Speakers

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.

Michael Chen

Former President, NBC News' Strategic Initiatives Group, and Founder, Peacock Equity Fund

Michael Chen is the President of NBC News’ Strategic Initiatives Group & Education Nation. In this capacity, he is responsible for identifying growth opportunities for NBC News and oversees several key news division properties, including Education Nation and NBC Learn. In addition, Michael Chen sits on the Board of Directors for Weather Channel.

Prior to this role, Michael was President & CEO of GE Capital’s Media, Communications, and Entertainment (MCE) business, and was a Vice President and Officer of GE. In this role, he oversaw GE’s debt and equity financing to these three sectors, with a portfolio of over $8Billion. In addition, he founded the Peacock Equity Fund, a highly successful venture capital JV between GE Capital and NBCUniversal focused on digital media properties. He was co-Chairman of the fund and oversaw all investments from 2007-2010.

Michael started his career in 1985 as a financial analyst for IBM. After several different roles in finance, he moved over to IBM Credit Corporation in 1990. He held management positions in sales, finance and risk management before joining GE in 1994 as Vice President of Risk Management for GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS). He was named Senior Vice President and General Manager, North America for GECAS in 1999, where his team was responsible for providing aircraft leases and loans to the aviation industry for the US and Canada. During the eight years in this role, he led GECAS growth in North America and helped GECAS become the leading financing company to the aviation industry. In 2007, he was promoted to be the President & CEO of GE Capital’s MCE’s business and was named an Officer of GE. Michael assumed his current position in January 2011, where he moved over to the new Comcast/NBCUniversal company after the merger was completed on January 28th 2011.

Paul Wojcik

Chairman, Bloomberg BNA

Paul Wojcik was named Chairman of Bloomberg BNA in January 2012, following Bloomberg’s acquisition of BNA in September 2011. He previously served as BNA’s CEO from 1996 through 2011, after being named president and chief operating officer in February 1995.

Wojcik joined BNA in 1972 as an editor for U.S. Law Week and was named managing editor of that service in 1979. In 1984, he became corporate counsel, and in June 1988 he became vice president and general counsel. In October 1994, he became senior vice president of BNA. He was first elected to the BNA Board of Directors in 1989, and was elected Chairman of the Board in 2007.

Wojcik is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law. He is the vice-chair of the board of directors of Signature Theatre and serves on the executive and finance committees of that board. He is also a member of the board of directors of Hanover Research Council.

Brian Alvey

CEO, Crowd Fusion

Brian Alvey is founder and CEO of Crowd Fusion. He and Jason Calacanis founded Weblogs, Inc. — home to Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad, Blogging Stocks and many more top blogs, later acquired by AOL. Brian has been building digital publishing platforms for more than fifteen years, built the first web sites for TV Guide and Business Week as well as platforms for Capgemini and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was also the chief architect of Netscape's social news platform.

A graduate of TCU, Brian serves as the NYC co-host of the Open Angel Forum.

Brian can be found on twitter as @BrianAlvey

Lou Andreozzi

Chairman, Bloomberg Law

Lou Andreozzi is chairman of Bloomberg Law, the innovative real-time legal research system from Bloomberg L.P., the world leader in data and information services.

Andreozzi is an experienced leader in the business information and technology industries, and has played a major role in the development and growth of some of the most widely used legal online tools and professional services. In his role as chairman, Andreozzi provides the strategic leadership driving Bloomberg Law's expansion in the legal research field as well as the growth of its proprietary features and content. Andreozzi joined Bloomberg Law in October 2010.

Andreozzi is a former CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets. His portfolio at LexisNexis included some of the most prominent legal products and brands including the Lexis online service, Shepard’s, Matthew Bender, Martindale-Hubbell and lawyers.com. Prior to becoming CEO, Andreozzi was general counsel of LexisNexis.
Most recently, Andreozzi has been serving as president and chief executive officer of IQNavigator, Inc. a leading provider of services spend management software and managed services, and continues to play a leadership role in the company. He has also served as CEO of Inference Data, a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of solutions for legal data analysis and review, and as a strategic advisor for ValueAct Capital, The Carlyle Group and Bain Capital on large media and technology deals.
Andreozzi is a graduate of Rutgers University and received a J.D. from the Seton Hall School of Law. He sits on the Seton Hall School of Law Board of Visitors and the board of Avvo, Inc. He is in demand as a speaker and commentator, and has delivered keynote remarks for the American Bar Association's annual TechShow conference.

