are bundled into more than 80% of Web browsers.

Tim Cadogan
Vice President of Web Search, Yahoo! Inc.
Tim Cadogan, Vice President of Search, joined Yahoo! in February 2003. Tim's responsibilities focus primarily on running the Search business including, working closely with the sales teams on search media opportunities, optimization of the search page for product quality, user experience and monetization efforts, and managing additional search monetization programs such as paid inclusion, Yahoo! Express and Directory Sponsor Listings.

Hal Espo
President, Contextual Connections, LLC
Hal Espo has more than 25 years experience as an operating executive as well as a business and product development professional in the electronic information industry. Hal served as Chief Operating Officer of Index Stock Imagery, Inc., a web-based commercial stock photography and illustration vendor, and previously was the Chief Operating Officer at CORSEARCH, Inc., a trademark research firm serving Fortune 500 companies and law firms. Earlier, he served as AVP Business Strategy at Insurance Services Office, Inc., a major information supplier to the property & casualty insurance industry, and for more than 10 years worked in strategy and planning, alliance development, direct and reseller channel sales, marketing and product development at LexisNexis and Knight-Ridder Information/Dialog Information Services, Inc.

Thomas Glocer
CEO, Reuters Group PLC
Tom Glocer is CEO of Reuters Group PLC, the leading information and technology provider to the world's financial and media companies. He is also a director of Instinet Corporation, the electronic agency securities broker, which is majority-owned by Reuters. Glocer is active in a variety of industry and civic organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a director of the New York City Investment Fund and a member of its Executive Committee. Glocer is a member of the Advisory Board of the Singapore Monetary Authority, the International Advisory Board of British American Business Inc., the Corporate Council of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Glocer is active in several public education initiatives in New York City and London.

Lee Greenhouse
President, Greenhouse Associates
Lee Greenhouse is President of Greenhouse Associates (www.greenhousegrows.com), a consulting firm providing product and market strategies to publishers, media companies, online information businesses, and software companies. The firm helps its clients identify and launch new businesses, expand existing businesses, and diagnose problems with existing businesses. With expertise in both business and technology, Greenhouse Associates’ advisory services span a broad range of needs, including market analysis, product validation, business planning, distribution strategies, competitive analysis, financial analysis, and due diligence for acquisitions.

Clare Hart
President & CEO, Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters company
As President and Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Hart leads an innovative news and information solutions company that counts more than 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies as clients and whose products and services are available to nearly 1.6 million paying subscribers worldwide. Since 2000, when Ms. Hart became president and CEO, she has led the Dow Jones Interactive® and Reuters Business Briefing joint venture to form one Factiva culture and a suite of market-leading Factiva branded products and services. Factiva products and services are built on the best collection of global business news and information, customization and personalization capabilities and are supported by an experienced team of more than 800 professionals in nearly 30 countries.

Martin F. Kahn
Venture Partner, Rho Ventures
Marty is Managing Director of Cadence Information Associates L.L.C., which acts as exclusive advisor to Rho in its electronic information investments. He served as Chairman of the Board of Ovid Technologies from 1990 to 1998, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of OneSource Information Services. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of eTrav, Metropolitan TLC Holdings and Thinkwell. Prior to forming Cadence in 1990, Marty had extensive experience in print and electronic-based publishing with BRS Information Services, McGraw-Hill, and CBS. Marty received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Patrick Kenealy
CEO, International Data Group (IDG)
Patrick Kenealy is CEO of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading technology media company. Kenealy became CEO in 2002, in his seventeenth year at IDG. From 1996 to 2002, Kenealy was Managing General Partner of IDG Ventures, IDG's $500 million family of early-stage technology venture capital funds. At IDG Ventures, Kenealy supervised the fund's successfully liquidated investments in Andromedia, BabyCenter, FutureTense, Service Metrics, and Spinner.com, which collectively returned IDG Ventures 30 times its invested capital.

