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RAFAT ALI
Founder/Publisher/Editor
ContentNext Media, Inc.

Since founding ContentNext Media in 2002, Rafat Ali has overseen the rollout to three new verticals and the expansion into revenue generating events. Before ContentNext, Ali was managing editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter. Editor & Publisher has called Ali “journalism’s poster boy for career independence from news companies,” and CBS MarketWatch has called him “a pioneer in using the Web for an almost real-time business news feed.” In July 2008, Ali sold ContentNext Media to UK-based Guardian News & Media. He and his executive team continue to run the company as a stand-alone business.

See him on: Who Pays for Content?

SCOTT D. ANTHONY
President, Innosight
Author, The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times

In his role as President of Innosight, Scott Anthony has worked with Fortune 500 and start-up companies in a variety of industries. He has written three books on innovation: Seeing What’s Next with Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Guide to Growth with Mark Johnson, Joe Sinfield, and Elizabeth Altman, and The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times. He has written articles in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and Advertising Age, is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Online and serves as the editorial director of Strategy & Innovation. Prior to joining Innosight, Anthony was a senior researcher with Clayton Christensen, managing a group that worked to further Christensen’s research on innovation. Previously, he worked for McKinsey & Co., Aspen Technology, and WorldSpace Corporation.

See him on: Keynote: The Discipline of Innovation

DR. CYNTHIA ARNOLD
Chief Technology Officer
Sun Chemical Corporation

Dr. Cynthia Arnold is the Chief Technology Officer at Sun Chemical Corporation, the largest integrated ink and pigment manufacturer in the world and a company of the DIC Corporation. She manages the global technology developments for all inks, coatings, and pigments, including growth initiatives in digital technologies, active packaging and functional coatings, electronic materials, and color research and management systems. Prior to Sun Chemical, Arnold was the Vice President of Coatings and Adhesives Technology at Eastman Chemical. She has held technology leadership positions at General Electric, including managing their corporate R&D for the Plastics Division; heading their European technology organization and as CEO of Exatec, a joint venture between GE and Bayer for the development of plastics and coatings for automotive windows.

See her on: How Changes in Printing Technologies Inprove Business

KEN AULETTA
Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Author, Googled: The End of The World As We Know It

Ken Auletta has written “Annals of Communications” columns and profiles for The New Yorker since 1992. He is the author of ten books, including four national bestsellers: Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way; Greed And Glory On Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman; The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway, and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies were national business bestsellers. Auletta’s 11th book, Googled: The End of The World As We Know It, will be published in the fall of 2009. In ranking him as America's premier media critic, the Columbia Journalism Review concluded, "no other reporter has covered the new communications revolution as thoroughly as has Auletta." He has previously worked at the New York Post, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, and the New York Daily News.

See him on: Keynote: The End of the Media World as We Know It

MARYANN BEKKEDAHL
Executive Vice President, Group Publisher
Rodale Inc.

MaryAnn Bekkedahl is EVP, Group Publisher for Rodale Inc., a leading global media company in health and wellness. She is responsible for advertising sales and trade marketing efforts for all Rodale print and digital properties including Prevention, Women's Health, Men's Health, Runner's World, Running Times, Best Life, Bicycling, Mountain Bike, Organic Gardening, and their respective websites. She also oversees the company's custom publishing, integrated trade marketing programs, and corporate ad sales. Prior to this role, Bekkedahl served as SVP and Global Brand Director for Men's Health, Publisher of Men's Health and Associate Publisher of Men's Health International.

See her on: How Magazines Can Profit in the Era of Accountability

CATHIE BLACK
President
Hearst Magazines

With a new best-selling book drawing on her four decades in the media business, Cathie Black heads Hearst Magazines, where she manages the financial performance and development of 15 well-known titles, including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and Good Housekeeping, in addition to nearly 200 international editions of those magazines in more than 100 countries. Black began her career in advertising sales, and made publishing history in 1979 as the first woman publisher of a weekly consumer magazine: New York. She is widely credited for the success of USA Today, where she was first president, then publisher, as well as a board member and EVP/marketing of Gannett, its parent company. In 1991 she became president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America, where she served for five years before joining Hearst.

See her on: Keynote Interview: What Transformation at the Post Office Means for Publishers

JOHN A. BYRNE
Executive Editor/Editor-in-Chief
BusinessWeek/BusinessWeek.com

In his role as executive editor of BusinessWeek and editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek.com, John A. Byrne is responsible for the editorial operations of BusinessWeek.com and will guide the further integration and collaboration between the print and online editorial staffs. His numerous initiatives to engage readers have resulted in record traffic on every measurement. Prior to his current role, he served as executive editor for the print publication since 2005. Previously, Byrne was editor-in-chief of Fast Company and, before that, worked for BusinessWeek for nearly 18 years, most recently holding the position of Senior Writer and authoring a record 57 cover stories for the magazine. He is the author of eight books on business, leadership, and management.

See him on: Interview with Reed Hastings

MARC CANEL
Vice President, Product Management, Software
Qualcomm CDMA Technologies

As Vice President of Software Product Management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), Marc Canel is responsible for defining and executing Linux and Windows software plans to support Qualcomm’s computing customers, managing business development activities with key software partners, and is a member of the executive team leading QCT into new computing markets. Canel joined Qualcomm in 1996 as a senior product manager for software in the company’s consumer products business unit. He has since served as vice president of strategy and plans for Qualcomm’s Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe CDMA wireless terminals business, and later as QCT’s vice president of UMTS business development. He previously worked in engineering and management positions for IBM’s networking software division, and for IBM France.

See him on: Navigating the E-Reading Maze

DAVID CAREY
Group President
Condé Nast Publications

In his role as Group President, David Carey oversees Condé Nast's properties that reach a business and executive audience, including The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, WIRED, Golf Digest, Golf World and their related event and digital platforms. Most recently, Carey led the startup Condé Nast Portfolio and portfolio.com. He has been vice president and publisher of The New Yorker, publisher for the 1996 re-launch of House & Garden, and was founding publisher of SmartMoney. In 2004 he was named the industry’s “executive of the year” by AdWeek, and in 2005 was named as a member of Folio: Magazine’s "Dream Team" of publishing executives. He has also been the recipient of the American Advertising Federation’s “Hall of Achievement” award.

See him on: The Magazine Brand Business Model of Tomorrow

DOUG CARLSON
Chief Executive Officer, VIV Publishing LLC
Managing Director, Zinio LLC

In 2005 Doug Carlson and David Gilmour founded VIV Publishing LLC, a media company whose first product, VIV Magazine, was an entirely new concept in digital interactive women’s magazines. In early 2007 the company acquired Zinio LLC, now the world’s leading digital publishing, retail and distribution platform for magazines. Carlson serves as the CEO of VIV and the Managing Director of Zinio. He is also the CEO of the Wakaya Club, a private island destination. Prior to founding VIV, he was co-founder and CEO of Natural Waters of Viti (which produces Fiji Water) and also served as the CEO of FIJI Water Companies. Previously, he was SVP and CFO of The Aspen Skiing Company and, before that, President and CEO of The Aspen Club Companies.

