Anthony Melchiorri
Host and Executive Producer, Travel Channel’s Hotel Impossible

Anthony is the man behind the success of the new Travel Channel show, Hotel Impossible, where he has a take-no-prisoners approach in helping turn around struggling hotel properties by helping them on everything from their digital marketing and branding strategy to operations.

Anthony also heads up Aregeo Hospitality where his team of expert developers, marketing strategists, analysts and operators specialize in every aspect of hospitality management and branding.

In the 20 years Anthony Melchiorri has been in the hospitality business, he has a proven track record of understanding a company’s vision, its individual parts, and how to make those parts work together to complete the whole picture. Knowing that attention to detail and making each part of the operation functional and strong are key to profitability, Melchiorri has developed and repositioned some of the finest and most high profile properties in the United States.

Greg Robleto
Director of Community and Social Media, The Motley Fool

Greg Robleto wants to delight users and increase return visits to the websites of the financial media company, The Motley Fool. In his role as Director of Community and Social Media, Greg focuses on building an online experience that will empower the community to help each other invest better while expanding the reach of the Fool’s content through social media. Greg began his career in technology as a web designer creating web presences for the State of Delaware, MBNA (now Bank of America), Wawa and AOL Daily Finance before moving into the role of Design Director at The Motley Fool. Greg believes that if you build an experience that exceeds the expectations of the user, all the other metrics will fall into place.

Alexandre Douzet
COO and Co-founder, TheLadders

Alexandre Douzet is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of TheLadders, the online job-matching service for career-driven professionals, where he is responsible for the company strategy, global business operations, and product development. He co-founded the company in 2003 with Marc Cenedella and Andrew Koch, and grew the member base to over 5 million since inception.

Under Alex’s leadership, the company launched two ground-breaking products in 2010: TheLadders PipelineTM and FitFinderTM. TheLadders Pipeline is a real-time targeting tool that provides job seekers with up-to-the-minute notifications about openings that recruiters need to fill, whereas FitFinder sources Talent Specialists who match job postings with highly qualified candidates from whom employers can immediately start recruiting.

As Executive Vice President from 2003 to 2008, Alex drove job search by launching the executive resume service, growing TheLadders’ subscription base from zero to more than 2 million members. Additionally, Alex has authored An Investigation of Pay per Click Search Engine Advertising: Modeling the PPC Paradigm to Lower Cost per Action. Before TheLadders, Alex was Director of Online Marketing at HotJobs, as well as Manager of Marketing Planning and Analysis for BMG Direct.

Brian Dresher
Vice President of Business Development, Mashable

Brian Dresher is Mashable’s Vice President of Business Development. Brian manages traffic-driving, revenue-generating, and brand-building opportunities. Through these strategic areas, Brian has created brand and content licensing initiatives; enhanced Mashable’s audience reach with media brands such as CNN, Yahoo, Sky News, and Washington Post; and developed mobile and tablet app partnerships with niche social news brands. Under Brian’s direction, Mashable has added more than 30 publisher partnerships and created or enhanced several revenue-generating products including Mashable’s Job Board, Events Board, Online Career Expos, and video syndication.

Brian is a graduate of The George Washington University where he earned his MBA and was named Graduate Marketing Student of the Year, and a graduate of UC San Diego where he earned his BA in Economics.

Jeff Allen
Director of Product Marketing, Digital Analytics, Adobe

Jeff Allen has spent his career working in tech marketing, sales and product management roles. He is currently the Director of Product Marketing for Digital Analytics at Adobe. Prior to joining Adobe, he was VP of Marketing for AtTask, an up-and-coming SaaS project management company headquartered in Utah. Prior to that, as VP of Marketing for another hot Utah startup, Venafi, he helped establish the Enterprise Key and Certificate Management market and successfully positioned Venafi as the leading pure play vendor in the space (as recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor).

Prior to Venafi, Allen served in various product management and marketing roles in Novell’s Security, Identity and desktop Linux businesses; Excite@Home’s e-commerce and hosting businesses; and at semiconductor manufacturing automation software firm Auto-Soft (now part of Applied Materials).

Craig Oldham
Vice President of Digital Engagement, American Red Cross

Craig Oldham is the Vice President of Digital Engagement for the American Red Cross where he is responsible for web strategies, mobile strategy, search marketing and online transactions. As a part of his current responsibilities, Craig is leading the effort to redesign and revitalize the online experience from delivering the Red Cross mission online to digital fundraising to online health and safety course enrollment. Prior to joining the American Red Cross, Craig was the Assistant Vice President at Zurich Insurance where he developed their online lead generation program for Zurich’s North American global marketing unit.

Melanie Phung
Director of New Media, PBS

Melanie Phung is the Director of New Media at PBS, where she works with producers, copywriters, and web developers to generate increased visibility for the depth and breadth of PBS’s online content. She started her journey into search engine optimization (SEO) at Wirefly.com, where she drove revenue growth in the organic search sales channel, and has since worked with a wide range of organizations to improve their search engine visibility. Melanie believes great SEO strategy helps to bridge the divide between content, technology, and user experience.

Gadi Ben-Yehuda
Social Media Director, IBM

Gadi Ben-Yehuda is the Social Media Director for the IBM Center for The Business of Government.

Gadi has worked on the Web since 1994, when he received an email from Maya Angelou through his first Web site. Prior to IBM, Gadi was was a Web Strategist for the District of Columbia's Office of the chief Technology Officer (OCTO). Additionally, Gadi has taught creative, expository, and Web writing for more than 10 years to university students, private-sector professionals, and even soldiers.

You can follow Gadi on Twitter, read his columns on Huffington Post, and see his posts on GovLoop, and read his blog entries on the IBM Center for the Business of Government site.

Michael Aldana
Senior Manager of Mobile Design, McAfee

Michael has over 17 years experience in the visual design and customer experience arena. With a rich understanding of multiple mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, Blackberry and a multitude of tablet devices, Michael continues to focus on user experience across multiple mediums. As the current Senior Manager of Mobile Design within McAfee, he has an opportunity to create engaging user experiences that appeal to both consumer and enterprise audiences.

During his tenure at British Telecom, Network Solutions, VeriSign, AOL, Sprint/Nextel and Marriott, Michael managed many Web Content and Design Team(s) and was able to gain a broader perspective on exactly what it took to produce a world-class customer experience - from top to bottom. Over the years Michael helped launched such innovative products as Certified Domain Offers, Domain Account Management Tools for VeriSign, You've Got Pictures v8.0 and 9.0 for AOL, Nextel.com Redesign, Nextel.com in Spanish, Sprint.com (for the merged company in 2005) and recently orchestrated the redesign of all Marriott.com web site properties.

