Gary Vaynerchuk
Co-founder VaynerMedia; Host, DailyGrape.com

Two-time New York Times bestselling author of Crush It and Thank You Economy, Gary Vaynerchuk, is the host of DailyGrape.com. Considered the rock star of wine, Gary’s informed yet informal approach to wine appreciation has revolutionized the industry by demystifying wine for a new generation and empowering wine drinkers to trust their own palates. Gary ended his incredibly successful Wine Library TV in order to launch a more mobile-focused venture, Daily Grape. He has since retired from daily online video. Gary leveraged social media tools to build his brand, and Wine Library TV attracted over 90,000 viewers daily, becoming the most downloaded podcast on iTunes in the Food category.

Gary has appeared on numerous national television programs as a wine and marketing expert, including Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Ellen Degeneres Show, The Today Show, The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Dr. Oz Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN's Your $$$$, and CNBC's Power Lunch.

Known as the "King of Social Media," Gary is one of the first-and one of a few-Facebook users who has maxed-out his friend limit, with over 17,000 pending friend requests. He is in the top 100 people followed on Twitter and has been headline keynote at South by Southwest Interactive conference and the New Media and Web 2.0 expos.
In 2009, Gary was recognized as Innovator of the Year by Wine Enthusiast and featured in Decanter magazine's "Power List" of the 50 most influential people in wine. Additionally, AskMen.com listed Gary among the 49 Most Influential Men of 2009.

Noah Everett
Founder, Twitpic

The idea for Twitpic was simple: create a way to share photos on Twitter. What began as a side project in February 2008 quickly became a trial-by-fire lesson in scaling under the pressure of unexpected and massive growth. As a one-man show, Noah Everett single-handedly grew the site from inception to a service now used by over 25 million users, including celebrities, politicians, and his mom. Twitpic became a source for breaking news after photos of the downed plane on the Hudson appeared first on the site. Today, Twitpic serves billions of requests and receives over 500,000,000 page views a month. This traffic has propelled the site into the top 100 websites in the world, and has led to millions of dollars in advertising revenues for Twitpic.

Born in the South and raised in Oklahoma, he was too young to get into college when he finished high school at age 15. Instead, he spent 15 hours a day online, teaching himself the mechanics of the Internet and laying the groundwork for his later calling as a web developer.

He recently relocated to Charleston, SC, where he continues to grow Twitpic while tweeting about subsisting on Frosted Mini-Wheats.

Catherine Cook
Co-Founder, myYearbook

Catherine co-founded myYearbook with her brother, Dave, at the age of 15. In just six years, Catherine has helped grow myYearbook to more than 25 million registered members and has helped raise more than $17M in venture capital for the site. myYearbook is now one of the top 30 most trafficked sites in the U.S., according to comScore, with 15,000 new users joining every day. Catherine is instrumental to myYearbook's growth and conceiving of the next popular features for the site.

Catherine has been reported on extensively in CNBC, MTV, ABC News, Fox News, CosmoGIRL, BusinessWeek, the San Francisco Chronicle, and CBS.

UPDATE: myYearbook just sold to Quepasa for $100 million. Get key insight from Catherine on what it takes to build grow and build your Internet firm.

Marc Cenedella
Founder & CEO, TheLadders

Marc Cenedella is the founder and chief executive officer of TheLadders.com, the world’s leading online community for professional jobs and professional job seekers.
Marc started TheLadders.com in 2003 to make finding a professional job a lot easier and transformed way candidates and recruiters connect online. With a membership base of 4.5 million, TheLadders.com job-search and recruitment model has been embraced by executives and employers alike, with the company ranking #1 for overall satisfaction in an independent survey of recruiters. TheLadders.com has received numerous accolades, including the 2009 Webby Award for Best Employment Website, 2009 Best Companies to Work for in New York, and the Most Valuable Start-up in New York by Silicon Alley Insider.

Marc is a populist scientist of employment. His passion in life is jobs, their sociology and culture: the process by which everyone passes from family through school and into a career. It’s the second most-important thing in people’s lives, after love and family. As a result, the subject of jobs itself is the focus of Marc’s professional life. A widely recognized thought leader on job search, career management, recruiting and business, Marc is frequently sought out by national media outlets and organizations for his expert commentary on employment and entrepreneurial related issues.

Before founding TheLadders.com, Marc was a senior vice president at HotJobs.com.

Marc holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar. He earned his B.A. in political science at Yale.

David Payne
Chief Digital Officer, Gannett

David A. Payne was named Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of Gannett Co., Inc. in March 2011. He also serves on the Gannett Management Committee.
David joined Gannett from ShortTail Media, Inc. where he served as President and CEO of the video ad technology start-up he co-founded in 2008. Prior to ShortTail, David was Senior Vice President and General Manager of CNN.com, which produced and distributed all of CNN’s digital services, including CNN.com, CNN Mobile, CNN.com Live, and CNN Video on Demand from 2004-2008.

During his 15-year career at Turner Broadcasting, David also served as Senior Vice President of Business Operations and Development of CNN (2001-2004); Senior Vice President and General Manager of CNN/Sports Illustrated Interactive (2000-2001); Vice President of Legal & Business Affairs for Turner Sports and Vice President/Team Counsel for Turner Sports Teams (1994-2000); and as Counsel for Turner Entertainment Group (1993-1994).

Fran Maier
President & Executive Chair, TRUSTe

Fran has over 20 years of experience building consumer brands and enhancing consumer trust online. In her role as President, Fran’s operational responsibilities include oversight of TRUSTe's brand and policy functions. Since joining TRUSTe in 2001, Fran has expanded TRUSTe's brand with companies, regulators, and consumers.

Earlier in her career, as a co-founder of Match.com, Fran established credibility, safety, and trust in online dating, making Match.com the leading online dating service. In executive marketing roles at Women.com and Kmart’s BlueLight.com subsidiary, Fran both established online start-up brands and brought blue-chip offline brands onto the Internet. Fran speaks and writes widely on issues of online privacy, security, and trust and frequently represents TRUSTe in front of domestic and foreign regulatory audiences, including the Federal Trade Commission, Congressional committees, and foreign data protection commissioners. In 2010, AlwaysOn named Fran among the Top 25 Women in Tech to Watch in Silicon Valley. She is active in mentoring women in technology and serves on a number of internet and trust-related advisory boards.

Marshall Brain
Founder, HowStuffWorks.com

Marshall started the HowStuffWorks.com site as a hobby in 1998 and it was purchased for $250 million by Discovery Communications in 2007. HowStuffWorks has won multiple Webby awards, was among Time Magazine's "25 Web Sites We Can't Live Without", and has been one of PC Magazine's "Top 100 Web Sites" four times. In 2007 Discovery Communications purchased HowStuffWorks.com for $250 million.

As a well-known public speaker, Marshall frequently appears on radio and TV programs nationwide. He has appeared on everything from The Oprah Winfrey Show to CNN. He is the host of National Geographic's "Factory Floor With Marshall Brain". Marshall has written more than a dozen books and a number of widely known web publications including "How to Make a Million Dollars", "Robotic Nation", and "Manna".

Liz Strauss
Co-Founder, SOBcon, LizStrauss.com

Liz Strauss is a business strategist, product analyst, and master teacher who works with international corporations small business, and entrepreneurs to create high-growth strategy based on influence, impact, and irresistible difference. She's a dynamic speaker and a maven at engaging with the people who help a business thrive. Liz is co-founder of SOBCon the business strategy workshop event that grew out of her popular Successful-Blog.com - a online publication which carries 4300 articles and 94,000 reader comments. She has built strategies and products with a international network of businesses on four continents and teaches a yearly course session at the Masters Degree Level for Digital Publishing Program at City University of London.

In 2011, Liz Strauss was the awarded the prestigious title of Titan of Web 2.0 at the World Forum “Communication on Top” in Davos, Switzerland and is the highest ranked woman on Dun and Bradstreet's 68 Most Influential Small Business People on Twitter. Liz has been named twice to the Top 100 Social Media & Internet Marketing Bloggers the Top 100 Most Influential Marketersand to Top Social Media Strategists To Watch In 2010 You can find Liz on Twitter as @LizStrauss

David Perry
Business Development Executive, Software & Services, Google

David Perry is a business development executive within Google's software and services vertical. He helps global B2B software and services companies leverage Google’s advertising technologies to generate demand and build awareness of their solutions. Prior to joining Google in 2010, David was a business development executive at IBM, where he focused on creating a partnership “ecosystem” by recruiting six leading software companies to enhance complex global IBM solutions. As a senior consultant, also at IBM, he worked across several industries including electronics, financial services, telecommunications, aerospace & defense and automotive. David earned his bachelor’s degree at Colgate University and his MBA at the Johnson School at Cornell University.

Jessica Faye Carter
President, Heta Corporation

Jessica Faye Carter is president of Heta Corporation. In this role, she advises organizations on issues related to cultural and gender diversity, and on engaging these demographics with social technology.

Jessica is the author of an upcoming article, The Coming Wave - Exploring Women, Innovation, and Social Technology and is a guest writer for Mashable. Her work has been cited in the Associated Press, Working Mother Magazine, and Essence, and she has appeared on PBS and TVO.

Jessica recently founded Toour, a social travel application where users create and share tours of their favorite places around the world. She’s on Twitter @jescarter.

Rogelio (Ro) Choy
COO, Formspring

Formspring is a global service that encourages millions of people around the world to respond to one another in an authentic and meaningful way. As one of the fastest growing Web sites in 2010, Formspring has seen incredible growth in the past 18 months with over 25M members and 3.5M daily unique visitors.

Ro was previously the CEO of Peerpong, a Q&A service using NLP/semantics for identifying interests and knowledge from social streams. Prior to Peerpong, Ro was Chief Revenue Officer for RockYou and responsible for leading all the business efforts for the company and Director at eBay Motors, leading the online parts business. Prior to eBay, Ro co-founded Cima Systems, a leading VOIP software provider for auto dealers. Ro serves as an advisor to a number of social media focused startups including Applifer, Nanigans, Wildfire Interactive, Project Slice, Adnectar, 500 Friends, Guestmob, Facepad, Replybuy, J2Play, GamesthatGive and Groupcard.

