Speakers

2011 Speakers

Tim Andree is Executive Officer of Dentsu Inc. and CEO of Dentsu Network West, responsible for Dentsu’s operations in the Americas, Europe and Australia.

Andree joined Dentsu in 2006 as CEO of Dentsu America and in two years, it became the fastest growing agency in the U.S. per Ad Age’s 2008 Agency Report. That same year, he was appointed Dentsu Inc.’s first non-Japanese Executive Officer.

During his tenure, Andree has led the acquisitions of 360i, ATTIK, mcgarrybowen (Ad Age’s 2009 “Agency of the Year”), Netmining and SearchIgnite, enhancing Dentsu's presence and capabilities outside Japan.

In October 2010, Dentsu established Dentsu Network West, which comprises 33 offices in 10 countries, and named Andree CEO. Under the direction of Dentsu’s Board and its vision for globalization, Andree has driven Dentsu to be one of the fastest growing agency networks in North America and continues to lead its growth strategy for Latin America, Europe and Australia.

In December 2010, Andree co-authored The Dentsu Way: Secrets of Cross Switch Marketing from the World’s Most Innovative Advertising Agency, with Dentsu Inc.’s SVP and Chief Creative Officer Kotaro Sugiyama. Andree was a featured “Trendsetter” by The Internationalist magazine in recognition of the book’s groundbreaking content, and was previously named an “Agency Innovator” by The Internationalist in 2009.

Prior to Dentsu, Andree began his career in Japan as Toyota’s first American expatriate staff member, then returned to the U.S. to head External Affairs for Toyota Motor North America.

After 13 years at Toyota, Andree joined Canon U.S.A. as VP & General Manager, Marketing & Corporate Communications. Following Canon, Andree joined the BASF Corporation as VP, Corporate Communications, and his track record of building successful marketing and communications ultimately led him to the National Basketball Association as SVP, Marketing and Communications.

Andree graduated from the University of Notre Dame and was drafted by the Chicago Bulls. He has played in professional leagues in Italy, Spain, Monaco and Japan.

Andree resides in New Jersey with his wife, Laureen, and their six children.

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Michael Barrett joined AdMeld from Fox Interactive Media, where he was Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer and oversaw worldwide revenue for all properties, including MySpace, IGN, FoxSports.com, Fox.com, AmericanIdol.com and Scout.com. Before Fox, Michael held senior sales positions at interactive leaders AOL Media Networks, GeoCities/Yahoo! and Disney Online. Prior to joining Disney, he held senior positions with Meredith Publishing, Newsweek magazine and Family PC magazine.

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John Battelle is an entrepreneur, author, and journalist. In 2005, he founded and currently serves as Executive Chairman of the Internet media company Federated Media Publishing, which now ranks as one of the top properties on the web. John was also the Co-Founder, Executive Producer, and Program Chair of the Web 2 Summit, and Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to that, he was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures.

He maintains Searchblog, an ongoing daily site, which covers the intersection of media, technology, and culture at www.battellemedia.com. He is also Co-Founder of the OpenCo series of events.

Previously, John occupied the Bloomberg chair in Business Journalism for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an expert in the field of media and technology and has appeared on national and international news channels including CBS, BBC, CNN, PBS, Discovery, and CNBC. He was a founding Board member of the Online Publishers Association and served on the board of the IAB for three terms. He currently sits on the board of Acxiom Corp., a public company.

In 2005 Battelle authored “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture” (Penguin/Portfolio), an international bestseller published in more than 25 languages. His new book entitled “If/Then” will be completed in 2013.

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Brad has led Durham, North Carolina-based McKinney since 2002.

Since his arrival, McKinney has more than doubled in size by building one of the most innovative business models in the advertising industry, one that blurs the line between traditional and digital media. As a result, McKinney has been recognized as one of the best agencies in the country by Advertising Age. In 2008, Brad led a management buyback of the agency from French holding company Havas.

He is also on the board of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) and founding chair of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB’s) Agency Advisory Board.

An anthropology major at Dartmouth, where he rowed on the varsity crew and was editor-in-chief of the humor magazine, Brad also earned a finance MBA from Columbia. Before joining McKinney, he spent two decades at global advertising giant Leo Burnett in Chicago, rising from trainee to CEO of Leo Burnett USA.

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Bob Carrigan is Chief Executive Officer of IDG Communications worldwide. He oversees IDG’s media operations, including online, print, and events in 90 countries. Prior to assuming his worldwide Cheif Executive Officer role in 2008, Bob was responsible in the U.S. for CIO and CSO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Macworld, Network World, PCWorld, GamePro, and IDG World Expo.