David Plotz
Editor, Slate

David Plotz is editor of Slate. Before joining the magazine in 1996, Plotz was a senior editor and staff writer for the Washington City Paper. Plotz has written for the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Rolling Stone, GQ, the New Republic, and the Washington Post, among other publications. He is the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank and, most recently, Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible, based on his "Blogging the Bible" series for Slate.

Khurrum Malik
Vice President, Product Marketing, comScore, Inc.

Khurrum is Vice President of Product and Corporate Marketing at comScore. Prior to comScore, Khurrum was a marketing strategy executive with Accenture's Communications and High-Technology Strategy Group. He has over 16 years of experience driving revenue growth, business development, and operational execution in both software and communications industries.

Prior to Accenture, Khurrum led product and pricing strategy in Microsoft's Unified Communications Group. He also directed corporate strategy and sales operations efforts at Sprint Nextel.

Steve Harris
Sr. Director, Web Analytics, Enterprise Digital Group, Capital One

Steve has served as Sr. Director of Web Analytics, Enterprise Digital Group at Capital One since 2011. Prior to Capital One he was the Director and Global Head of Web Analytics at Hilton Worldwide where he built the entire team and Web Analytics practice from scratch. Previously, Steve spent time with Clearspring, AOL and comScore.

Simon Heseltine
Director of SEO, AOL/Huffington Post

Simon Heseltine is the Director in charge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) at AOL Inc. In this role Simon and his team are responsible for organic search and training across all AOL and Huffington Post Media Group properties. In his previous position as Director of Search at a Washington D.C. based agency, Simon was responsible for developing and implementing organic search and social media strategies. He also developed and delivered organic search and social media training programs for clients.

Simon writes a regular column for SearchEngineWatch.com on a variety of topics within the marketing industry, and has previously written for other industry sites, such as SearchEngineLand.com (for their in-house marketing column). Simon teaches SEO at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. as part of their Digital Media Management program.

Miguel Monteverde
Vice President, Digital Media, Discovery Communications

Miguel Monteverde is vice president of digital media at Discovery Communications, the world's number one nonfiction media company. In this capacity, Monteverde oversees digital and social media for Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Military Channel, Velocity and Destination America. Previously, he led Discovery Channel and Scienceís digital media efforts, leading the development of new digital audience experiences ñ from Discovery Channelís successful Aftershows for hit series MythBusters, American Chopper and Gold Rush to immersive experiences for Shark Week and Penn & Teller Tell A Lie. Monteverde also previously served as general manager of Petfinder.com and oversaw DiscoveryNews.com

Matt Peters
Co-Founder & Creative Director, Pandemic Labs

Matt Peters is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Pandemic Labs, the nation's leading social media marketing and analytics agency. Since the agency's inception, Matt has been one of the primary creative and strategic forces behind campaigns with clients such as The Ritz-Carlton, Puma, Canon, The WILD Foundation, Au Bon Pain, and DirecTV. Matt speaks frequently at social media conferences, and is often brought in by companies, think tanks, and traditional ad agencies to provide education and consulting on social media marketing.

Stephen Wellman
Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, Geeknet Media

Stephen Wellman is Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at Geeknet Media where he oversees all editorial content creation and operations across the company’s industry-leading media properties, including Slashdot, SourceForge, and FreeCode. Stephen works with the editors and writers as well as the online communities at Geeknet Media to ensure the company’s sites deliver the best possible content and community experiences available for IT professionals and influencers.

Prior to joining Geeknet, Stephen served as Senior Vice President of Community & Content at Ziff Davis Enterprise (ZDE), where he oversaw editorial for the company’s leading brands, including eWeek, Baseline, CIO Insight, Channel Insider, and the Developer Shed Network. In addition, Stephen was responsible for leading ZDE’s Strategic Content team, crafting and guiding custom content programs from conception to completion for a large number of technology clients including IBM, Dell, Microsoft and others.

Daniel Maloney
CEO & Co-Founder, PinLeague

Danny Maloney is an internet entrepreneur who has spent his career building consumer internet businesses that connect consumers to each other and to brands more effectively. Currently, Danny is CEO and Co-founder of PinLeague.com, the world's largest Pinterest Influencer Network, helping brands large and small build a prolific and highly targeted marketing channel on the world's hottest social network. Previously, Danny lead the New Initiatives team at YouTube and Google Maps/ Local Search, rebuilt AOL's Video business from #13 to #2 in US online video and co-Founded BridesView.com, an online community that enables engaged couples to style and plan their dream wedding through real wedding photography. Danny is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania's Jerome Fisher M&T Program.

Susan Cato
Director of Business Development, Balance Interactive

Susan Cato is a recognized authority on web, content and social strategies. She is an Internet pioneer producing award-winning websites, Internet applications and online publications since 1994. Having held key strategic roles over the past 20 years, Susan’s expertise and unique combination of skills, experience and talent combines all of the elements necessary for success in today’s digital landscape: web, social, content, marketing and technology strategy. She has helped several major organizations develop successful roadmaps for their entire online ecosystem. Her experience includes: Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Consumer Electronics Show (CES), LeadingAge, Optical Society of America (OSA), Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), BIO International Convention, and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA).

Kevin Dando
Director of Digital Marketing & Communications, PBS

Kevin Dando oversees social media promotions of PBS’s broadcast and online content. As part of this work, he manages PBS's social media venues, including its Twitter and Facebook pages, which together have nearly 2 million followers. He also oversees PBS’s YouTube channel, which recently had its 100 millionth video view. Kevin was recently featured in the book “Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business” (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

Matthew Shevach
Director of Product Marketing, TRUSTe

Matthew Shevach is the Director of Product Marketing for TRUSTe. In his role at TRUSTe, he leads product and marketing for ads and data products, where he is focused on helping brands to safely utilize data to increase customer engagement through behavioral advertising, personalization and marketing optimization.

Matthew is a pioneer of digital media, marketing technology and behavioral advertising. As early as late 1994, he helped place, structure and execute some of the first-ever online banner advertising. Over the course of his career, Matthew has worked with and consulted for numerous leading and emerging brands, agencies, and publishers to design, build and launch products. Matthew was on the start-up team that built-out the original DoubleClick Network and subsequently went on to spearhead the development of behavioral, mobile, and video marketing technology products at companies such as Claria, Tribal Fusion, Adzilla, and adap.tv. Matthew started his career in the financial industry at JP Morgan and holds dual BS degrees in Computer Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

Chi-Chao Chang
President of Products & Technology, xAd Inc.