See him on: Navigating the E-Reading Maze

MARY CARPENTER
President
Starcom USA

As president at Starcom USA, Mary Carpenter is responsible for client oversight, product excellence and support of all manners of agency leadership initiatives. She also heads efforts to elevate Starcom’s operations and media research disciplines, and plays a key role in the agency’s ongoing reinvention efforts. Carpenter spent the past eight years working on the General Motors account. As chief strategy officer, she was widely known as the executive behind the day-to-day operations of Starcom MediaVest Group’s GM team (formerly GM Planworks) – a client-dedicated agency brand – in Detroit. Schooled in the blue chip halls of Starcom and Leo Burnett, Carpenter mastered the ability to combine the fundamentals of the media business with a consumer-centric strategic perspective. Beginning in 1987, she worked on a range of client assignments, including P&G, Hallmark and Heinz.

See her on: Selling Magazines to Clients: How Agencies Do It

DAVID CARR
Reporter/Columnist, Culture/Business
The New York Times

David Carr writes the Media Equation column for the Monday Business section of The New York Times and focuses on media issues including print, digital, film, radio and television. He also works as a general assignment reporter in the Culture section of The New York Times covering all aspects of popular culture. For the past three years, Carr reported on the Academy Awards season at the Carpetbagger with a daily blog and weekly videos about all things Oscar. In 2007 and 2009, Carr was the recipient of the best commentary award in the Newhouse School annual Mirror Awards for media reporting. Carr is the author of The Night of the Gun, a New York Times bestseller published by Simon & Schuster in August of 2008.

See him on: Keynote: The End of the Media World as We Know It

RON CLARK
President and Chief Operating Officer
Hudson News

Ron Clark’s career in the magazine industry has spanned over thirty years, encompassing virtually all aspects of magazine wholesale distribution. He is currently President and COO of all of Hudson News’s wholesale companies, a position he received shortly after joining the company in 1999 to manage the New York Division. He previously worked for Klein News Company, a magazine wholesaler in Cleveland, Ohio.  During his time at Klein, he managed warehouse operations, the delivery system, and the marketing staff, which then led to becoming Vice President of Operations. Following this position, he was made President, a position he held for 7 years.

See him on: What is the Future of the Newsstand Channel?

MICHAEL A. CLINTON
Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Publishing Director
Hearst Magazines

Michael A. Clinton oversees the publishing side of Hearst titles, including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's BAZAAR, and O, The Oprah Magazine. He also oversees all corporate marketing, sales and brand development for Hearst Magazines. He joined Hearst in October 1997 as senior vice president, chief marketing officer, and added group publisher responsibility for five titles, including Esquire and House Beautiful, in 1998. Prior to Hearst, Clinton was executive vice president of Condé Nast Publications, where he oversaw sales and marketing for the company’s 15 national titles. Clinton revamped the company’s multi-title sales and marketing organization, which accounted for 50 percent of its total revenue. He spent a total of 10 years at GQ, including six years as publisher.

See him on: Optimizing Results with Magazine Creative

GORDON CROVITZ
Co-Founder
Journalism Online, LLC

Gordon Crovitz is a media executive and advisor to media and technology companies. He is a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and former executive vice president of Dow Jones, where he launched the company’s Consumer Media Group. Under his decade-long leadership, the Wall Street Journal Online became the largest paid subscription news site on the web, with more than one million paying subscribers. He founded the online news service Factiva and is a member of the board of directors of the news and information provider ProQuest. He is an advisor to several technology-based media companies in California and New York and was named to the “Silicon Alley 100” for 2008. He also writes the weekly “Information Age” column in The Wall Street Journal.

See him on: Who Pays for Content?

NICK DENTON
President
Gawker Media

Nick Denton is president of Gawker Media, an online publishing group which puts out Gawker, Gizmodo and Fleshbot, among others. He is also the backer of the Lafayette Project, a service which will automatically aggregate the best of weblog writing. Denton has been involved in internet media since 1996, first writing on the subject for the Financial Times of London, and then founding First Tuesday and Moreover Technologies in the late 1990s. Denton began his career as a foreign correspondent for the FT during the revolutions in eastern Europe. Later, while investment banking correspondent, he co-authored All That Glitters, the definitive account of the collapse of Barings Bank.

See him on: The Decline and Rise of Magazine Journalism

SCOTT DONATON
President & CEO
Ensemble
     
Scott Donaton is President & CEO of Ensemble, a branded entertainment company that delivers innovative, strategic content solutions to marketers across platforms. Before launching Ensemble, he served as publisher of Entertainment Weekly. During his tenure, the title was named one of AdWeek’s “Magazine Brand Leaders,” in print and online, and one of MIN’s “Most Engaged Media Brands.” Before joining Time Inc., Donaton was best known as the longtime editor and publisher of Advertising Age, where he founded the highly successful “Madison & Vine” franchise, which grew to include print, conferences, a Web site and email newsletters. He also authored a book on branded entertainment, Madison & Vine: Why the Entertainment and Advertising Industries Must Converge to Survive.

See him on: The Magazine Brand Business Model of Tomorrow

SIMON DUMENCO
"Media Guy" Columnist
Advertising Age

Advertising Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco has worked for a wide range of media companies, including Condé Nast, Hearst, Time Warner, Viacom, and Wenner Media. He was founding editorial director of nymag.com for New York, where he also edited columnists including James Surowiecki and Michael Wolff; editor of Colors; consulting executive editor on the launch of O: The Oprah Magazine; executive editor (then acting EIC) of Seventeen (where he launched Seventeen.com); and managing editor of Baltimore’s City Paper. His writing has appeared in publications including Details (where he’s a contributing editor), Rolling Stone, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and The Guardian. He was the pop-culture columnist at New York and magazine critic at Inside.com.

See him on: The Decline and Rise of Magazine Journalism

MICHELLE EBANKS
President
Essence Communications Inc.

As President of Essence Communications, Inc., Michelle Ebanks leads the number one media and communications company dedicated to African-American women. The organization is comprised of diverse media and entertainment properties including ESSENCE magazine, ESSENCE.com, and the internationally renowned Essence Music Festival. Ebanks joined Essence in March 2001 as group publisher. Prior to joining Essence, Ebanks was a vice-president in Time Inc.’s corporate division. She began her publishing career in 1985 at Knapp Communications. After Knapp was acquired by Condé Nast Publications in 1993, Ebanks moved to New York City to serve as corporate business manager for Condé Nast’s 13 titles. In 1996, she joined Time Inc.’s Money magazine as financial director and was promoted to general manager in 1998.

