Sarah Lacy
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, PandoDaily.com

Sarah Lacy knows great entrepreneurs. After more than a decade covering business in Silicon Valley, Lacy is well known in tech hot spots around the world for finding great entrepreneurs before most other reporters or venture capitalists do. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the newly launched tech news site PandoDaily.com. Previously, she was the senior editor at TechCrunch.com, the largest blog on tech entrepreneurship in the world. She is also the author of the critically-acclaimed Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 (Gotham Books, May 2008). Called the definitive book of the Web 2.0 movement, Once You're Lucky tells the story of how Web 2.0 was born through the eyes of the founders of companies like Facebook, Twitter, Slide, Digg, LinkedIn, and others.

Recently, Lacy decided to follow the flow of capital into the developing world. She bootstrapped a two-year, 40-week journey through the Middle East, South America, Africa, India, China, and Southeast Asia looking for the best entrepreneurs Silicon Valley had never heard of. The result is her second book, Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos, which Fortune called “an outstanding piece of journalism” (Wiley, February 2011).

Brent Herd
Director of Southeast, Twitter

Brent is The Director of Southeastern U.S Sales for Twitter and is responsible for all Southeastern revenue and business partnerships on the Twitter platform.
Most recently, Brent served as Senior Vice President at ShareThis where he was responsible for North American revenue generation activities as well as business development partnerships for the company. Previously, Brent established himself as a leader in the South as he helped grow online revenue and introduced innovative partnerships for the combined AOL – Advertising.com entity.
Brent began his career at Yahoo! In 1998 in NYC. In 1999 Brent moved to Atlanta with Yahoo! and was given the Yahoo! Super Star Award in 2001, the highest distinction a Yahoo! Employee can earn.

Currently, Brent lives in Atlanta with his wife Carolina, his three year old son Sammy, his one year old son Dylan and his 130lb Bull Mastiff, Marshall. Brent enjoys spending time with his family, golfing and general aviation.

Frederick Townes
Sr Technical Advisor, Mashable; Founder, W3 EDGE

Frederick Townes is the Senior Technical Advisor to Mashable, from 2007 to January 2012, he served as the Chief Technical Officer, building / maintaining of the network of sites / products and scaling Mashable‘s infrastructure. He is also founder of W3 EDGE a new media oriented software development company. W3 EDGE has provided solutions for brands like: Constant Contact, CVS Pharmacy, Edelman, Hyatt, Kodak, Lord & Taylor, Microsoft, Sanyo, Southwest Airlines, Staples, Sony, REI, Weight Watchers and Yahoo. His passions and experiences are diverse, ranging from founding startups, user interface design and development, blogging and Internet marketing. Frederick currently splits time between Florence, Italy and Boston, Massachusetts and is a graduate of Boston University, where he focused on computer science and mathematics.

Tim Sullivan
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ancestry.com

Tim Sullivan has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director of Ancestry.com since September 2005. Ancestry.com is the world's largest online resource for family history, with approximately 2 million paying subscribers around the world.

Prior to joining Ancestry.com, Mr. Sullivan was Chief Operating Officer and then President and CEO of Match.com. Prior to Match.com, Mr. Sullivan served as Vice President of E-commerce for Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, Inc. and held multiple positions at The Walt Disney Company, including Vice President and Managing Director of Buena Vista Home Entertainment Asia Pacific. Mr. Sullivan holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Angus Davis
Founder & CEO, Swipely

In 1999, Angus co-founded Tellme, which revolutionized speech recognition systems today used by 1 in 3 Americans. In 2007, Microsoft acquired Tellme in its largest-ever acquisition of a private company. Prior to Tellme, Angus joined Netscape as their youngest employee where he was product manager for the company's leading Web browser.

Angus founded Swipely in 2009 to help local merchants accept payments, track customers, and grow revenue by unlocking the "big data" behind every transaction. Swipely is based in Providence with a world-class team and the support of Index Ventures, First Round Capital, Greylock Partners and others.

Curtis Brown
Chief Technology Officer, AOL

As AOL's Chief Technology Officer, Curtis Brown leads all aspects of AOL's technology strategy, platform development and external technology partnerships. Brown previously served as SVP of Engineering and CTO of AOL's global advertising business, Advertising.com. He is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience across a range of media and Internet driven businesses and has an extensive background in building and managing large web sites and technical teams. An Internet pioneer, Brown built and launched one of the first music e-commerce sites, CDNow, in 1995. He has held the title of CTO at Skymall, Oxygen Media, The Princeton Review, CTB/McGraw-Hill and Kaplan Test Prep. Brown graduated cum laude from New York University and has additional graduate studies in Psychology.

Duane Forrester
Sr. Product Manager, Bing

Duane Forrester is a Sr. Product Manager with Bing’s Webmaster Program. Previously, he was an inhouse SEM running the SEO program for MSN. He's also the founding co-chair of SEMPO's In-House SEM Committee, was formerly on the Board of Directors for SEMPO and is the author of two books: How To Make Money With Your Blog & Turn Clicks Into Customers. Duane was a moderator at www.searchengineforums.com, maintains his own blog at www.theonlinemarketingguy.com and used to write monthly for Search Engine Land.

Loni Stark
Director, Product and Industry Marketing, Adobe Systems

As director of product & industry marketing for Adobe's Digital Marketing Solutions, Loni leads a team responsible for defining solutions and go-to-market strategies essential to CMOs and digital marketers worldwide. Stark has over 14 years experience helping businesses apply technology to optimize critical functions to meet business objectives including building brand awareness and driving consumer demand. Stark co-founded Stark Insider, a west coast online magazine covering technology, theater, arts, wine and food to over half a million readers/year. She holds a Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Anthony J. Phillips
Global Marketing Manager, Innovation, The Coca-Cola Company

Anthony Phillips leads the global development and launch of packaging and equipment innovation projects at the Coca-Cola Company. He won a Gold Cannes Lion Design Award for leading the launch of the new Coca-Cola Interactive Vending Machine.

Prior to his position with The Coca-Cola Company, Anthony and his partners ran Persaud Brothers, a boutique marketing agency specializing in the teen and young adult market. Mr. Phillips began his career in brand strategy and market research at Yankelovich Partners and then moved into advertising as a Brand Planner at Ogilvy, in New York City working on American Express and Swatch.

Anthony mentors to youth through his non-profit basketball program, where he has raised over $50,000 in scholarships and won a National Championship. He is also a seminary student at Candler School of Theology.

Liz Wilson Thorington
Vice President, Ad Sales/Southern Region, The Weather Channel Companies

As vice president, ad sales/southern region for The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC), Liz Thorington is responsible for overseeing ad sales across broadcast, online, mobile, and tablet apps in the southern region, and further developing a truly cross-platform ad sales team for TWCC.

Among her affiliations, Thorington served for 20 years on The Magazine Advertising Representatives of the South (MARS) board, twice as president; was a member of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation (Rhodes Hall) board; and currently serves as a board member of the RED & BLACK, The University of Georgia’s independent college newspaper, for which she chaired the building of its permanent residence in Athens, GA in 2001.

Alexandre Douzet
COO and Co-founder, TheLadders

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sucharita Mulpuru
Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Sucharita serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals as a leading expert on eCommerce, multichannel retail, consumer behavior, and trends in the online shopping space. She is also a noted authority on technology developments that affect the online commerce industry and vendors that facilitate online marketing and merchandising.

In her research, Sucharita covers such consumer-oriented topics as eCommerce forecasting and trends, merchandising best practices, conversion optimization, and social computing in the retail world. She has also authored "The State Of Retailing Online," a leading industry benchmark publication.

Melanie Phung
Director of New Media, PBS

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

Franklin Witter
Senior Principal Security Strategist, Symantec

Franklin Witter is an accomplished information security practitioner working in IT across multiple industries for 15 years and over a decade with his primary focus on security for large enterprise and service provider infrastructure. At Symantec, Franklin is responsible for security strategy and direction, industry trends, threat landscape, best practices as well as trusted advisor to security executives, senior management and executives of our customers across the Southeast. He is an extension of Symantec’s CTO Office and works closely with the Business Unit Executives to focus on the real-world IT security challenges our customer face to drive Symantec’s overall security direction. Professional experience includes management of IT/IS, consulting and business development teams, information security strategy and architecture, information systems integration, information risk assessment and management, teaching, and project management from concept through implementation.