Chi-Chao oversees all facets of xAd’s product management and technology development, including overall strategy, identification of new customer segments and advancement of a vibrant local-mobile marketplace. Before joining xAd, Chi-Chao was at the helm of Yahoo!’s global-search operations and the company’s ongoing relationship with Microsoft. Chi-Chao’s passion for technology has garnered five patents, and over 15 more filed applications, as well as more than 25 published technical articles. He earned his doctorate in computer science from Cornell University, and speaks regularly at various industry events.

James Kobielus
Big Data Evangelist, IBM

James Kobielus is IBM's Big Data Evangelist. He is an industry veteran, a popular speaker and social media participant, and a thought leader in big data, marketing and customer analytics, business intelligence, and next best action technologies.

Nick Schaper
Executive Director, Digital Strategic Communications, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Working on Capitol Hill in the early 2000’s Nick watched first-hand as the Internet sparked a shift that would change government and politics forever. Schaper would go on to become the first ever director of digital media for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, leading a team that the Tampa Bay Times and Politifact.com said “dominated Twitter, YouTube, and other social media in Congress”.

In 2011, following four years with the Speaker, Nick joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and was named to Washingtonian Magazine’s Tech Titans list of the most influential technology professionals in the nation’s capital. As executive director for digital strategic communications at the nation’s leading advocate for business, Schaper helps extend the Chamber’s dominant presence to the online space.

Jed Williams
Program Director, Social Local Media, BIA/Kelsey

Jed Williams is a senior analyst and the program director for BIA/Kelsey’s Social Local Media practice. In this role, he analyzes, forecasts and advises clients on the evolving digital media ecosystem. He has led strategic consulting projects for AT&T, NAA, NBC, Time-Warner Cable and Yahoo!. He is a frequent speaker at industry events whose insights have been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Financial Times, Bloomberg and Ad Age.

Williams has written extensively on creative destruction and disruptive media. His work has been published by the Columbia Journalism School and the Yale School of Management. He received his master’s in media business from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was named the Outstanding M.A. Graduate by the school in 2010.hool in 2010.

Leigh George, PhD
Director, Digital Strategy, R2integrated

Leigh George is passionate about finding new ways technology can help companies and organizations connect with the audiences they are trying to reach. As Director, Digital Strategy at R2integrated, Leigh helps clients develop, implement and track strategic plans for brand awareness, customer and member acquisition, relationship management, online engagement and community management. Leigh is a frequent speaker on branding and digital marketing and has a Ph.D. in branding history and theory from Binghamton University - one of only a handful of people in the country with that distinction.

Michael Renner
VP Solution Design, 3Pillar Global

As Vice President of Strategic Accounts, Mr. Renner is responsible for managing the client/partner relationships for Three Pillar Global’s strategic accounts. In this role, Mr. Renner’s primary goal is to ensure superior client satisfaction and to increase Three Pillar Global’s value to the client. This is achieved through direct oversight of services delivery, coordinating all account activities, offering of additional services, and positioning Three Pillar Global as a trusted advisor.

With over 28 years experience as a results-oriented leader in the technology community, Mr. Renner came to Three Pillar Global with the merger of Three Pillar Software and Leverpoint, where he was co-founder and Executive Vice President. He has a passion for building organizations that deliver business value through technology and best practices. Past experiences have included executive and senior management positions in companies which include Digex, Thomson Financial, Thomson Technology Group, Windward Consulting Group, as well as a number of start-ups including Scientific Data Systems, Aspen LLC, Regalworks, and LeverPoint.

Robert Hancock
VP of Sales and Marketing, Smart Online

Robert Hancock is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at SmartOnline, one of the leading providers of cutting edge mobile software solutions creating easy-to-use, highly-effective mobile application development solutions for all sizes and types of organizations. Robert oversees Smart Online’s marketing, communications, sales, and customer service functions. He has over 15 years of experience building, developing, and managing marketing and sales organizations of technology companies including mobile based organizations. Prior to joining Smart Online Robert served as VP of Sales, and then Co-CEO of Prometheus Group, a leading provider of technology solutions for the SAP marketplace where he oversaw the expansion of Prometheus Group into the number one vendor in their market. Robert has influenced and shaped sales & marketing organizations of many technology companies over the last 15 years including tenures in senior management positions with Outstart, ASPE, and Redwood Software.

Jon Brendsel
VP Products, PBS

Jon Brendsel is the VP Products for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). In this role, Jon leads an integrated product development organization for PBS Interactive, including product management, software engineering, QA, operations, customer support, and visual design. During his tenure at PBS, Jon's group has launched multiple web and mobile products, including the video delivery platform that today serves more than 150 million streams per month to desktops and mobile devices. Prior to PBS, Jon has held leadership positions at VeriSign and AOL.

Joe Gizzi
Senior Strategy Manager, New Media Strategies

Joe Gizzi directs marketing strategy for top tier entertainment, travel, technology and apparel clients at New Media Strategies, the industry pioneer and agency leader in social media marketing. He develops campaigns for a wide array of brands including NBC, Disney, ABC Family, Ray-Ban, Panasonic, History and Sony Pictures. Gizzi's communications career has been highlighted by work with the Special Olympics, International CES and Grammy Awards. He helped to build the foundations for the venture funding competition i-stage and the Greener Gadgets environmental conference. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of Entertainment Communications at American University.

Bill Leake
CEO, ApogeeResults.com

CEO of ApogeeResults.com, a McKinsey & Co. and Dell Computer veteran, Bill draws on a deep expertise in both business and marketing to help increase revenues for a wide range of clients. Bill has been driving provable revenues through Internet marketing techniques since the mid 1990s when, as part of the management team at Power Computing, he built the first company to sell $1 million of product over the Internet.

Bill has guided Apogee-branded marketing companies from inception to success, creating of the 20 largest independent online marketing agencies in North America and one of the fastest growing companies on the Inc. 500 list. Apogee has been particularly instrumental in building dozens of “Internet Retailer 500”, “Software 500”, and VC-backed companies, growing more Inc. 500 / 5000 companies than anyone else in the industry, and serving top global brands like Whole Foods, IBM, SAP and Hewlett Packard.

Stanton Fish
Vice President of Customer Insights and Analytics, The Economist

Stanton Fish is Vice President of Customer Insights and Analytics for The Economist Digital, globally responsible for leveraging information about The Economist’s online and app customers to help improve site experience, bring more customers to the site and drive more readership and sales of the apps, and identify opportunities to monetize the web site. Understanding the impacts of social media and community are key focuses with growing importance. In prior roles Stanton has worked in integrated marketing, customer insights (Americas), and customer loyalty and retention. In those roles, Stanton helped The Economist achieve sustained growth in both circulation and ad page market share.

