Speakers
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FRANK ADDANTE Frank Addante, founder and CEO of the Rubicon Project, an online advertising technology company. the Rubicon Project pioneered the category of Ad Network Optimization, helping websites make more money from their unsold ad space by optimizing ad networks. Frank is a serial entrepreneur with one IPO and two acquisitions before the age of 30. He previously served as CTO and technology Founder of L90, Inc., a publicly-held Internet advertising company that was acquired by DoubleClick after a successful $112 million IPO. He invented adMonitor, one of the Internet's most successful ad serving platforms for Global 2000 companies. adMonitor delivered over 8 billion ads per month for over 3,000 customers, reaching 65% of the worldwide Internet population.
Frank’s fifth company was StrongMail, the leading email delivery infrastructure provider for thousands of companies worldwide, including Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Williams Sonoma, FTD, Netflix and MySpace.com.
He serves on various boards of innovative technology and marketing companies and received his education in electrical and computer engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Read Frank’s blog at www.FounderBlog.com . |
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STEPHEN BAKER Stephen Baker has written for BusinessWeek for over twenty years, covering Mexico and Latin America, the Rust Belt, European technology, and a host of other topics, including blogs, math, and nanotechnology. But he’s always considered himself a foreign correspondent—an approach that was especially useful as he met the Numerati. “While I came from the world of words, they inhabited the symbolic realms of math and computer science,” Baker says. “This was foreign to me. My reporting became an anthropological mission.”Baker has written for many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. He won an Overseas Press Club Award for his portrait of the rising Mexican auto industry. He is the coauthor of blogspotting.net, featured by the New York Times as one of fifty blogs to watch. |
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JOHN BYRNE John A. Byrne is the executive editor and editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek.com. In this role, Mr. Byrne is responsible for the editorial operations of BusinessWeek.com and will guide the further integration and collaboration between the print and online editorial staffs. Prior to this, he was the executive editor for the print publication since 2005.
Previously, Mr. Byrne was editor-in-chief of Fast Company magazine, and is the author of eight books on business, leadership, and management. His latest book, published Sept. 11, 2001 by Warner Books, is Jack: Straight from the Gut, his highly anticipated collaboration with former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch. |
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ELISA CAMAHORT PAGE Elisa Camahort is a co-founder and COO of BlogHer, managing its events, marketing and corporate operations. A marketing executive with 17 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Elisa left her life in high tech product management to go online and join the social media world, and to help companies go there too. She co-founded BlogHer as a labor of love in 2005 with Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone, and in two short years BlogHer has grown to be the number-one guide to and source for blogs by women. BlogHer serves its mission of creating opportunities for education, exposure, community and economic empowerment with its web community, sold-out conferences and advertising network that now features nearly 1,000 network members. Elisa Camahort was at the vanguard of professional and business blogging and currently writes nine blogs. She blogs at various times about marketing, health issues, green and eco-conscious living, being a vegan, and reality TV talent shows like American Idol and Project Runway! She’s a frequent public speaker in the areas of business blogging and online community, and has been published frequently, including her monthly column for the Silicon Valley Metro, Silicon Veggie. |
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CHUCK CORDRAY Chuck Cordray was named vice president and general manager, digital media for Hearst Magazines, in March 2006. He helped establish Hearst Magazines Digital Media, a unit dedicated to creating and implementing the online and mobile strategy for Hearst’s magazine brands and other sites which serve the company’s consumers and audience. Mr. Cordray comes to Hearst from Gemstar-TV Guide, where he served as senior vice president, consumer marketing, running newsstand sales and subscription sales, as well as TVGuide.com. Previously, at Primedia, Inc. he oversaw the strategy and management of online subscription sales and customer service. Mr. Cordray held key management positions at the Meredith Corporation from 1992 - 2001. He was vice president of broadcasting interactive and e-marketing for the Interactive Media Group from 2000-2001. He was responsible for the strategic direction and daily management of online magazine and book sales and TV websites. Additionally, his experience includes positions as the station manager of WGCL-TV in Atlanta and as general manager of Ladies' Home Journal in the Publishing Group. He also played a key role in the launch of More magazine, a Ladies' Home Journal brand extension. |
