Craig Aaron is the communications director of Free Press, the national, nonpartisan media reform group. He works in the Washington office on issues related to media ownership, public media, and the future of the Internet. He writes and speaks regularly on new media and journalism issues and blogs at both SavetheInternet.com – the groundbreaking campaign to protect Net Neutrality – and StopBigMedia.com. Craig previously worked as an investigative reporter for Public Citizen's Congress Watch, where he launched the WhiteHouseforSale.org Website. And he is a former managing editor of In These Times magazine and editor of the book, Appeal to Reason: 25 Years In These Times.
As Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Jon Abbott is responsible for WGBH's local television and radio operations; for all administrative, financial, and service departments, including marketing, communications, and design; and for WGBH's strategic planning. He also oversees WGBH's sister station WGBY in Springfield, Mass. Abbott was promoted to his position in 2004 from VP of Television Stations and General Manager, a role he took on in 1998.
Abbott came to WGBH from PBS, where he was Senior VP for Development and Corporate Relations from 1992 to 1998. Prior to that, he spent five years managing marketing and development for San Francisco public station KQED. He got his start in broadcasting in 1981 at Columbia University's WKCR-FM
Parry Aftab has devoted her expertise, since 1995, to enhancing cyber-security for business and governmental entities, as well as preventing and investigating cyber-crimes, especially those that arise in the workplace or relate to Internet predators. In this field, she often wears two hats – one is her commercial role of the cyber-lawyer focused on keeping businesses safe in cyberspace and improving e-commerce and trust, while the other is her pro-bono hat where she is heavily involved in Internet safety and security for children, senior citizens, and victims of cyber-stalking and abuse. In her pro bono role, she runs the world's largest online safety and help group that works closely with all major law enforcement agencies worldwide.
Ray Anderson is Chief Executive of Bango, a mobile Web solutions firm that enables content providers to market, deliver, and sell their products and services directly to mobile phone users on all networks worldwide.
Anderson co-founded Bango in 1999 after realizing that the convergence of the Internet, with the ubiquity of mobile phones, could open up huge opportunities for content and service providers. Anderson positioned the company to benefit from the opening up of the operator portals in 2004 and the transition of the mobile content business from a messaging model to a customer-friendly, browse-and buy Internet model.
In 2005, Ray led the successful flotation of the company, and he continues to build and steer the Bango team forward into one of the most exciting markets in history.
Ofir Arkin co-founded Insightix and acts as the company's CTO. He is a leading security researcher on the subjects of network access control, IT visibility, VOIP security, and remote OS fingerprinting. Before founding Insightix, he was a consultant for numerous multinational companies in the financial, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical markets, leading various security projects.
Arkin is the author of a number of influential papers on network access control, VOIP security, and network discovery. He was elected to the board of directors of the Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) as the Security Research Committee Chair and sits on the organization's Technical Board of Advisors. He also served as the CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) of 012 Golden Lines, a leading ISP and long-distance carrier in Israel.
Richard is an experienced entrepreneur with a strong background in business development and early stage marketing roles. He is currently the CEO of Fresh Tilled Soil, a premier Web design and development company based in Boston. He is also a founding partner of R3 Partners, which develops niche Web products for small businesses. R3's products include Referral Monitor and You Should Meet. Prior to founding the Startup Business School and Fresh Tilled Soil, Richard was involved in building and launching several technology and Web-based businesses. Most recently he was a partner at UDesignWePrint, an online consumer-focused print site, and was responsible for all business development, marketing, and design of the company's Web application.
Richard's entrepreneurial experience includes being a founding partner at the Ignition Technologies, a Web applications developer, where he was responsible for business development and marketing. He started his business career as a Sales Manager of South Africa's first online sales company, Oracle Online Sales. He left Oracle Online to create the international e-marketing business, Acceleration Media, with offices in New York, London, Johannesburg, and Cape Town. Richard was also VP of Website Channel for Boston-based WinWin Technologies, where he managed business development teams in several countries. Richard has a BS from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Cyan Banister is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Zivity. Her dream to connect the social web with sexy photos is the kernel that became the business. She brings more than 10 years of management experience to Zivity; from scaling operational infrastructure to building teams and championing company culture. Cyan held a senior management role at IronPort where she supervised throngs of employees and oversaw a slew of departments. Her mission for Zivity is putting models first and creating an environment that nurtures artistic freedom. "Freedom of expression without judgment" is her motto.
Andrea Barisani is the co-founder and Chief Security Engineer of Inverse Path Ltd., an international network security consultancy. Although his professional career as a security researcher and consultant began eight years ago, it really started when a Commodore-64 first arrived in his home when he was 10. Now, 17 years later, Barisani is having fun with large-scale IDS/Firewalls deployment and administration, forensic analysis, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, security training, and his Open Source projects. He eventually found that system and security administration are the only effective way to express his need for paranoia.
Being an active member of the international Open Source and security community, Barisani is maintainer/author of the Tenshi, fTester, and Openssh-lpk projects, as well as the founder and project coordinator of the oCERT effort, an Open Source CERT. He is also a member of the Gentoo Security and Infrastructure Teams, the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual, and the ISECOM Core Team. He has been a speaker and trainer at PacSec, CanSecWest, BlackHat, and DefCon conferences among many others, speaking about SatNav hacking, 0-days, LDAP, and other pretty things.
Todd Barrish is Executive Vice President and General Manager of Dukas Public Relations. Throughout his career, Todd has been highly successful in ensuring that his clients benefit from creative, integrated public relations programs that deliver strong, measurable results. His expertise includes brand marketing, and high-level media and analyst relations, as well as corporate reputation and issues management programs.
Prior to joining DPR, Todd served as a Director at Connors Communications, a leading boutique public relations agency focusing on emerging technology clients. During his five-year tenure, Todd led the strategic initiatives for Connors premier accounts, including Vonage, Education Testing Services, TowerStream, and others, while regularly sourcing and securing new clients for the company. His tactically executed media relations campaigns resulted in regular high-profile media placements in leading outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Fortune magazine, among many others.