James Kollegger
CEO, Genesys Partners
James G. 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 electronic 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; and takes a very hands-on approach to developing its portfolio companies. Examples include BBX Technologies, an immune security shield for Windows computers, Enkata, a CRM-venture that specialized in root cause analytics aimed at the call center market, Knovel Corp., a software/content database engine that automates work flow for engineers and scientists, and Solbright an infrastructure provider that automates work flow for digital advertising and html promotions.

Roger Krakoff
Partner, JEGI Capital, LLC
Roger L. Krakoff is a Partner of JEGI Capital. Roger has over 15 years of venture capital, equity investing and operating experience in the enterprise software, IT and information services industries. He has particular interest in and experience with application software and business services and database companies. Roger is a Director of Aprimo Software and Intraspect Software. Most recently Roger served as a Managing Director in Veronis Suhler's Business & Professional Information Group where he focused on business information companies. Roger was previously Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at WebLine Communications, a web-based application software company serving the collaborative messaging market. Mr. Krakoff was Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Marketing from 1995 to 1997 at Stream International. Mr. Krakoff also spent five years at Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in a variety of senior management, marketing and business development positions.

Lucy Lettis
Senior Vice President, Marsh Inc.
Lucy Lettis is a Senior Vice President at Marsh Inc. where she is Director of Business & Competitive Intelligence. She has more than 20 years of experience in managing research and information services in Fortune 500 industrial, financial services, and professional services companies including AIG and Arthur Andersen, where she was the only information professional in the firm's 87 year history to be promoted to Principal level. Lucy has authored more than two dozen published articles, presentations, and editorial essays and is a frequent speaker at information industry events. She earned her Master's degree in Library & Information Science from the Palmer School of Long Island University.

Joshua A. Leuchtenburg, Esq.
Ropes & Gray LLP
Joshua A. Leuchtenburg is a partner in the law firm Ropes & Gray LLP resident in the New York office. Prior to its merger with Ropes & Gray in May, 2003, Josh was a partner in Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt & Maynard. Josh specializes in mergers and acquisitions, securities and transactional work, primarily for private equity funds and their portfolio companies. He also regularly represents companies as outside counsel for their acquisition programs, financing activities and general corporate needs. Josh graduated in 1984 from Columbia Law School, and in 1980 from Duke University, magna cum laude.

Steve Lohr
Technology Reporter, Business & Financial News, The New York Times
Steve Lohr is a technology reporter and senior writer for The New York Times. He was a foreign correspondent during the 1980s for the Times, based in Tokyo, Manila and London. For the last decade, he has been a technology reporter. Over the years, he has covered technology stories ranging from Japan's fifth-generation computer project to the Microsoft antitrust case. He has written for magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and PC Magazine.

Lloyd Lynford
CEO, REIS, Inc.
Lloyd Lynford is a leading authority on U.S. commercial real estate markets. Lloyd founded Reis, Inc., in 1980 and currently serves as the firm's president. Lloyd's design and supervision of Reis's Commercial Real Estate Value Index, published each quarter in the Wall Street Journal, puts him in an unrivalled position to monitor local trends in US property values. Lloyd is also a past president of the Real Estate Research Institute, and has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management. He has lectured at The Wharton School, Berkeley, MIT, New York University, Columbia University, and Cambridge University (England).

Joe Mansueto
CEO, Morningstar, Inc.
Joe Mansueto is founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Morningstar, Inc. Since the introduction of the Mutual Fund Sourcebook, the company's charter product, Morningstar has earned a reputation as a leading provider of investment research and analysis. Today, Morningstar offers an extensive line of print, software, and Web-based products and services for individual investors, financial advisors and institutions. The company is a trusted source for data and analysis of stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, separate accounts, and variable annuity/life subaccounts.