See her on: How Should Magazines Manage the Brand?

PRIYA NARANG ELLIOTT
Vice President, Global Media
Citigroup

As Citigroup’s Vice President, Global Media, Priya Narang Elliott is part of a six person Global Marketing team which runs all marketing and advertising worldwide for Citigroup. She is responsible for managing all media for Citigroup's North American and Latin American business, in excess of $800MM. Prior to joining Citigroup, Elliott was Vogue’s Associate Publisher of Marketing, where she was instrumental in taking the brand multi-media through the development of television, digital, and sponsorship extensions. Before Vogue, she held senior agency positions for over ten years, where she has run media for clients such as BMW, Volkswagen, Sprint, Bacardi and DeBeers. Elliott recently appeared in Advertising Age and Crain's New York Business as a "Top 40 under 40" marketing executive, and was named one of MIN's 21 Most Intriguing People in Media.

See her on: How Magazines Can Profit in the Era of Accountability

FABIO FREYRE
Vice President, Advertising
Facebook

Fabio Freyre is the Vice President, Advertising for Facebook, a position he has held since April 2009. Prior to joining Facebook, Freyre was Executive Vice President at North American Media Group, where he led all advertising sales and marketing for ten brands. Before that, he was CEO of Latina Media Ventures, the largest multi-media company focused on bicultural Hispanic women. Previously, Freyre spent over 15 years at Time Inc., holding positions in sales and marketing before being named Publisher of Sports Illustrated, and later Group Vice President. He has been inducted into the Media Industry Newsletter Hall of Fame, was named a Crain’s New York Business Influential Minority Business Leader, and is a recipient of Time Inc.’s Excellence Award.

See him on: Partnering with Social Networks: What Magazines Can Learn

JOHN H. (JACK) GRIFFIN, JR.
President, National Media Group
Meredith Corporation

As President of Meredith Corporation’s National Media Group, Jack Griffin oversees publishing, Internet, licensing and marketing communications businesses, encompassing nearly 35 profit centers in total with annual revenues of $1.3 billion. Since re-joining Meredith in 2003, Griffin has been instrumental in transforming the company into the leading publisher and content provider to women in the United States. From 1999 to June 2003, Griffin was with Parade Publications. He was with Meredith from 1994-1999, where he oversaw the creation of Meredith Integrated Marketing, doubled the size of the company’s custom publishing business, and also served as Vice President of Marketing for the Meredith Broadcasting Group. Earlier in his career he served with The New York Times Company Magazine Group.

See him on: Trends in Integrated Marketing: What’s Working for Media Companies

JOHN Q. GRIFFIN
Executive Vice President and President of Publishing
National Geographic Society

John Q. Griffin oversees the English-language editions of National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Kids and National Geographic Little Kids magazines. Under his leadership, National Geographic has won the prestigious National Magazine Award in the category of general excellence for a publication with circulation over 2 million for the past two years. NGM.com's Web site won both the Webby Award and the People's Voice Award for best magazine Web site in 2008. Prior to joining the National Geographic Society, Griffin was Executive Vice President and COO of Hearst Magazines International in New York; from 1990 to 2000 he was President of the magazine division at Rodale Inc. He serves as Chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA).

See him on: Trends that Change the Game

LARRY HACKETT
Managing Editor
PEOPLE

As PEOPLE’s Managing Editor, Larry Hackett oversees all editorial operations for the weekly magazine. Under his leadership, PEOPLE and People.com were both nominated for National Magazine Awards in 2008. In his previous role as deputy managing editor, he strengthened the magazine’s celebrity and hard news reporting, helped develop the first editions of PEOPLE’s Hollywood Daily, and served as the magazine’s primary spokesperson. Hackett came to PEOPLE in 1998 as a senior editor, and has also been an assistant managing editor and executive editor. Prior to joining PEOPLE, Hackett worked for more than eight years at the New York Daily News as a national reporter, entertainment reporter and features editor. He began his career in New Jersey at the Morristown Daily Record and subsequently the Newark Star-Ledger.

See him on: Emcee for Editorial Track

GREGG HANO
Group Publisher
PopSci Media Group

Gregg Hano was re-appointed to the post of Publisher, PopSci Media Group in August 2006, after a six-month stint at Teen People. Before his absence and since his return Hano’s forward focus has fueled successful initiatives and tremendous growth in print and online. Under his watch, Popular Science has enjoyed the most profitable year in its history, the largest issue ever, all-time high web revenue, and the 2007 launch of a new title, Science Illustrated. Prior to being named Publisher in 2003, Hano served as Director of Sales and Marketing from 2001-2003, and was a sales representative for Popular Science from 1987-1992. In the interim, he was Associate Publisher at Saveur, Garden Design, and Popular Mechanics.

See him on: How Changes in Printing Technologies Improve Business

REED HASTINGS
Founder, Chairman and CEO
Netflix

Reed Hastings founded Netflix in 1997 and launched the subscription service in 1999. Netflix grew to one million subscribers in less than four years, and reached 9.4 million subscribers by the end of 2008. In the fall of 2005, Netflix was the winner of Fast Company's national Customers First Award. Also in 2005, TIME added Hastings to its "Time 100" list. Newsweek has written that "Netflix revolutionized the way we watch movies." In March 2007 Hastings was appointed to Microsoft Corp.'s board of directors and was inducted into the Video Business Hall of Fame that December. Earlier in his career, he founded Pure Software, which he built into one of the world's 50 largest public software companies.

See him on: Interview with John Byrne

MELANIE L. HEALEY
Group President, North America
Procter & Gamble

Melanie L. Healey was recently named P&G’s Group President, North America.  She was previously Group President of Global Feminine and Health Care, and was the company’s first female president of the Feminine Care division. In this role, she led a $9 billion business that includes household health-care brands and feminine-care products that command a 38% share of the global market. In addition, she sponsors FemConnect for the women of P&G’s FemCare, and is a sponsor of P&G’s People with Disabilities Group. She joined P&G in 1990 as a soap brand manager in Brazil, and has held assignments in Beauty, Household, Health, and Baby Care. Prior to joining P&G, Healey held positions at Johnson & Johnson and S.C. Johnson.

See her on: Keynote: The Discipline of Innovation

KRISTIANA HELMICK
Senior Manager
Amazon.com

Kristiana Helmick has been a senior manager at Amazon.com since September 2008 and leads all aspects of its magazine category. She came to Amazon after working at Time Inc. in various circulation roles, including head of consumer marketing for In Style, Real Simple and People StyleWatch. She worked on Real Simple’s launch team in 2000 and as circulation director on that title grew its rate base from 1.2 million to 1.9 million in three years.