Todd spent the early part of his career gaining corporate communications experience from Cohn & Wolfe's Technology Division, where he worked on the public relations campaigns of both Fortune 500 technology firms and new ventures. He also has significant experience in the financial services industry. He is a founder and current member of the Board of Directors of Foresight Research Solutions LLC, a New York-based broker-dealer and independent research company.
A native of Virginia, Todd graduated from Radford University with a Bachelor of Science degree. He regularly lectures on a variety of public relations topics.
Brian Behlendorf founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. The company provides tools and services based on open-source methods. Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort. Before starting Organic, Behlendorf was the first Chief Engineer at Wired magazine and later HotWired, one of the first large-scale publishing Websites.
Brian is currently a Director of the Mozilla Foundation and a retired Director and President of the Apache Software Foundation.
Bennett is a corporate restructuring advisor for many leading corporations, including DuPont, Silicon Graphics, 3M, and Sun Microsystems. He successfully implemented a program with DuPont to outsource innovation by creating a new business model for DuPont Ventures.
Bennett started his restructuring career by turning around Research Systems Inc. (RSI), a scientific software company, which was acquired by Kodak two years subsequent to his involvement with it. He gained extensive experience in starting and growing companies in Silicon Valley, including Aprex, West End Partners Imaging, and Digital Research. He has a degree in Mathematical Physics from Stamford University and has several U.S. Patents.
Lee H. Berke founded LHB Sports, Entertainment & Media in 2001, which specializes in developing direct relationships between sports teams/properties and new media platforms. LHB's client roster includes more than a dozen teams throughout the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Charlotte Bobcats, Memphis Grizzlies, and Pittsburgh Penguins. LHB is also developing regional sports programming for the Verizon FiOS video service.
Mr. Berke's background in developing sports media businesses also includes co-authoring the original business plan for the New York Yankees' YES Network, heading up marketing for Madison Square Garden and MSG Network, and developing television and marketing relationships for the launch of the WUSA.
David Berkowitz is Director of Emerging Media and Client Strategy for 360i, the search-centric marketing agency. He helps 360i's leading brands in media and entertainment, retail, and other verticals leveraging marketing opportunities at the nexus of search engine marketing and social media. Additionally, every Tuesday, he pens the Search Insider column for MediaPost, with over 125 articles published to date. He also publishes his own blog at MarketersStudio.com.
David has spoken at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Magazine Publishers of America, the Wall Street Transcript's gaming conference, Frost & Sullivan's Internet Marketing Symposium, Digital Hollywood's Games & Mobile Forum, Ad:Tech, and dozens of other events. He has also served as a Programming Chair for MediaPost's Search Insider Summits and OMMA events, while presenting at those events as well.
David has also blogged extensively, launching MarketersStudio.com, an Ad Age Power 150 media and marketing blog. He has contributed to MarketingVox, nowEurope, AdTechBlog, ReverseDirectMarketing.com, and Rich Media Today. His writing has also appeared in Ad Age, DM News, MarketingProfs, iMedia Connection, and other publications.
David graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton, served on its Alumni Association Board of Directors, and chaired the Metro New York Steering Committee.
Rohit is Vice President for Interactive Marketing at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. He's also a founding member of the pioneering Digital Influence Group at Ogilvy – a leading agency in helping clients navigate the social media universe. He publishes the award winning Influential Marketing blog (www.influentialmarketingblog.com) and has been featured in publications worldwide, including The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, PRWeek, The Globe & Mail (Canada), Marketing China (China), and AdWeek (Australia).
Rohit first introduced the emerging concept of Social Media Optimization (SMO) on his blog, which has since grown into an internationally recognized marketing theory being practiced by thouands of marketers and organizations worldwide. He is a popular marketing industry speaker and is currently authoring a book focused on the necessity of putting personality into marketing, called Personality Not Included, which will be published by McGraw-Hill in early 2008. Prior to joining Ogilvy PR, he was Executive Producer of Interactive at Leo Burnett in Sydney, Australia, and has worked internationally in the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, India, and South Africa. He believes that admitting you are marketing is a good thing and that there is such a thing as Blog Karma.
He is married and lives in Washington DC with his wife and three-year-old son.
Tony is the CEO of Adaptivity Inc. An innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations, he most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure. Previously, he was Chief Architect and SVP for Solution Architecture of DataSynapse and Director, Financial Services Practice, at Platform Computing.
Tony and his team have been recognized by the industry with awards from InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Waters, and Wall Street & Technology, among others, for their efforts in building world-class technology to differentiate their business. He has 19 years working as a user and as a supplier in various design, strategy, and architecture roles across multiple industries. He is the recipient of 40 under 40 Most Innovative IT Leaders, Premier 100 IT Leaders as selected by ComputerWorld in 2007, and a member of Wall Street Gold Book 2007.
Ian Blaine, 37, is CEO and co-founder of thePlatform Inc., where he oversees all aspects of the business. In his capacity as CEO, Mr. Blaine has been at the forefront of online video for more than seven years and built thePlatform into the leading video application service provider for content providers, broadband media sites, and mobile businesses. Under his leadership, thePlatform has grown to manage and publish online video for some of the most respected consumer brands, including: BBC, CNBC, CBS's College Sports TV, Court TV, Comcast, Hearst, Helio, NBC-Universal and News Corp's Hulu.com, Primedia, Scripps, Sony/BMG Music, Vongo, Telstra, Verizon Wireless, and dozens of other companies.
In June 2006, Mr. Blaine led thePlatform through its acquisition by Comcast and now also serves as Senior Vice President of Content Publishing for Comcast Interactive Media. Immediately prior to forming thePlatform, Mr. Blaine successfully launched and sold an Internet company called Uniplanet to NBCi in 1999. Before that, he spent more than nine years at the publishing division of Aldus/Adobe where he gained vast experience in product development and product management.
Blaine is a Seattle native and graduated from the University of Washington in 1992. He resides in Seattle with his wife and two children, where he is involved in various civic activities.
Greg Blonder, based in Summit, N.J., joined Morgenthaler as a Venture Partner in 2000 from AT&T Ventures and became a Partner in 2001. Previously, Greg led a number of research divisions at Bell Labs, including the Material Science, Optical Devices, and Consumer Expectations Research Labs. He was also Chief Technical Advisor for the AT&T Corporation before joining AT&T Ventures.
