Paul J. Cosgrave was appointed Commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on June 14, 2006. Throughout his more than 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, Commissioner Cosgrave has devoted his career to using the power of technology to make people and the organizations they serve more effective. At DoITT, Commissioner Cosgrave is committed to ensuring that City services are accessible to all New Yorkers. Among his initial goals are to establish a new Citywide IT strategy and to enhance DoITT's standing as a leader in IT security. To achieve this, the Commissioner is focusing first and foremost on the reliability of City systems, along with their flexibility, efficiency and standardization, Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Cosgrave served as the Executive Vice President for Crown Consulting, Inc., where he directed an Enterprise Architecture team to design the overall structure of the Next Generation Air Transportation System for the Federal Aviation Administration. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Chief Information Officer at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), an organization with an annual budget of $1.6 billion and a staff of 7,900, where he led a major restructuring and centralization of information systems.

Ann Moore was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Inc. in July 2002. In this position, Moore oversees the world’s leading magazine company. Time Inc. publishes approximately 150 magazines, which are read more than 300 million times worldwide on a monthly basis, and account for nearly a quarter of total advertising revenues of U.S. consumer magazines. Before assuming her current position, Moore served as executive vice president of Time Inc. since June 2001, responsible for the business and development operations for several of the most popular consumer magazines in publishing—Time, People, In Style, People en Español, Real Simple and The Parenting Group. In addition, she managed the consumer marketing division of Time Inc. Moore joined Time Inc. in 1978 as a corporate financial analyst and subsequently served in key executive positions at Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Money and Discover magazines. She was the founding publisher of Sports Illustrated for Kids in 1989, until going to People as its publisher in July 1991. She was named president of People in 1993.

Tad Smith is Chief Executive Officer of Reed Business Information (Reed), the New York City-based division of Reed Elsevier Group plc. Reed is a leading business information company in North America. Among its nearly 100 publications and websites are leading franchises including Variety, Publishers Weekly, Interior Design, Furniture Today, Broadcasting & Cable, Wireless Week, Restaurants & Institutions, and EDN. Reed is also a leading provider of data and market research information through Reed Construction Data, RS Means, First Source, Instat, and Marketcast. Tad is also Professor (Adjunct) at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he teaches the highly rated corporate finance and strategy course on entertainment, media, and technology companies.

Richard Zannino is chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Company and a member of the Company's board of directors since Feb. 1, 2006. Reporting to the board, Mr. Zannino directly or indirectly manages all the Company's business units and staff departments. From July 2002 until his current appointment, Mr. Zannino was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Dow Jones and a member of the Company's executive committee. All operating units of the Company reported to him, as did technology, and corporate marketing. The finance, strategy and human resources operations reported jointly to Mr. Zannino and Peter R. Kann, chairman of Dow Jones. During this period, Mr. Zannino sat on the boards of the Company's Smart Money and Factiva joint ventures. Mr. Zannino joined Dow Jones as chief financial officer in February 2001. He led the Company's finance, strategic planning, investor relations and technology activities, and had oversight of Barron's.

Nicholas Ascheim is the director of entertainment, video and audio products at NYTimes.com, a division of The New York Times, a position he has held since June 2006. In this role, he is responsible for the site’s entertainment and culture sections, as well as its video and audio efforts, overseeing the P&L, strategy, development and operations of these high-profile areas of the website. He had served as senior product manager for entertainment since December 2005. Mr. Ascheim began his career at The Times in June 2004 as a product manager for movies and theater.

