Speakers
Abrar Ahmad Partner of Travel Capitalist Ventures Abrar Ahmad is currently a Partner at Travel Capitalist Ventures; the first multi-stage investment firm dedicated exclusively to travel companies. Investments collectively transact $800M annually in 4 countries across 120 employees and include travel technology, content, marketing and travel finance companies. Abrar’s expertise include identifying emerging travel trends & opportunities, advising on the best strategy for monetizing on these opportunities and acting as a ‘hands on’ investor & consigliore. Back |
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Tyler Bell Director, Product of Factual Tyler Bell is the Director of Product for Factual, an LA-based startup that is, amongst other things, creating a global coverage of the world’s POI and Places. He previously taught archaeology at the University of Oxford and, more recently and topically, was the Product Lead for Yahoo’s Geo Technologies Group. He writes about semantic- and geo-technologies for O’Reilly Radar at http://radar.oreilly.com/tylerb/ Back |
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Nick Bicanic CEO of echoecho Nick mixes left brain and right brain stuff on an ongoing basis. Charming if desired – rude and cutting if required – Nick is equally at home on an MMA fighting mat, a unix command prompt, a mast-high crushing north swell, behind the controls of a helicopter, convincing a board about strategic changes of direction, field-stripping a SIG 552 Commando blind-folded or inventing new paradigms in mobile phone user interface design. Back |
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Derek Butcher CTO & VP Digital of AFAR Media Derek Butcher has over 12 years of experience in media and technology with companies such as The Industry Standard, IDG, Disney Internet Group, and Infoseek. As Vice President and General Manager of The Industry Standard, he relaunched the internet brand as a new form of online media property. Prior to that, Butcher served as Vice President and CTO of InfoWorld Media Group, where he spearheaded technology initiatives including web publishing systems, content redistribution and syndication, and web serving capacity. Derek also served as Senior Engineering Manager at Disney Internet Group, where he was responsible for the development of the Infoseek search engine portal, as well as assisting with the integration of espn.com and abcnews.com. Back |
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Amber Case CEO of Geoloqi Amber Case is founder and CEO of Geoloqi, Inc. Case has been featured in Forbes, WIRED, and many other publications, both in the United States and around the world. Her main focus is mobile software, augmented reality and data visualization, and reducing the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect. Case founded Geoloqi.com, a platform for next generation location, out of a frustration with limits of existing technologies. Case has spoken at TED on technology and humans and was featured in Fast Company 2010 as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology. She’s worked with Fortune 500 companies at Wieden+Kennedy and on major applications at Vertigo Software. She is @caseorganic on Twitter. Back |
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Cheryl Cheng Operating Partner of BlueRun Ventures Cheryl drives marketing strategy, messaging and business development for BlueRun Ventures. Cheryl works closely with the entrepreneur community to identify investment opportunities that are a strategic fit for both BlueRun and the entrepreneur. She also supports BRV portfolio companies in their marketing strategy, execution and business development needs and focuses primarily on the mobile and consumer internet ecosystems. Cheryl brings new products and brand marketing experience from Clorox and Sharper Image to help entrepreneurs develop their go to market strategy and plans. Cheryl has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management. Back |
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Neil Crist Founder and CEO of Venuelabs Neil is founder and CEO of Venuelabs, a storefront analytics company that transforms mobile, social and location-based consumer activity into actionable business insight. One of the first of its kind, Venuelab’s innovative monitoring, analytics, and marketing software provides specialized capabilities specific to retail and storefront marketing, operations, and customer service. A product manager by trade, Neil has been the driving force behind the company’s vision and growth, now tracking over 135,000 storefronts for many of the world’s most well known brands. Neil is a Board Member of the Location Based Marketing Association, and was recently named as an honoree of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40. Back |
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| Carlos Cuesta Product Marketing Manager, Google Maps API of Google Carlos is the global Product Marketing Manager for the Google Maps API. As a steward of the 700,000+ developers around the world who make up the Google Maps API ecosystem, his goal is to foster exciting and innovative uses of the Google Maps API. In this role he has consulted with thousands of companies on a variety of unique use cases, from small start-ups to giant multi-national corporations (and everywhere in between). More recently, Carlos has spearheaded an initiative within the Google Maps team to work with the world’s top creative agencies to help them better understand and leverage the power of the Google Maps API in interactive marketing campaigns. He received a B.A. in Creative Writing and Political Science from U.C. Berkeley. Back |
