He holds an MA in international economics from the Johns Hopkins University: School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a BS in international affairs from Georgetown University.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: International Research, Mobile Communications, VoIP, Social Media, User-generated Content, Web 2.0, Digital Media

Integrating his widespread digital authority in music, mobile, IPTV and product & service development, Ted Cohen is the Managing Partner of TAG Strategic.

In an industry that's been slow to embrace change, Cohen is the exception to the stereotypical music-exec rule. Of course, when you start a career on the road with Alice Cooper and Van Halen, you're more primed for the unexpected.

Known throughout the technology and music industries as being "part ambassador and part evangelist," Cohen was instrumental in crafting the licensing agreements upon which the Rhapsody subscription service and the iTunes Music Store were built.

In his previous role as Senior Vice President of Digital Development & Distribution for EMI Music (home of artists including Coldplay and the Rolling Stones), Cohen led next-generation digital business development worldwide for this "big four" record company, which includes labels such as Capitol, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis.  During that time, EMI led the industry by embracing and exploiting new technologies and business models such as digital downloads and online music subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio.

In addition to seeking out, evaluating and executing business opportunities for the company on a global basis, Cohen served as both a strategist and key decision-maker for EMI's global new media and anti-piracy efforts. He worked to establish company-wide digital policies, which have provided EMI's artists and labels a substantial advantage in the digital music arena.

Prior to his role at EMI, Cohen served as Executive Vice President of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded and served as Chairman of the groundbreaking Webnoize conferences.

Cohen also led two highly successful new media consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and various other entertainment, technology and new media organizations. Cohen also held senior management positions at both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media.

A 30-year industry veteran, Cohen was recently elected Chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas board, and currently chairs MidemNet, an international music/technology conference convened in Cannes each year.  Cohen also serves on the NARAS (Grammy) Los Angeles chapter Board of Governors as well as the national Trustee Board, the Board of Directors for the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund, co-chairs the new media arm of the T.J. Martell Foundation, and lends his time and talents to music & technology education efforts such as the Grammy In The Schools Program.

Ned Sherman is CEO and Publisher of Digital Media Wire, Inc., where he works at the center of the rapidly growing digital media industry. Under his leadership, Digital Media Wire has grown from a small newsletter publisher into a well-respected B-to-B brand that owns and produces six annual conferences - Digital Music Forum East and West, Future of Television Forum, Digital Media Conference, Future of Film Conference, LA Games Conference and The Millennials - and provides daily news, information and community to tens of thousands of executives and professionals at entertainment, media and technology companies throughout the world.

As digital media community-builder, Ned has established partnerships with the leading B-to-B media companies and educational institutions, including VNU Business Media, Billboard Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Reed Business Information, Multichannel News, Business 2.0, Business Week, CableFax/CableWorld, VIBE/SPIN, MidemNet, NYU's Stern School of Business, USC's Center for Telecom Management and UCLA's Anderson School of Management, and hundreds of the leading digital media companies, including Microsoft, Real Networks, Sony Corporation of America, AOL Time Warner, Napster, Yahoo! and many more.

An expert on legal issues and business methods, Ned provides value to his clients and partners by offering timely news and research, producing executive forum on cutting-edge topics, and leveraging his extensive network of media assets and strategic relationships across games, music, film, television and mobile industries.

Ned's background is in law. Before joining Digital Media Wire, Ned spent 7+ years as a corporate and entertainment attorney practicing at several of the leading law firms in the world with an international client base across industries including technology, Internet, media and entertainment.

As a founding member of the iLaw Group in the Entertainment Department at Loeb & Loeb LLP in Century City, he handled complex licensing transactions and financings for media and entertainment clients including Universal Studios and MGM and launched dozens of Internet and new media start-ups. He has counseled company founders from initiation of a business plan to seed, angel, venture capital and later-stage private financings and managed all legal aspects of Internet clients from corporate organization, stockholder relationships, board compositions and dynamics, stock option plans, capital raising and security regulatory matters, Internet law issues, trademark, copyright, content and technology licensing, advertising and privacy issues.

From 1997 to 1999, he practiced in the Los Angeles office of Mayer, Brown & Platt where his practice centered on representation of U.S. and foreign banks in complex lending transactions.

