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Speakers include:
 
Maurizio Angelone, CEO, Member of the Board of Directors
MyScreen Mobile Inc.

Maurizio Angelone has spent 15 years with Nokia in senior roles including his most recent position as Global Account Head for one of Nokia’s largest customers Telefónica S.A. Previously, Maurizio led Nokia’s Latin American division, which generated over $2 billion in revenue in 2007 and also ran Nokia’s handset operations in Italy.

Maurizio Angelone’s relationships with global mobile operators, extensive experience in developing new markets, strategic marketing and distribution channel development uniquely qualify Maurizio to lead the MyScreen team. Maurizio studied telecommunications engineering at the University of Rome and subsequently studied business at SDA Bocconi in Milan. Maurizio speaks English, Italian and Spanish.

Rob Begg, Director Of Business Development, Media and Entertainment
Radian6

Rob is Director Of Business Development for Media at social media monitoring company Radian6. In this role Rob works with clients in the television, online media and music industry to understand how their brands and content is perceived by audiences across the social web. He also works with these clients to develop new audience facing applications that harness social media to create new content for TV and online.

Rob has over 15 years of experience in online and technology marketing, product management and business development. Prior to Radian6 Rob has worked in the online advertising, publishing and consumer e-commerce businesses in Canada and the UK. Rob began his career in Telecommunications and Internet services as a product manager.

Laura Coltrin, Product Manager, Eventbrite
Founder/Partner,
Search Scholars

Laura Coltrin is an accomplished online marketing professional with expertise in social media, search marketing, and web analytics. She has a proven track record of driving business results through boosting organic traffic, focusing on revenue-generating initiatives, and training core business units in search methods unique to their roles. Laura currently runs her consulting company, Search Scholars, and her search portfolio includes work with high-profile sites such as FoxSports, MySpace, American Idol and Scout.com.

Jack Rotherham, SVP, Strategic Development and Partnerships
Metacafe

Jack Rotherham leads Metacafe’s work with Fortune 1000 companies interested in tightly integrating their brands into the online entertainment experience and employing social media as a marketing vehicle. He is involved in every aspect of the company’s business, including product direction, audience development, marketing and communications, content licensing and promotion, and advertising sales.

Jack joined Metacafe from AOL’s Platform A, where he oversaw strategic planning and monetization initiatives for video, social media and high-reach properties. Before making the leap to digital media, Rotherham spent nearly 20 years in the magazine publishing industry.

Previous positions include founding partner and publisher of C, a regional luxury lifestyle magazine and web site, publisher of Teen People and its online, broadcast and mobile extensions, and vice president and publisher of Rolling Stone, where he oversaw two record-breaking years in ad revenue.

Jack holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Fordham University.

About Metacafe® – Entertainment That Connects Metacafe® is the leading independent online video site. We connect consumers with the entertainment content they love and brand advertisers with the consumers they serve. The company is teaming with content creators including top movie studios, music labels, professional sports leagues, television networks, video game publishers and best-of-the-web production firms to deliver an exceptional entertainment experience to its more than 50 million unique monthly viewers, more than 12 million of them in the U.S.1.

The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv. For more information – and millions of entertaining videos – visit www.metacafe.com.

Chris Ramsey, VP, Business Development
Radian6

In his current role with Radian6, Ramsey oversees sales, customer service, channel/partner/international development, and product management. As an original co-founder of the company, Ramsey brings nearly 20 years of experience in the field of real-time content acquisition and management technologies. He has held a diverse set of management and executive positions ranging from customer service to marketing to product management and business development in start-ups, hyper-growth companies, as well as global, publicly traded corporations. Prior to joining Radian6, Ramsey was the global senior product manager for Microsoft’s Content Management Server (MCMS) product. Folllowing his transition into Microsoft from NCompass Labs (acquired by Microsoft, 2001), Ramsey successfully launched the first and subsequent versions of MCMS globally. In addition to Microsoft, Ramsey held management and executive positions at leading content analysis and management platform companies such as NCompass Labs, Axonwave Software (NLP), and Fulcrum Technologies (acquired by OpenText, 1998).

Bob Garfield, Author, The Chaos Scenario, Co-Host, NPR's On The Media, Columnist, Advertising Age.

