CTO, Akamai

Mike Afergan was named Chief Technology Officer of Akamai in October 2005. He is a veteran of Akamai's distinguished engineering organization, having joined Akamai in 1999, and has served in various roles within Akamai's Engineering and Product Management departments, including Director of Technology Strategy and Director of Load Balancing and Mapping. In these leadership roles, he was instrumental in helping to drive innovation based on customer requirements—working on a variety of Akamai's products and directly with many of Akamai's largest customers.

Mr. Afergan returned to graduate school in September 2003, and came back to Akamai full time after receiving his PhD in Computer Science from MIT, where his research focused on networking and distributed systems.

Prior to Akamai, Mr. Afergan ran a software consulting company for over ten years, working for a variety of companies ranging from Bose and Fidelity to start-ups. He authored several trade magazine articles and books including Java Quick Reference (Macmillan), which has been translated into six languages. He has also designed and led several technology training courses internationally.

Mr. Afergan also has a distinguished academic research career. At MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science and at Harvard, he has conducted research in the areas of networking and distributed systems. This includes the impact of economic incentives on networked systems, reliable networking and content distribution protocols, and wireless protocols and architectures. He has authored a number of academic publications on these topics and has served as a teaching fellow and guest lecturer at Harvard University.

His work has won him several industry accolades, and he is an invited speaker in a variety of industry and academic forums.

Partner, Corporate Group, Fenwick & West

Samuel B. Angus is a partner in the Corporate Group of Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in high technology matters.

Mr. Angus is resident in the San Francisco office and his practice concentrates on the formation of start-up companies, venture capital and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property licensing, joint ventures and general corporate matters.

Mr. Angus represents a broad range of companies from privately held start-up companies to publicly traded corporations. His practice also includes advising entrepreneurs and investors.

Mr. Angus served as counsel for In-System Design, Inc. in connection with its acquisition by Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.

He also counseled Naxon Corporation (Wineshopper.com) on its acquisition of Wine.com, Inc., Micro Focus Group on its $500 million merger with Intersolve, Inc., Junglee Corp. on its $300 million acquisition by Amazon.com, Inc., and Blue Lava Wireless on its $140 million acquisition by JAMDAT Mobile.

Mr. Angus received a Bachelor of Arts degree in law and society from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He received a J. D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1993. At Hastings, he was the Executive Articles Editor for the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review. Mr. Angus is a member of The Bar Association of San Francisco, the State Bar of California and the American Bar Association. Prior to joining Fenwick & West, Mr. Angus practiced commercial lending law at the law firm of Lillick & Charles. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mr. Angus was a founder and the chief executive officer of Design Look Publications, Inc., an international publisher of fine art calendars and other published gift products.

Mr. Angus sits on the advisory board of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a frequently lecturer at the HAAS School of Business and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

Co-Founder and CEO, Ning

Gina Bianchini is the co-founder and CEO of Ning, a social networking service with a twist - it empowers people to create their own social websites and social networks. Prior to Ning, she was co-founder and president of Harmonic Communications which was acquired by Dentsu. She has also held positions at CKS Group and Goldman Sachs & Co. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A from Stanford Business School.

CEO and Founder, Azureus

Gilles BianRosa is the Chief Executive Officer of Azureus, Inc. As CEO, Gilles is driving the evolution of the company from the popular, award-winning peer-2-peer application to a global distribution and exchange platform for high-resolution digital content.

Prior to Azureus, Gilles was with McKinsey and Company in Palo Alto, California, where he led mission-critical initiatives related to product roadmaps and go-to-market strategies for venture- backed and “academy” technology companies including Microsoft, HP, BEA, SAP.

Prior to McKinsey, Gilles was instrumental in the launch of Vivendi's media and services Internet platform for health professionals. Early in his career, Gilles founded MileStone, a software company serving the retail industry.

Gilles is a frequent speaker at leading industry events in the US and Europe.

Gilles holds a MS in Computer Science from EPITA School of Engineering in Paris, and an MBA from Harvard University in Boston.

Founder and Chief Product Officer, StumbleUpon

Garrett is responsible for StumbleUpon's product design and strategy. He has guided StumbleUpon's design and development since 2001, from inception to over 3.5M members. Garrett completed his Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he researched collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval.

Host, Wallstrip (a CBS company)

Originally From Northern California, Lindsay moved to New York to begin her acting career in 2003. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University in English and Dance as well as an M.F.A in Acting from the National Theater Conservatory. Lindsay is currently the host of a daily online show called WALLSTRIP which shoots in Manhattan. You can watch the show at wallstrip.com.

Over the past three years, Lindsay has appeared on LAW & ORDER, in the film “Our Bundle of Extraordinary Joy” and has performed in theaters all over NYC including HERE Arts Center, The Connelly Theater, Galapagos, Theater 5. Regionally, she has worked at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE in a production of “Speed-the-Plow” directed by Daniel Fish, at New York Stage and Film in Bill Pullman's “Expedition 6” and in several productions with the Denver Center Theater Company. She will also be featured in two episodes of the last season of HBO's THE SOPRANOS airing in early 2007.

Lindsay performs regularly in NYC as part of the Cabaret Cucaracha which is directed by Richard Caliban and musical directed by Giovanni Spinelli. For show info and upcoming dates please check out the website.

You may have also seen Lindsay in commercial campaigns for the following companies: Hallmark, Miller Genuine Draft, Volvo, Earthlink, Netscape, Dunkin' Donuts, Lowe's Home Improvement, Infamil, The Learning Channel, and many more.

Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.

Cohen is responsible for Turner’s corporate and new technology strategic planning. He is based in Atlanta and reports to Norman Bellingham, senior vice president of strategic planning. Cohen most recently served as senior vice president business development and general manager of interactive and enhanced television, where he was responsible for developing and managing the company's interactive and enhanced television efforts; coordinating all Turner network interactive TV initiatives; partnering with the networks in Turner’s interactive TV product creation and design; and exploring external partnerships and furthering distribution affiliate relationships.

Senior Director & General Manager, Video & Content Networking Business Unit, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Kip leads a Cisco organization focused on enabling the transformation of entertainment and television in our convergent multi-device world using advanced IP networking and content delivery technologies. In this role he is responsible for the strategic direction, product development, business partnering and delivery of leading-edge products such as the Cisco Content Delivery System for TV on-demand, web/streaming and mobile content delivery.

