Judges and Speaker Bios

Timothy Tuttle, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, Truveo / Senior Vice President, AOL Video
AOL
Tim Tuttle is Senior Vice President at AOL and is responsible for AOL's video search technology initiatives. Tim joined AOL through its December 2005 acquisition of Truveo, Inc., a company he founded and where he served as chief executive officer. As CEO of Truveo, Tim managed the company's strategic and business direction as well as product development for Truveo's industry-leading video search engine. 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.

Michael Brady
Senior Director, Business Development
Fast
Michael Brady has a wide range of business development and management experience in the software, media, internet and mobile markets, including the enablement of new technologies to improve subscriber-based or ad-supported business models. Mr. Brady has worked with the world's largest media and communication, and has deep experience in using digital technology to drive new revenue. Mr. Brady has authored several articles on leveraging search technology to improve e-business and mobile market performance. He currently works with service providers and content companies applying search technology to maximize revenue from commerce, advertising, UGC and multi-media services online and with mobile devices. Mr. Brady has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

Douglas Merrill
Vice President of Engineering
Google
As vice president of engineering for Google's Internal Systems organization, Douglas Merrill is responsible for internal applications such as Customer Relationship Management, Human Resources, and Billing and Payments. In addition to these applications, Douglas is also responsible for worldwide IT support, and leads the engineering groups responsible for several strategic customer facing efforts, including Google Checkout and Audio Ads. Prior to joining Google in 2003, Douglas has held senior positions at numerous organizations, including senior vice president at Charles Schwab and Co., Inc, senior manager and leader in security implementation practices at Price Waterhouse and information scientist at the RAND Corporation.

Mike Folgner
General Manager
Video for Yahoo!
Mike Folgner, General Manager, Video for Yahoo!, is responsible for overseeing Yahoo!'s online video strategy across the entire network and the continued development of Yahoo! Video and Jumpcut. His strategy is focused on building the technology platforms to support video content initiatives across Yahoo! properties, such as Yahoo! News & Information and Yahoo! Entertainment. Mike's leadership and expertise is helping Yahoo! define the next generation of online video products and services which leverage Yahoo!'s technology platforms, as well as enable personalized and community-driven discovery of rich media content. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mike co-created Jumpcut where he was CEO and led the company from initial concept to product launch, including signing licensing and partnership deals with Fox and Warner Bros.

Gary Baker
ClipBlast!
CEO
Gary Baker has focused his 20-year career at the intersection of television, interactive media, and the Internet. He previously served as a management consultant for IBM Interactive Media, leading Internet strategy, live webcasts and web application development for clients including Hertz, Toyota, the Grammys, PGA Tour, and CompUSA.

Aaron Barnes
Friendster
Vice President, Sales and Business Development
Aaron oversees domestic and international advertising sales and operations for Friendster, Inc. He is a seasoned industry executive with over 15 years of sales and marketing experience, with a decade in online media. Prior to Friendster, Mr. Barnes served in senior level sales capacities for Quote.com/Lycos Finance, Looksmart and WhenU. At Quote.com, he oversaw sales, marketing, ad operations and business development resulting in revenue growth of over 500% in his tenure. Mr. Barnes' efforts were instrumental in the successful acquisition of Quote.com by Lycos. Most recently at WhenU, he grew the SouthWest region to number one in domestic advertising sales and executed streaming video campaigns with ABC brands Desperate Housewives and Commander-In-Chief. At Friendster, Mr. Barnes is using video to meet advertising goals and protect the advertiser brand experience. Currently, Friendster is working with Grouper to develop advertising programs for leading consumer brands in the entertainment, automotive and financial services categories.