Prior to joining The Economist, Stanton worked at American Express for 12 years in multiple marketing and information management positions. Stanton has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business in Marketing and Information Systems and a BA in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.

Joel Sucherman
Senior Director, Digital Products, NPR

For more than 20 years, Joel Sucherman has been a pioneer in the field of digital media. Sucherman is Senior Director for Digital Products at NPR, helping to guide digital strategy and leading the group that builds NPR's presence on emerging platforms. Prior to his work in public radio, Sucherman's role could best be described as chief digital evangelist for USA TODAY, helping a traditional print organization re-imagine storytelling on various platforms. An accompl ished multimedia journalist, Sucherman led teams that pioneered some of USATODAY.com's most innovative work, including its first, award-winning iPhone app. Sucherman is a former Capitol Hill correspondent. He was an early "backpack journalist" and founded the first streaming media unit at USA TODAY.

John Backus
Co-Founder, Managing Partner, New Atlantic Ventures

John Backus is the co-founder and Managing Partner of New Atlantic Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on disruptive technology. John is a seasoned technology investor and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience investing in and managing rapidly growing, high-technology companies. Prior to founding New Atlantic Ventures in 1998, John was a founding investor and the President and Chief Executive Officer of InteliData Technologies, a Fast 50 growth company in both 1997 & 1998. John led InteliData’s predecessor, US Order, through a successful $65 million IPO in 1995. John currently manages a $225 million venture portfolio at New Atlantic Ventures. He currently serves on the board of directors of MPowerPlayer, Ftrans, Koofers, Qliance & RemitPro. He is the past Chairman of the Wolf Trap Foundation Board of Directors, the past Chairman of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) Board of Directors, the founding Chairman and current Board member of the NVTC TechPAC, and was appointed by former Virginia Governor Mark Warner to co-chair the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission which he served on for 4 years. John began his career at Bain & Co. and Bain Capital, where he was the first Bain & Co. management consultant to take a full time operating role (as CFO) in a portfolio company. He received his BA in Economics and his MBA from Stanford University.

Teresa Spangler
Founder & CEO, Plazabridge Group

Teresa Spangler is Founder & CEO of Plazabridge Group, LLC, a boutique revenue growth consulting firm and PBG Interactive, an interactive agency focused on development of mobile strategies, website development, online branding and interactive strategies. With over 25+ years experience as global business consultant, much of her time is spent helping companies navigate the daunting changes and disruptions in the world of search rankings and marketing. For over 10 years, Teresa has worked with some of the greats in the SEO world.

Ori Hoffer
Social Media Strategist, General Services Administration

Ori Hoffer is a social media strategist for the General Services Administration, developing content plans for the agency and evangelizing the benefits of a social media presence.

He previously worked as an Emmy-award winning producer/host at Utah's Park City Television and as an online news producer at AOL.

Leo Dalakos
Vice President of Strategy & Analytics, Performics

Leo Dalakos is Vice President of Strategy & Analytics at Performics, the performance marketing firm of Publicis Groupe. In his current role, Dalakos is always focused on identifying, testing, and efficiently leveraging the next new shiny object within digital marketing. He fosters senior level partnerships with key search engines, and developed a new account planning methodology that is current being rolled out globally. He has overseen search marketing campaigns for numerous clients, including Microsoft (Globally), Target, Kohl’s, Bose, FinishLine, Verizon, American Eagle Outfitters, and Lexis Nexis.

Mark Cooper
Co-Founder and CMO, Offerpop

Mark is Co-Founder and CMO of Offerpop, a fan marketing platform for Facebook and Twitter. Thousands of companies use Offerpop to run promotions, sweepstakes and fan engagement programs – launching campaigns in minutes and tracking performance in real-time. Mark has helped launch an array of online, mobile and media businesses, including the first TV product placement ratings service (Nielsen IAG) and the wireless industry\'s first mobile virtual network operator (ESPN Mobile). He began his career building brand campaigns for leading consumer marketers in the US and Asia / Pacific, including NIKE, General Mills and Apple.

Cameron Brain
Co-Founder, XYDO

Cameron Brain is the co-founder of XYDO, the leading content curation platform. Organizations use XYDO to find trending content to post to their websites, blogs, social channels, and via email campaigns.

Cameron is a serial entrepreneur having founded, led, and sold multiple software companies before the age of 30. Prior to co-founding XYDO, Cameron was the founder and CEO of Open Box Technologies, which provided a web video storage, management, and streaming saas service for businesses. With XYDO, Cameron and his partner have set out to change the face of content marketing by helping organizations better understand, source, and deliver the content their audiences demand. You can follow Cameron and the rest of the XYDO team on their content marketing strategies and practices blog.

Stephanie Slobodian
Senior Information Architect, NPR

Stephanie is a member of NPR’s Digital Media Team and collaborates on the design of NPR.org, mobile applications and internal systems. She partners with UX designers, developers and product owners, while keeping the pulse of NPR users embedded in the team’s agile product development.

Challenging existing processes in order to innovate user research and testing methods, Stephanie began fine tuning a user-centered design approach during her time with IBM’s Usability Engineering National Practice. She then brought her expertise to Critical Mass, a large digital ad agency, before moving to local PR and consulting firms where she advocated for the users’ needs in product development. Stephanie has designed user experiences for premier brands such as Mercedes Benz, USAA, VISA, and Marriott, and now for NPR.

Adam Landrum
President & CEO, Merge

Adam Landrum is the President & CEO of Merge, a 10 year old Digital Strategy Agency headquartered in Greenville, SC. He is a former Arthur Andersen consultant and CPA, bringing a unique, business results first approach to the digital strategies he develops for Merge clients. His passion is to help clients reach their organizational goals by navigating and leveraging the digital world.

Matt Kaplan
Vice President, Sales, Mail Online

Matt Kaplan is a long time digital media vet with over 14 years experience in the space. Over those 14 years Matt has managed every aspect of a digital media operation, having spent the last 7 years focused on advertising sales, marketing and product development. Matt has worked on big brands for big companies such as Parents, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Redbook and Maxim as well as working for start ups such as eGreetings and My Damn Channel. Currently Matt is the Vice President Sales for Mail Online, one of the largest content Sites in the world.