See her on: How to Market Magazines More Effectively on the Internet

GARY HOENIG
General Manager and Editorial Director
ESPN Publishing

As ESPN Publishing’s General Manager and Editorial Director, Gary Hoenig is responsible for all aspects of the publishing division from finance to production, including the editorial direction of ESPN The Magazine and the acquisition, editing and production of books with the ESPN imprint. He previously served as Editor-in-Chief of The Magazine, and was one of its founding editors. Before joining ESPN, Hoenig was part owner and Editor-in-Chief of NewsInc, where he relaunched Magazine Week. Hoenig began his print journalism career at The New York Times, and has also held positions at the Washington Star and Newsday. He is the author of Reaper: The Story of a Gang Leader and was editor and producer of Courtside: The Fan’s Guide to Pro Basketball.

See him on: Who Pays for Content?

EDWARD J. HUGHES
Managing Director, Client Leadership
Mindshare New York

After four years at OMD, Edward Hughes rejoined Mindshare last year to run American Express’ consumer business. On the basis of his success in this area, he was recently promoted to Worldwide Client Leader on American Express. In this role, Hughes ensures that American Express remains relevant today and at the forefront of innovative new communication solutions that are grounded in consumer insights for all their lines of business. He has spent more than 27 years working on a range of businesses, on both a domestic and global scale, including McDonald’s, BP, United Airlines and Star Alliance. In addition to spearheading the communications efforts for these companies, Hughes’ previous category experience includes financial, IT, packaged goods, beer, airlines, and retail.

See him on: Selling Magazines to Clients: How Agencies Do It

WALTER ISAACSON
President and CEO
Aspen Institute

Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, he was Chairman and CEO of CNN.  Before CNN, Isaacson spent over 20 years at TIME magazine, serving as a political correspondent, national editor and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's 14th editor in 1996. He began his career at the Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He is the chairman of the board of Teach for America and the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership. He was appointed after Hurricane Katrina to be vice-chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority.  He is also the author of several books.

See him on: Putting Back the Wall: New Concepts for Paid Content

MARK JANNOT
Editorial Director, PopSci Media Group
Editor-in-Chief, PopSci.com

Mark Jannot is Editorial Director of the PopSci Media Group, which includes Popular Photography, American Photo, and Sound & Vision, in addition to Popular Science and Science Illustrated. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of PopSci.com. He joined Popular Science as Deputy Editor in January 2003, was named Editor in June 2004, and was promoted to Editor-in-Chief of both Popular Science and the newly launched Science Illustrated in August 2007. Popular Science won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Best Magazine Section and the 2004 National Magazine Award for General Excellence (circulation between 1 million and 2 million), and was a finalist in 2009 in General Excellence and in 2004 in Feature Writing.

See him on: Who Pays for Content?

MARY LOU JEPSEN
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Pixel Qi

Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder and CEO of Pixel Qi. In 2008, Time named her one of the hundred most influential people in the world for her work in creating One Laptop per Child (OLPC) where she was the founding chief technology officer and its first employee.  Notably, Jepsen invented OLPC’s laptop's sunlight-readable display technology and co-invented its ultra-low-power management system. She has been credited by Wired as the founder of the netbook revolution. In 1995 she co-founded the MicroDisplay Corporation and served as its chief technology officer through 2003.  Until the end of 2004, she was a group executive and the chief technology officer of the display division at Intel Corporation.

See her on: Navigating the E-Reading Maze

JACKI KELLEY
President
Universal McCann North America

As President of UM North America, Jacki Kelley is responsible for all operations, including planning and buying across all channels, as well as business development and have oversight of all North American accounts. With over 20 years of global media experience Kelley has built and lead integrated media and sales teams, created strategies to improve business performance and been highly successful at forging strategic partnerships; all of which are key components in her new duties at UM which also include developing a different kind of partnership between UM and media owners. She comes to UM from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she served as Executive Vice President of Media Sales and led the formation of an integrated media team.  Kelley previously held positions at YAHOO! and USA Today.

See her on: Reinventing Portability: 4 Things to Know Now

MICHAEL KELLEY
Partner, Advisory Services, Entertainment, Media, Communications and Technology Sector
PricewaterhouseCoopers

As a Partner for Advisory Services in the Entertainment, Media, Communications and Technology Sector of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Michael Kelley oversees the firm’s global relationship and service delivery to NBC Universal, as well as Advisory services to global publishing and media and consumer research firm, The Nielsen. He consults with a variety of other clients on their plans in digital media and IPTV including, Omnicom, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and others. He has been with PWC since 1987 and held positions in marketing and client service with increasing levels of responsibility. Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, he was a marketing representative for McDonald's Corporation and an account executive with advertising agency Bozell Inc.

See him on: Reinventing Portability: 4 Things to Know Now

STEVEN KYDD
Executive Vice President
Demand Studios

Steven Kydd oversees all original content production, distribution and syndication of Demand Media's video, text and animation library. He joined Demand Media as part of the founding team and helped establish the company as a market leader in made-for-Internet content. Prior to Demand Media, Kydd worked as Vice President of Business Development & Strategy for the Yahoo Media Group, where his responsibilities included managing content and advertising relationships with major television networks and movie studios. He previously held executive positions at eTour.com, and also worked as a film distribution and marketing executive for 20th Century Fox. Kydd started his career as a Project Manager at Macro International, a boutique market research and consulting company.

See him on: The Future of Content

NINA LINK
President & Chief Executive Officer
Magazine Publishers of America

Nina Link assumed her current role at MPA in 1999. She has reinvigorated the organization through highly strategic plans in the key areas of government affairs, advertising and marketing, consumer marketing, and professional development. Recent initiatives undertaken by MPA under her direction include conferences and workshops designed to help publishers leverage their brands in the digital age, aggressive participation in e-business efforts to increase efficiencies and speed up magazine production, and a highly trafficked Web site. Previously, Link served as Group President, Publishing and Interactive for Sesame Workshop, formerly Childrens Television Workshop. Prior to that, she headed her own consulting firm, The Link Group, Inc.

DAVID LIU
Cofounder and CEO
The Knot, Inc.

Since David Liu cofounded The Knot in 1996, the company has become the nation’s #1 wedding resource and most trafficked online wedding destination.  Each of The Knot’s brands has extended to the offline world with a host of magazines, books, and television broadcasts, as well as a massive merchandising arm. More recently the company partnered with Comcast video-on-demand and launched one of the Internet’s first 24/7 streaming video TV channels, The Knot TV.  In 2008, Liu was named Ernst & Young’s Metro Area Entrepreneur of the Year. Prior to founding The Knot, Liu built a nine-year career in digital production and management.

