Speakers

Gifford Booth

Co-founder and Partner, The TAI Group

Gifford has spent the past 25 years guiding business leaders in leadership and personal effectiveness. Many of his engagements in the United States and Europe have focused on changing culture and creating effective teams in both large organizations and complex family businesses. His client engagements include:

• Working with the CEO and senior executive team of Harcourt Assessments, Gifford co-led a major culture change project through intensive individual and group mentoring, coaching and personal performance support. This year-long project resulted in dramatic improvement in financial and management performance of HA prior to its acquisition by Pearson in late 2007.

• At Hoare and Co, UK’s oldest family-owned private bank, Gifford led a two-year intervention to create a functional 11th-generation executive team. His work involved ongoing mentoring, coaching and management strategy support.

• Gifford has worked with numerous senior partners of The Boston Consulting Group through personal development mentoring and speaker development coaching.

• With the British Conservative Party, Gifford led shadow front bench mentoring and speaker development programs.

• Gifford led a comprehensive team development programs for UBS Wealth Management International’s senior management group, including workshops conducted concurrently on two continents.

• Gifford provided executive coaching and speaker development work for the number two executive at Merrill Lynch Brokerage.

George Colony

Chairman and CEO, Forrester Research, Inc.

As founder, chairman, and CEO of Forrester Research, George is one of the most influential thought leaders in the world of business and technology. Forrester works to ensure clients thrive in their professional roles, and as CEO, George spends much of his time advising chief executives. Over the years, he has become a trusted advisor to leaders of top global companies, helping them make great decisions and guiding their success in the complex world of business technology. These organizations include many of the Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 — retail companies like Best Buy, media companies like Condé Nast, and tech companies like Cisco.

George personifies the Forrester experience and the company’s values with direct, honest advice. Clients seek his guidance on business technology and marketing strategies, IT and personal technology trends, and a range of leadership issues.

Throughout his career, George has made provocative, tenacious, and groundbreaking business technology calls, including the birth of client/server computing, the dot-com implosion, the rise of Social Computing, the transition from IT to BT (business technology), and the burgeoning opportunities enabled by the extended Internet (X Internet), which connects the physical world of things to the digital world of information. More recently, he has focused on social technologies — specifically how CEOs can effectively and efficiently enter the social realm and how companies can use product feedback collected through social channels to improve their products — a phenomenon he calls Social Sigma. He is also on the leading edge of what Forrester calls the app Internet — the new computing model combining the power of local devices with the scale of the cloud.

Since its inception in 1983, Forrester has become one of the most successful global research and advisory firms, earning awards from Forbes and Fortune, as well as twice being named one of the top places to work in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe.

Glenn Goldberg

President, Commodities & Commercial Markets, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Glenn S. Goldberg is president of McGraw-Hill Financial’s Commodities & Commercial Markets segment, a role he assumed on December 9, 2005. The segment comprises some of the most respected brands in business: J.D. Power & Associates, Platts, McGraw-Hill Construction, and Aviation Week.

Prior to this position he was senior vice president, Corporate Affairs and assistant to the chairman and chief executive officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a position he had held since 1998. Prior to leading Corporate Affairs, Glenn was managing director of Global Ratings Development for Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was responsible for Standard & Poor's global marketing and communications activities and served on its Executive Committee, the firm's principal policy-making body.

Before joining Standard & Poor's in 1990, Glenn was assistant comptroller/press secretary for New York City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman. He also worked for former U.S. Representative Geraldine Ferraro and was a staff member on the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 1982, he co-authored a book on U.S. government and business activity in South Africa.

Glenn holds a bachelor’s degree from Brockport State University, awarded summa cum laude, in political science. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American Business Media, Hartley House and The Constitution Works. He is also a Trustee of the Brockport College Foundation.

Brewster Kahle

Director & Co-Founder, Internet Archive

A passionate advocate for public Internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: making information free and accessible through digital means.

While a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Kahle studied artificial intelligence. Soon after graduating, he helped found the company Thinking Machines, a supercomputer maker. In 1989, Mr. Kahle created the Internet’s first publishing system called Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) and established WAIS, Inc. With The Wall Street Journal as its first customer, the company revolutionized the electronic publishing market and Mr. Kahle eventually sold the company to America Online. In 1996, Mr. Kahle founded the Internet Archive, one of the largest digital libraries in the world. With a staff of nearly 200, and 100 partnering libraries, the organization is working to create an online catalog of every book ever created. Also, in 1996 Mr. Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, a service that collects data on web browsing behavior for future analysis, which was sold to Amazon.com in 1999.

Mr. Kahle received a B.S. in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and his wife, Mary Austin started The Kahle/Austin Foundation, which supports the Internet Archive along with other non-profit organizations with similar goals. Additionally, Mr. Kahle is the founder of Open Content Alliance, a group of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts.

Kahle is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the European Archive, and the Television Archive. He is a member of the advisory board of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress, and is a member of the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure. In 2010 he was given an honorary doctorate in computer science from Simmons College, where he studied library science in the 1980s. Also, in 2010 he was given an honorary doctorate in Law at the University of Alberta.

