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Gordon CrovitzGordon Crovitz
Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal and Former EVP, Dow Jones & Company

L. Gordon Crovitz is former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, former EVP of Dow Jones & Company, and president of the Company’s Consumer Media Group. He was responsible for the Company’s media operations serving consumers, including The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal Online, Barron’s and Barron’s Online, MarketWatch and the company’s other web properties as well as television, video and audio, and the Company’s SmartMoney and Vedomosti joint ventures. He was a member of the Dow Jones executive committee. Prior to assuming his last position in February 2006, Mr. Crovitz served since October 1998 as SVP of Dow Jones and president of the Electronic Publishing group, where he was responsible for the Company’s Dow Jones Newswires, Financial Information Services, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Consumer Electronic Publishing businesses, which included The Wall Street Journal Online, Barron’s Online and MarketWatch.



David EunDavid Eun
VP, Content Partnerships, Google

David oversees Google's partnerships and alliances with leading providers of content and information. In this capacity, he directs the business development and operational execution of deals with Google's video, print, and local content partners. He also works closely with Google's product management and engineering organizations to develop new products and services with this content. 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.



Tom GlocerTom Glocer
CEO, Reuters

Tom Glocer joined Reuters Group in New York in 1993 as VP and Deputy Counsel, Reuters America and was appointed EVP and General Counsel, Reuters America Holdings in 1995. In 1997 he was appointed CEO, Reuters Latin America, with responsibility for Reuters operations in Central and South America. In February 2000 he was appointed CEO, Reuters Information. He was appointed to the Reuters Board in June 2000 and became Chief Executive of Reuters Group PLC in July 2001. Glocer is active in a variety of industry and civic organizations on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of British American Business Inc., the Advisory Board of the Judge Institute of Management at Cambridge University, the European Business Leaders Council, the Corporate Advisory Board of Tate Britain and the Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Glocer is active in several public education initiatives in New York City and London.



Andrew KeenAndrew Keen
Author, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture

The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote that "every good movement needs a contrarian. Web 2.0 has Andrew Keen." Andrew is indeed the leading contemporary critic of the Internet. Andrew hasn't always been a contrarian. In the mid Nineties, he was a member of the pioneering generation of Silicon Valley visionaries who first "got" the Internet. He founded Audiocafe.com in 1995, and, securing significant investment from Intel and SAP, established it as one of the most highly trafficked websites of the late Nineties. As the Chief Executive of Audiocafe.com, Andrew became a Silicon Valley celebrity. He spoke regularly on the digital media circuit and was featured and quoted in many newspapers and magazines including Esquire, The Industry Standard, Business Week, Wired, the Wall Street Journal and The London Guardian. In 2000, Andrew produced "MB5: The Festival for New Media Visionaries," a futurist show featuring some of Silicon Valley's leading pundits. Since then, he has held senior management positions at a number of venture capital backed start-ups including Pulse, Santa Cruz Networks and Pure Depth. Andrew is currently the Founder and Chief Executive of afterTV LLC, a firm that helps marketers optimize their brand desirability in the post-TV consumer landscape.


M O D E R A T O R S   &   P A N E L I S T S


Tom AleyTom Aley
President and CEO, Generate Inc.

Tom Aley is President and CEO of Generate Inc. where he is responsible for the company's vision and strategic direction, management and technology development. With over 20 years experience in the information, software, and media industries, Tom has a proven track record of building and investing in successful companies. Prior to founding Generate, Tom was a Partner at Reed Elsevier Ventures, the venture arm of the $8 billion media company where he co-led investments. Earlier, Tom was EVP at Stonepath Group, a VC firm, where he co-led the company's initial public offering. Previous to Stonepath, Tom co-founded OneZero Media and served as EVP of sales. Prior to OneZero, Tom was a founding director at ZDNet, where he launched and managed the company's e-commerce business unit, Computershopper.com. Prior to ZDNet, Tom headed eastern regional sales at Shiva Corporation. Tom serves on the board of the Software & Information Industry Associations's (SIIA) Content Division. Tom has served on boards of iPhrase, Nextpage, the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX), Northeastern University's High Technology MBA Program, and the Jericho Road Project.