David Berkowitz
Director of Emerging Media
360i
David Berkowitz is Director of Emerging Media for 360i, leveraging his insight into the forefront of media trends to deliver strategic results for 360i's clients. Every Tuesday, he pens the Search Insider column for MediaPost, with over 100 articles published to date. Prior to 360i, he served as director of marketing for Viewpoint's rich media advertising group, Unicast, and search engine marketing firm, iCrossing. Previously, with research firm eMarketer, he interviewed 175 executives, authors, and analysts on the cutting edge of technology and business. His writing has also appeared in DM News, MarketingProfs, iMedia Connection, and other publications. Mr. Berkowitz has spoken at MediaPost's OMMA events, the Magazine Publishers of America, The Wall Street Transcript's gaming conference, Frost & Sullivan's Internet Marketing Symposium, Digital Hollywood's Games & Mobile Forum, Ad:Tech, and eComXpo. He has also blogged extensively, contributing to MarketingVox, nowEurope, AdTechBlog, and others. He is frequently quoted online and in print on technology, advertising, and media trends. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton and served on his alma mater's Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Collin Bruce
Director of Marketing
Hitachi Embedded Business Group
Collin Bruce, director of marketing with the Embedded Business Group of Hitachi America Ltd., leads the company's marketing efforts for the Hitachi Entier embedded database product in North America. Before joining Hitachi, Bruce spent two years as director of strategic alliances and business marketing at Solid Information Technology, where he played a key role in re-positioning Solid and helping it yield greater revenues. Prior to that, he initiated and cultivated strategic relationships as director of strategic accounts for Communication Intelligence Corp. Bruce is an accomplished speaker and has spoken to a number of eBusiness and CRM symposiums. He holds degrees in applied physics and math from Brunel University in London.

Craig Clark
Intellectual Property Associate
White & Case
Craig W. Clark, an Intellectual Property associate in White & Case's Silicon Valley office, focuses his practice on cases involving copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret disputes for the software, e-commerce, electronics and entertainment industries. Mr. Clark represents leading business, computer, and entertainment hardware and software companies in broad range of complex intellectual property, privacy and compliance matters. Some of his clients include Aztech Systems, Ltd.; In-Three, Inc.; Digidesign; Lucasfilm, Ltd., Mesa/Boogie Ltd. NTT America, Inc. VIZ Media, LLC and Verio Inc.

Neil Davis
President, Marketing and Member Acquisition
Reunion
Responsible for all the company's Business Development and Customer Acquisition businesses, Neil will oversee a Sales and Development staff that will triple in size over the next year. Neil has driven more revenue in a Business Development capacity than anyone in Web history. As SVP, Strategic Development for AOL (then AOL/Time Warner), Neil was personally responsible for over $2 billion worth of partnerships for America Online. Neil managed a team that contributed another $1 billion to AOL's coffers. Prior to AOL, Neil started the interactive unit for Katz Media after running sales, research and programming for the company's Southeast and South-Central divisions.

Darcie de Freitas
Product Manager for Live Search for Mobile
Microsoft
Darcie de Freitas is responsible for product management of Live Search for mobile at Microsoft. Live Search for mobile enables consumers to search across local, maps, web, content, news, social networking, and other scopes in 14 countries today through the mobile internet and in conjunction with mobile operator and OEM partners. In other mobile content technology and technology roles at Microsoft, Darcie led the incubation of mobile media solutions for the media & entertainment, mobile operator, and Windows Mobile and Windows Media teams, including WindowsMedia.com/mobile, partnerships with media companies, and partner solutions for mobile operators and OEMs.

Marc Esper
Vice President of Search
NBC Universal
Marc Esper was named as NBC Universal's Vice President of Search in September 2006. He is responsible for managing all search and new media initiatives for the company including search engine optimization, paid search, and emerging media. In this role, Marc is responsible for ensuring that NBCU's more than 40 websites have maximum visibility within the search engines. Given the growing competitiveness within search, Marc and his team are continuously evolving their search strategy to include emerging tactics. Marc has extensive experience leading cross functional teams to successfully implement new product launches, partnerships and marketing campaigns Prior to joining NBC Universal, Esper was with AOL's Audience Marketing Group where he managed brand marketing campaigns for AOL's cutting edge video platform. While at AOL, he helped launch the Emmy nominated AOL Music on Demand Channel and was responsible for brand development and marketing of the service. Marc holds an international MBA from Thunderbird, Garvin School of International Management and has studied and lived in both Japan and Germany.

Dave Fall
Vice President of Product Management, Search Technology
DoubleClick
As Vice President of Product Management, Search Technology, Dave is responsible for the product direction and vision of DoubleClick DART Search. Dave has been with DoubleClick since January 1999 where he has worked with DoubleClick's ad serving, email, and search technology in sales engineering, support, professional services, and product management capacities. Prior to joining DoubleClick, Dave was a Consultant at Andersen Consulting (Accenture). He developed and designed applications, as well as managed teams of developers at engagements with United Parcel Service, Reader's Digest and Time Inc. Dave graduated with a degree in Industrial Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA and completed his MBA in Operations Management at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.

