Speakers

The Big Money's Untethered 2010 conference will bring together the business and technology leaders who are shaping this quickly evolving market for an intense day of discussion and debate.

Trip Adler

CEO and Co-Founder, Scribd

Trip Adler is CEO and co-founder of Scribd, the largest social publishing and reading site in the world with more than 50 million readers each month. Adler is the product visionary who started Scribd with two other co-founders with the simple observation — that even with the proliferation of blogs and other self-publishing tools, there was no easy way for people to publish to a readership of millions. Today, Scribd makes it incredibly simple for anyone to share and discover informative, entertaining and original written content on the web and mobile devices. Adler’s vision is to liberate the written word, to connect people and organizations with the information and ideas that matter most to them. Scribd is backed by Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Paul Graham's Y Combinator, the Kinsey Hills Group and several prominent angel investors. 

Anthony Astarita

Vice President Digital Products, Barnes & Noble

Anthony Astarita joined Barnes & Noble in 1998 and was appointed vice president of digital products in 2007. He is responsible for all aspects of developing and creating nook eReaders, including the nook 3G + WiFi ereader that was named Best of the Best at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, One of the 10 Top Gadgets of 2009 and Best Travel Gadgets of 2009 by Time Magazine, and winner of the Best New Gadget Award at TechCrunch's 2009 Crunchies awards. Previously, as vice president of e-commerce, his responsibilities included launching the highly successful Barnes & Noble BookQuest used book marketplace and managing the online used and new textbook business. Prior to joining Barnes & Noble, Astarita worked for GE Capital, where he was vice president of GE Equity. He holds an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he also earned a BS and a master's degree in mechanical engineering.

 

JoAnne Boyle

President, Seton Hill University

JoAnne Boyle has served as the ninth President of Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania since 1987. Previously, she was a professor of English at Seton Hill and chair of the English department. Boyle has led the transition of Seton Hill from a women's undergraduate college of 400 students to a coeducational university with an enrollment of more than 2,000. In addition to more than 30 undergraduate programs, the university has added graduate programs in eight areas, including business administration. During Boyle's tenure, Seton Hill has strengthened its international programs of faculty and student exchange, established the E-Magnify Women's Business Center and the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, created new performing arts and recreational centers, opened the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine at Seton Hill Medical School, and developed partnerships and programs in the health sciences, visual and performing arts,and business that serve the regional community.

 

Steven Brill

Co-Founder, Press+

Steven Brill conceived of Press+, his most recent enterprise, as a new company offering an innovative system for newspaper, magazine and other online publishers to realize revenue from the digital distribution of the original journalism they produce. For years, he has taught a seminar for aspiring journalists at Yale College and recently began teaching a seminar at Yale Law School covering modern media law issues, including how the Internet has affected journalism and the media industry. Three years after graduating from Yale Law School, Brill founded The American Lawyer magazine, which soon expanded into a national chain of daily and weekly legal newspapers. In 1991, he launched Court TV. He sold the both in 1997 and returned to journalism full time, founding Brill’s Content, a magazine about the media. Brill then researched and wrote After: The Rebuilding and Defending of America in the September 12 Era, a book focused on the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.

 

Ryan Charles

Mobile Product Leader, Zagat Survey

Ryan Charles leads mobile product development and marketing for Zagat Survey, the world's leading provider of consumer survey-based information. The products he manages include Webby nominated apps and sites including Zagat To Go for iPhone and Android, Zagat.mobi and the pioneering augmented reality application NRU – a joint venture with lastminute.com. Mobile industry leaders including Apple and Google have featured his mobile products in various campaigns and promotions. Charles' most recent project is Zagat To Go for iPad, currently the top selling travel application on the platform. His previous roles include interactive marketing and product development in the e-commerce field. Charles earned his BA from Brown University.