Traug Keller
Senior Vice President, Production, Business Divisions, ESPN

Traug Keller, leads three business units at the company: ESPN Audio, ESPN Local and ESPNDeportes.

Keller oversees all aspects of the ESPN Audio business. ESPN Audio is the country's largest sports radio network, with 24 million listeners per week on more than 700 stations, including ESPN owned and operated stations, and more than 350 full-time affiliates. Under Keller’s leadership, ESPNRadio.com became the most listened to live stream of any terrestrial broadcaster in the world, reaching more than three million unique users per month.

Keller was also instrumental to the launch of ESPN’s network of Local sites – ESPNBoston.com, ESPNChicago.com, ESPNDallas.com, ESPNLA.com, and ESPNNewYork.com – which were built on the foundation laid by ESPN’s owned and operated radio stations in four of the five markets. Each site works closely with its radio counterparts to produce and report on local sports for each city. In addition, Keller oversees ESPN Deportes, the leading multimedia, Spanish-language sports brand dedicated to providing the widest variety of sports to the U.S. Hispanic sports fan via television, online, print, radio and wireless. Keller coordinates strategic efforts with ESPN’s domestic operations, while enhancing and developing affiliate relationships for ESPN Deportes.

Kurt Merriweather
Director, Digital Media Business Development and Strategy, Discovery Communications, Inc. (DCI)

Merriweather oversees strategy and commercial partnerships across Discovery’s online, social media and mobile portfolio. Merriweather is leading efforts to engage Discovery’s 45 million Facebook fans, launch Social TV experiences and grow audiences for Discovery’s web properties. Merriweather developed business plans to successfully launch Discovery News and TLC Cooking web properties. He also led digital media team participation in the acquisition of HowStuffWorks, the largest digital media transaction in Company history.

Before joining Discovery in January 2007, Merriweather was Business Director for AOL Music Now and was responsible for AOL’s premium music business operations. Merriweather joined AOL in 2004 to lead product management for AOL’s anti-virus services. Merriweather joined AOL Digital Services in 2005 and was instrumental in defining AOL’s video search strategy. Merriweather has held a variety of product marketing positions at Silicon Graphics, Digital Island and Cable&Wireless.

Gerard Bush
Chief Creative Director, The brpr Group

Gerard Bush is the Chief Creative Director and co-founder of award-winning social media agency The brpr Group, professor at the world renowned Miami Ad School, in addition to being on air TV host for Plum TV. The agency's roster of clients includes Finish Line, MTV, and European fashion retail chain Coltorti Inc. Bush spearheaded The brpr Group's social strategy for Smirnoff Ice to take home the coveted social media award, The Bees, in the category of 'Best Use of Mobile'. Bush is a strident proponent of conversational media as the primary marketing vehicle demonstrated in the agency's tenet of inviting a participatory process between brand and consumer. Community building in lieu of campaigns is a philosophy that both Gerard and his agency live by in the creative work that they consistently churn out.

Jack Krawczyk
Senior Product Marketing Manager, StumbleUpon

As Senior Product Marketing Manager at StumbleUpon, Jack Krawczyk is responsible for the product marketing development of advertising and partnership solutions. Focused on Paid Discovery, StumbleUpon’s social media marketing platform, Jack has been working closely with marketers to understand how to better engage brand promise with consumers who are in the mindset of discovery. Jack is also responsible for the distribution of StumbleUpon traffic solutions, which enable site owners to more deeply engage and grow their audience.

Prior to joining StumbleUpon, Jack was at Google where he worked on the development of Google+, and previously industry marketing management of Fortune 500 advertising relationships in the media & entertainment, financial services, travel and local services sectors. He has also worked as an analyst at Banc of America Securities. Jack holds a BS in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

Jerry Cuomo
VP & CTO, IBM WebSphere

Jerry Cuomo is an IBM Fellow, VP and Chief Technology Officer for WebSphere. He provides technical direction to the WebSphere portfolio and leads IBM technical executive leaders and development teams to cultivate the future of WebSphere. Jerry drives innovation into IBM products and works across IBM's product portfolio and brands to ensure that products work together to deliver high customer value. He is engaged in a number of advanced technology studies for next generation innovation focused on areas including Cloud, Mobile, Virtualization, Workload optimization and advanced analytics. Jerry is a breakthrough innovator of solutions in high-performance transactional systems, middleware appliances and enterprise cloud computing.

Ryan Mannion
Chief Technology Officer, POLITICO

Ryan Mannion joined POLITICO, the country’s leading source for political news, prior to its 2007 launch. As CTO, Ryan is responsible for the technical operation of the company but also focuses on innovative strategy; consumer facing products, including web and mobile devices; as well as the system infrastructure and scalability. POLITICO.com is a high traffic political news website that reaches over 7 million unique visitors and averages more than 60 million page views per month. Ryan has over 12 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in strategy, leadership, software development and design. Before joining POLITICO, Ryan worked on projects at Northrop Grumman and NASA.

POLITICO, named one of “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company Magazine in 2010, continues to grow and innovate year in and year out.

Dana Kirchman
SVP, Head of Client Operations, Lumi Mobile

Dana Kirchman is SVP, Head of Client Operations for Lumi Mobile, and a founding member of the Lumi Mobile U.S. office. Dana recently launched the LumiLive platform, giving broadcasters and marketers a unique real-time view of their audience. Dana has over 15 years experience developing businesses in media, marketing and technology. Before joining Lumi, Dana was VP of International Business Development at MTV Networks and ran the global Purchasing Card marketing team at American Express. Dana has a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University and an executive coaching certificate from Columbia University.

Francis Shepherd
Media Evangelist

Francis Shepherd is a creative markets consultant at Apple. With over 30 years experience in the communication arts field, his career has transcended traditional media, fine arts photography, interactive design, visual FX production, software development, and technology consulting. His focus areas include integrating media into creative workflows, mentoring content innovators in digital media initiatives, meme tracking, and the exploration of new design trends through emerging technologies.

Matt Crenshaw
Vice President of Marketing & Analytics, Discovery Digital Media, Discovery Communications

Matt oversees audience development efforts for Discovery's entire portfolio of digital brands, including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet and Howstuffworks. His expertise lies in applying data-driven strategies to engage audiences through search, social media, brand extensions and media partnerships.

Matt was part of the management team at Howstuffworks when the company was acquired by Discovery in 2007. At Howstuffworks, he focused on growing the site's publishing platform and turning the site from a niche content publisher into one of the most popular destinations on the Web. Matt holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and a master's degree from Harvard University.

Lynnette Montgomery
Director of eCommerce & Digital Marketing, Burt's Bees

With over 13 years leading eCommerce for multi-channel retailers, Lynnette Montgomery's role at Burt’s Bees includes managing all online marketing and sales, CRM, site usability, design and technology, business development, and International eCommerce and integration. Previously she was the Vice President of Direct Marketing for Performance Bike and Bike Nashbar leading their catalog marketing and ecommerce. Lynnette has also been Vice President of Marketing for Graphik Dimenisons (PictureFrames.com) and Vice President of eCommerce for Levenger.

Markus Renstrom
Head of SEO, Yahoo!

Stumbled into Search Engine Optimization when writing his masters thesis on Brand Loyalty Creation on the Internet, and has not managed to get out of there since. Has worked the last eight years on different SEO projects, currently as the Head of SEO at Yahoo! Inc where he is mainly responsible for making the publishing platform search compliant.

Lee Congdon
Chief Information Officer, Red Hat

Lee Congdon is responsible for Red Hat's global information systems, including the technology strategy, enterprise architecture, information technology governance, solutions delivery, and systems operations supporting the company. His role includes enabling Red Hat's business through services such as knowledge management, technology innovation, technology-enabled collaboration, and process improvement.

Congdon has over 25 years experience as an information technology leader. Prior to joining Red Hat, he was Managing Vice President, Information Technology at Capital One where he developed and delivered information technology solutions for the firm's corporate functions and Global Financial Services group. Before Capital One, Congdon was Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, at Nasdaq, where he led the organization's efforts to identify, implement, and operate technology solutions for Nasdaq Japan, Nasdaq Europe, and other strategic global ventures. Earlier, at Citicorp, Congdon led multiple global technology initiatives for the private bank and the corporate bank. Congdon began his career at IBM as an operating system developer and held several technology and technical marketing positions of increasing responsibility with that firm.

Mike Relm
Founder, Relmvision

San Francisco’s Mike Relm is best known for his audio and video mash-ups, in his live concerts and broadcast work. Part DJ, part director, part music producer, Relm has introduced the world to a style that truly echoes the fever-pitched pace of modern entertainment while paying homage to classic filmmakers and musicians.

In 2006 Mike Relm began posting videos of his live shows on YouTube in lieu of tediously mailing out electronic press kits to labels and booking agents. He never signed to a label, but he did catch the eye of Blue Man Group founder Chris Wink. He opened for the Blue Man Groups “How to be a Megastar 2.0” arena tour from 2006-2008.

Mike’s mashup of Lionsgate Spirit/Punisher/Transporter 3 trailer mashup earned him a 2009 Webby Award for best remix/mash-up. In 2010 he headlined to a sold out show at the 2010 Winter Olympics. You can see his work on YouTube – notable mashups for Old Spice and IronMan 2. This past summer he has performed at Comic Con. Among his clients are: Google, YouTube, Motorola, Yahoo, Widen & Kennedy, Disney, Lions Gate, Verizon, Diggnation, Nike, RedBull, Scion, Sony Play Station, EA Sports Activision, ADOBE and HSBC.

Karen Albritton
President, Capstrat

Karen Albritton is president of Capstrat, a communications agency in Raleigh, NC providing public relations, marketing public relations, public affairs and digital services. She oversees Capstrat’s operations and is a central figure in the firm’s strategy, management and recruitment.

With an uncanny ability to study a problem and see immediate opportunities, Karen has a knack for finding real solutions that work for clients. She combines a constant pursuit for excellence and tenacious competitiveness with strategic insight and broad industry experience. Karen has a firm grasp on the fundamental ins and outs of the communications business — and a keen sense for its rapidly changing landscape. Karen has proved integral in launching new services at Capstrat – digital in 2001 and engagement marketing in 2007.

Kevin Dando
Director, 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.).