See him on: How Small Niche Sites Can Create Big Opportunities for Your Brand  

JOHN P. LOUGHLIN
Executive Vice President and General Manager
Hearst Magazines

In his role as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hearst Magazines, John P. Loughlin leads the group’s digital businesses, consumer marketing, finance, production and distribution, as well as strategy. In addition, he serves on the board Comag Marketing Group LLC and is responsible for CDS Global, North America’s largest magazine fulfillment business. Prior to joining Hearst, he served as President of TV Guide Publishing Group. Previously, Loughlin was president and CEO of Primedia Consumer Media and Magazine Group, and before that served as president of Meredith Corporation’s television broadcasting group. While at Meredith he held a variety of positions including Vice President and Publishing Director for a number of titles. His early career was spent at the New York Times women’s magazines.

See him on: How Changes in Printing Technologies Improve Business and Welcome Remarks for Consumer Marketing Track

PAUL MAIDMENT
Editor
Forbes

Paul Maidment is Editor, Forbes. He joined Forbes in January 2001 in a dual position as editor, Forbes.com and executive editor, Forbes. During his editorship, Forbes.com has become the No. 1 business news Web site and has won several awards. Maidment oversaw the launch of a stream of groundbreaking features and services, including Forbes.com’s Mobile services and social media offerings; Widgets; the Forbes Video Network; and the members-only Forbes.com CEO Network. Previously, Maidment was the founding editor of FT.com. He has held senior editorial positions at The Economist and the Asian edition of The Wall Street Journal, and has worked in radio and television at Radio Television Hong Kong and the BBC.

See him on: Where Are the Readers?

MATT MANKINS
Co-Founder and CEO
In-a-Moon

Matt Mankins is a researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur with degrees from the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of Miami. Mankins works to apply digital technologies to longstanding human activities, such as the growth of cities or the economics of creativity. He is co-founder of numerous companies, including Lorem Labs, Vert, EMUmail, and In-a-Moon, where he currently serves as the CEO. Mankins also owns the Lorem Ipsum Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has won several awards, including the Boston Phoenix’s 2005 award for “Best Bookstore Trying to Save the World.”

See him on: Putting Back the Wall: New Concepts for Paid Content

CLARE MCHUGH
Editor
ALL YOU

Since June 2007, Clare McHugh has served as Editor of ALL YOU, the fast-growing women’s monthly launched by Time Inc. in September 2004. She initially joined ALL YOU in September 2006 as Executive Editor where she managed the Fashion & Beauty and Food & Home departments. She joined Time Inc. in 1998, and has been an editor-at-large, overseen InStyle Weddings, InStyle The Look, and InStyle Makeover, and launched InStyle Home. Prior to joining Time Inc., she was the editor on the 1997 launch of Maxim, and the executive editor of Marie Claire when it launched in 1994. McHugh previously worked at The New York Post, The New York Observer, and New York magazine.

See her on: How to Edit for Today's Consumer

PETER MEIRS
Vice President of Production Technologies
Time Inc.

As the Vice President of Production Technologies for Time Inc., Peter Meirs oversees emerging production technologies plus a number of functional groups including XML and digital asset management operations, digital advertising technologies, page transmission systems, magazine planning systems, paper and production information systems and production systems development. Meirs is a founding member of the PRISM XML standard working group and has responsibility for Time Inc.'s efforts with electronic insertion orders and the AdsML advertising specification. He is also an affiliate of the MIT Media Lab. Since joining Time Inc. in 1992, he has overseen its digital advertising and transmission systems, directed TIME Magazine Editorial Operations and managed Time Inc.'s conversion to a fully digital production workflow.

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JOHN MICKLETHWAIT
Editor-In-Chief
The Economist

John Micklethwait is the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. After studying history at Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a banker at Chase Manhattan between 1985 and 1987 before joining The Economist as a finance correspondent in 1987. Since then his roles have included setting up the bureau in Los Angeles, where he worked from 1990-93; being the newspaper's media correspondent; editing the business section; running the New York bureau; and editing the United States section. The Economist now has a circulation of around 1.4 million worldwide. Micklethwait has appeared on radio and television around the world and has co-authored five books with Adrian Wooldridge, also an Economist journalist.

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COLLEEN MILWAY
Global Media Director
Campbell Soup Company

Since March 2002, Colleen Milway has been the Global Media Director at the Campbell Soup Company, overseeing over $350MM+ in Global Media Spending across Campbell Soup, Sauce & Beverages and Pepperidge Farm Adult/Kids Snacks and Bakery Divisions, and leading branded integration efforts and print partnerships. Milway began her career at Young & Rubicam in 1986, and worked in Media Planning until 1999, when she left as a Senior Vice President, Planning Director. After her career on the agency side, she moved to the client side to help launch the first DTC group at Roche Laboratories, Inc. as the Consumer Director of Media & Marketing Services. She recently ended her 8 year term as Board of Directors and Chair of BPA Worldwide.

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ANN S. MOORE
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Time Inc.

Appointed to her current position in 2002, Ann Moore oversees Time Inc., the world’s leading publishing company. She previously served as Executive Vice President, responsible for business and development operations as well as the consumer marketing division. She joined Time Inc. in 1978 as a corporate financial analyst and subsequently served in key executive positions among Time Inc.’s various magazines. As Publisher, then President, of People, the magazine grew from a single title to the centerpiece of a thriving magazine family – spinning off the Australian Who Weekly, followed by InStyle, People en Español, Real Simple, and People StyleWatch, as well as InStyle’s growing international franchise. Her numerous awards and honors include her appearance on Fortune’s list of “50 Most Powerful Women in American Business” for all ten years of its existence.

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BETSY L. MORGAN
Senior Media Executive

Betsy L. Morgan is a Senior Media Executive and most recently the Chief Executive Officer of The Huffington Post. Under Ms. Morgan’s leadership the site grew from 4 million to 22 million unique visitors a month, launched seven content verticals, and doubled its blogger roll to 3,000+ influential bloggers. Prior to joining HuffPost, Morgan was Senior Vice President for CBS Interactive and the General Manager of CBSNews.com. She was previously a Vice President of CBS News. Morgan began her career at CBS as the Head of the CBS Television Network's Strategic Management Group. She has worked for American Sky Broadcasting and also spent several years in investment banking.

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SUSAN MORRISON
Articles Editor
The New Yorker
 
Susan Morrison is the Articles Editor of The New Yorker. She edits The Talk of the Town section and the Shouts & Murmurs section, as well as longer pieces. She also oversees long-range planning and assigning of stories and special issues, particularly the magazine’s biannual Style Issues. Previously, Morrison had been Editor-in-Chief of The New York Observer and the Features Director at Vogue; prior to that, she was for six years Executive Editor of Spy.

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JEANNIEY MULLEN
Chief Marketing Officer
Zinio/VIV

Jeanniey Mullen is the Chief Marketing Officer for Zinio and its sister company VIV, the digital lifestyle destination. Prior to Zinio, Mullen was Senior Partner and Global Executive Director of the Email Marketing and Digital Dialogue practice at OgilvyOne Worldwide. In the mid 2000’s Mullen founded The Email Experience Council, the world’s largest email marketing trade organization, where she currently serves as Executive Director.  Before that, Mullen ran her own advertising agency. In the late 1990’s she created the global email marketing division at Grey Direct. She is the published author of two books, a columnist for the ClickZ network, and sits on the advisory boards of SMAC and OMS.