Marissa Gluck
Founder and Managing Partner
Radar Research
Marissa Gluck is a writer, speaker and consultant covering the marketing and media industries. As an expert on digital marketing and technology, Gluck has often been quoted in media outlets such as The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Advertising Age and Business Week. Additionally, she has appeared on CNBC , CBS Marketwatch , CNNfn , and NPR .Gluck was formerly a senior analyst at Jupiter Research, where she advised clients including Interpublic Group, DoubleClick, CBS, AOL Time Warner, and WPP on online advertising and marketing. Prior to joining Jupiter, Gluck was the research and emerging technologies specialist at i-traffic (now part of agency.com), providing strategic analysis and oversight of partnerships for clients such as Eddie Bauer, CDnow and Disney. Before that, she worked in account management at the advertising firm Ammirati Puris Lintas (now Lowe).

Matthew Gore
Vice President of Marketing
Paltalk.com
Matt serves as Paltalk's VP of Marketing as well as a member of the executive management team, overseeing the company's consumer and business products with a focus on acquisition, retention and branding. Prior to joining Paltalk, Matt has had a diverse career in media and marketing including positions at Sony Electronics, Net2Phone, Katz Media as well as start-ups Worldspy.com and Cortiva Institute. At Sony Electronics, Matt oversaw Interactive marketing including the launch of their first e-commerce venture in the late 90's. After Sony, Matt was Marketing Director at Worldspy.com, a free ISP eventually acquired by Juno/Netzero, then Senior Marketing Director at Net2Phone, followed by VP of Marketing at Cortiva Institute. Matt started his career at Katz Media in the TV division.

James S. Granelli
Staff Writer
The Los Angeles Times
Jim Granelli has worked as a staff writer and as an assistant editor at The Times since 1983. As a reporter, he has covered civil courts, banking, insurance, health care, high technology and telecommunications, winning a number of national, state and regional writing awards. As an editor, he has overseen coverage of politics and government, technology, real estate and other business stories. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and the University of Detroit Law School, and holds law licenses in Michigan and California.

Federico Grosso
Global Vice President, Business Development
Blinkx
Federico Grosso, Global VP Business Development at blinkx, has more than 9 years international experience in digital media. From December 1997 to August 2004, he held several positions within Yahoo!, including the start-up of Yahoo! Italia and the European Commercial Team. After 7 successful years, Federico went on join the start-up of blinkx in December 2004, leading the Business Development strategy throughout North America and Europe. In this role, Federico has created long-term partnerships with global media companies such as Reuters, MTV Networks, Sky News and Lycos. In 1996, Federico received his BA in Political Sciences form the University of Torino, Italy, specializing in Communication and Digital Media Publishing. He also completed the Emerging Leaders Program in General Management at the London Business School during 2004.

Lee Hancock
CEO and Founder
go2
Lee Hancock, CEO and founder of go2, is one of the early pioneers in the mobile content industry, having started and launched the world's first mobile, local search directory and movie guide in 1999. Based on his ideas around making accurate and compelling local information more easily and quickly available over mobile phones and other portable devices, go2 has attained more than 10 U.S. patents, and has several others pending in the fields of local internet search and content. Since 1999, Hancock helped go2 survive through the Internet bubble and today he is actively leading the expansion and deployment of location enabled go2 Mobile Content Network T , which today is the most-trafficked, location-enabled network of mobile websites in the U.S. Hancock has spoken at a variety of trade shows which include: Digital Hollywood Fall 2006, Mobile Marketing Summit 2006, Building Blocks 2006, 2006 LBS Developers Conference, Digital Hollywood at CES 2007, Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live at CTIA 2007 and Off-Deck Mobile Content 2007.

Robert Hayes
Senior Vice President, New Media
Showtime
Robert Hayes is the Senior Vice President, New Media for Showtime Networks Inc. In this position, Hayes is responsible for all of the company's online initiatives including day-to-day leadership, content, and production. In addition, he oversees production related to the company's interactive television (ITV), personal video recorder (PVR) and wireless efforts. Most recently, Hayes served as Vice President of New Media for Showtime Networks Inc., a position he held since April 2001. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Business Development and was instrumental in the strategy and launch of Showtime's digital multiplexes including SHOWTIME NEXT, SHOWTIME WOMEN and SHOWTIME FAMILYZONE.