Sam Kimball
Executive Vice President, Advertising & Brand Sales, Livestream

Sam Kimball is a veteran of digital as well as traditional media. Currently he leads Advertising and Brand Sales at Livestream as Executive Vice President. Based in New York, Livestream is the leading destination & platform for broadcasting LIVE on the web. It is also Facebook’s official live-streaming partner. Livestream delivers 150 million streams and 1 billion minutes of video monthly to a global audience of 30 million unique viewers. Previously Sam was VP Business Development at web start up NextAudio.com, one of the original developers of Internet-delivered, personalized radio. He also served as Director of New Media at Clear Channel and VP, Strategic Sales at Internet Broadcasting/NBC Television. He has been an active brand and sponsorship executive for over 15 years, serving clients such as Ford, Microsoft, Pfizer, Moet Hennessy, Lincoln Mercury, Vitamin Water, Coca-Cola, Sony, Samsung, Toyota and many others.

Will Elliott
Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Contactology

Will Elliott is Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Contactology, an Email Service Provider specializing in automated sending, white label solutions and powerful integrations. Will guides clients on advanced segmentation techniques and harnessing the power of data to increase subscriber engagement and ROI. He has counseled nonprofits, museums, publishers, technology providers and agencies on creating robust email marketing strategies.

Will has more than 15 years experience in digital marketing and strategy that includes creating unique advertising campaigns on PerezHilton.com, DailyKos and ICanHasCheezburger.com, marketing scientific pharmaceutical data to physicians and media relations for BtB companies throughout the world.

Andy Wiedlin
Chief Revenue Officer, BuzzFeed

Andy Wiedlin is a respected Internet veteran and responsible for leading BuzzFeed’s revenue growth strategy and audience outreach. Prior to joining BuzzFeed, he was the SVP of Sales at Huffington Post where he pioneered the idea of social news, built a successful sales team, developed a market strategy and defined social marketing products. Andy got his start in the social space in 2008 at MySpace as Vice President of Sales. From 2003 to 2008, Andy worked at Yahoo as Vice President of the Northwest Region. Previously he served as Executive Director at iVillage and Vice President of Sales at WeddingChannel.com. Before diving into online in 1999, Andy spent five years with AT&T International/Bell Labs. He spent 10 years working abroad, primarily in Japan and Australia. Andy has a Master’s Degree in Pacific International Affairs (with a focus on Marketing and Japanese Language) from the University of California, San Diego.

Marc Shull
Sr. Director, Customer Insights, YesMail

Best known for bringing a vision to client marketing challenges, Marc brings together the best of marketing’s left-brained analytics and insights with right-brained creative to develop highly effective marketing solutions. Prior to joining Yesmail Interactive, Marc was a founding partner of Marketing IQ and held various roles on the agency side and at Spectra Marketing, a Nielsen subsidiary. His experience in marketing strategy, primary research, media and analytics helps clients better understand their customers, develop more effective marketing programs and accurately measure the results.

David Favero
Southeast Sales Director, Shoutlet

David is a passionate digital veteran with over 15 years of sales, marketing, technical consulting, and product development experience. He specializes in enterprise software-as-a-service marketing technology and has consulted with some of the world's largest and most recognized brands in healthcare, insurance, finance, retail, agencies, and non-profits. With an early start as a software programmer with IBM, David learned to appreciate the complexities of product design and development. With the proliferation of the social web, David discovered a new passion for digital marketing and social media. His experiences in software development, digital media, and email marketing lend themselves nicely to David's role as Southeast Sales Director for Shoutlet. In his spare time, David plays and coaches soccer and volunteers with a number of local organizations, including a board position with the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association and committee leadership within Social Media Club Atlanta.

Todd Marks
Founder, Mindgrub

Todd Marks is the teacher-turned-technologist founder of Mindgrub Technologies. Marks maintains status as Chief-Everything-Officer for the company. He leads information architects, user experience specialists, creative interface designers and top-notch developers to create mobile, social and web applications. Marks has been featured in several technical journals and mainstream media, such as the BBJ, The Baltimore Sun, CNN and Newsweek. He speaks regularly at conferences, and has made recent appearances at NABShow, SXSW, TEDxBaltimore, SALT and the Government Video Show. He and Mindgrub have won numerous awards for their technology solutions and creative services support including a Gold Addy for Best Mobile App, Smart CEO’s Top 100 Companies and Best Innovator awards, and the BBJ’s Biz Buzz Award for Best Mobile App. He teaches Instructional Technology at the University of Maryland (UMBC) and sits on the advisory boards for Loyola University’s MBA program and the Greater Baltimore Technology Council.

Andrea Fishman
VP of Strategy, BGT Partners

Andrea Fishman is a partner and vice president of strategy at BGT Partners, a leading global interactive marketing agency, and directs BGT's Chicago office. A 2010 Stevie Awards Finalist as Best Executive in a Service Business and CIMA Digital Person of the Year Finalist, Fishman is a nationally recognized expert on interactive marketing. She speaks at events across the cou ntry and contributes regularly to ClickZ, BtoB Magazine, SES Magazine, Chicago Business, CMO.com, Website Magazine, Sitecore's blog, and eHealthcare Strategy and Trends.

Chris Brooks
Manager, Social Engagement, Hilton Worldwide

As the Manager of Social Engagement for Hilton Worldwide, Chris Brooks is responsible for a unique, dual role that aims to differentiate Hilton Worldwide as the preeminent hospitality company by addressing two critical areas within the business: digital communications and corporate responsibility. Chris provides a cohesive digital strategy across the global corporation and is actively building its online voice and digital footprint as well as driving the business integration of the organization's corporate responsibility strategy including its strategic partnerships, employee volunteer program, corporate philanthropy and community engagement. Chris brings a diverse background of political, corporate and non-profit experiences and holds a Master’s degree in Political Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Communication from the George Washington University.

Ryan Steelberg
CEO and Co-Founder, Brand Affinity Technologies

Ryan Steelberg, CEO and co-founder of Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT), is considered one of the foremost experts in digital and online advertising, and has more than 14 years of executive management experience in technology, marketing, business development, and sales. Through BAT, Steelberg is reinventing the business of endorsement marketing making it easy and affordable for advertisers to launch ad campaigns. BAT's patented Endorsement Platform, provides the ability to identify, license, and activate talent for cross-media campaigns. Used by prominent brands, including AT&T, Comcast, Ford, Samsung and Sony, BAT represents more than 4,000 marquee athletes and celebrities, including Drew Brees, Josh Hamilton, Baron Davis, Brooks Robinson, Emmitt Smith and Lennox Lewis.