He returned to IDG in 2003 as President and Chief Executive Officer of Computerworld. He rejoined IDG from AOL where he was Senior Vice President in the Interactive Marketing Group. Bob began his IDG career while a college student at Boston University and rose to executive sales positions at PCWorld.

In 2011, he was elected as Chairman of IAB.

In 2009, Bob was named the CEO Innovator for large business publishers by Media Business and is listed in the annual Media Business list of “Who’s Who.” He is also a member of the Min Digital Hall of Fame and Min Sales Hall of Fame.

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Wendy Clark joined The Coca-Cola Company in September 2008 as senior vice president, integrated marketing communications and capabilities. In her role, Clark oversees global design, content excellence, media connections, sponsorships, interactive marketing and marketing of the Company’s Live Positively sustainability platform.

Under Wendy’s guidance, her team has achieved a great deal during her time at the Company, including the successful global launch of the Coca-Cola “Open Happiness” campaign, now deployed in markets representing 100% of Coca-Cola’s volume. Her team is leveraging the power and impact of holistic design, working to align and focus our ad agencies under a new value-based compensation model and driving great adoption and understanding of digital media with a “fans-first” mentality.

During Wendy’s tenure, The Coca-Cola Company launched its first-ever global mobile marketing campaign and the 2010 FIFA World Cup program which is The Coca-Cola System’s largest-ever marketing activation, in more than160 countries.

In 2009 and 2010 FORTUNE featured Wendy in its “40 Under 40” issue, ranking as the highest woman in the 2010 (#15). She was also named one of four “Women to Watch” by FORTUNE.

Prior to joining The Coca-Coca Company, Clark was senior vice president, advertising for AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications company. From delivering the iconic AT&T “globe” logo into the 21st Century to making the “Your World. Delivered.” tagline synonymous with AT&T, Clark was at the helm of the company’s most ambitious and aggressive re-branding and advertising campaigns in its history.

Wendy’s efforts were recognized in November 2007, upon her induction into the American Advertising Federation’s (AAF) “Advertising Hall of Achievement.” In addition, AdAge magazine cited Clark as “one of the most important women in marketing” in its “Women to Watch” 2007 issue.

Prior to joining AT&T in 2004, Clark served as senior vice president and director of client service at Omnicom shop, GSD&M, a nationally-acclaimed advertising agency in Austin, Texas, overseeing the firm’s 26 accounts and 120+ account service team.

Clark is a board member of the Association of National Advertisers, is an advisory board member of Canoe Ventures, IDEO.org and the Paley Center for Media and is a board director for The Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation. She holds a BA/English from Florida State University and lives in Atlanta with her husband and three children.

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David Coletti is ESPN’s Vice President, Digital Media Research & Analytics. He oversees the measurement platforms and audience research efforts for ESPN's digital properties, including ESPN.com, ESPN Mobile and ESPN3.com. The analysis and insight that emanates from the Digital Media Research & Analytics team shapes ESPN’s digital product strategies, site optimization initiatives, marketplace positioning and industry communications.

Coletti leads the company’s efforts in tracking and interpreting behavioral trends in the digital space on topics such as online video, mobile technology and social media. He is also charged with developing and evangelizing innovative digital audience metrics and measurement methods. To that end Coletti serves on the research committees of several leading trade organizations, including the Online Publishers Association, Interactive Advertising Bureau and Media Rating Council, as well as serving on senior client advisory boards of both comScore and Nielsen Online.

Coletti's insights on digital media measurement have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Sports Business Journal and Media Post.

Coletti joined ESPN in February 1998 and previous to his current role served as ESPN's Senior Director, Multimedia Sales Research. Prior to ESPN, he worked for TeleRep as a Senior Research Analyst and as an Account Executive for WUTR-TV.

In 1995 Coletti received a Bachelor of Science degree in Television, Radio and Film Management from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where as an undergrad he directed the ‘Sour Sitrus Society’ basketball pep band.

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Emma’s advertising career began in the UK where she worked as a Strategic Planner for a variety of agencies – big and small, good and bad – before finding her career home at Bartle Bogle Hegarty in 1992.

In 1999, Emma left London for the bright lights and bagels of New York City. As Head of Strategic Planning, she was part of the new BBH NY office’s start-up management team and her role later evolved into that of Global Head of Strategic Planning, accountable for the quality of BBH’s strategic planning output in its six offices around the world.