Ken Auletta

Author of "Googled: The End of the World as We Know it", 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."

Drew Bartkiewicz

Vice President, Strategy Services, Mashery

Drew Bartkiewicz leads strategy and execution development for Mashery's largest customers. A 20-year veteran of technology deployment and risk management, Drew has worked with organizations such as Walmart, Boots, Primedia, UBS, British Telecom, Citibank, US News and World Report, Amazon, Delta, Maidenform, Vogue, Este Lauder, Telefonica, Iberia, Home Depot, and GE. He is co-founder and former CEO of data analytics company, CyberFactors, and has been an executive at salesforce.com, BroadVision, United Technologies, and The Hartford.
Having worked and resided in Europe for 7 years, he speaks Spanish, Italian, and French. Drew has a Masters in Business from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from West Point. In 2009 he was a member of the Future of the Internet Council with the World Economic Forum in Dubai and Geneva.

Eric Baumes

Chief Technology Officer, The Economist Online

Eric has more than 15 years of experience in developing, marketing and managing electronic publications and services. He has previously served as Technology Director and Marketing Manager for the Economist Intelligence Unit and as a Product Manager for the electronic publishing division of Oxford University Press.

William Bergmann

Executive Director, Factiva Destination Products, Dow Jones & Company

Will is responsible for the strategy, development and management of Factiva.com and mobile solutions within the overall Factiva product portfolio. Will joined Factiva in 2010 and has led efforts to build and enhance Factiva user experiences, including the redesign of Factiva.com and the launch of the Factiva for iPad application.
Prior to joining Factiva, Will has held a wide-range of leadership roles at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, including product development, marketing, finance and program management.

John Blossom

President, Shore Communications, Inc.

Alisa Bowen

General Manager, Wall Street Journal Digital Network

Alisa Bowen is general manager of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, the company’s consumer digital business group.

In this role, she is responsible for driving the strategy, development and operations for market-leading products, including WSJ.com, Barrons.com, SmartMoney.com, AllThingsD.com and their mobile applications. In addition to WSJDN, she also supervises FINS.com and the company’s digital classifieds business.

Prior to joining Dow Jones in December 2010, Ms. Bowen had been senior vice president and head of business operations for Reuters Media at Thomson Reuters. In nearly 10 years at the company, she was the global head of consumer publishing and was responsible for global product development, general manager of Reuters.com and a business analyst and media strategist.

Ms. Bowen has an MBA from the London Business School and an undergraduate degree from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Benjamin Carpano

Chief Executive Officer, Reportlinker

In charge of operations and product development Benjamin cofounded Ubiquick in 2001. He is responsible for strategy, product road mapping and day to day operations.

Benjamin earned a MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Bordeaux Business School.

Prior to cofounding Ubiquick, Benjamin held a position of Product Development Manager at Ciao.com an internet start-up focused on consumer reviews. Prior to this, he was also consultant in Strategic management services at Ernst & Young.

Joshua Cohen

Director, Content Licensing & Distribution, PR Newswire

Joshua B. Cohen, Director of Content Licensing & Distribution at PR Newswire, develops and manages the relationship with the thousands of websites, databases, mobile application developers and content aggregators around the world that publish and distribute PR Newswire’s news release feeds including the rapidly growing multimedia/social media and mobile news release segments. Josh has more than 20 years experience in the development and distribution of business and financial news including stints at the Financial Times and at the start up that led to the creation and eventual sale of Asia Intelligence Wire, the original realtime feed of over 240 Asian-based news feeds and publications.