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PETER NICHOLSON
Partner, Chief Creative Officer
Deutsch New York

Peter Nicholson joined Deutsch NY in March 2007 as Partner, Chief Creative Officer. He has taken a strong leadership role inspiring bold, integrated ideas. Previously, he was Executive Creative Director at JWT, New York, where he won a Gold Lion for his work on JetBlue and helped secure new accounts including Stride Gum, Smirnoff, Cadbury corporate and Sunglass Hut. He also served as Chief Creative Officer of Publicis, New York, working on such major brands as L'Oreal, Procter & Gamble, BMW, Heineken and Pfizer's Celebrex and Zoloft, and as Group Creative Director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. He has been honored with numerous awards including Clios, Cannes Lions, Kelly Awards, One Show Pencils, British D&AD and Effies.

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ELLEN OPPENHEIM
Executive Vice President/Chief Marketing Officer
Magazine Publishers of America

Ellen Oppenheim is Executive Vice President/Chief Marketing Officer for Magazine Publishers of America (MPA), the industry association for consumer magazines. She joined MPA in 2001 and is responsible for the association’s advertising and marketing efforts, as well as advising the consumer magazine industry on advertising effectiveness and accountability. Previously, Oppenheim was Senior Vice President, Media Director for Foote, Cone & Belding, New York, which she joined in December 1990. She was previously Managing Director for the Custom Media Group of American Express Publishing Corporation and, before that, Worldwide Promotion Director and U.S. Marketing Director of TIME. Earlier in her career, Oppenheim was a Media Research Analyst at Young & Rubicam before moving into Media Planning.

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SHAWN M. O’ROURKE
Director, Technology & Business Development
Flexible Display Center, Arizona State University

Shawn M. O’Rourke was instrumental in the conceptualization, award and development of the Flexible Display Center. His responsibilities include IP portfolio management and technology transition, tool acquisition, new processes, materials, and tool development, as well as supply chain and new business development. He is the Chairman of the FDC Manufacturing and Integration Technical Advisory Board and participates on the U.S. Display Consortium Technical Council. His research expertise gained at Argonne National and Pacific Northwest Laboratories and as a Principal Staff Engineer with Motorola Flat Panel Display and Life Sciences Divisions has spanned microelectronics packaging, bioMEMS, thick film materials, and display manufacturing. Prior to assuming the Director of Operations position at the Center’s spring 2004 launch, he was a Process Engineering Manager at ASU’s Center for Applied NanoBioscience.

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JAMIE PALLOT
Editorial Director
Condé Nast Digital

As Editorial Director of Condé Nast Digital, Jamie Pallot is responsible for the content and user experience of the company's Web brands, including Style.com, Men.Style.com, Epicurious.com, Concierge.com and Brides.com. Pallot came to Condé Nast Digital from Time Inc. Interactive where, as an editorial consultant, he oversaw a redesign of People.com. Previously he spent three years as the Executive Producer at New York Sidewalk, the acclaimed online city guide published by Microsoft. Pallot has also served as Editorial Director of the Canadian magazine, Web and TV company Shift Multimedia; Editorial Director of New Media for the News Corporation; and Editor of Britain's Virgin Film Guide. In his previous lives, he has written a syndicated movie review column, appeared on CNBC as an expert on the entertainment industry, and contributed a song to the soundtrack of the 1996 indie film Ed's Next Move.

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DAVID A. PARRY
President
The News Group US

David Parry began his career in 1982 with Condé Nast Publications, where he held a variety of positions within the company throughout Arizona, Texas and California. In 1992, after 10 years with Condé Nast Publications, he moved over to Martin News Agency and served as their General Manager.  Seven years later, in 1999, he became president of ETD Kromar. Within one year, Parry became the President of The News Group Central Division, a position he held for five years. In April 2005, he accepted the position of President and CEO of MagNet, L.L.P. In March of 2006 he took the position of President of TNG, LP and most recently, in January 2009, was named President of The News Group US.

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JOHN (JACK) E. POTTER
Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer
United States Postal Service

Since being named 72nd Postmaster General of the United States on June 1, 2001, Jack Potter has led the Postal Service to record levels of service, customer satisfaction, efficiency, and financial performance.  With the 2006 enactment of the first comprehensive postal legislation since 1970, he has positioned the Postal Service to take advantage of the law’s pricing flexibility and other innovative features to drive the business growth necessary to support its mandate of providing affordable, universal service to the nation. Potter began his career as a postal clerk in New York in 1978, and has since been chief operating officer, vice president of Labor Relations, and held a number of other senior operational positions. He sits on the Postal Service Board of Governors and is vice chairman of the International Post Corporation. 

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WAYNE POWERS
President, Media Group
Time Inc.

Wayne Powers oversees all automotive, financial services, consumer electronics and technology clients for Time Inc. Corporate Sales and Marketing. He also oversees Time Inc. Content Solutions, Media Networks Inc. (MNI), and Targeted Media Inc. In 2007, Powers created the Time Inc. Digital Network, harnessing the collective power of the Time Inc. digital brands. He joined Time Inc. in 1998 as Vice President of Sales at MNI, and was named President in 2001, growing the company’s business across new media platforms and building its reputation as an innovative advertising solutions provider. In April 2006, he gained the additional responsibility of President of Targeted Media, Inc. Powers began his career in the consumer packaged goods industry.

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ALAN PRESS
Senior Vice President, Marketing, The Americas
The Economist Group

Alan Press joined The Economist in August 2006 as Vice President, Consumer Marketing in the Americas. During this time, he oversaw significant growth in circulation marketing volumes and profits while running all aspects of marketing for The Economist in print and online at Economist.com. Today he is responsible for the marketing of The Economist newspaper as well as the products within the Economist Intelligence Unit, their research and sponsorship businesses. He also heads Economist Events. Press spent the better part of a decade in financial services with American Express, managing marketing for several consumer card and service related businesses. Most recently, Press led several businesses at The Columbia House Company. He joined Columbia House in 2001.

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SALLY PRESTON
SVP, Group Publisher
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.

Sally Preston was named Group Publisher in August 2008, and is responsible for the publishing ad sales group representing all MSLO titles. She joined MSLO in 2005 as SVP Publisher of Living. Prior to joining MSLO, Preston held several high-level positions at other women’s publications, most recently as Vice President and Publisher of Rodale’s former Organic Style. Before that, she served as the Associate Publisher/Advertising of O, The Oprah Magazine, following a stint as the Associate Publisher of Better Homes and Gardens. Preston began her career as a media planner with Leo Burnett, Chicago. She has also held positions with TV Guide and People.