He is currently a director of foonz, IGA Worldwide, Inplane Photonics, FiveStar Technologies, Lamina Ceramics, and Princeton Lightwave. Greg holds more than 80 patents, in areas ranging from semiconductor devices, user interfaces, and medical devices to Internet transaction services.
René Bonvanie is Senior Vice President Worldwide Marketing, Partner Programs, and Online Services at Serena Software Inc., a leading global independent software company focused solely on application lifecycle management for distributed and mainframe systems. Bonvanie brings nearly 25 years of executive management and marketing experience in the enterprise software industry to Serena. His responsibilities include developing business and marketing strategies to capitalize on future trends in application development, such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web services, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). He also leads Serena's efforts to develop partner relationships and go-to-market activities for new products and services.
Before joining Serena, Bonvanie served as SVP and GM of AppExchange and Developer Relations at Salesforce.com. Prior to that, Bonvanie served as Senior VP Global Marketing at SAP, Chief Marketing Officer at Business Objects, SVP Worldwide Marketing at Veritas Software Corp., VP Product Marketing at Oracle Corp., and in senior sales and marketing positions at Ingres.
Bonvanie holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He lives with his wife Marie and three sons in Foster City, Calif.
Grady is an IBM Fellow who has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous, complex, software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable. Grady is the author of six best-selling books and has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early 80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design.
Peter Bowman has been involved in the media and communications industry for more than 20 years. In 1993, he began his Internet career as President of DESIGNfx Interactive. Later, he became Vice President of Internet Development after DESIGNfx went public in an IPO roll-up in 1998 and grew to nearly 500 employees. Currently, Peter serves as Executive Vice President at Avericom, a digital media marketing and production company he founded in 2000.
Mark Bregman is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Symantec, responsible for the Symantec Research Labs, emerging technologies, architecture and standards, and developing the technology strategy for the company. He also guides Symantec's investments in advanced research and is responsible for the development centers in India and China.
Bregman joined Symantec through the company's merger with Veritas Software. At Veritas, he served as CTO, responsible for cross-product integration, advanced product development, merger and acquisition strategy, and the company's engineering development centers in Pune (India) and Beijing. He also served as Veritas's Executive VP in charge of product operations since joining the company in 2002.
Bregman holds a BS in Physics from Harvard College and an MS and Doctorate in Physics from Columbia University. He is a member of the Visiting Committee to the Harvard University Libraries, a member of the American Physical Society, and a senior member of the IEEE. He also serves on the Board of Directors of ShoreTel.
Matt Bross is well known as a visionary and an innovator. He's passionate about harnessing technology to help improve people's lives and enable organizations to become more successful.
As BT Group CTO, Matt is responsible for technology strategy, vision, and innovation across BT. He is the leading force behind BT's 21st Century Network transformation program, and he heads up a global BT technology, research, and development organization that spans the U.S., Europe, and Asia/Pacific.
Matt has had a long and distinguished career in communications and innovation, including senior positions at ConTel, MasterCard, and Williams. He is married, has five children, and is proud to have one of the coolest jobs on the planet.
Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Gabriel Brown focuses on wireless technologies and services, including 802.11 wireless LAN, ultrawideband, WiMax, and 3G. He has covered the wireless data industry since 1998, previously as Chief Analyst of the monthly Unstrung Insider, published by Heavy Reading's parent company Light Reading; he was additionally responsible for the overall editorial planning of Light Reading's entire line of Insider research newsletters. Prior to joining Light Reading, Gabriel was the editor of IP Wireline and Wireless Week at London's Euromoney Institutional Investor. He often presents research findings at industry events and is regularly consulted by wireless networking technology leaders.
Sandy Carter is IBM's Vice President, SOA and WebSphere Marketing, Strategy, and Channels. Her blog, SOA Off the Record, is a place where IBMers exchange viewpoints, share their perspectives to provide more insight around service-oriented architecture solutions, and delve into a range of SOA-related subjects. She invites you to speak out on SOA through comments in the blog – from where your organization stands on SOA adoption, to your challenges and experiences – to share with the larger community the impact of SOA on your marketplace.
Ross Chevalier is CTO and CIO of Novell Canada Ltd., responsible for maintaining relationships with customers and partners to help them leverage Novell's offerings. He also acts as a customer and market advocate, interacting with all of Novell's product business units.
Ross has 25 years of industry experience and has been involved in all aspects of networking including systems integration and IS management. Prior to joining Novell Canada, Ross held a variety of senior consulting positions including, most recently, Vice President, Professional Services, at Brains II, one of Canada’s leading systems integrators.
An avid writer, Ross is the editor of Novell Canada’s electronic newsletter for technology professionals, which targets IT personnel, systems engineers, and architects across Canada. Ross is also a dedicated guitar collector and spends his leisure time restoring and working on classic cars and motorcycles.
A 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry, Clanagan is the president and CEO of Codeblack Entertainment, an African-American-owned multimedia film and television entity, engaged in the business of producing, acquiring, marketing, and distributing quality content to today’s urban consumer.
Clanagan began his career in entertainment as one of the leading concert promoters in the music business. Long before Hip Hop gained its mainstream appeal, he was promoting sold-out national concert tours featuring high-profile artists such as Run DMC, LL Cool J, NWA, Will Smith, the FatBoys, and MC Hammer.
In 2005, Clanagan founded Codeblack, which began to produce and acquire the most compelling content for its niche, and distribute that content through various media channels, both on-line and off-line. The channels include: theatrical exhibition, television exploitation, home video (DVD), and emerging digital platforms.
Scott Clavenna, Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Greentech Media, has been leading high-tech market research firms for over 15 years. In his capacity as a trusted analyst and consultant, Scott has helped dozens of companies enter and succeed in complex and intensely competitive markets worldwide. He also has authored more than 30 reports that helped define important emerging market segments in optical and broadband communications. Prior to founding Greentech Media, Scott was chief analyst at Heavy Reading, the market research arm of Light Reading, the dominant online media company in the telecommunications market. Before creating Heavy Reading, Scott founded PointEast Research, providing strategic consulting and market intelligence to a broad mix of startups, venture capitalists, and major suppliers in the communications/IT industry, and worked as director of research for Light Reading. In 1997, Scott co-founded Pioneer Consulting, which quickly grew into the leading market research firm covering the optical and broadband communications industry.