Geri Guillermo
Director of Sales, Advertising.com

Geri Guillermo is the Director of Sales for Advertising.com Sponsored Listings (formerly Quigo), where she oversees a national team of product specialists. She also manages product sales for Sponsored Listings, a new platform where advertisers bid to place text ads on some of the web’s top sites.

Before AOL, Geri spent two years in the sales organization at Microsoft, assisting in and promoting the launch of adCenter, Microsoft’s new search platform to direct clients and agencies. Prior to Microsoft, Geri spent four years in Search sales at Yahoo!. She began her advertising career at US News & World Report and The Atlantic Monthly. Geri is an avid golfer and resides in Manhattan with her husband and son.

Jeff Ragovin
Chief Revenue Officer, Buddy Media

Jeff has more than a decade of experience driving revenue and building expansive brand relationships at major technology and marketing firms. As Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff leads sales efforts to grow revenue and guide brands in developing social media presences that are instrumental in growing their business. Jeff has played a central role in guiding Buddy Media from a start-up into the premiere Facebook Management System. Prior to joining Buddy Media, Jeff lead global sales at Acronym Media, one of the largest search marketing agencies in the world, and Acxiom (Nasdaq: ACXM) a global interactive marketing services firm.

Sherry Bastion
Web Creative Director, Lenovo

Since 1994, Sherry has channeled her passion for Web design, usability and writing into a successful new media career. In addition to founding her own interactive design and consulting business in 1999, Sherry has served as a judge in the annual WebAwards and Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards competitions since 2000. Prior to her transition to digital, Sherry worked for over 15 years as an award-winning designer, art director and creative director in advertising and print design.

In her current role for Lenovo, the third-largest personal computer manufacturer in the world, Sherry leads a global team of designers who translate complex business objectives into effective visual design solutions for over 70 country lenovo.com sites in dozens of languages. Her most recent accomplishment was the complete redesign of lenovo.com and other digital properties to coincide with the launch of Lenovo's "For those who do" brand campaign.

Kevin Pomplun
CEO, SkyGrid

Kevin Pomplun founded SkyGrid in 2005, and built the initial architecture, algorithms, and codebase for the SkyGrid platform. Today he continues to apply his passion for SkyGrid through his focus on partnerships, platform, and growth. He has received awards such as the Adobe Customer Showcase, a World Technology Award nomination, and been named a Bloomberg BusinessWeek Best Young Tech Entrepreneur. He is also the inventor listed on the patent for Information Velocity.

Chris Turitzin
CEO & Co-founder, Momentus Media

Chris Turitzin is the CEO and co-founder of Momentus Media, a social media marketing firm based in San Francisco, California. Momentus roots stem from the Facebook Fund and has since generated over 90 million app visits since 2009. He is a specialist in designing and executing viral campaigns on Facebook for brands including Interscope Records, The Black Eyed Peas, LMFAO, PETA, American Licorice, Sour Punch, and top marketing firms. Successes include campaigns that regularly surpass 10M views per run. Chris is keenly interested in data analysis to explore the science and psychology of why and how users like to share. He is an experienced speaker and has spoken for at a number of conferences, AFEXPO 2011 and most recently Socialize West 2011. He has also done private consulting presentations on virality for companies like Microsoft, Barnes & Noble, AKQA, Doremus, and Olgivy.

Maria Pergolino
Senior Director of Marketing, Marketo

Maria Pergolino works as Senior Director of Marketing at Marketo, where she specializes in demand generation, inbound marketing, and campaign optimization. She has worked in marketing for over ten years, and specifically in online marketing including social media, search marketing, and lead generation and nurturing for the past six. Maria has a Marketing Degree and MBA from the School of Business at Rutgers University, is a Salesforce Certified Administrator, and a speaker at numerous marketing events. She is the author of the most success social media book created specifically for B2B Marketers, The Definitive Guide to B2B Social Media, and has also written for many marketing blogs, including frequent contributions to the MarketingProfs blog and Marketo's popular blog, Modern B2B Marketing. You can reach Maria on Twitter as @Inboundmarketer.

Greg Gunn
VP of Business Development, HootSuite

Gregory Gunn launched the HootSuite Enterprise Sales team and currently heads up partnerships, integrations and international expansion for the social media dashboard leader. His passion for people, technology & data has driven his career towards developing successful SaaS business solutions where the three intersect. Greg earned both a BCOM from the University of Victoria and an MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Combining practical experience with comprehensive research, Greg was the lead on projects focused around digital strategy, online commerce and hybrid business models.

Matt Peters
Co-Founder & Creative Director, Pandemic Labs

Matt Peters is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Pandemic Labs, one of the nation's leading social media marketing agencies. Since the agency's inception, Matt has been one of the primary creative and strategic forces behind campaigns with clients such as Dunkin' Donuts, Puma, Canon, The WILD Foundation, Au Bon Pain and The Ritz-Carlton. 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.

David Giambruno
Senior Vice President & CIO, Revlon

David Giambruno is responsible for driving global technology capabilities to provide competitive advantages to Revlon's business units and shareholders. His latest contribution at Revlon has been the deployment of an internal Cloud which supports over 500 applications, providing over 99.9999% uptime.

Prior to Revlon, David was Director of Global Engineering, Security & Deployment for Pitney Bowes, where he built global security capabilities and frameworks to manage FDIC, PCI, HIPAA and SOX compliance. He as also held diverse and global positions including CTO of the venture capital firm Selway Partners, founder and CTO of Econium, Inc and CEO for Milestone Software Systems. He has extensive expertise in Product Development, Distribution, M & A, Global Network, Technology and Media Sales as well as raising capital. He is a graduate of S.U.N.Y Buffalo, and recently gave a keynote presentation at VM World.

Angela Connor
Social Media Manager, Capstrat

Angela Connor is the Social Media Manager at Capstrat, one of the top communications agencies in the Southeast. As an adviser to social media strategists at numerous companies and organizations, Connor’s experience crosses several industries; Healthcare, Technology, Energy Financial Services and beyond. She is adept at integration and implementing change. Much of Connor’s work is within regulated industries, which requires a different kind of understanding and application of social media strategy and tactics.

Connor’s strategies and tactics for managing online communities are chronicled in her book, "18 Rules of Community Engagement: A Guide for Building Relationships and Connecting With Customers Online" (Happy About, May 2009). You can learn more about her book here, and her blog at blog.angelaconnor.com.

Jim Tobin
President, Ignite Social Media

Jim Tobin is president of Ignite Social Media, one of the nation’s first social media agencies. In that role, he and his team work with clients including Microsoft (Windows, Bing, MSN and others), Intel, Disney, Nature Made, The Body Shop, Comcast, UNICEF and more developing and implementing social media marketing strategies. With years of experience in marketing and public relations, Jim founded Ignite in 2007 to help businesses better communicate with their customers through social media. Prior to founding Ignite, Jim was deeply involved in public relations and advertising, including being a partner at Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing.

Jim is the author of one of the Amazon best selling marketing and advertising books of all time , “Social Media is a Cocktail Party”. Jim is a frequent national speaker, the co-founder of the Triangle Social Media Club and one of the most read authors on Social Media Today. He was named one of the 75 Internet Marketing Gurus You Should Follow on Twitter and one of the most influential bloggers in the business in January 2008. In the last year, Business Leader magazine named Jim both a “Mover & Shaker” and one of the “Top 50 Entrepreneurs” in the Research Triangle business community.

Clint Smith
Co-founder & CEO, Emma®

Clint Smith is the co-founder & CEO of Emma, the Web-based email marketing and communications service. Launched in 2003, Emma powers the email newsletters and campaigns of more than 30,000 organizations around the world, supporting the efforts of stylish small businesses, nonprofits and agencies around the U.S. and beyond. Prior to starting Emma, Clint was an editor with CitySearch.com and the vice president of product for Smallbusiness.com. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a degree in history and resides in Nashville with his wife and three kids. He is unreasonably good at air hockey.

Eric Ranta
National Vice President, Value Engineering, SAP North America

Eric Ranta is the head of Value Engineering for SAP North America. The Value Engineering team supports customers throughout the entire value lifecycle; from developing business cases for IT-enabled business transformation to benefit realization during implementations. Value Engineering also documents and showcases success stories of companies that create significant value in business process transformation. In collaboration with customers, the Value Engineering team has delivered over 2,500 business cases, IT strategic roadmaps and benchmark reports for all industries and customer sizes.

Eric joined SAP Value Engineering team in April 2004 to lead the Telecommunications practice team and has served various executive roles; most recently was the Vice President of Value Engineering & Customer Value Network. Prior to joining SAP, Eric worked in the software and strategy consulting industries, including various management roles at Siebel Systems and consulting roles at Ernst & Young and Accenture.

Noah Dinkin
Co-founder & President, FanBridge

FanBridge is the Fan Relationship Management (FRM) platform that merges email, Facebook and other social networking platforms with direct-to-fan engagement tools to grow, engage and monetize consumer fan bases for artists, brands and other influencers. Before co-founding FanBridge, Noah was a co-founder and principal of new-model indie record label United For Opportunity (UFO Music), which aimed to use technology and simple portfolio theory to improve the odds of success. Noah is a graduate of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University as well as the first ever undergraduate winner of the Stern Business Plan Competition.

Glenn Mersereau
Director of Internet Marketing, PHE, Inc.

Glenn recently joined PHE, Inc., and oversees all Internet marketing and ecommerce for AdamEve.com. Adam and Eve has been the trusted leader in the adult industry since 1971. Prior to PHE, Glenn was Director of Ecommerce for Performance, Inc, the nation’s largest specialty retailer of bikes and cycling products. At Performance, Glenn led all ecommerce efforts for Performancebike.com and Nashbar.com as well as launched their mobile site properties. Glenn has a rich and diverse background in marketing, finance, and technology investment banking. He has served in executive and senior capacities with Pictureframes.com, Global Value Commerce, DecisionPoint International, GeoCities, and GreenPages Technology Solutions. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire.

Dr. Manuel Aparicio IV
Co-founder & CEO, Saffron Technology

With more than 25 years experience in the development and commercialization of intelligent software systems, Aparicio is an evangelist for the broad adoption of associative memory technology, defining a new school of thinking about Big Data Analytics. Aparicio is Saffron’s principle evangelist of this new approach and its applications to national, business, and consumer intelligence. Saffron has been noted by Gartner Research as one of five "Cool Vendors" in Enterprise Information Management 2010 and recently by Forrester Research in "It's the Dawning of The Age of BI DMBS."

