Speakers

Clare Hart

President & Chief Executive Officer, Infogroup

Clare Hart became President and Chief Executive Officer of Infogroup in July 2010 and is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Company.

Prior to Infogroup Clare Hart was Executive Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, a News Corporation Company, and President, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, from March 2006 – January 2010. She was responsible for the company’s media portfolio serving the corporate, media, financial services and government markets. The unit is comprised of Dow Jones Content Technology Solutions (including Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Newswires and Factiva), Dow Jones Financial Information Services, Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence and Dow Jones Indexes. From January 2000 to February 2006, Ms. Hart was President and Chief Executive Officer of Factiva, where she drove the strategic vision for this award-winning and innovative business news and information company. During her tenure, Factiva grew to No. 1 in its industry from No. 3, reaching $281 million in annual revenue. Prior to this, Ms. Hart held the position of Vice President and Director of Factiva Global Sales, where she consolidated multiple sales groups from each predecessor company into one global team. She began her career at Dow Jones in 1983 and held various positions in sales, marketing, customer service and product design and development at Dow Jones Interactive before joining Factiva.

Ms. Hart has won numerous awards for her leadership and innovation. She is an advisory board member of Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business Dean’s Advisory Board, the Lubuto Library Project and The Women’s Venture Fund. From 2004 to 2006, she sat on the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) board of directors. Ms. Hart received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance and computer systems management from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She also has an M.B.A. from Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J.

Marty Kahn

Chief Executive Officer, ProQuest

Marty Kahn is CEO of ProQuest, LLC, a global information company that's central to serious research. The company built its reputation on quality aggregation and digital access to the world's scholarship – a content pool estimated to be among the very largest Oracle databases – and is now focused on honing technology to create innovative delivery systems that enable people to search, gather, share and create information. The ProQuest brand family supports the breadth of the research community – from librarians to students, faculty, and business professionals -- through the expertise of Chadwyck-Healey, Serials Solutions, RefWorks, COS, Dialog and Bowker.

Mr. Kahn is widely known and respected throughout the information industry, having led a variety of companies to success through the dynamic years before and after the birth of the Internet. Before joining ProQuest, Mr. Kahn was Chairman of the Board of Directors of OneSource Information Services, Inc. (1993-2004) He also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ovid Technologies, Inc. (1989-1998) and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vista Information Solutions.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Kahn served as President of BRS Information Technologies; General Manager of the Health Professions Division of McGraw-Hill; and as Vice President, Sales and Marketing, of the W.B. Saunders Company.

Mr. Kahn is a member of the board of directors and the finance committee of TrickleUp, a charitable organization that provides grants to entrepreneurs in the world's poorest countries. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA cum laude from Yale College.

Jonathan Knee

Co-Author, The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies; Senior Managing Director, Evercore

Jonathan Knee is a Senior Managing Director at Evercore Partners and an Adjunct Professor and Director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School where he teaches Media Mergers and Acquisitions and Strategic Management of Media. He also co-teaches a Business Journalism seminar at the Columbia Journalism School with James Stewart. Before joining Evercore in 2003, Knee was a Managing Director and Co-head of Morgan Stanley’s Media Group and was previously Publishing Sector Head in the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group at Goldman Sachs. Prior to becoming an investment banker, he was Director of International Affairs at United Airlines and served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The Atlantic. He is also the author of The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street (Oxford: 2006) and co-author of The Curse of The Mogul: What’s Wrong With the World’s Leading Media Companies? (Portfolio: 2009).

Tom Aley

CEO, RapidBuyr

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 RapidBuyr, Tom was a SVP and Managing Director at Dow Jones. Tom joined Dow Jones after it had acquired Generate, Inc., a business intelligence software company which he co-founded and served as President and CEO. Prior to founding Generate, Tom was a Partner at Reed Elsevier Ventures, the venture arm of the $8 billion media company. He co-led investments in several companies including Inxight Software (exited to Business Objects), Netli (exited to Akamai), Nextpage (exited to FAST) and iPhrase Technologies (exited to IBM). Prior to Reed, Tom was EVP at Stonepath Group, a VC firm, where he co-led the company’s initial public offering, raising $60 million. The company generated over $400 million in revenues in 2005.
Before Stonepath, Tom was a founding director at ZDNet, where he launched and managed the company’s e-commerce business unit, Computershopper.com. This unit, one of the first PC online buying services, accounted for more than 40 percent of the advertising revenue of ZDNet, one of the largest and most profitable Internet properties at the time. Earlier in his career, Tom headed eastern regional sales at Shiva Corporation.
Tom is also a founder and co-chairman of MoJo (Moms & Jobs, Inc.) a new social entrepreneurship company that is aiming to help solve single mothers’ dependency on public assistance/welfare through creating jobs in the apparel industry. He currently serves on the board of directors of Netprospex, MoJo, and the Jericho Road Project. He has served on the boards of iPhrase, Nextpage, SIIA, Outsell, the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX), and Northeastern University’s MBA Program.