Nicholas Thompson

Editor, The New Yorker

Nicholas Thompson is the editor in chief of The New Yorker's website. He also oversees the magazine's tablet and iPhone publishing, and he writes frequently for the site about technology. In addition, he is a cofounder of the The Atavist, a software startup that has designed a platform for multimedia publishing and whose investors include Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, and Andreessen-Horowitz. He is a contributing editor at both CNN International and Bloomberg Television, where he covers technology news and appears several times a week. Before becoming a senior editor at The New Yorker, Thompson was a senior editor at Wired Magazine. He is also the author of the book, "The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War." He has written about technology for numerous magazines and newspapers and has appeared on every major television network to discuss the industry.

Peter Appert

Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst, Piper Jaffray & Co.

Peter Appert is a managing director and senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray specializing in the business and information services sectors. Prior to joining Piper Jaffray in 2009, Appert spent six years at Goldman Sachs covering the publishing and information services sectors. He previously was affiliated with Alex. Brown, where he was among the first analysts to cover the education industry. Appert began his career at C.J. Lawrence as a media analyst, also serving as the firm's director of research for five years. Appert has received wide recognition in the investment and business communities, including 22 designations in the annual Institutional Investor "All-America Research Team" survey. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford, a master's degree from New York University, and a bachelor's degree from Lafayette College. Appert is a member of Media and Entertainment Analysts of New York and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Sandeep Ayyappan

CEO, Delve

Sandeep developed a passion for news while working in Energy Tech Equity Research at RBC Capital Markets from 2008-2010. In addition to covering solar, wind, and grid-related equities, he produced a daily energy tech newsletter for RBC clients. After leaving RBC in February 2010, he embarked on a five-month, 15,000-mile road trip across North America to research a book on the energy industry. He graduated from Yale in 2007.

Richard Belanger

Chief Information Officer, ProQuest

Rich Belanger is the Chief Information Officer of ProQuest. He is a senior executive with extensive, hands-on technology experience in Agile product development, cloud computing using Amazon AWS, web-based systems, business intelligence, and data analytics. A technology leader with strong business skills who believes in the power of a collaborative, client-centered approach coupled with a strong focus on innovation and business.

Andrew Boer

President, MovableMedia

Andrew Boer is the President of MovableMedia, a platform that helps brands and publishers reach new audiences through "the author channel". MovableMedia recruits and manages authors with expertise and existing audiences, and provides incentives and tools for the distribution of their content on search and social networks. MovableMedia currently works with P&G, Williams Sonoma, General Mills, and many others. Andrew was employee number one at TRUSTe (the Online Privacy Seal) the leading Privacy regulatory company on the Internet. He was also the Founder and CEO of Accept.com (now Amazon Payments). For the past ten years he has been focusing on online media at Reed Elsevier, Associated Content (now Yahoo! Contributor Network), and Six Apart. Andrew is a graduate of Princeton University, Michigan Law School and Harvard Business School.

Merrill Brown

Dean, Expanding Media Panel, Montclair State

Merrill Brown is the inaugural director of the School of Communication and Media. Merrill comes to Montclair State University from MMB Media LLC, of which he was founder and principal, and has extensive experience in traditional and digital media as well as journalism education. A former business reporter for The Washington Post, he was the founding editor-in-chief of MSNBC.com and was instrumental in the launch of Court TV, for which he managed programming, marketing, and business development. In recent years, he has advised, raised capital for and helped develop early stage digital media and technology companies on the east and west coasts. He has served on numerous corporate boards and advisory committees, including the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Advisory Board and the Knight Foundation Journalism Advisory Committee. The School of Communication and Media offers dynamic programs in communication, television and digital media, and filmmaking.

Barbara Brynko

Editor-in-Chief, Information Today, Inc.

Barbara Brynko is the editorial director of the Info-Pros Publications for Information Today, Inc., and editor-in-chief of Information Today, where she has been tracking trends and issues in the information industry for the past 8 years. A longtime journalist, she has worked in newspapers, magazines, and books covering a wide range of topics.

Wayne Cooper

Managing Director, Greenhaven Partners

Wayne is Chairman of IOFM and Chief Executive Group as well as a member of the board of directors of Bongarde Media. He was also the Chairman of Pyramid Research, a company Greenhaven acquired from the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2001, turned around and sold to United Business Media in September 2008 for a 10x increase in equity value.
He served as CEO of Kennedy Information from 1996 through 2003; as CEO, he grew the company by over 650% during his tenure and orchestrated the sale of the company to The Bureau of National Affairs for a 30x increase in shareholder value.
He was also the Chairman and CEO of Vizium, a marketing services company founded by Greenhaven's partners and sold to Carat Worldwide. Prior to Greenhaven, Wayne was a consultant with Bain & Company and Monitor Company in Boston, London, Milan and California (working with leading corporations to improve their strategies and business performance) and managed Monitor's L.A. office and expansion to Korea. Before that he worked at Goldman Sachs and The World Bank.
He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Stanford University. Wayne is the past Chairman and President of the Specialty Information Publishers Association (SIPA). He also serves on the boards of several civic non-profit organizations, and is an active member of Young President's Organization, AIPAC and various organizations that promote tolerance education throughout the world.

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.

Esther Dyson

Chairman, EDventure Holdings

Esther Dyson is an active angel investor in a variety of start-ups, for-profit and otherwise, around the world. She also operates as the Internet’s court jester, a person of no institutional importance who somehow manages to speak the truth and to be heard when and where it matters. She does business as EDventure, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004. Her current board seats include 23andMe, Eventful, Meetup, Voxiva, WPP Group, XCOR Aerospace, WPP Group and Yandex. Other investments include Omada Health, Startup Health, Square, LinkedIn and Evernote.