Franklin joined the Security Strategist organization after leading the national strategic services team for over 18 months. Engaging with our top clients, Franklin took a leadership role throughout the business lifecycle to perform business development, engagement management, and security program analysis for strategic initiatives. During this time he also held a leadership role in the development and deployment of the Symantec Security Program Assessment (SSPA), the Symantec Security Management Model (SSMM), and the Symantec Mobile Security Framework. Franklin holds an MBA from Auburn University and a BS in Liberal Arts from Southwest Baptist University. He also holds CISSP Certification from ISC2 and CISM certification from ISACA. In 2009, Franklin won the ISACA Geographic Excellence Award for North America.

James Kobielus
Big Data Evangelist, IBM

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

Brian Rich
Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Catalyst Investors

Brian Rich is responsible for the general management and investment policy of Catalyst and oversees the management of each fund portfolio. Since the mid-1990s Catalyst has invested in more than 50 portfolio companies and completed 100+ consolidating acquisitions. Prior to co-founding Catalyst, Brian founded and managed TD Capital, the entity that made Toronto Dominion Bank’s U.S.-based equity, mezzanine, and limited partnership investments from 1995 to 1999. As group head, he oversaw approximately 40 investments totaling more than $600 million. Before founding TD Capital, he was a Managing Director in the bank’s Media, Telecom & Technology Group. Prior to joining TD in 1990, Brian held positions at The Bank of New York and Intel Corporation.

Mark Cooper
Co-Founder and CMO, Offerpop

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

Paul Jones
Director, ibiblio

Paul Jones is the director of ibiblio, a contributor-run, digital library of public domain and creative commons media in the Office of Information Technology Service at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is also Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science.

Jones has a particular interest in social networks and in New Media. He was the first manager of SunSITE.unc.edu, one of the first World Wide Web sites in North America. He is the author of The Web Server Book (Ventana, 1995) and numerous articles on topics such as digital libraries and the Open Source movement.

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.

Dana Todd
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Performics

Dana Todd serves as the senior vice president of marketing and business development at Performics, the performance marketing firm owned by Publicis Groupe. She is considered one of the pioneers of the search marketing industry, but her expertise includes all forms of online marketing and interactive visibility. With over 17 years experience in digital marketing, Dana is known for leadership, vision and creative problem solving (and radical hair color!)

At Performics, Dana and her teams evangelize our relentless, revolutionist approach to search and performance marketing. Dana’s hunger for the next big idea drives our strategy for marketplace participation and she skillfully highlights the levers we use to create efficiencies, consistent incremental revenue and ROI gains for our clients. Ms Todd then co-founder of SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization) and its training arm SEMPO Institute.

Chip Kelly
Chief Information Security Officer, SAS Institute Inc.

Chip sets direction for global information security for the world's largest independent software vendor, SAS Institute Inc. His mission is to protect SAS' global information infrastructure from harm. Chip has been at SAS since 1984, contributing to marketing, sales, and IT operations. He has been leading the IT Information Security team for the past 12 years. Chip also represents SAS in ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Compliance Association), ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) , NCTA (NC Technology Association) and CSA (Cloud Security Alliance). Chip founded the Raleigh ISSA Chapter in 2002, and founded the Carolinas CSA Chapter in 2011.

William Dalton
Director, Corporate IT, Trend Micro

William Dalton is a Director in Trend Micro Corporate IT and leads both the Enterprise Architecture Team responsible for strategic architecture change and governance as well as the Corporate Technology team charged with responsibility for implementing new Technology into Trend Micro. Having worked in the IT industry for over 15 years with 8 of the later at Trend Micro. Mr. Dalton joined Trend Micro in 2004 with key areas of specialization in Cloud, Data Center Technologies and communication, and received multiple company awards for his role in Technology Innovation. Mr. Dalton graduated from Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland initially in the field Electrical Engineering before moving into the IT industry. His first IT role was leading the development team responsible for Data Collection and Manufacturing control systems in the Electronic Manufacturing sector before moving into Technology Management.

Stuart Taylor
Managing Director, North American Mobile Group, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco

Stuart Taylor leads the North American Mobile segment within the Cisco Systems Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). He heads a team of senior advisors drawn from the industry and the major management consulting firms who provide trusted, independent advice on a non-fee basis to senior business executives from Cisco’s largest mobile service providers. Before joining Cisco, Mr. Taylor was a Partner with Accenture, based in Boston and London, where he was a Partner in their Communications & High Tech Strategy Practice. He brings over 15 years of experience consulting to large mobile and wireline operators and high technology clients.

Mr. Taylor is a frequent speaker at industry events and has produced thought leadership material in the areas of Customer Loyalty in the Wireless Industry, Mobile Open World, Customer Self-Service in the Communication Industry, Managed Services, and Corporate Sales in the Wireless Industry. eMarketing, eCommerce, Broadband Sales & Marketing. He has led extensive customer research in the areas of the Connected Life and video consumption, and the use of Cloud services.

Christopher Kobran
Vice President, Brands and Strategic Partnerships, Kiip

Christopher Kobran is a 16+ year gaming & ad industry veteran with a diverse background in digital as well as traditional media sales and sponsorship management.

Prior to Joining Kiip as VP Brands and Strategic Partnerships, he led sales teams at Digg, Clearspring Technologies (now Add This) and CNET Networks (GameSpot). Chris has also held Sr. management, business development and sales positions at Primedia, GamePro - IDG and Sony Online Entertainment. He holds a BA degree in Media Studies from DePaul University in Chicago as well as an MBA in International Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (Middlebury College's Graduate School). When not trying to change the advertising world, he can be found riding his bike in Central Park, playing guitar or spending time with his wife and 2 children in and around Manhattan.

Erika Jolly Brookes
VP, Product Strategy, Oracle Cloud/Social, Oracle

Veteran technology and marketing executive Erika Brookes is vice president of product strategy for Oracle, working on the Oracle Cloud/Social business to help guide product strategy and development. Prior to joining Oracle, she was vice president of marketing and communications at Vitrue, a leading provider of social marketing publishing software for global brands and agencies. Vitrue was acquired by Oracle in May 2012 and is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle.

Throughout her career she has held numerous executive-level marketing positions with leading technology firms like Oracle, Vitrue, MindSpring, Earthlink and Rackspace.

Nate Romance
Sr. Manager of Global Practice Management, ExactTarget

Nate Romance is the Sr. Manager of Global Practice Management at ExactTarget. In this role, Nate is responsible for the functional support and development of ExactTarget's Professional Services team. He manages the Marketing Consulting practice which develops strategies to help ExactTarget's clients evolve their interactive marketing programs to achieve business results . He earned a Bachelors degree in Economics and Management from DePauw University and an MBA from Ball State University. Nate lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife Katie and son Liam.

David Morken
Founder & CEO, Bandwidth

David Morken is founder & CEO of Bandwidth, one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing communication technology companies. Founded in 1999, and a certified CLEC in 49 states, Bandwidth is headquartered in Cary, NC. The company operates four divisions – inetwork, Phonebooth, Broadband and republic wireless. David has led each division through tremendous growth since their inception including, most recently, the launch of republic wireless. As the nation's first Wi-Fi centric mobile operator, republic wireless leverages the disruptive power of the WiFi to provide members with unlimited voice, text and data service for only $19 per month with no contracts -- giving control, freedom and choice back to wireless customers across the country.

Prior to founding Bandwidth, Morken was called to active duty by the Marine Corps in 1995 and served four years as a Judge Advocate, criminal prosecutor and headquarters company commander. Morken is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School and a member of the Virginia Bar Association. He received his undergraduate degree from Oral Roberts University.

David Guy
CEO, LoudDoor

David Guy is the CEO of LoudDoor LLC. At LoudDoor he is responsible for developing and leading the execution of the firm’s strategy to harness the power of LoudDoor’s data to enable brands to win in an increasingly competitive Facebook ecosystem.

Prior to joining LoudDoor, David held senior positions at State Street Bank and PricewatehouseCoopers (“PwC”). David was a partner and led the Consumer Finance Practice at PwC where he built a practice focused on enabling major financial institutions to gather and analyze the consumer data and behavioral trends in their lending portfolios in ways to more accurately value, price and risk manage financial products. David is a Certified Public Accountant and has a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

Mark Rockett
Founder & CEO, Rockett Interactive, Inc.

Mark is the Founder & CEO of Rockett Interactive, a full service digital advertising and analytics company that specializes in the development of strategically integrated marketing programs.