Prior to Saffron, Aparicio was Chief Scientist of the IBM Knowledge Management & Intelligent Agent Center. At IBM, he worked on the first development and commercialization of associative memory systems, particularly applied to Agile Manufacturing and Telecommunications. Aparicio is an alumnus of the University of South Florida, where he earned a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, with a focus on biologically based neuro-computing.

Adam Covati
Founder & CTO, Argyle Social

Adam Covati is Founder and CTO of Argyle Social, a social media marketing software company based in Durham, NC. Adam has been building and managing web software for almost 15 years. For the last 7 years he has been building software that brings complex marketing testing, automation, and ROI proof to marketers at companies big and small through practical, beautiful, and powerful software. Adam moved from Boston to Durham, where he now lives with his lovely wife and adorable daughter.

Yung Chou
Senior IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft

Yung Chou is currently a Sr. IT Pro Evangelist in Microsoft US Developer and Platform Evangelism team. Within the company, he has had opportunities serving customers in the areas of support account management, technical support, technical sales, and evangelism. Prior to Microsoft, he had established capacities in system programming, application development, consulting services, and IT management. His recent technical focuses have been in virtualization and cloud computing with strong interests in private cloud with service-based deployment and emerging enterprise computing architecture. He is a frequent speaker in Microsoft conferences, roadshow, and TechNet events. You can see Yung's blog here: http://blogs.technet.com/yungchou and follow him on twitter at @yungchou

Marc Gorlin
Chairman & Co-founder, Kabbage

Marc Gorlin is Chairman and Co-founder of Kabbage and a serial entrepreneur who has founded, built and sold multiple technology companies. Kabbage offers working capital to millions of businesses that sell online and has raised nearly $26 million in capital. Marc was a co-founder and an original board member of Pretty Good Privacy ("PGP"), a company formed to commercialize one of the most prevalent security standards used on the Internet. Marc assisted with the initial formation of PGP and oversaw the financing, growth, and eventual sale of the company for $35 million to Networks Associates (NYSE: MFE), a public company worth over $1 billion in December of 1997. After PGP, Marc co-founded VerticalOne Corporation, a content personalization service that was sold to S1 Corporation (Nasdaq: SONE) in 1999 for $166 million.

Lindsay Wassell
Partner & Consultant, KeyphraSEOlogy

Lindsay is a Partner & Consultant at Keyphraseology, a Florida-based SEO consultancy. Prior to Keyphraseology, she led the SEOmoz SEO Consulting Team. Lindsay has helped companies from the Fortune 500s to small and medium businesses succeed on the web. Lindsay writes about SEO and Site Auditing at seomoz.org and keyphraseology.com. She has spoken to advanced Internet Marketing and SEO audiences at SMX, SEOmoz Training, SHARE and the Microsoft Speaker Series.

Dallas Lawrence
Chief Global Digital Strategist, Burson-Marsteller

Dallas Lawrence counsels companies and organizations on effective reputation management solutions. Burson-Marsteller’s global digital capability includes more than 100 social and digital media strategists throughout the world. Dallas is a recurring commentator for CNN on emerging media. His columns on social and digital issue advocacy, crisis communications and public affairs appear regularly on Forbes.com and he is a contributor to Mashable.com.

Before joining Burson-Marsteller, Dallas chaired the social and digital media practice for crisis communications firm Levick Strategic Communications. Previously, Dallas served as the first Vice President for New Media for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and he served for more than four years as a trusted member of President Bush’s communications team, representing the White House in more than a dozen countries as the director of the Office of Community Relations and Public Liaison for the United States Department of Defense for Secretaries Rumsfeld and Gates. Prior to his Pentagon service, Dallas was appointed by the President as the Director of Regional Media Outreach and spokesperson for Ambassador L. Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq. Dallas spent several years managing state and local political campaigns, working on Capitol Hill as a communications director, and advising dozens of House and Senate candidates on effective campaign and message strategies.

Tony Haile
General Manager, Chartbeat

Tony Haile is the General Manager of Chartbeat, the real-time analytics service used by everyone from the New York Times to Groupon. Tony was an early employee at, and now acts as an advisor to, Betaworks, the company behind Summize (now Twitter Search), Bit.ly and Tweetdeck, where he led Twitterfeed, the largest publisher to Twitter. Prior to moving headlong into the world of digital startups, Tony spent time leading and managing polar expeditions and acting as bowman for Team Logica on a Round-the-world yacht race. Startups are apparently similarly exciting with less risk of losing a limb.

Bryan Brown
VP of Business Development/Creative Director, RMM Online Advertising

Bryan Brown is responsible for RMM's corporate marketing and the development of strategic partnerships with advertising agencies. Brown also provides creative and technical leadership and art direction for RMM's creative department. Before joining RMM, he served as the creative director for advertising agencies and has worked extensively in the areas of graphic design and UI/UX development.

Bryan eats, sleeps, and breathes online technology, and is a true technology evangelist, applying his expertise to create solutions for client’s brands. Bryan studied fine art serigraphy and graphic design at the University of Texas and lives happily in Austin, Texas with his wife, 2 kids, and black standard poodle Chachi.

Allen Nance
President and Founder, WhatCounts

Allen Nance is President and Founder at WhatCounts, where he manages sales, marketing and product development. In 2000, he founded Mansell Group and through a series of successful acquisitions it was rebranded WhatCounts and today is the new leader in email marketing. Allen focuses on helping organizations utilize WhatCounts’ email solutions to better communicate with their current and potential customers.

In 2005, Allen authored Inside the Minds: Technology Enabled Marketing - a Prerequisite for Survival, published by Aspatore Books. He received the “2006 Outstanding Young Alumnus” award from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2009, Allen was featured in the Atlanta Business Chronicle as a “Rising Business Leader under 40”. He received his B.S. degree from The University of West Georgia and his M.S. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Scott Gunter
Vice President of User Experience, Usability Sciences

Scott Gunter is an experienced usability / user experience professional with over 13 years of strategy, testing, analysis, and team management experience. His expertise comes from hands-on experience leading over 250 consumer research projects on behalf of companies like Microsoft, J.C. Penney, Nokia, Kohl's, Oracle, and Nike. Over the last decade he has conducted research on software, websites, mobile, email, kiosks, printers, digital cameras, and other interactive experiences. Scott is passionate about making all things usable.

David Gudai
Vice President of Marketing, Storkie

David Gudai heads up marketing initiatives at Storkie, a leading online source for custom-printed invitations and cards. His expertise comes from hands-on experience building and optimizing both SEM and SEO initiatives, in addition to SMM and brand development. From game theory to stochastic modeling, David leverages multiple disciplines to successfully position and grow market share. He received a BS and two MS degrees in Engineering from Stanford University.

Donna Bedford
Global SEO Lead, Lenovo

Donna Bedford is the Global SEO lead for Lenovo driving SEO in 40+ countries worldwide using Lean Six Sigma best practices. As part of the role, she also drives awareness through non-traditional marketing, including blogger outreach, Twitter and Facebook. Prior to her current role, she worked on Lenovo's Design and User Experience team. Donna has over 17 years of web experience, including multiple Fortune 500 companies both in the US and UK.

Lenovo is one of the world’s largest makers of personal computers including the renowned ThinkPad® notebook as well as products carrying the ThinkCentre®, ThinkStation®, ThinkServer®, IdeaCentre® and IdeaPad® sub-brands.

Rob Ousbey
VP Operations Seattle, Distilled

Over the past three years, Rob has developed and executed SEO strategy for clients from small businesses to large organizations, and managed Distilled's Reputation Management projects, where he's helped clients such as celebrities, politicians and household brands to protect their reputation online. In 2010, Rob moved to Seattle to run the newly launched Distilled LLC, where he manages a team of expert Search Marketers and is involved in defining strategy for new clients.

Brian Hitney
Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Brian Hitney is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Corporation focused on cloud computing. He frequently delivers presentations and works with local community groups and customers on emerging technologies, .NET, and developer tools. Prior to his Developer Evangelist role, Brian worked as a software engineer on a Windows Vista team in Redmond, and before he joined Microsoft he helped build large scale e-commerce applications for various companies across the United States. Brian is based out of Greensboro, NC.

Michael Cristinziano
Corporate Vice President of Strategic Development, Citrix

Michael Cristinziano is corporate vice president of strategic development at Citrix and is responsible for mergers and acquisitions strategy and execution, technology licensing and venture capital investments. Under Cristinziano’s leadership, Citrix has completed more than 40 strategic transactions contributing to the company’s leadership in virtualization, networking and cloud computing technologies that enable virtual workstyles. An equity research analyst turned investment banker, Cristinziano’s past work has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and StarMine.

Cristinziano earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Temple University, a master’s degree in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and completed post-graduate studies in information networking at Carnegie Mellon University.

Tammy M. Gordon
Director, Social Communications & Strategy, AARP

Tammy Gordon is AARP's Director of Social Communications & Strategy. Starting in January 2010, she launched AARP’s social media guidelines, established branded social platforms, trained hundreds of staffers growing the organization's engaged social presence into a nationally recognized leader. Today, she manages a six person team of community managers and bloggers, as well as serving a network of nearly 300 staffers across the country use social media on a regular basis.

Most recently, AARP scored an A+ by the Emerging Media Research Council, was ranked AARP number 9 out of 100 public sector organizations in the George Washington University Digital IQ Index and number 6 in the top 50 Digital Influencers in Social Cause.

Thuy LeDinh
Senior Marketing Manager, .ORG

As senior marketing communications manager for .ORG, the Public Interest Registry, Thuy took over marketing communications and web development for PIR in 2009. Prior to PIR, he worked in product marketing and marketing communications for a high-end business printer manufacturer. Thuy has also been developing web content management system and search technologies for over ten years. With his unique background in both marketing and technical development, he brings creative ways to best utilize new technology to create effective marketing communications in today’s fast-paced environment.