For more than 20 years Dyson wrote the newsletter Release 1.0 and ran PC Forum, the IT market’s leading executive conference. She sold them to CNET Networks in 2004, and left CNET at the end of 2006. (The Forum was discontinued under CNET Networks’ ownership, while O’Reilly Media now produces Release 1.0 under the new name of Release 2.0, with Dyson’s blessing.) Dyson was the founding chairman of ICANN (policy-setter for the DNS) from 1998-2000, and was also chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the 90s. In 1997, she wrote her (so far) only book, “Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age,” which appeared in paperback a year later as “Release 2.1.” In 1994, she wrote a seminal essay on intellectual property for WIRED magazine. In both her investments and her nonprofit activities, she has always been concerned with the impact of information (technology) on business and society.

Gil Elbaz

Founder & CEO, Factual

Gil Elbaz is an accomplished entrepreneur and pioneer of natural language technology. He is the founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Factual, which provides global, definitive data, powering web and mobile apps, mobile advertising, and enterprising solutions. Factual’s first offering is its Global Places suite of data and APIs, which provides access to more than 58 million places in 50 countries along with entity mapping, resolution, and geo ad-targeting services. Factual is funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures.

Prior to Factual, Gil co-founded Applied Semantics Inc. (ASI) which developed contextual advertising products, including ASI's AdSense. In 2003, Google acquired ASI and Gil stayed on as the director of engineering for the Santa Monica office, continuing to work on AdSense and other products. Prior to founding ASI, Gil worked in engineering roles at IBM, Sybase and SGI.

Gil earned his bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology with a double major in Engineering & Applied Science and Economics. Active in a number of non-profits, he serves on the Boards of Trustees for the X Prize Foundation and the California Institute of Technology, and is also founder of the Common Crawl Foundation.

Stephen Engelberg

Managing Editor, ProPublica

Stephen Engelberg came to ProPublica from The Oregonian in Portland, where he had been a managing editor since 2002. Before joining The Oregonian, Mr. Engelberg worked for The New York Times for 18 years, including stints in Washington, D.C., and Warsaw, Poland, as well as in New York. He is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board and of the Board of Directors of the American Society of News Editors.

Bob Felsenthal

Vice President & Publisher, BtoB Magazine, Media Business, BtoBOnline.com

Robert Felsenthal is a vice president at Crain Communications and publisher of BtoB Magazine, Btobonline.com, and Media Business Magazine.

He was named publisher of BtoB Magazine, a Crain Communications publication, and BtoB’s website, BtoBonline.com, in May 2000. In 2003, he launched Media Business Magazine as part of the BtoB group. Prior to BtoB, he was associate publisher of Crain’s New York Business. He also worked in various positions at Crain’s Chicago Business after launching his career in marketing at The Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News.

Bob is a graduate of Marquette University with a degree in business and marketing. Based in New York City, Bob is on the board of the BMA (Business Marketing Association), Co Chair of the B2B committee of the IAB(Internet Ad Bureau) the publisher’s advisory board of the BPA, and the Publishers committee of ABM (American Business Media).

Scott Frederick

Chief Operating Officer, Automated Insights

Scott Frederick is the Chief Operating Officer of Automated Insights, Inc. where he oversees the company's strategy as well as their sales, marketing and business development initiatives. Prior to joining Automated Insights, Scott was a venture capitalist for over 13 years. Most recently, he was a Co-Founder and General Partner at Valhalla Partners (a firm with $440 million under management). Prior to co-founding Valhalla Partners in 2002, Scott was a Partner at FBR Technology Venture Partners ("FBRTVP"). Scott joined FBRTVP in 1997 as its second employee, and in doing so played a key role in the creation and management of one of the Mid-Atlantic region's most successful venture capital funds. During Scott's tenure, the FBRTVP funds produced seven IPOs, and FBRTVP I realized returns of approximately nine times invested capital. Scott is a former Director of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association ("MAVA") and co- founded the Young mid-Atlantic Venture Association ("YAVA"), serving as its first President and Chairman. Scott received a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1994 (cum laude) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Duke University in 1991 (magna cum laude), where he was an A.B. Duke Scholar.

Tolman Geffs

Co-President, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.

Tolman Geffs, Co-President of JEGI, represents digital media, marketing, business services and technology companies. Notable recent engagements include:
• Sale of Infogroup’s OneSource to Cannondale Investments and GTCR;
• Sale of ePrize to Catterton Partners;
• Sale of Travidia to a media consortium led by Gannett and Hearst;
• Sale of Focus Research to Ziff Davis Media;
• Sale of I-Behavior to WPP; and
• Sale of AdJug to Dentsu.
Mr. Geffs brings a unique combination of experience as a CEO and business builder in both traditional and new media companies, as well as in corporate finance. Prior to joining JEGI in 2004, Mr. Geffs was CEO of Internet Broadcasting Systems, a national network of 70 local television Web sites operated in partnership with NBC, Hearst, The Washington Post Company and other major broadcasters. With a staff of 250, IBS was one of the earliest old/new cross-media platforms to achieve both scale and profitability.

Previously, Mr. Geffs held a series of senior executive positions in magazine publishing. He began his career in the M&A department of Lehman Brothers, and also consulted for media companies with McKinsey & Company. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, with degrees in English and Engineering Physics, and Harvard Business School.