Rockett Interactive has solidified itself in the ecommerce and online retail arena through the development of a proprietary marketing attribution methodology that eliminates media waste, deciphers new vs. repeat customers, and provides critical insights into consumer intent and actions.

Mark is a recognized “thought leader” in the industry and gives back to the community through guest lecturing at various regional universities. Mark has overseen the growth of the company to achieve the Inc 500/5000 rating as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the US over the past 4 consecutive years.

Sharon Knitter
Senior Director of Mobile, Cars.com

Sharon Knitter joined the Cars.com team in 2006 and is now the site's Senior Director of Mobile Strategy. In this role, Knitter works to enhance Cars.com's mobile site and mobile apps to better serve car shoppers on the go. She also assists with the development of advertising products for manufacturers and dealers to help them reach this growing segment. Knitter will continue to monitor the growing mobile space to help Cars.com identify opportunities for growth on multi-media platforms and lead the third-party mobile automotive space.

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

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

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

Matt Peters
Co-Founder & Creative Director, Pandemic Labs

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

Scott Calise
Director of Strategic Insights and Research, Viacom Entertainment Group

Scott, a proud East Carolina graduate, began his professional career in analytics in 2004 at PPD, here in North Carolina. In 2006, he made his way to New York City and discovered digital analytics as Site Metrics Manager at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia until 2009. While at Martha Stewart, Scott worked to develop and expand the company's use of their analytical tools and data to support business goals and decisions. He also helped encouraged Martha herself to use Twitter as a means to connect with her fans.

In March 2009, Scott joined Viacom Media Networks and is now the Director of Strategic Insights and Research for the Viacom Entertainment Group which includes brands like Comedy Central, South Park, TV Land and Tosh.0. Scott has spoken at eMetrics and the AMA and is an active member of the Digital Analytics Association (DAA), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and can often been found talking shop at a Web Analytics Wednesday.

Cameron Brain
Co-Founder, XYDO

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

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

Ori Hoffer
Social Media Strategist, General Services Administration

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

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

Jim Davidson
Manager of Marketing Research, Bronto

As an expert in email, mobile, and social strategies, Jim Davidson brings over 13 years of experience in online marketing, managing email and cross-channel programs for top retail clients. From strategic vision to implementation, Jim has led clients to successfully meet aggressive revenue and performance goals. As Bronto's manager of marketing research, he regularly publishes industry-focused white papers, research reports, and contributes to the Bronto Blog. Jim's articles frequently appear in leading retail, e-commerce, and marketing publications.

Steve Potash
President and CEO, OverDrive, Inc.

Steve Potash is President and CEO of OverDrive, Inc., a company he founded in 1986.  Under his leadership, OverDrive has become the leading multichannel digital distributor in the world for eBooks.  Today OverDrive distributes more than 800,000 copyrighted digital book titles and provides managed eBook and digital audiobook services for more than 18,000 schools, libraries and institutions worldwide.

Prior to OverDrive, Steve was active in the practice of law, served as Special Counsel to the Ohio Attorney General, served as an acting Municipal Judge, and authored technology columns for the American Bar Association Journal.  A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he earned a B.A. in Journalism from The Ohio State University and his J.D. from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He is currently licensed to practice law in Ohio and federal courts. 

Kim Alexander
Digital Media Editor, Garden & Gun

Kim Alexander is the Digital Media Editor for Garden & Gun, an award-winning national lifestyle magazine that covers the best of the South. She oversees the direction and growth of the brand’s online efforts, as well as the social media strategy. Kim joined G&G in 2011 from Time Inc., where she worked on the editorial side of several of their online entities such as AllYou.com (Editorial Director), MyHomeIdeas.com (Senior Editor), and CoastalLiving.com (Online Editor). Before working in publishing, Kim paid her dues in Atlanta, Georgia, working in interactive marketing and managing digital creative strategy at 360i.com for such clients as Alamo Rent-a-Car, Disney Home Entertainment, and ToysRus.com. While the bulk of her career has been focused on extending and growing traditional brands online, she still has learned to appreciate the smaller things in life, particularly small-batch bourbon. Kim lives with her husband in Charleston, South Carolina, roughly 27 steps from the beach, but who’s counting.

Mick Winters
Creative Director, Threespot

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

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

Chris Stout
Communications Industry Software, IBM

An early pioneer in digital video, digital voice and mobile devices, Chris has spent most of his carrier working with the largest communication service providers in the world. Chris is a North American leader for Telco, Cable, Media and Entertainment in the IBM Software Group. In his capacity he provides solution leadership in the areas of mobility, video delivery, big data, network management optimization, audience measurement, marketing management, and commerce. Chris works with leading MSO’s, broadcasters, content developers and information providers helping them solve business and technical challenges. Chris has held leadership positions in IBM Research, IBM Global Services, IBM Systems Technology Group and the IBM Software Group.

Kurt Michel
Product Marketing Director, Akamai

Kurt Michel is the Product Marketing Director for digital media products and services at Akamai Technologies. He has more than 25 years of technical development and marketing experience in telecommunications, data communications and media processing semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Akamai, Kurt was the Marketing Director at Mindspeed Technologies, where he helped drive the evolution Voice over IP (VoIP) and Video over IP. Kurt also held senior engineering development and management roles with Maker Communications, General Dynamics, and GTE. He holds an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University.

Kurt now drives the marketing activities for Akamai's Sola Media Solutions, which provide cloud-based video delivery for many of the world’s largest media streaming events.

Phillip Gooljar
Consumer Insights Manager-Digital, WWE

Education: - BAA from Iona College 2003 - MBA from University of Phoenix 2007
Work Experience: - Media Analyst at Mindshare for nearly three years on the Novartis account - Reporting Analyst at Media Contacts, one year on ExxonMobil, Dannon and Schering Plough accounts - Digital Analytics Associate at MediaVest, two years on Procter & Gamble account - Currently WWE Consumer Insight Manager.

David Favero
Southeast Sales Director, Shoutlet

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

Mark Torrance
Chief Technology Officer, Rocket Fuel

As Chief Technology Officer at Rocket Fuel Inc., Mark Torrance is driving the company's core technology development around predictive modeling and optimization for real-time bidding. He studied Artificial Intelligence at Stanford and MIT, where in 1994 he left his PhD and academic career behind to blaze a trail of entrepreneurship on the newly emerging World Wide Web. He started StockMaster.com as a hobby, then traffic quickly grew and it became the largest stock-quote site on the planet. His startup was one of the first and largest customers of the DoubleClick ad network.

Chuck Kesler
Chief Information Security Officer, Duke Medicine

As Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Duke Medicine, Chuck Kesler leads the organization's Information Security Office, which provides information security services for all Duke University Health System entities, as well as academic departments, centers, and research institutes in the University's Schools of Medicine and Nursing. He is responsible for establishing and managing all aspects of Duke Medicine’s information security program, including security strategy and governance, IT risk management, security policies, security awareness, vulnerability management, security event monitoring, and incident response. He also collaborates closely with the University's IT Security Office to ensure a tight alignment between the Duke Medicine and University information security programs.

Chuck has over 23 years of information technology and security experience. Prior to joining Duke Medicine in November 2011, he served as the senior manager for Symantec Corporation's Security Advisory Services consulting practice in the US. In this role, Chuck managed a team of over 15 security professionals who provided strategic security assessment and management services for large enterprise clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare and life sciences. His previous roles have included IT management and technical leadership positions with MCNC, which operates the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), North Carolina State University, and Interpath Communications.

Michael Schinelli
Chief Marketing Officer, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

Michael Schinelli is the Chief Marketing Officer for UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. His role is to build global awareness of the UNC Kenan-Flagler brand by defining the unique value of its world-class programs and centers for a complex set of targeted audiences including current and prospective students, corporate partners, recruiters, alumni, donors and media. Mr. Schinelli leads the vision, creative development, communication, measurement and monitoring of marketing strategies and serves as chief communications counsel to the Dean and his senior leadership team.

Prior to joining UNC Kenan-Flagler, Mr. Schinelli was AVP for Marketing and Communications at Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, N.J. There, he was responsible for designing and overseeing integrated marketing initiatives, brand positioning and creative development as well as public and media relations and development communications. These efforts contributed to a jump of 13 places in the USNWR ranking for the university in 3 years.