From 1995 to 1997, he was a foreign lawyer at Nishimura & Partners in Tokyo, Japan, where his practice involved international mergers and acquisitions and the formation of technology and entertainment joint venture companies. He also served as President of the Roppongi Bar Association in Tokyo.

In 2000, he was an Adjunct Lecturer of Law at Tulane University Law School where he taught an entertainment law seminar. Ned is a graduate of Brown University (AB, with honors, 1990) and the University of Texas School of Law (JD, 1994) where he was Chief Articles & Notes Editor of the Texas International Law Journal.

Ned is a frequent speaker at media and entertainment industry events, including MidemNet (moderator at 2004 and 2005 conferences), Digital Music Forum (host and moderator, 2001-2005), Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards (co-chair and host, 2004) and the O2 Digital Media Awards (judge 2004), and has been quoted in publications including American Lawyer, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Crain's Mermigas on Media, and interviewed on National Public Radio (NPR), NY1 Evening News and nationally syndicated radio shows, Inside Digital Media, WebTalk and Online Tonight with David Lawrence.

He sits on the Board of Directors of Wild Way, a non-profit dedicated to cultivating environmental awareness and developing educational programs for inner-city and “at risk” kids and has traveled extensively from Europe to Asia to South America to Northern Africa. Ned is married and lives with his wife and son in Hollywood Hills, California. 

Paul Sherman is the editor and publisher of Potomac Tech Wire, which he co-founded in 1999. He also serves as the president of Tech Wire Media, which consists of five regional technology publications: Potomac Tech Wire, New England Tech Wire, Southeast Tech Wire, Tri-State Tech Wire and Bay Area Tech Wire. He has moderated over 40 seminars on various technology topics, ranging from venture capital to mobile technology to government technology procurement. He is the co-chair of the annual Digital Media Conference held each summer in Washington, D.C. Prior to founding Tech Wire, he worked for three years as the news assistant at The New York Times bureau in Mexico City, and wrote for the Economist Intelligence Unit, Latin Finance and Time magazine for two years. Paul received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School in 1999 and a B.A. in political science from Brown University in 1992.

Aydin S. Caginalp is a former member of Alston & Bird's Partners’ Committee (the firm’s management committee) and the former partner-in-charge of Alston & Bird’s New York office.  He is also the chair of the Media and Digital Commerce Group.  His practice is concentrated on business transactions, including acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, private equity and general corporate and commercial matters, with an emphasis on international matters, entertainment and new media.  He is listed in “Best Lawyers” and “Super Lawyers.” 

Aydin has worked extensively in the media and e-commerce field in connection with the acquisition of technology companies, music, broadcast and production companies throughout the world.  In connection with Internet activities, he has worked in the establishment of ISP services, search engine companies, e-commerce companies and various initiatives involving delivery of music and entertainment products through the Internet, as well as digital rights management.

Haroon co-founded Freewebs.com in 2001 with his brothers Zeki and Idris, starting with $2000, a single server and the inherent desire to create a website building tool so simple even his mom could use it. The brothers Mokhtarzada founded Freewebs while studying for undergraduate degrees at the University of Maryland. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from the University of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in Economics, Haroon went to Harvard Law School, where he continued building the company while earning his J.D. As CEO, he remains committed to the members and still regularly logs on to chat directly with the Freewebs community.

Betsy Scolnik is president of National Geographic Digital Media. She oversees all NGV digital media and business initiatives, including operating Nationalgeographic.com and its digital extensions, and managing the National Geographic digital film archive and short-form video programming, production and distribution. She also heads content development efforts for the Nationalgeographic.com Web site and Digital Media's initiatives in the wireless, video game, broadband and education markets.

Since joining National Geographic in September 2005 as vice president of content operations for National Geographic Digital Media, Scolnik has been a key player in the expansion of Nationalgeographic.com, with the redesign of the homepage and the launch of worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com, the widely acclaimed world music Web site that both musicians and consumers have embraced. She launched National Geographic Podcasts, which regularly appear in the IPod top 50 podcasts. She has managed the growth of the short-form programming, production and distribution unit, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2006.