Brad Allen

Vice President, Elsevier Labs

Bradley P. Allen is VP, Elsevier Labs at Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific and medical content.

Mr. Allen began his career as a member of the research staff at Carnegie-Mellon's Robotics Institute. As a senior member of the technical team at Inference Corporation he created CBR Express, one of the first and most successful case-based reasoning solutions for customer support. He was founder and CTO at Limbex Corporation, where he created WebCompass, an Internet search assistant that won Best Of Show at COMDEX Fall '95.

Mr. Allen was also founder of TriVida Corporation, a Web site personalization application services provider, serving as CTO until TriVida's acquisition by Be Free, Inc. in 2000; founder and CTO of Siderean Software, a vendor of Semantic Web solutions for information access and discovery; and a director of development at Symantec Corporation, where he managed a team that delivered the Quorum reputation-based security technology as part of the 2010 Norton security product suite.

Mr. Allen earned a BS in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982, and has been awarded five U.S. patents.

Mark Anderson

CEO, Strategic News Service

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

Robert Barber

Chief Executive Officer, Environmental Data Resources

Rob Barber is Chief Executive Officer of Environmental Data Resources (EDR). In this capacity, he is responsible for developing the enterprise's vision and executing the company's strategies across all markets. EDR is the nation’s leading provider of environmental information, software and analytics to the property due diligence market. The company supports over 500,000 real estate transactions per year by supplying environmental risk information to various participants in a real estate transaction or mortgage origination. Rob has been with EDR since 1992.
Prior to becoming CEO in 2004, Rob had been the company's President and Chief Operating Officer. Before that, he held multiple positions in the company's National Sales Organization, including Vice President of Sales, and was responsible for opening EDR's first regional sales offices in New England, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles.
Since the early 1990's, Rob has been an advocate for the application of environmental information services in the commercial mortgage, corporate M&A and residential home ownership markets. He has spearheaded major initiatives to develop proprietary property records, aggregate user generated content, and develop web-based workflow applications that improve both the user experience and the value of critical property content.
Rob also led the team that created Commonground; the global social network for professionals involved in all aspects of property due diligence and risk assessment. In 2009, Commonground won the Forrester Groundswell Award as Best Business to Business Supporting Community.
He is on the Board of Directors for BUILDERadius and a member of Worldwide ERC's Green Initiatives Committee which develops "green" education and business strategies within the workforce mobility industry.
Rob holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Fairfield University.

George Bell

President & CEO , Jumptap

George has been involved in the creation and growth of consumer businesses for 25 years. Before Jumptap, he was a Managing Director of General Catalyst, a venture capital and growth equity firm that manages over $1.7B of assets. Prior to that, he was CEO of Upromise, the country’s largest college savings service, sold in 2006 to Sallie Mae. Previously, George was Chairman and CEO of Excite@Home, bringing together the Excite portal with the @Home cable broadband platform in a $7 billion merger. George was CEO of Excite prior to the merger, led the company’s IPO, oversaw the acquisition of more than 20 companies and expanded Excite into a worldwide media property. Earlier George founded The Outdoor Life Network (now Versus Network), a specialty cable channel reaching 60+MM homes; and served as SVP, Times Mirror Magazines, where he oversaw eight special interest magazines, such as SKI and Field & Stream.

He won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award both in California and New England and four national Emmy Awards as a producer and writer of adventure, wildlife and vanishing culture documentaries. George has also been featured in TIME, Fortune, Forbes and Business Week, has appeared regularly on CNBC as both as a guest and co-host, and he’s spoken extensively on new media, convergence, and leadership.

Adriaan Bouten

Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, The McGraw-Hill Companies

Adriaan Bouten is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies' Information and Media segment which includes J.D. Power & Associates, Broadcasting, McGraw-Hill Construction, Platts and Aviation Week. Mr. Bouten leads technology initiatives that promote all
I & M brands, while driving revenue growth and enhancing productivity. In addition, he is responsible for digital product strategy and implementation, as well as the segment Six Sigma group.