From 2007-2009, Emma stepped into the CEO role at BBH New York and she now serves as the company’s Chairman. The agency has been voted AAAAs mid-sized agency of the year for an unprecedented four years running, and its most significant client relationships today are with Google, Unilever, The Coca-Cola Company and Diageo.

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David Doty is the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at the Interactive Advertising Bureau. His role is to drive key initiatives that help publishers, marketers and agency professionals understand and leverage interactive tools and technologies in order to reach and influence the consumer.

An expert in strategic communications, branding and the commercialization of intellectual capital, he joined the organization from Booz Allen Hamilton where, since 2001 he served as Director of Corporate Branding and Creative Services, responsible for launching the firm’s successful strategic branding initiative. His work for Booz Allen has been recognized with such prestigious honors as the Gold Award of the League of American Communications Professionals and the Thoth Award from the PR Society of America.

Before joining Booz Allen, David worked in new magazine development at Hearst Magazines, overseeing the conception, content and creation of new publications and web sites. He has acted as a consultant on both strategies and products for Turner Entertainment Networks, Primedia, Microsoft and many other media outlets including Departures Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine and others. He served as the author of Frommer’s Guide to New York City.

For a number of years, David consulted with the French Government’s Tourist Office, producing communications strategies, marketing vehicles and publications such as the annual full-color magazine, FranceGuide, published in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. In 2004 he was named Chevalier de l`Ordre National du Mèrite by the President of France for having dedicated his marketing communication expertise to deepening the understanding between the United States and France.

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As Mediabrands’ Chief Innovation Officer, Quentin George is responsible for the overall growth, development and implementation of the company’s intelligence capabilities across all agencies. The New York flagship IPG Media Lab and the company’s digital intelligence database – Mediabrands V.Lab – are both under Quentin’s leadership. As such, he serves as the key driver of all group activities that address not only the complexities of the digital arena for Mediabrands’ clients, but also educates and informs our clients on the hidden opportunities within the space. Internally, he will continue to drive the Mediabrands digital culture, creating a toolkit of resources that connect the network with a complete catalog of Mediabrands’ services and platform capabilities, partner solutions and case studies. In addition, Quentin will identify and introduce Mediabrands and IPG leadership to potential technology and content partners that are ideally suited to enable our network and clients to grow.

One of the most tenured leaders in the digital arena, Quentin was appointed Chief Digital Officer, Mediabrands in 2009. He joined the IPG Network in 2007, and was named Global Lead, Digital Media and Strategic Innovation for Universal McCann. Prior to his role at UM, he served as Chief of Corporate Development and Managing Director for Organic, Inc., where he grew the business substantially from October 2004. During his tenure at Organic, he led assignments for clients such as Sprint, 20th Century Fox, Mitsubishi Motors and GeekSquad.

Earlier George was SVP of Client Services at Avenue A/Razorfish, where he co-managed the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices and was responsible for driving online-based initiatives for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Disney, Cisco Systems and Genentech. Back in 1994, he cofounded Electric Ocean, an internationally renowned interactive marketing agency based in Cape Town, South Africa, where he won one of the first Clios ever awarded for digital work. He’s also a founding member and former co-chairman of the Digital Interactive Media Association (DIMA).

Quentin resides and makes wine in San Francisco with his wife and children.

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Blake Irving is Executive Vice President and Chief Products Officer at Yahoo!. He leads Yahoo!'s Products organization, which is responsible for the vision, strategy, design and development of Yahoo!'s global consumer and advertiser product portfolio. Blake is focused on building unique and highly personal experiences for Yahoo!'s consumers, delivering on Yahoo!'s promise of Science, Art and Scale to its advertisers, and continuing to deliver more and faster innovations to the market. Previously, he served as Corporate Vice President of the Windows Live Platform group at Microsoft, leading a team of 4,000 to build and operate Microsoft's Internet-scale services platform, advertiser and developer ecosystem. Irving also held a variety of development and general management positions at Microsoft. He holds a BA from San Diego State University and a Master's degree in business administration from Pepperdine University.

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Jason Kilar serves as the CEO of Hulu, an online TV service whose mission is to help people find and enjoy the world's premium content when, where and how they want it. Under Jason’s leadership since the formative days of the venture, Hulu has grown to become a leading provider of premium online video with more than 235 professional content providers, 30 million unique monthly users, and $260 million in annual revenue. Jason joined Hulu after nearly a decade of experience at Amazon.com where he served in a variety of key leadership roles. After writing the original business plan for Amazon's entry into the video and DVD businesses, he ultimately became Vice President and General Manager of Amazon's North American media businesses, which included the company's books, music, video, and DVD categories. He later served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Application Software, where he led an organization of hundreds of world-class technologists to innovate on behalf of merchants and consumers via Amazon's websites across the globe. Jason reported directly to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in this role. Jason began his career with The Walt Disney Company, where he worked for Disney Design & Development. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studied Business Administration and Journalism & Mass Communication.