Kevin Collins

Business Consulting, Information Services Lead, Cognizant

Kevin Collins leads Cognizant Business Consulting practice for Information Services. He has been working at the confluence of technology and media for nearly 15 years, helping companies with strategic vision, operating model and go-to-market development, partnership and distribution strategy, pricing and organizational transformation. .
Prior to joining Cognizant, Mr. Collins spent six years in Accenture’s Media & High Tech Strategy Practice, where he focused on strategic and operational consulting for a wide variety of media & tech industry leaders and challengers. Kevin was a co-founder of ThoughtMatrix, a San Francisco-based technology consultancy. From 1999-2004, he led Knight Ridder’s venture capital fund, investing in new media technologies, content management, streaming and consumer web applications.
Kevin has an MBA from Dartmouth College’s Amos Tuck School of Business, and a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from Northeastern University.

Robert Dippell

Vice President of Corporate Development, Praetorian Group, Inc.

Mr. Dippell acts as the Vice President of Corporate Development, driving the expansion of Praetorian’s company presence through relationship management with key partners, clients and industry experts. His responsibilities include working closely with the sales department to shape and deliver valuable client campaigns in addition to acting as a figurehead for the company, discussing the changing digital landscape and how it applies to the public safety market. He is currently evaluating funding opportunities for Praetorian’s next stage of growth.
Robert’s experience includes advertising campaign management, online marketing, business strategy, graphic design, and the management of online business ventures. Prior to joining Praetorian, he worked at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners on the Starbucks and Doritos accounts and participated in a number of start-up ventures. He was the co-founder of a profitable online marketing and events company promoting businesses to over 20,000 college students. Originally from San Jose, California, he attended college in Vermont for athletics and currently lives in San Francisco where he runs a restaurant blog and plays golf poorly in his spare time.

Ken Doctor

President/Lead News Analyst, Content Bridges

Ken Doctor is the author of “Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get,” which has been translated in Mandarin Chinese, Korean and Portuguese. He contributes to his own Newsonomics.com website, writes a weekly column for the Nieman Journalism Lab and works as an affiliate analyst for Outsell.

As an analyst, consultant and speaker, he works with media globally, advising on new sustainable business models of contemporary journalism. In that work, he focuses on the many issues and opportunities of the transformation of the news media, as it moves from print and broadcast to digital. His twin concerns: the new business models in creation and the journalism they offer for communities and societies overall.

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.

Stuart Frankel

Chief Executive Officer, Narrative Science

Stuart Frankel is the CEO of Narrative Science, a company he co-founded in late 2009. Narrative Science is a Chicago-based technology company that turns data into stories and insights. The Company’s patent-pending proprietary artificial intelligence platform produces reports, articles, summaries and more that are automatically created from structured data sources.
Prior to Narrative Science, Stuart was a Senior Vice President of DoubleClick and President of its Performics division. Mr. Frankel joined Doubleclick through its acquisition of Performics, a venture-backed marketing services company. Before joining Performics, he was the Chief Financial Officer for Tunes.com, an online network of music Web sites. Earlier in his career, Mr. Frankel held several operating positions with a publicly traded home builder and real estate developer, practiced corporate law with a large Midwestern law firm and worked as a senior auditor for an international accounting and consulting firm. A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Frankel earned a J.D. from Vanderbilt University and a B.S. in Accounting from Miami University.

Jeff Giesea

CEO & Founder, Best Vendor

Jeff Giesea is CEO & Founder of BestVendor. Previously, he founded and led online B2B media company FierceMarkets, which he sold to Questex Media and the Audax Group in 2008. He's been widely recognized as an innovator in the B2B media and marketing services industries. A graduate of Stanford, Giesea lives in New York City.

Kathy Greenler Sexton

VP and General Manager, Content Division, SIIA

Kathy serves as the VP and General Manager of the SIIA Content Division, developing and delivering the many programs and initiatives of the Division.

Kathy is a dynamic, strategic and hands-on executive with deep experience serving Information, Internet and Media companies. After working in broadcast television and international marketing roles, she was a founding member, lead marketer and publisher for the web-based search engine pioneer AltaVista. She has also general-managed or marketed industry-leading online companies focused on news, small business information and general research including: ZoomInfo.com, BLR, Individual.com, Office.com and HighBeam Research. She has a BA in communications from Boston College.