Mr. Compton has more than 12 years of senior leadership experience in systems and network engineering including roles in both equipment and service providers. His areas of interest include working closely with customers to solve strategic challenges such as service velocity, feature integration, content distribution, targeted advertising and digital media security.

Kip assumed his current position in January 2006 after serving three years with Comcast Cable Communications as vice president of video and media engineering. In that role, he led the team responsible for developing Comcast’s digital cable, simulcast, security, switched broadcast, video on-demand, and streaming media infrastructure and services.

Kip held roles at Cisco from 1998 to 2001 as director of technology strategy and later director of entertainment solutions, responsible for defining Cisco’s technology and solutions strategy in areas including cable, digital video, streaming media and XML/Web services. These roles included Cisco engagements with cable operators, middleware partners and set top manufacturers on iTV and DOCSIS set top box projects in North American and Europe.

Kip earlier served as director of Internet Systems and Services for MediaOne Group, a cable operator purchased by AT&T. Prior, Kip was manager of strategic technology and programs for AT&T New Media Services. Earlier in his career he worked for SNET/SBC in their internet and video services development organization. Prior Kip conducted research at MIT with partners including Turner Broadcast and IBM on networked content and services.

Kip holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science and Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering and computer science, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Senior Writer, Fortune

Michael V. Copeland joined Fortune Magazine in September 2007. Prior, he had been a senior writer at Business 2.0 since April 2003 and covered the venture capital community, new technology, and startups. Along with Andrew Tilin, his story “The New Instant Companies” was recognized by the World Leadership Forum as the best business story in a magazine in the 2006 Business Journalist of the Year competition. Copeland was most recently a senior writer for Red Herring and authored features on venture capital, emerging technology, and management issues.

Copeland was most recently a senior writer for Red Herring and authored features on venture capital, emerging technology, and management issues. Along with Lee Bruno, Om Malik, and Chris Locke, he was recognized by the American Society of Business Publication Editors in the Single News Article category for a Sept. 1, 2001, piece titled “Enron's Burnout.” Before that, Copeland served as a senior editor at the Venture Capital Journal. and worked on the national desk at the Washington Post. He has been a reporter for the Oakland Tribune, Orange County Register, and Philadelphia Inquirer, and he has freelanced for several San Francisco Bay Area and national publications. Copeland has also developed environmental stories for television and radio.

Co-Founder and CTO, YouTube

Steve Chen is Chief Technology Officer of YouTube and co-founded the company in 2005 after he and Chad Hurley resolved to provide a more simple way to share videos online.

Steve has been instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon and helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition for $1.65 billion less than a year after launching the site.

As the company's key technologist, Steve is credited with developing the company's massive data centers and helping build YouTube into a premier entertainment destination and one of the most popular Web sites on the Internet today. He oversees all areas of both engineering and product development, including managing site operations, and developing features and services that are compelling and easy to use for everyone.

Before YouTube, Steve was one of the first product engineers at PayPal. He led development efforts and served as an engineering manager on a variety of critical projects.

Steve studied computer science at the University of Illinois.

Co-Founder, Big Fantastic

Douglas Cheney is a writer/director and co-founder at Big Fantastic, LLC. With partners Chris Hampel, Chris McCaleb and Ryan Wise, he helped create the dramatic web series “Sam Has 7 Friends” in 2006. The company's second effort, “Prom Queen,” was executive produced by Michael Eisner and was the first project for his digital studio Vuguru. During its 12-week run, “Prom Queen” garnered over 15 million views. Both series were Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Broadband Drama. Big Fantastic recently completed work on the spin-off, “Prom Queen: Summer Heat.”

Group President, AT&T

Ralph de la Vega, group president-Regional Telecommunications and Entertainment, is responsible for overall leadership in regional wireline, including consumer, regional business sales and network. He was appointed to his current position in January 2007, after the close of the merger between AT&T, BellSouth and Cingular.

Previously, he served as chief operating officer of Cingular Wireless, where he was responsible for technology planning, network operations, marketing, sales and customer care.

Before joining Cingular in January 2004, he served as president-BellSouth Latin America, with overall responsibility for BellSouth's operations in 11 countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Nicaragua, Brazil and Guatemala.

He also has served as BellSouth's president of Broadband and Internet Services. In this position, he had overall responsibility for the deployment, marketing and operations of broadband services, such as DSL. In addition, he had responsibility for BellSouth Internet Services and BellSouth's rapidly growing data support groups.

Mr. De la Vega started his career in 1974 with BellSouth (then Southern Bell) as a management assistant. He has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility in Network Planning, Consumer Services, Engineering and Operations — including a rotational assignment at Telcordia (Bellcore) — and was responsible for all BellSouth Telecommunications Network Operations in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

A native of Cuba, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree from Florida Atlantic University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Northern Illinois University, and he has completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia.

Mr. De la Vega's achievements have been recognized by several prestigious organizations, including the magazine Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology, which listed him one of the “50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business” for three consecutive years (2003 – 2005); Hispanic Business magazine, which listed him as one of the “100 influential” individuals in 2004 and 2005; and Hispanic Trends magazine, which named him one of the top 100 professionals in 2004.

In 2004, he was elected the Executive of the Year by the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting. That same year he was named the Atlanta Telecommunications Professional of the Year by the Atlanta Telecommunications Association, and Hispanic magazine named him one of six trendsetters who deserved recognition for their contribution to their fields.

Mr. De la Vega's involvement with the community is extensive. He is the chairman of the Education Committee of Junior Achievement Worldwide and also serves on the Executive Committee and board of directors of Junior Achievement Worldwide. He is the vice chairman of Junior Achievement of Georgia, serves on the Executive Committee and is the chairman of its Hispanic Initiative.

CEO and Founder, Jaman

Gaurav Dhillon was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a Silicon Valley company that he co-founded in 1992. As its first employee and CEO for over 12 years, he led Informatica from startup idea to leading software enterprise with customers and operations around the globe and over a billion dollars in cumulative revenue during his tenure. He led Informatica through initial launch, IPO in 1999, expansion into Europe and Asia, establishment of alliances with major technology and consulting companies, and ultimately a wide acceptance of the vision he pioneered in the software industry by the time he left in 2004. Prior to Informatica he held management and engineering positions at Sterling Software and Unisys Corp.