Stephen Baker is the CEO of Reed Business Search (RB Search) the company's new B2B search initiative. He joins Reed Business from FAST, a leading enterprise search software vendor where he was responsible for business development and the Company's Web Search business unit, including its public search site, AlltheWeb.com. Mr. Baker was previously employed by Overture/Yahoo! where he worked on web search commercialization and Mercer Management Consulting where he was responsible for assisting clients with their e-commerce, digital content, and new media strategies. He holds a BA in Music from Hofstra University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Carter Bales is Managing Partner Emeritus of The Wicks Group. He co-founded The Wicks Group in January 1989 and was a Managing Partner of the Firm until assuming the Emeritus title on September l, 2006. In his new role, Carter continues as a general partner and a member of the Investment Committee of the Wicks Funds. As in the past, Carter serves on selected boards of directors of Wicks portfolio companies and is available to help its operating executives in their performance improvement programs. He continues to provide support in all other maters relating to the Funds. Mr. Bales was a Director of McKinsey & Company, Inc., the international management consulting firm, where he held senior level positions, including founding and leading the firm's worldwide practice in media and communications and leading the firm's practice in information technology. He retired in 1998 as a director of McKinsey to devote his full energies to Wicks.

Since co-founding Really Strategies Inc., Barry has served as president and CEO of the company. Under his leadership, Really Strategies has grown to be a leading provider of content management solutions and services to publishers and has been recognized by multiple industry organizations for its growth rate, quality of services, and work environment. A 20-year veteran of the software and information industries, Barry has held executive positions with Reed Elsevier and a start-up life science content developer. Prior to joining the world of electronic publishing, he held project management and senior software engineering positions for GE Aerospace.

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 qualiitative research, Mr. Blossom was recognized with the Vendor of the Year award by Standard & Poor's in 2001.

Colleen DeCourcy is chief experience officer at JWT, a WPP Group agency. In the newly created position, DeCourcy works with the agency’s seven executive creative directors to develop integrated, multi-platform storytelling strategies for a variety of client campaigns. Formerly the vice president and chief creative officer at Organic, DeCourcy led the agency’s Experience Design group, working closely with creative teams across the company. She was responsible for leading non-traditional creative for Organic client DaimlerChrysler, helping the marketer achieve award-winning status on campaigns for the Dodge Charger, "Unleash Your Freak," and the Jeep branded entertainment project, "The Mudds,” the first commercial Google Map geocaching adventure.

Ben is head of New Media Communications at IBM's headquarters in Armonk, New York, where he drives the development and adoption of a wide range of new communications technologies, from blogs and podcasts to wikis, social-networking software and interactive web tools and techniques. Before joining IBM in 2005, Ben enjoyed a 14-year career as a journalist in the "mainstream media". Ben spent the last nine of these years as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor for The Economist magazine, covering business, finance and politics from London, Tokyo and New York.

Hal Espo is President of Contextual Connections, LLC, a NYC-based consultancy which focuses exclusively in the digital services arena, including digital content, distribution, and applications. In so doing, it assists content and related technology companies develop products, enter markets, identify and secure distribution partners. Hal has more than 25 years experience as an operating executive as well as a business and product development professional in the electronic information industry. He 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 a strategist 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.

Manning Field is Senior Vice President of Branding and Advertising for Chase Card Services, the nation's second largest general-purpose credit card issuer. Chase has 94 million credit cards issued with annual sales volume of more than $280 billion and over $130 billion in loans outstanding. In this role, Field is responsible for all the branding and advertising activities for Chase Card Services. Prior to assuming these responsibilities, Field has held various marketing functions in Chase Card services, Bank One and First USA.

Walter Florence is a managing director with Frontenac Company, a Chicago-based private equity fund. Since 1994, Walter's investing experience and focus has been on services companies across a range of markets including business services, information technology, and media. Walter currently serves on the board of directors of Aspire Media LLC, HE Parts International LLC, SI International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SINT), and ypOne Publishing. He was actively involved with Frontenac's prior investments in Eagle River Interactive (NASDAQ: ERIV) among others. He is a member of the Board for the Illinois Venture Capital Association (IVCA). Prior to joining Frontenac, Mr. Florence worked at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. and McKinsey & Company. He graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a major in economics and mathematics and received a master's degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, graduating with distinction. He lives in Hinsdale, IL with his wife and three children.