Kristian J. Hammond

Co-founder & CTO, Narrative Science

Dr. Kristian Hammond is CTO and one of the founders of Narrative Science. Narrative Science is a Chicago-based technology company which turns data into stories and insights through its proprietary artificial intelligence platform which produces narrative reports, articles, summaries and more that are automatically created from structured data sources. Mr. Hamond is currently on leave from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University. He is an accomplished researcher in the areas of human-machine interaction, context-driven information systems and artificial intelligence. After completing his Ph.D. in computer science at Yale University in 1986, Dr. Hammond founded The University of Chicago’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Under his direction, the laboratory flourished as a center for innovative artificial intelligence research for over a decade. In 1998, Dr. Hammond moved to Northwestern University to form Northwestern's Intelligent Information Laboratory (InfoLab) and began focusing on the generation of content based on search and data analytics.

Ryan Jones

President, Pubget

Pubget, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Copyright Clearance Center, develops cloud-based content access tools for scientists and researchers. The company’s core product, Pubget.com, is a free site for legally finding and directly retrieving research papers. The site provides access to content from 450 libraries around the world in science and engineering, weighted toward biomedical science, but including content in arXiv, JStor, and IEEE. Pubget also provides content tools for industry and libraries. All are hosted and sold via a freemium model.

Ryan manages sales and marketing for Pubget. He joined Pubget from Microsoft’s enterprise search group, where he helped some of the world’s largest web sites build better user experiences with search technology. Before Microsoft, Ryan ran a media search business for FAST Search, and built technology market strategies at Commonwealth Capital and the Yankee Group. Ryan has an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Lauren Kaplan

Senior Director, Product And Strategy, LexisNexis Group

Lauren Kaplan is Senior Director, Product Planning and Strategy, at LexisNexis. She has responsibility for the News and Business portfolio across all market segments, as well as for the overall strategy for the Non-Legal Corporate market segment. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Ms. Kaplan was a Senior Associate at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman), where she led growth strategy projects for large clients primarily in the consumer products and healthcare industries. She also worked in marketing strategy at AOL. Ms. Kaplan has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Politics from Princeton University.

Pat Kenealy

Former CEO, IDG, General Partner, IDG Ventures

In January 2006, Pat rejoined IDG Ventures as a Managing Director after a 20-year career at media giant International Data Group (IDG) where he managed media and venture capital operations. Pat was founder and CEO of IDG's Digital News Publishing subsidiary, Publisher and CEO of it PC World Communications subsidiary, and finally CEO of IDG itself overseeing media, market research and event businesses in more than 50 countries. As a publishing executive, Pat has been a tireless champion of new media, and an advocate for the positive effect of information technology on organizations and individuals.
Pat was founder and Managing General Partner of IDG Ventures in San Francisco, and a founder and General Partner of IDG Ventures Atlantic in Boston and IDG Ventures Europe in London. Pat has invested in more than a dozen early-stage IT and new media investments which have collectively returned more than seven times their committed capital. Some of Pat's board and observer seats have been Babycenter.com, FutureTense, Spinner.com, Service Metrics and Andromedia. Pat currently sits on the boards of Olive Media, Parking in Motion and Winster. Before joining IDG, Pat held a number of publishing and editorial management positions with Ziff-Davis Publishing and Cahners Publishing, and earned a BA from Harvard University.

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.