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ESPN named Carol Kruse its senior vice president, marketing in October, 2010. A global brand marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience, Kruse is responsible for developing and managing all aspects of the ESPN brand. This comprises the marketing of the company’s domestic television, broadband, digital, mobile, radio and print assets, including all programming, products and platforms.

Kruse oversees the development of all ESPN marketing campaigns, including the iconic "This is SportsCenter" campaign and ESPN's new "It's Not Crazy, It's Sports" brand campaign. In addition, she oversees ESPN’s on-channel media planning and off-channel media planning and buying. Kruse is also responsible for (or "also manages") the company’s internal Creative Services group, its Events team, Consumer Products, Customer Care, and Fan Relationship Marketing. She is also charged with developing a strategic marketing focus for ESPN’s social networking strategies."

Kruse came to ESPN from The Coca-Cola Company, where she led its global interactive marketing team as Vice President for the past three years. Her role there encompassed building global brands by leveraging digital and mobile communications to drive brand value. Kruse led her team in the development of the “My Coke Rewards” loyalty and relationship marketing program, which debuted in 2006 and currently boasts more than 15 million members.

She joined Coca-Cola North America in 2001 upon the acquisition of her company RocketCash LLC - an online payments and consumer promotions company – by Coca-Cola. Prior to co-founding RocketCash LLC, Kruse held jobs in brand management at The Clorox Company and as vice president at Storm Technology, a digital imaging company.

An avid athlete and sports fan, Kruse has received the AdTech Lifetime Achievement Award, MediaPost’s Online All Star award and many other industry recognitions. She holds a B.A. from Pomona College and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.

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Wenda Harris Millard is President and Chief Operating Officer of MediaLink, a leading strategic advisory and representation firm that provides critical counsel and direction to the media, advertising and entertainment industries and to companies and investors that interact with those sectors.

Previously, she was Co-Chief Executive Officer and President, Media, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia which she joined in July 2007 after serving on its Board of Directors. She oversaw MSLO’s media businesses, which include publishing, Internet and broadcasting.

Before MSLO, Wenda was Chief Sales Officer at Yahoo!, where she led the team that drove revenue from $700 million to over $6 billion in six years and established credibility for brand advertising industry-wide. Previously, she was Chief Internet Officer at Ziff Davis Media and was a founding member of the executive team at DoubleClick, where she served as Executive Vice President. She was President and Group Publisher of SRDS, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Family Circle and Executive Vice President/Group Publisher of Adweek, Mediaweek and Brandweek.

Her awards include the 2007 John A. Reisenbach Award for Distinguished Citizenship; the 2006 "Advertising Person of the Year" Silver Medal Award from the American Advertising Federation; the 2005 Matrix Award for "Women Who Change the World"; and Advertising Age’s "Digital Media Master." She was the subject of a profile by Tom Brokaw on NBC’s "Women to Watch" series.

Wenda is immediate past chair of the IAB and former president of the Advertising Club of New York. She has served on the Boards of the Advertising Council, the American Advertising Federation, the Advertising Education Foundation and others. Currently, she sits on the Boards of several emerging media companies, as well as on the Boards of the James Beard Foundation, Pop!Tech and Do Something. She served two terms as a Trustee of Trinity College in Hartford.

She holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Trinity College.

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

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

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

He has served as a director of Local Matters, a provider of Internet, voice, and wireless technology solutions, since March 2004 and as Chairman since March 2006. He also serves on the Board of Our Stage and Auditudes, both early stage Internet companies, the Board of Directors of the Advertising Education Foundation (AEF), and on the Board of Directors for Visible Technologies, an industry leading provider of social media monitoring and engagement solutions. He can be reached at david.moore@247RealMedia.com.

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A seasoned marketing executive with more than 20 years experience managing major brands, Dani Nadel is Chief Digital Marketing Officer for Scholastic Book Clubs and e-Commerce, a division of Scholastic, the global children’s publishing education and media company. Nadel joined Scholastic in October 2011, as a senior member of the company-wide team overseeing the Company’s transition to digital children’s book publishing and sales. In her role, she is responsible for the marketing and merchandising strategy for the Book Clubs ecommerce platform (COOL), the ebookstore on the Scholastic website, and Scholastic’s children’s eReading app and eBooks that launches later this year.