David Marques
CTO, Elsevier
David Marques joined Reed Elsevier in 1997 after fifteen years at Digital Equipment Corporation. At Digital, David held positions as Senior Consultant in software services, Principle Investigator in corporate research (Artificial Intelligence), Chief Scientist for Technology in Education, and Systems Engineering Consultant for collaboration software in the AltaVista division. David received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Cornell University and Ph.D. in psychobiology from the University of Michigan. His career change to the computer industry came after four years of research in neuroscience. David has been Chief Technology Officer since 1999 at Elsevier, with responsibilities for technology strategy, product architecture, new technology evaluation, and user-centered design.

Jonathan Miller
Chairman & CEO, America Online
Jonathan F. Miller, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of America Online, Inc., is responsible for all of America Online's online businesses and services, including the AOL Flagship service. Having served most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer of USA Information and Services (USAIS), Miller's background includes extensive management experience in the areas of interactive services, media, entertainment, and associated enabling technologies. Prior to beginning his role with USAIS in June 2000, Miller served as President and Chief Executive Officer of USA Electronic Commerce Solutions since October 1999. Previously, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of USA Broadcasting. Before 1997, Miller served as the Managing Director of Nickelodeon International. He joined Nickelodeon as the Chief Executive Officer/Managing Director of Nick UK in 1993. He also served as Chief Executive of Paramount's first branded international channel, launching the Paramount Comedy Channel in London, UK. Prior to working at Nickelodeon, Miller was Vice President of Programming and NBA Entertainment at the National Basketball Association in New York.

Jim Neal
VP Information Services & University Librarian, Columbia University
Jim Neal is currently Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, providing leadership for university academic computing and network services and a system of 22 libraries. He also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC), the Center for Research in Information Access (CRIA), the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL), and serves on key academic, technology and budget policy and planning groups. Previously, he served as Dean of University Libraries at Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, and held administrative positions in the libraries at Penn State, Notre Dame, and the City University of New York. At Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Indiana, he has focused on digital library/electronic resource program development, library building construction and renovation projects, and fundraising and grants activities.

Diana Noble
Managing Director, Reed Elsevier Ventures
Diana has more than 12 years of venture capital experience at Schroder Ventures, where she was a Partner from 1988 until 1999, investing in a wide range of sectors, stages and geographies. She also raised Europe's first $1 billion private equity fund. Diana subsequently was founding CEO of eVentures, the UK-based joint venture between SOFTBANK and News Corp.

John R. Patrick
President, Attitude LLC
John Patrick is President of Attitude LLC and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, where he worked for thirty-five years. During his IBM career John helped start IBM's leasing business at IBM Credit Corporation, and was senior marketing executive for the launch of the IBM ThinkPad brand. Starting in the early 1990s, John dedicated his time to fostering Internet technologies. One of the leading Internet visionaries, John is quoted frequently in the global media and speaks at dozens of conferences around the world. Business 2.0 named him as one of the industry's most intriguing minds, Industry Week named him one of the top 30 people who drive innovation and provide the initial spark to economic growth, and Network World called him one of the 25 most powerful people in networking.

Githesh Ramamurthy
CEO, CCC Information Services
Githesh Ramamurthy joined CCC Information Services Inc. in July 1992 as Executive Vice President of Product Engineering and Chief Technology Officer. In May 1999, he was named Chief Executive Officer and was elected Chairman of the Board in June 2000. Mr. Ramamurthy holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology; a master’s degree in computer science from Georgia Tech; and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development. A two-time member of Crain’s Chicago Business’ “Who’s Who of Chicago Executives in Technology,” Mr. Ramamurthy continues to be a guest lecturer, panelist and speaker across the country. Before joining CCC, Mr. Ramamurthy was a founding member of Sales Technologies, Inc., a leading field-sales automation software company that was sold to Dun & Bradstreet.

Steven Rattner
Managing Principal, Quadrangle
Prior to founding Quadrangle, Mr. Rattner was Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Lazard. Mr. Rattner founded Lazard's Media and Communications Group and has been involved in many of the largest and most important transactions in these industries. Mr. Rattner, who joined Lazard in 1989 as a General Partner, was previously a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he also founded the Communications Group. He serves on the boards of a number of nonprofit organizations and writes regularly on economic and public policy matters. Mr. Rattner holds a B.A. with honors in economics from Brown University and was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship.