Scott Cleland is one of nation's foremost techcom analysts and experts, at the nexus of capital markets, public policy, and techcom industry change. He is widely respected in industry, government, media, and capital markets as a forward thinker, free market proponent, and leading authority on the future of communications.
Cleland is the founder and President of Precursor LLC, a techcom industry research and consulting firm whose mission is to help companies anticipate change for competitive advantage. He is also Chairman of NetCompetition.org, a wholly owned subsidiary of Precursor LLC and an e-forum on Net Neutrality funded by a wide range of broadband telecom, cable, and wireless companies.
Tom Coughlin, President of Coughlin Associates, has been working for over 30 years in the data storage industry in engineering and management positions at companies including Ampex, Polaroid, Seagate, Maxtor, Micropolis, Syquest, and 3M. He has more than 60 publications and six patents to his credit. Tom is active with IDEMA, the IEEE Magnetics Society, IEEE CE Society, and other professional organizations.
Tom was Chairman of the 2007 Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section and current chair of the IEEE Region 6 Central Area. He was former Chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and the Magnetics Society. He is the founder and organizer of the Annual Storage Visions Conference, a partner to the annual Consumer Electronics Show, as well as the Creative Storage Conference. Coughlin Associates provides market and technology analysis (including reports and a newsletter) as well as Data Storage Technical Consulting services. For more information go to www.tomcoughlin.com.
George Crump is President and Founder of Storage Switzerland, an analyst firm focused on the storage industry. With 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the U.S., he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, and SAN. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland he was CTO at one the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and selection.
Rob Crumpler joined BuzzLogic as President and CEO in October 2005, bringing with him more than 20 years of experience with fast-growth technology companies, including Microsoft and Intuit. While at Microsoft, he played a key role in defining the advertising technologies and business models that drove the revenue growth of MSN. During his seven-year tenure at Microsoft, he also helped the company pioneer new ad models, such as cost-per-action, as part of the MSN Finance Channel's advertising strategy.
Prior to Microsoft, Crumpler founded and served as President and CEO at On The Go Software, an industry leader in the expense reporting and travel management space, which was acquired by Intuit in 1996. While at Intuit, he led the development of the OFX Consortium, which fathered Open Financial Exchange, the de facto standard for financial reporting and transactions on the Internet. He received a BS in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Dr. Michael (Mike) Dahan is an Israeli-American political scientist, specializing in the political, social, and cultural contexts of technological use and diffusion, particularly in the Middle East. Michael is a frequent commentator in the Israeli press and with the Pew Internet Project. He lectures at a number of universities and colleges in Israel and resides in Jerusalem.
Patrick J. Dempsey is currently Chief Information Security Officer for Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. From 2003 to 2007, he was a special agent with Federal Bureau of Investigation, assigned to the Newark (N.J.) Division's Cyber Crime Squad. As a special agent for the FBI, he investigated dozens of crimes and worked with numerous law enforcement groups throughout the United States and ten international locations to track down hackers and other types of cyber criminals. He has investigated and arrested criminals involved in: computer intrusions, virus writing, Internet fraud, telecommunications hacking, telecommunications fraud, identity theft, and theft of intellectual property.
Dempsey has conducted training and presentations regarding information security to: various international law enforcement organizations; members of the international intelligence community; the Department of Homeland Security; the National Security Information Exchange; members of the insurance, legal, and actuarial and risk management industries. He received his MS degree in Information Systems from Drexel University in 2005. From 1997 to 2003, Dempsey was a systems and network engineer for Advanta Corp. in Springhouse, Pa.
Mark Diamond is founder, President, and CEO of Contoural Inc., a provider of business and technology consulting services. Mark is one of the industry's thought leaders in litigation readiness, e-discovery, compliance, archiving, data protection, and ILM strategies and practices. Under his leadership, Contoural has grown to be an industry leader in developing business and technology strategies for data retention policies and information archiving. Providing innovative approaches, these strategies help simplify complex issues, ensure compliance, reduce risks, and lower costs.
A frequent industry speaker, Mark addresses how organizations can better align legal and business requirements with IT and storage spending. An expert in the business drivers around archival and the technical strategies for implementing them, he addresses what are the emerging best practices and outlines practical approaches for email and electronic document archival that reduce liability, lower costs, and ensure compliance.
Yihong is a researcher, thinker, and blogger. His active research areas include Semantic Web, Web annotation, data extraction, and ontologies. He is also known for his distinctive views on Web evolution and the future of the Internet. He publishes his thoughts on his blog, Thinking Space. He is also a contributing author to SemanticFocus.com, a premier Website for Semantic Web technologies. Yihong is currently a PhD candidate focusing on computer science at Brigham Young University. He is also affiliated with DERI Innsbruck, a leading Semantic-Web research lab. He received his Master of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering.
Cory is an activist, a writer, a blogger, a public speaker, and a technology person. He is the co-editor of Boing Boing, a popular Weblog about technology, culture, and politics. He is in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, and he uses some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics.
He wrote science fiction novels – three published to date (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, 2003, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005), and a short story collection (A Place So Foreign and Eight More, 2003). He also contributes content to magazines like Wired, Popular Science, and MAKE and freelances for The New York Times and the Salon Website.
Patrick is Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading, a market research organization offering quantitative analysis of telecom technology to professionals working in and around the telecommunications industry. He has been a telecom market journalist, analyst, and strategist for 16 years. In January 2006 he joined Heavy Reading from Nortel, having spent five years as a Senior Manager of Strategic Planning for the company's wireless business, spanning GSM, CDMA, UMTS, WiMax, and other wireless technologies. Prior to Nortel, Donegan spent two years in business research for Motorola's Corporate Strategy Office in EMEA and two years as a wireless analyst for the Yankee Group. As a journalist, Donegan was Deputy Editor of Public Network Europe from 1990-1995 and Editor of Mobile Communications International from 1995-1997. He is based in the U.K.