Prior to joining Scholastic, Nadel served as President at Publicis Modem, a premiere New York based full-service digital agency focused on digital marketing, platform development, media/SEM, social, mobile and emerging platforms. She also served as Managing Director at Modem Media and Senior Vice President, Marketing at Digitas. Clients have included Hasbro, General Mills, SUBWAY, PayPal, and LG Electronics, among many other major brands.

Nadel spearheaded several internal initiatives that include professional development and training programs, operational process improvement, and new business development efforts. Prior to joining Digitas in 1990, Dani spent two years with Young & Rubicam NY.

Nadel holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Washington University’s Olin School of Business; and an MBA in Marketing from Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. She lives in New York City and has two school age children.

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Peter Naylor is the Executive Vice President of Ad Sales for NBC News Digital. He oversees advertising sales for the company’s digital properties including NBC.com, NBCSports.com and NBCOlympics.com, CNBC.com, SyFy.com, Oxygen.com, Bravotv.com, USANetwork.com, AccessHollywood.com, and the Universal Audience Platform.

Peter spearheaded the launch of the Universal Audience Platform, a “first party” online ad network of NBCU owned-and-operated digital properties reaching 60 million unique users each month.

He also leads the sales efforts of emerging digital platforms around Social TV like BravoNow, NBCLive, Syfy Sync, Oxygen Connect, and Sunday Night Football Extra, as well as mobile experiences for each brand on smart phone and tablet platforms.

Peter sits on the boards of the IAB (current Chairman) and The Online Publishers’ Association (current treasurer). He also serves on the Digital Marketing Board of Governors for dmg world media. In addition, he was a founding board member of 212, a New York interactive media trade association.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and English from Denison University in Ohio.

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Kevin O’Connor is Co-Founder of FindTheBest.com, a comparison Engine that he established in Santa Barbara, California.

Kevin started his first software company in 1983, at the dawn of the PC; in 1995, at the beginning of the commercial Internet, he founded DoubleClick. DoubleClick helped put Silicon Alley on the map and sparked a network of entrepreneurs and new boom companies. Now Kevin is working to help bring order to the chaos of the web with the comparison engine FindTheBest.com, recently funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’s Fund.

Kevin has been on both sides of the VC table, founding his own VC firm, O’Connor Ventures. He cut his management teeth while coaching wrestling and has found time to pen The Map of Innovation, Creating Something Out of Nothing. Whatever spare time Kevin has, he spends surfing or skiing.

For more information on Kevin O’Connor, visit his Wikipedia page here.

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John Partilla is Chief Operating Officer of Dentsu Network West. In this role, his responsibilities include building the overall architecture of the recently formed Network, overseeing operations, and leading agency integration and business development strategies for the Network’s agencies, which total 33 offices and more than 1,400 employees across the Americas, Europe and Australia. In addition, John is responsible for managing three of the Network’s five priority platforms: Networking, Growth, and Evolution of Products and Services.

Prior to joining Dentsu, John was Executive Vice President and President of Global Media Sales at Clear Channel Communications, Inc., where he led national business development across the company’s radio and outdoor businesses, and was a member of the Company’s Operating Board. During this capacity, John was elected to Mediaweek’s “Leading Media Players 2010” (Position #9 out of 50).

Partilla joined Clear Channel from Time Warner, where, for five years, he led the Global Media Group in its mission to work with major advertisers and help drive the growth of advertising and marketing revenue across all of Time Warner’s businesses.

Prior to his media sector experience, John spent 18 years on the agency side of the business, rising to become a Managing Partner of Young and Rubicam, and was the founder and CEO of Brand Buzz, a digitally driven agency that still thrives today. During his career at Young & Rubicam, John amassed an extensive roster of strategic sales and brand development experience, having worked across many of the agency’s core accounts.

Partilla holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. in Business Administration from University of Delaware. John resides with his family in New York.

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In his role as Chief Innovation Officer for Demand Media, Byron oversees all research and development. Byron and his team are responsible for the creation of new technologies to support the company’s core strategic opportunities – including its social publishing ecosystem. The company has filed several patents for the proprietary algorithms that support the selection, distribution and optimization of content.

Prior to Demand Media, Byron was the founder and CEO of PageWise, Inc., the parent company of ExpertVillage.com, which was acquired by Demand Media in 2007. Byron graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rice University with a degree in Honors Economics. There he gained distinction when he started his first company which orchestrated elaborate practical jokes for its customers.