 

Sarah Chubb

President, Condé Nast Digital

As president of Condé Nast Digital, which she has led since its inception in 1996, Sarah Chubb oversees 26 award-winning websites in a diverse range of categories, as well as the development of digital reader apps for magazines including GQ, Vanity Fair, Glamour and The New Yorker. Chubb has steered Condé Nast Digital sites through many technological innovations and enhancements, including video, mobile features and numerous multiplatform content-distribution deals. She also was responsible for several high-profile acquisitions and the development of Epicurious TV, the first television program to be spawned from the Web. Chubb is an industry advocate and pioneer. She is a member of the executive committee of the Online Publishers Association and serves on several boards, including those of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and New York University's M.S. in Publishing. Chubb has been involved in new and traditional media for more than 20 years, at Condé Nast's Allure and Vogue and as a member of the launch teams for Elle and New York Woman.

 

Mark Coker

CEO, Smashwords

Mark Coker is the founder of Smashwords, an e-book publishing and distribution platform serving thousands of independent authors and publishers around the world. The service publishes and distributes more than 10,000 original e-book titles. Smashwords has gained international attention for its simple but radical idea: provide a free service that allows any author or publisher, anywhere in the world, to publish an e-book in seconds, and make it available for immediate sampling, sale and distribution to a worldwide audience via major e-book retailers and mobile app platforms such as the Apple iPad iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo, Amazon, Aldiko and Stanza. Coker is a contributing blogger to the Huffington Post, where he blogs about e-books and the future of publishing.

 

Peter C. Davis

President, McGraw-Hill Education, The McGraw-Hill Companies

As president of McGraw-Hill Education, Peter Davis is responsible for leading one of the world's top educational publishers, serving teachers and students across virtually every aspect of the growing global education market, from pre-K through professional learning. He has spearheaded a range of important growth initiatives for McGraw-Hill Education, including leading efforts to expand its use of technology to deliver content digitally across multiple customer sets and distribution channels. Davis joined The McGraw-Hill Companies in 2006 as executive vice president of global strategy, and he worked closely with the corporation's senior management team to build global business opportunities, strengthen its presence in existing markets, and develop partnerships and new business opportunities for the company's education, financial services and information and media businesses. Earlier in his career, he was a managing director at Novantas and a senior partner at Booz Allen Hamilton.

 

David J. Donovan

Senior Vice President of Business Development, IREX North America

David Donovan is responsible for global content and partner operations at IREX North America. As a 30-year seasoned executive with deep expertise in developing emerging markets and technologies, he has led business and engineering teams worldwide in growing revenue and market share in commercial markets for wireless and wired communications systems. Most recently, Donovan was vice president of business development at startup Bitwave Semiconductor, where he evangelized a new programmable radio transceiver chip technology into next-generation handset and femtocell platforms. He has held positions in applications engineering, wireless systems, marketing and business development at large companies and startups including Analog Devices, Harris/Intersil, Anadigics, Plessey/Mitel, Spirea and Eonic. Donovan holds a BS in electrical engineering and an MBA.

 

Sarah Rotman Epps

Analyst, Consumer Product Strategy, Forrester Research

Sarah Rotman Epps is an analyst on Forrester's consumer product strategy team focused on media and devices. Her research focuses on changing consumer behavior, changing advertiser demands and how publishers can adapt to grow revenue profitably online. She is a leading expert in e-books and e-readers. Her research has been quoted in the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and The Economist, and she has appeared as an expert on Bloomberg TV, CBS News, CNBC and NPR. Epps joined Forrester in 2004. Prior to her analyst role, she was a researcher and an editor, supporting Forrester's research in the travel, retail and financial services industries. Before joining Forrester, Epps was the publishing director at Let's Go Publications, where she oversaw the publication of its series of 40 travel guides. She holds a BA in visual and environmental studies from Harvard University.

 

Donald E. Graham

Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company

Donald Graham became CEO of The Washington Post Company in 1991 and chairman of the board in 1993. He was publisher of The Post from 1979 until 2000 and chairman of the newspaper from 2000 to 2008. After graduating from Harvard College, Graham was drafted and served as an information specialist with the 1st Cavalry Division in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. He was a patrolman with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department from 1969 to 1970, joined The Washington Post in 1971 as a reporter and subsequently held several news and business positions at the newspaper and at Newsweek. Graham is chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program, a private foundation which, since 1999, has helped double the number of D.C. public high school students going on to college and triple the number graduating from college. He is a trustee or director of the Federal City Council, the Philip L. Graham Fund, Facebook, The Summit Fund of Washington, the College Success Foundation and KIPP-DC.