Paul Dunay has spent more than 20 years in marketing, creating buzz for leading technology companies such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Avaya, and Cisco. He also has delivered work for American Express, Motorola, Genzyme, Novartis, Citigroup, Cendant, and Ernst & Young.
Paul currently is a Global Director of Integrated Marketing for BearingPoint. His unique approach to integrated marketing has been recognized as a 2007 and 2006 finalist and 2005 winner of the Driving New Demand award of the Information Technology Services Marketing Association (ITSMA) as well as a winner of BearingPoint's Best Overall Marketing Campaign award in 2004.
Paul has been a featured speaker for AMA, MarketingProfs, Marketing Sherpa, BtoB Magazine, ITSMA, CMO Council, and Marketing Operations Management, and his articles and research have appeared in CMO Magazine, Information Week, Marketing Sherpa, iMedia, and been quoted several times in BtoB Marketing Magazine.
Paul holds a degree in Leadership from the Yale School of Management, a degree in Strategy and Innovation from MIT, and a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Computer Science from Ithaca College. Visit his blog http://www.buzzmarketingfortechnology.com.
Edelman is the founder, president, and CEO of Corridor Consulting, a systems integration and consulting firm focused on Enterprise Content Management (ECM). He contributes to periodicals including InformationWeek, CIO Magazine, AIIM E-DOC, and KMWorld. He is a featured speaker at industry conferences and sits on a number of emerging technology committees in the ECM industry, including AIIM’s Emerging Technology Group (EmTAG), established to provide feedback and direction to the AIIM board and its international constituency. He performs a similar function for ARMA’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) group. Edelman is also the author of Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office – 8 Strategies for Winning in Business Without Being a Jerk.
Jon Emmons has built a reputation for breaking down the barriers of technology. On his blog, Life After Coffee, Jon writes about topics ranging from Oracle database administration to the benefits and challenges of working from home. Jon is most interested in how technology shapes our lives. He is also the author of two books, Oracle Shell Scripting and Easy Linux Commands. He often presents to both technical and non-technical audiences on subjects that span from database administration to integrating technology in our lives.
Through his work as an Oracle consultant, Jon continues to assist institutions with multimillion-dollar implementations. Beyond his technical duties, Jon also acts as a team manager, managing a team of database administrators and technical trainers who are distributed across North America. He is also co-founder of the Web 2.0 wish list site MasterWish.com. For his contributions to the Oracle community, Jon has been recognized with the Oracle ACE award. He is continually sought out as a consultant and speaker for his vision, attention to detail, and breadth of knowledge.
Bryon Evje is Chief Operating Officer of Broadband Enterprises and is responsible for expanding the company's online broadcast network across 1,700 Web publishers, whose aggregate monthly footprint includes 800 million video streams and approximately 25 million unique users.
In addition to overseeing the company's affiliate network, Evje has structured strategic programming partnerships and built the company's syndication and technology businesses. He is also responsible for helping shape the company's original production strategy and partnerships.
Prior to joining Broadband Enterprises, Evje was Vice President of broadband video distributor Wavexpress, with primary responsibilities including fulfilling operational and sales functions for one of the Web's pioneering video-on-demand (VOD) technology providers.
Graham has been researching telecommunications for more than 20 years, formerly as a journalist and latterly as an analyst and consultant. He joined Heavy Reading in September 2004 following a ten-year tenure at the Yankee Group. As Chief Analyst, Graham has been responsible for a wide range of research, focusing primarily on next-generation broadband services and IMS. He has also hosted numerous Webinars and Live events for Light Reading and is a regular speaker at other major industry events. As a journalist, Graham was Editor in Chief of the award-winning industry paper Communications Week International and has edited several other leading trade publications.
Jeff Fleischman is the Senior VP, Customer Experience, Global Direct Banking, at Citi. Jeff's role is to provide strategic thought leadership to grow the online channel, including acquisition, deepening customer relationships, and driving self-service. His responsibilities also include crafting a global approach to transforming the online customer experience and engagement model and establishing Citi as a leader in online banking.
Prior to Citi, Jeff was General Manager/Senior VP, E-Business for Monster.com, where he focused on leading the development of the e-business segment and managing the e-business P&L. His responsibilities also included developing a drive Web strategy and online experience to expand market reach, increase revenue, drive sales and cross-sell, and improve site satisfaction, as well as leading strategic initiatives to support channel growth.
Before joining Monster, Jeff was with American Express in various roles in finance, risk management, and American Express Interactive. His most recent position was Vice President, U.S. Interactive Group, responsible for developing and managing the online channel for all U.S. businesses. Prior to American Express, Jeff held a variety of marketing and finance positions with Advanta, JP Morgan Chase, and Bankers Trust.
Jeff earned a BS in Finance from Syracuse University and an MBA from Hofstra University.
Maggie Fox, founder of Social Media Group, one of North America's agencies devoted exclusively to helping business navigate the world of Web 2.0, is a communications and content expert who has never met a medium she didn't like. Over the course of her career, she's marketed, written, and produced television content for some of the biggest and best-known brands in North America, including Sears, Deloitte, and Disney.
Pioneers in their field, SMG has worked with some of the best-known brands in Europe and North America, including Ford Motor Company, SAP, Yamaha Motor, and Harlequin Publishing. Maggie often speaks to the press and business groups about the importance and use of social media in the enterprise.
Aaron is a multifaceted entrepreneur and technology advocate. He is a recognized expert in enterprise systems, collaboration, social media, software in general and open source. He is regularly invited to speak at conferences and seminars, contribute to industry blogs, and lecture on these topics at universities. Aaron co-founded MindTouch Inc. in 2005 and, as Chief Executive Officer, has guided MindTouch from a grass roots open source project to the No. 1 downloaded enterprise wiki in the world with an impressive customer list of Fortune 500 corporations, mid-market companies, and government agencies. Prior to founding MindTouch, Aaron was a member of Microsoft's Advanced Strategies and Policies division and worked on distributed systems research. He also previously owned and operated a successful technology consulting firm, Gurion Digital LLP, for five years. He has held senior positions at three software startups and has helped to launch several non-profits and businesses outside the software industry. Aaron received his BS in computer science from University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill. He resides in San Diego, Calif., with his wife and daughter.