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A serial entrepreneur with a unique vision for the future of online media, Richard Rosenblatt co-founded Demand Media in May 2006 and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He was featured in Fortune’s “The 50 Smartest People in Tech,” and was named runner-up for “Smartest CEO” behind Apple’s Steve Jobs.

Richard has built, operated and sold several high-profile Internet media companies. Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Intermix Media, Inc., and Chairman of Myspace.com. He joined Intermix in March 2004 and led a successful turnaround of its existing businesses. Specifically, he helped grow Myspace.com from an unknown web site into one of the most popular properties on the Internet, leading to the acquisition of Intermix by News Corporation in 2005.

Previously, Richard founded iMALL, one of the first Internet companies to recognize the power of user-generated content, offering users a suite of tools that enabled them to build their own e-commerce stores and conduct transactions online. As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, he helped orchestrate the sale of iMALL to Excite@Home in 1999.

Richard also serves as Chairman of iCrossing, a leading digital marketing firm, and sits on the board of directors of The FRS Company.

A Southern California native, Richard holds a BA from UCLA, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from USC Law School. He has co-lectured a course on new media with Peter Guber at the UCLA Anderson School of Business and was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the USC Marshall School of Business in 2008.

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Randall Rothenberg is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the IAB, the trade association for interactive marketing. The IAB represents over 500 leading interactive companies. Its members include Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, The New York Times, Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal, CBS, Cars.com, Yelp, and scores of other ad-supported digital media companies, which are responsible for selling more than 86 percent of online advertising in the U.S. To support the growth of the interactive advertising and marketing industries, the IAB serves as the industry’s public policy and lobbying organization, market and consumer research center, training and development base, and hub for the development of technical standards and operating best practices. The IAB has 37 affiliate associations around the world.

Randall led the IAB from 2007 through 2010, and rejoined the association in March 2011, after a stint as Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of Time Inc. Prior to his IAB role, Randall was the Senior Director of Intellectual Capital of Booz Allen Hamilton, the international strategy and technology consulting firm, where he oversaw business development, knowledge management, and thought leadership activities, and directed the award-winning quarterly business magazine strategy+business, Strategy+Business Books, www.strategy-business.com, and other electronic and print publications published by Booz Allen for senior business executives. Previously, he served as the firm’s Chief Marketing Officer.

Prior to Booz Allen, he spent six years at The New York Times, where he was the technology editor and politics editor of the Sunday magazine, the daily advertising columnist, and a media and marketing reporter. For 10 years, he was a marketing and media columnist for Advertising Age, and he continues to blog on the subject at www.randallrothenberg.com. Randall is the author of Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), a critically-acclaimed chronicle of the birth, evolution, and death of a single advertising campaign.

He received an undergraduate degree in Classics from Princeton.

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Ian Schafer, CEO and Founder of Deep Focus (a part of Engine USA), is one of advertising’s most influential voices in interactive marketing and social media. Prior to founding Deep Focus in 2002, Ian was Vice President of the New Media division of Miramax Films.

Deep Focus is an award-winning engagement and innovation agency boasting a client roster that includes brands such as AMC, Microsoft, Capital One, WellPoint, The National Association of Realtors, Samsung, and MoMA.

Under Ian’s guidance, Deep Focus has been lauded for its expertise and excellence at using digital media, technology, creative, and communications strategies to create engaging, value-driven experiences that get people talking. The Emmy®-nominated firm has been responsible for many memorable, award-winning efforts over the years including 2009’s MadMenYourself.com, and has been the recipient of numerous distinctions, including several Webby Awards and a Cannes Gold Lion.

Named a ‘Media Maven’ by Advertising Age and one of Adweek’s “Young Ones”, Ian has been featured in Wired, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Adweek, Advertising Age, USA Today, New York Magazine, Variety, CNN, Fortune, The Hollywood Reporter and The Harvard Business Review. Ian also sits on the executive board of the Social Media Advertising Consortium, and the Global Advisory Board of Global Social Media Week.

An avid technologist, Ian blogs at http://www.ianschafer.com and can be followed on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ischafer.

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Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, an alumnus fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a fellow with the Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, one of the world's most quoted bloggers, and a photographer committed to enlarging the sum of images in the public domain.

Doc began writing for Linux Journal in 1996, and has been Senior Editor for most of the time since. He has contributed to a number of books on open source, including Open Sources 2.0 from O'Reilly. In The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman calls Doc "one of the most respected technology writers in America." In 2005, Doc won the Google O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Communicator. Doc's byline has also appeared in OMNI, Wired, PC Magazine, The Standard, The Sun, Upside, Release 1.0, The Globe & Mail and many other publications.