 

Steve Hayden

Vice Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Steve Hayden is one of the most celebrated and admired creative leaders in marketing today. He started his career as a copywriter for General Motors corporate, dabbled in TV scriptwriting, and eventually focused exclusively on advertising. After honing his craft at a number of agencies on accounts from Porsche to Pizza Hut, Hayden was recruited to Chiat Day, where he and Lee Clow made advertising history as co-creators of the "1984" campaign for Apple. In 1986, Hayden moved to BBDO to become the chairman and CEO of West Coast operations. In 1994, Ogilvy asked him to join the agency as "brand steward" for the IBM global account. While leading IBM's renewal, Hayden played a key role with other major brands including American Express, Kodak, Motorola, Dove, Cisco and SAP. Hayden drove engagement with digital communications, helping the firm to become a leader in interactive media. He was an early proponent of integrated communications, and an early adopter of advertising and technology innovations.

 

Brad Inman

Founder and CEO, Vook

The founder and CEO of Vook, Brad Inman is a visionary entrepreneur with a wealth of experience starting and running Internet businesses that move industries and consumer experiences forward. Vook is the leading mixed-media e-book publisher. Prior to Vook, Inman founded TurnHere, a platform for online video production that deploys 12,000 professional filmmakers across more than 50 countries. A former journalist, he also is the founder of Inman News, the leading online real estate trade publication, and the online real estate company HomeGain, which he sold to Classified Ventures in 2005.

 

Matt Jones

Vice President, Mobile Strategy and Operations, Gannett Digital

Matt Jones is responsible for the mobile and wireless initiatives of Gannett's 106 domestic local print and broadcast properties and USA TODAY. He manages products and applications including 100+ mobile websites, Gannett's mobile advertising network, USA TODAY iPhone, iPad and Android applications and Gannett's partnership with 4INFO, a leading mobile services company. He also manages strategic partnerships with Apple, Google, Verizon Wireless, AT&T and other mobile ecosystem companies. Prior to joining Gannett Digital in 2006, Jones was director of mobile products for USATODAY.com. He joined USATODAY.com in 1998, and has worked in a variety of interactive advertising, marketing, product and business development positions. He is active in industry associations including the Mobile Marketing Association, CTIA — The Wireless Association, the Online Publishers Association and the Open Mobile Video Coalition. Jones holds a BA from Hartwick College.

 

Cecilia Kang

Writer, The Washington Post

Cecilia Kang is a staff writer for The Washington Post, where she writes about trends and news from the intersection of government and technology. Through her stories for the paper and her blog, Post Tech, she explores how technology policy at the Federal Communications Commission, other agencies and on Capitol Hill can affect the bottom lines of Silicon Valley firms and set the stage for how users consume technology in an increasingly digital and wireless world. Cecilia has been at The Post for five years and previously covered technology for The San Jose Mercury News. Cecilia began her career at Dow Jones Newswires, where she covered financial markets in New York and led a bureau of four reporters in Seoul, South Korea during the Asian financial crisis.

 

Kevin Kelleher

Blogger, The Big Money

Kevin Kelleher is a writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He authors The App Economy blog for The Big Money. He is also a regular contributor at GigaOm, Earth2Tech and DailyFinance and has been a contributing writer for Wired, Popular Science, Portfolio.com, TheStreet.com and RealMoney.com. His work has also appeared in Salon, Consumer Reports, CNN Money, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and the Hollywood Reporter. Previously, Kevin was a senior editor at The Industry Standard magazine, west coast bureau chief of TheStreet.com, founding executive editor of Wired News and a reporter at Bloomberg News covering the collapse of the Japanese stock market. He holds an MS from Columbia Journalism School and a BA from Reed College.