Gaurav was recently recognized by Variety Magazine in its Fest Zest 60 List “Faces to watch for the Cannes Film Festivals 60th Anniversary.”

Creator, Lisa Nova

President, Crackle/Sony Pictures Entertainment

Josh co-founded Crackle in 2004 and serves as its President. Previously, he was President and a Co-Founder of Spinner.com, acquired by AOL. At AOL, he served as VP and GM of its music brands. His prior career includes Qwest/U.S. West, Fox Inc., and British Sky Broadcasting LTD. He has a BA and MBA from Duke University.

Editor, NewTeeVee and Staff Writer, GigaOM

Liz Gannes founded NewTeeVee.com in December 2006 as a dedicated outlet for the online video industry coverage she'd been leading as a staff writer at GigaOM.com. She has built NewTeeVee to be the must-read chronicle of the web video revolution, developing a community of readers for events such as the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings and now NewTeeVee Live. She speaks often about video at conferences such as Web 2.0, the Web Video Summit, and Streaming Media West. Prior to GigaOM, she wrote for Red Herring.

Co-Founder, President and CEO, kyte.tv

Daniel is an internationally recognized technology pioneer with a rich background in home entertainment, consumer electronics and internet services. His track record includes the launch of the world’s first MP3 Jukebox, the world's first Internet stereo system, and the first wireless home entertainment system with Internet video services.

Vice President, Dynamic Media Organization, Adobe Systems Incorporated

As vice president of Adobe's Dynamic Media Organization, Jim Guerard leads product strategy and execution for Adobe's award-winning digital video and rich media products providing creative professionals with comprehensive video and web solutions that support entire workflows from conceptualization through delivery. Specific products under Guerard's leadership include Adobe Premiere Pro, Flash, Flash Media Server, Adobe Media Player, After Effects, Soundbooth, Encore DVD, Audition, and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium.

Guerard joined Adobe through the company's acquisition of Macromedia, Inc. in December 2005. At Macromedia, Guerard was vice president of product management and marketing for Macromedia's creative tools including Flash, Macromedia Studio 8, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks software, accounting for roughly 60% percent of the company's revenue. In this role, Guerard led product management and marketing, and managed all business aspects for the Studio Product Family including global responsibility for next-generation releases and the go-to-market strategy and execution of the global Flash video agenda.

Guerard has extensive product marketing experience in the software industry. Prior to joining Macromedia in 2004, Guerard served as vice president and general manager at Pinnacle Systems, Inc., a leading supplier of high-quality video creation and distribution tools. While there, Guerard developed and implemented product development and marketing strategy successfully segmenting the business between consumer and professional products. Guerard's 25 years of experience includes management positions with incremental images, inc., Autodesk, Inc., PF. Magic, Inc., The Walt Disney Company, and Computervision, Inc.

Guerard holds a bachelor's degree from University of Vermont and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Virginia.

CMO, Heavy Corporation

Eric Hadley, CMO of Heavy Corporation, manages all sales, marketing and ad operations for the company. Prior to Heavy, Mr. Hadley was general manager of Global Marketing for the Microsoft Digital Advertising Solution Team including MSN, Live.com Xbox Live and all other Microsoft advertising-funded properties. He was responsible for product research, industry and agency initiatives, network positioning, sales collateral and field marketing events CRM and direct marketing. Hadley has produced and programmed Microsoft's industry leading Media and Marketing Conference, Strategic Account Summit, SAS, for the past 5 years. He also managed the global rollout of Microsoft adCenter, the company's next-generation advertising platform. In addition, Mr. Hadley was a leading advocate for integrated media planning and creative advertising.

Before being appointed to his Global Marketing position in March 2003, Mr. Hadley managed MSN Brand Communications. One of his major accomplishments was orchestrating the award-winning MSN 8 Butterfly campaign and integrating online advertising, marketing, promotions and events for the rollout of MSN 8 in October 2002. The marketing effort increased awareness of MSN by more than 30 percent following the software's launch. Prior to his stint at MSN Brand Communications, Hadley ran Microsoft's marketing efforts in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hadley joined Microsoft in March 1998 from Ogilvy & Mather. He played a key role in launching the award-winning worldwide e-business campaign that successfully revitalized the IBM brand. Prior to his tenure at Ogilvy & Mather, Mr. Hadley worked on the Burger King Corp. account at Ammirati & Puris and regional McDonald's business at DDB.

Mr. Hadley has received numerous honors during his career. He was the recipient of the prestigious “Chairman's Award,” an internal Microsoft honor bestowed only to exceptional employees. While at Ogilvy & Mather, Mr. Hadley received the “David Ogilvy Award” for his work on the IBM account.

Mr. Hadley serves on the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Committee of the Interactive Advertising Bureau. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the VCU Advertising School and Urban Monkeys.

Eric Hadley splits his time between his home in Seattle, WA and New York City.

Founding Partner, Redpoint Ventures

Tim Haley is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, Tim was a general partner with IVP, a firm he began working with in 1987 and joined in 1998.

Tim focuses on investments in software, consumer Internet and digital media. Tim currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Homestead Technologies, Movaris, Netflix (NFLX), TheFind and Zimbra. He also led investments in ChemConnect, Inc., Onebox.com (acquired by OpenWave), Kendara (acquired by @Home), M7 (acquired by BEA Systems), Responsys, Inc. and Reflect, Inc. (acquired by Procter and Gamble).

Prior to joining IVP full-time in 1998, Tim was the principal of Haley Associates, one of the premier executive recruiting firms in the high technology industry. Tim was instrumental in the formation of numerous successful companies, including Alteon Networks, Applied Digital Access (IPO 1994), Centillion Networks (acquired by Bay Networks), Crescendo Communications (acquired by Cisco Systems), Epigram (acquired by Broadcom), FaceTime, Ipsilon Networks (acquired by Nokia), MMC Networks (IPO 1997), Mpath Interactive (IPO 1998), OnStream Networks (acquired by 3Com), Portera Systems, PMC-Sierra (merged with Sierra Semiconductor), PointCast (acquired by idealab!), Primary Access (acquired by 3Com), Pure Software (IPO 1995), SkyStream, Virage (IPO 2000), Whistle Communications (acquired by IBM), Whitetree (acquired by Ascend Communications) and Zip2 (acquired by Compaq Computer).