At the Berkman Center, Doc started ProjectVRM, which has the immodest ambition of liberating customers from entrapment in vendor silos, and improving markets by making it easy for customers to express intentions, form relationships and do business—on their own terms and in their own ways, and not just those provided by sellers. VRM stands for Vendor Relationship Management, a customer-side counterpart for CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, which is a $16 billion business. For his work on VRM, Doc was named a ”2010 Influential Leader” by CRM Magazine., which devoted most of its May 2010 issue (and its cover story, on the right) to VRM. Doc's VRM work is also the subject of a book he is writing for Harvard Business Publishing titled The Intention Economy: What Happens When Customers Get Real Power. The book is due out in September, 2011.

As a fellow with CITS at UCSB, Doc studies both the nature of infrastructure and the Internet as a form of infrastructure.

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Tina Sharkey, BabyCenter's Chairman and Global President, is a pioneer in the development of leading consumer media brands and new media applications that bring value to consumers' lives. She has more than 20 years of experience in the evolution of new media, ranging from the introduction of HDTV to the forefront of Web 2.0.

Tina has been featured as a Top Leader in Technology by Businessweek, Fast Company, USA Today and Advertising Age, and currently serves on the boards of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and ad:tech.

Tina has led BabyCenter to become the web's number one global interactive parenting and pregnancy destination, reaching more than 25 million parents across 22 markets worldwide every month. She has also positioned BabyCenter as the established leader in providing mom insights and innovative interactive marketing solutions to the world's leading brands.

Tina is also a strong believer in BabyCenter's emotional connection to moms and its role in guiding them on their journey through motherhood. As part of that effort, she has been an advocate for new global mobile health initiatives that will empower women to take a more active role in their own health and the health of their children.

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Jim Spanfeller is Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Spanfeller Media Group, a venture backed web based content company. The first site from SMG is TheDailyMeal.com and covers all things food. Off to a great start TheDailyMeal is growing over 300% in traffic from month to month from launch in late October to now.

Prior to this position he served as the President and CEO of Forbes.com, home page for the world’s business leaders, reaching 20 million business decision makers each month. In this position, Spanfeller oversaw Forbes Digital, which included Forbes.com, ForbesTraveler.com, Investopedia.com, RealClearPolitics.com, RealClearMarkets.com, RealClearSports.com, and the Forbes.com Business and Finance Blog Network, which together reach 42 million unique monthly visitors. Spanfeller was also a member of the Office of the Chairman, along with Steve Forbes and Timothy Forbes.

Spanfeller has received numerous industry accolades. Most recently in February of 2010 receiving the first ever Founders Award from the IAB for lifetime achievement. He has been included in BtoB Media Business’ “Who’s Who in Business Publishing” and was named “Top Interactive Executive for General Business Publishers” as part of the “Top Innovator in Business Publishing” awards. He has also been included in BtoB magazine’s “Top 25 Newsmakers” as well as the “Media Power 50 List” at #4, and was inducted into min’s first-ever Digital Hall of Fame.

Spanfeller is currently Secretary of the Online Publisher’s Association (OPA) and is a Chairman Emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He also sits on the boards of Ziff Davis Enterprise Group, Modern Luxury Inc., MediaSmith LLC and The We Are Family Foundation.

In addition to these full board positions he also serves on the advisory boards of several early stage web start-ups; We7, WebMynd, TrustMetrics and Fattail are four examples.

He writes frequently in leading industry trade publications and speaks regularly throughout the world on media issues in the digital age.

Prior to joining Forbes.com, Spanfeller was President of the Consumer Magazine Group of Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Previously, he was Publisher of Inc. magazine and also held senior positions at Playboy Enterprises Publishing Group and Newsweek.

Spanfeller received a B.A. in English Literature from Union College. He lives in New York City with his wife, Peg, and their three daughters.

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As Chief Executive Officer at BlueKai, Omar Tawakol is responsible for the overall management, growth, and vision for the company’s groundbreaking exchange business. Prior to founding BlueKai, Omar was the Chief Advertising Officer of Medio Systems, the leading provider of mobile search and advertising solutions for carriers such as Verizon and T‐Mobile. He joined Medio from Revenue Science, where as Chief Marketing Officer and General Manager he was instrumental in founding and growing the company’s leading behavioral targeting businesses, which provide services for many of the largest Internet publishers. There he was actively involved with key industry leaders in defining standards for behavioral targeting. Omar earned Master of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering degrees from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from MIT. While at Stanford, he was a computer science researcher at both the Stanford Logic Group and HP Software Labs. Omar’s research on formalizing context was published in the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