Thomas Glocer

Former CEO, Thomson Reuters

From 2001 through 2011 Tom Glocer was Chief Executive Officer of Reuters Group PLC and then Thomson Reuters Corp., the news and information company.

He is a director of Merck & Co., Inc., and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Business Council, the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum, the Columbia College Board of Visitors, the President’s Council on International Activities at Yale University, the International Advisory Board of British American Business Inc., the Madison Council of the Library of Congress, and the American Law Institute.

Mr. Glocer holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University (1981) and a J.D. from Yale Law School (1984).

Mr. Glocer is married with two children and lives in New York City.

He writes his own blog at www.tomglocer.com

Bruce Gordon

xSVP Disney Interactive, President, WTVD (ABC)

For 30 years at the Walt Disney Company, Bruce served as a strategic and operational leader. Combining an extensive senior general management and financial background with the demonstrated ability to anticipate major industry changes and drive successful transformations, Bruce spent his Disney career at ABC Television and The Walt Disney Company’s Interactive Media Group.
During Bruce’s tenure at Disney, he had an unblemished track record of success, including stints as President & General Manager at WTVD (one of the largest TV stations in the country) and as Worldwide SVP & CFO for the $1.4 billion Disney Interactive Media Group (one of the 5 SEC reporting segments of Disney).
As “the old guy” at Disney Interactive, at age 50 he partnered with and learned from some of the most brilliant young minds in the industry, helping the segment successfully emerge following the dot.com meltdown and subsequent recession. Communicating strategic objectives and accomplishments throughout the C-Suite, to the Board of Directors, and then leading the cascade of objectives throughout highly diverse organizations has been a strong suit throughout his leadership tenure.
Prior to The Walt Disney Company, Bruce cut his teeth as Senior Financial Consultant at PwC.
Bruce has been guided by the philosophy, “It’s not the people above you that get you promoted or make you successful, but your peers and the people reporting to you.”
Bruce earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Syracuse University, and an MBA from Hofstra University. Bruce is a strategic advisor to 3 start-ups and is a Senior Media Advisor for Accenture. However, he calls mentoring his highest calling and greatest enjoyment.

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.

John Hartig

CEO, Sports Information Group / Daily Racing Form LLC

John Hartig is a 30-year media industry veteran.
As CEO of Sports Information Group / Daily Racing Form LLC since December 2008, Hartig leads the national, media company dedicated to providing premium data-driven content and authoritative editorial coverage to sports enthusiasts in North America. The company’s leading print publication, Daily Racing Form, has been published since 1894 and is the only national daily publication dedicated to the coverage of a single major sport. Daily Racing Form’s companion digital property, DRF.com, is the industry’s most heavily trafficked horse racing destination, providing players with exclusive news coverage, premium data products, proprietary handicapping tools, and access to DRFBets ™, America’s fastest growing online and mobile wagering platform. Daily Racing Form also publishes Harness Eye, the daily newspaper and digital content that serves Standardbred racing since 1964. In November, Daily Racing Form launched DRF Breeding™, a business that greatly expands its portfolio of content and product offerings to serve Thoroughbred racing’s important Sales and Breeding market. Supplementing its core horse racing products, Sports Information Group / Daily Racing Form LLC also owns two premium digital properties, Head2Head and StatFox, which deliver and syndicate in-depth fantasy sports and sports odds content to third party media partners and to fans who follow the top four major sports leagues in North America (NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL).
Hartig began his career in Los Angeles in the public relations and advertising agency businesses before moving to Time Inc., where he held numerous management positions in advertising sales, circulation, and strategic planning at PEOPLE and INSTYLE magazines, and later became CEO of The Parenting Group division. Following Time Inc., Hartig was Senior Vice President at Hearst Magazines, where he led its consumer marketing and development initiatives and served as a member of Hearst’s executive management team. Hartig was also CEO of BrandPort Inc., an early stage digital media business aggregating audiences using proprietary game and management system technologies.
Hartig is a graduate of California State University in Communications and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California. He resides in Riverside, Connecticut with his wife and four children and is an avid private pilot.

Laura Hazard Owen

Staff Writer, GigaOM

Laura Hazard Owen is the book publishing reporter at paidContent and GigaOM. She was previously the editor of Publishing Trends, a website and newsletter for the book publishing industry, and before that was an assistant editor at Skyhorse Publishing. She graduated from Harvard in 2006. She lives in Manhattan.

Timothy Jones

CEO, Buzzient

Mr. Jones has over 15 years of executive experience starting new companies and developing new businesses in the technology industry. Prior companies include BionTTech, Eba Systems(ACQ), OnDemand Software(ACQ),OpenVision(IPO/ACQ), Sybase(IPO), and Oracle. Mr. Jones holds a B.S. in Management Science from MIT, a M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University, and a MBA from MIT.

David Kirkpatrick

Author, The Facebook Effect & Founder, Techonomy

Founder, host, and CEO of Techonomy, David Kirkpatrick is a journalist, commentator about technology, and author of the bestselling book “The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World,” published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster. He founded and hosted Fortune’s Brainstorm and Brainstorm Tech conferences 2001-2009. In addition to his writing for Techonomy, he writes occasionally for The Daily Beast and Vanity Fair.

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.