A veteran sales executive, Jim has spent 12 years selling marketing and collaboration software. Jim co-founded Jigsaw after serving as vice president of sales at Digital Impact (DIGI), Paramark and TightLink where he was responsible for building the sales departments from the ground up and implementing key sales strategies and processes. Jim also held sales management positions at Personify and NetGravity, where he received company recognition for his outstanding performance. Prior to his career in software sales, 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.

Bambi Francisco is a columnist and correspondent for MarketWatch. She writes a twice-weekly syndicated commentary column on Internet trends and investing in public and private companies. Her column also goes out to more than 300,000 subscribers. She regularly appears on MarketWatch Weekend, a business magazine show aired on CBS. Prior to her role, she was the morning business anchor for KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco. She also appeared daily on Viacom's cable channel Spike TV, and was a producer at CNNfn. She's received recognition for her financial reports by both The Journal of Financial Reporters and Adweek. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary.

Jim Friedlich is a General Partner and co-founder of ZelnickMedia, a New York-based media investment firm. Jim and his partners manage an array of media assets including investments in Time Life, Columbia Music Entertainment, Savoy Jazz, National Lampoon, ITN Networks, and Naylor Publications. Founded in 2001, ZelnickMedia now manages media businesses with total revenues exceeding $1 billion. In addition to his other duties, Jim is Chairman of the Board of Naylor, a leading B2B media company serving the trade association market. Prior to joining ZelnickMedia, Jim worked at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones & Company for fifteen years, managing business operations for a large and diverse group of international newspapers, magazines, Web sites, television channels and conferences.

Jon Friedman, media editor for MarketWatch.com, writes the Media Web column and feature articles. Before joining MarketWatch in 1999, Friedman covered business and finance for almost two decades for USA Today, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg News and Investor’s Business Daily. He is co-author of the exposé “House of Cards: Inside the Troubled Empire of American Express” (Putnam, 1992). Friedman received his MSJ degree from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, and an undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He lives and works in Manhattan.

Tolman Geffs, a Managing Director with The Jordan, Edmiston Group, represents online media, services and related technology companies, as well as broader media firms seeking to expand in the interactive world. The rapid growth and increasing effectiveness of online advertising and the integration of interactive content and capabilities into "traditional" diversified media are major factors driving industry growth. Notable engagements for Mr. Geffs include PointRoll in its sale to Gannett, Bitpipe in its sale to TechTarget, and Moreover Technologies in its sale to VeriSign. The Jordan, Edmiston Group is an investment bank focused the media and information industries. Founded in 1987, the firm has completed over 450 transactions spanning media, from publishing to databases and information services to interactive content and technology. Prior to joining JEGI, Mr. Geffs was CEO of Internet Broadcasting Systems, a national network of 70 local television Web sites operated in partnership with NBC, Hearst, The Washington Post Company and other major broadcasters. With a staff of 250, IBS remains one of the earliest old/new media platforms to reach both scale and profitability.

Jonathan Glick is Director of Research Operations. Before joining Gerson Lehrman Group, Jonathan was CEO of OuterForce, providers of a software platform for the management and compensation of expert networks. Prior to that, Jonathan was Head of Product Development and Technology for The New York Times Electronic Media Company and was responsible for the design and development of all products and services, including The New York Times on the Web. Jonathan received his undergraduate degree from McGill University and pursued graduate studies in Cognitive Science and Instructional Technology at Columbia University.

Saul Hansell is a reporter covering digital media and electronics for the New York Times. He has covered the business side of technology since 1997 when he became the first reporter at the Times to focus on electronic commerce. Writing mainly for the daily Business Day section, the front page, the Thursday Circuits section and the Sunday Money and Business section, he has covered the rise and fall of the Internet companies as well as the medium's effect on media and commerce. He also contributes regularly to the Market Place column, with analysis of technology stocks. In 2004, his coverage was expanded to include coverage of digital music and consumer electronics. From 1992, when he joined the Times, until 1997, he covered banking and finance.