Nadine Watson
Director of Southeastern U.S. Sales, Media6Degrees

Nadine Watson is the Director of Southeastern U.S. Sales for Media6Degrees (m6d), a marketing technology company that revolutionizes the way brands think about their audiences and powerfully enhances their ability to find new customers. Her 13 year tenure in the advertising technology industry has spanned across leading media companies including Digg, TechWeb, InformationWeek and ZDNet. She is a member of the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association and the South Florida Interactive Marketing Association, both of which are dedicated to providing learning and networking opportunities for professionals in interactive marketing. Nadine has a BA in Communications from Adelphi University.

Duane Barnes
Senior Network Engineer, Windstream Hosted Solutions

Duane Barnes joined Windstream Hosted Solutions in October 2007 as a Senior Network Engineer, responsible for supporting the core network and providing technical support related to enterprise data center customers. From there he was promoted to Network Manager, and currently serves as the Manager of Solutions Engineering.

In his current position, Mr. Barnes is responsible for 8 Solutions Engineers throughout the U.S. focusing on architecting complex data center solutions involving cloud computing, network, security, load balancing, managed services, and disaster recovery services. Additionally he works very closely with the Product Development and Product Management teams to provide valuable input into the Windstream Hosted Solutions product roadmap.

Roger Mann
Sr. Consulting Engineer, Teradata

Roger has been in the computer industry for over 40 years. He became an early pioneer in the data warehouse industry when he joined Teradata Corporation in 1983. Roger has been involved in all aspects of the data warehousing including the planning, design, implementation and support of some of the most successful systems ever built. His experience includes implementing from small to very large-scale solutions. Roger is with the Teradata Warehousing Sales Support organ ization supporting Big Data solutions with Teradata and Aster Data products. Primary focus is on how to deliver business value from technical solutions. Roger has a Bachelors of Science in Business from the University of Redlands.

Scott Gerber
Founder, Young Entrepreneur's Council

Scott Gerber is a self taught serial entrepreneur, sought-after public speaker, internationally syndicated business columnist, television commentator, and author of the book ”Never Get a 'Real' Job”.

He’s been widely recognized as the world’s most-syndicated columnist on the subject of entrepreneurship. His columns appear regularly on TIME, Inc., MSN, CNBC, CNN, Mashable, The Next Web, and The Huffington Post. Scott is also a regular contributor on MSNBC, Fox Business and CNN.

Scott is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, a non-profit organization that promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to youth unemployment and under-employment, and co-founder of Gen Y Capital Partners, an early-stage investment company. He has been a featured speaker at the White House and has rung the NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell. In 2011, he was named one of Mashable’s “4 Young Social Good Entrepreneurs to Watch. In 2012, he was named a “generation Y employment champion” by Fortune Magazine.

Emery Skolfield
Head of Ecommerce, The Body Shop

A former sports writer who began his daily newspaper career at age 17 (before there were laptops), Emery's entry into eCommerce was as a Jr. Copywriter for the web team at HSN in St. Petersburg, FL. He spent four years at HSN, eventually leading the Digital Content team, launching the company's social media program and becoming an expert in online video and interactive content.

In July 2011, he joined The Body Shop, where he serves as Head of eCommerce and spearheads the beauty retailer's web businesses in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. He oversees all online marketing efforts, while leading the company's digital strategy and the creation and distribution of content across web, mobile and social platforms. He has a Pinterest account and uses Twitter as his primary news source.

Suzanne Miglucci
Chief Marketing Officer, ChannelAdvisor

Suzanne provides strategy and execution of ChannelAdvisor’s global marketing presence. Her responsibilities include company and product branding, public relations, marketing/communications, event management and demand management activities to drive ChannelAdvisor’s growth strategies. Prior to ChannelAdvisor Suzanne served as Senior Director of Global Procurement Solution Marketing at SAP where she contributed to the direction and market awareness of portfolio solutions. Suzanne brings more than 15 years of experience in high tech marketing to ChannelAdvisor, having held executive marketing and business development roles at SciQuest, Arsenal Digital Solutions (now IBM) and Computer Associates. Suzanne holds a Master’s degree from Colorado State University, and undergraduate degrees from Fitchburg State College.

John Landy
Chief Technology Officer, IntraLinks Holdings Inc.

John Landy understands the controls needed to securely share sensitive information used in business activities such as M&A, loan syndication and clinical trials. At IntraLinks he oversees more than 50 employees working in 15 countries. Previously, John was a Chief Architect and Vice President at JPMorgan Invest, the online brokerage subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase. He h as decades of experience working for both product and financial services companies, where he gained experience in IT enterprise architecture and developed a broad view of integrating products into larger architecture. John's experience creating customizable storage and collaboration solutions for 800 of the Fortune 1000 provides him with a clear understanding of what specifications businesses need in their enterprise offerings.

Alex Kutsishin
President, FiddleFly

Alex Kutsishin is the President of FiddleFly Inc, a mobile web solutions company dedicated to providing essential software to creative professionals around the world, building lasting partnerships with agencies and enterprise firms, and helping to pave the way for the future of mobile. His dedication to helping the industry evolve has helped FiddleFly spread to more than 80 countries around the world and be named one of Website Magazine’s Top 50 Most Influential Mobile Companies Worldwide. Along with bringing a unique approach to solving mobile web needs, Alex has written about the industry for a number of national publications including Mobile Marketer, Forbes, and The Washington Post.

Les James
Senior Front-end Developer, Capstrat

With experience that ranges from garage band websites to enterprise-level front-end templating, Les knows how to craft the look of the internet. Once rooted in photography and print design, he now pursues his passion at Capstrat by transforming visual designs into professional-grade HTML, CSS and JavaScript. For him, front-end development is the perfect balance between the art and science of web design. Away from the office his thirst for knowledge and evangelism of cutting-edge techniques have led him to speak at conferences and organize a meetup for local web professionals.

John Funge
CEO & Co-Founder, BrightContext

John Funge is the CEO & co-founder of BrightContext, where he is responsible for overseeing the company’s overall execution and strategic direction. John has a history of founding successful technology firms that have gone on to acquisitions. John’s last company was Incando/Pickle.com, a next-generation personal media sharing service that let users send videos and photos directly from their mobile phones to any website. Pickle.com was acquired by Scripps Networks, owners of HGTV, the Food Network, Cooking Channel, the Travel Channel and the DIY Network, in 2007.

Prior to that, John co-founded Clara Vista, an Internet professional services firm that designed and built large-scale Internet systems, acquired by CMGI in 1999.

Eric Newman
Vice President of Products & Marketing, Digby

As Vice President of Products, Eric helps brands leverage the power of the Digby Localpoint Mobile Platform with focus on leveraging location, marketing, commerce and analytics. During his 18 year career, Eric has ridden the cutting edge of a number of online revolutions at a variety of successful startups including Pluck (now part of Demand Media), Powered, DataBeam (now part of IBM) Direct Hit (now part of Ask Jeeves) and Question Technologies (now part of Motive Corporation). He holds an M.B.A. degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and B.A. degrees in Information Systems and Marketing from the University of Cincinnati.

Stephen Pierzchala
Web and Mobile Performance Evangelist, Compuware

With more than a decade in the web performance industry, Stephen has advised organizations, from Fortune 500 to startups, on how to improve the performance of their web applications by helping them develop and evolve the unique speed, conversion, and customer experience metrics necessary to effectively measure, manage, and evolve online web and mobile applications.

Working on projects for top companies in the online retail, financial services, content delivery, ad-delivery, and enterprise software industries, Stephen has delivered and led web performance customer engagements in the areas of: Methodology Assessment; CDN Evaluation; SaaS load testing; technical diagnostics and troubleshooting; and benchmark performance assessments.

Stephen is currently a member of the Compuware Center of Excellence team.

Eric Holt
Account Director, Product Sales, Advertising.com

Eric Holt, Account Director of Advertising.com Product Sales, has over 5 years of experience in the non-reserved space. Working his way up from research to his current position at Advertising.com, with a brief stint in the DSP space at [x+1], he has developed and advised on marketing strategies for the largest advertisers in the non-reserved space including Verizon, AT&T, Qwest, and Dell. Eric has represented Advertising.com at industry events including the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association. He holds a BA from McGill University, and an MBA from San Diego State University.

Ben Aycock
Senior Director of Marketing & Brand Development, Carolina Hurricanes

Ben Aycock is the Senior Director of Marketing & Brand Development for the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes Hockey Club. He is a creative leader with over a decade of experience in the digital and marketing space. Under Ben’s leadership the fan base for the Hurricanes’ brand has grown to an all-time high as the team enters its fifteenth season in North Carolina.