Before being appointed to this position in May 2006, Mr. Bouten led the transformation of Gannet's USAToday.com, implementing common platforms and solutions. Prior to joining USA Today, Mr. Bouten held senior information technology positions with Hanley Wood LLC, The Times Publishing Company and Bon Secours Health System Inc. He began his career with Ernst & Young/Cap Gemini.

Mr. Bouten is a member of Online Publishers Association (OPA) and chairs their technology committee,
The Society of Information Management, and the AICPA.

Mr. Bouten holds an MS degree from Georgetown University and a CPA from the state of Virginia.

Brad Burnham

Managing General Partner, Union Square Ventures

Brad Burnham began his career in information technology with AT&T in 1979. He held a variety of sales, marketing and business development positions there until 1990 when he spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories. As the first AT&T "venture," Echo Logic was a catalyst for the creation of AT&T’s venture capital arm, AT&T Ventures. When Echo Logic was sold in 1993, Brad joined AT&T Ventures as an Executive in Residence. He became a principal at there in 1994 and a General Partner in 1996. At AT&T Ventures, Brad was responsible for 14 investments including, Argon Networks, Audible, Avesta Technologies, Classic Sports Network, Multex Systems, Physicians Online, and Paytrust.

Brad currently serves on the boards of Indeed, Pinch Media, Tumblr, Wesabe, Adaptive Blue, SimulMedia, Tracked.com, Meetup, and Bug Labs. Brad has a BA in Political Science from Wesleyan University, is married with two kids and lives in New York City.

Somak Chattopadhyay

Principal, GSA Venture Partners

Ed Colleran

Senior Director of International Relations, Copyright Clearance Center

Ed Colleran serves as the Senior Director of International Relations at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world's largest provider of copyright licensing solutions. He oversees strategic initiatives focused on CCC’s international activities—specifically, providing rightsholders around the world with new content licensing solutions and revenue-generating initiatives based on CCC’s products and services. Ed also provides the vision for the advancement of CCC’s digital rights management services and is a key contributor on other long-term strategic issues facing the information industry.

An industry veteran, Ed is a member of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) board of directors and also serves on the copyright committee of ALPSP. Ed is also a past member of the board of the Society for Scholarly Publishers (SSP). He is a featured speaker and editorial contributor on issues such as navigating copyright requirements and the challenges and opportunities of managing content in a digital environment. A regular speaker at industry events, Ed has recently presented at the annual conferences of SSP, O’Reilly Media and SIIA as well as London Online.

An eleven-year veteran at CCC, Ed has 25 years of experience in the communications and information industries. Before joining CCC, he served as vice president and managing director of Larry Miller Productions (now iXL, Inc.), a marketing communications firm.

Gordon Crovitz

Co-founder, Journalism Online

Gordon Crovitz is co-founder of Journalism Online, whose Press+ e-ecommerce platform enables publishers to charge for access to their web sites and to their mobile, tablet and e-reader editions, including "all digital access" subscriptions. He is a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and executive vice president of Dow Jones, where he was responsible for the Consumer Media Group, including for over a decade WSJ.com. He was also responsible for the company's enterprise, B-to-B products and services and was a founder of Factiva. He stepped down from those positions in December 2007, when News Corp. completed its acquisition of Dow Jones. He writes a weekly column in The Wall Street Journal, titled "Information Age."
He is a director and advisor to several companies, including technology-based media companies. He is on the boards of ProQuest, Business Insider, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Blurb. He is on the board of advisors of early-stage companies including YouNoodle, Peer39, SkyGrid, Hashed, Halogen Guides, ExpertCEO and Clickability.

Crovitz graduated from the Unversity of Chicago and has law degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and Yale Law School.

Carr Davis

Managing Partner, ASC Partners, LLC

Carr Davis is a Managing Partner of ASC Partners, LLC, a Maryland based company which owns, manages and services a wide variety of information assets in the government, financial and media transcription and information sectors. ASC was founded in 2004 and works cooperatively with many leading information platforms and publishers to maximize overall value for their digital assets. Formerly Co-CEO of Federal Document Clearing House (FDCH), Co-CEO of Cygnus Business Media founder of BBN Networks. Carr graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1980; he also has a B.A. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. He has residences in Alexandria, VA and Chicago, IL.