 

Josh Koppel

Founder, ScrollMotion

Josh Koppel believes digital should be fun and thinks all media experiences could be better and more productive. His extensive background in video, in print and in mobile and his experiments in large-screen and small-screen media are the basis for ScrollMotion's innovative work. Koppel has produced work for MTV, AMC, Fine Living, Shop at Home, The N, Rick Rubin and Rage Against the Machine. He also has worked with Harold Ramis and Bob Balaban to create TV shows for Comedy Central and the Sundance Channel. In 2000, Harper Perennial published Koppel's visual memoir, Good/Grief. Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You, called the book "a lighthearted reading of Proust for the digital age." Architect Maya Lin hailed Josh as "the Woody Allen of cyberspace."

 

Edward Lazarus

Chief of Staff for the Chairman, Federal Communications Commission

As chief of staff for Chairman Julius Genachowski, Edward Lazarus oversees major telecommunications policy initiatives as well as the day-to-day operations of the Federal Communications Commission. He came to the FCC from Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, where he was co-head of the firm-wide global litigation practice and a member of the firm's management committee, overseeing more than 800 lawyers. He is a former prosecutor who served as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. Lazarus started his legal career as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun and for Judge William A. Norris on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Lazarus also is the author of the highly-acclaimed books Closed Chambers, about the inner workings of the Supreme Court, and Black Hills, White Justice, about the legal history of the Sioux Nation's land claims against the United States for compensation for the Black Hills.

 

James Ledbetter

Editor, The Big Money

James Ledbetter is the editor of The Big Money. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of CNN Money and Fortune.com. He is the former business editor of Time Europe and former editor of the Industry Standard Europe. He also is the co-editor of The Great Depression: A Diary, editor of Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx, and the author of Made Possible By ...: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States. Ledbetter currently is working on a book about Eisenhower's farewell address and the concept of the military-industrial complex, scheduled for publication in January 2011.

 

Priscilla Lu

CEO, Spring Design

Priscilla Lu is the CEO of Spring Design, an e-book product company with interactive multimedia capabilities, focused on media rich content access and display. She also serves as chairman of ZAP, an electric vehicle company and is the founder and managing partner of Cathaya Funds, a private equity fund for China focused on mature businesses leveraging cross-border alliances. From 2003 to 2009, Lu was a China advisor to Mayfield Fund and helped found GSR Fund, overseeing $1 billion investments in China. She also was the founder and CEO of ViDeOnline, a company that delivered digital media over secured broadband and mobile networks and the founder, chairman and CEO of interWAVE Communications, which built the largest set of mobile GSM and CDMA networks in Africa. Before this, Lu was at AT&T Bell Laboratories for 16 years, where she led efforts in digital switching and networking and CMOS VLSI microprocessors. She holds a BS and an MS in computer science and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from Northwestern University.

 

Marion Maneker

Columnist, The Big Money

Marion Maneker writes the Goodnight, Gutenberg column on the transition from print to digital publishing for The Big Money. Previously, he was a publisher at HarperCollins and an editor at New York Magazine. He is currently the managing partner of Collé, Höchberg & Grey and author of the blog Goodnight, Gutenberg on The Big Money.

Farhad Manjoo

Technology Columnist, Slate

Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist, and he also writes frequently for The New York Times, Time and Fast Company. He is the author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, which argues that digital technology is helping society abandon facts in favor of ideology. He lives in San Francisco.

 

Phil McKinney

Vice President and CTO, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard

Phil McKinney is vice president and chief technology officer for HP's Personal Systems Group. In this role, he is responsible for long-range strategic planning and research and development for all of the company's personal computer product lines, including mobile devices, notebooks, desktops and workstations. In addition, McKinney drives wireless and mobility strategic direction across all HP product lines as well as HP's involvement in industry standards bodies, ergonomics and accessibility. McKinney's blog and podcast on creativity and innovation, www.killerinnovations.com, has been ranked by CIO Insights as among the top must-listen podcasts.

 

Dae Mellencamp

General Manager, Vimeo

In January 2009, Dae Mellencamp joined InterActiveCorp as general manager of Vimeo. An Internet industry veteran, Mellencamp most recently was senior vice president of product management at About.com, where she was a member of the executive team and responsible for the website user experience and key strategic business relationships. Mellencamp was involved in all aspects of product development, design and strategy as well as supervising the product management and design teams and oversaw About.com's site redesign. Prior to joining About.com, Mellencamp led Cablevision Systems' Optimum Online broadband Web portal, responsible for product strategy, business development, operations and revenue. Previously, she was vice president of content for iWon.com, where she led the development of 17 content channels and a full suite of community tools. She also held Web product management positions focused on finance information and applications at Ameritrade Holding Corporation and Prodigy Services Company.