Scolnik has a wide range of interactive content and operations experience tied to the emergence and growth of digital media, including extensive international experience. Prior to joining National Geographic, Scolnik worked at AOL for four years. From 2003 she served as vice president and general manager entertainment for AOL Europe based at AOL's U.S. and European operations in Dulles, Va., and London. She was a key player in the development and execution of AOL's highly successful "Live 8" series of concerts.

Previously, Scolnik worked for StarMedia network, then the largest Spanish- and Portuguese-language Internet media company, where she ran business development and programming for the StarMedia services across South America and Europe.

Scolnik has a B.S. in international relations from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Julie Kearney is senior director and regulatory counsel for the Consumer Electronics Association. Ms. Kearney represents CEA before the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and other government bodies on issues such as digital television, digital audio broadcasting, spectrum and telecom policy, and intellectual property rights. Previously, Ms. Kearney was associate counsel in MCI’s international affairs group. Prior to joining MCI, Ms. Kearney was an associate at Haley Bader & Potts (now Garvey Schubert Barer), where she represented domestic and international telecommunications clients and numerous broadcast clients. Ms. Kearney currently serves on the Federal  Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee. Ms. Kearney earned a J.D. from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law and received a certificate from its Institute for Communications Law Studies.

Prior to founding mPortal, Mr. Venkatesh was with McKinsey & Company in their Hong Kong Office as part of their global Telecommunications Practice and worked with several leading global communication providers as a strategic consultant to their Boards and Management teams. His work included development of the strategy for an Asian conglomerate to expand its telecom business into China; market rollout plans of a telecom operator in India; global strategy for a large Pan-Asian carrier; and strategy for hardware manufacturer to add a new growth business in software.

Mr. Venkatesh led the Asia Pacific Communications Industry practice for Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC) and started CSC’s office in Asia in Hong Kong. Within 2 years, CSC’s Asia base grew rapidly to include 5 countries (Hong Kong, India, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia). Earlier in his career, Mr. Venkatesh held several positions in product management and marketing for Convergys (Nasdaq:CVG) in North America while working with communication providers in their BSS/OSS infrastructure needs.

Mr. Venkatesh holds an MS in Industrial Engineering and an MBA both from the University of Cincinnati, as well as a BS in Chemical Engineering from Anna University.

Mark Fratrik , Ph.D. has, since 2001, served as vice president of BIA Financial Network (BIAfn), where he conducts industry studies on the broadcasting- and related industries, and consults with clients in these industries about their strategic directions. Prior to joining BIAfn, Fratrik served for nearly 16 years as vice president and economist at the National Association of Broadcasters. He received his Ph.D. and MA in Economics from Texas A& M University, and his BA in Economics (Honors) and Mathematics from the State University of New York. He is the author of several articles published in academic and business journals. Fratrik teaches Political Economy of Mass Communication.

David E. Leibowitz, Managing Partner, brings more than twenty-five years of business, law and policy experience in the entertainment, new media, CE and IT industries. Among other activities, Mr. Leibowitz serves as a Senior Advisor to FAST Search and Transfer, Gibson Guitar, Motorola and MY MPO. Mr. Leibowitz also serves as Executive Vice President of Gotuit Media.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Leibowitz co-founded and served as Chairman of Verance (the preeminent audio watermark based content management and usage tracking company), served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Recording Industry Association of America, practiced law as a partner at Wiley Rein and Fielding, and was the Policy Planning Advisor to the U.S. Register of Copyrights.

Eric Siebert joined Clear Channel in 2005 as Vice President for Content Research and Development. In this position, Eric leads the company’s development of new audio, video and web-based content for distribution across multiple media platforms. His responsibilities include management of Clear Channel’s Format Lab that produces 75 channels of audio programming that is currently available in terrestrial, HD, interactive and cellular distribution channels.

Previously Eric worked in domestic and international marketing assignments with major consumer and technology companies. Prior to joining Clear Channel Eric worked as IBM’s Director of Global Interactive Marketing and before this, with Unilever as a Director of North American Interactive Marketing.

Eric holds an MBA from New York University and completed his undergraduate studies at Emory University in Atlanta. He lives in Greenwich Connecticut with his wife Karen and two children, Julia and Jeremy.