Ken AulettaKen Auletta
Author and Annals of Communications Columnist, 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."



Michael BarrettMichael Barrett
EVP and Chief Revenue Officer, Fox Interactive Media

As EVP and chief revenue officer, Michael Barrett oversees the worldwide revenue for all Fox Interactive Media properties, which include MySpace, IGN, FoxSports.com, Fox.com, AmericanIdol.com and Scout.com. Prior to joining Fox, Mr. Barrett served as EVP for sales and partnerships at AOL Media Networks, where he was responsible for all branded advertising sales on AOL, AOL.com, Netscape, Mapquest, Compuserve, CNN.com and all Time Inc. websites. Before joining AOL, Mr. Barrett was senior VP for sales and business development at GeoCities, which was sold to Yahoo! Inc. He then assisted in developing eCommerce strategies at Yahoo! Inc. Mr. Barrett's career in new media began at Disney Online, where he oversaw national ad sales and marketing for Disney Online internet products. Prior to joining Disney, Mr. Barrett held positions with Meredith Publishing, Newsweek Magazine and Family PC Magazine.



Ian BlaineIan Blaine
CEO, thePlatform, Inc.

Ian Blaine, is CEO and co-founder of thePlatform, Inc., where he oversees all aspects of the business. In his capacity as CEO, Mr. Blaine has been at the forefront of online video for more than seven years and built thePlatform into the leading video application service provider for content providers, broadband media sites, and mobile businesses. Under his leadership, thePlatform has grown to manage and publish online video for some of the most respected consumer brands, including: BBC, CNBC, CBS' College Sports TV, Court TV, Comcast, Gannett, Hearst, Helio, PRIMEDIA, Scripps, Sony/BMG Music, Vongo, Telstra, Verizon Wireless, and dozens of other companies. In June 2006, Mr. Blaine led thePlatform through the acquisition by Comcast and now also serves as Senior VP of Content Publishing for Comcast Interactive Media. Immediately prior to forming thePlatform, Mr. Blaine successfully launched and sold an internet company called Uniplanet to NBCi in 1999. Before that, he spent more than nine years at the publishing division of Aldus/Adobe where he gained vast experience in product development and product management. Blaine is a Seattle native and graduated from the University of Washington in 1992. He currently resides in Seattle with his wife and two children, where he is involved in various civic activities.



Lisa BodellLisa Bodell
CEO, futurethink

Lisa Bodell is the founder and CEO of futurethink, a business that offers research, tools, and training to help companies better innovate today and prepare for tomorrow. futurethink is proud to offer the world's largest catalog of innovation research and tools. Bodell is widely recongized as a leader and pioneer in innovation -- creating a unique approach to an otherwise complicated topic. As a trained futurist, she is well known for her ability to ingite a room with provocative thinking about the future using examples that are already emerging today. She is a seasoned keynote speaker, teacher, and entrepreneur who has built three successful businesses. Lisa currently serves on the boards of the Institute of Direct Marketing in London, The Women's Congress, and the Association of Professional Futurists. She is an active member of the World Future Society and the Urban Pioneer Project. She serves as a finalist judge at the annual Idea Crossing Innovation Challenge and FIT's innovation challenge (which futurethink co-created), has taught marketing and creativity at American University, and serves as a faculty member of the American Management Association.



Jim BrockJim Brock
CEO and Co-founder, Attributor

Jim Brock is the CEO and co-founder of Attributor, a content tracking and analytics platform that enables publishers to build value with their content wherever it appears on the Internet. He most recently served as SVP, Communications & Consumer Services at Yahoo!, where he led the highly successful communication and broadband operating groups. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Brock was a partner with Venture Law Group, a leading Silicon Valley technology law firm, where he led the firm's Internet practice. Jim holds a B.A. degree in economics with honors from Claremont McKenna College and a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School.