Tim received his B.A. in Philosophy from Santa Clara University.

Senior Project Manager, FiOSTV, Verizon

Jeff Harris is a senior product manager with 20 years experience in the design, development and deployment of multimedia products and services for consumer and business markets. Core expertise in all aspects of multimedia design and development, with a strong emphasis on interactive video. Current experience covers product management for Verizon FiOS TV On Demand, Home Media DVR, and convergence applications. Additional experience includes 11 years computer-aided design and engineering research for major defense and government agencies.

General Partner, Polaris Ventures

Mike Hirshland is a general partner in our Boston office. Mike joined Polaris in May 1999. He focuses on information technology, internet, and digital media.

Mike came to Polaris from Intel's Corporate Business Development Group. Before becoming a technology investor, Mike served as counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, where he conceived and supervised the Senate's hearings on “Competition, Innovation and Public Policy in the Digital Age.” In this capacity, Mike spent over a year working closely with a significant number of prominent hi-tech CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and technology visionaries. Before joining the committee, Mike practiced with the law firm Williams & Connolly, and clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy at the U.S. Supreme Court and The Hon. J. Michael Luttig on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to his legal career, Mike was a strategy consultant with Bain & Company.

Mike represents Polaris as a Director on the boards of Automattic, BlackArrow, Heavy.com, Q1Labs, Turbine Entertainment, and World Championship Sports Network. He formerly served as Chairman of Ucentric Systems, which was acquired by Motorola. Mike also serves on the Board of Directors of the New England Venture Capital Association.

Mike received his JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. He earned his AB in history from Harvard College where he played defensive end on the Crimson's 1987 Ivy League Champion varsity football squad.

Founder and Chairman, Dabble

Mary founded Dabble in 2005. After working at Adobe Systems in the 1990's she conducted research and got a Master's of Information Science from UC Berkeley's Information Science School where she developed algorithms and front end systems for several live web search engines. She also conducted research on social search algorithms for understanding data in more complex ways. After Berkeley, she worked on similar systems at several companies including Technorati.

She writes about online collaboration and disruptive technologies at Napsterization . She researches and writes on intellectual property, security and privacy, and was a founder in the first blog at the UC Berkeley Journalism School on those topics.

Co–founder and CEO, YuMe

Jayant Kadambi has over 18 years of experience in the areas of networking, hardware architecture and semiconductors. Prior to co–founding YuMe in 2004, Jayant was Vice President R&D and Officer of Netopia, Inc., a publicly held manufacturer of DSL equipment and service provider for ISP’s and carriers. Jayant joined Netopia upon its acquisition in 1999 of StarNet Technologies, a VoDSL company he had co–founded. Prior to co–founding StarNet, Jayant held various technical and marketing positions in AMD’s networks division, and AT&T Bell Labs, where he worked on high–speed LAN systems, hardware and DSL technologies.

Jayant Kadambi is the co–author of a book on Gigabit Ethernet and the holder of several patents in the networking area.

COO and Co-Founder, blip.tv

Dina Kaplan is a Co-Founder of blip.tv and serves as the company's COO. Dina oversees business operations for the company with a particular focus on advertising and sponsorships, PR and marketing.

Before blip.tv, Dina was a news reporter with WNBC in New York, Wave3 News (NBC) in Louisville Kentucky and News12 Long Island and New Jersey.

Dina won an Emmy for Spot News last summer and in prior years has won Society of Professional Journalists Awards for Deadline Reporting, Service Reporting and Feature Reporting and Associated Press Awards for Best Feature and for Breaking Spot News.

Before reporting, Dina produced stories for MTV News about politics, technology and a range of musical acts from Ozzy Osbourne to The Wu-Tang Clan to Jewel. She also helped coordinate MTV's Choose or Lose coverage of the 1996 Presidential Election.

After graduating from college, Dina worked at the White House as Director of Research for the White House Counsel's Office and then as Special Assistant to the Director of Presidential Personnel. During college, Dina worked at Rock The Vote, setting up a volunteer network of representatives that registered college students to vote around the country.

Dina graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics, Government, Philosophy and History. She sits on the National Board of Wesleyan University and is a Founding Board Member of the Women's Media Center. She is a judge for the Interactive Media Awards and for the Webbies. She is also on the board of the Theodore Roosevelt Teddy Bears for Kids Annual Benefit.

VP Business Development, MySpace

Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft

Dan'l Lewin is corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, responsible for managing worldwide strategic business relationships with venture capitalists and emerging venture-capital-backed businesses, as well as managing the business relationship with leading global industry partners such as SUN, Adobe, Intuit and BEA to ensure their applications interoperate with and run well on the Microsoft platform – for the benefit of the companies' common customers. Lewin is based at Microsoft’s Mountain View, Calif. campus.

A 25-year Silicon Valley veteran, Lewin was most recently CEO of Aurigin Systems Inc., an enterprise software company focused on intellectual property asset management. He also spent 18 years as an executive, leading sales and marketing divisions for companies including Apple Computer Corp., NeXT Inc. and GO Corporation. In addition, Lewin has served as a consultant for emerging companies, venture capital firms and corporate joint ventures.

Lewin holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University.

Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Jeremy Liew joined Lightspeed Venture Partners in 2006 as a Partner.

Previously Jeremy was with AOL, first as SVP of Corporate Development and Chief of Staff to the CEO, and then as General Manager of Netscape. He joined AOL from InterActiveCorp (originally USA Networks) where he was VP of Strategic Planning. While there he was responsible for acquisitions and investments in TV Networks, consumer internet companies and online travel companies. Jeremy started working in the consumer internet industry as an early employee of CitySearch in 1996 where he held a variety of sales management, operational and business development roles. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey and Company.

Jeremy holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA/BSc(Hons) from the Australian National University in Linguistics and Pure Mathematics.