Prior to his career in sports, Ben cut his teeth in the agency world during the infamous time know as the ‘Dot Com Boom’. That period left a lasting impression on him as he still firmly believes in the power of the internet and technology; not only for the benefit of the corporate world, but for the betterment of society as a whole.

Matt McFadden
Director of Marketing, Merge

Matt McFadden is director of marketing/account executive for Merge - a digital strategy agency based in Greenville, South Carolina. With more than 12 years of marketing and business development success, Matt is responsible for making Merge its own best success story. He designs winning strategies for Merge and its clients (which include Clemson University, Erskine College and Seminary, McMillan Pazdan Smith, Michelin NA and many others). He directs all search marketing strategies: paid and organic search; content strategy and creation; lead generation and nurturing campaigns; and social media management. Matt’s contributes regularly to Merge’s blog on a wide range of digital marketing topics. Before Merge, he held marketing and business development positions for Prudential Financial and the YMCA. He graduated from Auburn University, earning a Bachelor’s of Science in Marketing.

Ryan Manchee
Director of Innovation Strategy, MediaMind

Ryan Manchee is MediaMind’s resident technology visionary and creative strategist for North and Latin America, providing agencies, marketers and our technology partners with a prescient and strategic perspective on the shifting media landscape. Ryan’s digital evangelism developed during his career, where he helped inspire and launch over 3,500 of the most innovative rich media campaigns ever created for brands including Microsoft, Activision, Burger King, Dr Pepper and Gatorade. With his imagination several generations ahead of the industry, Ryan brings a unique understanding of how tomorrow’s digital technology will translate into creative innovation and market performance. Ryan’s vision, conviction and credibility make him a sought-after speaker, presenter and panelist at digital industry conferences put on by IAB, OMMA, ad:tech, iMedia and others, as well as at agency days and interactive marketing events, where he inspires fresh thinking for the next generation of consumer engagement and digital marketing practices.

Dr. Manuel Aparicio
CEO & Co-Founder, Saffron Technology

Dr. Manuel Aparicio sets Saffron’s corporate vision and fundamental company direction. With more than 25 years experience in the industrial development and commercialization of software solutions supporting real intelligence for intelligent agents, Aparicio has long been an evangelist for broad adoption of associative-memory technology, or what Saffron calls Experience Management solutions.

Aparicio formed Saffron in 1999, and currently serves as a technology advisor to Sociocast, LLC, a Web 3.0 social influence network company. A frequent speaker and guest lecturer, 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.

Patrick Toland
Chief Revenue Officer, Optimal

Patrick Toland is chief revenue officer at Optimal, where he is responsible for driving Optimal's revenue growth and leading the company's sales strategy. Toland has extensive experience building leading Internet businesses in marketing, business development and product management roles. Most recently, Toland was senior vice president and managing director of North America at UK-based social marketing agency TBG Digital. He was responsible for all aspects of TBG's North American business including sales, client service and campaign execution. In this role he also drove many of the operational and strategic shifts that established TBG Digital as one of the largest third-party buyers of Facebook advertising.

Toland also was co-founder and vice president of business development at Incentive Networks, a private-label, merchant-funded, online loyalty program for affinity and membership organizations which was acquired by WebLoyalty in 2008. Prior to Incentive Networks, Toland worked as director of business development at Schoolpop where he managed a sales team responsible for all company revenue. He also led business development as director of strategic accounts at Digital River, and director of Snap! and BuyDirect's business development at CNET Networks.

Link Walls
Director of Product Management, ChannelAdvisor

As Director of Product Management at ChannelAdvisor, Link is responsible for the future direction and development of the ChannelAdvisor platform, which enables retailers and manufacturers to increase the scale and profitability of their global sales through dozens of online channels including Amazon, Google, eBay, Facebook and more.

Link has worked at ChannelAdvisor for six years, but prior to joining ChannelAdvisor he managed online marketing for Art.com, an online retailer of posters, prints and original artwork. Previous to Art.com, Link worked as a management consultant helping companies in finance, strategy and organizational design. He earned bachelor’s degrees in both Finance and Accounting from Drexel University and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

Joseph Dickerson
User Experience Architect

Joseph Dickerson is a User Experience (UX) Architect focused on creating innovative Internet and mobile applications. With a decade of experience in software design and research, he has made it his mission to make technology easier for people to use. In his current role as a User Experience Architect at a Fortune 500 company, Dickerson has researched a variety of topics (from mobile usage and Gen Y to small businesses), as well as provided usability and design services on many different projects. He has authored several books, including a primer on UX design, Experience Matters. He writes at josephdickerson.com

Gayle Sheppard
Executive Chair, Saffron Technology Board of Directors and Chief Operating Officer, Saffron Technology, Inc.

Gayle leads Saffron’s overall business direction, all customer facing business activities and growth strategy. Sheppard’s background combines international executive leadership at global companies, with hands-on involvement in emerging companies and boards.

Prior to Saffron, Sheppard was Vice President and Managing Director at PeopleSoft, Inc. where she successfully turned around an under performing business unit and developed new market strategies, CEO and President with MarketMile, LLC (now part of Rearden Commerce) where she led the development and launch of an ASP business focused on American Express’ Corporate Purchasing Card Customers, and held positions as Vice President, Worldwide Sales, J.D.Edwards & Company, President and General Manager, J.D. Edwards Japan, K.K., and Vice President Sales and Marketing, J.D.Edwards Asia Pacific Ltd. defining new market strategies and establishing new Asia and Japan businesses to accelerate J.D. Edwards growth in international markets.

Chad Smith
Chief Technology Officer, 3 Birds Marketing

Chad Smith has served as Chief Technology Officer at 3 Birds Marketing, an interactive marketing company in Chapel Hill, N.C., specializing in e-mail, web, and social media marketing, since July 2010. He has more than 15 years of successful global IT consulting and engineering, including nine years with Acxiom as a developer, analyst, architect, and manager in the U.S., Europe and Asia providing expertise in database solutions and customized applications for Fortune 1000 clients. Throughout his career, Smith has aggressively captured and leveraged data by using technology-driven digital customer marketing and direct mail campaigns to increase client revenue. His enthusiasm about the power of data is positively infectious.

Richard Kouri
Professor, Jenkins Graduate School of Management, NCSU

Dr. Richard E. Kouri is presently Professor and Executive Director of the BioSciences Management program, Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University. He is also Chief Evangelist, Center for Innovation Management Studies. Current interest is focused on creating and linking market and technology maps using big data analytics. He has held academic positions at UNC, Chapel Hill, University of Connecticut, Yale University and University of Maryland. Dr. Kouri has been on the founding teams of twelve start-up companies; with three going on to their IPO and three being acquired. Dr. Kouri has helped raise over $221M in private capital for these companies, and has been awarded over $24M in research funds. The value of the six companies that have had exits to date totaled $775M.

Mary D'Alatri
Director of Services, Ion Interactive

Mary leads ion's client services team and is responsible for client strategy and satisfaction. Mary brings a strong understanding of the online space and the opportunities it brings to marketers.

Prior to joining the Ion team, Mary served as the Director of Client Services and Development for an online marketing agency focusing on Search Engine Optimization and Paid Search. This has given her extensive knowledge of the entire online buying cycle and how to create an impactful integrated marketing plan. She has been a frequent speaker at leading industry events and has a passion for client education and satisfaction.

Brendan Hurley
Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Goodwill of Greater Washington

Brendan Hurley is the Chief Marketing Officer for Goodwill of Greater Washington where he oversees the marketing & communications strategies covering its retail operations, contract services and job training programs. Previously, Brendan was the Director of Marketing for Clear Channel Radio in Washington, D.C.

In 2011 the American Marketing Association designated Brendan the National Nonprofit Marketer of the Year for successfully rebuilding the DC Goodwill brand. In 2010 he was recognized as one of the Top 20 CMOs in the Washington/Baltimore region by SmartCEO magazine. And in 2006 Brendan was profiled in PR Week Magazine as one of four non-profit marketing executives in America successful at “doing more with less”. Brendan’s marketing strategies have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and on CNN, FOX News, NPR and MSNBC, among others.

Peter Janca
Managed Services Development Lead, MCNC

Peter Janca is the Managed Services Development Lead at MCNC, the non-profit regional network operator serving North Carolina. His focus is on new services, such as video collaboration for distance education and learning object repositories. He has over 30 years of experience in technical service development and management at IBM, General Electric, Digital Equipment, and Cisco Systems. Peter also teaches part time at North Carolina State University, where he developed and delivers a graduate business class for scientists and engineers.