Bob Egan

Founder, Chief Analyst, Sepharim Group, LLC

Bob Egan is the Founder and Chief Research Officer of the Sepharim Group, an executive advisory firm that studies the business and social impact of emerging technologies.

A decade ago Bob predicated that mobile payments would be the next significant growth hormone in digital commerce. A mobility expert and Wi-Fi pioneer, Bob is widely respected as one of the mobile industry’s most influential strategists. As the former head Global Head of Research & Chief Analyst at the Corporate Executive Board’s TowerGroup, Founder and President of Mobile Competency, Chief Strategy Officer at Corechange, VP & Research Director at Gartner and Advanced Technology Director at Digital Equipment corporation (DEC), Bob has unparalleled knowledge and proven experience.

Bob’s personal active research agenda includes the business impact and evolution of; mobile banking & payments, mobile enterprise business and security applications, cloud computing and social networking.

Bob has written hundreds of articles and research reports on the mobile industry. His commentaries have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, as well as Forbes, BusinessWeek and Fortune magazines. Additionally, he has appeared on ABC Nightly News, CNBC, BBC TV and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Bob is a contributing writer for Forbes Velocity, an expert advisor for Focus.com, a participating analyst with GigaPro and consultant to the Gerson Lehrman Group.

Bill Godfrey

Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Head of Global Electronic Product Development, Elsevier

Bill Godfrey is Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer and Head of Global Electronic Product Development at Elsevier. In this role, Bill’s focus is to increase speed-to-market for new products and solutions, accelerating efforts to leverage more agile customer-focused development practices and to move large-scale development efforts to the next level of performance.

Before joining Elsevier, Bill was Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Dow Jones & Company, the global publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Dow Jones Newswires, several award winning consumer on-line sites and the owner of Factiva. Here, he aligned the company's technology organization with product strategies across both print and on-line media, developing innovative new products for enterprises and consumers. Prior to Dow Jones & Company, Bill was Senior Vice President, Information Technology Services at Hartford Life, Inc.

Brett Goldberg

Founder, SYNQWARE

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

Josh Green

CEO, Panjiva

Josh began his career at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he provided strategic advice to Fortune 500 clients. Later at iFormation Group, a joint venture of BCG and Goldman Sachs, Josh launched new, technology-enabled businesses. More recently, Josh learned first-hand about the challenges of doing business across borders while at E Ink, a high technology company with a global supply chain. Josh is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard Business School where he received Baker Scholar honors. Recently, Josh was a featured speaker at the Web 2.0 Summit and at DataContent ’09. Josh has been quoted in articles about global trade appearing in Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Darrell Gunter

CCO, AIP

Darrell W. Gunter is one of the leading advocates of semantic technology in the Science, Technical and Medical Industry. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at many information industry events advocating the benefits of semantic technology.

As the Chief Commercial Officer of AIP (American Institute of Physics) he is responsible for the global strategy, sales (revenue), marketing, customer service and fulfillment activities. Previously Darrell he served as the EVP /CMO of Collexis a semantic technology and knowledge discovery company specializing in application management software. At Collexis he was one of the stewards that led Collexis to be acquired by Elsevier and he served on the Elsevier / Collexis integration team.

Previously he served as the Sr. V.P. of Sales and Marketing for Elsevier and as the Nat’l Sales Director for Dow Jones Financial News Services after beginning his career at Xerox. He is an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University and serves on the Content Board of the Software Information Industry Association, Olin College of Engineering Library Advisory Board, Seton Hall University Advisory Council and is the Chairman of the Board for the Women’s Venture Fund. His radio program “Leadership” airs Saturday mornings at 9:00 am on WSOU HD 89.5 FM / WSOU.net.

Gary Halliwell

President, NetProspex

Gary Halliwell has spent 17 years building online publishing companies and is featured in BtoB Magazine's list of Who's Who.. He was the President and Founder of Intelligence Data, an online competitive intelligence provider which experienced rapid growth prior to merger with Thomson/Dialog. Gary served as CEO of Hurwitz Group a technology analyst firm and most recent he was the President of Zoominfo, a leading search engine for people. Gary began his career as a diamond prospector, working in remote areas of the African bush before finding his current niche in online publishing. Gary has a masters degree from Oxford University.