Kenneth Geers, CISSP, is the U.S. Representative to the Cyber Center of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. Mr. Geers has written extensively on the connection between network security and national security issues. He has studied in Belgium, Israel, Cyprus, Russia, and at the Defense Language Institute, where he earned the Provost's Award for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement. Unorthodox education includes religious and beer-making studies at the Rochefort Trappist monastery and a conflict resolution course at the Ayia Napa monastery. At the University of Washington, his Master's thesis examined nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. Kenneth is a frequent speaker at international computer security conferences, and is the author of Cyber Jihad and the Globalization of Warfare; Hacking in a Foreign Language; Behind Saudi Arabia's National Firewall; IPv6 World Update; 35P10N463; and Greetz from Room 101.
Ranulph Glanville is a researcher and thinker whose areas of interest span design, social action, cybernetics, and art/music practice.
He is professor of architecture and cybernetics in the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and (as he says) a "freelance, vagrant professor of odd jobs" who practices in all continents except Antarctica. He lectures, teaches, and works with senior academics and managers, advising and setting up doctoral programs. He also supervises PhD students in a wide range of fields.
Amongst his many appointments, he is currently President Elect of the American Society for Cybernetics. Recently, he celebrated the 40th anniversary of the totemic Cybernetic Serendipity Exhibition and the opening of cybernetician Gordon Pask's archive, curating the exhibition "Pask Present" in Vienna.
Ranulph lives with his Dutch physiotherapist wife by the sea in Southsea, U.K. His son works in video and media.
Garrett M. Graff is Editor-at-Large at Washingtonian Magazine, where he edits the front-of-the-book "Capital Comment" section and covers media and politics. He was also the founding editor of mediabistro.com’s Fishbowl D.C. (www.fishbowldc.com), a blog that covers the media and journalism in Washington.
As the first blogger admitted to cover a White House press briefing, he is a frequent speaker on blogging and the intersection of politics and technology. He is currently writing a book, The First Campaign, about technology, globalization, and the future of American politics, due to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Fall 2007. He was formerly the Vice President of Communications at EchoDitto Inc., a Washington-based Internet consulting firm.
Adam Greenfield is a writer, consultant, and instructor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His consulting practice, Studies and Observations, helps clients manage challenges at the intersection of technology, design, and culture, with a strong focus on issues around ubiquitous computing. (Adam's 2006 book on the subject, Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing, has been acclaimed as "groundbreaking, elegant, and soulful" by Bruce Sterling, and "gracefully written, fascinating, and deeply wise" by Wired's Steve Silberman.) Before starting Studies and Observations, Adam was lead information architect for the Tokyo office of well known Web consultancy Razorfish.
Adam speaks frequently on issues of design, culture, technology, and user experience before a wide variety of audiences. In 2007 alone, he has given keynote presentations to the XTech conference, the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, the Monitor Group's IFA Forum, Nokia's Asia-Pacific CEO Summit, and AIGA's DUX07. He lives and works in New York City with his wife, artist Nurri Kim.
John Grimes was nominated by President Bush on June 17, 2005, and sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (ASD NII) / Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (CIO) on November 14, 2005. Mr. Grimes has extensive technical and policy experience in telecommunications, information systems, and the command and control fields. His public service includes five years on the White House National Security Council Staff as Director for National Security Telecommunications Policy, Director of Defense Command, Control and Communications Programs, and Senior Director White House Situation Support Staff from 1984 to 1990.
Mr. Grimes served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Defense-Wide Command, Control, and Communications and was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures from 1990 to 1994. As a member of the DoD Senior Executive Service (SES), he held senior technical and staff positions with the National Communications System, Defense Communications Agency (predecessor to DISA), and the U.S. Army Communications Command following his military service in the U.S. Air Force.
Gordon Haff focuses on computing infrastructure issues with a special emphasis on enterprise servers, data center interconnects, operating systems, server blades and appliances, virtualization, power and cooling, and the overall evolution of computing architectures. In addition to following Linux, he also covers broader open-source and software trends including their implications for business models, software licensing, client devices, collaboration, and application development and deployment.
Haff has more than 20 years of experience researching and using enterprise servers and workstations, their operating systems, architectures, processors, physical packaging, and supporting services. As a product-marketing manager at Data General, Haff helped launch many products and server designs, including AViiON servers that ranged from large-scale NUMA-architecture Unix systems to rack-dense Windows-based servers. Haff holds engineering degrees from MIT and Dartmouth as well as an MBA from Cornell University.
As Senior VP Ventures at Denuo, A Publicis Groupe Company, Tim Hanlon is chiefly responsible for all U.S. client activity and agency initiatives in the field of emerging media technologies, including the firm's ground-breaking TV 2.0 Practice, centered around evolutionary television platforms such as interactive/enhanced television, on-demand video, digital video recording, interactive program guide navigation, addressable advertising, and digital broadcasting/datacasting.
Hanlon has more than a decade of traditional and interactive agency media experience, including roles as Vice President/Director, Strategy and Business Development for the Digital Marketing Group of Chicago-based marketing services agency Frankel, and Director of Interactive Media at Creative Alliance in Louisville, Ky. He also served as Advertising Media Manager for the in-house agency of credit card issuer MBNA America in Wilmington, Del. Hanlon has wide-ranging journalism experience, including production and writing stints at CBS News, Sports Illustrated, and the Voice of America.
Michael is Founder and Chief Analyst of Light Reading's Cable Digital News. A cable industry analyst for more than a decade, Michael's work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, and BusinessWeek. The FCC has used his research in its reports on the broadband market. Michael has also been a frequent speaker at key broadband industry events, including the NCTA annual convention, BusinessWeek Telecom Summit, Forbes Telecosm, Pulver.com's Voice on the Net (VON), and Vortex.
Tom Hayes has been called a tastemaker for the new Net generation and one of the most influential executives and bloggers in high-tech today. He has spent a career making sense out of emerging technology trends, serving as a senior marketing executive at Silicon Valley stalwarts Hewlett-Packard and Applied Materials, and he now advises companies around the world on how to succeed in the new information economy. In the 1990s, Hayes was the founding chairman and CEO of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley, the pioneering business network credited with catapulting Silicon Valley into leadership of the Internet Era. Profiles of Tom and his work have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Los Angeles Times, Wired, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, and publications and news outlets around the world. His often controversial rants and riffs on business can be found on his blog, Tombomb.com.