Matt Kumin

CEO & Founder, PublishThis

Matthew Kumin has worked in the software and Internet industry for over 18 years and has extensive experience building data, content, and digital publishing businesses. Prior to founding PublishThis, Kumin served on the executive management team at Edmunds.com, where as EVP, Media, he was responsible for helping grow the Internet's leading automotive site from 2001-2008. While at Edmunds, he oversaw the company's flagship website, Edmunds.com and led product development for the company's successful Web expansion, including its syndication platform that powered the automotive channels for AOL, New York Times, iVillage, and About.com, as well as launching, InsideLine.com, the leading web destination for car enthusiasts. Before Edmunds, Kumin was the co-founder of CreativePlanet, a B2B information and technology service for film and television production professionals. Before that, he helped develop The Studio System, the entertainment industry's leading professional film and television database. Kumin started his career at Andersen Consulting and received a bachelor of arts from the University of Texas in Austin.

Steven Kuyan

Executive Director, NYU Poly Incubator Initiatives

As a student, Steven participated in the Proof of Concept Center, founded the largest entrepreneurship club at NYU-Poly where he is still the senior advisor and then became an entrepreneur, launching three different businesses. When the New York City Economic Development Corporation and NYU-Poly partnered to create the first city sponsored incubator in '09 he returned and now can share some of the insights from the early years and the trends over the last few yeears.

Larry Levy

Co-founder & CEO, Appinions

Larry Levy is the Co-founder and CEO of Appinions Inc. As a serial entrepreneur, Larry brings a wealth of hands-on experience. Prior to Appinions, Levy served as co-founder and CEO of Semagix Group, which was sold to Warburg Pincus in 2006. Levy was also the founder and CEO of Protage Holdings, recognized as an Upside 100❠company. Prior to Protage, Levy founded Delrina Europe in December 1991, growing the company to 20% of worldwide revenues for Delrina in three and a half years and turning Delrina into the leading European PC fax software vendor. Levy kicked off his successful string of ventures when he founded Citria and Delrina Europe. Levy has spoken at numerous global technology conferences and frequently contributes to industry white papers. He holds a BCom and BAcc from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and is a chartered accountant CA(SA).

Nina Link

Former CEO & President, MPA

Steve Lohr

Deputy Editor, The New York Times

Steve Lohr is a technology reporter for The New York Times. He was a foreign correspondent during the 1980s for the Times, based in Tokyo, Manila and London. Since the mid-1990s, he has covered technology and its impact on the economy and society. He has written for magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Monthly and strategy+business. He is the author of a history of computer programming, “Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists and Iconoclasts — The Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution” (Basic Books, 2001; paperback, 2002). He is also the co-author, with Joel Brinkley, of a New York Times book, “U.S. v. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case.” (McGraw-Hill, 2001)

Peter Marney

Senior Vice President, Thomson Reuters

Peter Marney is a Senior Vice President at Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information to businesses and professionals. Peter leads the team that defines and implements the company's information architecture strategy known as Content Marketplace. It is Thomson Reuters' approach to federated master data management built on a uniform set of policies, a common language of content and a standardized set of interfaces. The Marketplace enables otherwise disparate databases, both internal and external to Thomson Reuters, to distribute interoperable and easily commingled information.
Peter is also active in the information services industry. In addition to public speaking engagements, he serves on the Content Board of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). In 2011, Peter was selected by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the independent agency of the US government that regulates futures and options markets, to serve on its Subcommittee on Data Standardization, part of the CFTC's Technology Advisory Committee. Peter also sits on the board of directors of Thomson Reuters Global Resources, the entity that owns Thomson Reuters' intellectual property and he is also a director of Israel-based ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters subsidiary.
Peter has held many senior positions during his 20 plus year career at Thomson Reuters and has principally focused on products and services directed at the investment banking community. Peter received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College, and is a proud member of the Executive Board of the Global Abilities Foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to increase cultural understanding and provide resources to help persons with spinal cord injuries become independent, productive members of society around the globe.

Brendan McCahill

CEO, Datamyne, Inc.

Brendan R. McCahill has nearly three decades of experience in maritime transportation and international trade.

Since 2009, Mr. McCahill has been the Chief Executive Officer of Datamyne, a leading provider of global market intelligence based on authoritative import-export data on the U.S. and nearly 50 trading nations in the Americas, Asia, Africa and the EU. As CEO of the Miami-headquartered company, he has principal responsibility for overseeing Datamyne’s data processing center (in Montevideo, Uruguay), international sales and service operations, as well as product and market development.

Prior to joining Datamyne in December 2007, Mr. McCahill served as president of PIERS Global Intelligence Solutions. Before PIERS, he held senior management positions with Hanjin Shipping, Norton Lilly International, Gulf & Atlantic Maritime Services, and Associated Container Transportation. He holds a bachelor's degree from St. Louis University and has completed graduate studies at Fordham University.

Dan McCarthy

Partner, DeSilva+Phillips

Daniel R. McCarthy most recently was Chairman & CEO of Gallarus Media Holdings and its subsidiary, Network Communications, Inc. At NCI, Dan oversaw one of the largest local marketing services companies in the U.S. In 2010, Dan spearheaded the launch of the innovative DigitalSherpa line of marketing services products, which currently provide social media marketing solutions to more than 1500 small and medium-sized businesses.

Over the course of his career, Dan has completed more than 50 transactions and financings, including the $380 million sale of NCI to Citicorp Venture Capital Group; the $120 million acquisition of NCI by ABRY Partners; the $300 million debt restructuring of NCI; the $200 million sale of Cowles Business Media; and dozens of strategic acquisitions and divestitures.