Representing America’s leading online media companies as Executive Director of DiMA, Jonathan Potter is actively involved in the development of U.S. and global public policy associated with digital entertainment convergence.  He frequently testifies before Congress and speaks at conferences worldwide, and was named one of Washington’s top technology lobbyists by Tech Counsel Magazine.  In 2001 Mr. Potter was instrumental in the creation of EDiMA, the European Digital Media Association.  He is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the University of Rochester.

Gary Arlen is President of Arlen Communications. Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland, research and consulting firm known for its insights into the converging and sometimes conflicting worlds of media, telecommunications and interactive program content.

For nearly 20 years, Gary has accurately analyzed the emergence of new media, forecasting the evolution of customer-controlled video and data services. Gary has published future-looking periodicals and consults for clients seeking strategic and business guidance to enter these new His clients include media, financial, entertainment, telecommunications and marketing firms - plus several interesting technology start-ups.

In particular, Gary is known for his insights into the development of applications, especially interactive content for Internet, two-way TV and other emerging systems. Among his specialties is what he calls "inter-species" breeding to integrate different types of services on new hybrid platforms.

Gary's outlooks are published in industry journals, and his commentary is widely sought in the business and consumer press.

Keith T. Tomatore is vice president of sales development and operations for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. He is responsible for ad operations, sales development, strategic planning, pricing and positioning for advertisements sold in conjunction with WPNI properties on interactive platforms. Keith oversees a department of professionals whose role is to develop, implement and steward innovative and integrated media plans and relationship programs for advertisers.

In addition, Keith manages product development for two of WPNI’s properties, Newsweek.com and BudgetTravelOnline. He works directly with their print counterparts to ensure consistent content positioning and innovation across all platforms. Keith also works with advertisers on those sites to create unique and creative advertising solutions that take advantage of their interactive medium.

Keith is a member of the Customer Experience Councils, private forums for senior executives who share best practices on customer experience, and he regularly represents Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive through presentations and speaking engagements at industry conferences.

Prior to joining WPNI in 1996, Tomatore developed extensive experience in company operations management. He worked with G. Brodrick and Associates, a meeting planning firm in Atlanta, where he had responsibility for all day-to-day operations. He was in charge of operations at Camelio L.L.C., an Atlanta-based design firm. Tomatore managed the consumer products division at Swiss Army Brands, where he also implemented company-wide prioritization and training mechanisms. At Connecticut National Bank, he managed the workflow division of the operations facility.

Tomatore graduated from The American University with a Master's in Public Administration, focusing on organizational development.

Jim Brady has led washingtonpost.com to numerous awards and accolades since being named executive editor of the site in November 2004. Under his leadership, washingtonpost.com has focused on combining the world class journalism of The Washington Post with the endless possibilities of the online medium. Whether it’s providing readers with easier access to journalists, taking the lead on developing online database journalism or equipping journalists with video cameras, Brady has led the way in making washingtonpost.com a site that strives to be “of the Web,” not merely “on the Web.”

Following Brady’s arrival, washingtonpost.com won its first national Emmy award for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, an Eppy for Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site, a Digital Edge award for Best Overall News Site, a Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism, a Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Newspaper Site, an Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Non-Broadcast Affiliated Web Site and more than 50 White House News Photographers video awards.

Brady began his online journalism career at washingtonpost.com in April 1995 as sports editor for The Post’s online site, then located on a dial-up network. Soon thereafter, he helped build and launch a modernized washingtonpost.com in June 1996.  In 1998, Brady took over as assistant managing editor for news, where he coordinated the site’s coverage of the Clinton impeachment proceedings.

In 1999, Brady served as Group Programming Director, News and Sports for America Online until 2001.  Later, he served as Executive Director, Editorial Operations from 2001-2002, where he helped manage the day-to-day operations of AOL’s programming unit and maintained service-wide editorial standards. >From 2002-2003, his final year at AOL, Brady served as Vice President, Production & Operations.  During his time at AOL, Brady was in charge of the service’s coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2000 presidential election.
               