Clare Hart is executive vice president, Dow Jones & Company, and president, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, a principal business unit with $657 million of revenue. She is responsible for the Company’s media portfolio serving businesses, including Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Licensing Services, Factiva, Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones Financial Information Services, Dow Jones Reprints and Permissions, as well as the Company’s enterprise-facing joint venture, STOXX.

Jon Hart is a member of the law firm of Dow Lohnes PLLC, where he practices in the firm's Media and Information Technologies group out of Washington, D.C. For more than 20 years, Jon has advised media and technology companies on a broad range of commercial, transactional, operational and content matters; he has been representing businesses that gather and distribute news and information, sell advertising, market goods and services, and build community on the Internet for as long as there has been a commercial Internet. His clients include dozens of websites, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and technology and telecommunications companies.

Reid is currently CEO and co-founder of LinkedIn. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal. At PayPal, Reid was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. Currently, in addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy.

Dave Kellogg is president and chief executive officer of Mark Logic Corporation, maker of the industry's leading XML content server. MarkLogic Server is used by information industry leaders to accelerate the creation of new products such as custom publishing systems, content integration systems, role- and context-specific content applications, and vertical search and aggregation sites. Prior to Mark Logic, Kellogg spent 9 years heading marketing at business intelligence vendor Business Objects, and the decade prior in technical and marketing positions at relational and object database management.

Pat was founder and CEO of IDG's Digital News Publishing subsidiary, Publisher and CEO of its PC WORLD Communications subsidiary, and finally CEO of IDG itself overseeing media, market research, and event businesses in more than 50 countries. Pat was founder and Managing General Partner of IDG Ventures Pacific in San Francisco, and a founder and General Partner of IDG Ventures Atlantic in Boston and IDG Ventures Europe in London. Some of Pat's board and observer seats have been Babycenter.com, FutureTense, Spinner.com, Service Metrics and Andromedia. Pat currently sits on the boards of Quova and Digital Persona. Before joining IDG, Pat held a number of publishing and editorial management positions with Ziff-Davis Publishing and Cahners Publishing, and earned a B.A. from Harvard University.

Randy Kilgore is responsible for managing the company's sales and inventory growth, expanding its relationships with advertisers and publishers, and overseeing the development of new strategic initiatives. Randy spent more than 16 years with Dow Jones & Company, most recently as Senior Vice President of Advertising for Dow Jones Online, which includes The Wall Street Journal Online, MarketWatch, and Barron's Online. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Mr. Kilgore was with BBDO New York and McCann-Erickson. Randy has served on the boards at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Online Publishers Association (OPA), and was named to Media Magazine's 100 Most Influential list in 2005.

John understands the market impact of digital convergence. He has also been successful in creating a high level of collaboration with Nielsen Entertainment and growing face-to-face platforms including awards shows, executive conferences, special events and executive roundtables. Over the past three years, John has reinvented the industry and consumer business model for Billboard in non-music areas that overlap with THR. With his innovations in digital, mobile, video, branded entertainment, mobile/video games and entertainment law, he is well qualified to bring this expertise to The Hollywood Reporter. He continues to oversee $6 million in annual digital revenues for Billboard, in addition to a vibrant licensing business in collaboration with Howard Appelbaum, Vice President of Licensing, and a highly successful event business. Prior to joining VNU, John Kilcullen spent 11 years in the Bay Area, where he was founding member of IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. Under his leadership the company grew revenues to over $200 million and launched the popular for Dummies brand of books.

Mr. Kirby is a senior litigation partner with Wiley, Rein & Fielding, handling complex, policy-oriented trial and appellate matters nationwide. Counsel in more than 70 published cases, he focuses on legal regualtion of communication, including copyright, First Amendment and election law issues.