Dan was previously CEO of Themestream, a special-interest internet portal funded by Redpoint Ventures and Kleiner Perkins that was an early pioneer of user-generated content. Prior to Themestream, he was CEO of Primedia Enthusiast Media, one of the largest special-interest publishers in the U.S. He was also CEO of Cowles Business Media, a business-to-business information provider focused on the media and marketing industries.

Dan began his career as a reporter and analyst covering the media and business information markets for Communications Trends, Inc.

Dan provides commentary and analysis of the media industry at the blog [Media+Value] at www.themediatransformation.com.

Dan holds a BA in Literature from Columbia University.

Chris McKinzie

CEO, Enlyton

Chris McKinzie leads the Enlyton's strategy development and daily operations, bringing 15 years of technology management and business development experience to the company. Prior to co-founding Enlyton, he was the founding CEO of Fluid Innovation Group, an innovation commercialization firm. Prior to launching Fluid, he created and managed a team to license internally-developed software for SBC Communications (now AT&T), where he served as director for SBC Knowledge Ventures and as director of corporate strategy. Chris has headed business development and VAR relationships at two early stage software companies and spent two years with the AM Fund, a venture capital firm focused on the commercialization of university research. Chris began his career with Kinetics Technology International, a large petrochemical engineering and construction firm, where he held various positions in finance, procurement and project management. He is an inventor (US Patent # 6,956,942) and a regular speaker on technology licensing and commercialization. Chris holds a degree in finance from California State University - Fullerton and an MBA from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. Chris enjoys family time with his lovely wife Robin, son Carson and daughter Kate. He also tries to find time for fitness of all kinds including soccer, golf, tennis, snow skiing, trail runs and working out at the gym.

Dennis Mortensen

CEO, Visual Revenue Inc.

Dennis R. Mortensen is a pioneer and expert in the Analytics industry. He is an accredited Associate Web Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia, the Author of data driven insights from Wiley, and a frequent speaker on the subject of Analytics, Media. Mortensen is an Entrepreneur and was COO at IndexTools when it was acquired by Yahoo! Inc. subsequently their Director of Data Insights. Today he is Founder and CEO of Visual Revenue Inc. (Predictive Analytics for Media), sits on the Board of the Digital Analytics Association.

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.

Russell Perkins

Founder & Managing Director, InfoCommerce Group Inc.

Russell Perkins, Founder and Managing Director. Russell has over 20 years experience in all facets of the database publishing industry. Most recently, Russell was President/CEO of Dorland Healthcare Information, a venture capital-backed database information company serving the healthcare industry. Prior to that, Russell was Vice President of what is now a division of Incisive Media.

Previous to that, Russell was Group President at North American Publishing Company, where he was responsible for development and launch of its of media information and graphic arts industry databases. Russell has also been a staff consultant at AT&T, and an editor at Thomas Publishing Company.

Russell is also the founder Morgan-Rand, Inc. a publishing and consultancy firm serving the yellow pages and specialty directory markets. Morgan-Rand produced the Report on Directory Publishing, a monthly newsletter, and the National Directory Conference, both of which were sold to SIMBA Information, now a unit of MarketResearch.com, and re-acquired in 2003. Russell is the author of Directory Publishing: A Practical Guide, which is now in its fifth edition, and InfoCommerce: Internet Strategies for Database Publishers.

"One of the most important opportunities -- and challenges -- for data content producers is to move up the value chain from being providers of standalone information to providing what we like to call "data that does stuff" -- content integrated with applications and workflow so that it becomes a fundamental and inextricable part of the customer's business activities."

Michael Perlis

President & CEO, Forbes Media LLC

Mike Perlis is President and CEO at Forbes Media. Mr. Perlis joined Forbes from SoftBank Capital, where he served as a General Partner. Before joining SoftBank, he served as President and CEO of Ziff-Davis Publishing until its sale in 2000. Earlier in his career, Mr. Perlis served as President of the Playboy Publishing Group, Publisher of Runner’s World and Men’s Health, and Chairman and CEO of IDG Peterborough. He began his career in media as the co-founder of New England Publications in Camden, Maine.

Mr. Perlis currently serves on the boards of BuzzFeed and Mojiva. He was Chairman of Associated Content before its sale to Yahoo! and served on the boards of GSI Commerce (sold to eBay) and The Huffington Post (sold to AOL).

He is on the Board of Advisors of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and is a Trustee of Outward Bound International.

Andy Prozes

Executive Chairman, ACAMS

Andrew Prozes was Global Chief Executive Officer of LexisNexis Group, a provider of legal and risk management solutions and information in New York City, from 2000 to December 2010. Mr. Prozes served on the board of directors of Reed Elsevier plc and Reed Elsevier NV, parent entities to LexisNexis, until his retirement from LexisNexis Group. Mr. Prozes currently serves as a director and the Executive Chairman of Alert Global Media, Inc. He also serves as a director on the boards of Cott Corporation, Asset International Inc., Interactive Data Corporation, Scribestar, Aptidata as well as a number of other for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Until recently, he served as senior adviser to Warburg Pincus.

Denzil Rankine

Executive Chairman, AMR International

Denzil Rankine is founder and Executive Chairman of AMR International, the strategy firm focussing on Media, Information and Technology.

Denzil’s experience spans 30 years of advising companies on strategic development and acquisition throughout the world. After an early career in the US assisting British companies to enter North American markets, he became increasingly involved in acquisition as well as strategic development.