JUMP POINT: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business by Tom Hayes; McGraw-Hill; March 2008; Hardcover: $24.95; 257 pages; ISBN-10: 0-07-154562-X; ISBN-13: 978-0-07-154562-4
As Boeing Chief Information Officer and Vice President of the Information Technology organization, John Hinshaw is responsible for all IT strategy, operations, processes, and people of the world's leading aerospace company. He was named to this position in June 2007 and reports to John Tracy, Senior Vice President of Boeing Engineering, Operations & Technology.
John was previously Chief Information Officer of Verizon Wireless, where he held a number of key positions focused on enabling business growth, reducing costs, and creating business efficiencies. He was also responsible for leading the information technology organization supporting over 60 million customers. His responsibilities included managing the company's IT portfolio, including global supply chain, billing, sales, and customer care systems, and he was also responsible for successfully completing a significant consolidation of the company's core systems.
Greg Hughes is an IT and security executive manager with more than 12 years of experience in the financial services and software development markets. Often leveraged by the media as a source of thought leadership in his areas of expertise, Hughes writes based on practical experience from running critical global enterprise IT shops and data centers and managing top-notch teams of security and IT professionals, and from the perspective of a former law-enforcement officer. With his experience in both securing and operating large, high-risk IT environments, Hughes has a unique perspective on the world of IT and the realities about the security risks and business conflicts faced by IT professionals. He maintains a weblog at http://www.greghughes.net/.
Mathew Ingram is a technology writer and blogger based in Toronto. He writes about the Internet and new media for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper – where he has been a reporter and columnist since 1994 – and also maintains a personal blog at mathewingram.com/work. Prior to working at The Globe, Mathew was a senior writer for the Financial Times of Canada, where he wrote about technology and investing. He is also a co-founder of Mesh, Canada's leading Web conference.
Ilya Joel-Pitcher is a Principal Consultant at Infosys with 10 years experience in information and communications technology, holding key positions in delivery, architecture, and consulting services. He belongs to the Infosys Telecoms, Media and Entertainment Solutions Group as a thought-leader and innovator providing consultancy services in the formulation of customer experience and Web 2.0 strategies. In this role, Ilya focuses on assisting enterprises with understanding, conceptualizing, and realizing business value in a world being reshaped by technology and convergent forces.
Prior to Infosys, Ilya worked for a number of innovative companies delivering Internet solutions and has six years experience in the telecom industry. He is extremely passionate about contributing to the necessary debate on notions of society and identity in a transforming world. Ilya received his BS in Mathematical Physics from the University of Melbourne.
For more than 20 years, Quincy "QD3" Jones III, a noted creative visionary, has been producing hits in music and film to celebrate, honor, and magnify the hip-hop culture. In 2002, QD3 started QD3 Entertainment, a documentary production company focused on chronicling the many dimensions of hip-hop.
QD3 has amassed one of the largest independent libraries of hip-hop content, with more than 1,500 hours of programming, much of it rare, exclusive, and never before seen footage. In June 2006, he formed QD3 Digital, a division of QD3, to take advantage of the technology explosion of broadband video, user-generated content, video on demand, and mobile platforms. As the creative and driving force, QD3 is building one of the first urban-oriented digital media entertainment companies.
Mike Karp has been an industry analyst for the last eight years, but has spent most of his 25-year career in the real world at large firms and startups that include Prime Computer, Symbios Logic, and Belcore. Much of his interest, writing, and research focuses on building efficiency into data center storage operations, on digital archiving, and on reducing the complexities associated with complex systems. Despite all that, he often finds humor in storage. Mike is Senior Analyst at Enterprise Management Associates, where he currently leads the storage practice. His writing on storage is widely available on the Web.
Andrew Keen is a Silicon Valley author, broadcaster, and entrepreneur whose provocative book, Cult of the Amateur: How the Internet is killing our culture, was recently acclaimed by The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani as "shrewdly argued" and written "with acuity and passion." Andrew is a prominent media personality who has appeared on the Colbert Report, McNeil-Lehrer Newsnight show, The Today Show, Fox News, CNN International, NPR's Weekend Edition, BBC Newsnight, and many other television and radio shows in America and overseas.
He has written for the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, Fast Company, and Entertainment Weekly and has been featured in numerous publications including Time Magazine, The New York Times, US News and World Report, BusinessWeek, Wired, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times, The Independent, and MSNBC.Andrew is also a pioneering Silicon Valley media entrepreneur, having founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a well known first-generation Internet music company. Educated at the universities of London and California, he now lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two children.
Kelleher received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984. He is the author of two books on American politics: Progressive Logic is about the core principles of American progressives; The New Election Game is about how to institute Internet voting in the U.S. Kelleher lives and teaches in the Los Angeles area.
Steven Kenney is a partner with Toffler Associates. He has more than 20 years of experience leading strategy initiatives for private sector and government clients. Kenney leads Toffler Associates’s portfolio of consulting for federal agencies on a variety of transformation and change management efforts in the U.S. and internationally.
Kenney has advised the director of strategic planning for the U.S. Air Force since 1998. He also advises the top leadership of high technology corporations on identifying new market opportunities and developing and implementing effective strategies for pursuing them. Kenney’s areas of expertise include scenario-based planning, human capital strategy, and making organizational change effective. He has a BA from the University of California and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University, and he has completed executive education at the Harvard Business School.
Harry Knowles is an online film critic best known for his movie news and review Website, Ain't It Cool News, which Knowles launched in February 1996. A principal offering was Harry's colorful movie reviews, but the secret weapon was the insider news. People went to the site for secret news received from Knowles's alleged "spies" inside the industry.
Due to the popularity, or perhaps the notoriety, of the Website, Knowles was sought out by the mainstream media, including magazines, newspapers, and television news programs. In 2000, he was ranked #95 in the Forbes Power List. This is in recognition of the influential power of his Website. Due to his unorthodox style of journalism, Quentin Tarantino referred to Knowles as "the Wolf Blitzer of the Internet." Knowles has made guest appearances on Siskel & Ebert at the Movies and Politically Incorrect.