Bob CarriganBob Carrigan
CEO, IDG Communications, Inc.

Bob Carrigan is CEO of IDG Communications, Inc., IDG's print and online publishing and events subsidiary. Carrigan has global responsibilities but also oversees eight business units in the U.S., including CXO Media (CIO and CSO), Computerworld, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, PC World, IDG Entertainment (GamePro and games.net) and IDG World Expo (Macworld Conference & Expo, LinuxWorld, and E For All), along with IDG List Services, IDG Research, and IDG's corporate sales group. Carrigan returned to IDG in April 2003 as president and CEO of Computerworld, bringing 15 years of publishing, marketing and sales experience to the position. Prior to returning to IDG, Carrigan was a senior VP in the Interactive Marketing Group at America Online, Inc. (AOL). Carrigan joined AOL through its acquisition of Spinner.com, an IDG Ventures portfolio company, where he served as senior VP, e-commerce and advertising for the Internet radio company.



Ken DoctorKen Doctor
Analyst, Outsell, Inc.

Ken Doctor covers the transformation of the news media, as it moves from print and broadcast to digital, focusing on changing business models. His coverage includes his own blog at www.contentbridges.com and his work as news industry analyst for Outsell, Inc., a worldwide syndicated research and advisory firm that covers the information industry. 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. As president of Content Bridges, he connects up the rough edges of old and newer media for clients, both publishers and tools companies able to bring new life and utility to journalistic content. Increasingly, his work centers around the monetizing power and democratizing work of the Web. He believes that the sprouts of the emerging journalism we see today will become mainstream in the next decade.



Hal EspoHal Espo
President, Contextual Connections, LLC

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.



Danny FishmanDanny Fishman
President, Broadband Enterprises

Danny Fishman is the President of Broadband Enterprises, a revolutionary online video sales, syndication, and production company. Fishman's responsibilities include growth of the sales and marketing initiatives, as well as seeing the company's operations. He joined Broadband Enterprises in March 2006. Prior to joining Broadband Enterprises, Fishman was the EVP of sales at iFilm, and was responsible for overseeing all of iFilm's advertising and entertainment marketing sales and operations. His extensive client relationships, team management, and creative concepts contributed to the exponential growth in iFilm's sales revenues and client rosters. Before joining iFilm, Fishman was VP of Sales for Vyou.com, a digital rights management technology firm. Before that, Fishman worked in the heart of the entertainment industry at Michael Ovitz's Artists Management Group. Fishman also founded and ran a highly successful events marketing and promotion business in Chicago and briefly practiced law.



Steve GoldsteinSteve Goldstein
Chairman and CEO, Alacra

Steven Goldstein is Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alacra. Formerly, Mr. Goldstein was Vice President of Strategic Planning for Knight-Ridder's Business Information Services division. In that role he was responsible for Knight-Ridder's acquisition of Technimetrics and its pre-IPO investment in Netscape Communications. Mr. Goldstein previously held a range of sales and marketing positions at Knight-Ridder's Business Information properties. Mr. Goldstein has a BS in English from SUNY Albany and an MBA in Finance from Cornell University. He resides in New York City.



Lee GreenhouseLee 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.



Darrell W. GunterDarrell W. Gunter
Executive Vice President/CMO, Collexis Holdings, Inc.

Darrell W. Gunter is the Executive Vice President/ Chief Marketing Officer for Collexis Holdings, Inc. He is responsible for the worldwide strategy and marketing to support the company's short and long term objectives. Additionaly he is responsilble for the company's business development and partner relationships. Previously, Darrell was the Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing for the Americas marketplace for Elsevier. Over his eleven year tenure he led the development and growth of Elsevier's first commercial sales organization and moving the customer print base to long term electronic agreements. Prior to Elsevier he worked for Dow Jones Financial News Services where he started as an Account Manager and was promoted up to the National Sales Director position. He began his career in sales at Xerox Corporation where he sold copiers to small business. He received his Business Degree from Seton Hall University and his MBA from Lake Forrest Graduate School of Management. He serves on the Content Board of the SIIA, Double7Film Advisory Board and is the Chairman of the Board for the Women's Venture Fund.