CEO, Revision3

Jim Louderback is the CEO of Revision3, the leading Internet Television network. Louderback is a 20-year veteran of the computer and media industries and is one of the pioneers of niche television. Prior to joining Revision3 in July, Louderback was the editor in chief of PC magazine, vice president and editorial director of Tech TV and helped launch the popular Internet TV shows “DL.TV” and “Cranky Geeks.”

Louderback has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Vermont, and an M.B.A from the Stern School. He has been regularly voted onto the top 20 of Adweek Technology Marketing’s annual list of most influential technology journalists.

His previous speaking engagements include: a conversation about the future of robotics with Helen Greiner of iRobot at the Future in Review Conference in 2007, a panel moderated by Louderback at the 2005 Mobile Entertainment Summit about sports franchises utilizing wireless technologies to increase revenue and another moderated panel at the 2006 MIT Enterprise Forum in Atlanta about the Internet’s impact on television and entertainment.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, GigaOmniMedia

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOmniMedia, Inc., a media company which delivers technology news, analysis, and opinions to a monthly global audience of 1.75 million consumers and professionals interested in the world of high-tech. Malik has over 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news. Before launching his own publishing venture, Malik was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. He was also part of the founding team of Forbes.com as a Senior Editor and a writer at Red Herring. His contributions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and MIT Technology Review. Additionally, Malik is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist.

Senior Vice President, AOL Video

Fred McIntyre is Senior Vice President of AOL Video, where he directs the team that leads and executes AOL's comprehensive strategy for video, WinAmp and AOL Radio, and operates AOL's video products across AOL's network of Web properties. McIntyre joined AOL in 1999 and has worked in a variety of capacities, including most recently Vice President of Programming and Media Networks for AOL for Broadband. He also spent several years as Vice President of Business Development for AOL Entertainment where his responsibilities included mapping and implementing the strategy that established AOL as a premier online destination and industry partner for Games, Movies, Music, Radio, Television, and Ticketing. Prior to AOL, McIntyre held senior management positions at Spinner.com, VIBE Magazine and SPIN Magazine.

General Partner, Spark Capital

Dennis Miller is a General Partner at Spark Capital. Mr. Miller has led Spark's investments in Twistbox Entertainment, Xoova, and Next New Networks.

Mr. Miller was most recently a Managing Director of Constellation Ventures, the venture investment arm of Bear Stearns in New York. His investments at Constellation include College Sports Television (acquired by CBS), Widevine (a conditional access software company), TVONE (a cable network serving African Americans, founded by Comcast, Direct TV, Radio One and Constellation Ventures), K-12 (an online education service spun out of Knowledge Universe and funded by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison) and The Gospel Channel. Mr. Miller also served on the Board of Directors of Capital IQ (acquired by McGraw Hill ).

Prior to Constellation Ventures, Mr. Miller served in a number of high level executive positions at leading media companies. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Miller was Executive Vice President of Lions Gate Entertainment. In this capacity, Mr. Miller was integrally involved in Lions Gate's aggressive acquisition and growth strategy which in two years acquired a film production and distribution entity, an animation company, a film studio plant, and started a television division.

Prior to joining Lions Gate, Mr. Miller was Executive Vice President of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Mr. Miller was responsible for the television operations of SPE and was actively involved with strategic planning and new media. Mr. Miller's divisions included over 750 individuals with annual revenues of $1.4 billion and EBITDA of roughly $180 million.

From 1990-1995, Mr. Miller was Executive Vice President of Turner Network Television, with responsibility for production, business affairs and original programming for the TNT Network. Mr. Miller's responsibilities included oversight of $100 million in annual original programming, scheduling and marketing both the NBA and the NFL and the management and day to day operations of a 256 person team. During this period, Turner Network Television grew from 34 million subscribers and $240 million in revenues to 55 million subscribers and $525 million in revenues with 150 million in free cash flow. In 1997, Mr. Miller took on the additional responsibility for the Turner Entertainment Company, which spearheads the utilization of Turner's library of more than 3,000 motion picture titles.

Mr. Miller began his career as an attorney with Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg and Phillips in Los Angeles.

Mr. Miller holds a Juris Doctorate from Boalt Law School at the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in Political Science from the University of California at San Diego.

President and Co-Founder, BitTorrent

Ashwin Navin is the President and Co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc. He hails from Yahoo! where he was an influential member of the company's Corporate Development group. He possesses extensive experience in structuring and negotiating acquisitions, partnerships and alliances in the tech industry. While at Yahoo!, Ashwin was responsible for M&A, divestitures and company strategy in the U.S. and key global markets such as India and Korea. Before Yahoo!, Ashwin worked with Wall Street powerhouses Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch as an investment banker and research analyst. Ashwin earned a dual B.A. from Claremont McKenna in Government and Economics.

Co-Creator, Ask a Ninja

Kent Nichols is a storyteller, technology geek, and goofball. Kent dropped out of college and dedicated his life to comedy and filmmaking. While training at the Second City Conservatory, learned how to make funny movies with only his friends, an iMac, and a MiniDV camera. In 2003, his film, Baggage, won the International 48 Hour Film Project and Scott Billups called him “the future of the Entertainment industry” in his book Digital Moviemaking. In 2005, Kent, along with writing partner Douglas Sarine, created the internet sensation AskANinja.com, which has been viewed over 20 million times, quoted on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, featured on NPR and endorsed on numerous of blogs including Boing Boing, Diggnation and Rocketboom. Kent lives in West Hollywood with his computers and video cameras.

Founder and CEO, Maven Networks

A broadband video visionary, digital media pioneer and senior executive with several of the world's leading global technology companies, Hilmi Ozguc founded Maven Networks with the goal of revolutionizing the broadband video experience and reinventing television as an interactive, immersive and virally engaging medium delivered over the Internet. Today, Maven Networks is recognized as an Internet TV leader, enabling major media companies to merge the revenue generating power of Internet advertising with skyrocketing consumer demand for online video. Among Maven's customers are CBS's CSTV, The Weather Channel, 20th Century Fox, A&E Television Networks, Disney Buena Vista Pictures and Sony Pictures Television.

Prior to launching Maven in 2002, Hilmi co-founded and was CEO of Narrative Communications, which pioneered the rich media online advertising market with its flagship Enliven service. In less than four years, he took Narrative from a streaming media startup with $13 million in venture financing to a $100 million acquisition by @Home Network in 1999. Under his leadership, Narrative counted the world's leading advertisers and agencies among its customers, captured 70% market share and gave rise to today's multibillion-dollar rich media advertising market.