Garfield is a columnist, critic, essayist, pundit, international lecturer, and inveterate broadcaster. In print, Garfield's "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism featured in Advertising Age has made him among the more provocative and sought-after figures in trade-magazine history. He recently published the book The Chaos Scenario which outlines the new landscape for media and advertising in a digital world.  On television, he is the advertising analyst for ABC News.

Scott Fox is a successful online entrepreneur, an expert on online small business social media marketing and e-business startup strategies, and an author, radio talk show host, motivational speaker, and e-commerce startup advisor. He is the author of two books Internet Riches, the best-selling guide to starting a business online, and also e-Riches 2.0: Next Generation Online Marketing Strategies, the leading new guide to Web 2.0 online marketing strategies, and regular free email newsletters, too.

His expertise as an author is based on personal experience and success: Scott Fox has built multi-million dollar e-businesses ranging from small web site startups, to web sites for celebrities like Bill O’Reilly and Larry King, to the online division of a major corporation.
Scott Fox is also the host of the popular ClickMillionaires.com e-commerce and online marketing social network where he offers personal coaching to help his readers make more money online.
Scott Fox, Robert Kiyosaki, David Bach, Bill O'Reilly

Scott Fox with fellow authors Robert Kiyosaki ("Rich Dad, Poor Dad"), David Bach ("Automatic Millionaire"), and Bill O'Reilly (Fox News)

His work and book have been covered by press outlets including the Boston Globe, LA Business Journal, Toronto’s Globe & Mail, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, Orange County Register, Smart Money and SUCCESS magazines, and many, many radio programs and blogs worldwide.

Mr. Fox writes, speaks, and teaches worldwide on Internet entrepreneurship and online marketing, including inspiring and informative speeches on innovation, e-commerce trends, blogging, and small business topics. As a keynote speaker or workshop leader, he regularly speaks at conferences, schools, events, and on radio programs nationwide.  Scott Fox hosts the weekly "E-Commerce Success Radio Show" online podcast and is a weekly contributor to Business Talk Radio Network's nationally-syndicated daily drive time "Big Biz Show", too.

He is a graduate of The University of Michigan and Stanford Law School, and has served as a mentor to students at Harvard Business School and as an instructor at the Learning Annex.  He sits on the Boards of the Technology Council of Southern California and several early stage e-commerce and social media companies.  He has active consulting, affiliate, or employment relationships with many of the companies mentioned in his books, blogs, and broadcasts, including Amazon.com, Site Sell, Typepad, Barnes & Noble, and Clickbank, among others.

ScottFox.com (http://www.scottfox.com) offers links to his blog, free email newsletters, and free research reports on e-commerce marketing tips, profitable start-up strategies, and web site vendor recommendations.
Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher, Digital Media Wire, Inc.

As CEO, Publisher and Executive Editor of Digital Media Wire, Inc., Ned Sherman works at the center of the rapidly growing digital media industry, where he brokers relationships and keeps a tab on the most important developments shaping the industry. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Publisher Ned Sherman is more than the average pundit: He is an attorney and has an inside grasp of what is happening.”

Ned has established Digital Media Wire as a leading online media company that provides daily news, information and community to tens of thousands of executives and professionals at entertainment, media and technology companies throughout the world and owns and produces nine annual conferences. The advertising, sponsorship, client, partner and subscriber relationships that Ned has brokered make Digital Media Wire one of the best known media and entertainment industry brands to emerge in the digital age.

As Publisher and Executive Editor of DMW since 2000, Ned oversees all content for the site and newsletter, writes a weekly column Digital Media Week in Review and has published two books, Millennials & The Digital Entertainment Age: A Sourcebook for Consumer Marketers and The Digital Entertainment & Media Directory. From 2003 to 2004, he was Editor-in-Chief of Digital Media Law Report.

Before co-founding Digital Media Wire, Ned spent seven years as a corporate and entertainment attorney practicing at several of the leading law firms in the world.

Ned is a frequent speaker at industry events in the U.S. and overseas and has been quoted in publications including American Lawyer, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Crain's Mermigas on Media, interviewed and featured on C-SPAN, National Public Radio (NPR), NY1 Evening News and nationally syndicated radio shows, Inside Digital Media and WebTalk, and recognized in the Wall Street Journal.

Jay Baage, VP, Content, Digital Media Wire

As VP of Content, Jay wears many hats. He oversees the content in DMW's publications as well as for conferences and other events. Jay furthermore runs the day-to-day operations for the popular DMW news and community site, where he also serves as a Senior Writer. Last, but not least, he works with marketing, public relations and business development across the board for DMW.