Peter JacksonPeter Jackson
Chief Scientist, Thomson Corporation

Peter Jackson holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Leeds. He then joined the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University, winning an IBM Young Professorship in 1985 and earning tenure in 1987. While at Edinburgh, he published "Introduction to Expert Systems" which has run to three editions and been translated into seven languages. In 1988, he moved to the US where he became a principal scientist at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories, bringing out a book of papers on "Logic Based Knowledge Representation" in the same year. From 1992 to 1995, he taught post-graduate classes in artificial intelligence and parallel computing at Clarkson University in New York, and was a visiting professor at Singapore Polytechnic. In 1995, he joined the Thomson Corporation, where he is now Chief Scientist and a vice president. He runs a group of 40 researchers who work with business units in the legal, financial, science and healthcare sectors to deliver custom information solutions. His latest book, “Natural Language Processing for Online Applications”, came out in a 2nd edition in 2007.



Robin JohnsonRobin Johnson
CEO, Financial Times Search

Robin Johnson is CEO of Financial Times Search, a branded FT search portal currently in development. Prior to taking the helm at FT Search, Johnson served as President of the Financial Times, Americas from 2003 to 2007. In this role, Johnson managed the global news company's business operations in the U.S., Canada and Latin America, including overall responsibility for advertising, circulation, marketing, public relations and customer service. From 1999 to 2000, Johnson founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Avid Networks/Sticky Networks, a marketing services company dedicated to engaging online consumers in user-friendly and visual ways. From 1995 to 1997, Johnson served as CEO and President of Infoseek Corporation. Six months after joining the company, Johnson took Infoseek public on NASDAQ, where it generated revenue of $45 million per annum-up from $1.2 million 18 months prior. In 1995, Johnson served as SVP of corporate development for Time Warner, where he was responsible for new business development strategy for Time Inc.'s Magazine Group. From 1989 to 1994, Johnson served as president of Time Inc. Asia. Based in Hong Kong, he was responsible for strategy, operations and management of Time Inc. Magazines Asia, a $90 million revenue business. In this role, he managed eleven country operations, ten different business units and helped raise profits of $12 million over five years. In 1986, Johnson was appointed President of The Atlantic Monthly. There, he reintroduced the 145 year-old-magazine to the advertising community as a valuable and effective resource for opinion leaders and influencers.



Jim KellyJim Kelly
Managing Editor, Time Inc.

As managing editor of Time Inc., Jim Kelly works closely with Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief, helping to oversee the editorial content of approximately 125 titles and ensuring that the company's 3,000 journalists adhere to the highest standards of their craft. Before assuming his new post in the summer of 2006, Jim served as managing editor of TIME, the world's most popular newsmagazine, with nearly 30 million readers. Kelly became managing editor in January, 2001. During his tenure, TIME won four National Magazine awards, including the coveted General Excellence award in 2006, and was nominated 12 times. In 2004, TIME received an Emmy - its first - for its contribution to the ABC News series "Iraq: Where Things Stand." Kelly joined TIME in 1978, where his first job was writing Milestones. He served as foreign editor during Gulf War I and the fall of the Soviet Union, and became deputy managing editor in 1996. He oversaw Corporate Welfare, the four-part investigative series by Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele that won the National Magazine Award for Public Interest in 1999. Kelly also helped oversee TIME's acclaimed turn-of-the-century projects, including the magazine's 75th anniversary celebration in 1998 which drew more than 100 cover subjects to New York City's Radio City Music Hall, as well as the "TIME 100" series of six issues that named and profiled the century's most important leaders. Kelly brought back the series in 2004, making it an annual listing of the world's most influential people.



Jim KolleggerJim G. Kollegger
CEO, 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 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 Courtroom Connect, a media company that narrowcasts trials and brings videodatabanks to the legal industry. He was founder of EIC/Intelligence one of the industry's first database publisher, sold to Reed Elsevier, in 1988.