Scott Kurnit

Founder, Chairman, CEO, AdKeeper

Scott Kurnit founded AdKeeper in 2010, with a mission to improve the Internet by enabling consumers to engage with advertising on their own time and terms
Scott also founded and served as chairman and CEO of About, Inc. as it grew to a public market value of $1.7 billion and was the 5th largest of all Web properties. About invented the forerunner to Google’s AdSense in Sprinks (purchased by Google in 2003) and the first family of ad networks in Luna. Kurnit sold About U.S. to Primedia in 2001 for $724 million. About is now owned by the New York Times Company.
Scott has founded four companies, all of which continue operating today. He’s a holder of four patents, led the team that embedded the first Web browser into an online service, started the first Pay Per View cable network and co-led the team that implemented the first use of national caller ID. He was also the youngest program director in the PBS system and served as program director for Qube, the world’s first fully interactive cable system. He was president of Showtime Event Television when it generated the largest one night gross in the entertainment business and aired the first rock concert (broadcast in 70 countries) from the former Soviet Union.
Scott serves on the Boards of AdKeeper, Appssavvy, Brightcove, Dotomi, OpenSky, SendMe Mobile, and The Paley Center for Media. He is an advisor to About, Black Arrow, Mashery and SmartBrief.
He has been a Filmmaker, TV Director, Station Program Manager, Marketer and CEO. He has worked at the highest levels of Warner, Viacom, News Corp., PBS, IBM, and MCI companies.

Adam Lashinsky

Author of Inside Apple , Senior Editor, Fortune

Adam Lashinsky covers Silicon Valley and Wall Street for FORTUNE. He has been on the magazine’s staff since 2001, and for two years before that was a contributing columnist. In addition, he is a weekly panelist on the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto on Business” program on Saturday mornings, and he appears frequently on other Fox News and Fox Business Network programs. He also co-chairs FORTUNE’s annual technology conference, Fortune Brainstorm Tech, and is a seasoned speaker and panel moderator.
Lashinsky’s cover-story subjects in FORTUNE have included Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Google. He also has written in-depth articles on Wells Fargo, Intel, Oracle, eBay, Twitter, and the venture-capital industry, as well as on diverse topics from San Francisco politics to oil-exploration technology to the post-Katrina economic recovery of New Orleans. His book, Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired – and Secretive – Company Really Works, is scheduled to be published in January, 2012, by Hachette Book Group’s Business Plus imprint.
Prior to joining FORTUNE, Lashinsky was a columnist for The San Jose Mercury News and TheStreet.com. Before moving to California, he was a reporter and editor for Crain's Chicago Business. As a Henry Luce Scholar, he also worked for a year in Tokyo as a reporter for the Nikkei Weekly, the English-language version of Japan's main economic daily. He began his career in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Crain Communications.

A native of Chicago, Lashinsky earned a degree in history and political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

David LeDuc

Senior Director, Public Policy, SIIA

David represents the Association before Congress, the Administration and other policymakers across a number of key ICT public policy issues, including e-commerce, privacy, cyber security, cloud computing, open standards, e-government and information policy. He has been instrumental in helping to advance the software and digital content industries, including many major policy objectives back to the late 1990s.

John Leitch

Executive Director, Metro UK

John Leitch is an Executive Director of Metro, the UK's leading urban media brand. Metro is firmly established as an integral part of the daily routine for the UK's commuting urbanites. Metro's mobile internet traffic is 1.5 million unique visitors per month, there are 8.5 monthly unique visitors to metro.co.uk and 3.4 million daily readers of the weekday print product

Based in London, John is part of a leadership team taking proactive strides to redefine and execute the strategic future for this successful brand. He has specific responsibility for executing excellence across the operational aspects of the business and has played a key role in the creation of the successful partnerships Metro has built with the UK's transport industry, other publishers and trade customers.

John is also a director of ALD Logistics Ltd, London’s largest distributor of newspapers and Fortune Green Ltd., the publisher of Metro Herald, a free newspaper in Dublin.

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.

Mark MacCarthy

VP, Public Policy, SIIA

Mark MacCarthy joined the Software and Information Industry Association in February 2011 as Vice President for Public Policy. He directs their public policy initiatives in the areas of intellectual property enforcement, information privacy, cybersecurity, cloud computing and the promotion of educational technology. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses in information privacy and tech policy in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, and courses in political philosophy in their Philosophy Department. His previous public policy experience includes senior positions with Visa, Inc., the Wexler Walker Group and Capital Cities/ABC and the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds a Ph.D in philosophy from Indiana University and an MA in economics from the University of Notre Dame.