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 Portaga, a web services platform for the travel industry that permits travel booking directly from Outlook, using an artificial intelligence agent, Knovel Corp., a software/content database engine that automates work flow for engineers and scientists, and Cognia, a database creation engine using natural language processing and software platform, for the biotech and pharma industries.

Staci D. Kramer is executive editor of ContentNext and its flagship paidContent.org. The ContentNext Network, a 24/7 international news operation, covers digital media and entertainment, mobile content (MoCoNews.net) and the Indian digital scene (ContentSutra.com). Formerly a contributing editor at Inside.com, an editor at large for Cable World and senior editor for the Online Journalism Review, the veteran journalist has written for Time, Life, Sports Business Journal, the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and others. She is a former national director at large of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Cyrus Krohn is director of content production for the Yahoo Media Group. Krohn was Slate (http://www.slate.com) magazine's first employee and then publisher while the webzine was owned by Microsoft. While at Microsoft, Krohn also managed the political advertising division for MSN.com, the Microsoft Network, and MSN Video. Krohn worked in CNN’s Washington, DC Bureau producing Larry King Live and Crossfire and served as an intern for Vice President Dan Quayle.

Mark Maddocks is Senior VP of Product and Enterprise Technology at Reed Elsevier where he reports to the global CTO. Reed Elsevier is a global media/publishing business that has revenues of over £5 billion from its worldwide operations over 35% of which come from electronic and online products. Mark runs a small headquarters group that is responsible globally for developing technology strategic direction, roviding leadership in the approach to electronic product, customer and publishing platforms, oversight of business unit projects to ensure their cost-effective and reliable delivery, facilitating collaboration and innovation in key technology areas that accelerate revenue and profit growth, coordinating the deployment and management of core employee systems (e.g. office productivity, email and collaboration infrastructure, technology services including the infrastructure, IT, Collaboration, Intranet and Internet sites in the HQ site in London and managing technology communications and ensuring the efficient running of the RE technology councils Mark has been with Reed Elsevier for 5 years and before that was with the BBC.

David Meerman Scott is a writer, consultant, conference speaker and seminar leader. David’s latest book Cashing In With Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers Into Buyers is a riff on using Web content to drive revenue and other action from Web site visitors. David is a contributing editor at EContent Magazine, a contributing writer at Product Marketing Magazine and his writing has appeared in such diverse publications as CMOMagazine.com, MarketingProfs.com, BusinessWeek, Competitive Intelligence Magazine, North American Review and many others. He is an instructor for Pragmatic Marketing’s two-day Effective Marketing Programs course. In his consulting work, David specializes in using online content to market and sell products and services to demanding customers worldwide. David worked as a marketing executive at publishing companies including Knight-Ridder, NewsEdge, and Thomson. He has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, Boston, and Hong Kong and has presented at industry conferences and events in over twenty countries on four continents. Contact him at www.davidmeermanscott.com

Brad Mehl, Vice President, Marketing for ThomasNet.com is responsible for the overall development of ThomasNet.com and its marketing to users. Mehl joined ThomasNet in 2006. ThomasNet helps industrial sellers reach the most qualified industrial buyers online and convert them into customers, helping create websites that incorporate online catalogs, CAD drawings and e-commerce capabilities. ThomasNet also gives industrial buyers immediate access to detailed information they need to make purchasing or specifying decisions, including detailed product or service information, catalogs, CAD drawings, and more. ThomasNet is part of Thomas Industrial Network, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company, LLC. Prior to joining Thomas, Mehl spent eighteen years in marketing, publishing and Internet businesses including five years at LexisNexis, as head of marketing and strategy for LexisNexis Practice Management and Senior Director, Marketing/head of Specialty Products at LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell. Prior to LexisNexis, he was Marketing Director at CDNOW (now the music business of Amazon.com).