Prior to Narrative, Hilmi held a variety of senior management roles over a seven year career at Lotus Development Corp., where he led the product management, marketing and development of Lotus' SmartSuite and NotesSuite products, helping establish the company's market leadership around the world. Prior to Lotus, Hilmi was a software architect and development manager for electronic design automation systems at Mitsubishi Semiconductor's R&D Labs in Japan.

Hilmi, who speaks four languages, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from Boston University.

Creator, Obama Girl

As the founder and creative force behind BarelyPolitical.com, Ben Relles has established himself as a leader in digital entertainment, creating original content that gets blogged about, talked about and viewed around the world. The online entertainment destination launched with the video “I Got a Crush on Obama”, a political parody that became national news the day it launched. BarelyPolitical videos have been seen millions of times online, and over 100 million times on TV including television coverage in countries such as the United States, Japan, Germany, Russia and Australia.

Ben, an entrepreneur by nature, began his career as the founder and president of MarketVision Inc. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business where he graduated with a degree in Marketing Strategy and received the Ben Franklin Award for his contribution to the Philadelphia Community. Following Wharton, Ben joined the OmnicomGroup, where brands such as Nissan, Pepsi, Snickers, E*Trade and Siemens benefited from Ben's innovative strategic thinking.

Ben has lectured on college campuses and been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, BusinessWeek CNN, CNBC, and ABC for his perspective on what's next in digital entertainment and new media.

Writer, NewTeeVee

Janko Roettgers is a Los Angeles-based journalist, blogger and book author. He is a frequent contributor to Newteevee.com, Focus.de, heise.de, De:Bug magazine and Austrian Public Radio (ORF). He is also the editor of P2P-Blog.com, a weblog that covers the technology, economy and culture of P2P.

Roettgers has been covering technology for various print, online and broadcast media outlets since 1995. One of his favourite topics has alwas been online media distribution and Peer to Peer technology – an area that he has been following since 1999. In 2000 he published a book called “Netbeats - Musik im Internet' (Music on the Internet). He co-edited an anthology about Internet subcultures called “Netzpiraten – Die Kultur des elektronischen Verbrechens” (Net Pirates – The Culture of Electronic Crime) in 2001. His 2003 book “Mix Burn & R.I.P. - Das Ende der Musikindustrie” (The End of the Music Industry) has been called “a must read” in the German-language press.

Founder and Chief Architect, Digg

Kevin Rose is a founder and chief architect at digg. Prior to founding digg, Kevin produced and hosted hundreds of segments on TechTV - a cable television network available in over 45 million homes in the United States and distributing content to more than 70 countries. digg was born on November 1, 2004, and in May 2005 Kevin left G4 to form Revision3 Corporation.

Most recently, Kevin was one of the founders that launched Pownce, the web app that allows you to share files, links and messages with your friends, which is already proving to be a huge success.

CEO and Founder, BrightRoll

Tod Sacerdoti co-founded BrightRoll in July, 2006. Before BrightRoll, Tod was the Director of Revenue and Business Development at Plaxo, one of the fastest growing companies in the history of the Internet. Previously, Tod was the Director of Business Development at Spoke Software, an enterprise software firm providing tools to sales forces to better leverage relationships. Tod also worked at Interscope, Geffen and A&M Records, a division of the Universal Music Group and was an analyst in both the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and the Internet Corporate Finance group at Robertson Stephens.

President of Global Digital Media, MTV Networks

Mika Salmi is the President of Global Digital Media for MTV Networks. Salmi works across MTVN’s growing portfolio of multiplatform brands to further develop and implement the company’s strategy of building an engaging universe of music, games, entertainment, networking and interactivity for its communities of targeted audiences. He reports directly to Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO, MTV Networks, and is a member of her senior strategy team.

Salmi was previously the CEO of Atom Entertainment, a portfolio of four leading online destinations for casual games, short films and video. Salmi founded Atom Entertainment in 1998 with its first brand AtomFilms, after recognizing early on that the emergence of new digital technologies would forever change the production and distribution of entertainment. After establishing itself as a leading next-generation entertainment company, AtomFilms merged with Shockwave.com in early 2001 to form AtomShockwave Corp. Today, the company’s consumer services (Shockwave.com, AtomFilms, AddictingClips and AddictingGames) comprise a portfolio of leading online destinations for games, short films and video audiences on the Internet.

Prior to creating Atom Entertainment, Salmi led business development for the media and entertainment industries at RealNetworks. He also spent eight years in the music business, working for TVT Records, Sony Music and EMI Music, where he discovered bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Presidents of the United States of America.

Salmi was born in Finland and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin, later earning his MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

CEO and Co-Founder, VideoEgg

Prior to co-founding VideoEgg in November 2004, Matt was a managing member and chief operating officer of MediaLiquid, a production company founded by Sanchez, Kevin Sladek and Dave Lerman that focused on helping non-profits develop cost-effective public service announcements by leveraging a large community of student and independent filmmakers. Before MediaLiquid, he was a founding member of a Yale/United Illuminating sponsored FIRST Robotics team in New Haven, CT. Matt also spent several summers while at Yale working for Intel as a technical account manager in the Mobile Product Group. He began his entrepreneurial career as a junior in high school when he founded a computer consulting group in his hometown. Sanchez holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University.

President and Co-Founder, MobiTV

Paul Scanlan is a President and Co-Founder of MobiTV, Inc. In this role, Scanlan manages all aspects of the company's sales, marketing and partnering efforts. Scanlan has been intimately involved in defining and evolving the company's business plan, and its partnering and corporate strategies.

Scanlan has driven the launch of MobiTV on three of the nations' leading cellular carrier networks, and has helped secure MobiTV's current line-up of over 25 well-known channels through negotiations with some of the nations' largest television content providers. Additionally, Scanlan manages the company's International efforts and operations where he has played a key role in generating the initial momentum and hiring the teams to run the new MobiTV offices around the world.