Denzil founded AMR International in 1991. He has grown the company over 20 years and it now operates globally from offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt and Sao Paulo.

Denzil is the author of five M&A related books: A Practical Guide To Acquisitions (Wiley), Commercial Due Diligence - A guide to reducing risk in acquisitions (Financial Times), Why Acquisitions Fail (FT Prentice Hall), Due diligence – definitive steps to successful business combinations (FT Prentice Hall) and Acquisition Essentials (FT Prentice Hall).

Through two thousand strategy assignments AMR International has assisted both strategic clients and PE funds to develop organically and through acquisition. Denzil has been involved in some of the major deals in the media sector as well as dozens of smaller transactions.

AMR International’s combination of strategic analysis and customer insight has given acquirers the confidence to proceed by validating the quality of the assets and their market position. Organic development assignments have led to the turn-around of failing major properties as well as successful development strategies.

Linda Rebrovick

CEO, Consensus Point

Linda Rebrovick is the CEO, Consensus Point, a leading provider of prediction markets, next generation technology for market intelligence. The Consensus Point platform, Huunu, uses crowdsourcing, research, and gaming techniques to aggregate knowledge and is proven to be more reliable and efficient at predicting future outcomes than traditional methods, such as surveys, polls or individual experts.

Beginning her career with IBM in the late 70s, Linda has been an “Intrapreneur” in corporate America. She has held leadership positions within several of the largest technology and consulting firms, including Area Vice President, Dell; EVP and Chief Marketing Officer, BearingPoint; National Managing Partner, KPMG LLP; and Business Unit Executive, IBM. Linda recently completed the 2012 Springboard Enterprises Media/Technology Program, an accelerator for women-led companies.

Linda currently serves as the Governance Committee Chair and Board Director, HealthStream, the leading provider of healthcare learning and research, and is a member of the Advisory Board, Western Express, Inc. Linda has also served on the Boards of KPMG LLP and Pinnacle Financial Partners, one of the largest financial services companies headquartered in Nashville.
Linda is active in many local, national and global organizations. She currently serves on the advisory boards of the Entrepreneur Center and Leadership Nashville and is a member of Women Corporate Directors (WCD), and Women Business Leaders (WBL). Her recent recognition includes the Award for Women of Achievement, YWCA; Most Powerful Women, Nashville Post; Power Leaders in Technology, Nashville Business Journal; and the Dr. Thomas Frist Volunteer of the Year Award, presented by the United Way of Middle Tennessee.

Linda earned her bachelor’s degree in marketing from Auburn University and was recognized as one of the “Top 400 women graduates in the past 100 years”.

David Reimer

CEO, Merryck & Co.

Prior to joining Merryck & Co as Chief Executive for the Americas, David built his career leading companies from diverse sectors (from regional construction to global consulting) through various stages of growth, near-death, and industry dominance. He counts himself fortunate to have been consulted by hundreds of senior leaders facing major organizational or career crossroads.

Most recently, David led a 3-year turnaround under private equity ownership of Drake Beam Morin’s (DBM) North American business. Working with a tremendous team, he refocused the organization on its core business, reengaged the workforce, and launched a game-changing business model quickly adopted worldwide. These efforts restored DBM’s quality to number one, doubled revenues over a 3-year period and increased EBITDA 350% -- outpacing competitors’ results and significantly improving the realized exit price.

In other leadership roles, he consulted to the three largest financial services integrations in history. Earlier, while in Asia Pacific, David juggled a mix of wholly owned, joint venture and affiliate business units in 14 countries, which included launching wholly owned operations in China.

Making their home in Portland, Oregon, David and his wife Janelle have been married 20 years. They have recently exchanged the luxuries of sleeping-in and staying out late for the delights of their 2-yr old daughter, Seneca.

Jim Robinson IV

Co-founder, RRE Ventures

David S. Rose

Founder & CEO, Gust

David S. Rose is a serial entrepreneur, Inc 500 CEO, and active early stage investor who has founded or funded over 80 pioneering companies. He has been described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering entrepreneur”, by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, and by Red Herring magazine as “patriarch of Silicon Alley”.

From his initial involvement with the first online communities in the 1970s, through founding one of the first personal computer training companies in the 1980s, one of the first wireless data information networks in the 1990s, and the first global angel investing platform in the 2000s, David’s career has been focused on disruptive innovation.

He is the founder and CEO of Gust, which operates the international standard collaboration platform for startup financing, used by over 40,000 investors and 160,000 entrepreneurs in 195 countries. Gust received the 2012 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Collaboration/Social Networking Solution, and the 2012 SWIFT/Innotribe Top Innovator Award as the world’s most innovative financial technology company.

David is also Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels; and Associate Founder and Founding Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics at Singularity University, the Google/NASA-sponsored post-graduate program in exponential technologies.

He is Chairman of Comixology, and serves on the boards of Pond5, Magnify Networks, KoolSpan, Por ti Familia, Social Bomb, Social Bicycles, TekServe and New York Tech Meetup. He was named Mentor of the Year by NYU’s Stern School of Business, serves on the Entrepreneurship Advisory Boards of Columbia Business School and Yale University, and his TED video on raising venture capital has been viewed over 750,000 times.