Michael Marshall
SEO Guru

Michael Marshall is one of the most respected and well regarded technologists in the search engine marketing community. Having helped craft and execute advanced SEO strategies for many of the Internet's top brands over the years, Michael's SEO articles have been featured in numerous media outlets such as Direct Magazine, WebPro News, DM News, Forbes, LA Times, Investor's Business Daily, PRWeek, SearchNewz and eWeek. Michael is a recurring author for SEOToday.com, the premier website for SEM professionals, and a contributor to "Building Your Business With Google for Dummies." He is a frequent presenter at Ultra Advanced SEO Symposiums, a meeting of select masters of the search engine marketing industry, and frequent speaker at Search Engine Workshops conferences. Michael is lead instructor at the Search Engine Academy (and helped to create the curriculum) and is instructor for search engine technologies at the U.S. Patent Office.

Jason Caplain
General Partner & Co-Founder, Southern Capitol Ventures

Jason Caplain is a co-founder of Southern Capitol Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in software, e-commerce and digital media companies in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. Jason is on the boards at ReverbNation and Zift Solutions and is a board observer at DoublePositive, eTix and WeddingWire. Before SCV, Jason was at Red Hat through the company’s successful IPO in 1999. Jason has received the Triangle Business Journal's "40 under 40" leadership award and was named by TechJournal South as one the Southeast's Internet Mavens. Read his blog www.southeastvc.com and follow Jason on Twitter @jcaplain.

Donna DeMarco
Co-Founder, Vice President, Viddler, Inc.

Donna has delivered more than 20 years of innovative corporate management, software engineering, and revenue-generation mentoring for Fortune 100 companies. Her pioneering efforts in website video integration, private viewing, advertising monetization, and video subscription services have been embraced by more than 1,500 businesses, and that corporate base is growing daily. Learn why business video is a key competitive advantage and how to cost-effectively host and leverage business video to build your brand and engage with current and future customers.

Steve Ashley
VP of Marketing/Digital, Market America/Shop.com

A member of Market America’s management team for 10 years, Steve oversees Market America’s social and mobile objectives helping make Market America a Top 75 Internet Retailer and Top 250 in Mobile Sales, according to Internet Retailer. In the past year and a half, Steve’s mobile team has made the Market America site mobile by launching mobile applications for iOS, Android as well as a mobile enabled site. With its latest launches such as customized deals and bar scanning, the company now does twice the amount in mobile sales each quarter as it did for the entire 2010 year. With the recent acquisition of Shop.com, that number will continue to grow with the coming launch of its mobile applications.

John Lovett
Senior Partner, Web Analytics Demystified

John is a veteran industry analyst and expert consultant who has spent the past decade helping organizations to measure their digital marketing activities. Lovett offers strategic guidance for building digital analytics programs, and is also a trusted advisor to vendors within the digital measurement community. Prior to joining Web Analytics Demystified, Lovett was a Senior Analyst with Forrester Research, where he was responsible for analytics and optimization technologies. Currently, Lovett is the Vice President on the Board of Directors for the Web Analytics Association and has pioneered efforts like the Web Analyst's Code of Ethics. He is co-founder of the Analysis Exchange and author of Social Media Metrics Secrets (Wiley, 2011).

Ted McDonald
Web Analyst, Verisign

Ted has over 10 years of online marketing experience. Before joining Verisign, Ted managed the web analytics program at Carfax, and was manager of web analytics at National Geographic. He is an expert at using Omniture products, like Discover and TestandTarget, and assessing the ROI of SEM and social media marketing efforts.

Michael Gowan
Associate Director of Web Strategy, Duke Medicine

Michael Gowan is a writer, editor, and content strategist with more than 15 years experience in Internet communications. As Associate Director of Web Strategy at Duke Medicine, he guides the organization's Web content strategy and manages the Web editorial team with an emphasis on producing compelling, user-focused content. Michael combines his love for words with a background in information architecture and usability to craft an engaging online experience. His content experience spans Web, print, video, audio, and social media. He began his career as a journalist covering technology and music. You can follow his mostly music-related tweets at twitter.com/zebgowan.

Drew Diskin, M.S.
Digital Engagement Strategist, Inertia

Drew Diskin, M.S. is a digital engagement strategist and business development professional with over two decades of experience in creative, interactive marketing strategies and Internet technology solutions. Most recently, he lead the University of Pennsylvania Health System's development and implementation of a system-wide e-business strategy that included integrated branding, social media, search engines, patient portals, mobile, and Web applications development. He has also worked for and with various organizations, including: The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System, the Inova Health System, Stanford Medicine, Dolce Hotels & Resorts, AOL, Universal Studios, Genentech, Jeep, as well as small and mid-sized companies.

Chris Condayan
Manager, Public Education, American Society for Microbiology

Chris Condayan serves as the manager for the American Society for Microbiology’s public education initiative in which he oversees the production of the Society’s new media outreach programs. In 2005, Condayan has spearheaded ASM’s efforts in podcasting and new media, establishing the organization as the first scientific society to have a daily audio podcast and a weekly video podcast. Under Condayan’s leadership the organization has published a popular science website called www.microbeworld.org which serves as a user-generated hub for all things related to the science of microbiology. Several of Condayan’s podcasts are currently featured shows in the iTunes music store under science.

Many elements of the MicrobeWorld outreach program, including its blogs, podcasts and websites have received at least a dozen awards over the past four years, including the PR News Platinum Awards, PR News Nonprofit Awards, the Hermes Creative Awards and the American Society for Association Executives Gold Circle Awards. Condayan frequently speaks about ASM’s use of new media throughout the United States and Canada. Prior to his work with ASM, Condayan served as the director of communications for the National Mental Health Association.

Jessica Bowman
Founder & CEO, SEOinhouse

Jessica is a leading expert and advocate for in-house SEO. She is known for getting in-house SEO programs up and running quickly, systematically and profitably. Identified as one of the industry’s top in-house SEOs by Natural Search Blog, Jessica has built in-house SEO programs for Yahoo! Inc., Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Business.com. Jessica is a marketer who comes from an IT background, which gives her a different perspective on how to execute SEO by integrating into existing systems and processes.

Jeff Spivey
International Vice President, board of directors, ISACA

Jeff M. Spivey, CRISC, CPP, PSP, is the International Vice President of the board of directors for ISACA. He also is director of Security Risk Management Inc. (SRM) in North Carolina, USA, providing strategic security risk consulting to Fortune 500 companies and international organizations. Spivey is also a vice president with RiskIQ, identifying online threats to business using real-time intelligent risk assessments. He is a member of the US State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), and serves on the Advisory Board for the National Center for Judicial Security of the US Department of Justice. Spivey is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and a past president and past chairman of the board for ASIS International. He is also a co-chair of ISACA’s External Relations Committee, member of ISACA’s Knowledge Management Task Force and a past trustee of the IT Governance Institute.

Monty Blight
Vice President, Product Management, Peak 10

Monty has been with Peak 10 since June, 2001. He is responsible for Peak 10's full suite of managed services including Cloud, Hosting, Virtualized Services, Server Management and Monitoring, Managed Security, Storage and Backup, and Business Continuity. Monty works directly with clients and partners and also presents frequently on Cloud, Hosting, Business Continuity and other technology services. Prior to Peak 10, Monty worked in various technology services positions including Internet streaming with Yahoo!, distance learning for Primedia, and software simulated banker training for Omega Performance.

Highly engaged in his local community, Monty is a member of the Elder Council and chair of the audit committee for Forest Hill Church in Charlotte, N.C. He is also a youth basketball coach. Monty received is BBA from Baylor University in Texas and is a graduate of the Charlotte Leadership Forum.

Gaurav Kotak
Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Marketo

Gaurav leads product marketing at Marketo. His team drives strategic marketing for Marketo’s Revenue Performance Management products and go-to-market planning for new products and releases. He has over 10 years of marketing, technology and business development experience at companies such as SuccessFactors, Intuit and Scale Venture Partners. While working in venture capital, Gaurav helped scale the revenues of over a dozen software and Internet businesses.

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.

Joe Colopy
CEO, Bronto

Joe Colopy is Founder and CEO of Bronto Software. As chief architect of Bronto’s strategic vision and direction, Joe has successfully led Bronto from concept to a leading email marketing company focused on serving online retailers, interactive agencies, and marketing departments.

Prior to founding Bronto in 2002, Joe's past professional experience has been with market leaders Red Hat, Harvard Business School and Dell Computer. Recognized as a thought leader within the online marketing community, Joe is frequent speaker at national conferences and has been featured in media outlets such as NPR's Marketplace, Entrepreneur Magazine, MediaPost, DMNews, ClickZ, Internet Retailer and BtoB Magazine.

Matthew Muñoz
Co-founder & Chief Design Officer, New Kind

Matthew Muñoz provides design leadership on New Kind's projects. He leverages his background as a communication designer to c0-create messages, activities, systems, and experiences that help organizations: 1) Form their future with intent, 2) Align people's self-interest with shared purpose, 3) Clarify hard to understand concepts, and 4) Inspire action through openness.

He has mapped complex concepts for multiple organizations, such as the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative and Red Hat. And he has created growth maps that demonstrate how leaders and stakeholders can manage compound problems challenging their future vitality. Matthew is a nationally award-winning designer, having held design roles at IBM, Capstrat and Work Worth Doing, as well as his own consultancy, DesignHeals. He also serves as President of the AIGA Raleigh chapter.

John Lane
VP, Strategy & Creative, Centerline Digital

John is focused on defining content strategies that help clients like IBM, John Deere and Empire Eats reach their target audiences in the ever-evolving digital and interactive world. He also guides the creation of the deliverables (websites, mobile applications, etc.) and programs (social media, context planning, etc.) that embody those strategies. He also has extensive experience with measurement, analysis and optimization of those programs once they are launched. Centerline Digital is a strategic, content marketing agency crafting compelling digital experiences in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Throughout his career, John has been a marketing strategist, a writer for print, web and animation, and an interactive designer/developer. The combination of strategy, writing and design, as well as his management skills, allows him to lead and develop content marketing efforts through successful execution and business outcomes.