Previously, Scanlan was Managing Partner and Executive Vice President with Enterprise IG, where he managed the company's technology consulting practice and was instrumental in successfully expanding and growing the business. Prior to Enterprise IG, Scanlan cofounded a successful advertising agency in Chicago, and prior to that he worked in telecommunications sales at Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T).

Scanlan holds a Bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Wisconsin.

CEO and Co-Founder, Next New Networks

Herb Scannell was most recently Vice Chairman of MTV Networks and President of Nickelodeon Networks. Mr. Scannell oversaw all creative and business operations for a portfolio of brands and businesses for MTV Networks including: Nickelodeon, the #1 rated network in cable TV for 10 years running; TV Land, the cable home of classic TV; and Spike TV, the first network for men. Additionally, Mr. Scannell was responsible for Nickelodeon's digital cable TV networks (including Noggin/the N), its robust online offerings, and its successful feature film division. Mr. Scannell also led the Consumer Products division of Nickelodeon and Viacom, which under his watch grew into the third largest licensing business in the world.

Mr. Scannell first began his career at MTV Networks as Director of Programming, Nickelodeon in 1988. During the early years, Mr. Scannell was instrumental in turning Nickelodeon into a production powerhouse with the birth of Nicktoons (Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, Doug) and innovative live action shows such as Clarissa Explains It All and the Secret World of Alex Mack.

After becoming President of Nickelodeon in 1996, Scannell set a course to double the networks' animation output and built the first new animation studio in Los Angeles in 40 years, birthing such hits as Spongebob Squarepants, Hey Arnold and Fairly Odd Parents. Other hits during Mr. Scannell's tenure were pre-school favorites Blues Clues and Dora the Explorer.

Most recently, Mr. Scannell positioned Nick as the kids online and digital media leader with 2005 acquisition of Neopets and the broadband launch of TurboNick as well as launching paid downloads and content distribution to phones.

Prior to joining Nickelodeon and MTV Networks, Mr. Scannell held various marketing and promotional positions in pay TV at The Movie Channel and Showtime. At Showtime as Director of Program Promotion, he created the award winning The Honeymooners: The Lost Episodes campaign named Campaign of the Year by CTAM, cable's highest marketing honor.

Partner, Greycroft Partners

Dana Settle is a Partner with Greycroft Partners. She is based out of Los Angeles and oversees the fund’s West Coast investments.

Prior to joining Greycroft, Dana spent several years as a venture capitalist and advisor to startup companies, first as a Venture Partner with Mayfield, where she focused on early stage companies in the mobile communications and consumer Internet markets, and later as a Partner with VSP Capital.

As a venture capitalist, Dana invested in and advised several portfolio companies, including MobileStar (sold to TMobile), Revenue Science, Trigo (sold to IBM), Truveo (sold to AOL) and Doppelganger. Dana's additional experience includes investment banking at Lehman Brothers in the media and communications group and international business development at McCaw Cellular Communications.

Dana holds a BA in Finance and International Studies from the University of Washington and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

CEO and Founder, Taboola

Adam founded Taboola based on a vision that the ability to match between the most relevant video for the right viewer at the right time will create new opportunities in the online video ecosystem for viewers, publishers and marketers. Adam’s focus at Taboola is on utilizing the company’s patent-pending mathematical technologies to understand what videos are about, to know the viewers' preferences, and to match between them, creating a simple way for viewers to discover relevant videos.

Prior to founding Taboola in 2006, Adam served as a distinguished commander of an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Forces in cooperation with the Israeli National Security Agency (I-NSA) for seven years. Throughout his career, Adam has been involved with data-mining projects and has gained experience in a broad range of technologies while focusing on “unsolvable problems”. Adam is an honored alum of the IDF's elite mamram computer-science training program and finished first in his class in the officer's academy of the IDF.

President, CBS Interactive

Quincy Smith serves as President, CBS Interactive for CBS Corporation. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the Company's entire interactive strategy and helping to guide its implementation across CBS Corporation's varied divisions and online businesses.

Smith works in tandem with each CBS division to formulate new media strategies and partnerships involving all interactive platforms, including Internet, mobile and video gaming. Reporting to Smith is the wide variety of interactive media company-wide, including its wholly-owned Websites. In addition, Smith works closely with the Company's financial team to identify new businesses that could complement CBS's core assets and build its presence in the fast-growing digital counterpart to its existing programming platforms.

Prior to joining CBS in November 2006, Smith was an executive at Allen & Company, where he was involved with projects including multiple transactions for Google, Advertising.com's sale to AOL, the del.icio.us sale to Yahoo, Neopets' sale to Viacom, Loudeye's sale to Nokia and CNET's acquisition of Webshots, among other transactions. In this role he also worked with companies such as Comcast, the Weinstein Company and CBS, as well as investments for Allen & Company in SpotRunner, Fon, Ning and Sling Media, among others.

Prior to Allen & Company, Smith was a Founding Partner of The Barksdale Group, a venture capital firm. Previously, Smith spent five years at Netscape where he ran Investor Relations and Corporate Development and played a role in over 20 joint ventures, investments and acquisitions including Netscape's ultimate sale to AOL. Prior to that, Smith was an investment banker for Morgan Stanley.

CEO and Co-Founder, JibJab

Gregg Spiridellis co-founded JibJab Media Inc. with his brother Evan in 1999. In addition to his role as CEO, Gregg is also JibJab's head writer. In 2004, his lyrics helped spark an international sensation with the release of JibJab's election parody, “This Land.” The two-minute short and its follow up, “Good To Be In DC!” were viewed more than eighty million times online on every continent, including Antarctica. In 2004, the late Peter Jennings named Gregg and his brother “People of the Year.” Since the election, JibJab has premiered ten videos on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, formed distribution partnerships with Yahoo! and MSN Video, and produced branded entertainment sponsorships for Anheuser-Busch and Verizon Wireless. Prior to JibJab, Gregg was an investment banker with Bear Stearns and Goldman Sachs in New York. He has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BS in Finance from Rutgers University.

CEO and Founder, Truveo Inc.
Senior Vice President, AOL Video

Tim Tuttle is responsible for AOL video search technology initiatives. In 2004 he founded Truveo, and led its strategic, business and product direction until its acquisition by AOL in January of 2006. Prior to Truveo, Tim was a founder and chief technology officer of Bang Networks, a company that pioneered streaming technology for real-time web applications. He served as a research staff member at Lucent Bell Laboratories where he oversaw projects in data mining and video-based web applications. Tim has been a member of the research staff at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Lab for Computer Science and MIT Lincoln Laboratory conducting work in the areas of data modeling and high-performance optimization algorithms.