Sameer Siddiqui
Director Products, Social Commerce, Gannett

Sameer Siddiqui has built and supported several successful digital products throughout his career. He is currently heading Gannett’s Social Commerce Product group, of which DealChicken.com is its flagship product. Prior to Gannett, Sameer played a foundational role for Naseeb Networks, a startup, to create one of South Asia’s fastest growing jobs site, which was later showcased in Forbes as a resounding success story.

Sameer also spent significant time at AOL where he was entrusted with the success of some of AOL’s key consumer-facing products such as AOL Real Estate, Daily Finance, AOL Mail and Chat applications.

Amy Bridges
Online Campaign Manager, The Nature Conservancy

Amy Bridges joined the digital membership team as the online fundraising campaign manager at The Nature Conservancy in November 2011 at the start of the year end fundraising effort. Her role was to support the membership team to help increase membership funds by handling all aspects of online promotion: homepage features, social media, online donor affinity programs and blog outreach. Her role has since expanded to include paid search and display campaigns and search engine optimization. Prior to joining the Conservancy, Amy spent 11 years at a privately held restaurant company as the corporate marketing manager. Her role there ran the gamut of marketing programs, including graphic design, media buying, project management, social media, e-commerce, and public and media relations.

Brian Dalessandro
VP of Data Science, Media6Degrees

Brian joined m6d as head of the data science team in September 2008. He has led the development of m6d’s patent pending machine learning technology, as the company has gone from pre-revenue to supporting 100s of concurrent client campaigns. His current research interests include building autonomous machine learning systems over big data architectures, causal inference and influence attribution. He recently served as co-chair of the 2012 KDD Cup competition. Prior to joining m6d, he was a Senior Research Analyst at Meetup.com, and a credit risk modeler for American Express. He holds an MBA with a concentration in Statistics from NYU and a BS in Mathematics and French Literature from Rutgers.

Devon Smith
Director of Social Media, Threespot

Devon Smith is the Director of Social Media at Threespot - a Washington DC digital engagement agency primarily serving nonprofits and government agencies - where she currently works with clients such as the Smithsonian Institution, BBC America, Department of State, and the Brookings Institution. In the past year, she has been featured at a dozen conferences covering topics from online personal branding to an industry-wide social media survey, and from social fundraising to social media metrics.

Devon holds an MBA and an MFA, both from Yale University, as well as two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Washington.

Michael Goldberg
Director of Marketing Communications, Martini Media

Michael Goldberg comes to Martini Media with a wealth of marketing experience in the B2B space. As the Director of Marketing Communications, Michael oversees corporate branding and messaging, ensuring Martini Media is well positioned in the marketplace. In his role, Michael works with the team to produce, measure and grow marketing campaigns across multiple channels. Prior to joining Martini Media, Michael played a pivotal role in developing the marketing plans for several unique products and services offered by Datran Media. Over the past decade he also worked on marketing for Proclivity, iCrossing, and ParadyszMatera. Michael has an affinity for very loud heavy metal and is hopelessly awaiting another World Series win by the NY Mets.

Mick Winters
Creative Director, Threespot

Mick is a veteran interactive user experience architect, designer, strategist, and educator. In more than 14 years as a professional creative, Mick has worked at advertising agencies, Fortune 250 in-house design departments, interactive studios, and as an independent brand consultant. As Creative Director at Threespot, a Washington, D.C.-based digital engagement agency, Mick works primarily to translate his clients’ business goals and user needs into a clear, compelling direction that guides the creative solutions crafted by his team. His clients include the Smithsonian Institute, International Monetary Fund, and Advisory Board.

Prior to Threespot, Mick instilled an optimization-focused, iterative design practice in an agile development environment for a growing e-commerce company. Mick honed his creative leadership abilities as an adjunct professor of design at The Creative Circus, an advertising school in Atlanta. For five years, he taught classes in typography, informational architecture, interactive concepting, user experience prototyping, and digital storytelling.

Brandon Hess
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, ReadyTalk

Brandon Hess is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at ReadyTalk, focusing his efforts on ReadyTalk’s mobile, video, and audio conferencing initiatives. He spends a significant amount of time talking to marketers about their top-of-mind issues and the role webinars play in their demand generation and content marketing strategies. Brandon initially began his career journey as a web designer and online content editor in the newspaper industry before eventually transitioning into the digital agency and startup world where he honed his online marketing and strategy skills. In his free time, he enjoys writing, drawing, spending time with his wife and two dogs, being tall and imagining the multiple ways Batman could win in a fight.

Daniel Backhaus
Vice President, Marketing, Infuz

Dan is currently the Vice President, Marketing at Infuz, a leading digital agency with headquarters in St Louis, MO. He has over 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, digital strategy and brand development, working with numerous well-known global brands around the world. Dan’s diverse background includes leadership roles at SAP, Xerox, SPX, TSYS, several start-ups and leading interactive marketing agencies in Europe and the United States. His experience also includes a successful IPO with an interactive agency in 1999 (Proxicom – NASDAQ:PXCM) and co-founding and raising $1.8 mil in private equity investment for a software company he co-founded in 2002 (Schemantix).

Originally from Germany, he has lived and worked in Germany, Greece, the Czech Republic, and England before settling in Atlanta in 2005. He is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional and a Six Sigma greenbelt, and his professional experience includes leadership roles in sales, client services, interactive technology and strategy consulting, along with project and program management. A geek at heart, Dan loves all aspects of technology and the Internet.

Karen Alston
Founder, AM+G Marketing Communications

A leader in the marketing industry, Karen Alston, founder AM+G Marketing Communications and owner, Edge Advertising, has proven to be one of many top innovative and visionary thinkers in the business. Karen launched AM+G Marketing Communications in 2002 and counts amongst her clients: National Wildlife Federation, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Capital Bikeshare, and the Capital Area Food Bank. In November 2008, she purchased, Edge Advertising, of Washington DC focusing on small, local businesses in the DC Metro and Tampa, FL areas.

Karen’s also works with industry organizations like the AMADC where she currently serves as Vice President of Finance. She also founded Urban Lifestyle Report which is an online urban B2B research publication focusing on the lifestyle of the urban consumer.

Eric Evans
SEO Specialist, Merge

Eric graduated from Lander University in 2005 with a degree in Computer Science, and had been in the corporate marketing world for almost five years as an E-Commerce Director before joining Merge as the Search Marketing Specialist. Because of his background in Computer Science, he has a vast knowledge of all aspects of SEO, PPC, Affiliate Marketing, and Comparison Shopping Engine Marketing. Eric is a Google Analytics and Google Adwords Certified Individual, and on a daily basis is comfortably managing tens of thousands of products for Merge clients.