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Di-Ann Eisnor VP of Partnerships and Platform of Waze Di-Ann Eisnor, VP of Partnerships & Platform, runs US operations and is crafting the cartography of “live mapping” for the crowd-sourced navigation and real-time traffic start-up, Waze. Diann is also founder and chairman of Platial, and founded Eisnor Interactive which was bought by Omnicom back in 2001. Di-Ann is a neogeography pioneer and serial entrepreneur employing all means to increase the world’s citizen mappers. Diann has spoken at BigThink, SXSW, TEDxSiliconValley, LeWeb, GeoLoco, SocioLoco, MWC, Signal, AppNation, State of the Map, Web 2.0, Where 2.0, MIT, Columbia University, Stanford University, and others. Back |
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Kevin Fliess GM and VP of Products of Room 77 Kevin is General Manager and Vice President of Products at Room 77, based in Mountain View, California. Room 77 is a hotel search engine that scours the web for the best hotel deals on over 200,000 properties in order to save consumers time and to help them make better purchase decisions. Room 77 also has unique insight on over 1,000,000 hotel rooms, which the company leverages to help travelers score a better room at the hotel prior to arrival. Previously, Kevin was CEO and co-founder of TravelMuse — a social trip planning solution — which was acquired in 2010. Earlier he ran product marketing worldwide for SAP’s Emerging Solutions product portfolio. Back |
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Alex Fowler Global Privacy and Policy Leader of Products of Mozilla As Mozilla’s global privacy and policy leader, Alex is responsible for leading strategic and operational initiatives on privacy and information management, as well as overseeing the organization’s public policy activities. Alex’s past experience includes posts with Zero-Knowledge Systems, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Most recently, Alex served as the practice co-leader of PwC’s privacy practice, where he advised over fifty organizations spanning finance, technology and healthcare sectors on privacy, security, data breach protection and response, data governance, technology policy and compliance. He’s also a professionally trained cellist and beginner surfer, activities he rarely engages in at the same time. Back |
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Gary Gale Director, Places or Nokia Location and Commerce I’ve had a lifelong love affair with maps since discovering the Harry Beck map of the London Underground on the back of the London A-Z street atlas at an early age. I now live in Teddington in South West London with my family and work in London, Berlin, Boston, Chicago and Sunnyvale as the Director of Places for Nokia. I’m the co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of AGI W3G and sit on the AGI Council. Prior to Nokia, I was at Yahoo!, leading their UK Geo group, releasing GeoPlanet and Placemaker and the geo backbone for Flickr and Fire Eagle; I’ve also worked at Digicon, the European Space Agency Research Institute in Rome, Italy,the BBC World Service, Reuters, Factiva and Network Associates. Back |
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Mike Ghaffary Director of Business Development of yelp Mike Ghaffary is the Director of Business Development at Yelp. Prior to Yelp, Mike was the Director of Business Development at TrialPay, where he led partnerships with Facebook and a variety of other companies. Before that, he was the co-founder and VP of Business Development at Stitcher, and VP at Summit Partners. He is also co-founder of BarMax, the most expensive iPhone and iPad app, and previously worked at the Boston Consulting Group and MSC Software. Mike holds a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Political Science from the University of Southern California, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Back |
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Indy Guha Senior Associate of Bain Capital Ventures Indy joined Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) in 2007 and invests in early and growth-stage ad-tech and e-commerce companies. He works with BCV portfolio companies such as BloomReach, TellApart and SquareTrade. Supporting those founders is his favorite part of the job. Indy was an early Product & Engagement Manager at BloomReach, working on key go-to-market issues such as traffic attribution and pricing. Previously, Indy was a consultant at the Monitor Group, working with tech companies on product launches and M&A. On the weekends, you can find Indy enjoying the Bay Area on foot, bike, or kayak. He lives in SF¹s Hayes Valley neighborhood with his wife and offers free coffee at Four Barrel to anyone who wants to get together and talk about great tech ideas. Back |
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| Michael Hammer Director, Venture Capital Strategy of PepsiCo Michael Hammer is seconded to Physic Ventures by PepsiCo as a full-time member of the Physic operating team. Both Physic and PepsiCo share a mission statement grounded in Consumer Health & Wellness and Sustainability. Michael focuses on the Food and Nutrition Investment Sector as well as exploring opportunities to improve the environmental impact of PepsiCo’s supply chain. He is also responsible for creating new touch points between Physic and PepsiCo core business sectors including: Beverages, Foods, Nutrition, Sustainable Living, and Health Management. Michael has over 20 years of experience in marketing and innovation in the Retail and Consumer Goods industry. Back |