Prior to his first stint at washingtonpost.com, Brady was a sportswriter at The Washington Post from 1987 to 1995. During his career, Brady has also worked as the Washington sports correspondent for UPI, interned as a sportswriter at Newsday and worked as a researcher for NBC during the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.

Brady earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Print Journalism from The American University in 1989. Born in Queens, N.Y. and raised in Huntington, N.Y., Brady lives with his wife, Joan, in Great Falls, Va. He is an avid movie and music buff, and still lives for his New York sports teams: the Mets, the Jets and the Knicks.

Carol Mattey is the National Leader of Deloitte & Touche LLP’s U.S. Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Regulatory Consulting Practice.  She provides a comprehensive range of consulting and regulatory compliance services to clients in the TMT industries, and helps them anticipate and address strategic and operational risks arising within the regulatory arena.  She uses her more than 20 years of communications regulatory experience to help clients assess the business implications of alternative regulatory paths and execute a strategy to achieve desired outcomes.  Ms. Mattey spent over 10 years at the Federal Communications Commission, most recently serving as deputy chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau.  She previously developed the Administration's position on communications issues at the Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and represented media and satellite clients while in private law practice.  She holds a JD and an MA in Public Policy Analysis, both from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the University of Virginia.  She is based in McLean, Virginia.

Ed is a Global Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) subject matter specialist for Technology, and he advises TMT companies in the areas of strategic planning, product innovation, competitive positioning, and technology commercialization. 

Ed leads the Convergence team in the Northeast, which develops Deloitte points of view on digital Convergence and products that permit clients to exploit Convergence, Community, Social Networking and Web 2.0 tools.  In addition to leading the New York Technology Fast 50 program, and being a leader in the Tri-State Venture Capital Practice, Ed also works closely with Deloitte Research in developing publications and podcasts for the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sectors.

Ed is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Selection Advisory Committee, conducts workshops at the annual meeting in Davos, and was a member of the National Academies’ National Nanotech Initiative (NNI) Review Committee, which was chartered by Congress to evaluate the National Nanotechnology Initiative program.

Ed speaks and lectures both in the US and internationally on the topics of digital Convergence, Community, Gen X/Y marketing principles, technology commercialization, technology trends, product innovation, business strategy, intellectual property and piracy, nanotechnology, technology transfer, and the financing of technology companies. 

Ed is frequently quoted in the media, and has appeared in such mainstream and trade publications and television shows as CNNfn, BusinessWeek, Wired, Forbes.com, Entrepreneur, B2B, SmallTimes, Nanotech Planet, PharmaVoice, Chemical and Engineering News, Informationweek, and the New York Law Journal.

Prior to joining Deloitte Services, Ed was managing partner of a Manhattan law firm, where he served a number of technology and entertainment clients.  Ed was also a managing director of a Manhattan investment and advisory company specializing in technology and media investments.

Tony Kern is the Deputy Managing Principal of Deloitte’s U.S. Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practice and leader of Media & Entertainment in the Americas. 

With more than 28 years of experience, Mr. Kern has directed worldwide consulting engagements for telecommunications providers, cable television operators and programmers, major media companies, broadcasters, wireless providers, broadband companies, satellite operators, equipment manufacturers and major financial institutions.  He provides management consulting related to corporate finance and restructuring, corporate governance, internal controls planning, operational optimization, strategy and business planning, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Kern is a frequent keynote speaker at industry events and has lectured at the Wharton School of Business.  He is a recognized industry expert by the U.S. Federal Courts in matters of TMT management and transactions and is quoted frequently in the major media.  He is also involved in many professional organizations, including the Federal Communications Bar Association, Cable Television Tax Professionals Institute, American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, the Maryland Historical Trust, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mr. Kern holds a BA degree in Telecommunications from Michigan State University.  He is based in McLean, Virginia.

Mr. Ferree previously served as Chief of the Media Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission.  While at the FCC, he developed and administered the policy and licensing programs relating to electronic media, including cable television, broadcast television and radio, and broadband services.  He also steered four major FCC merger reviews: EchoStar/DirecTV, Comcast/AT&T, HBC/Univision, and NewsCorp./DirecTV, and was credited with adding rigor to the review process while resolving each matter in the timely fashion required by Congress and the markets.

