Ryan Allis
CEO, iContact

Ryan is a technology entrepreneur and social entrepreneur from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Ryan has been an entrepreneur since he started Allis Computing at age 11 in 1995. Today, Ryan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iContact, the leading global provider of email marketing services to small and mid-sized businesses.

Ryan has built North Carolina-based iContact from its start in July 2003 to its current size with over 190 employees, 60,000 customers, and $35 million in annual sales. iContact has raised $13.3M in investment from NC IDEA, Updata Partners, and North Atlantic Capital.

iContact has twice made the INC 500 list. In 2008, iContact was named the fastest growing software company in North Carolina by INC Magazine and in 2009 the Software Company of the Year by the North Carolina Technology Association. In 2008 Ryan was named as Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Carolinas with his partner and iContact co-founder Aaron Houghton. Ryan is the author of the book Zero to One Million, which reached the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list. Ryan is now working on Dare Mighty Things for publication in 2011.

Steve Malik
President, Intuit Health

Steve Malik is president and general manager of Intuit Health, leading the company's initiatives to strengthen the provider-patient relationship and improve healthcare through innovative Internet connected services. He joined Intuit in May 2010 following the acquisition of Medfusion for $91 million, the Cary, N.C. company he founded in 1996. Under Malik's leadership, Medfusion grew from a medical website development company to the leading provider of enhanced healthcare communication solutions.

Garth Moulton
Senior Director of Community, Salesforce.com and Co-Founder of Jigsaw

Garth Moulton is the Salesforce.com ambassador to the Jigsaw community which he co-founded. Jigsaw is the world’s largest database of up-to-date, downloadable, and complete contact information, and was acquired by Salesforce.com for $142 million in 2010. Before that Garth was a successful sales executive at several technology firms. These included Digital Impact (DIGI), Sawyer Media, Personify, Open Environment Corporation and Cambridge Information Network (CIN). In this time, Garth developed and managed accounts ranging from high profile Fortune 500 enterprises to numerous mid-sized businesses and covered a wide swath of industries. Garth graduated magna cum laude from Brown University.

Scot Wingo
CEO and Co-Founder, ChannelAdvisor

As president and CEO of ChannelAdvisor, Scot Wingo leads the company in its mission to provide retailers and manufacturers with the software and services needed to successfully sell their products via online sales channels. Prior to launching ChannelAdvisor, Scot occupied the roles of general manager of GoTo Auctions, CEO and co-founder of AuctionRover.com (acquired by GoTo.com) and CEO and co-founder of Stingray Software (acquired by RogueWave).

In tandem with his work at ChannelAdvisor, Scot authors two blogs: eBay Strategies, http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com, and Amazon Strategies, www.amazonstrategies.com, and contributes to the following blogs: ChannelAdvisor Blog at http://blog.channeladvisor.com/, Search Marketing at http://www.searchmarketing.com/ and Comparison Shopping Engine Strategies, www.csestrategies.com

Jason Caplain (Moderator)
General Partner and Co-founder, Southern Capitol Ventures

One of the faces of the internet economy in the southeast, Jason is a general partner and co-founder of Southern Capitol Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with portfolio companies like Art.com, eTix, ChannelAdvisor and ReverbNation. A frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, Jason is very active in the technology scene of the southeast and mid-atlantic. His blog can be read here.