Matt Heindl
Vice President, Marketing
Heavy.com
Matt Heindl joined Heavy Inc. in January 2004 as the head of marketing, where he has been key in the transformation of Heavy.com as a cult classic to that of a major force in the ad-supported broadband entertainment sector. He heads all online marketing and SEO efforts and the development on raw online “viral” talent. After moving to Stockholm, Sweden shortly after graduation, he helped found the American operations for Universum AB – the firm behind Fortune Magazine's “MBA Top 50 Future Employers” list – where he was the Director of Marketing, North America. In 1998 Matthew threw his hat into the dot-com arena becoming the head of marketing at Kozmo.com, then at online reality video hub Alltrue.com, where he made Alltrue the first video-oriented broadband site on the internet to hit more than 2 million unique visitors per month. He was the creator and spokesperson for the infamous FreakBox traveling interactive video experiment, which lead to his involvement of the founding of the revolutionary interactive video bar, Remote Lounge, in New York City.

Randall Hounsell
VP, Search and Discovery
Comcast Cable Communications Management
Randall Hounsell is Vice President of Search and Discovery at Comcast, where he oversees all product development within Comcast to support the search and discovery of video content. Randall also oversees StreamSage, a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast, which develops next generation technologies to support the discovery of video and entertainment content. Randall is focused on building the product concepts and the technology platforms that provide Comcast’s 30+ million subscribers a seamless and differentiated experience for discovering video content across the platforms – TV, PC, and Mobile. Previously at Comcast, Randall directed the product and business development for Search and Marketplace on Comcast.net, where he grew Comcast.net from virtually zero to be the 6th largest US provider of web search. Randall has an extensive background in strategic planning, business development, and product development. Prior to Comcast Randall worked in Strategic Planning for Circuit City, leading many of their key market and product development initiatives.

James Lamberti
Senior Vice President, Search and Media
comScore Networks
Mr. Lamberti leads the Search practice at comScore Networks within the Media Division. Since joining comScore in 2001, James has led the development of the firm's qSearch data stream into an industry leading data and analytics tool widely used by search engines, portals, publishers, marketers and analysts all around the globe. James is a 15 year veteran of the market research industry, with a background in all facets of marketing research, marketing, product development, and database management. James began his career at Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) in 1992, and learned the fundamentals of panel based research working with wineries in California's Napa and Sonoma Valleys.

Drew Lanham
Senior Vice President, Media
Nexidia
Drew Lanham is leading Nexidia into the world of digital media content search. Lanham previously held several positions at Yahoo! Inc., including Vice President and General Manager, Access, and Vice President of Business Development. Prior to this, he was Vice President at Good Technologies, which was recently acquired by Motorola.

Doug Leeds
Ask.com
Vice President of Product Management
As Vice President of Product Management for Ask.com, Doug Leeds oversees Ask.com's search products, including web and vertical search services. Doug is also responsible for Bloglines. Prior to joining Ask.com, Doug served as a Vice President at Yahoo!, and before that, he held senior positions at OmniSky Corporation and Vodafone. Leeds received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkely and JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

Michael Libes
Chief Architect and co-Founder
Medio
A Medio co-founder, Libes is a serial entrepreneur who has designed, developed, and shipped over 50 commercial products over the last 15 years. Most recently, Libes was the head of Mforma's Application Studio, leading the company's efforts beyond mobile games. Mforma's first hire, he helped build the company's developer support, handset porting, and quality assurance departments as the company grew into a truly global entity, with over 200 employees in more than a dozen countries. Libes received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics/Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University , and Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.

Tac Leung
Vice President of Product Development
Eurekster, Inc.
Tac is VP of Product Development for Eurekster, Inc. Tac has extensive experience in the design and production of web and mobile applications and interfaces, most recently as design team leader for Yahoo! Front page and My Yahoo!, and 8 years previously as a consultant and interface architect at Frog Design and Scient. Clients included Sun Microsystems, HP, Boots UK, and Sunday Telecom in Hong Kong. Tac has a Postgraduate Certificate in Science and Technology Communication, a BS in Engineering, and a BA in Literature from the University of California (Santa Cruz and Berkeley).