Caroline H. LittleCaroline H. Little
CEO and Publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive

Caroline H. Little is CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI), the new media subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. WPNI includes washingtonpost.com, newsweek.com, Slate and BudgetTravel online washingtonpost.com is consistently the number one local news and information site in the country, and one of the top news sites nationally and internationally, with 8.5 million unique users and 220 million page views each month. Little joined WPNI in 1997 as general counsel. She was promoted to VP, administration and general counsel, in 1998. She became senior VP of business affairs and general counsel in 1999. Little assumed the role of chief operating officer in April 2000, and was named president in April 2003. In January 2004, she became CEO and publisher. Prior to joining Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Little was deputy general counsel at U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly and Fast Company (May 1993 to July 1997). While there, she was active in negotiating agreements with online service providers, licensing, multimedia syndication agreements and other areas involving circulation and marketing of the magazines. When Little worked at Applied Graphics Technologies and Applied Printing Technologies, she drafted and negotiated various financing and licensing agreements, joint venture agreements, software license agreements, production services agreements, asset purchase agreements, and other agreements for pre-press and printing companies.



David MatherDavid Mather
President, Hoover's

David Mather joined Hoover's as president in June 2007. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring the successful execution of the company's initiatives and for driving Hoover's overall strategy. Before joining Hoover's, David served as VP and General Manager of Global Business Operations for a $1.4 billion Global Systems and Technology division at Unisys. David joined Unisys from Hewlett-Packard, where he was VP of Imaging Printing Group Worldwide Direct, which was responsible for developing the division's go-to-market model, as well as its global direct sales, Internet, and marketing strategies. Prior to this, David was HP's VP of Americas Sales Operations, after serving as a member of the acquisition team during the HP merger with Compaq Computer Corporation. During his time at Compaq, David served as the company's VP of North America Operations. He also held a number of other executive management positions, including directing sales and marketing, worldwide services management, and customer services. In addition, he participated in several merger and acquisition teams including Compaq Innacom, Compaq Digital, and Compaq Tandem. Prior to joining Compaq, David instituted and managed engineering and consulting services divisions at Unicom MicroAge. He also founded and privately sold several startup companies, including NSI Networking Solutions and Impact Software Systems. David holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University and serves on the board of directors of MPTV Corporation, a company that designs clean energy solutions. He resides in Austin with his wife and son.



Lincoln MillsteinLincoln Millstein
Senior VP & Director of Digital Media, Hearst Newspapers

Millstein was previously EVP of New York Times Digital, where he oversaw the Web sites of the The Boston Globe (Boston.com) and The New York Times (NYTimes.com). Commenting on Millstein's move to Hearst, George Irish, president of Hearst Newspapers said: "Lincoln brings to his new position an incredible depth of experience in both newspapers and new media. Given his accomplishments with Boston.com, NewYorkTimes.com and the other properties in the digital division of the Times, I'm confident that he will lead Hearst Newspapers to even greater success in the digital arena." Millstein helped found Boston.com in 1995 and ran it until 2000 when he was tapped as chief operating officer of New York Times Digital. He is a 25-year newsroom veteran who spent 14 years in a variety of editing positions at the Globe, including features editor, business editor and city editor. In his last assignment in the newsroom, he served as managing editor for features and new media. During his tenure, he developed several important sections in the newspaper, including the expansion of the Business and Arts sections. Prior to joining The Boston Globe in 1983, Millstein spent 10 years at The Hartford Courant both as a reporter and editor, including business editor from 1981 to 1983. During that time, he won several awards for his reporting on the aerospace and insurance industries. "I'm thrilled to be joining Hearst Newspapers," said Millstein. "I look forward to contributing to the continued success of the company's great newspaper brands."



Bruce MolloyBruce Molloy
CEO, Connotate Technologies, Inc.