Don Bruns
Director of Application Design, Navigation Arts

NavigationArts, is a Washington, DC based digital consultancy. Bruns has fifteen years of experience in delivering web-based solutions with a focus on information architecture, rapid prototyping, and user research. As a veteran of Razorfish and Aquilent, Bruns has led client engagements for such high profile clients as KPMG, Pershing, AARP, U.S. Department of State, and USA.gov, the official web portal of the United States federal government. He has been a featured speaker at KMWorld and Gilbane conferences.

Erika Burger
Senior Business Analyst, Maxpoint Interactive

Erika is a 2011 graduate of the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) degree program at NC State University's Institute for Advanced Analytics. She current works as a senior business analyst for Maxpoint Interactive, an industry-leading consumer targeting technology company that helps retailers and brands reach the right online audience to drive in-store sales. Erika earned her B.S. in Statistics with a minor in Genetics from NC State in 2010.

Richie Couchon
Senior Analytic Analyst, Quaero

Richie is a 2010 graduate of the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) degree program at NC State University's Institute for Advanced Analytics. He currently is senior analytic analyst at Quaero, a CSG Solutions Group company based in Charlotte that enables its clients to shift from traditional campaign-driven marketing to real-time, multichannel customer interaction that creates a dialogue, improves the customer experience, and increases overall customer value. His clients include very large media and sports dot com clients. Richie earned his B.S. in Statistics with a minor in Mathematics from NC State in 2009.

Geoff Lewis
Director of Analytics, ShareFile

Geoff is a 2010 graduate of the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) degree program at NC State University's Institute for Advanced Analytics. He currently is director of analytics for ShareFile, a successful and rapidly growing Raleigh-based venture that provides software that helps businesses exchange files easily, securely, and professionally. Prior to graduate study, Geoff worked for GAINSystems as a consultant and director of analytics for eight years. Geoff earned a B.A. degree in Statistics from Northwestern University in 2000.

Daniel Zaratsian
Analytics Consultant, SAS

Dan is a 2011 graduate of the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) degree program at NC State University's Institute for Advanced Analytics. He currently works for SAS as part of the text analytics software team. He consults with a wide array of clients on challenges such as monitoring their brand on the web or analyzing unstructured text from surveys or call centers. Dan earned his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Akron in 2007.

Kyle Scott Richardson
Director of Social Media, North Carolina National Guard

Kyle is a current member North Carolina National Guard and part-time videographer of the North Carolina Air National Guard public affairs team. Kyle has worked on many sports entertainment assignments with the NY Jets, NJ Nets, and Charlotte Bobcats. And he has worked at events such as Super Bowl XLIV, XLV and the NHL All-Star Game and NBA Draft, as well as NASCAR events. He's a 2011 graduate of the Defense Information School with a certificate in Broadcasting, a 2008 graduate of Johnson & Wales University with a B.S. in Sports/Entertainment/Event Management.

Jeff Revoy
Chief Product, Marketing and Strategy Officer, iContact

Jeff is responsible for marketing, product management and corporate strategy at iContact. Revoy brings more than 20 years of experience in Internet, search and social media at both early-stage and Fortune 500 companies. He worked for Yahoo! both in the U.S. and Europe including Vice President and General Manager positions at Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Answers. Revoy and his team helped turn around the European search business and led Yahoo! Answers to a market leadership position with more than 150M monthly users. Previously, Revoy served as President and General Manager of Interactive Services at Embarq, a Fortune 250 telecommunication company through its successful acquisition and integration with CenturyLink. In this role, he reported to the CEO and led the investment and development of new media and online services as key growth drives for the company. In addition, he has held leadership positions with InterTrust, the pioneer in DRM technology through its successful IPO and acquisition and with GameHouse, a division of Real Newtorks, as VP of Social Games.

Jill Carlson
Marketing Manager, Argyle Social

Jill keeps customers engaged, happy, and coming back for more. While not pushing candy on coworkers, she can be found petting others’ dogs at nearby parks.
Prior to Argyle, Jill worked in Marketing and Communications at Room to Read, an international education non-profit in San Francisco. She earned a BA in Government from Claremont McKenna College and an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from Harvard University.

Jeff Campbell
Co-founder & VP - Resolution Media

Jeff Campbell is the co-founder of Resolution Media, Omnicom’s (NYSE:OMC) search agency and heads their retail vertical. Since 2003, Campbell has immersed himself in nearly all aspects of the company’s operations. Currently, he is embedded at Lowe’s, and oversees all their online marketing including paid search, natural search/SEO, affiliate, display, retargeting, shopping comparison engines, etc., and is focused on strategy development, media integration, measuring online to offline sales impact and Web analytics. In his tenure with Resolution Media, Campbell has managed campaigns for Lowe’s, Apple, Hertz, State Farm, Bank of America, Motorola, Sirius-XM, NCL, Pier 1, and dozens more.

Malin Huffman
Principal Product Manager, NetSuite

Malin Huffman has over 10 years of experience building SaaS/cloud business applications. As Principal Product Manager at NetSuite, Huffman is responsible for product strategy and roadmap for mobile, social, workflow, and BI/reporting products. In this role, he frequently engages with customers to deeply understand their needs and design innovative product solutions with great user experience. Huffman is also a co-author of the book "NetSuite for Dummies.” He holds a B.M. degree in Violin Performance from Wichita State University. Huffman is passionate about technology and music. In his spare time he enjoys performing orchestral and choral repertoire. Follow his thoughts on Twitter @MalinHuffman

Cara Rousseau
Social Media Manager, Duke University

Cara Rousseau is avid in digital media and community building. She manages social media at Duke for the Office of News and Communications and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, and leads social media strategy for the university. Cara joined Duke in 2011 after serving as director of partnership initiatives for the Research Triangle Park where she focused on marketing, strategic initiatives, social media efforts and partnership relations. She worked previously at the City of Durham’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development.

William Blackmon
CEO, LinkMeIn

William Blackmon is a rising expert on LinkedIn, drawing from his broad experience as a successful project leader in both small and large global organizations that offers tactical and strategic guidance to deliver real business results. William’s passion is to educate business owners and marketers how to leverage the power of LinkedIn to build their professional relationships, brand their products & services, and grow their businesses. LinkMeIn consulting services has been featured on WRAL-TV, My Carolina Today, N&O, and has trained over 2500 professionals. He is a sought out LinkedIn expert with speaking engagements that include Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, and Meredith College School of Business MBA Program.

John Lawrence
Partner & CFO, Longworth Venture Partners

John Lawrence is a Partner and the Chief Financial Officer at Longworth Venture Partners, an early stage, IT focused venture fund in Boston. John has more than eighteen years of experience in finance, operations and investor relations, including over ten in venture capital. At Longworth, John is responsible for the Firm's financial, legal and operational functions including fundraising and term sheet/closing document structuring and negotiation. John works with many of Longworth's portfolio companies with finance and operational related initiatives including capital raising structures and negotiations and internal infrastructural development.

Douglas Hanna
CEO, A Small Orange

Douglas Hanna is the CEO of A Small Orange, a provider of high quality shared, VPS, reseller, and dedicated web hosting. As CEO, Douglas leads the company’s management team and is directly responsible for the company’s finance, business development, marketing, and M&A activities. He is also responsible for HostNine and SEO Web Hosting, two companies that A Small Orange acquired in November 2010. Before joining A Small Orange in March 2010, Douglas was the Customer Service Manager at HostGator.com LLC, a world leading web hosting company with more than 225,000 customers. At HostGator, he was responsible for customer service and customer service operations, as well as corporate communications and public relations. Douglas also founded and writes for Service Untitled, a leading blog on customer service and the customer service experience and has done customer service consulting for companies such as Dell.

Greg Kihlström
Chief Creative Officer and Founder, Carousel30

Greg has over 15 years experience in interactive and strategic design. In addition to founding Carousel30, DC's first digital agency, in 2003, Greg has been awarded design honors, published in books and magazines, shown in galleries, and featured on prestigious design websites. He has been featured in Advertising Age, Adweek, Web Designer Magazine, Website Magazine and Voice of America and has served as a judge in several renowned design competitions. He has worked with many top brands such as AOL, AARP, Ben & Jerry's, Geico Direct, Miller Lite, MTV, Starbucks, The Nature Conservancy, TV One and the Washington Wizards.

Todd Moy
Senior User Experience Designer, Viget Labs

Viget Labs, is a web consulting firm with offices in DC, Durham, and Boulder. Over the past decade, Todd has led user-centered design efforts for clients including PUMA, Deloitte, Epic Games, and the U.S. Postal Service. He’s enamored with human cognition, perception, and emotion and believes designing with these at the forefront leads to compelling user experiences.

Emily Keye
Marketing Strategist, Bronto

As a Marketing Strategist at Bronto, Emily delivers strategic consulting services to retail clients including education on email marketing best practices and standards, client campaign optimization and tactics for success. Prior to Bronto, Emily was responsible for generating millions in revenue from email using re-engagement methods, automated and triggered messages, sweepstakes, and more.

David Heaney
Senior Associate, TomorrowVentures

David joined TomorrowVentures in 2011 as a Senior Associate where he sources new investments and helps current portfolio companies. Prior to starting with TomorrowVentures, David received his JD-MBA from Northwestern University where he interned in Cummins' Corporate Strategy Group, leading strategic consulting efforts across Cummins' business units.

Charles Nicholls
Chief Strategy Officer, SeeWhy

Charles Nicholls is a leading industry expert on ecommerce, web analytics, social media marketing, and online buyer behavior. He specializes in shopping cart abandonment and email remarketing, and serves as Chair of the Conversion Academy. He has authored two books: 'Lessons Learned From The Top 10 Converting Websites' and 'In Search of Insight.' Charles is a market analyst, blogger, commentator and regular contributor to ecommerce and analytics publications including Practical eCommerce, CustomerThink and BusinessWeek. He is also founder and Chief Strategy Officer at shopping cart recovery company, SeeWhy.

Lisa Braziel
Strategy Director, Ignite Social Media

From Flickr to Twitter, Lisa helps companies translate social media tools into social media campaigns that reach customers and build brand advocates. As Ignite's Strategy Director, Lisa has guided the implementation and strategy for national social media campaigns for Intel, Nature Made, The Body Shop, and Microsoft Windows. In this role, Lisa crunches the numbers, developing campaign outreach strategies and metrics to coincide. Her most recent accomplish has been co-authoring the book, Social Media is a Cocktail Party.