Kevin Jiang

SVP, Technology Development, Thomson Reuters

Kevin Jiang is the Senior Vice President of Technology Development for the Science division of Thomson Reuters, leading the software engineering for the division’s product portfolio. In this role he is responsible for application development, common architecture, systems and technologies across all business units within the Science division, including editorial and content management systems, search and text mining technologies and web products middleware and application platforms. Kevin also serves as the technology executive in Asia Pacific steering committee and heads up the Global Product Localization initiatives.

Kevin joined Thomson Reuters in 1996 and held various management positions including VP of Enterprise Technology, VP of Content Management and Editorial Systems and VP of Internetworking and Knowledge Management.

Prior to joining Thomson, Kevin’s professional experience includes technical and management positions with Electronic Payment Systems, NYNEX, and Unisys Corporation, as well as faculty positions with Delaware County Community College.

Kevin is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with an MS in Computer Engineering and a BS in Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. In addition to his technical degrees, Kevin holds an MA in Cross Cultural Ministries.

David Justus

Founder, Confab Circuit

David Justus is the founder of Confab Circuit, a social platform for locating business conferences, learning about their content, and linking to professionals with shared interests. He has led digital business, product, and corporate development efforts for prominent news, entertainment, and education brands. Justus served as the Vice President of Digital Media for NBC Local Media New York, General Manager for the College Board’s SAT preparation program, and in business development roles for Playboy Enterprises and Dow Jones & Company. Justus consults to media and information companies, including Conde Nast and Kaplan, on digital product strategy and development, with a focus on mobile and tablet devices. At contentcurrents.com and @contentcurrents, he writes about charging consumers for content.

Edward Keating

Vice President, Content Division, SIIA

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. Prior to joining SIIA, Keating was a Vice President at Easton Consultants where he was a member of the Financial & Information Services practice. While there he worked on a variety of assignments for both large and small information industry clients.

James Kollegger

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Genesys Partners, Inc.

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

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

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

Steve Lavine

Chief Executive Officer, Transparensee Systems

Steven D. Lavine is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Transparensee. Prior to his current role at Transparensee, Steven was a corporate attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton. Steven has a degree from Yale Law School, where he was Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Jeffrey Litvack

Global Director, New Media Markets, AP Digital

Jeffrey Litvack is the General Manager, Global Product Development for the Associated Press. Jeff is responsible for identifying and assessing new market and product opportunities for the AP worldwide. Under Jeff’s leadership, the AP produced the award-winning AP Mobile news network and AP News for Smart-Televisions. Previously, Jeff served as the Executive Director at the Museum of Television & Radio where he sourced, negotiated, and executed online video partnerships with leading-edge technology companies specializing in digitization, storage, retrieval, and rights management. Prior to MT&R, Jeff was Head of Business Development and Strategic Planning with Yack, Inc. Jeff holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business where he graduated summa cum laude.

Scott Livingston

Vice President, LexisNexis Group

Scott began his career with LexisNexis in 1998 and currently serves as the Vice President, Public Records and Legal News Solutions for LexisNexis US Legal Markets. Scott began his professional career as an academic law librarian. He taught for several semesters as an adjunct professor of law. He holds a JD in taxation and a MBA in finance. Currently, he sits on the board of the content division of the Software & Information Industry Association.

Michael Marchesano

Managing Director, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.

Michael Marchesano, a Managing Director with The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI), focuses on the firm's leading M&A advisory practice to the B2B media, and business information and education services sectors. Mr. Marchesano is a 25+ year media industry veteran, a former top executive at The Nielsen Company, and the former President and CEO of VNU Business Media USA. Prior to joining The Nielsen Company, Mr. Marchesano spent 22 years with BPA International, the primary global auditor of business publications, rising to the position of President and CEO in 1994. Mr. Marchesano was recently elected to the Software and Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) Content Division Board.

Lisa Mitnick

Executive Director, Accenture

Lisa Mitnick is an Executive Director within Accenture’s Mobility Services Practice. She is responsible for driving Accenture’s mobility solutions across the company’s Industry Practices and defining targeted offerings that meet the needs of our clients. Lisa is responsible for mobility strategy including alliances and acquisitions, market research and pilots. Lisa has worked in the communications, media and information services industry for 20 years. Prior to joining Accenture in 2008, she held a number of senior positions in the information services and communications industry. Her areas of expertise include strategy, business development and product development.

Lisa earned her Bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business. She resides in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband and two children.