 

Brian Murray

President and CEO, HarperCollins

Brian Murray was appointed president and CEO of HarperCollins, one of the largest English-language publishers in the world and a subsidiary of News Corporation, in 2008. He oversees the HarperCollins global book publishing operations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India and China. Murray joined HarperCollins in 1997 and held several positions in the general books group until 2001, when he was named chief executive officer of HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand. In 2004, he returned to HarperCollins in the U.S. as group president and was promoted to president of HarperCollins Worldwide in 2007. Prior to joining HarperCollins, Murray was a consultant in the media practice at Booz Allen & Hamilton, one of the country’s leading consulting firms. With nearly 200 years of history, HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, meet consumer demand and generate additional business opportunities.

 

Bob Nell

Director Business Development, Digital Reading Business Division, Sony Electronics

An 18-year Sony veteran with a broad range of experience in marketing, business development and online services, Bob Nell is responsible for global business development for the Sony Digital Reading Business Division. He and his team are responsible for evaluating, developing and managing new strategic business opportunities for Sony’s Reader Digital Book.

 

Peter Osnos

Founder and Editor-at-Large, PublicAffairs Books

Between 1966 and 1984, Peter Osnos was a reporter and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and served as the newspaper's foreign and national editor. From 1984 to 1996, he was vice president, associate publisher and senior editor at Random House and publisher of Random House's Times Books division. In 1997, Osnos founded PublicAffairs, an independent publishing company specializing in books of journalism, history, biography and social criticism. He served PublicAffairs as publisher and CEO until 2005 and is currently its editor-at-large. He is executive director of The Caravan Project, which developed a plan for multiplatform publishing of books and is funded by the MacArthur and Carnegie Foundations. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review and chairman of the advisory board of the Chicago News Cooperative. Osnos has been a commentator and host for National Public Radio and a contributor to numerous publications, including Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic and The New Republic. He has served as chair of the trade division of the Association of American Publishers and on the board of the Human Rights Watch.

 

Jeff Price

President and Publisher, Sporting News

Jeff Price joined Sporting News in February 2010 as its president and publisher after more than 20 years as an innovator in the sports industry. His mission at Sporting News is to lead the iconic sports brand in its dual pursuits of serving avid fans across multiple platforms and delivering solutions to the marketers looking to engage this passionate audience. Previously, Price was president of SI Digital. He joined Sports Illustrated in 2002 and served as its chief marketing officer, successfully repositioning SI from a magazine-centric brand into a multi-platform sports media company. Earlier, he led sponsorship marketing at MasterCard and served as chief marketing officer for Millsport and Trackus. He started his career with stints at the NBA, Gatorade and Host/USA, running their Big 12 conference partnership. Price also is the founder and chairman of Digital Golf Solutions. He holds an MS from the University of Massachusetts and a BA from Bates College.

 

Vijay Ravindran

Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, The Washington Post Company

Vijay Ravindran joined The Washington Post Company as senior vice president and chief digital officer in February 2009. Previously, as chief technology officer of Catalist, the political technology startup that built a national voter database of information on more than 260 million people, he led all the technology aspects of developing the company's software products and services. During the 2008 election cycle, Catalist worked with 90 political and nonprofit organizations, including the Obama for America presidential campaign. Prior to joining Catalist, Ravindran was a technology director at Amazon.com, which he joined in 1998 as a senior software engineer. From 2003 to 2005, he led the ordering services group, the department responsible for consumer purchasing on all Amazon properties, and product development and operations. From 2001 to 2003, he built and led the teams that owned the core order processing and identity services for Amazon and its partners.