Bruce Molloy's visionary leadership has helped grow multiple companies, resulting in many award-winning products. As a recognized authority in Knowledge Management, he has been featured in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal and Barron's. As CEO of Connotate Technologies, Mr. Molloy has brought the company from a promising technology to a high-growth market leader. Having secured strategic investment from Goldman Sachs, Connotate is growing at more than 300% a year, boasting market leading customers in finance, publishing and government. An experienced entrepreneur, Mr. Molloy has served as CEO and board member of several technology companies. One of his companies, The Molloy Group, merged with ServiceWare Technologies and completed a successful IPO. Mr. Molloy holds a B.A. in Physics and Music from Columbia University.



Howard MorganDr. Howard Lee Morgan
Partner, First Round Capital

Dr. Howard Morgan is a founding partner in First Round Capital, an early stage venture fund. He began working with Idealab in 1996 and serves on their board. Howard is also President of the Arca Group, Inc., a consulting and venture capital investment firm specializing in the areas of computer and communications technologies and Vice Chairman of the New York Angels. He has more than 25 years of experience with more than a hundred high-tech entrepreneurial ventures. Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania for almost 15 years. He serves on the boards of a number of companies and is a respected author. He received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1997. Howard received his Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University and his B.S. from the City University of New York.



Sean MorganSean Morgan
Founder & CEO, Critical Mention

Sean Morgan, President and CEO, of Critical Media, provider of Critical Mention, ClipSyndicate and Syndicaster, is at the forefront of broadcast search, syndication and information services based on the real-time capture and digitization of television, radio and other video content. Sean was previously one of the founders of ScreamingMedia, Inc., a leading provider of information services for the aggregation, distribution and integration of real-time, text-based business and financial information into websites, intranets, wireless sites and interactive television. Screaming Media became the Internet's largest text syndication network, debuted on the NASDAQ in August of 2000, and was subsequently acquired by CBS MarketWatch (now a part of Dow Jones, Inc.). Critical Mention, the Company's market leading real-time broadcast intelligence platform is currently utilized by 25% of the Fortune 100, government agencies, politicians and leading non profit organizations around the world. ClipSyndicate, the company's ad supported, vertical video syndication platform is in partnership with over 250 Broadcast Affiliates and 4,000 registered websites. The Company's completely web-based, mid-stream tv and radio clip creation and distribution platform, Syndicaster.tv is being utilized by major TV and radio broadcasters in a private beta to be opened up Q1, 2008.



Alan PatricofAlan Patricof
Founder and Managing Director, Greycroft LLC

Alan Patricof is the founder and managing director of Greycroft LLC. A longtime innovator and advocate for venture capital, Mr. Patricof entered the industry in its formative days with the creation of Patricof & Co. Ventures Inc., a predecessor to Apax Partners, Worldwide, LP-today, one of the world's leading private equity firms with $20 billion under management or advice. He stepped back from the daily administration and operational aspects of Apax Partners, Inc., the firm's U.S. arm, in 2001 to concentrate on a group of small venture deals on its behalf. Over the course of his thirty-year career in private equity, Mr. Patricof has been instrumental in growing the venture capital field from a base of high net-worth individuals to its position today with broad institutional backing, as well as playing a key role in the essential legislative initiatives that have guided its evolution. He has helped build and foster the growth of numerous major global companies, including America Online, Office Depot, Cadence Systems, Cellular Communications, Inc., Apple Computer, FORE Systems, NTL, and Audible. He was also a founder and chairman of the board of New York magazine, which later acquired the Village Voice and New West magazine. Currently, Mr. Patricof sits on the boards of Greycroft portfolio companies: Pump Audio and Paid Content, and Apax portfolio companies: Johnny Rockets, Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL), Handmark, Inc., The Newsmarket, and VoodooVox.



William Patry
Sr. Copyright Counsel, Google Inc.

Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Inc. Formerly copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, formerly Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights, formerly Law Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; author of numerous treatises and articles (including one on fair use with Judge Richard Posner), including the new 7 volume treatise on "Patry on Copyright".