Dan Morrison is CEO and co-founder of ITtoolbox, an online community enabling peers to share professional knowledge about information technology. Since 1998, ITtoolbox has helped professionals make IT decisions and stay current in the rapidly changing IT market through peer collaboration. The ITtoolbox platform incorporates a professional network, blogs, discussion groups and a wiki, facilitating targeted community interaction in which IT advertisers can participate through a proprietary contextual matching system. Mr. Morrison has overseen the transition of ITtoolbox from a concept into a successful business supporting millions of IT and business professionals and hundreds of IT advertisers. He provided the initial vision and continues to further the company's commitment to serving professionals in need of IT information through an online community that links them to the knowledge of their peers.

Robin Neidorf is the General Manager of Free Pint Limited. The company publishes web sites and publications for the global business information industry, and serves a worldwide audience of over 100,000 information practitioners who find, use, manage and share work-related information. Robin took on the role of General Manager in 2006 and is responsible for all aspects of product development and marketing, advertiser and sponsor relationships, goal setting and measurement, and realizing shareholder ROI. In the early years of web adoption, Robin worked as a consultant with companies to align their digital projects with business objectives and craft user-oriented messages and content.

Fritz Nelson is senior vice president at CMP Technology. In his 14-year career at CMP, he has served in a variety of editorial management positions, including editor-in-chief of Network Computing in the late 1990s before becoming its publisher. He has been a group publisher, responsible for titles such as Network Computing, Intelligent Enterprise, Secure Enterprise, and the Computer Security Institute. He most recently served as group publisher for CMP's Business Technology Group, which includes additional print, event and online titles such as InformationWeek, Black Hat, Techweb, Optimize Magazine, vertical industry titles in the financial services sector, and properties related to the company's recent acquisitions of Media Live (including Interop, VoiceCon and Web 2.0) and Shorecliff (including RFID World and TelcoTV).

David Olson is a Resident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society. David's current research interests are in the areas of software/business method patents, subject matter patentability, the law and economics of the U.S. patent system, and international regulation of intellectual property. Before joining CIS, David was an associate in the intellectual property department at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. While at Kirkland, David worked on trademark cases and on patent cases in the areas of business methods, software, advanced silicon chips, bio-technology, and mechanical devices such as casino card shufflers.

Paul Pellman joined Hoover's in April 2004 as Vice President of Marketing, and was promoted to Executive Vice President of Marketing in January 2005. He is responsible for the leadership of Hoover's brand development and marketing initiatives, including customer acquisition and retention, research, strategy, product positioning, licensing, traffic-oriented business development and marketing communications. Prior to joining Hoover's, Pellman was with the global Internet group Terra Lycos, where he served as Vice President of Consumer Direct. While there, he was responsible for all U.S. online and direct marketing acquisition, conversion and retention marketing efforts to generate and retain qualified subscribers across all Lycos subscription properties.

Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist with 15 years experience. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice. Edelman is the largest independent global PR firm. Rubel is charged with helping Edelman identify, test, incubate and champion new forms of communications that get people talking across new platforms and channels. He also explores these technologies on his well-read Micro Persuasion weblog and in a weekly column for AdAge Digital. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press. He has been named to several prestigious lists, including: Media Magazine's Media 100, the AlwaysOn/Technorati Open Media 100 and the CNET News.com Blog 100. Prior to joining Edelman in 2006, Rubel spent five years at CooperKatz & Company.

Vivek Shah is President, Digital Publishing, The Time Inc. Business and Finance Network, comprised of FORTUNE, Money, Fortune Small Business, and Business 2.0 magazines, and the CNNMoney.com website. Shah oversees all digital media activities and is responsible for CNNMoney.com, one of the largest business and finance websites in the world. The Business operations of Time.com, the world's fastest growing news website, also report to Shah. Previously, Shah was the general manager of The FORTUNE/Money Group, functioning as the senior financial and business development executive of the group, helping to develop and implement strategy and manage day-to-day operations. Prior to that, Shah was the vice president of new business ventures of the group, where he was responsible for launching and managing a portfolio of new businesses.