 

Carolyn Reidy

President and CEO, Simon & Schuster

In 2008, Carolyn Reidy became president and CEO of Simon & Schuster, where she has worked since 1992. Under her leadership, Simon & Schuster has taken an industry leading position in bringing its works to consumers using new digital formats and distribution capabilities. During her tenure, Simon & Schuster has published many acclaimed works, including books by Pulitzer Prize winners Doris Kearns Goodwin, Frank McCourt and David McCullough; world figures, newsmakers and journalists including Glenn Beck, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bob Woodward; bestselling novelists Mary Higgins Clark, Vince Flynn, Stephen King and Jodi Picoult; and practical advice from authorities including Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, Bob Greene and Rhonda Byrne. A recipient of the Matrix Award from the New York Women in Communications, she was named one of The 50 Women to Watch by The Wall Street Journal in 2007.

 

Mohan Renganathan

Senior Vice President, Global Digital Group Director, Starcom MediaVest Group

Mohan Renganathan leads global digital strategy for clients such as Samsung and Continental Airlines. He joined SMG in 2004, charged with leading the development of the digital media practice in the MediaVest New York office. He has worked with clients including Mars, UBS Financial, EarthLink and NBC. Renganathan was critical in establishing digital media as a foundational piece to his clients' marketing mix. His work and leadership helped contribute to MediaVest Digital Connections' 2006 Digital Agency of the Year honor from Advertising Age, and he was named an OMMA Rising Star in 2007. Previously, Renganathan was with Price Waterhouse Management Consulting, where he defined business specifications for large-scale technology implementations for global clients such as Nabisco International and Hoffmann-La Roche. Prior to joining MediaVest, he spent six years at Modem Media through the formative years of online advertising – including one year leading the digital media group in the firm’s Paris office.

 

Randall Rothenberg

President and CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau

Randall Rothenberg is the president and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the advocacy, marketing, research and supply chain arm of the U.S. digital media industry. Previously, he was the senior director of intellectual capital of Booz Allen Hamilton, where he oversaw business development, knowledge management and thought leadership activities. He also served as the firm’s chief marketing officer. Earlier in his career, Rothenberg spent six years at The New York Times, where he was the technology editor and politics editor of the Sunday magazine, the daily advertising columnist and a media and marketing reporter. For 10 years, he was a marketing and media columnist for Advertising Age. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story. Rothenberg holds an undergraduate degree in classics from Princeton.

 

Vivian Schiller

President and CEO, NPR

A media executive and journalist with more than 20 years experience in the industry, Vivian Schiller joined NPR as president and CEO in January 2009. Schiller comes to NPR from The New York Times Company, where she served as senior vice president and general manager of NYTimes.com. She oversees all NPR operations and initiatives, including the organization's critical partnerships with its 800+ member stations and their service to the more than 26 million people who listen to NPR programming every week. Schiller is charged with assuring the fiscal and operational integrity of NPR, offering a clear and strong commitment to continuous strategic growth, and building the organization and its philanthropic base in ways that support the mission of NPR and its member stations. Before joining NYTimes.com, she spent four years as senior vice president and general manager of the Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications.

 

Christopher M. Schroeder

CEO, HealthCentral

Christopher Schroeder is CEO of HealthCentral, the highest quality collection of condition and wellness-specific interactive experiences focused on people finding and sharing real-life experiences related to their health needs. The company reaches more than 12 million unique users each month. A veteran of online media, Schroeder served as CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, which hosts washingtonpost.com and newsweek.msnbc.com, among other leading news sites. Previously, he was CEO and president of Legi-Slate; a partner with Thayer Capital Partners; and with Salomon Brothers in New York. Schroeder also has extensive government experience, serving in management roles in President George Bush’s 1988 and 1992 election campaigns, and working on Secretary of State James Baker’s staff. Schroeder was a co-founder, and served as chairman, of the Online Publishers Association, a research and information organization comprised of the CEOs of top online content publishers.

 

Elinor Shields

Deputy Editor, The Big Money

Elinor Shields is deputy editor of The Big Money. Previously, she was managing editor of The Huffington Post. She also has worked as a senior journalist at BBCNews.com in London and as a reporter for Time Europe. Shields holds a degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and a degree in history from Cambridge.