Shoba PurushothamanShoba Purushothaman
CEO & Co-founder, The NewsMarket

Shoba Purushothaman is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of The NewsMarket, the leading online video distribution platform for corporations, government organizations and non-profits. Based in New York with offices in Europe and Asia, The NewsMarket's video distribution platform and products bring a powerful branding proposition to content producers, allowing them to make video available to the world's broadcast and online media (reaching more than 13,000 media outlets in 193 countries) and to customers, bloggers, employees, investors and other stakeholders. The NewsMarket also offers a content marketplace for video to be bought and sold. Clients of The NewsMarket include Microsoft, Pfizer, BMW, the International Olympic Committee, Facebook and Visit Mexico. Before founding The NewsMarket, Shoba worked in the news and public relations industries in Asia, Europe and the U.S. She was a business journalist for nine years, including at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswires in Washington D.C., New York and London. The NewsMarket is Shoba's second entrepreneurial venture; her first company was successfully acquired by a public entity in 2001. Shoba has won accolades for her entrepreneurial skills and is a regular speaker on digital media and global entrepreneurship. She is a graduate of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and American University in Washington, D.C. She is also a 2000 graduate of the Owner-President Management program at Harvard Business School. She is also on the advisory board of the Strategic Communications program at Columbia University.



Clara ShihClara Shih
Product Line Manager for the AppExchange Directory, Salesforce.com

Clara Shih joined Salesforce.com in 2006 and is currently the product line manager for AppExchange, an online marketplace for software-as-a-service business applications. In this role, Clara oversees product marketing, product management, and product strategy functions for the site, described by Forbes Magazine as the "iTunes of business software" and one of the top innovations of 2006. Independently, Clara is also the creator of Faceforce, the first enterprise social networking mashup which integrates Salesforce CRM and Facebook. Previously, Clara worked in strategy and business operations at Google and as a software developer at Microsoft. She is the founder and serves on the board of directors of Camp Amelia Technology Literacy Group, an East Palo Alto, California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that develops and distributes technology education software and curriculum. Clara holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Stanford University, as well as a Master's Degree in internet studies from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar.



Steve SieckSteve Sieck
President, SKS Advisors, Inc.

Steve Sieck has over 25 years' experience helping content and enabling-technology providers develop new products, enter new markets, make strategic investment decisions and align resources with strategic and financial objectives. He is President of SKS Advisors, Inc., an independent consultancy working with media and information companies to accelerate innovation and capitalize more effectively on new opportunities. Prior to founding SKS Advisors, he led the U.S. market entry of EPS, Ltd., a London-based provider of information industry advice, analysis, and market intelligence. Earlier, he led the Media & Entertainment practice at e-commerce integrator iXL/Scient, and managed critical strategy consulting engagements at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting Services. He also helped lead interactive media research pioneer LINK Resources from small startup to major division of IT industry research leader International Data Corporation. Steve recently served as the elected vice chairman of the Software & Information Industry Association's Content Division board of directors.



Patrick SpainPatrick Spain
CEO, Highbeam Research, Inc.

Patrick Spain is the founder of HighBeam Research, Inc. Spain created HighBeam™ Research in 2002 to serve as a vehicle for building an online research service for individuals. Spain raised a total of $4.3 million to fund HighBeam from Prism Opportunity Fund (Chicago), 1 to 1 Ventures (Stamford, Conn.), and a variety of individuals, including the original angel backers of his former company, Hoover's, Inc. 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 helped found Hoover's in 1990, serving as its CEO from 1993 to 2001 and chairman from 1994 to 2002. Spain was on the board of Hoover's when the company was sold to Dun & Bradstreet in 2003. During his tenure, Spain led Hoover's from an unprofitable private book publishing company with a few hundred thousand dollars of revenue to a publicly traded profitable media and business information company with $31 million of revenues. 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 the boards of Stockgroup Information Systems Inc. (OTC: SWEB), a financial information company; SmartAnalyst, a private research company specializing in market research for pharmaceutical companies; and Guidestar, a not-for profit enterprise that has created a database about and for the not-for-profit industry. . He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago in Ancient History and a J.D. from Boston University.