Mr. Ferree is noted for having played a key role in advancing the DTV transition and developing a watershed plan to end the transition.  He also managed the FCC’s entry into anti-piracy and copy protection matters, helped create the FCC’s Media Security and Reliability Council, directed the first comprehensive overhaul of media ownership rules in decades, and oversaw the creation of a regulatory framework for terrestrial digital radio.

Mr. Ferree previously practiced at Goldberg, Godles, Weiner & Wright in Washington, D.C., specializing in communications-related litigation, including FCC complaint and rulemaking proceedings.  Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 

In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Ferree has also participated as an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught Communications Law and Professional Responsibility. Mr. Ferree was also recently named to "The Lawdragon 500 New Stars, New Worlds" list. He is also a member of the International Board of Advisors for Digital UK.

David Greene is president of ClinicaHealth, the leading provider of online communities for health and wellness. ClinicaHealth provides safe, rich, engaging online health communities for patients and their caregivers in partnership with organizations including The Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease (WomenHeart), the Arthritis Foundation, the ALS Association, and the VonHippel Lindau Family Alliance. 

Mr. Greene currently serves on the board of directors of ClinicaHealth and on the advisory boards of Bisnow on Business, Government Futures, Findstuff.com and simetric. He also serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Harvard Club of Washington DC.

From 2001 until 2006, Mr. Greene served as the president of PostNewsweek Tech Media, a leading b2b publisher, organizer of trade shows and conferences, and provider of online services focused on government technology. In that role, he restructured and refreshed a diversified portfolio of media products including the venerable IT trade magazines Government Computer News and Washington Technology, and the FOSE tradeshow (a TS200 event).

Prior to assuming his role at PostNewsweek Tech Media, Mr. Greene served as The Washington Post Company’s director of planning and development, responsible for business development at the corporate level and working with the company’s operating units on acquisitions, joint ventures and strategy. 

Mr. Greene came to The Washington Post Company from the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm where he spent four years as an associate consultant and then as an engagement manager. At McKinsey & Company, Mr. Greene specialized in media and entertainment, managing engagements for several well-known global media companies in the United States and Latin America.

Before joining McKinsey & Company, Mr. Greene worked in line production on television projects for the CBS and Fox networks. Some of the projects Mr. Greene was associated with include The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys (CBS), Topper (CBS), and Great Detectives (Fox). Mr. Greene also worked as a story analyst for several companies including Morra, Brezner, Steinberg and Imagine Films.  

Mr. Greene graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was an arts editor of The Harvard Crimson. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he served as the publisher of The Harbus News.

Dave Ulmer is Motorola’s Sr. Director, Entertainment Products, defining and promoting seamlessly mobile media devices and experiences. A digital media pioneer, Dave has held a variety of executive roles with wireless, hardware, and software companies, including running the world’s leading CD-Recording software company and initiating its spinout as the original founder of Roxio and Napster.   Dave serves as board director and vice-chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum and has a long history of championing and chaperoning leading edge products into mainstream consumer markets.

Timmy Grins is co-founder and CEO of IHTV Inc., which runs the online video network www.itshiphop.tv.  As CEO, Tim oversees all aspects of the Company, including strategy, content development, production, personnel and artist development, where he plays a critical role in developing relationships with indie artists, such as Ill Bill, Hangar 18 and Jedi Mind Tricks and mainstream artists, such as Method Man, Rakim and Redman.  Tim is also the host of The Breakdown, the artist acclaimed channel on ItsHipHop.Tv. 

 

Tim has over 10 years experience in virtually every aspect of entertainment.  As an artist, he toured with big and small artists, nationally and internationally, while a member of indie group, Arcane, and has opened up for some of hip hops most ground breaking artists, including KRS-One and Cypress Hill.  As a tour manager, Tim managed the hip hop segment of the Vans Warped tour, a predominately punk rock tour.  Tim turned the segment into one of the most consistently packed segments of the tour, nationwide, which is remarkable given the preponderance of rock fans.  As a promoter, Tim developed the Elements Party into what the City Paper recognized as the number one place to see hip hop in the Mid Atlantic region for two years in a row. Tim's experience also includes artist management where he manages every aspect including negotiating tour, content, label and distribution deals.