David J. Moore

Chairman, Founder & CEO, 24/7 Real Media, Inc., A WPP Company

David J. Moore is Chairman, Founder and CEO of 24/7 Real Media, Inc., a leading global digital marketing company that offers award winning ad serving, targeting, tracking, and analytics platforms, along with powerful search marketing capabilities and a global alliance network of Web sites. As CEO of 24/7 Real Media, Mr. Moore is responsible for day-to-day operations and focuses on strengthening the company’s industry position, strategic relationships, recruitment and business development. Mr. Moore also works closely with WPP Digital to support the development and implementation of WPP’s digital initiatives.

Mr. Moore has led 24/7 Real Media’s growth from start-up to its current position as a leader in digital marketing. He is a respected industry veteran with over 30 years experience in new media property development. Throughout his career, he has consistently distinguished himself as a pioneer and leader. When the bubble burst on the dotcom industry, taking his company with it, Mr. Moore was determined that his company would survive. He held true to his vision that if his company survived it would emerge stronger, with a larger market opportunity and fewer competitors. With a series of bold moves, he succeeded.

Mr. Moore is a compelling speaker and seasoned executive with expertise in all facets of the digital advertising industry. He currently serves as Chairman for the Interactive Advertising Bureau and has been a member on the board since 2002. Throughout his career, Mr. Moore has held positions at companies such as Turner Broadcasting and Viacom. He co-founded Petry Interactive, which eventually became 24/7 Real Media.

Mr. Moore has served as a director of Local Matters, Inc., a provider of internet, voice and wireless technology solutions, since March 2004 and as Chairman since March 2006. He also serves on the board of Our Stage and Auditudes, both early stage internet companies, the board of directors of the Advertising Education Foundation (AEF), and on the board of directors for Visible Technologies, an industry leading provider of social media monitoring and engagement solutions.

Robin Neidorf

Director of Research, Free Pint Limited

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

Oke Okaro

General Manager and Global Head of Mobile, Multimedia, Bloomberg L.P.

Oke Okaro serves as the General Manager and Global Head of Mobile for the Bloomberg Multimedia group. He is responsible for setting the vision and strategy of Bloomberg’s mobile business and managing the day to day operations including P&L, product development and strategic partnerships. Okaro reports to Multimedia CEO Andy Lack.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Okaro served as Vice President of Mobile at ESPN where he spent six years building ESPN's mobile business having joined in 2004 as the third member of ESPN's mobile group. Under Okaro's leadership, ESPN became the leader in mobile sports with its award winning mobile products including the number one mobile website, alerts service, iPhone app and video service for mobile sports.

Prior to ESPN, Okaro worked as a product/business development consultant at Riverview Ventures, a business and product development consulting firm. Previously, he worked as a strategy consultant in the media and telecoms practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a senior software engineer developing fixed income derivatives trading systems at RBS Greenwich Capital. Okaro started his career working for Symbol Technologies (now part of Motorola) as a software engineer programming wireless warehouse automation systems.

Okaro received an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire, England.

Charlie Oshman

Co-founder & CEO, REonomy

Charlie Oshman is the co-founder and CEO of REonomy, a big data and analytics platform for the commercial real estate, related debt, and real estate backed securities investment sectors. During his time at REonomy, Charlie has become an expert in revolutionizing real estate data, investment and loan due diligence and deal sourcing processes, and related securities analysis methodologies.

Prior to co-founding REonomy, Charlie was a senior strategist at FKI (acquired by The Lab), a Manhattan-based web development firm. At FKI, Charlie led product conceptualization efforts for both media heavy and corporate projects. Charlie graduated with honors from the University of Miami with dual degrees in advertising and sociology with a focus on statistics.

John Paris

Sr. Director, Mobile Strategy, Time, Inc.

John Paris was a CNN Radio news anchor in 1999 when he first became interested in the potential of handheld devices to deliver news and information. Shifting gears after 15 years in broadcast news, John led design and development of the first CNN Mobile products and services.

Since joining Time Inc. in 2006 John has overseen the introduction of a series of trusted Time Inc. magazine titles into the mobile space: TIME, Life, People, Sports Illustrated, Golf, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle and Real Simple. Time Inc. develops and supports both mobile websites and downloadable apps for iPad and leading smartphone platforms.