Michelle Manafy

Director of Content, Free Pint Limited

Michelle Manafy is the Director of Content of Free Pint Limited, a publisher of sites and resources for the business information industry. Previously, she served as the Editorial Director of the Enterprise Group for Information Today, Inc. where she was editor of EContent Magazine and chair of the Buying & Selling eContent Conference and Enterprise Search Summits. She is the co-editor of and a contributor to the book Dancing With Digital Natives: Staying in Step With the Generation That's Transforming the Way Business is Done (May 2011, CyberAge Books). An award-winning columnist, Michelle's focus is on emerging trends in digital content and how they shape successful business practices. She speaks at a variety of industry events and serves as a judge for content and technology competitions. She has worked in book and magazine publishing for more than 20 years in areas ranging from pop culture to academic nonfiction and holds a BA in journalism from San Francisco State University.

Ned May

VP & Lead Analyst, Outsell, Inc.

In his capacity as Vice President & Lead Analyst, Ned May leads Outsell's analytic coverage and advisory services focused on the Search, Aggregation & Syndication market. His coverage centers on the myriad ways in which digital content is aggregated and consumed. He keeps a keen eye on web search engines and portals, licensed content aggregators, and subscription and syndication service providers, as well as the technology vendors serving these segments. Ned serves as an executive-level advisor and consultant to clients on issues impacting all facets of this market, including the money flows around online advertising, content syndication and copyright, and the delivery platform challenges across the tethered web and mobile devices such as smart phones and e-book readers. Ned is regularly quoted in the mainstream press and has been featured on PBS’s Nightly Business Report and FoxBusiness.com.

Christopher Mayer

Publisher, The Boston Globe

Chris Mayer was named publisher of The Boston Globe and president of the New England Media Group of The New York Times Company in January 2010. Previously, Mr. Mayer had been senior vice president, circulation and operations for the Globe since 2008, where he oversaw production, advertising operations, circulation marketing and distribution.

Prior to this position Mr. Mayer served as chief information officer and senior vice president, circulation among other positions, including the senior vice president of Community Newsdealers, Inc., the former home delivery subsidiary of the Globe. He started at the Globe in 1984 in the information services department.

Mr. Mayer graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in computer science.

Fran Mozloom Goodling

Electronic Resources Manager, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, Shire Pharmaceuticals

Fran Mozloom Goodling has worked in the pharmaceutical industry as an information specialist since 1999. Prior experience has been as a medical information specialist working in hospital settings. As a graduate of Drexel University’s College of Information Science and Technology, Fran's professional career has focused on electronic access to information resources.
Fran is currently managing the electronic resource library for Shire Pharmaceuticals, a global pharmaceutical company with US headquarters outside Philadelphia PA. Responsibilities include vendor contract negotiations and management, literature management, intranet development, and copyright guidance.

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.

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.

Seth Pinsky

President, New York City Economic Development Corporation

Seth W. Pinsky was appointed President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in February 2008, seven months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers ushered in one of the most significant economic downturns in generations. Seth has worked to meet the challenge presented by the crisis by re-evaluating the agency’s strategy for expanding the City’s economy and positioning the City as the international center for innovation in the 21st century. Seth’s efforts have included modernizing NYCEDC’s property management portfolio; overseeing more than $2.5 billion in capital investments ranging from basic infrastructure improvements to new parks and streetscapes across the City; to significant area-wide development projects including Coney Island in Brooklyn and Hunters’ Point South in Queens. Seth helped to negotiate and structure the City’s involvement in some of the most complex development projects in recent years, including the World Trade Center and most recently the historic partnership between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a two-million-square-foot applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island
An attorney by training, prior to joining NYCEDC, Seth was an associate at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in the Real Estate practice and a financial analyst at the Mergers & Acquisitions boutique, James D. Wolfensohn Incorporated. Seth is a graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School.

Wally Reiher

Vice President, Information Technology , Exelixis

Wally Reiher is Vice President, Information Technology at Exelixis. He is responsible for the delivery of all information services. He joined Exelixis in 2002.

Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Reiher held management and scientific research positions in informatics and computational chemistry at a number of biotech and software companies.