Peter is a leader and innovator in the telecommunications arena, where he developed the first successful product to bridge the telecommunications and data processing worlds. Peter holds a BSEE from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from the University of New Hampshire. His publications include, “Pragmatic Application of Information Agents”, “Groupware, a Technical Tutorial”, and “Comparing the two PBX-to-Computer Specifications”.

Chris Korbey
Creative Director, Emma

Chris Korbey is Emma’s creative director, overseeing the brand experience for Emma’s customers and business partners. Before joining Emma, Chris founded and worked as creative director for Meat+Bones, a Dallas-based boutique strategic marketing and creative agency. His work has been recognized in Communication Arts, Print Magazine, The New York Art Director’s Club, AR100, GRAPHIS, and he is included in the permanent collection of the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.

William Grizack
Chief Strategy Officer, The Variable

Bill is a bundle of frenetic ideas stuffed into a cannon and shot through a particle accelerator. If you can pin him down long enough to hear about his past, it's pretty interesting. Bill started working on the client side for large corporations (Ingersoll-Rand, Embraco, etc.), but quickly realized that entrepreneurialism was his thing. He has started several companies including SimpliFi and ReadyBike. One was even named to Fast Company's list of the most innovative companies in the world and won Finovate Best in Show. His endless curiosity and entrepreneurial instinct continually push our clients to consider different methods. He isn't 'put' on your business, he is 'unleashed'. On top of several patents in disparate disciplines, he also has a loving wife and two amazing children.

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.

Mike Marshall
Instructor, ASPE-ROI

Mike Marshall has more than 20 years of experience in information technology, including web design, software engineering, e-commerce solutions and internet marketing. From this experience, Mike emerged as a mentor with insight and advice for advanced techniques in the SEO industry, even to the experts. He is a contributing author for SEOToday.com, and other articles and commentary have appeared in Forbes.com, Web Pro News, Website Magazine, PR Week, SearchNewz, “Building Your Business with Google for Dummies” and many other publications.

Mike is currently an instructor for ASPE-ROI and is the course developer for its SEO Boot Camp. He is also a search engine technologies instructor for the U.S. Patent Office. Other clients include AOL, Allstate, IBM, Sony, WebMD, Alcatel-Lucent. Mike is a member of SEO Professionals and the World Association of Internet Marketers, and holds degrees in linguistics, philosophy and theology.

Jenny Schmitt
President & Senior Spark, CloudSpark

Jenny Schmitt is the First Employee and Senior Spark at CloudSpark, an award-winning strategic communications and social media company that specializes in helping new and emerging companies answers the key questions of “What now?” and “What next?” With experience, expertise, inspiration – and a spark or two – the company provides answers that help business stand out and achieve results. A veteran public relations and marketing professional and sought-after public speaker, Jenny is a frequent media contributor and has been quoted in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, BrandWeek, Ragan’s PR Daily, Nielsen’s Small Business among others; an author as well, she regularly contributes to the online world through blogs relating to social media and public relations. Jenny’s company has been recognized as one of the “Top 10 Agencies Who Get Social Media” in a national CMO survey conducted by ZDNet. Jenny can be followed on Twitter at @cloudspark.

Vince Baskerville
VP of Product, TripLingo

I'm a co-founder and VP of Production for a startup: TripLingo, and I maintain an industry blog at VincentJordan.com. I've been working as a Developer and Designer for over a decade and I'm known for crafting highly intuitive/engaging digital product — in addition for being an adrenaline junkie! I've had the opportunity to work for the military (I was enlisted in the US Navy and did various consulting work afterwards), educational institutions, creative agencies and startups. That said, currently most of my time is being focused on TripLingo and being an awesome husband.

Joellyn "Joey" Sargent
Principal, BrandSprout LLC

Joellyn "Joey" Sargent is principal of BrandSprout LLC, a strategic marketing and management consulting firm that helps companies turn daunting business challenges into compelling success stories. An avid fan of technology and innovation, Joey's approach merges new media with traditional marketing. Before founding BrandSprout, Joey spent 20 years leading marketing strategy for businesses ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500, including UPS and BellSouth (now AT&T). As a senior marketing executive, she had global responsibility for branding, marketing strategy, communications and product management functions. Joey has been quoted in Fox Business, Huffington Post and Social Media Today. She holds an MBA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Read her blog at
www.Fresh-Sprouts.com

Giovanni Calabro
VP of Design, Siteworx

As VP of Design, Giovanni leads teams responsible for blending business, design, customer experience and content to achieve award winning strategies and experiences.

Giovanni has over 15 years of experience leading interactive research and design efforts for a wide range of businesses. With clients as diverse as Bain & Company, MTV Networks, Symantec, NPR, and JPMorgan Chase, Giovanni consistently pushes the boundaries of customer strategy and design. Prior to Siteworx, Giovanni coordinated design strategy for major stories at the Washington Post, including coverage of the Iraq War, 2004 Elections, and the D.C. Sniper case. Giovanni is a noted expert and speaker in the areas of customer engagement, design, and technology, and is frequently cited in business and trade publications such as EContent, Ecommerce Times, UX Magazine and Chief Content Officer Magazine.

Randy Brown
Director of the Virtual Heroes Division, Applied Research Associates

Randy Brown is the Director of the Virtual Heroes Division of Applied Research Associates. With over 20 years experience in the software development industry, Randy has developed interactive 3D graphics software at Amoco, Digital Equipment, Ex Machina, Data General, SAS Institute, Southpeak Interactive, and the Research Triangle Institute of North Carolina prior to joining Virtual Heroes. Randy has created scientific, oil exploration, graphics library, visualization, training, education, simulation, and gaming content for a wide range of commercial, government, and private organizations. Randy has a BS in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kit Unger
Sr. Manager, User Experience, 3 Pillar Global

Kit has spent roughly 2,973 days (give or take a few) designing and building great user experiences for financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, technology providers, and companies in the government sector. Currently, Kit is leading a UX team focused on conceptualizing and designing innovative web and mobile applications for 3Pillar Global, a software product development company whose clients include PBS, CARFAX, Northrop Grumman, and many others.

Prior to joining Three Pillar Global, Kit built and led UX teams from the ground up at Bloomberg Government and also at Congressional Quarterly, an Economist Group business. Her 15+ years experience as a creative professional include extensive experience in user research, usability testing, information architecture, interaction design, user interface design, visual design, functional prototyping, and the Agile development process for both in-house design departments and software development companies.

Aaron Gragg
Enterprise Sales, East, Box

Aaron is a native North Carolinian, and a graduate of NC State in Aerospace Engineering. He has working in the enterprise software space most of his professional career, spending time at PTC, Interwoven, Hummingbird, FileNet, Open Text, and Webtrends prior to joining Box. When not working, he spends his time boating, golfing, and spending time with family.

Jake Dolce
Director of Sales-East Coast, Jumptap

As Director of East Coast Sales at Jumptap, Jake Dolce oversees the sales and RFP process for the ad network’s top accounts. Mr. Dolce has more than 15 years of experience selling in the advertising, media and mobile industries. Prior to Jumptap, Mr. Dolce served as Regional Sales Manager at Tremor Video. He has also held sales positions at Glam Media, Bloomberg and Clear Channel Radio New York.

Aaron Schildkrout
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, HowAboutWe.com

As cofounder and co-CEO of HowAboutWe.com, the first experience-driven dating and relationships brand, Aaron Schildkrout is a pioneer of the offline dating movement. Recognizing technology's capacity to facilitate authentic offline experiences, Schildkrout co-founded HowAboutWe in 2010 with his childhood best friend, Brian Schechter, with the goal of creating a new way for people to find and sustain love in the modern world.

Before founding HowAboutWe.com, Schildkrout, 33, was a high school educator at Codman Academy Charter Public School in Boston, MA. His work was featured in a variety of publications, including the Gates’ Foundation “High Schools of the Future” curriculum and conferences, Massachusetts Charter School Association publications, the Boston Globe and more. Schildkrout oversees product development and engineering at HowAboutWe.

Jeffrey Cohen
Manager of Content Marketing, Salesforce

Jeffrey L. Cohen is the Manager of Content Marketing at Salesforce Marketing Cloud, the world’s only unified social marketing suite, which brings together Buddy Media and Radian6. Jeff works with the content team to ensure they are publishing the best social media content on the web to educate, inform and entertain our customers, prospects, advocates and influencers, while driving leads and sales.