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ANIL DASH Anil Dash is one of the seminal bloggers on the web and Chief Evangelist at Six Apart Ltd, where he's played a formative role in helping create the world's leading blogging company. Dash is a recognized expert on web technology, web culture and the software industry, having founded one of the earliest and most popular weblogs on the Internet, which was named one of MSNBC's "Best of Blogs". A frequent keynote speaker, Dash has given presentations around the world about the future of social communication online and the relationship between social and traditional media. Dash is frequently featured in media including the the Washington Post, Wired, MSNBC, CNN, ABC News, NPR and on television, radio, print and blogs around the world. His works have been showcased in museums including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and he has addressed classes at universities including UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Journalism, Columbia University's School of Journalism, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In addition to his professional work, Dash has received notice for his role in popularizing web culture in mainstream media venues ranging from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to the Houston Chronicle, which labeled him a "legendary blogger". Prior to joining Six Apart as its first employee, Dash worked in online communications and technology development for the publishing and music industries. When he's not traveling, Dash lives in New York City with his wife Alaina Browne, a noted pioneer in the world of online food media. His personal blog can be found online at dashes.com. |
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ANDREW DEVIGAL Andrew DeVigal has been the multimedia editor at the New York Times since October 2006. Mr. DeVigal directs the presentation of multimedia and interactive packages online and oversees The Times’s staff of multimedia producers. Having worked in the news industry since 1993, Mr. DeVigal has worked as a staff artist, graphic journalist, web designer, product developer, researcher and journalism professor. He has been in the privileged position to practice and observe multimedia journalism from its inception. Mr. DeVigal was also visiting professional with the Poynter Institute, teaching and collaborating in the area of New Media and Visual Journalism, where he helped lead the 2000 online eye-tracking study. He is the founder of InteractiveNarratives.org (http://www.interactivenarratives.org/), a site that celebrates the best of Interactive Journalism on the Internet. |
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STEVE DUENES Steve Duenes is the graphics director at The New York Times. In this role, Mr. Duenes manages a group of 30 journalists who report and create the interactive graphics on NYTimes.com, as well as the charts, maps and diagrams for The Times newspaper. Previously, he was the deputy graphics director from 2001 to 2004. Mr. Duenes joined The Times in 1999 as the graphics editor for the science section |
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BRUCE FALCK Bruce Falck is the Head of the Google Content Network. Working as a bridge between product management and sales, he is responsible for driving adoption of the Network by agencies and marketers. Prior to this role, Bruce was the Head of Audio Ads - a digital system for buying targeted and measurable radio advertising. In this role, he oversaw all matters related to advertiser and affiliate sales. Bruce joined Google in July 2006 as one of the founding Product Managers for Google’s TV advertising business, where he was integrally involved in driving early-stage product development and business strategy. Bruce has over 10 years of experience building businesses. Before coming to Google, he was the Vice President of Product Management at Energy Innovations, an Idealab company focused on renewable energy. Prior to Energy Innovations, Bruce successfully founded and led three web-based businesses. |
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KEITH FERRAZZI Keith Ferrazzi is one of the rare individuals to discover the essential formula for reaching the top - a powerful combination of marketing acumen and a remarkable ability to connect with others. Both Forbes and Inc. have designated him one of the world's most "connected" individuals. As Founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, he provides market leaders with strategic consulting and training services to increase company sales and enhance personal careers. Ferrazzi Greenlight strategically leverages the insight of its executive team, whose careers span the highest echelons of corporate America, along with principles from Ferrazzi's best-selling book, Never Eat Alone. Never Eat Alone has been recognized as one of the best business books of 2005, 2006, and 2007. His new book, Who's Got Your Back?out in May 2009, guides readers to develop an intimate inner circle, a handful of people who they trust completely to hold them accountable to ever higher levels of achievement. |
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TIM FERRISS Timothy Ferriss, nominated as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007,” is author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 33 languages. He has been featured by more than 100 media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS. He speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change. Tim is an active education activist and has architected experimental social media campaigns such as LitLiberation to out-fundraise traditional media figures like Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 at zero cost, building schools overseas and financing more than 15,000 US students in the process. He is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org, an educational non-profit and winner at Fast Company’s 2008 Social Capitalist Awards. |