John Patrick

President, Attitude LLC

John Patrick is President of Attitude LLC and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM Corporation, where he worked for thirty-eight years. During his IBM career John helped start IBM's leasing business at IBM Credit Corporation, and was the 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 has been 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.
John was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and past chairman of the Global Internet Project, a member of the Internet Society, a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. John has been a business and technology advisor to numerous companies. He is a member of the board of directors of WebMediaBrands Corporation, Knovel Corporation, Danbury Health Systems, Inc., Diamond Air Charter, Inc., Founders Hall, the Lehigh University Engineering Advisory Board, and OCLC. His book, Net Attitude, paints a vivid picture of the future of the Internet and the attitudes needed to capitalize on it. John's blog is at patrickWeb.com and you can follow him on twitter @johnrpatrick.

Cliff Pollan

CEO, VisibleGains

Cliff is a Co-Founder and CEO of VisibleGains. The company’s software enables sales and marketing teams to create and use video to help increase conversion and accelerate sales cycles.

Cliff has always been at the center of combining new technologies with content to create solutions that dramatically change the way people work. As a serial entrepreneur he has had the opportunity to do this several times over the last 30 years. He was a co-founder of NewsEdge Corporation, which created the first live integrated news alerting service, helped it to achieve its IPO and became CEO and led its sale to Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters) in 2001.



Cliff was a member of the management team of Isys Corporation, which provided investment managers their first ability to use financial databases on personal computers. Isys was acquired by Lotus Development in 1986 and was the foundation for creating the One Source product line.

Cliff lives in the Boston area with his family.

Michael Pugh

CEO, Verisma Systems

Michael Pugh has over thirty years of CEO experience in hospitals, health care systems, managed care organizations, consulting and health care services companies. Mr. Pugh is the President and CEO of Verisma Systems, a rapidly growing technology, service and consulting company helping hospitals and other providers remain HIPAA compliant in the release and transfer of patient records. Mr. Pugh is a nationally known consultant to health care organizations, payer organizations and government agencies. Pugh works with senior leaders and boards on issues of quality, performance, strategy and governance. He is a Senior Faculty member for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, MA, and works closely with IHI senior leadership on national improvement issues and efforts, including the IHI/RWJF Pursuing Perfection Project.

During his career, Mr. Pugh has served as Principal, Pugh Ettinger McCarthy Associates, LLC, President of Foundation Health Systems Western Division and President of QualMed Health Plans; President/CEO of HCA Medical City Dallas, Dallas, Texas; President/CEO of Parkview Health System, Pueblo, Colorado; and began his CEO career as Administrator of United General Hospital, Sedro Woolley, Washington. Under Pugh’s leadership, Parkview Health System was one of the very early starters in the health care quality improvement movement, earning national recognition for its success. Mr. Pugh continues to be very active in health care leadership. As a former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Hospital Association and former Commissioner of the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, he is well-positioned to provide expert support for health care leaders. He also served as Chairman of the Colorado Hospital Association and is a current member of the board of AHA Health Forum, a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association.

Francois Ragnet

Managing Principal, Technology Information Xerox Global Services, Xerox Corporation

Francois Ragnet is a passionate thinker, challenged by the gap between what is and what could be in document technologies. At Xerox Global Services, Francois recognizes that the need for a new direction is approaching. When he talks about "The Future of Documents," he imagines a time when smart documents will move across enterprises and perfectly integrate with all business processes. He foresees document technologies when 3D visualizations of complex information will be commonplace and office productivity will achieve new heights. To Francois, the future is now.

As Managing Principal, Technology Innovation, within Xerox Global Services, Francois Ragnet leads a team charged with transferring novel technologies into mainstream Xerox solutions offerings. Current initiatives focus on text-, image-, or feature-based categorization of documents, as well as identifying deeper semantic analyses which will enable smart document generation from traditional legacy formats or paper.

Prior to joining Xerox, Ragnet was a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technologies, in Gaithersburg, MD, where he focused on creation of a demonstration platform for state-of-the-art collaborative work technologies. He holds a master's degree in telecommunications, from the Institut National des Telecommunications, Paris, France.

Patricia Sabosik

President, Elm City Consulting

Patricia E. Sabosik is President of Elm City Consulting, LLC, and specializes in digital product strategy, pricing, corporate planning and product management for B2B companies in the professional and educational sectors. She is an information industry executive experienced launching digital businesses and building new brands for information companies.

Pat has held senior management and corporate strategy positions with Gartner where she launched collaboration and networking products and holds a patent in search and match processes; Thomson Learning, where she managed an internal investment fund for new product development; Factiva during the start-up period, where she directed global marketing and channel development; Elsevier where she launched and commercialized ScienceDirect; and America Online, during the hyper-growth period she lead AOL’s digital imaging project.