Adam Figueira
Product Marketing Manager, Monetate

Adam Figueira is the Product Marketing Manager at Monetate. A technology enthusiast with a decade of experience in paid and organic search optimization, Adam has a proven track record of building strategies for marketing and communication technologies to make them more accessible to their end users. Most recently, he was Senior Manager of Search Marketing at ClickEquations, a paid search management and optimization SaaS platform acquired by Acquisio in 2011. At ClickEquations, Adam consulted companies in the telecommunications, sports, apparel, and CPG verticals on SEO strategy and execution.

Alex Lustberg
Vice President of Marketing, Lyris

Alex is responsible for driving all of Lyris corporate and product marketing activities. Alex has more than 15 years of strategic marketing experience with a specific focus on social media and cloud business applications. Most recently, Alex served as senior vice president of product marketing and strategy at Overtone, a leading provider of customer listening and social media analytics solutions. Alex holds a bachelor's and master's degree in organizational studies from Stanford University.

Molly Heinsler
Account Executive, Salsa Labs

Hailing from the great state of New York, Molly found her way to Salsa starting in Austin then moving to Salsa's headquarters in DC. She graduated from Iona College with a BBA and an MBA and began working with Salsa after consulting with nonprofits on their events, email and fundraising campaigns. She enjoys yoga, traveling, and practicing her Tina Turner impression.

James Wong
Co-Founder & Partner, Empowered Ideas

James Wong is a nationally recognized speaker, instructor, digital marketing and communications strategist and passionate social entrepreneur.
Emerging technologies, and the effects of adoption within physical and digital communities, have been a strong focus throughout his career. At age 12, James managed three online communities, supporting over 1,000 NC technology enthusiasts – eventually leading to the management of online communities supporting over 600,000 users worldwide.

Today, James is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Empowered Ideas, a marketing communications firm for small businesses and nonprofits.

Virginia Johnson
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Empowered Ideas

Virginia L. Johnson is nationally recognized speaker, instructor, facilitator, communications specialist and marketing strategist.
Her experience in bridging gaps between nonprofits, government and corporations; along with expertise in strategic planning, organizational development and nonprofit sustainability have positioned her as a knowledge leader within several fields – including her passion for substance abuse prevention, in which she has been a Certified Substance Abuse Prevention Consultant since 2001.

Virginia is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Empowered Ideas, a marketing communications firm focused on small businesses and nonprofits.

Justin Spring
Co-Founder of BringShare.com and Adept Marketing

Justin is the cofounder of BringShare.com, an online tool that simplifies marketing data aggregation and reporting for ad agencies and marketers. Before cofounding BringShare, Justin was running Adept Marketing, a highly successful start-up that he and his business partner launched in 2007 to provide predictive marketing models for small and mid-sized companies looking to grow market share online.

Through his leadership, Adept Marketing has become a sought-after consultancy for online marketing strategies and has worked closely with businesses of all sizes looking to expand their online reach and results. In 2010, Justin led the JackThreads.com account for Adept, growing membership on the e-commerce site by more than 3,000 percent. Through BringShare, Justin is making data-driven marketing easier for agencies and marketing professionals helping them achieve better results more quickly.

Andrew Taylor
Vice President, Business Development, Grab Media

Andrew serves as Vice President of Business Development for Grab Media, a premiere digital media company located in New York, NY, and Dulles, VA. Andrew’s role includes developing and managing relationships with a broad variety of partners across the digital video ecosystem. He has been with the company since 2008.

Prior to joining Grab Media, Andrew served as director of corporate development for Echo360, Inc. Before that, he led Freerain Systems to a successful exit in a sale to RSM Solutions. Andrew¹s experience also includes roles in marketing and finance for ARBROS Communications, and as a research associate for Economists Incorporated, an economic consulting firm.
Andrew graduated with a B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and an M.B.A. in Marketing and Corporate Strategy, with high honors, from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Eric Shoicket
Director of Brand Partnerships, Kiip

Eric Shoicket is the Director of Brand Partnerships at Kiip where he focuses on building strategic alliances for Kiip's mobile gaming rewards platform. Eric is a 10 year media veteran with a diverse background in both digital media sales as well as traditional media strategy. Prior to Joining Kiip as their Director of Sales, he held director level positions at both Technorati Media and CNET Networks.

Kiip is the world's first mobile rewards network. We connect brands to their consumers via the games and apps they love at moments of achievement within their mobile gameplay. Leveraging the massive scale of mobile with the deep engagement of mobile games, Kiip has created several unique solutions for brands to connect to the hundreds of millions of mobile users at the most important part of their experience, when they are happy.

Andrew Beranbom
VP of Business Development & Co-Founder, Extole

Andrew is responsible for leading Extole's business development efforts and focuses on working with leading agencies to provide innovative C2C social marketing solutions to brands. Andrew co-founded TellAPal, which was Extole's precursor and continued on to co-found Extole. Prior to TellAPal, Andrew was an early employee at Adteractive where he was responsible for managing explosive growth and held key product management positions at Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Travel. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Maryland.

Cory Siansky
Manager of Business Consulting, Sapient

Cory Siansky is a business technology consultant focused on mobile computing, big data, and infrastructure for federal government agency clients. His projects are defined by thousands of requirements, complex system interdependency, and high risk. Cory's novel technology perspective informs his practice where he currently manages a large data center migration program at the National Cancer Institute and his technology blog, Well Known Fact, covering consumer electronics, software usability and what he calls "high impact" personal productivity.

Stephen Kopalchick
VP Development, Goodwill of Greater Washington

Stephen is responsible for generating nearly $1.5 million in annual revenue through resource development, including Individual Giving, Corporate Partnerships and Community Engagement. Since joining Goodwill in 2007, Stephen has led the effort to diversify Goodwill’s philanthropic funding streams and to bring a donor-centered focus to its fund development efforts. In this context, online engagement of donors and supporters is an increasing focus.

Stephen holds a BS in Economics from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an MA in Theology from Biola University. He has worked in the nonprofit sector for 15 years, and is committed to helping the Greater Washington community meet its greatest challenges by raising philanthropic and community support. Originally from the small town of Hopewell, VA, Stephen and his family reside in Northern Virginia.