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EILEEN GITTINS Eileen says this is the most fun company she’s ever run, which is saying a fair amount - she has lived and worked all over the world. From her days at Kodak, Wall Data before and after the IPO, CEO of Personify (behavioral segmentation and analytics), and Verb (context search); outside Board Director at Qbiquity, and Popular Demand. An avid photographer, she wanted to create a beautifully designed and produced photo essay books – something that looked like a book you’d buy at the bookstore – but she only needed 40 copies. This turned out to be remarkably painful, expensive, and time-consuming – and she thought that was just wrong. So she founded Blurb. Eileen’s favorite quote: “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” (Gandhi) Eileen’s first Blurb book: Five Hours in Napa. |
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JEFF HOWE Jeff is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, where he covers the entertainment industry, among other subjects. In a June 2006 article for Wired, Jeff coined the term “crowdsourcing” to describe mass collaboration used to accomplish tasks formerly performed by employees. His book Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business was released by Crown Business in August 2008. |
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DOUG JAEGER Doug Jaeger, an emerging, creative business leader in New York City, is the founder, CEO and Creative Director of thehappycorp global. He is also the Director of lvhrd, an unconventional event series that uses digital media to fuel interaction between creative professionals. In November of 2008 he was elected President of the Art Director’s Club. At the age of 33, Jaeger is the youngest person ever to hold the post. thehappycorp global is a creative incubator that focuses on how design, experience, and technology influence consumers’ connections with brands and was designed by Jaeger to be a resource for companies interested in increasing the global happiness index as well as their bottom lines. Since the company’s inception, thehappycorp has worked its magic on projects for lvhrd, youlookgreattoday.com, MoMA, Virgin, Brooklyn Brewery, Idealist.org, VH1, and babygooroo. |
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LARRY KRAMER Larry Kramer is Senior Advisor at Polaris Venture Partners, a national venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management. Polaris invests in seed, early stage and growth equity businesses in the technology, life science, digital media, enertech and consumer sectors. From March 2005 until November 2006, he served asthe first President of CBS Digital Media, reporting directly to Leslie Moonves. In this role, Kramer created a new division that put together all new media operations for the network, including online, interactive and wireless initiatives. He had oversight over and launched or relaunched several websites including CBS.com, CBSNews.com, CBS SportsLine.com and StarTrek.com. While there, he created March Madness on Demand (the web broadcast of the NCAA Basketball Tournament), put CBS TV shows on the web for free, ad-supported, and created distribution partnerships with Google, Amazon, Apple I-tunes, Yahoo and Verizon for CBS content. He continued to serve as an Adviser to CBS until April 2008. Prior to joining CBS, Kramer was Chairman, CEO and Founder of MarketWatch, Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTW), also known as CBS MarketWatch, until its sale to Dow Jones for $528 million in January 2005. He created the company as an LLC with Data Broadcasting Corp. and CBS, launching in October 1997, taking it public in January 1999, and making three acquisitions to help build the business. |
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BEN LERER Founder Ben Lerer directs Thrillist.com's business development, advertising sales & marketing efforts. Lerer launched the site with college friend Adam Rich in October 2005 to address the lack of funny, hip, current, cutting edge, actionable information on the radar of successful young men in New York. Ben has overseen the launch and expansion of Thrillist.com from a New York-only email newsletter into a national media service currently delivering unbiased editorial content to over half-a-million consumers daily. Lerer, 27, is a native New Yorker. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003, he worked with renowned hotelier Andre Balazs at Miami hotspot The Raleigh Hotel, where he helped coordinate the launch of the Raleigh's star-studded Sunday Soiree. Upon his return to New York in 2004, Lerer created Thrillist.com in the hopes of shoring up his business school application. His b-school aspirations on permanent hiatus, Lerer is now growing Thrillist.com into a viable alternative to traditional media empires. |
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MICHELLE MADHOK Online Shopping Expert, Michelle Madhok has been a pioneer in the online industry for over a decade. She is currently founder and CEO of SheFinds Media Inc. an online media company that publishes content based sites for women. With no outside funding, Madhok launched SheFind’s first property, SheFinds.com, in 2004 soon followed by MomFinds.com. The fundamental SheFinds business model has proven to be highly scalable as the company continues to expand. |
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VALERIA MALTONI Valeria Maltoni helps businesses understand how customers and communities have changed marketing, public relations, and communications - and how to build value in this new environment. As a communicator with 20 years of experience, 10 of which online, she specializes in marketing communications, customer dialogue, and brand management. Valeria has come to define modern business as a long and open conversation. ConversationAgent.com is recognized among the world's top online marketing blogs. Valeria was handpicked by Fast Company as Expert blogger to write about creating conversations between marketer and customer. She is a contributor to Marketing Profs Daily Fix, and Marketing 2.0. She is a co-author of The Age of Conversation, a groundbreaking eBook collaboration by 103 of today's top marketing writers.