Jay got into journalism after high school when he served a year of military service in the Swedish Armed Forces and was selected to join its highly regarded conscript writing staff. He has been hooked on working with media and communication ever since.

Jay now has over 10 years of experience in the media industry serving in a wide range of capacities - from a technology writer and editor at several newspapers and magazines (Reuters, Dagens Industri, Aftonbladet etc.) to working in television (ABC Good Morning America, TV4 Ekonominyheterna), both behind and in front of the camera. Jay has a Masters Degree in Media, Entertainment and Technology Management from New York University and a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Goteborg University in Sweden.

He is a recipient of the Wallenberg Scholarship 2004 and 2006 (Academic Scholarship), The Sweden-America Foundation Fellowship 2005 (Academic Scholarship) as well as awarded a scholarship for being "A Promising New Media Manager" by Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association 2005 and 2001.

Joakim has a keen personal interest in digital media, music and pop-culture. On his desk, you will find a video iPod, the latest issue of US Weekly and a pair of Cutler and Gross shades.

He claims to listen to music by Paris Hilton only because he "has to be familiar with mainstream music" while heavily promoting new bands from his native Scandinavia like "Peter, Bjorn & John."
Phil MianoPhil Miano, National Sales Director, Mobile Advertising, AOL

Phil Miano is the National Director for AOL Mobile Advertising. In this role Phil leads Aol.’s mobile advertising strategy and helps brands be successful in their mobile advertising endeavors.

Prior to joining Aol., Phil was the first mobile advertising specialist in the US for Microsoft where he had previously helped launch the sales efforts for adCenter, Microsoft’s paid search platform.

Phil has been involved with digital media since 1997. He has held senior sales positions with: Time Inc. New Media, The i-Turf Network, 360hiphop/Bet.com, and PRIMEDIA.

Phil is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and the US Army’s, John F Kennedy Center for special warfare.
Michael O'Donnell, CEO, Skytide

Michael is a four-time CEO with significant digital media credentials and a strong track record in growing startups, mid-tier and larger, publicly-traded companies He helped build pioneering internet site, Salon.com into a respected news & entertainment brand and brought it public. He also helped shape the digital payments industry as CEO of BitPass. Michael then transformed Five Across into a social networking software leader and sold it to Cisco, where he served as President of Social Media for its Media Solutions Group. Now, as CEO of Skytide, he is enabling online video publishers like Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and Univision to make better operational decisions based on its Digital Media Performance Measurement software.

Michael was also a founding board member of the Online Publishers Association. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Sean MacPhedran, Director of Creative Strategy
Fuel Industries

As Director of Creative Strategy, Sean plays the roles of Creative Director and Account Planner, helping clients to navigate through the world of online branded entertainment. In this role, he has developed award-winning branded entertainment and advergame campaigns for some of the world’s largest brands, and has been recognized for his work on Deadwood: Dead Man’s Hand and American Dad vs. Family Guy Kung Fu by Billboard Magazine, Marketing Magazine and the Future Marketing Awards.

Sean is also a seasoned speaker, presenting on the subject of branded entertainment and advergaming to a number of industry organizations, including the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the Advertising Research Foundation, the Game Developers’ Conference and Advertising Week DC. He has also lectured on interactive marketing at Carleton University in Ottawa, and has been quoted in articles featured in Advertising Age, Adweek, Marketing Magazine, Strategy and the Toronto Star.

Since joining Fuel Industries in 2005, he has worked closely with dozens of international brands including 20th Century Fox’s Family Guy and American Dad, Wrigley’s, Discovery Channel, Johnson & Johnson and HBO. Prior to this, Sean worked on the $10 million X PRIZE Project in the Mojave Desert, and in notable advertising and media relations firms in Los Angeles.
Sonny Mayugba, Bus. Dev. Director
Sacramento Press

Media industry veteran Sonny Mayugba, the business development director and “super connector,” applies his experience as a publisher, marketer, sales person and entrepreneur to build customer retention and create strategic partnerships.

Sonny launched his 16-year career by co-founding and publishing Heckler Magazine, a youth culture action sports magazine, at 23, in 1993. In the process, he helped pioneer desktop publishing and built the advertising revenue from zero to one million dollars in just a year.