In her corporate strategy and consulting roles, she has evaluated content and technology companies for acquisition or investment and advised a private equity fund on acquisitions. She is a member of the Stevens Institute of Technology’s Web Campus Board of Directors and sits on the board of Earth-List.com. She has recently published an article for SIIA on preparing a company for acquisition.

Vivek Shah

CEO, Ziff Davis

Vivek Shah is CEO of Ziff Davis, Inc., a leading digital media company specializing in the technology market. Shah was formerly group president, digital for Time Inc.'s news, business and sports properties, which include Time.com, Life.com, CNNMoney.com, SI.com, FanNation.com, Golf.com and SIKids.com.

Previously, Shah served as president of the Fortune/Money Group, which included the magazines Fortune, Money and Fortune Small Business and the website CNNMoney.com. Prior to that, Shah served as president of digital publishing of the group where he oversaw the launch of CNNMoney.com, the Web's largest vertical business site.

Previously, Shah was the general manager of the group, functioning as its senior financial and business development executive, 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.

Shah has been named Online Publisher of the Year by MIN and Innovator of the Year by BtoB's Media Business. Shah was also named to Folio magazine's Thirty under 30 list and Crain's Forty under 40 list. He has a B.A. in political science from Tufts University.

Ted Shelton

CEO, Open-First

Ted Shelton is currently CEO of consulting firm Open-First, based in
Palo Alto and London. He has spent the past 20 years working in the
high tech industry, as a software developer, in product development,
marketing, and as a senior executive in both public and privately held
companies. Shelton developed the principles guiding Open-First while
working with Technorati in 2007. Previously Shelton served as the
Chief Strategy Officer of Borland Software and Senior VP of Sales and
Marketing for WhoWhere (acquired by Lycos in 1998) and several other
software and Internet start-up companies.

Helping companies to be open and transparent with their own employees,
their customers, and their markets is the mission of Open-First, a
global team of experienced technologists, marketers, and business
leaders. Through research, strategy development, technology expertise,
and data-driven planning and execution, this team of experts helps
companies re-examine communication, design, innovation, management and
support practices in the era of digital communications and open
collaboration.

Alan Spoon

General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

Alan Spoon is a general partner of Polaris Venture Partners. Alan brings more than 20 years of operating, strategy, and investment experience to Polaris. He came to the firm from The Washington Post Company, where he worked for 18 years. Previously he had been Chief Financial Officer, President of Newsweek, supervising executive for Kaplan, head of newspaper marketing, and head of corporate business development. The Post Company has significant activities in publishing, educational markets (Kaplan), television, and cable. Prior to The Washington Post, Alan was an officer at The Boston Consulting Group.

Alan earned his S.B. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an S.M. at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, and a J.D., with honors, from Harvard Law School.

Robert S. Sutor

VP, Open Systems and Linux, IBM Software Group

Dr. Bob Sutor is the Vice President of Open Systems and Linux for the IBM Corporation. In this role he has the responsibility for driving the IBM strategy, sales enablement, and technical pre-sales for software running on Linux and other open source environments. He works with customers, partners, government leaders, analysts, and the press to understand the value of adopting business-critical open source and Linux. He leads new software-based Linux growth initiatives with a global team of software engineers, architects, and sales and marketing professionals. Sutor also drives software interoperability initiatives with public sector partners around the world.

A 27 year veteran of IBM, Sutor worked for 15 years in IBM Research, specializing in symbolic mathematical computation and Internet publishing. He co-authored the books Axiom: The Scientific Computation System and The LaTeX Web Companion. Sutor was a co-author of the W3C Recommendation Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) as well as the W3C Recommendation Document Object Model Level 1.

In 1999 Dr. Sutor moved to the IBM Software Group and focused on jump starting industry use of XML. This led to positions on the Board of Directors of the OASIS standards group and the vice chairmanship of the ebXML effort, a joint OASIS/United Nations endeavor. Sutor then led IBM’s industry standards and Web services strategy efforts. Dr. Sutor is a widely read blogger and is a frequent speaker around the world on open source, Linux, open standards, virtual worlds, and cloud computing. He is widely cited in the press; was featured in interviews in the Harvard Business Review, CNET, eWeek, and InfoWorld; and was quoted in the Wall Street Journal and the Economist. In 2006 Sutor was named as one of Computer Business Review’s “Open Source VIPs”.

Dr. Sutor has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, both in Mathematics.

Ken Wasch

President, SIIA

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.