A native New Yorker, David has a BA in Urban Affairs from Yale University, an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a D. Eng. (hc) from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Stephen Ryden-Lloyd

Senior Vice President, Innodata Isogen

Mr. Ryden-Lloyd joined Innodata in 2009 and is a member of the executive management team. He brings the experience of a twenty year career in the information and media industry and heads Innodata's Consulting Practice.
Mr. Ryden-Lloyd's primary focus is on helping executives in customer organizations to lead and deliver change, especially in connection with business processes and content technologies and by implementing global sourcing strategies.
Previously, Mr. Ryden-Lloyd led the global consulting practice in Media and Entertainment for one of India's leading IT outsourcing service providers, a position he moved into after co-founding and then selling his consulting firm, The Publishing Practice. Prior to this he worked in the publishing industry and for several years at Penguin UK where he was Managing Editor, then led IT management of creative systems and finally served as Director of Content Management and sat on Pearson's global CM strategy team.
He holds a BSc degree in biology (Manchester) and a BA in English (Birkbeck).

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.

Marc Strohlein

Principal, Agile Business Logic

Marc Strohlein is Principal at Agile Business Logic, a consultancy that helps small and medium-sized businesses, associations, and non-profits unlock their full performance potential by optimizing strategies, people, processes, and technologies and their interactions to create “energized enterprises.”

Previously Marc was Lead Analyst and Chief Agility Officer at Outsell Inc., a market research firm for the information industry. Before joining Outsell, Marc was COO of Classroom Connect, a division of Harcourt Education that provided K-12 e-learning products. Marc was SVP of Operations and Information Systems with Gartner Group, the world’s leading IT advisory services company, responsible for worldwide IT, product fulfillment, and customer service.

Marc also served as VP of Operations and CIO at Teltech Resource Network, a knowledge management professional services firm, and prior to Teltech, Marc served as VP of Worldwide Operations at Dataquest, the IT advisory services company.

Marc holds an M.S. degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Tennessee, and a B.S. in Sociology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He serves on the board of Forte Research Systems and has served on the SIIA Content Board.

Jim Swift

President & CEO, Cortera

Jim has parlayed his boyhood fascination with sports statistics into a successful career as a data geek. As CEO of Cortera, his mission is to change the B2B information universe with long overdue insights into businesses to help organizations improve sales performance and risk management. Prior to Cortera, Jim was the COO of LexisNexis Risk Management and Executive Vice President at Seisint, which was acquired by LexisNexis.

Donal Toole

Finance & Strategy Director, The Christian Science Monitor

Donal Toole, has worked with the Christian Science Monitor since 2004, initially developing the business models used to transform the daily newspaper into a digital first media company. More recently he led the turnaround of the syndication business, improving profitability 400% by refocusing on aggregators and other business-to-business opportunities to replace declining news service revenues.

Prior to joining the Monitor in 2004 he spent several years as a management consultant with firms including Mitchell Madison Group and Australian Consulting Partners. His work focused on responding to changes in the competitive landscape with engagements ranging from starting a phone company in Somalia to M&A strategy Fortune 1000 clients.

A 1997 graduate of Yale School of Management he also holds degrees from Bentley College and Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand.

Craig Wingrove

Director, KPMG LLP

Kevin Worth

President & CEO, The Deal LLC

Kevin Worth is President and CEO of The Deal LLC, a financial information company that he helped start in 2000 for Wall Street legend Bruce Wasserstein. The company was sold to TheStreet, Inc. in September 2012.

Over the past decade, Worth built a respected media brand for the professional deal community starting the company from Wasserstein’s vision as a publisher of The Daily Deal print newspaper. He then conceived the strategy and implemented the transformation of the business to its present day status as a digital media company serving its customers through its daily service, The Deal Pipeline.

Prior to founding The Deal LLC, Worth worked in the corporate development department at The New York Times Company where he performed financial due diligence in connection with M&A activities and assisted on a wide range of business development projects including the company’s early digital investments. He started his career in management consulting and led strategy projects to analyze clients undergoing financial distress and made recommendations to improve operations.

He serves on the Board of the New York Tolerance Museum for the Simon Wiesenthal Center and on the Board of the Larchmont-Mamaroneck Little League.

Worth has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in corporate finance from Lehigh University.

Company Description

The Deal (www.thedeal.com), a business unit of The Street Inc., has been serving corporate dealmakers, advisers and institutional investors the most sophisticated analysis of the deal economy since 2000.

Its transaction information service, The Deal Pipeline, provides proprietary news and data to 40,000 leading dealmakers and advisers worldwide looking to perform due diligence on companies and people, find new business opportunities and develop industry relationships. The service is powered by a newsroom of senior journalists who offer proprietary research and reporting across M&A, bankruptcies, auctions and financings and includes a breaking news service, First Take; daily and weekly sector newsletters; The Daily Deal, a 2x daily report of the day’s top stories; a research center with over a decade’s worth of intelligence and a database of over 100,000 deals; and an iPad app.

The Deal’s marketing & media services group produces the industry’s leading forecasting event, The Deal Economy, held annually at the NYSE in addition to industry webcasts and other integrated digital marketing programs.

John Yemma

Editor, The Christian Science Monitor

John Yemma has been a foreign correspondent, Washington reporter, political editor, and has covered economics, science, and culture in 38 years as a journalist. He has worked for The Dallas Morning News, The Boston Globe, UPI, The San Antonio Express-News -- and since 2008, he has been Editor of the Monitor. The Monitor publishes international news and analysis at CSMonitor.com, in the Monitor Weekly newsmagazine, and in an email-delivered Daily News Briefing.