With more than 20 years of marketing experience, Jeff has provided strategic counsel to B2B and B2C companies on both the client and agency sides. Jeff is the co-author of The B2B Social Media Book. Jeff is also the co-founder and Managing Editor of SocialMediaB2B.com, the leading online resource for social media’s impact on B2B marketing.

David Dubé
Product Manager, Cisco Systems

As a Product Manager with Cisco’s Support Website organization, David is responsible for defining and executing Cisco’s mobile strategy; providing access to support through mobile optimized content and dedicated native support applications to millions of global networking professionals on the go.

David has worked at Cisco for over 13 years in various product development roles ranging from delivering web based operations management applications to designing customized networking semiconductor devices for Cisco’s mid range routing portfolio.

David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, and a Master of Business and Administration degree from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.

Joe Procopio
Founder, ExitEvent

Joe Procopio is a serial entrepreneur, and has either founded or worked for ten startups, including his current role as the first management hire at Automated Insights. As VP of Product Engineering, Joe develops the science and the artificial intelligence the powers tens of millions of automated and personalized articles per year, everything from Yahoo Fantasy Football recaps to Sawbuck Realty neighborhood market reports, and he leads a team of technologists, statisticians, data analysts, and writers.

Prior to joining Automated Insights, Joe founded consulting firm Intrepid Company, which he grew to over $1 million in annual revenue in just three years. Joe also founded and runs the popular startup network and news site ExitEvent, which helps build and strengthen emerging startup communities. Since 1999, he has been writing about the state of technology and startups for national and regional publications.

Anil Chawla
Founder & CEO, ArchiveSocial

ArchiveSocial is the social media archiving solution for business compliance, records management, and legal protection. Anil has spent more than 10 years creating software products. Prior to founding ArchiveSocial, he was a lead engineer at IBM responsible for developing enterprise security software and Big Data analysis solutions. Anil also created Tweetymail, which is the leading email-to-Twitter solution with more than 20,000 users and 1 million emails processed each month. Anil founded ArchiveSocial on the premise that businesses face important legal and regulatory challenges related to social media that extend far beyond traditional social media management. Anil received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

Elizabeth Johnson
Partner, Poyner Spruill LLP

Elizabeth Johnson is a Partner in Poyner Spruill’s Raleigh office. She heads the Privacy and Information Security practice area, and her practice focuses on privacy, information security, and records management.

Her comprehensive, practical approach to legal issues in information security is reflected by the diversity of her clients, which hail from a variety of industries including health care, financial services, insurance, retail, telecom, utility, technology, consumer goods and services. Elizabeth has also worked with organizations of various size and scope, ranging from Fortune 100 companies with international reach to local charities.

Prior to joining Poyner Spruill in 2009, Elizabeth was an Associate with Hunton & Williams. Elizabeth has an undergraduate degree from Coe College, and a J.D. from Duke University. She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the Carolina Privacy Officials’ Network.

Peter Zaitsev
Founder & CEO, Percona

Peter managed the High Performance Group within MySQL until 2006, when he founded Percona. Peter has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and is an expert in database kernels, computer hardware, and application scaling.

Peter co-authored High Performance MySQLalong with two other Percona experts. He is a frequently invited guest at open source conferences, and has been a sell-out speaker at the yearly MySQL User Conference since its inception.

Alok Jain
Lead User Experience Designer, 3Pillar Global

Alok has over 16 years of experience building a wide range of solutions ranging from consumer products to very large enterprise solutions. He has worked with startups, taking ideas from just a few bulleted points to a launch and growth stage, as well as with Fortune 500 companies designing large content management solutions, eCommerce applications, business applications, collaborations tools and more.

His work at The World Bank group was recognized by Nielsen Norman group as one of the Top 10 Intranets in the world. He has spoken at forums like The International Disability Conference, focusing on the importance of accessible solutions in today's world. He currently is a senior member of the UX team at 3Pillar Global where he works on several web as well as mobile design solutions.

Andy Beal
CEO & Founder, Trackur

Andy Beal is the founder and CEO of Trackur, a powerful, yet affordable, social media monitoring solution. With over 10 years of internet marketing experience, Andy specializes in online reputation management and is the coauthor of "Radically Transparent: Monitoring & Managing Reputations Online."

You can find Andy on Twitter (@AndyBeal) and also at his blog (MarketingPilgrim.com).

Josh Nannen
Senior Director of Sales, Triggit

Josh Nannen, Senior Director of Sales at Triggit, has worked in the digital media industry since 2001. He started his career in the industry with digital media agency iProspect on the client services team, providing cutting-edge SEO and SEM strategies for clients such as CareerBuilder, Citi, and Daimler-Chrysler. He transitioned into business development and became the agency's perennial top contributor for paid and organic search, display, mobile, social, and other media new business. After a decade, he made the move to demand-side platform and Facebook Exchange (FBX) launch partner Triggit to help evangelize the watershed event that is the emergence of FBX (retargeting on Facebook), a channel that Triggit expects to become one of the largest paid media conversion drivers in online marketing. Connect with Josh on LinkedIn, Facebook, or the old-fashioned way at josh@triggit.com.

Devon Smith
Director of Social Media, Threespot

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

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

John Roberts
President, Third Floor Productions

When reality dashed his hopes of obtaining employment as a Ghostbuster, John Roberts turned to option number two: film. From seemingly having a camera glued to his hands and turning his friends into actors and crew to starting his own business, Third Floor Productions, John has ventured into the business side of film production and has made it a point to remember the reason he got into film making back when he used his paper route money to buy his first camera: because it’s fun. For example, although he earned an Award of Excellence from the National Television Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Category of Arts and Entertainment, you’re more likely to hear him talk about his being named “Funniest Student in 8th Grade” (or, even more probably, about how he was robbed of the same honor as a high school senior, only being named “Second Funniest”). And though Third Floor works on projects with clients ranging from brands to ad agencies to TV networks, it’s more likely that he’ll want show you a clip from the humorous cable access show he wrote, directed, and produced in high school than he would the campaigns he created for National Geographic Channel. As Third Floor continues to progress as a business and a creative entity, John clings to hope that at year’s end he might be voted “Funniest Person” in his own company.

Kurt Uhlir
Co-Founder, Buzztastic

Kurt serves as co-founder and Chief Servant at Buzztastic. Previously, he founded Southern Technology Leaders (So.Tech), drove corporate development and strategic partnerships at Vitrue and was on the front lines at Navteq through their $8.1B sale to Nokia. As a certified alligator handler and former stuntman, with social, location and mobile experience with dozens of the largest global brands, he always has a real life example for marketers.

Saya “Sally” Behnam
Creative Director, Design 4UX

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

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

Rob Kischuk
Founder, Badgy

Rob Kischuk is founder of Badgy, a social loyalty startup recently funded by Mark Cuban. Rob has spent the past 5 years in social media startups and the past 3 years in social games, where he served as Executive Producer of a social game with 1.25 million players. Rob is passionate about making the best social marketing tools available to all marketers.

Andrew Hooge
Founder & CEO, Fitsistant

Andrew Hooge is Founder & CEO of Fitsistant. Prior to launching Fitsistant, Andrew created My SkiCoach, the first “smart” online fitness software for skiers. His success as a top strength coach and fitness author opened doors for him to speak nationally on the subject. Andrew has been a featured guest on many news and sport outlets including CNN and NBC.

Fitsistant leverages a combination of science, software and service to dynamically change the way individuals get fit and realize results. By combining data-driven methods with the experience and intuition of seasoned trainers, we have created the fitness solution for a new generation of active, busy professionals.

Michael King
Director of Inbound Marketing, iAcquire

Michael King is an SEO Engineer by trade and Inbound Marketer by evolution. He currently leads cross-channel initiatives as Director of Inbound Marketing for leading content marketing agency iAcquire. Affectionately referred to "SEO's Don Draper" Mr. King is also leading the expansion of iAcquire’s offering into on-page optimization and digital brand strategy.

Michael King (bka iPullRank on Twitter) has an extensive background in software, web development and a proclivity for creative solutions. That experience has afforded him a track record of successfully coordinating the efforts of Creative, Strategy, Technical and Paid Media Teams to achieve synergistic solutions in harmony with long-term client campaign goals for several Fortune 500 brands.