Lisa initially worked for Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing, where she picked up expertise in project management and marketing. She then became employee number one at Ignite Social Media, where she moved from all aspects of social media marketing to specializing in developing overall engagement plans for outreach.

Ron Jones
President & CEO, Symetri Internet Marketing

Ron is an Internet marketing consultant, author, columnist and President of Symetri Internet Marketing, which provides strategic consulting and Internet marketing. Ron has been an avid proponent of the Search Engine Marketing industry by hosting and speaking at seminars and conferences. Additionally Ron has served on the Board of Directors for SEMPO and is also one of the authors for the SEMPO Institute Insiders Guide and Advanced courses.

Ron is the author of Keyword Intelligence. Keyword Research for Search, Social and Beyond, by Wiley Publishing. Ron is also a columnist for ClickZ and Search Engine Watch.

Don Rainey
General Partner, Grotech Ventures

Don Rainey joined Grotech Ventures as a general partner in September 2007 and currently serves on the boards of Grotech portfolio companies Clarabridge, GramercyOne, HelloWallet, LivingSocial, Personal, SnappCloud, and Zenoss. He is a strong proponent of technology transfer and education and devotes much time to both areas. Currently, he is an emerging technology consultant to the Chief Information Officer of the US Department of Defense through the DeVenCi Program, which is tasked with researching and nominating companies to solve the DOD’s unmet technology needs.

He is a frequent speaker at local and national technology events, and was included on Washingtonian’s Tech Titans list in May 2011. The Northern Virginia Technology Council presented Don with its prestigious “Lifetime Navigator” Award for his work with entrepreneurs in March 2011. Read Don’s latest "VC in DC" blog entry.

Phil Buckley
Director of Interactive, Capstrat

Phil Buckley started working on the Web before it was cool – working in web technologies since the late 90's. Starting out doing web development, but eventually saw the power of organic SEO and fell in love with trying to crack the code. Many hats later, Buckley brought his broad experience to managing the interactive team at Capstrat, where his super powers include translating über-geek jabber to mortals and explaining marketing-speak in binary code.

A social media evangelist, Buckley is absolutely sure that the future is in the social-mobile space and how it’s being leveraged. He has worked with BlueCross/BlueShield, Lenovo, Ancestry.com and Cotton.

Ryan Bloom
Senior Director of Engineering, Lulu.com

Ryan Bloom is the Senior Director of Engineering at Lulu.com, the leader in open-publishing, where he has spearheaded initiatives such as implementing the ElasticPath E-Commerce engine. Before joining Lulu in 2009, Bloom was Director of Software Development at RadarFind Corp. where he was responsible for the development and quality assurance organizations. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Open Source Development for Misys plc. Bloom also worked as the Director of Development at Peopleclick, Inc. While at Peopleclick, Inc. he delivered on a development initiative to improve developer productivity. During this time he contracted for Kiptronic, Inc. building their podcast insertion technology and served on their technical advisory board.

Michael Lubak
CIO, Global Applications, GE Transportation

Michael Lubak is responsible for GE Transportation’s Global Applications. His duties include Strategy Development, Global Implementations, and Systems Operation Support for Transportation’s Global Supply Chain, Quality, and Financial Systems.

Michael has held various diverse positions within GE. Prior to his current role, Michael has held roles in eBusiness, Sourcing, International Marketing, Commercial Quality and Global Services. He also was the Director of Quality for Human Resources at Cisco Systems. Michael is a certified Six Sigma Master Blackbelt.

Michael has a BA in Accounting and a BA in MIS from Mercyhurst College, a BA in Industrial Management Engineering from Gannon University, and an MBA from Penn State Behrend.

Brooks Raiford
President & CEO, NCTA

Brooks Raiford serves as President & CEO of NCTA. Brooks brings nearly 20 years of experience with advocacy and policy issues, and has hands-on experience with operating both advocacy and philanthropic organizations. Brooks also serves on the Board of Directors of the Wake Education Partnership, and as a member of the Board of Advisors of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State University, where he is a former Student Body President and University Trustee.

He is a North Carolina native with a passion for improving the quality of life in his home state, and has an extensive background in government relations, business development and operational management.

In the early 1990s, he served as a policy aide in the North Carolina Governor’s Office, where a key focus area was information technology and its impact on a variety of public policy areas. Subsequently, Brooks served as Director of the Independent College Fund of North Carolina, and then President of Leadership North Carolina. Most recently, he was Director of Business Development for Balfour Beatty Construction.

Amy H. Lewis
Social Media Strategist, Cisco

Amy Lewis is a Social Media Practitioner and Strategist disguised as a Marketing Manager for Cisco. After years in traditional publishing (yes, books, the old-timey kind), she’s plying her editorial craft in the technology field, engaging with thought leaders from around the globe. A fan of all things Malcolm Gladwell and a connector by disposition, Amy is likely to be found at events seeking your thoughts on camera.

When not furthering the Cisco cause, Amy enjoys cooking, eating, and blogging about food, most recently as the Deep Fried Ambassador for the N.C. State Fair. She’s on Twitter with dueling identities, professionally @CommsNinja and gustatorily @practicalcook.

Brendan Morrissey
CEO, Netsertive

Mr. Morrissey is CEO of Netsertive, a rapidly growing ad technology firm founded in 2009 and based in Research Triangle Park, NC. Netsertive’s platform delivers high performance online marketing throughout North America for locally-focused businesses and brands with local channel marketing needs. Mr. Morrissey has over 15 years’ experience in digital media and early-stage companies emphasizing Internet and mobile marketing technology.

Prior to founding Netsertive, he was VP of Business Development at Motricity, an interactive marketing technology company serving media, entertainment and mobile carrier clients. Mr. Morrissey was previously VP at Los Angeles based startup GoldPocket Wireless, whose technology platform connected media firms and brands with mobile carriers and consumers, where he helped drive rapid growth leading to its successful acquisition by Motricity.

Bill Slawski
President, SEO by the Sea

Bill started building and promoting web pages in 1996 while working for the highest level trial court in Delaware. In 2005, he left the court to work with agencies and as an independent internet marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, universities, non profits, and small businesses. Bill reads and blogs about search related patents and whitepapers in his spare time at seobythesea.com

Dennis Gullotti
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Compuware

Dennis Gullotti is a Senior Product Marketing Manager in Compuware’s APM business where he is responsible for driving the Web Performance Monitoring product marketing strategy. Dennis has more than 20 years of experience defining and bringing to market SaaS and on-premises software products. Prior to Compuware, his most recent experience was in the HR SaaS space. He has an MBA from the Bentley University.

Michael Garvin
Lead Security Advisory Analyst, Symantec

Michael Garvin is a Lead Security Advisory Analyst with Symantec's Security Strategy and Advisory Services team. Through the acquisition of @stake in late 2004 Symantec has become the leader in third-party security assessment services such as Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment and Security Program Assessment. Now combined with a premiere team of CISO-level Security Strategists this team offers their insights on the latest security trends, strategies to address them, and the latest research on the vulnerabilities and attack methods used in their assessments.

Michael’s work includes client consultative engagements and internal efforts at Symantec around Symantec's Security Program Assessment (SPA) and Mobile Security Assessment (MSA), Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, vulnerability management, and security metrics, among other things. He has worked in information security and compliance, systems administration, and enterprise architecture for 19 years, the last five with Symantec. His experience includes higher education, service providers, and companies including Sun Microsystems and @stake.

Richard E. Kouri
Executive Director, BioSciences Management Program, Jenkins Graduate School of Management, NCSU

Dr. Richard E. Kouri is presently Professor and Executive Director of the BioSciences Management program, Jenkins Graduate School of Management, College of Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. Dr. Kouri is the major author of the MBA-focused BioSciences Management program. He works closely with the Center for Innovation Management Studies and the Executive Programs at the College of Management to provide a unique education, outreach and research platform for students, other business schools, and companies working in the life sciences. This platform is used to link formally the management of innovation to commercial endpoints that are critical to the biosciences industry. Previously, Dr. Kouri was the Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and has held academic positions at the University of Connecticut, Yale University and the University of Maryland. Dr. Kouri has co-founded eleven start-up companies all in the biotechnology space; with three going on to their IPO and three being acquired.

Julianna DeLua
Enterprise Solution Evangelist, Big Data, Informatica

Julianna DeLua has been serving as Enterprise Solution Evangelist, Big Data for Informatica. Ms. Julianna is responsible for driving Big Data go-to-market vision, strategy and execution for Informatica. Her responsibilities include: development of vision and business case, initiative design/planning, market analysis including partner and acquisition targets, partner recruitment and mobilization, spokesperson duty, collaboration with functional leaders to evaluate solution structure/approaches, and advisory to C-level management. Her mission is to accelerate market development and ensure that the firm maintains the most visible presence. She is an accomplished author and speaker on the value of Big Data and Hadoop to corporate performance and shareholder value.

As a strategic advisor to C-level executives, Ms. DeLua has served in product management and consulting for Juniper Networks and Gartner. A natural relationship builder with access to a network of global executives and high-influence professionals, she turns her rare blend of strategic foresight and execution discipline into exceptional results. Ms. DeLua holds Masters of Science and Bachelors of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology..

Srinivas Saraswatula
VP IT Audit, Open Solutions, Inc.

Srinivas Saraswatula is Vice President, Internal Audit at Glastonbury, CT based Open Solutions Inc. As VP, he oversees the internal audit department and leads a global team of auditors. He is responsible for information system, operational, regulatory and external audits. Prior to joining Open Solutions in 2007, he had worked at a number of fortune 100 companies in various technical and executive positions in the financial services, telecommunications and utility industries. He has over 18 years of experience in the areas of IT auditing, technology risk management, technology strategy, information security, software development and systems management. Srinivas has degrees in engineering and an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC Chapel Hill.

Doug Kaufman
Co-founder & CEO, Spring Metrics

Doug Kaufman is Co-Founder and CEO of Spring Metrics, which provides marketers and e-commerce professionals actionable analytics and customer intelligence they need to turn visitors into customers and grow their businesses. Prior to founding Spring Metrics, Doug was the founder and CEO of clearTXT. Doug was previously the Director of Product Development at Blackboard and has a Ph.D. in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Caribou Honig
Co-founder & Partner, QED Investors

Caribou Honig began his career at Capital One Financial during its initial hypergrowth years, leading data-driven marketing initiatives in both the telecom and credit card sectors. Responsibilities included directing a $50 mm marketing budget, running a 200 person operation, and leading all online credit card customer acquisitions.