Bill Macaitis
Vice President of Online Marketing
Fox Interactive Media
Bill Macaitis is the VP of Online Marketing for Fox Interactive Media (FIM), which owns a network of high profile entertainment sites including MySpace, FoxSports, IGN, American Idol, AskMen, RottenTomatoes, Fox and GameSpy. He runs an in-house department that provides SEO and SEM PPC services to the FIM network of sites. Bill has successfully leveraged SEO & SEM PPC to dramatically increase traffic, drive revenue and help elevate Fox Interactive Media to become the largest network in the US (ComScore US Page Views - Apr 07). Bill has over 12 years of online marketing experience and has successfully built over a dozen multi-million unique visitor sites through a combination of SEO, SEM PPC, viral marketing, social networking and affiliate marketing. Two of the companies he helped build, Case's Ladder and IGN Entertainment, successfully obtained exit events in the form of acquisitions.

Chase Norlin
CEO
Pixsy
Mr. Norlin has spent the last 15 years in the emerging technologies and media distribution space. Prior to Pixsy, Mr. Norlin served as Senior Business Development Executive at ValueClick (NASDAQ:VCLK). In this role, he focused on publisher distribution and emerging technologies for the ValueClick Media Ad Network and developed distribution opportunities for other divisions including Search and Comparison Shopping. Mr. Norlin received his BA from UC Berkeley and MA from The University of Chicago and occasionally offers technology predictions on his blog. Pixsy was recently selected among the AlwaysOn Media Top 100 Companies; and named in Time Magazine's Top 50 Companies of 2006.

Peter Pham
Vice President of Business Development
Photobucket
Peter is responsible for strategic business development, partnerships, and user acquisition. He has experience in business development, with particular expertise around emerging technologies. Prior to PhotoBucket, Peter held various Director of Business Development positions at companies such as Tigi Corporation, a high performance storage platform based on solid state technologies; Vectant, a U.S. division of Japanese conglomerate Marubeni; and DesktopOnline. Peter has a BS in Biology with a minor in Business Management from the University of California, Irvine.

Dmitri Ponomarev
Vice President, On Demand
TV Guide Television Group
Dmitri Ponomarev oversees the development and programming of Gemstar-TV Guide's new on-demand networks TV Guide SPOT and TV Guide Broadband. The networks feature original short-form entertainment programs that help consumers navigate their ever-expanding content choices by guiding them to the most compelling fare on TV. TV Guide SPOT reaches over 27 million consumers and are available to digital cable subscribers of Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House, Cablevision, Cox, Charter, Mediacom, Insight, Verizon and select TiVo customers. TV Guide Broadband is available to Internet users through TV Guide Online, AOL Video, Google Video, Veoh and soon through the News Corp/NBC Universal digital content join-venture. It is also syndicated to third party websites via our partnership with Brightcove.

Safa Rashtchy
Managing Director, Sr. Research Analyst
Piper Jaffray & Co.
Safa Rashtchy is a managing director of Piper Jaffray and a senior research analyst focused on Internet media and marketing. He joined Piper Jaffray in 1997 and has published several technical papers and presented at various industry conferences. Rashtchy has developed his research coverage with a focus on online advertising, search and e-commerce, and related Internet services. Rashtchy's research in online search has been the most extensive in the industry, and he is often considered an authority on the online search industry. Prior to that, Rashtchy worked in various technical and management capacities in computer graphics and engineering companies. Rashtchy holds a master's degree in business administration, summa cum laude, from Boston University and a bachelor's degree in engineering from Purdue University.

Keith Richman
CEO
Break.com
Keith Richman, a recognized industry leader and successful entrepreneur, is chief executive officer for Break.com (formerly Big-Boys.com). Keith is responsible for providing the company's overall strategic direction and leading the company in the areas of business development and marketing. Since launching Break, Keith has grown the site to one of the world's most trafficked online entertainment destinations with more than 13 million unique visitors and 600 million page impressions each month. He was a pioneer in enabling the use of video content on user-generated sites and was also the first to develop the paid content model for the user-generated market.