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Rik van der Kooi is corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Advertiser & Publisher Solutions (APS) group. In this capacity, van der Kooi leads the advertising platform business at Microsoft and has overall responsibility for building and scaling Microsoft’s search and display advertising offerings globally. APS is the engine that powers and monetizes the Microsoft Advertising brand, which generates in excess of $4B annually. The APS group defines business strategy, product management, and sales motion for search, display and emerging solutions across PC, Mobile, and TV platforms. Offerings include Microsoft Media Network, the Microsoft Advertising Exchange, Atlas, data and targeting solutions, social media, publisher offerings and premium brand display solutions. Van der Kooi is also accountable for the success of the combined Microsoft + Yahoo Search Alliance, and has executive oversight over the company’s expanding digital ecosystem partnership strategy.

Prior to taking over as leader of APS, van der Kooi served as CFO and corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division (OSD), where he was responsible for all financial matters for the group, including financial accounting, reporting and controls, business analysis, performance management, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and IT systems. Before that, he had stints as chief financial officer of Windows; as General Manager of Finance and Administration for the Sales, Marketing and Services Group in EMEA, based in Paris; and Finance Director for the Benelux countries. He joined Microsoft in 1999.

Before he joined Microsoft, van der Kooi was chief financial officer of IBC Vehicles Ltd, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, in Luton, United Kingdom. He held several other finance and business positions within GM’s European operations in Spain and the United Kingdom.

Van der Kooi holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Nyenrode University in The Netherlands. He is married and has three children. In his spare time, he enjoys running, soccer, being outdoors, and music.

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Bryan Wiener is CEO of digital agency 360i. Under his leadership, 360i has earned a spot on Ad Age’s coveted “Agency A-List” and Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies” roster, helping clients like Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Diageo and NBC Universal engage their target audiences across the ever-changing digital landscape. Mediaweek has named Bryan a Top 50 person in media two years running for his visionary leadership within the industry and recently named him a Media All-Star.

Bryan’s background includes a series of senior management positions at Net2Phone Global Services, a pioneer in VoIP communications technology. Prior to that, he served as General Manager at TheGlobe.com and Director of Business Development at Standard and Poor’s. Bryan is Vice Chairman of the AAAA Digital Board and serves on the AAAA National Board of Directors and the IAB Agency Advisor Board. He is also an advisor to NYU’s Media & Entertainment Student & Alumni Associations.

Bryan holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU and a BA in History from Syracuse University.

Follow Bryan on Twitter at @bwiener.

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Bill Wise has spent over a decade leading and unleashing the potential of revolutionary advertising technologies. He comes to MediaBank from his role as General Manager, Ad Platforms and Global Exchange at Yahoo!, where he oversaw the company’s advertising platforms business including the Right Media Exchange and APT by Yahoo, Yahoo’s intelligent media planning and buying platform. Bill joined Yahoo! from his role as President of Right Media, which Yahoo! acquired in 2007, bringing Bill on board and integrating Right Media’s Exchange as the solution for Yahoo's entire non-guaranteed, spot market inventory. Before leading Right Media, he was Chief Executive Officer of Didit, the largest independent search marketing firm, from 2005 to 2007. Immediately prior to Didit, he served as Senior Vice President, Products and Strategy at Ask.com; he joined Ask.com when MaxOnline, of which he was Chief Executive Officer from 2002-2004, was acquired by Ask.com in 2004. Bill served at DoubleClick from 1997–2002, first as Director, Financial Planning and Investor Relations and then as Vice President/General Manager of DoubleClick Media.

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Michael Zimbalist is Vice President, Research & Development Operations at The New York Times Company. Under his leadership R&D is stimulating innovation and cultural change as NYTC transitions to a multiplatform company. He is also leading Boston.com into its next phase of growth and overseeing mobile technology initiatives for the company.

Since joining the Times Company in January 2006, some of Michael's accomplishments include extending the Times Company's digital activities to new and emerging platforms and managing the companywide launch of new mobile products such as mobile real estate listings at each newspaper site and About.com; overseeing Boston.com and its expansion into local search and community publishing; structuring the strategic alliance with Monster.com in which 17 of the company's newspaper web sites, including NYTimes.com and Boston.com, are co-branding their recruitment sites with Monster's; focusing on new tools and services such as analytics and data mining to optimize content delivery and advertising revenue across all NYTC sites.

Michael has been widely quoted in publications such as The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has been a guest commentator on NBC News, CNN and BBC Radio discussing the future of media and advertising.

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