Valeria’s deep experience across a broad array of mid-to-large sized companies in the technology, healthcare, manufacturing, risk management consulting, and non-profit and public sectors have provided her with a wealth of experience and insights.
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THOR MULLER Thor Muller is CEO & co-founder of Get Satisfaction, a startup that’s revolutionizing the way companies and customers approach customer service. Previously, Thor cofounded Rubyred Labs, a San Francisco-based web apps firm that has developed social software for a range of startups and leading portals since 2005. Prior to Rubyred, Thor was a first generation Web entrepreneur, having run one of the early Web development boutiques, Prophet Communications, later acquired by Frog Design where he served as VP Digital Media. He subsequently founded Trapezo, a venture-funded company that made Web software for syndicating content, acquired by Perfect Commerce in 2002. |
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STEVE ROSENBAUM Steve has made a ton of films, documentaries, and web projects for partners including HBO, Discovery, A&E, MSNBC, and CNN. He has also directed a number of feature documentaries, including "7 Days in September" about how New York was affected by the attacks on the World Trade Center. Magnify.net is the incarnation of the way he sees the media world evolving. Increasingly, the power is in the hands of the audience. The audience engages, shares, ranks, and validates. Magnify.net is a platform that engages, embraces, and facilitates media creating, sharing, and collective knowledge. He is passionate about the sounds and pictures that real people create, and excited to help create order from chaos. |
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STEVE RUBEL Steve Rubel, SVP, Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, is responsible for keeping Edelman and its clients in the vanguard. He studies global technology, media and online trends and shapes them into actionable insights and marketing communications strategies. In his role, Rubel curates and writes a monthly white paper on digital trends. These are distributed free to clients. In addition, he draws on these insights in his role as a senior strategic advisor to Edelman clients such as PepsiCo, Zagat, Unilever, Microsoft and many others. Rubel supports the account planning processes, intellectual property development and the firm's innovation and business development efforts. He is a member of the Edelman Digital senior leadership committee. |
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CARMEN RUEST Carmen Ruest is one of a handful of kindred spirits Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté calls the pioneers—“the people who put their shoulders to the grindstone when we were starting out and made the dream a reality.” Back in the 1970s in Montreal, Carmen Ruest was taking and giving dance classes during the winter and dancing on stilts as a street performer in the summer. During this period, she became versed in various circus arts including acrobatics, trapeze and tight rope - and honed her skills as a stiltwalker. In the early 1980s, she met Gilles Ste-Croix and became his stiltwalking partner. Ste-Croix, teaming up with Carmen Ruest and others, founded the Club des talons hauts (High Heels Club), which would become Cirque du Soleil in 1984 under Laliberté’s leadership. During her first ten years at Cirque du Soleil, Carmen Ruest spent her time performing as a stiltwalker and assisting Gilles Ste-Croix in art direction. After a short stint away from Cirque as a production director and a costume designer, she came back to join Cirque’s casting department, scouting the world for artistic talent. Since returning to her “roots” at Cirque du Soleil, Carmen Ruest has made great strides. In addition to her work as a stiltwalking coach on Alegría (Touring Show) and Mystère (Permanent show in Las Vegas, NV), she was the creative and artistic coordinator on La Nouba (Permanent show in Orlando, FL) and became later the assistant to the casting director, where she saw the casting department grow from 5 to over 30 people. In 2005 she accepted the new challenges of becoming the director of creation for DELIRIUM (A Cirque du Soleil live music event touring in arenas).Since 2006, Carmen took on the position of director of creation for Saltimbanco (North American arena tour). “We want to bring Cirque du Soleil to new audiences. My role is to create a synergy between the creative team members and to make their job easier so that the vision shines through brightly in the end.” |
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ROB SAMUELS Robert Z. Samuels joined NYTimes.com in October 2006. In this role, Mr. Samuels is responsible for the development of The New York Times’s mobile products, including iPhone, BlackBerry, as well as various other mobile client apps, Mobile Web, SMS, Times Reader, Kindle and e-Ink/e-Readers, games and other alternative reading platforms.Before joining The Times, Mr. Samuels worked at AOL LLC in Dulles, Virginia, managing mobile product, premium product, and corporate revenue system development as a principal product manager.Prior to AOL, Mr. Samuels was a management consultant at Grant Thornton LLP in its Federal practice based in Virginia.Mr. Samuels received an MBA in Technology Management from George Mason University. |