 

Tim graduated with a degree in psychology from Towson University.

Art Bushnell is a 20-year news industry veteran with extensive experience in news and financial information services. At Voxant, Art heads business development and is responsible for strategic partnerships with leading news organizations such as CBS, the Associated Press, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and CBC. Prior to Voxant, he worked with Reuters, Thomson Financial, Proquest, DataTimes and UPI. Originally a reporter and editor, Art has spent the bulk of his career working with broadcasters, newspapers and Web publishers. After leaving UPI as deputy CEO, he led the U.S. media and new media business areas at Reuters. Art also spent eight years at Thomson Financial, leading Internet sales and directing advertising sales and hosting efforts for the Thomson Financial Network destination site.

With over ten years of experience in the new media, marketing and promotions, and the music and entertainment industries, Miguel Bañuelos leads the mobile promotions and marketing efforts for Ericsson Mobility World- North America. He is responsible for Ericsson’s marketing campaigns with major content brands, including Disney, Sony Pictures, EMI, Warner Music Group, Sony BMG and Universal Music Group as well as various mobile carriers.  
Mr. Bañuelos has been with Ericsson since early 2006 focusing on media and entertainment content acquisition, third-party promotions, carrier marketing initiatives as well as editorial and merchandising of multiple carrier portals.  

Prior to joining Ericsson, Mr. Bañuelos was Director of New Media Promotions and Marketing for V2 Records, and also served as lead Project Manager for Cornerstone Promotions conducting new marketing campaigns for major record labels, film studios and major brand initiatives.

As VP of Sales Randy is responsible for building PayPerPost's Solution Sales Team while also leveraging his considerable relationships within the U.S. advertising community to quickly grow PayPerPost's client base. Randy's team will be engaging C-level marketers and top tier agencies to demonstrate the value of consumer generated media. Randy brings 27 years of sales and sales management experience in both the traditional and new media advertising sales, much of it gained through relationships with America's largest advertising agencies and corporate advertisers. In addition to his sales management duties, Randy is identifying key candidates to join the PayPerPost management team.

Randy was previously VP of Sales for the Midwest Region for MySpace.com. Prior to his role at MySpace Randy served as director of sales at AOL and also held sales management positions at Tellme, Mvalue.com, Advertising Age and Gannett Corporation. Randy has worked with an extensive list of large brands including, Procter & Gamble, General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, McDonalds, Sprint/Nextel and Wendy's International. Randy has also worked closely with many advertising agencies across the country including Starcom, OMD, MindShare, Avenue A, Tribal DDB, Carat Fusion.

Patricia Polach is the Associate General Counsel of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and of counsel to the law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC, in Washington, D.C. She represented the AFM in the legislative campaign to enact the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 (and, in particular, in the AFM’s and AFTRA’s successful efforts to ensure that the Act would require the new income streams created to be shared with featured and non-featured performers), as well as in the initial rate-setting proceedings under the Act and in the negotiations that led to the spin-off of SoundExchange into an independent corporation managed by a board composed equally of copyright owner and performer representatives. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of SoundExchange. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University.

Ms. Phillips is on the faculty of the American University Washington College of Law.  She teaches communications and intellectual property law and serves as the Assistant Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic.  She also helped found the law school’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property to promote the public interest in copyright, patent, trademark communications, technology and related fields.  Before joining the WCL faculty to help launch these programs in 2001, she was Chief of the Legal Branch of the Mass Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission and counsel in the Office of General Counsel.  While at the FCC she worked on a wide range of mass media policy proceedings including those related to broadcast ownership, broadcast public interest obligations, digital television conversion, children’s television, public television and political programming.  Before joining the FCC she served as the Assistant General Counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities and practiced communications and intellectual property law at Wiley, Rein and Fielding in Washington D.C. and clerked for Edward S. Northrop, U.S. District Judge in Baltimore, Maryland.  Her articles include Commodification, Intellectual Property and the Women of Gee’s Bend, 15 AM. U. J. GENDER SOC. POLICY & L. 359 (2007) and On Media Consolidation, the Public Interest and Angels Earning Wings, 55 AM. U. L. REV. 613 (2004).