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JOSH QUITTNER
Editor-at-Large
TIME

Josh Quittner, editor-at-large for TIME, covers consumer technology in the magazine and also writes regular technology reviews on TIME.com. Quittner has a long history at Time Inc. Most recently, he was the managing editor of Business 2.0 and a writer for FORTUNE. He first had a byline in TIME in 1994 as a staff writer covering technology. While at TIME, Quittner launched “The Netly News,” first as a website on and later as a column in the magazine. He subsequently served as editor of TIME.com—twice—as well as tech editor of TIME before moving to Business 2.0 in 2002. Prior to coming to Time Inc., Quittner worked at Newsday, where he wrote a pioneering column called “Life in Cyberspace.”

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TOD RIEDEL
Chief Operating Officer/Chief Technology Officer
Structural Graphics

Tod Riedel is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer for Structural Graphics, responsible for the day-to-day operation of the firm. Prior to joining Structural Graphics, Riedel was a co-founder of a leading wireless sensor networking and Active RFID company. He was also previously North America Director of Enterprise Consulting Services for Compaq Computer Corporation, assisting Fortune 100 firms with complex technology integrations and rollouts. Prior roles also included the Director of New Business Development and Director of Applications Development for CGI Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM.

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MARIA RODALE
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Rodale Inc.

Maria Rodale is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Rodale Inc., the world’s leading multimedia publisher of advice and information about health, wellness, and the environment, and the largest independent book publisher in the United States. She is Editor-in-Chief of the company’s newest online venture, Rodale.com, which features the latest news about healthy living on a healthy planet. Rodale is the author of three books: It’s My Pleasure, written with her daughter Maya Rodale, Betty’s Book of Laundry Secrets, and Maria Rodale’s Organic Gardening. In 2004 she received the National Audubon Society’s “Rachel Carson Award” for “Working to Ensure a Healthy Environment for Future Generations.” In 2007 she received the United Nations Population Fund’s “Award for the Health and Dignity of Women.”

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DOM ROSSI
Senior Advisor, Marketing & Advertising
Magazine Publishers of America

Dom Rossi currently advises MPA on marketing and advertising issues. The first two thirds of his career was in general management in the advertising agency business. During that time he played important roles in the development of some of the most recognizable ad campaigns in the industry, including "A Diamond Is Forever" for DeBeers, "Reach Out and Touch Someone" for AT&T, and “Be All You Can Be” for the Army. Most recently, Rossi worked in publishing at Reader’s Digest as Publisher and then Group Publisher. In that role, he was an important force in raising the industry's awareness of audience quality, and the need to incorporate that into the overall media planning process.

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MARIAN SALZMAN
President, North America
Euro RSCG Worldwide PR

Marian Salzman was formerly a Partner and Chief Marketing Officer and Member, Worldwide Executive Committee at Porter Novelli. She drove Porter Novelli’s brand planning and positioning, oversaw all brand communication and business development, and created and executed thought leadership, reputation management and social media programs. Prior to Porter Novelli, Salzman served as CMO at JWT Worldwide, Chief Strategy Officer at Euro RSCG Worldwide and Worldwide Director of TBWA’s Department of the Future. She was director of consumer insights and emerging media at Chiat\Day and co-founded Cyberdialogue—the world's first online market research company—in 1992 with partner Jay Chiat. She contributes regular columns to Forbes.com’s CMO Network, CNBC.com, Adweek (U.S.) and Marketing Week (U.K.), and blogs at pnintelligentdialogue.com.

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ANDY SAREYAN

Chief Brand Officer and Executive Vice President, Meredith National Media Group
President, Better Homes & Gardens

Andy Sareyan was named Chief Brand Officer of the Meredith National Media Group in August 2009. He is also the group’s Executive Vice President and President of Better Homes & Gardens. Under Sareyan’s leadership, BH&G recorded record ad revenue and was named “Magazine of the Year” by Advertising Age in 2007. In addition to BH&G, Sareyan also oversees Family Circle, MORE and Ready Made. He is also responsible for several divisions that cut across the Meredith National Media Group - Consumer Marketing, Retail Sales, and Brand Licensing. Before joining Meredith Corporation, Sareyan spent 18 years at Time Inc., in a number of leadership roles, namely as President of Entertainment Weekly, President of The Parenting Group and founding Publisher of Real Simple.

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DOUGLAS SCOTT
President
OgilvyEntertainment

Douglas Scott is the President of OgilvyEntertainment, where he has, since June 2006, been developing and producing brand funded entertainment for clients, including IBM, Cisco, Unilever and BP. Prior to joining Ogilvy, Scott was co-founder of MATTER, where he developed and produced high visibility integrated marketing programs for Sean Combs, Ford Motor Company and Blender. Before that, he was Executive Vice President, Marketing and Branded Entertainment Creative Director at Hypnotic where he developed initiatives for Daimler Chrysler, Reebok, Nintendo and Toyota. Previous positions include EVP, Sales & Marketing and General Manager of the Hollywood Stock Exchange; President and COO of ArtView; and Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Red Herring magazine.

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MARK STANICH
Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
American Express Publishing Corporation

Mark Stanich is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of American Express Publishing Corporation, where he oversees consumer strategy, marketing and new product development for its magazines: Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Departures, and Executive Travel. He also directs the company’s book publishing operations, and oversees the interactive media group, consumer services, the custom publishing group, and the international magazine editions. Prior to joining American Express Publishing, Stanich worked in several areas of the publishing business, including strategic planning, consumer marketing, advertising sales and marketing, and product development, spearheading numerous magazine, book, and product launches over the years. He serves on several industry boards including BPA Worldwide (where he serves on the Executive Committee), and the Online Publishers Association.

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DANIEL STEIN
President, JDS Capital
CEO, Dimensional Associates
Chairman and CEO, eMusic

A serial entrepreneur, Daniel Stein is president of JDS Capital Management, Inc., an investment firm based in New York that invests in private, public and distressed debt and equity. He is CEO of Dimensional Associates, the operating company that manages the private equity investments made by JDS. Stein is also currently Chairman and CEO of eMusic, a role he resumed in 2008 after having held it from 2003 to 2005. Previously, Stein served as CEO of TTR Technologies, president of Javu Technologies, and president, chief operating officer and director of the Wedding List Company. In 1994, he founded Burly Bear Network, a company providing cable programming and online services to college students.

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CYNDI STIVERS
Managing Editor
EW.com

Cyndi Stivers is managing editor of EW.com, the website of Entertainment Weekly. Since her arrival, the site has repeatedly broken its all-time records for total pageviews, unique users, and time spent. In addition to her EW duties, from January through May 2009, Stivers taught a magazine workshop at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, she was EVP of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she supervised the launch of Martha’s 24-hour Sirius satellite radio channel. From 1995 to 2005, she led U.S. operations for Time Out, launching weekly magazines in New York and Chicago, plus guidebooks and websites. She is a former president of the American Society of Magazine Editors.