He is also a contributor to leading industry blogs such as SEOmoz, Unbounce and Distilled, Mike continues to usher in ideas that shift the paradigm of SEO and Inbound Marketing as a whole. This is best illustrated by the Keyword-Level Demographics methodology Mr. King developed in 2011 that allows marketers to perfectly measure and target persona types.

Shade Wilson
Principle & Brand Strategist, Scalability Project

Shade Wilson is the Principle and Brand Strategist with the Scalability Project and has over 15 years experience in marketing having worked at advertising agencies like DIMAC Direct and the Martin Agency, and internet start-ups like PrecisionIR and Snagajob. He has developed go-to-market strategy for 14 countries across North America and Europe using a variety of digital marketing tactics including email, websites, search, ecommerce, content and social media.

Shade is on the board of the Richmond Chapter of the American Marketing Association responsible for Special Interest Groups, and Social Media, an instructor for the Greater Richmond Small Business Development Center, and leader of Richmond Inbound, a HubSpot user group.

Lisa Sorg
Editor, The Independent Weekly

Lisa Sorg has worked at Independent Weekly for six years, and has served as editor for the last five. An award-winning journalist, she has earned more than 20 honors for her work in public interest, news and investigative reporting, and feature, food and profile writing. Originally from Indiana, she worked at dailies and an alt-weekly in Bloomington before moving to San Antonio, Texas, where she was the editor and senior writer at the alt-weekly, the San Antonio Current.

She also holds a Certificate in Documentary Arts from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

Jeff Campbell
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Resolution Media

Jeff Campbell is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Resolution Media, Omnicom’s digital agency. Currently, he oversees the online marketing and SEO solutions for clients and is focused on strategy development, media integration, measuring online to offline sales impact and web analytics. In his 9-year tenure with RM, Campbell has managed campaigns for Lowe’s, Apple, Hertz, State Farm, Bank of America, US Army, Motorola, Sirius-XM, NCL, Pier 1, and dozens more. In 2011, Campbell spoke at IRCE, SES NY, SMX East, Internet Summit, MediaPost’s OMMA Behavioral, SearchExchange and more.

Adam Schultz
Co-Founder & CEO, Pruvop

Adam is a web business revolutionary. His unique blend of go-to-market, design, statistical analysis, systems optimization and business architecture skills lead to sustainable, high impact results. For instance, one portfolio member recently gained 31 million additional annual site visits, valued at $10-12M per year, without increasing marketing spend.

Adam began his 12-year run in the online world building and contributing to interactive campaigns for Fortune 500 companies including AOL, Sony Ericsson, Bayer, Lowes and Motorola. He eventually rose to become head of Research & Product Development for Market Smart Interactive, where he started as a staff Marketing Consultant. He then went on to found Bold Interactive, a boutique online marketing agency that would eventually become Pruvop. He holds a BFA in design from the University of North Florida.

Michael Harrison
Senior Web Analyst, Verified Studios

Michael Harrison is the Senior Web Analyst at Verified Studios. He works with clients to configure custom analytics platforms, optimize their websites and businesses with multivariate and split testing, and to nurture a data-driven culture within their organization.

Michael was an early thought leader on Urchin and Google Analytics and has spoken across the country in the Google Seminars for Success program, teaching marketers and business owners how to make better data driven decisions. He is also an active contributor to Wired.com as a GeekDad.

Maya Harris
Director of Business Development, GetGlue

Maya Harris is the Director of Business Development at GetGlue, the leading social network for entertainment check-ins. She is focused on the distribution of GetGlue check-ins across major media properties as well as brand engagement. Users check-in to GetGlue to discover new entertainment, share what they are watching and earn rewards from their favorite TV shows and movies. Maya came to GetGlue from Yahoo! where she focused on marketing and sales development. Before that, Maya worked at start-ups and major media companies in the US and abroad. Maya studied International Relations and Business at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.

Craig Ferrara
Director, User Experience, Gigya

Craig is Gigya's lead user experience strategist, helping Gigya's 600 clients successfully implement social infrastructure into their online businesses. Craig comes from a deep background in gaming and game dynamics, previously working at IGN Entertainment as an editor and analyst. Craig has counseled large global enterprises on gamification best practices and is Gigya's game mechanics expert. He is an outsp oken evangelist of gamification principles and its application to businesses and society at large. When Craig is not helping clients gamify their online businesses, he can often be found food truck hopping in San Francisco and playing in pickup soccer games in Golden Gate Park.

Maurice Ferrell
Assistant Director, Center for Public Technology, UNC School of Government

Before joining the School of Government in February 2009, Ferrell served as Chief Information Officer for the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville, Virginia. His efforts were recognized by the Governor at the Commonwealth of Virginia Innovative Technology Symposium (COVITS) in 2004 for Technology Innovation in Higher Education. He also served as principal investigator for a three-year National Science Foundation grant that totaled $1 million, which focused on providing technology experiences for high school students. Previously, Ferrell was the IT director for the Danville Public School System. Ferrell earned an MBA from Liberty University, a bachelor's degree in business administration from Averett University, and an associate's degree in information technology from Danville Community College.

Chris Emme
Vice President, Radium One

Chris Emme, VP, East for RadiumOne, an innovative Dynamic Audience Platform (DAP) that harnesses social interaction data through its own first party products and delivers audience scale for today's Intelligent Web. Chris is responsible for all Sales, Marketing, and Operations functions for the NY, Atlanta, Dallas and Boston offices. He works with senior leadership at all major agencies and brands across the East and Southeast to bring innovative media opportunities for their digital marketing objectives. He has grown the team, revenue and regional presence from the ground up and has been a digital media devotee for over 14 years. Prior to joining RadiumOne, Chris has lived and worked in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York working with Excite@Home, Microsoft and Yahoo.

David Lawrence
Practice Director, End User Computing, Varrow

Dave is an IT professional with 18 years of experience in the technology industry. He is currently employed as the Practice Director, End User Computing at Varrow. Prior to joining Varrow, he has previously held engineering positions at VMware, EMC and NetApp. His main focus was to assist customers with designing the best solution for the application need. Prior to entering the vendor world, he spent 7 years as a Windows, Virtualization and Storage Administrator at Limited Brands (Victoria's Secret, Bath and Body Works, etc). His first VMware virtualization project was a 120 server consolidation onto 8 hosts in 2001.

Ben Snyder
Owner, Little Wing Marketing

Ben Snyder is a web designer, marketer, ux professional, public speaker, and owner of Little Wing Marketing. Over the years, he’s worked on Internet Marketing campaigns for a wide array of companies (Sony, RCA, Warner Bros. Records, Universal Records, MTV, Harmonix, Burton, Ubisoft, Pantene), recording artists (Radiohead, Dave Matthews Band, Christina Aguilera, Foo Fighters, Pink, Busta Rhymes, Mariah Carey, Brooks & Dunn, Martina McBride, Etta James), and other media properties to develop and implement an online strategy to grow their online business and fan bases.

As the founder/owner of Little Wing Marketing Ben spends his time creating user-centered web sites, overseeing data-driven marketing plans, and creating online educational materials. He is also a co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of abetteruserexperience.com

Rob Sanders
Founder, RSO Consulting

As founder of RSO Consulting, Rob Sanders provides creative and technical solutions to the world of online marketing across many verticals representing healthcare, e-commerce, technology, law, and finance. He is Google AdWords and Analytics certified and has over 15 years of experience that compliment his core competencies: search engine optimization, pay per click management, social media optimization and web analytics.

Rob received an MBA from the University of San Francisco and is the author of the book "42 Rules for Applying Google Analytics". He also teaches PPC, SEO and web analytics classes for marketing and business professionals in the San Francisco-Bay Area and throughout the U.S.

He currently splits his time between his homes in San Francisco and Murcia, Spain, and is acting president of the Ama Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports underprivileged children in Nepal.

Kerry Andrews
Director of Marketing, Pinehurst

Kerry is the Director of Marketing for Pinehurst, responsible for digital marketing, advertising, social media and public relations for the resort which features three hotels and eight golf courses including Pinehurst No. 2, site of the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open Championships in back-to-back weeks in 2014.

Previously, Kerry was digital Account Director at Pace Communications, a custom content agency, developing new digital business including the award-winning Four Seasons Magazine website for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Prior to that, she worked with her sister to start WilsonMcGuire Creative, a boutique advertising agency specializing in the hospitality and golf industries.

Kerry graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications. An avid Tar Heel fan, she pulls for the Crimson Tide in football (especially the last three years) and considers herself a respectable bad golfer.