The do-it-yourself-oriented Sonny published content on Usenet prior to the public launch of the World Wide Web, co-authored a book published by Chronicle Books, and eventually sold the company to TransWorld/Times-Mirror.

Later, Sonny led regional and national market development at Tower Records, where he was responsible for regional sales and marketing in New York, Boston, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, along with national digital strategy, social media integration, media buys and budgeting.

Sonny is also a recognized pioneer in social networking, having teamed with restaurant pioneer Randy Paragary to co-found BiteClub.com, a social networking resource designed for, and created by, members of the food and bar industry.

BiteClub is the world’s first social networking site created to serve the interests of the 12.8 million person-strong restaurant and bar workforce and the culture that surrounds it.

Sonny received an Associate Arts Degree in Social Science from Sacramento City College.
Chris Williams, Managing Director
Media Contacts, Havas Digital

Chris Williams started in interactive marketing for as long as interactive marketing existed. His experience spans client strategy and creative at agencies such as Arnold Advertising and BBDO Canada in addition to online media at Media Contacts. He has developed strong integrated strategic and creative solutions for such clients as Audi, Toronto Tourism, Canada Savings Bonds, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Tourism Commission, Monster.ca, Harris Bank, Excite.ca, Kanetix.ca, Pepsi, Miller Brewing (US), Chrysler, Apple, Bell Canada, Fedex and Chapters.ca. Awards include John Caples Awards, Marketing Magazine Awards and CDMA RSVP Awards.

Chris also sits on the board of the Internet Advertising Bureau of Canada and as long as he has a glass of milk can eat half a pound of Dairy Milk chocolate in one sitting.
David Alston, VP, Marketing
Radian6

David is Vice President of Marketing & Community at social media monitoring solution company, Radian6. David’s focus at Radian6 is building the firm’s brand internationally through the use of social media monitoring, outreach and engagement. He is the co-inventor of the “twebinar” format with social media maven, Chris Brogan – which is a mashup between a traditional video webinar and Twitter. David has also become a featured speaker and panelist at a number of new marketing, blogging and social media events as a guide to how brands should be listening to consumer generated media online. As one of Twitter’s most followed CMO’s, David takes his interactive style of marketing to every speaking engagement – listening, learning and engaging with the audience.
Jay Friedman, Digital Marketing Expert
Goodway Group

Jay Friedman is the COO of Goodway Group, an 80-year old marketing services company that owns and operates two ad networks, Beep! Automotive and IvyPixel.

Friedman joined Goodway by creating and launching Goodway 2.0 in 2006 to provide online and emerging media services primarily to agencies representing the political, automotive, restaurant, and homebuilder markets. Since its inception, Goodway 2.0 has become a sought-after digital media expert by agencies representing presidential and senatorial candidates, advocacy groups and automotive associations within nearly all of t world’s largest auto manufacturers. Goodway 2.0 was integrated into Goodway Group in 2007, where Friedman subsequently created and launched the pair of ad networks to round out its digital services offerings.

Prior to launching Goodway 2.0, Friedman was with Young & Rubicam, a top ten global marketing firm. At Y&R, Friedman managed the day-to-day operations of the $20MM Dallas, TX, field office, during which time the Dallas office achieved and maintained the highest client-driven ratings of any field office within the system. Additionally while at Y&R, Friedman was responsible for the successful national effort to consolidate regional direct-to-consumer marketing programs to reduce time to market and cost per program while retaining full creative flexibility to meet individual marketing objectives. Friedman also began his career at Y&R.

Friedman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with degrees in Journalism and Spanish. He lives with his wife and two children in Plano, TX.
Kobi Gulerson, Senior Account Executive
MacLaren MRM

Kobi Gulersen is currently at MacLaren MRM developing digital, social media & e-commerce strategy for Nestle USA focusing on the healthcare nutrition category and MasterCard.

Furthermore, Kobi has a strong passion for youth marketing having pioneered new marketing strategies through an agency he both founded and sold his ownership stake in 2008. Kobi has developed marketing programs in Canada, USA, and has executed marketing campaigns in the English Caribbean. His client work experience includes: Rogers Wireless, Scotiabank International, Tourism Calgary & General Motors.

He was recently listed on Marketing Magazine's 2008 "Ones to Watch" Top 10 under 30 list.

Outside of work, Kobi chairs & sits on committees for Rethink Breast Cancer, Upper Canada College, Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research. He is also an avid house music listener and enjoys playing tennis and swimming.

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