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GARRICK SCHMITT As Group Vice President of Experience Planning at Razorfish, Garrick has dual role at the agency. He leads both a multidisciplinary team of strategists, planners, analysts and interaction designers across engagements in San Francisco and Los Angeles while also functioning as Razorfish’s global lead for User Experience. Garrick has over 14 years of experience in creating breakthrough digital products, services and experiences across multiple platforms. Since joining Razorfish in 1999, he has helped clients such as CBS, Williams Sonoma, Intel, eBay, PayPal, Yahoo! and Sun Microsystems adapt to a changing consumer and technology landscape. In addition, he leads an in-house innovation team (Razorfish IdeaLab) that focuses on next-generation consumer applications and technologies — including social media, mobile applications, interactive advertising and IPTV. Garrick is also a recognized thought leader in the industry. He publishes FEED: The Razorfish Consumer Experience Report, which charts the evolution of consumer behavior and technology; writes and edits the Razorfish Digital Design Blog which Adweek named one of the top 5 industry blogs; and has spoken widely at conferences such as SXSW, Ad:tech, Web 2.0 Expo, IAB MIXX, Microsoft’s MIX, iMedia and the IA Summit. Prior to joining Razorfish, Garrick developed localized broadband content at Cox Interactive Media for Excite @Home and Looksmart and worked on early search, content management systems and directory services for CNET’s Search.com and Snap.com, a media portal that later became NBCi. |
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MICHAEL SILBERMAN Michael Silberman joined New York Media as general manager of nymag.com in May 2007. In July 2008, when New York Media acquired MenuPages, Silberman’s role expanded to include oversight of that family of websites as well. He is now responsible for strategic planning for nymag.com and MenuPages.com on both the business and editorial sides, and oversees a growing staff of more than 70.Silberman came to nymag.com from Rodale, where he was vice president and editorial director for Rodale Interactive. He joined Rodale in April 2005, where he managed a 35-person team responsible for editorial, design, production and product development for the online editions of Rodale's magazines. During his time at Rodale, he launched the Websites for Women's Health magazine and redesigned and relaunched the Websites for Men's Health, Runner's World, and Bicycling magazines, resulting in significant growth of Web traffic for each of those sites.Prior to Rodale, Silberman worked at MSNBC, most recently as deputy editor, East coast, partners & strategy, managing all MSNBC.com program production with NBC News and MSNBC Cable. He first moved to the digital realm in 1995, as a senior news producer for Microsoft, developing the MSNBC Website and its relationship to the cable channel and NBC News. He previously worked as a television producer for CBS News and graduated cum laude with a B.A. in government from Harvard College. He is a board member of the Online News Association. |
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TOM SMITH Tom Smith is Senior Director at Hearst Digital Media. Tom helped establish the technology to support Hearst Digital Media business, and manages key vendor relationships. Prior to joining Hearst in 2006, Tom managed internet technology at Primedia and before that at CMP Media - where he helped launch TechWeb and managed content acquisition partnerships. |
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FIONA SPRUILL Fiona Spruill was named editor of the Web newsroom for The New York Times in July 2006. Ms. Srpuill joined NYTimes.com in 1999 as an intern and since then has served as a business and international news producer, a night editor, a home page editor, associate editor and deputy editor in charge of the features sections. In the last three years, she has led the editorial side of the site redesign, the launch of TimesSelect, and the redesign of the travel, movies and theater sections. She is currently responsible for managing the 50 producers and editors behind NYTimes.com. Ms. Spruill has a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Duke University. |
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ELLEN STONE As Bravo Media's Senior Vice President, Marketing, Ellen Stone oversees the development of all brand strategy, consumer and out-of-home advertising, and ad sales and digital marketing for the network. She also serves as a member of Bravo's senior management team shaping the network's overall strategy. Under Stone's leadership, Bravo has enjoyed great success, with multi-million dollar campaigns for the successful freshman series "The Millionaire Matchmaker" and "Make Me Supermodel." She has also spearheaded the network's innovative digital marketing partnerships with sites that include Yahoo! and IMDB.com. Stone is the mastermind behind some of Bravo Media's most successful ventures including the best-seller "Top Chef: The Cookbook," and "Top Chef: The Tour," the nationwide promotional tour that features a customized traveling "Top Chef" 18-wheeler semi-truck, currently visiting cities across the country. Stone joined Bravo in 2006 as Vice President, Consumer Marketing. Previously, she served as Director, Consumer Marketing at Lifetime Entertainment Services, where she was responsible for managing all off-air consumer marketing efforts for Lifetime Television.