Steven Sieck
Managing Partner, EPS-USA
As Managing Partner of the US affiliate of Electronic Publishing Services Ltd (EPS), a London-based consultancy providing strategic assistance to premium content providers, Steve Sieck advises EPS' global publishing clients in the US and contributes regularly to its ongoing analysis of information markets and industry trends. For over twenty years, he has helped content and enabling-technology providers develop new products, enter new markets, make strategic investment decisions and align organizational resources with strategic and financial objectives.

Patrick Spain
CEO, Alacritude, LLC
Patrick Spain, a pioneer in online publishing, is Chairman and CEO of Alacritude, LLC, which operates eLibrary, Researchville, and Encyclopedia.com. Spain is also cofounder and former Chairman and CEO of Hoover's - one of the first companies to sell reasonably priced online subscriptions on the Internet. Alacritude is dedicated to providing individual researchers with enterprise quality resources and tools at affordable prices. Spain holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago in Ancient History and a J.D. from Boston University.

John Suhler
President & Co- Chief Executive, Veronis Suhler Stevenson Partners, LLC
John S. Suhler, a Managing Partner, is President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Veronis Suhler Stevenson. Prior to co-founding VSS, Mr. Suhler was President of CBS Publishing Group, which included Fawcett Books, Holt, Rinehart & Winston and W.B. Saunders book publishing companies, and major magazines including Woman's Day, Field & Stream, Family Weekly, Road & Track, and American Photographer. Before joining CBS, he was Corporate Vice President of CRM and Publisher of Psychology Today, PT Book Club and Behavior Today newsletter. Before joining CRM, Mr. Suhler worked as a direct-marketing consultant at Benson Stagg & Associates, where he was involved in the launches of New York magazine, Southern Living and Psychology Today. Earlier, he was associated with Look magazine and Metromedia. He had early entrepreneurial experience as a co-owner of a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts.

Susan M. Tarr
Executive Director, Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC), Library of Congress
Susan Tarr has served as Executive Director of the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) and as Director of FedLINK (the Federal Library and Information Network) since 1994. Both programs are headquartered at the Library of Congress and serve all three branches of the federal government.

Julia Urwin
Global Content Manager, Astra Zeneca Corp.
Julia never purposefully entered the information profession - it just happened, or it was just meant to happen! Her history in the information industry began some time ago when she completed her graduate studies in Information Science & Librarianship at the University of RMIT in Melbourne, Australia. She has worked in both Australia and the US in academic, government and hospital libraries before she was pulled into the corporate world upon joining Astra USA in Massachusetts in 1992! After a number of mergers (in quick succession) she now works for AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals and is based in Wilmington Delaware. As part of the Global Information Science and Libraries group her key accountabilities as global content manager include negotiating the electronic databases managed on the AstraZeneca virtual library, vendor relations, rights management and aligning the libraries' content strategy with business priorities.

Christine A. Varney
Partner, Hogan & Hartson LLP
Christine Varney rejoined Hogan & Hartson, after five years in government service, to head the firm.s Internet Law Practice Group. Ms. Varney.s practice provides full service assistance to companies doing business globally, primarily through the Internet, including advice in privacy, business planning and corporate governance, intellectual property and general liability issues. Ms. Varney also provides antitrust, competition policy and regulatory advice to a variety of companies. During her government tenure Ms. Varney served as a Federal Trade Commissioner from 1994 to 1997. At the Federal Trade Commission, Ms. Varney was the administration.s leading official on a wide variety of Internet issues. She also pioneered the application of innovation market theory analysis to transactions in both electronic high technology and biotechnology. She led the government.s effort to examine privacy issues in the information age, resulting in congressional and agency hearings, proposed industry standards and increased government enforcement of laws protecting privacy.