Wally earned a BA degree in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from Harvard University.

Ian Rosen

Global Director, Investment Banking , Dow Jones

Ian Rosen is Global Director, Investment Banking for Dow Jones, responsible for business and product strategy for the Dow Jones Investment Banker product. Prior to his current role he a was Vice President at Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters), heading Investment Banking Strategy, as well as having held related positions at Goldman Sachs and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Ian graduated with highest honors from The University of Michigan.

Ann Sarnoff

COO, BBC Worldwide America

Ann Sarnoff joined BBC Worldwide America as Chief Operating Officer (COO) in September 2010 and is charged with driving growth and profits across the company’s U.S. businesses.

Reporting directly to company President, Herb Scannel, Sarnoff oversees advertising and affiliate sales for BBC America, as well as digital assets including digital syndication and BBC.com. She also supervises ancillary businesses in the U.S. including TV sales & co-productions, home entertainment and licensing.

She has built a variety of businesses in television, licensing, print, digital platforms and live events working with some of the most successful media brands in the U.S. and combines strong leadership with entrepreneurial aplomb.

She joins BBC Worldwide America from Dow Jones & Company where she was President, Dow Jones Ventures and SVP Strategy of Dow Jones. During her tenure, Sarnoff was responsible for leveraging the company’s assets to create new business ventures, as well as corporate strategy and business development. Sarnoff launched The Wall Street Journal executive conference business, FINS.com, a career site for financial professionals, and brought together the print and online classified businesses.

Larry Schwartz

President, Newstex, LLC

Larry Schwartz is a co-founder of Newstex and President of the company. Larry has guided numerous entertainment and new media ventures, from start-up through growth, development and maturity, including Bolenka Games Online (Trivial Pursuit Online), GFI Group (Nasdaq:GFIG - financial), Wizard World (publishing), Patron Technology (technology) and Tickets.com (Purchased by MLB.com). Larry attended Bates College and the Yale University Graduate School of Drama. He serves on the Content Board of Directors for the Software Information Industry Association, and is a frequent speaker on content, product development, start-ups and turnarounds. When he's not adding value to content, Larry is a show manger for hunter/jumper horse shows, is on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Horse Show Association and maintains several horse web sites and blogs (www.chsaonline.com, www.srostables.com). Larry, a confirmed gadget geek, also spends time on Broadway with his theatrical agent wife and two daughters.

Rafael Sidi

VP, Products, Elsevier

Rafael Sidi is Vice President, Elsevier’s Application Marketplace and Developer Network. Rafael has been with Elsevier since 2001 and has been leading product development efforts at Elsevier first in Engineering & Technology then Academic & Government groups. He has been instrumental in creating and launching productivity enhancing online products for researchers including Elsevier’s new SciVerse platform, ScienceDirect, Engineering Village, Referex and illumin8.
Rafael has a Bsc in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey and MA from Brandeis University, United States.

Patrick Spain

Chief Executive Officer, First Stop Health

Patrick 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 the largest shareholder. HighBeam is headquartered in Chicago. 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 for $119 million. 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.

Elissa Tomasetti

VP, Marketing & Global Audience Development, Financial Times

Elissa Tomasetti is Vice President of Marketing and Global Audience Development for the Financial Times. Her passions include building brands, engaging audiences across platforms and forging the way for media in the digital age. She established audience development practice at the FT and has delivered significant growth in consecutive years of unique users and subscribers to FT.com.

Prior to her work at the FT, Elissa was responsible for the development of consumer marketing at Smartmoney.com. During the internet boom she was one of the original staff of Mail.com and as VP, Marketing, she led the ramp up of a 25 million consumer base and partner network of 24 sites.

Earlier in her career, Elissa was the Director of Marketing for the Billboard Music Group, leading international expansion for the brand into Europe and Asia, and was on the launch team of many significant product developments and brand extensions, including new publications, conferences, awards ceremonies and the early stages of Billboard.com.

She resides with her family in New York and in her free time she enjoys playing her violin for her daughter’s class.

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.