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GARY VAYNERCHUK Gary Vaynerchuk, self-trained wine expert, is revolutionizing the wine industry. His blog, Wine Library TV (affectionately known as The Thunder Show), boasts a cult-like following resulting from his enthusiastic, unconventional, and often irreverent wine commentary. In the name of “expanding one’s palate”, Gary convinced Conan O’Brien to lick salted rocks and shared samples of dirt and grass with Ellen Degeneres.
With a wealth of knowledge and an entrepreneurial spirit, Gary rebranded the family business as Wine Library. Within a five year time period, Wine Library grew from a $4 million dollar business to a $45 million business. |
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LARRY WEINTRAUB Larry Weintraub is CEO and co-founder of Fanscape (www.fanscape.com), the leading Digital Engagement Marketing Agency reaching and activating consumers to foster targeted word-of-mouth marketing through online and emerging media. Fanscape’s online influencer marketing experts have in-depth understanding of niche audiences and consumer behaviors across the Web, providing highly measurable, earned media strategies for major corporations and leading entertainment, technology and mobile companies, including: AT&T; Samsung; Paramount Pictures; M&Ms; State Farm Insurance; MTV, Universal Music Group, and more. Weintraub’s prescient knack for predicting the importance of Web-based marketing and strategy, along with a consistently entrepreneurial spirit, prompted him to apply his digital tactics as a music industry veteran to connecting brands and customers. After more than 25 years of expanding the careers of multi-platinum musicians by filling the communicational gaps between artists and fans online and holding such positions as Vice President of Artist Development/Artist Relations at A&M Records, Weintraub co-founded Fanscape with President Terry Dry in 1998. |
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DAN COSTA Dan Costa is the Executive Editor (Reviews) for the PCMag Digital Network, where he oversees product testing, reviews production, and PCMag Labs operation. He also writes a column focused how technology affects social, business, and consumer trends. Dan also co-hosts PCMag Radio, a weekly podcast dedicated to technology issues. As PCMag's resident skeptic, Dan provides both straight analysis and a provocative perspective on the technology products and industry issues that are making the headlines. Dan makes frequent appearances on local, national, and international news programs, including CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, and NBC to talk about technology trends and products. |
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JON FINE Jon Fine writes BusinessWeek's weekly column, "Media Centric". Prior to BusinessWeek, Fine was the media reporter for Advertising Age. His freelance articles have appeared in GQ, Spin, ESPN: The Magazine, and Columbia Journalism Review. Between 1995 and 1998 he wrote the "Pushing 30" column for Newsday. Fine graduated from Oberlin College. |
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REBECCA FOX Rebecca L. Fox is the managing editor of mediabistro.com, where she develops and produces long-form feature articles and newsletters analyzing media industry trends and issues, and edits career blog MediaJobsDaily and New York media blog FishbowlNY. Throughout her decade-plus of professional media experience, Rebecca has worked at newspapers, magazines, book publishers, and online outlets in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. |
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MANOUSH ZOMORODI Manoush Zomorodi reports on business and technology for Reuters Television and Reuters.com. She is also the co-founder of Hardy Robin Media, a New York-based consultancy that specializes in on-camera training and online video production. From 1995-2006 Manoush worked as a reporter and producer for BBC News, with stints in Washington, New York, Berlin, and Brussels. Her stories have also aired on NPR, ABC News, and AP Television. She lives in Brooklyn with her son and her husband, Josh Robin, who covers politics for NY1. |