Steven Krein is co-founder and CEO of OrganizedWisdom Health, a human-powered health content search engine. Steven, a long time entrepreneur, has been involved with building Internet companies for more than a decade. He was the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Internet promotion and technology company, Promotions.com, which was founded in 1996. Promotions.com went public on Nasdaq in 1999 and was acquired by iVillage in 2002. In less than four years, Promotions.com grew to more than $27 million in annual revenues and built a database of more than 20 million consumers.
Steven is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurism and health-focused social media, and has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, the Fox News Channel, CNBC Power Lunch, CNBC Marketwatch, and Bloomberg News. He received his JD degree from Widener University School of Law and his BA from the University of Maryland College Park. He is a board member of YPO (the Young President's Organization) Metro New York Chapter and lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
Drew, based in Menlo Park, Calif., joined Morgenthaler in 2000 and became a Partner in 2001. Drew focuses on semiconductors and components, and he also works with materials and devices and large systems. He is currently a Director of Brion Technologies, Cortina Systems, Overture Networks, Ultradots Inc., and Unity Semiconductor. He also regularly attends Wave7 Optics and Xoomsys board meetings. Drew spent 15 years in senior operating positions in the telecommunications industry, starting companies in both the components and the systems sectors of that industry.
He served as Senior VP of Marketing at Mayan Networks, building aggregation systems for the metropolitan edge market. Prior to that, Drew was a founder and VP of Engineering at E/O Networks where he helped to design and produce a long-reach rural fiber optic telephony system. Drew started his optical telecommunications career in 1986 at Raynet, a pioneering company in the development of fiber-to-the-home technologies. His many roles at Raynet included VP of Marketing and VP of International Development. Drew was the founding CEO of Lightwave Microsystems, a leader in the design and manufacture of high-volume optical integrated circuits.
Paul Levinson's The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel. He has since published Borrowed Tides (2001), The Consciousness Plague (2002), The Pixel Eye (2003), and The Plot To Save Socrates (2006). His science fiction and mystery short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. His eight nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), and Cellphone (2004), have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into nine languages. He appears on "The O'Reilly Factor" (Fox News), "The CBS Evening News," "Scarborough Country" (MSNBC), the “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” (PBS), “Nightline” (ABC) and numerous national and international TV and radio programs. He is interviewed about media issues every Sunday, 7:20am, on KNX1070 Radio in Southern California. He is Professor and Chair of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.
Erez Liebermann works in the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, Chief of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Section. Liebermann is responsible for handling computer crime and intellectual property matters, include hacking, computer intrusions, insider threats, viruses, phishing, and botnets, among others.
One of his recent cases included prosecuting an individual that planted a logic bomb in his company’s servers when he believed he would be laid off. He also prosecuted a conspiracy to hack into Voice-over-Internet-Protocol providers and steal access to VOIP routes, all in an effort to secure millions of dollars. His other case matters include white collar crimes, such as commercial fraud, tax fraud, and bank fraud.
Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Liebermann was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP. He received his JD degree from Columbia University School of Law and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia.
Stan Liebowitz is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics in the Management School at the University of Texas at Dallas. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins and UCLA. Professor Liebowitz has been on the editorial board of several economics/law journals and is affiliated with several policy and research institutes. He is currently President of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues. He has consulted and testified internationally on issues related to antitrust, intellectual property, and technology.
Professor Liebowitz’s research interests include the economic impact of new technologies, intellectual property and piracy, the economics of networks, pricing issues, and antitrust. In addition to five books, he has published numerous academic articles as well as policy reports and articles in popular outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.
In 1997, Gary joined the Menlo Park office of Morgenthaler Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with $2.5 billion under management. He focuses on Internet services, digital media, and software. Gary currently serves on the boards of Rhythm NewMedia, SNOCAP, JasperSoft, and Mule Source. He oversees Morgenthaler's investment in NexTag and served on its board from its initial funding in 1999 until June 2007. Additionally, Gary led Morgenthaler's investments in Netli (acquired by Akamai), TimesTen (acquired by Oracle), and KnowledgeNet (acquired by Thompson). Gary previously served on the boards of ORB Networks and imeem.
Gary came to Morgenthaler from Apple Computer where he served as Senior VP and GM of the $3 billion Power Macintosh division. Earlier, as VP of Sales, he oversaw channel distribution in North America and managed Apple's $1.2 billion small business market. Gary also served as Senior Director of Marketing for Apple's $2.9 billion Pacific division (Japan, Asia, Latin America, Canada) where he directed a $150 million marketing and merchandising budget.
Robert Lloyd is Project Manager for One World Trust, where he is responsible for the Global Accountability Project and associated initiatives on the governance and legitimacy of global institutions. Lloyd has particular expertise in comparative research, measuring accountability, and self-regulation within the not-for-profit sector.
Before joining the Trust, Lloyd worked at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, on PRSPs, political economy of governance, and health systems in developing countries. He has also worked in community development in Guatemala. Lloyd has an MA (distinction) in Governance and Development from the Institute of Development Studies and a BA in Geography from King's College London.
Mary Madden is a Senior Research Specialist with the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington, D.C. She has worked with Pew since the spring of 2002 and has authored a wide range of reports covering changing trends in technology and media use. Her recent reports have examined the burgeoning field of online identity management, the adoption of online video, and the growth of teen content creation fueled by social media.
Perhaps more than any other realm, Mary continues to be fascinated by the Internet's impact on creative industries. She is the lead author of "Artists, Musicians and the Internet," a report that examines artists' experiences with the Internet and their attitudes towards copyright issues online. She is a frequent public speaker and has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others, regarding her research. She holds an MA in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University and a BA in English from The University of Florida.
David Malfara serves as President, CEO, and Director of Remi Communications Holdings LLC and its subsidiaries. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer, directing Remi's strategic efforts to offer broad-ranging, basic and advanced communication and IMS-based application services, over its metropolitan Ethernet and VPLS-based network infrastructure, to enterprise customers in the No