Rod is an IBM Fellow and Vice President of Internet Emerging Technology, Software Group. He is a recognized technical leader, both within IBM’s software business, as well as across the industry. His team’s technological innovations and cross-industry collaborations have enabled the rapid adoption of technologies such as Web Services, XML, Linux, Java and most recently, Ajax & Do-it-yourself application platforms. Rod enjoys a sustained a record of achievements in the software business with his ability to identify key emerging technologies. He is often sought out to provide guidance in helping customers establish their own future technical strategies and directions.

Jim Spanfeller is President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes.com, home page for the world's business leaders. As CEO, Spanfeller oversees the strategic and operational management of the company. Spanfeller joined Forbes.com in 2000, and since then has helped build the company into the No. 1 business site in the world. Under his leadership, Forbes.com revenue and traffic have experienced triple-digit growth year over year for the past three years. In May 2005, he oversaw the launch of ForbesAutos.com, the only online site dedicated to the luxury automotive buyer.

Chief Information Officer, Congressional Quarterly Larry Tunks is the Chief Information Officer of Congressional Quarterly, a Washington DC based professional publishing company that was founded 1945 by Nelson Poynter. Larry has been with CQ for 7 years and has over 20 years of technical and management experience in print and electronic publishing, content management, software development, systems integration, project management and related technologies. He fosters a unique business-oriented approach to the technology needs of professional publishing. He has overseen the complete transformation of the CQ technical infrastructure while positioning the company as a world-class electronic publisher of information and insight on government and politics. CQ has built a reputation for accurate, comprehensive and nonpartisan reporting on more than 50 years of experience.

A member of the Aegis Group Plc Board of Directors, David oversees Carat US, Canadian, Latin American and Asia Pacific operations. He is also a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation. He was previously Executive VP Managing Director and Corporate Media Director of Hal Riney & Partners in San Francisco and Young & Rubican in New York. In 1996 he was inducted into the AAFA Hall of Fame for under 40s.

Peggy White joined Yahoo! in 2005 as general manager of Yahoo! Finance. In this position, she oversees all areas of operations for the Internet's most-visited financial website, which has an audience of more than 30 million users each month. As general manager, White is responsible for all product development and partner relationships, as well as driving sales and advertising for the site. Prior to joining Yahoo! Finance, White served as vice president and general manager of BusinessWeek online, where she oversaw multiple facets of the website, including sales, business development, operations and product development. Prior to joining BusinessWeek Online, White served as senior vice president of sales and business development for MSNBC.com, where she was responsible for the website's revenue and partnership operations, and strategic development of international markets. White also played a part in maintaining close relationships with NBC stations and other media affiliates.

David Worlock is a Cambridge History graduate who joined Thomson Corporation as a trainee in 1967, and subsequently worked in educational and academic publishing before managing Thomson's school-based publishing as Group Executive Publisher in the late 1970s. Between 1980-85 he was CEO of the pioneer development of EUROLEX, the UK's first online service for lawyers, subsequently acquired by Reed Elsevier in 1985. In that year he founded Electronic Publishing Services Ltd, a research and consultancy company based in London and New York which has worked alongside the digital content industry in developing strategies for products and markets in consumer and business sectors. David Worlock is currently chairman of Electronic Publishing Services Ltd.

Ed Keating is Vice President of the Content Division for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Keating has over 15 years of experience 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 work to enhance product processes and organizational effectiveness has helped numerous companies enter unfamiliar markets and launch new products.

Wasch's involvement in SIIA is based on both personal and professional interests. His long-standing interest in computers and software, coupled with the industry's need for a central trade association, led him to establish the Software Publishers Association (SPA) in 1984 with an initial group of 25 software firms. Wasch has led the association from its infancy to its merger with the Information Industry Association in January 1999, resulting in the formation of SIIA.

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