SVP, Content Markets Group, Level 3 Communications

Mr. van Rooyen is Senior Vice President of Level 3's Content Markets Group. In this role he is responsible for Level 3's Internet, content delivery, colocation and video services businesses.

Previously, Mr. van Rooyen served as Vice President European Product Management. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Global Internet Services. Mr. van Rooyen has also served as Director of Global Submarine Services and Director of International Business Development. Before joining Level 3 in 1999, Mr. van Rooyen worked in Private Equity. He has significant international experience having worked throughout Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America.

Founder, CastTV

Alex Vikati is Co-Founder of CastTV, a DFJ-funded startup that is working to build the Web's best video search engine. Alex is a second-time entrepreneur who previously founded FileFish Inc., an enterprise data access software company that was acquired by Oracle in 2003. Post-acquisition, Alex joined Oracle and was a key member of the management team that launched Oracle's Content Services product. Prior to starting FileFish, Alex was the product manager at ThinkLink, a leading VoIP service provider that was acquired by Microsoft. Alex is a Stanford alum.

Founder and CEO, Tudou.com

Gary Wang is the founder and CEO of Tudou, the leading video portal in China. Before founding Tudou.com in January 2005 Gary Wang managed Bertelsmann Group's online music business in China. Having worked and lived in the U.S. and Europe, Gary now lives in Shanghai, China, where Tudou calls home.

CEO, Broadband Enterprises

A pioneer in the broadband advertising industry, Matthew Wasserlauf formed Broadband Enterprises in April, 2004 and serves as its CEO; Broadband Enterprises is the first, full-service broadband company. For its clients, Broadband Enterprises buys, produces and distributes advertisers; programming across the growing broadband networks that capture over 130 million viewers today.

Matthew Wasserlauf, is a 16-year veteran in the media and broadband advertising industry. He created and formed Broadband Enterprises in April, 2004 and currently serves as the company’s CEO. Broadband Enterprises is the first, full-service broadband company and is the premier online video network. For the past three years under Wasserlauf’s leadership, Broadband Enterprises has been servicing its clients through the sales of online advertising, syndicated programming, original online programming and VINDICO, the company’s own created video-advertising technology solution, making Broadband Enterprises one of the few full-service broadband companies. Prior to forming Broadband Enterprises, Wasserlauf spent four years as the VP of Sales at The FeedRoom. Under his guidance, Wasserlauf help created millions in advertising revenue and help lay the foundation for the streaming video advertising industry today. Prior to joining The FeedRoom, he spent two years as the Director of Sales for CBS. During his tenure Wasserlauf delivered over $10 million in revenue for cbs.com. He also pioneered sales; selling websites including “The Late Show with David Letterman” and “Survivor.” In 1999, he completed his MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and graduated Indiana University in 1991 with a B.S. in marketing.

CEO and Co-Founder, DECA

Over the past 10 years, Michael Wayne has focused his work on the converging media of television and the Internet. During this time, he has worked with major brand advertisers and online partners to establish new formats for online programming and new cross-media business models. As Vice President, Strategic Alliances for Sony Pictures Digital and then Sony Pictures Television, both divisions of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Wayne was responsible for managing a team dedicated to developing new digital entertainment franchises in conjunction with strategic partners. During his role as Vice President, he and his team developed franchises with partners that include Intel, Ford, Cingular, Budweiser, American Express, Motorola, Verizon, McDonalds, Qwest Communications and Comcast.

Prior to joining Sony in 2002, Wayne served as Vice President, Business Development for Yahoo! Music/Launch Media. Wayne was part of the core team that grew the online music media company from start-up through IPO and ultimately its acquisition by Yahoo! While at Launch Media, Wayne developed and managed relationships with the company's largest investors and revenue-generating clients in the United States and internationally.

Prior to working at Launch Media, Wayne was Manager, Marketing Development for the ABC Television Network. At ABC he developed and executed online and on-air promotions with corporate partners including American Airlines, McDonalds and Sony Electronics.

A multifaceted media executive, Wayne in 1995 founded Velvet Magazine, the first English-language, city magazine in Eastern Europe. The magazine was published in Prague, Czech Republic and covered cultural, social and style topics for the newly democratic country.

Wayne received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from The University of the South, Sewanee, TN.

Chief Creative Officer, Joost

Henrik Werdelin is responsible for Joost’s creative and product development. He also manages the distribution and content operations team. Previously, he was the vice president of product development and strategy for MTV Networks International, where he spearheaded the development of many of MTV's award winning innovative products, including TV formats, broadband channels and mobile games. Henrik has also worked for the BBC as an associate producer and for MTV France, GameOne and MTV Games Europe, where he was in charge of content and creative strategy. He has worked with such clients as BBC Worldwide, Coca-Cola and Walt Disney Television, and is considered an expert in subjects such as interactive storytelling and reaching the youth market.

Partner, Charles River Ventures

George Zachary joined Charles River Ventures in 2004. He brings more than 17 years of operating and investing experience in computing and consumer technology. George's focus is on building great services and software technology companies. George led CRV's investments in Areae, Geni.com, GoTV, Skyrider, Twitter and is on each company's board of directors.

Previously, he was a general partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV). His directorships included: Accrue Software (Nasdaq:ACRU), Andale, Critical Path (Nasdaq: CPTH), Ovation Entertainment, Sandcastle (acquired by Adobe, Nasdaq:ADBE), Securify (acquired by Kroll-O'Gara, Nasdaq: KROG), Shutterfly, Supertracks (acquired by Centerspan) and Telebot (acquired by Z-Tel, Nasdaq: ZTEL).

Prior to MDV, George led the Nintendo 64 development business at Silicon Graphics, managed sales and marketing for virtual reality pioneer VPL Research, and served as a product marketeer at CATS Software. He is a board advisor at the MIT Sloan School of Business and Stanford BASES. He is also an advisor to X PRIZE. George earned a joint BS from MIT and MIT Sloan School of Business. Visit George's Blog.

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