 

Shiv Singh

Vice President, Razorfish

Shiv Singh is the vice president and global social media lead at Razorfish and has worked in its New York, San Francisco and London offices. In his current role, he is tasked with building Razorfish's social media capabilities across all platforms and devices. Singh also helps the agency introduce clients such as Mercedes-Benz, Victoria Secret, Microsoft and Citibank to social influence marketing, applying social media throughout a client's marketing lifecycle to build stronger customer relationships. He recently served as head of product during the incubation of Bundle, a next-generation financial web and mobile platform. He also is tasked with driving the social agenda for all the Vivaki brands, and is transitioning into Denuo as a managing director. Singh is the author of Social Media Marketing for Dummies and has published several articles and academic papers on social influence marketing, online community development and digital strategy.

 

David Steinberger

President and CEO, The Perseus Books Group

The Perseus Books Group's mission is to enable independent publishers to reach their potential, whether those publishers are owned, joint ventures or clients served by the group. During David Steinberger's tenure as CEO, the company acquired Client Distribution Services, Consortium, Publishers Group West and The Avalon Publishing Group, becoming the leading provider of sales, marketing, distribution and digital services to independent publishers. Today, the company publishes books through member publishers Avalon Travel, Basic Books, Da Capo Press, Running Press, Seal Press, Vanguard Press and Westview Press as well as through joint venture partnerships with The Daily Beast, PublicAffairs, The Nation Institute and The Weinstein Company. Prior to joining Perseus, Steinberger was president of the Adult Trade Group and president of corporate strategy and international at HarperCollins. Prior to that, he was a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and held senior positions in New York City government, where he specialized in turning around organizations in trouble.

 

Tom Turvey

Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google

Tom Turvey is director of strategic partnerships in the Search Services group at Google in support of Google Books, Google Scholar and other Google products digitizing magazines and newspapers. Launched in 2004, Google Books contains the searchable full-texts of more than two million books from over 30,000 of the world's most important book publishers. Turvey and his team were responsible for signing the majority of the publishers for Google Books and for striking the relationships with journal publishers for Google Scholar. Recently, his team added hundreds of magazine publishers as partners in Google's index for its launch of Google's experimental product, Fast Flip. Previously, Turvey was vice president of content and business development for ebrary; the founding director of the publisher relations and merchandising analysis group at barnesandnoble.com; and director of online sales and marketing at HarperCollins Publishers.

 

Jacob Weisberg

Chairman, The Slate Group

Jacob Weisberg is chairman of The Slate Group, a unit of The Washington Post Company devoted to developing a family of Internet-based publications through startups and acquisitions. The Slate Group's roster includes Slate, The Big Money, The Root and the video site Slate V, as well as the print journal Foreign Policy. His biweekly opinion column is published jointly by Slate and Newsweek. Weisberg joined Slate in 1996 as chief political correspondent, and he served as the magazine's editor-in-chief from 2002 until 2008. He has been a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington, and an editorial page columnist for the Financial Times. Weisberg currently serves on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors. His most recent book, The Bush Tragedy, was a New York Times bestseller in 2008.

 

Chris Wilkes

Vice President, Marketing and Audience Development, Hearst Magazines Digital Media

Chris Wilkes is responsible for leading online subscription acquisition efforts for Hearst and for traffic marketing programs including search optimization and email marketing. He also heads up e-reader initiatives focused on digital opportunities "beyond the web" in the app space and mobile. Since Wilkes joined Hearst in 2005, its digital footprint has grown to over 40 million monthly unique visitors and four million net paid subscriptions annually. Prior to joining Hearst, Wilkes spent 10 years at Ziff Davis Media, where he launched online subscription selling for their technology and gaming programs during the Web's early days. His unique career has been spent entirely in consumer media focused on digital direct marketing activities and business building.

 

Tim Wu

Professor, Columbia Law School

Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, the chairman of media reform organization Free Press, and the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? He was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American. In 2007, Wu was listed as one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine. Wu's best known work is the development of net neutrality theory, but he also has written about copyright, international trade and the study of law-breaking. He previously worked for Riverstone Networks, and served as a clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. Wu has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Forbes, and Slate magazine among others. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and once worked at Hoo's Dumplings. He holds a BSc from McGill University and his law dregree from Harvard Law School.

 

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