Mr. Honig is cofounder and partner of the boutique venture firm, QED Investors. His investments span an array of marketing and ad technology companies, particularly in the mobile, online display, and social sectors.

Mr. Honig holds a bachelor's degree in Physics and Philosophy from Harvard University, an MBA from the Darden School of Business, and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a member of the Virginia Bar, and serves on several boards including West Cary Group, 33Across, and Spruce Media.

Larry Fisher
Director of Client Service, Rise Interactive

Larry Fisher heads up Rise’s client service team which consists of Account Management as well as all channel teams. Before his 2 year tenure at Rise, Larry managed large technology and analytics teams for the financial services industry and has almost 20 years of professional experience. Larry’s teams currently work with ConAgra, Lexmark, ULTA, NorthShore University Health Systems and Allstate Motor Club. Larry has a BS in Finance from Syracuse University.

Jeramiah Dooley
vArchitect, VCE

Jeramiah Dooley brings more than 17 years of technology and design experience to VCE. He is currently the global SME for Service Provider business development, multi-tenancy and vCloud Director design as part of the Field Enablement team within the VCE Corporate Engineering Group. Previous to this role he helped develop Service Provider and Vertical Solutions for VCE, helping customers by providing pre-tested and validated guidelines for running different applications on Vblock platforms, including Cisco Unified Communications, VMware vCloud Director, and ESRI ArcGIS Server among others.

Prior to joining VCE, Mr. Dooley was the Director of Engineering for Managed Services at Peak 10, a regional service provider based in Charlotte, NC. He directed the overall strategy, design and development of Peak 10's Managed Services platform, which included the company's Cloud Services, Data Protection, Managed Storage, Managed Security Device Management and BC/DR divisions. He has also held technology positions in the medical, law and tele0communications field during his career.

Christian Sullivan
Community Relations & Engagement Supervisor, Ignite Social Media

At Ignite Social Media, the words “relationship expert” have a completely different meaning. Christian serves as Community Relations & Engagement Supervisor where she places an emphasis on building relationships to benefit the brands she represents.

Christian is also the go-to person for contests and sweepstakes management where it’s her job to ensure any promotion runs smoothly from start to finish earning her the prestigious title of “Promotions Master.” Christian has worked with top brands like Nature Made, Samsung Global Electronics, Chrysler Group and Intel.

Naoshi Yamauchi
Director of Analytics, Brooks Bell

Naoshi is currently the Director of Analytics at Brooks Bell, the leading independent firm focused exclusively on conversion optimization and A/B testing. As director of analytics for Brooks Bell, Naoshi uses data to strategize testing programs, then analyzes and translates the results to the client.

After working as a project manager for a pharmaceutical direct marketing agency, Naoshi went back to school to get his MBA from North Carolina State University. Most recently, he was the business intelligence manager for Lulu.com, where he managed and led projects to drive analytics-based decision-making in the company.

Hayes Davis
Co-Founder & CEO, TweetReach

Hayes co-founded TweetReach, a Twitter analytics service used by thousands of agencies, brands and entertainment companies to measure the impact of their campaigns and events on Twitter. At TweetReach, Hayes is responsible for overall strategy, day-to-day operations and product. He has 12 years of experience building analytics and real-time communication software for businesses.

Gary Storr
VP Business Architecture & Solutions, Nortel

Gary is the Vice President of Nortel’s Business Architecture & Solutions organization, driving strategy for the execution of the corporation’s restructuring plan. In this role, Gary is responsible for managing the business application strategy divesting Nortel’s multi-million dollar business units as well as establishing emerging residual companies operating independently in Canada, Europe, and the United States.

Gary has a broad range of experience in directing IT initiatives and has held a number of leadership roles in Nortel’s IT organization over the last 21 years. Prior to his current role, Gary led Nortel’s SAP Enterprise, implementing Global SAP solutions to key business functions such as Finance, HR, and Supply Chain Operations.

Jamie Beck
Services Marketing Manager, Cisco

Jamie Beck has been in the Tech Industry for 15 years with 3 of the largest global companies, Nortel Networks, Ericsson and most recently Cisco. He has worked in a number of different Marketing disciplines, most recently developing global programs for Cisco Small Business. One of Jamie’s passions has been global collaboration utilizing internal and external Social Media to drive efficiency and help others be able to spend more time doing things they enjoy.

Jeff Needham
Commercial Supercomputing, NetApp

Jeffrey is the Netapp Commercial Supercomputing architect covering Hadoop and Big Data. Jeff has an extensive background in scientific and commercial supercomputing; both in the field and product development. He has free-lanced as an architect triaging large database platforms that were initially understood as “Oracle performance” problems only to became examples of how not to design at scale. This led to a role in Yahoo Engineering hardening Hot Jobs, Groups, Mail and Search. In 2006, Jeff deployed one of the first Oracle/NFS wire-speed implementations. This led to a stint in RHEL Engineering where Jeff was responsible for the Oracle engineering relationship during a period when Oracle was attempting to displace RHEL. Jeff ushered SGI’s XFS filesystem into RHEL5.4, which is now a standard RHEL filesystem and ideal for both Big Data and Oracle.

Key Compton
Co-Founder & CEO of XGraph, Inc.

Mr. Compton is the CEO of XGraph (a subsidiary of Clearspring Technologies, Inc.), a leading data science company focused on modeling and monetizing the web-wide social graph. Prior to XGraph, Mr. Compton founded or co-founded three other companies: Solbright (acquired by Operative), which provides the online advertising industry with software systems to manage the advertising sales, operations and billing; Mimeo, an innovator of online, on-demand cloud printing services with over 4,000 clients and digital print facilities in both the U.S. and the U.K; and SoundSpectrum, a software firm that provides music visualization software and services. Mr. Compton has an MBA from the Columbia Business School and the London Business School and a BA from University of Vermont.

Sean Marsh
Co-founder & General Partner, Point Judith Capital

Sean focuses on Internet investments including the Firm’s investments in Sittercity.com, Spotlight Ticket Management, Ignighter.com, Multiply.com (acquired by Naspers JSE: NPN), Optasite (acquired by SBA Communications NASDAQ: SBAC) and Vaultus Mobile Technologies which merged with Antenna Software. Prior to joining Point Judith as a General Partner, Sean worked with Point Judith on behalf of Village Ventures beginning in June of 2001 and in that role spent the majority of his time working on Fund I investments. Sean has also been a board member or observer to Newforma, Inc., Handmark, Inc., Tower Ventures which was acquired by American Tower (NYSE: AMT), Andover.net (NASDAQ: ANDN, sold to VA Software, NASDAQ: LNUX), and Medical Metrx Solutions, Inc. which was acquired by AIG. He has been actively involved as a venture investor in 18 companies that have achieved over $1 billion of value through multiple M&A and IPO events.

Josh Shatkin-Margolis
Founder, Magnetic

Josh founded Magnetic™ (originally Domdex) in April 2008. Josh brings more than twelve years of experience in the field of online marketing and data. Previously, Josh spent 3 years at Yahoo where he was the Director of Engineering responsible for data processing within the advertising division. While there he contributed to the launch of the backend for the new Yahoo Advertising system called Panama. Prior to Yahoo, Josh was at DoubleClick for 6 years, where he served as principal architect responsible for all banner ad serving technologies. Josh has additionally worked as an engineer at PlanetAll, a social networking website bought by Amazon.com, PaintedWord, a multi-dimensional database software and consulting company, and E-Lytics, a website analytics company.

Roger Krakoff
Founder & Managing Partner, Cloud Capital Partners

Roger Krakoff is the Founder and Managing Partner of Cloud Capital Partners. Roger is also currently a Board observer of newBrandAnalytics, Iron.io, See Why? and the Flow. Formerly, he served on the boards of Aprimo Software (sold to Teradata), Intraspect Software (sold to Vignette) and was a Board observer at Interactions Software, Acquia, Blue Agave, Tervala Software and CiRBA.

Prior to forming Cloud Capital Partners, Roger was a Venture Partner for over five years at Sigma Partners focusing on the enterprise software, IT, and business services industries. During that time he sourced and made investments in eight investments which also included DocuSign, vLingo, WordStream, Virtera in addition to providing broad portfolio support in the areas of strategy, new customer acquisition and financing.

Doug Smith
Director of Product Management, Taleo

Doug is a successful leader and individual contributor, with a unique combination of technical, product management, business development, sales and marketing expertise in the Talent Management/HCM and Enterprise Software/SaaS markets. He has a proven record of launching new products successfully into the market and leading high impact product teams. As Director of Product Management at Taleo, Doug is responsible for product management for the job seeker experience, talent acquisition, and mobile products.

Eric Gregg
Co-Founder, TechMedia

Eric co-founded TechMedia, which produces technology and entrepreneurial events including Internet Summit, Digital East, Digital Summit and the upcoming Southeast Venture Conference. Eric brings his previous experience in venture capital and the startup community to help continue to foster entrepreneurship in the southeast and mid-atlantic along with the rest of the TechMedia team. He also serves as Publisher for TechJournal.org, covering the latest trends and best practices in the digital world.

Scott Baker
Sr Manager Virtualization & Cloud Engineering, NetApp

Scott S. Baker has been in the field of computer technology since 1989. Scott has held many roles ranging from signals intelligence analyst and software developer for the U.S. Army, applications designer for command andcontrol subsystems for the International Space Station at NASA, helping to start a software company focusing on software defect tracking solutions forMicrosoft developers before landing in the storage industry. Scott joined EMC Corp as a software engineering manager for their midrange platform where he developed an affinity for virtualization technologes. This prompted Scott to move into a field-facing role focusing on emerging technologies and messaging. Scott left EMC to join NetApp to lead the Virtualization Solutions Architects and Technical Marketing Managers. Scott has designed enterprise-class software applications and storage architectures for various companies, large and small. Scott is a VCP3/4 and holds a B.S. / M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia Souther Univeristy and an M.B.A. from the University of North Alabama.