Dmitry Shapiro
CEO
Veoh
Dmitry started Veoh Networks in late 2004 with a short to-do list: Democratize. Open the business of television—once strictly a members-only deal—to a virtual community of indie broadcasters. Second, introduce them to their new, global audiences, hungry for a limitless world of compelling programming to fill every niche interest, and desire. As an accomplished engineer, he knew this was doable. As a creative soul, he knew it had to be done. Dmitry himself was one of those frustrated independent producers, shut out from participating in the TV game with his imaginative talk-show concept. (On "Hot Tub TV," politicians, celebrities and other newsmakers would all be in hot water—literally, working out global issues and swapping pop-culture dish. Think politically incorrect – in a hot tub). And if his name sounds oddly familiar, it's probably from your setting up a free Veoh membership. Dmitry automatically requests to be your friend. Yes, that guy!

Erik Smith
Metacafe
Vice President, Content and Programming
Erik Smith is vice president of content and programming at Metacafe. Smith brings considerable experience in emerging media platforms and youth media to the Metacafe executive team, where he is responsible for building new media partnerships and developing an engaging content mix for the Metacafe site. Before joining Metacafe, Smith served as senior director for business development and programming at MobiTV where he was responsible for developing and implementing the programming strategy and business models for MobiTV products on both mobile and broadband platforms. While at MobiTV, he successfully negotiated content partnerships with such media brands as ABC, Disney, ESPN, Fox Sports, Fox News, Fox Cable Networks, NBC, Discovery Communications, Rainbow Media, Viacom, The Weather Channel and others. Prior to MobiTV, Mr. Smith held executive programming positions at mobile and broadband startups Digital Lifestyles Group and Motive Communications. Smith began his career at Sun Microsystems and DirecTV.

Adam Stewart
Industry Director of Media & Entertainment
Google
As Industry Director of Google's Media & Entertainment group, Adam oversees all aspects of the company's marketing and advertising relationships with the media and entertainment community. He works directly with marketing decision-makers in the TV, movie, gaming, music and web publishing industries to develop unique integrated marketing strategies. Prior to joining Google, Adam was Vice President of National Sales for Screenvision, where he was primarily responsible for spearheading media-based advertising and content deals across multiple industries. Adam earned a BA in Communications Arts and Sciences from the University of Southern California.

Zaw Thet
CEO and co-founder
4INFO
As the CEO and co-founder of 4INFO, Zaw Thet sets the company strategy, oversees product offerings, corporate alliances, business development and corporate communications. Prior to founding 4INFO, Zaw led business development at Spoke Software, a leading Silicon Valley CRM solution provider, and was the general manager of the company's flagship Team Edition product. He has held positions within emerging technology management for IBM and was the CEO and co-founder of GetInventory, a web-based supply chain management company. Zaw is a member of the Silicon Valley 100 and is a frequent moderator and speaker at conferences including Silicon Forum, Dialog, Mobile Entertainment Summit, and the Kelsey Group. Zaw holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Soros Fellow and the youngest person to ever graduate from Stanford's business school. He received his BA from Stanford University in Political Science with a minor in Computer Science, where he was a President's Scholar.

Donald Wong
Vice President, Digital Media Initiative
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Donald Wong is Vice President of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Digital Media Initiative (DMI) program. DMI is charged with the research, development and deployment of digital media technologies and infrastructure serving all SPE lines of business. With production, marketing and distribution customers across Motion Pictures, Home Entertainment, worldwide Television, Product Fulfillment and Digital groups, DMI is also responsible for facilitating the repurposing and sharing of digital assets across the company. Prior to joining Sony, he held management and technical consulting positions at Deloitte Consulting, ABB Asea Brown Boveri, and General Electric's highly respected Corporate Audit Staff. Donald holds a B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA ('96).

Dema Zlotin
Founder & Vice President of Strategic Services
SEMDirector
Dema has played an integral role in the creation and development of SEMDirector's innovative search marketing automation software platform. As Founder and Vice President of strategic services, Dema is responsible for strategic alliances, partnerships and the development of new SEMDirector markets. Prior to SEMDirector, Dema was President of Silicon Space Inc., an enterprise software consultancy firm, which he also co-founded. While at Silicon Space, Dema created customized web-based enterprise software solutions for commercial and federal organizations including Disney, Harcourt, Hewlett-Packard, Overland Storage and the US Navy. A member of the CMO Council and frequent speaker at industry conferences, Dema has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and nominations including E&Y's Entrepreneur of the Year and the Starcom award. Dema has also consulted with top technology firms such as Anderson Consulting and Price Waterhouse.