Christine Borgia
Senior Director, Email Intelligence Group, Return Path

Christine Borgia joined Return Path in April of 2010 to help bridge the gap between email marketers and mailbox providers. Her team works to educate and inform Return Path about mailbox providers, anti-spam, and email technology trends, as well as to educate receivers about everything Return Path has to offer. Her team also serves and supports the Return Path Receiver Alliance. Prior to joining Return Path, Christine spent seven years fighting spam for AOL where she led one team dedicated to keeping the bad stuff out and another team dedicated to letting the good stuff in. She brings her deep understanding of what it takes for a mailbox provider to manage spam and uses it to help Return Path create industry-leading products and services for ISPs, mailbox providers and other large-volume email receivers.

Andrew Ray
Partner, Bingham McCutchen

Andrew Ray is a partner with Bingham McCutchen, LLP, where he represents public and private companies and financial sponsors in a broad range of corporate and finance matters. Andy has extensive experience in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), government contracts, and energy and cleantech sectors. In addition to his law practice, Andy is an active angel investor and serves on the boards of Ignite Media Solutions and Pixelligent Technologies. He also serves on the Steering Committee of Cleantech Open, the world’s largest cleantech accelerator.
He has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers and in the Legal 500.

Joseph Olesh
Emerging Media Director, Tier10 Marketing

Joseph Olesh is a video producer, digital marketing consultant and emerging media evangelist. As Emerging Media Director of Tier10 Marketing, Olesh helmed strategic and production responsibilities for some of the nation's leading automotive dealerships and dealership groups.

Named one of the nation's top-50 video marketers by 50Interviews Publications in 2010, Olesh has made social media and digital distribution an integral part of his conceptual and production process. Olesh has experience in content production that spans television, film, and online media. Past clients include Audi, Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week, 2008 Barack Obama Campaign, eTrak, Ronsmap.com, PBS, Straight Down Clothing, and the Archdiocese of Monterey.

Saya “Sally” Behnam
Creative Director, Design 4UX

Saya “Sally” Behnam has more than 18 years of professional experience in the graphic and web design, User Experience, UI and marketing. Having founded Design 4 Future in 2001, she has worked on numerous projects serving a range of business sectors combining government, non-profit, and commercial organizations, including the US Federal Highway Administration, Department of Defense, National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia Association of College and University Purchasing Professional (VASCUPP), and Small Woman and Minority Enterprises (SWaMFest), eBay, GW University, Washington Board of Trade and many small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Sally serves on an advisory panel for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which awards grants for small art projects. Her blog, provides tutorials, articles and freebies for digital design, UX and UI.

Tom Grossi
Partner, NEA

Tom joined NEA in 2005 and focuses on investing in enterprise technology, digital media and e-commerce. Tom is a Director of Apprenda, Lot18, newBrandAnalytics and Poggled. He also worked closely with Echo Global Logistics Innerworkings and Motricity prior to those companies’ public offerings and with Vertica before its acquisition by HP. Prior to NEA, Tom was a retail and e-commerce consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and a developer at AOL in the network monitoring group. Tom received AB and SM degrees in Computer Science from Harvard University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

Josh Freeman
CEO, TeamVisibility

Josh Freeman is the CEO of TeamVisibility, the company that lets sales leaders improve their teams in just minutes a day. Josh is an accomplished executive with extensive experience working with start-ups as well as major digital companies. From 2007-2009, Josh was EVP, Digital Media for Discovery Communications, where he was responsible for Discovery’s online, mobile, and video on-demand properties, where he drove significant traffic and revenue growth across all digital platforms, including 300% growth in video streams. Prior to Discovery, he spent almost 8 years in various roles at AOL and before that worked at Bain & Co. in Boston as a consultant to media, banking, retail and technology clients. He has served as an advisor to multiple start-ups and was a program officer with the National Democratic Institute in Washington and in Moscow. He earned an MBA and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University, and his bachelor’s degree in Russian Studies from Amherst College.

Frank Reed
Director of Sales, Edgeworks Group

Frank is the Director of Sales for the Edgeworks Group, a full service, integrated online marketing and web development firm. He is also the managing editor of Marketing Pilgrim, the Internet and social media marketing news and opinion blog which currently ranks #20 on the AdAge Power150 list of most influential marketing blogs in the world.
He lives in Wake Forest, NC with his wife and three children.

Gill Haus
SVP, Technology, RideCharge, Inc.

Gill Haus joined RideCharge in June 2012 and is responsible for all aspects of technology, including product development, systems operations, technology strategy and building a world-class development team. Prior to joining RideCharge, Gill was the Senior Director of Product Development for Payments and Credit Engineering at PayPal where he led new product development, connecting development and business org anizations. Gill came to PayPal when the company acquired BillMeLater, where he served as Director of Systems Engineering and led application development. Gill holds a B.S. in Information Systems from the University of Maryland.

Bryan Colligan
CEO & Founder, SeQRPay

Bryan Colligan founded and launched SeQRPay Mobile Commerce Platform. SeQRPay has multiple patents pending around QR codes and offline to online experiences. As well as having the vision for SeQRPay, he drives product, r&d and helps educate current clients to monetize the platform.

Previously Bryan founded Apollo Matrix, a Mobile Development company where he launched over 50 mobile apps for startups and Fortune 500 client. Bryan sold and successuflly exited Apollo Matrix in Spring 2012.

Before that he was a Lead Mobile Architect at Media Mob, IT Architect at Avanco International, Senior Consultant-SOA Architect at Zanett, ERP Specialist at CSC, and won the Rising Star Award as a Staff Consultant at Oracle.

Mario Zelaya
Founder and Managing Director, Majestic Media

Mario Zelaya is the founder and Managing Director of Majestic Media, Canada's first Facebook Marketing & Technology agency. His extensive experience on the Facebook platform includes building out social strategy, campaign ideation, app architecture and social design for big brand clients such Volkswagen, Kia, General Motors, Mazda, Gatorade, Hot Wheels, Infiniti, Nissan, Visa and many others. Majestic Media works with big brands and agencies in helping them to get more fans and engagement through Social Applications (e.g. games, contests, coupon redemption platforms, giveaways, custom platforms, etc.).

Under Mario's leadership, he has taken Majestic Media from a small start-up to a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer with offices in Europe and Latin America, making Majestic Media Canada's largest builder of custom Facebook applications for big brands.

Angela Hausman
Owner, Hausman and Associates

Angela Hausman owns Hausman and Associates, a full service firm operating at the intersection of marketing and social media, and is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Howard University, where she teaches Social Media Marketing. Dr. Hausman holds a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. She has written several books on internet marketing and is currently completing a book on Social Media Marketing and Branding. She has published over 100 articles in scholarly journals and international conferences and speaks at numerous scholarly and business events. Previous clients include the USO, Cincomm, Xerox, Fisher Scientific, and ITT Financial.