John S. SuhlerJohn S. Suhler
Founding General Partner and President, Veronis Suhler Stevenson

John S. Suhler is Founding General Partner and President of Veronis Suhler Stevenson. He has been actively involved in raising the capital of Veronis Suhler Stevenson's private capital funds. Mr. Suhler, for the majority of his operational career, was a Senior Manager/Publisher/President in educational (el-hi, college, supplemental materials) and professional publishing; consumer publishing; weekly newspapers, consumer magazines and books, professional (medical and healthcare) journals, monographs, and newsletters. Mr. Suhler was trained early on as a direct marketing and periodical subscription marketing manager and was instrumental later as a circulation director and publisher in the application of mathematical modeling to the business of circulation and print order planning and optimization of customer acquisition and publishing metrics in general. Mr. Suhler participates in the management presentations and due diligence reviews of nearly all portfolio company acquisitions and significant add-ons, and he has served on the Board of Directors of many of the Fund's portfolio companies and attended Board meetings as observer for most of the balance. Prior to co-founding VSS in 1981, Mr. Suhler was President of CBS Publishing Group, a $550 million (1980) revenue multinational operation (educational basal series and supplemental materials, hard cover consumer trade, medical text and treatise, and consumer magazines and paperback books) and one of the four operating groups of CBS, Inc., and previously was President of CBS Publications, the consumer periodical and mass market trade and paperback book publishing division of CBS, and was VP-Publisher of the Psychology Today group at Ziff Davis Publishing and CRM, Inc.



Daniel SullivanDaniel Sullivan
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State

Mr. Sullivan serves as the Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs. The Bureau he leads is responsible for overseeing work on international trade and investment policy; international finance, development, and debt policy; economic sanctions and combating terrorist financing; international energy security policy; international telecommunications and transportation policies; and support for U.S. businesses and the private sector overseas. Nominated by President Bush on April 24, 2006, Mr. Sullivan was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on May 26, 2006, and was sworn in as Assistant Secretary on June 6, 2006. Mr. Sullivan came to the State Department from the National Security Council/National Economic Council Staff at the White House where he served as a Director and Acting Senior Director in the International Economics Directorate. He focused on international trade and intellectual property rights issues, as well as international economic summits, including the G-8, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the Summit of the Americas. A Marine Corps infantry and reconnaissance officer, Mr. Sullivan was recalled from the reserves to active duty service from January 2005 until April 2006 and served as a Strategic Advisor and Special Assistant to the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), spending substantial time deployed in the CENTCOM theater of operations.



Mike TanseyMike Tansey
CEO, Jobson Medical Information LLC

As CEO, Mr. Tansey is involved in all aspects of the Company's operations and strategic development. He has a deep understanding of the broad medical education and communications market and a strong track record of acquiring, integrating and operating medical information businesses. Mr. Tansey has 20 years experience in the medical information industry. Formerly he was President and CEO of Medcases, Inc. Prior to MedCases, Inc., Mr. Tansey worked for more than 10 years at the Thomson Corporation where he was most recently Group CEO of Thomson Scientific and Healthcare. Mr. Tansey graduated from the University of Stirling in Scotland.



Tim WellerTim Weller
Group Chief Executive, Incisive Media

Tim started his career at VNU Business Publications in 1982 and left to join Centaur Communications in 1987 becoming a director of Centaur Publishing in 1989. In 1994 he became Managing Director of Reuters Publishing. Upon leaving Reuters Publishing later that year, he founded Incisive Media. Tim was voted PPA Publisher of the Year in 1997 and 1998, and Entrepreneur of the Year - London in 2001. In 2005 he received the publishing industry's top honor - the Marcus Morris Award. Tim is also the Chairman of PPA Business and Professional; the organization representing professional and business media in the UK and a non executive director of RDF Media PLC.


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Ed KeatingEd Keating
VP, Content Division, SIIA

Ed Keating is VP 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.



Ken WaschKen Wasch
President, Software & Information Industry Association

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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