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MICHAEL L. SULLIVAN
President & Chief Executive Officer
Comag Marketing Group LLC

Michael Sullivan has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Comag Marketing Group LLC (CMG) since the company’s inception in May 2000, and has led CMG through a period of sustained revenue and market share growth. Before being selected to head CMG, Sullivan was Executive Vice President of Hearst Distribution Group, Inc. Since entering the periodical industry in 1981, he has held senior executive positions with The News Group, Murdock Magazines Distribution Company, and TV Guide. He has served on the Board of Directors for the 25 Year Club and the International Periodical Distributors Association, the GMDC’s Merchandise Advisory Board, and the Magazine Retail Advisory Council, a working group of the Magazine Publishers of America.

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CLAIRE TONDREAU
Founder & Business Chief
HotSpring

Claire Tondreau founded the brand development firm HotSpring in April 2000 following a career in advertising and marketing spanning more than two decades. HotSpring helps established brands uniquely reinvent their position in the market, identifying opportunities for brand and revenue growth and helping client teams cross the threshold from strategy to implementation. HotSpring has applied its approach to successful projects for companies such as Barnes & Noble, Sprint PCS, and a number of magazine publishing companies. Prior to founding Hotspring,Tondreau worked at Ammirati Puris Lintas as executive vice president and managing director in charge of the Unilever account. She previously held positions at J. Walter Thompson, Benton & Bowles and Jordan McGrath Case & Taylor.

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ALAN TUCHMAN
President
Source Interlink Distribution

Alan Tuchman was appointed President of Source Interlink Distribution in October 2008. For the prior 2 years, Tuchman served as co-CEO of Source Interlink. Previously, he was an Executive Vice President of Source Interlink and President of the Alliance division, responsible for all DVD and CD fulfillment operations. Tuchman was President and COO of Alliance Entertainment Corp. (AEC) from 2000 through to completion of its merger with Source Interlink in February 2005. After joining Alliance in 1991, he was Vice President until 1996 when he became Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning. From 1997-2000, he was President of AEC One Stop Group, Inc., an Alliance subsidiary.

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PAUL VENABLES
Founder & Creative Director
Venables Bell & Partners

Paul Venables is the proud Founder and Creative Director of a hot independent west coast ad agency by the name of Venables Bell & Partners with a philosophy of “our intentions are good.” Clients include Audi, HBO, Barclays, Intel, The Coca-Cola Company, ConAgra Foods and ConocoPhillips. Prior to opening VB&P in 2001, Venables was Co-Creative Director, Associate Partner and heir apparent of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. He was also an Associate Creative Director at Korey, Kay & Partners, a copywriter at McCaffrey and McCall and, at the start of his career, a telephone receptionist at a small New York agency. He had attempted to start his career as a telephone receptionist at a big New York agency, but failed their typing tests.industry award. Prior to Goodby, Venables was an Associate Creative Director at Korey, Kay & Partners.

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 DAVE VENTRESCA
 President
 MAGHOUND Enterprises, Inc.

 In his role as President of MAGHOUND Enterprises, Inc. Dave Ventresca has led the end-to-end development of MAGHOUND for the past three years while directing the project through all planning stages. Under his leadership, MAGHOUND has partnered with nearly three hundred titles and has already generated positive buzz from publishers, analysts and magazine lovers alike. In addition to his 11+ year career with Time Consumer Marketing, Inc., he has overseen membership acquisition and retention at Uproar.com and has also held multiple strategy roles in AOL’s Interactive Marketing department. At AOL, he crafted customized promotional campaigns for advertisers in the consumer packaged goods and telecom verticals.

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JACOB WEISBERG
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief
The Slate Group

Jacob Weisberg is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group, which publishes Slate and other web sites. Weisberg joined Slate in 1996, where he covered the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns as Chief Political Correspondent, and later served as Editor from 2002 until 2008. He has also been a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington, a weekly editorial-page columnist for the Financial Times, and has held positions at The New Republic and New York Magazine. Since 2006, he has served on the Board of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Weisberg is the author of several books, including The Bush Tragedy, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2008.

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BILL WERDE
Editorial Director
Billboard
 
As Billboard¹s Editorial Director, Bill Werde leads the editorial strategy and vision for the brand, which includes the weekly publication, websites (Billboard.com and Billboard.biz) and other digital content offerings, as well as industry-leading conferences and events.  Werde joined Billboard in July 2005 as Senior News Editor and has steadily climbed the ranks of the organization, having been promoted to Deputy Editor and later Executive Editor of the brand. Prior to Billboard, Werde was the Associate Editor for Rolling Stone.

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LAUREN WIENER
Senior Vice President
Meredith Interactive

Lauren Wiener leads Meredith Interactive’s digital and emerging media business and oversees the Meredith Women’s Network. She is responsible for all sales and marketing, business development, product development and brand communication for nine premium websites, including Meredith’s flagship brands Better Homes and Gardens (BHG.com), Ladies’ Home Journal (LHJ.com) and Parents (Parents.com) as well as Healia.com. Wiener joined Meredith in 2003 as Managing Director of Sales and Marketing. She was previously Vice President and General Manager of both Primedia’s American Baby Internet Group and its Seventeen Internet Group. Before that, she spent two years at Starmedia Network, Inc., where she helped a startup grow into the largest Spanish and Portuguese new media company.  She has also held positions at MTV Networks and the Boston Consulting Group.

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DAVID WILLEY
Editor-in-Chief, Runner’s World
Editorial Director, Running Times

David Willey joined Runner’s World in 2003 and oversaw its award-winning redesign in 2004. Since then, Runner’s World has earned seven National Magazine Award nominations, including its first-ever nominations for General Excellence, and eight of its feature stories have appeared in The Best American Sportswriting. In 2005, the magazine was named to the Advertising Age “A-List” and ranked #1 on the Adweek “Hot List” (10 Under 50). Willey also has editorial oversight of Runnersworld.com, which received a 2008 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Prior to joining Runner’s World, Willey spent more than eight years at Men’s Journal. Willey joined the board of directors of the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2006 and currently serves as ASME’s president.

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EFREM (SKIP) ZIMBALIST III
Chairman and CEO
Active Interest Media

Efrem (Skip) Zimbalist III is Chairman and CEO of Active Interest Media, a media company formed in 2003 to serve niche enthusiast markets. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer of Times Mirror, a Fortune 500 company that published the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, New York Newsday, the Hartford Courant, and several smaller newspapers.  Through its Times Mirror Magazines subsidiary, where Zimbalist also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, the company was a leader in sports publishing. Prior to joining Times Mirror, Zimbalist served as chairman and chief executive officer of Correia Art Glass, Inc., a family-owned business.  He also served five years at the management consulting firm of McKinsey and Co. in Los Angeles.

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