Mike Vorhaus is the managing director who founded the Magid Internet and New Media research and consultation practice in 1995, beginning with projects for AOL and Excite. Mike has participated in hundreds of studies for our clients and personally consults a number of leading Internet and gaming companies. Mike has been involved in strategic and tactical consulting, including the launch of new services and programming, as well as development and implementation of online and offline marketing programs. Mike has also been extensively involved in video and PC gaming strategies for a number of major gaming companies, as well as the development of game concepts. Mike has also consulted on a number of film projects such as You've Got Mail and The Matrix. He holds a B.S. in psychology and sociology from Wesleyan University and has worked as a fundraiser and transfer of technology officer at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California. Mike also worked for the U.S. House of Representatives, The U.S. Senate, and for two administrations in the White House.

Mr. Oxenford’s practice focuses on media issues, representing broadcast stations, financial institutions, consulting firms, program providers, trade associations, and others involved in the industry. His practice involves both transactional and regulatory matters, including counseling clients on issues relating to the Internet. He represents the International Webcasters Association, and represented 29 State Broadcast Associations in filing comments before the Copyright Office on the issue of the applicability of Digital Millennium Copyright Act to broadcasters who stream their signals.

He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, and received his law degree, with distinction, from Emory University.

Jim Griffin is Managing Director of OneHouse LLC, dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and works as a consultant to absorb uncertainty about the digital delivery of art.

In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for magazines, and is on the boards of companies and associations. He started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an International Representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C.

While at Geffen, Jim led a team that in June of 1994 distributed the first full-length commercial song on-line, by Aerosmith. Geffen was the first entertainment company to install a web server, and Geffen World was one of the first corporate intranet sites. Geffen was named by Network World in 1996 as one of the world’s top 25 technology companies, and one of only seven in the United States.

Jim is co-founder of the Pho group. Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets for discussion-oriented meals in cities around the world, electronically linked by the Pho mailing list. Pho’s many thousands of readers enjoy dialogue on the digital delivery of art and the new economy in music, movies, books and all media.

Jim testified in July 2000 before the Senate Judiciary Committee at its oversight hearing on file sharing and music licensing. He regularly moderates video and television shows on digital entertainment. He is often a keynote speaker or moderator at conferences (Internet Summit, Giga Conference, Comdex, CES, Webnoize, and many others) and lectures annually at business schools (Harvard, USC, UCLA, Berkeley). He also serves as an expert witness in digital entertainment, and has presented many Continuing Legal Education courses.

In addition to work with music, his expertise includes wireless work in Europe, including at Nokia’s Research Center in Helsinki, Finland, and with numerous companies in Finland and throughout Europe. He’s moderated numerous panels on wireless and given speeches on wireless issues around the world, ranging from music conferences to parliament meetings in Europe. He is a regular speaker at entertainment industry events and corporate and association meetings.

John Funge is the CEO and founder of Incando Corporation, the people behind Pickle. Pickle is a next-generation personal media sharing service that lets users send videos and photos directly from their mobile phones to any website. Powered by Pickle is a customizable platform for publishers to receive, manage, and publish audience-generated content. John is responsible for overall leadership of the firm and setting the strategic direction.

Previously, John was a vice president at CMGI Solutions where he was responsible for merger integration and providing senior management oversight for client engagements. As well, John worked for Sapient where he managed client relationships with Nextel and Cablevision.

John was the CEO and founder of Clara Vista, an Internet professional services firm that designed and built large-scale Internet systems for clients such as Net2000
Communications, Bell Atlantic, and the American Red Cross. With 60 team members, the profitable Clara Vista was acquired by CMGI in 1999.

John started his career as a systems engineer for Bell Atlantic and Pulse Technologies developing enterprise information systems within the telecommunications industry.

John is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Fred McIntyre, Senior Vice President, AOL Video, AOL

Bruce Campbell President, Digital Media Emerging Networks and Business Development Group, Discovery Communications

Michael Huppe, General Counsel, SoundExchange
 

Kurt Hanson, Publisher, RAIN: Radio and Internet Newsletter

Brent Muhle, General Manager, Nettwerk Music Group

Gregg Smith, COO & EVP, Acuity Mobile