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Hadley Harris Chief Business Development Officer of Thumb As CBDO Hadley is responsible for Thumb’s marketing and business development activities. Hadley was most recently an executive at Vlingo, acquired by Nuance Communications, where he held the roles of Head of Business & Market Strategy and Vice President of Marketing. Hadley is also a Founding Partner at Eniac Ventures, a seed stage venture capital firm focused on mobile technologies and an early investor in Thumb. During his career he also spent time at Microsoft, Samsung and Charles River Ventures. Hadley holds a MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. When not working he enjoys traveling, exploring NYC, eating bacon and mixing electric music. Back |
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Bjorn Jawerth Chairman and CEO of 5 examples Dr. Bjorn D. Jawerth founded the 5 examples in the Spring of 2004 to develop solutions for portable devices. Dr. Jawerth has been instrumental in introducing more than 40 products to the mobile market. He has worked with several of the major companies in this sector including Samsung, QUALCOMM, Nokia, FujiFilm, AOL, Sports Illustrated, Dow Jones, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Cingular. In the 1980s, Dr. Jawerth was one of the originators and principal investigators that developed a branch of mathematics known as Wavelets which was used as the basis of MPEG4 and JPEG 2000, the foundation of the multimedia used in wireless applications today. Wavelets has become one of the most widely researched areas of electrical engineering, computer science, and mathematics. Back |
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Kipp Jones Chief Architect of Skyhook Wireless Kipp Jones, as the Chief Architect and Privacy Czar, oversees all aspects of data architecture and privacy for Skyhook’s software and systems. This spans areas that include indoor and outdoor data acquisition, consumer data privacy, spatial and temporal data analytics, and operational optimization. Prior to joining Skyhook, Kipp spent more than 15 years developing technology and strategy for a number of early stage companies. His technology focus has been centered on large-scale information management. Kipp received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska at Kearney, an MS in CS from Georgia Tech and is currently ABD on his CS PhD from Georgia Tech. Back |
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| Brandon Kleinman Director Of Strategy of TBWA\Chiat\Day Brandon has spent time as Marketing Director for a major start-up incubator, as an advisor to early-stage startups, and currently as the Global Director of Social Media at the ad agency TBWA\Chiat Day. There he helps create and execute the digital/social strategy for Nissan, Infiniti, Gatorade, Pepsi, Energizer, Visa and a handful of others. In his free time he is active in the pit-bull education and rescue-based charity, The Stubby Dog. He built the number one Vuvuzela mobile application for the 2010 World Cup in less than 24 hours and occasionally corresponds for Good Morning America about technology and customer acquisition. Back |
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| David Kurtz VP, Publisher Products of YP David has over 15 years experience developing and managing technology products, the last six years focused on solutions for mobile publishers. He currently manages Publisher Products for YP – the largest local search, media and advertising company in North America. . David directs strategy and execution for the YP Local Ad Network, providing publishers access to one of the most comprehensive sources of local ads. One of David’s key initiatives is helping mobile app developers leverage local advertising to monetize their mobile sites and apps. Back |
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| Robert Kutnick CTO of Me-Ality by Unique Solutions Bob has over 25 years of experience in managing software development and engineering, as well as business development in organizations. He has worked in several startup companies as well as 4 public companies. Three of these public companies grew from $20-100 million dollars to between $1-4 billion dollar market caps. Bob’s strengths lie in his ability to determine, build and execute the VISION and STRATEGY for a company, especially executing mergers and acquisitions. Bob’s most recent successes have come as the CTO and Senior VP of Strategic Business Development for Citrix Systems, based in Fort Lauderdale. Bob holds several degrees from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, including: M.S. CICE (Computer Information and Control Engineering), B.S. CE (Computer Engineering) and B.S. EE (Electrical Engineering). Back |
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Sam Liang Co-Founder and CEO of Alohar Mobile Sam Liang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alohar Mobile Inc, a mobile ambient intelligence company, based in Palo Alto, CA. Alohar creates a new persistent sensing and mobile behavior analytics platform that enables a new class of mobile apps. Previously, Sam was the architect and lead of Google Location Server for near four years, which powers thousands of mobile applications on a spectrum of platforms, including Android and iOS. Sam also architected Google’s location API and Google Latitude. Sam held a number of patents in wireless and mobile technologies. Sam has a Ph.D in EE from Stanford University, specialized in Internet systems. He also has a MS in CS from University of Arizona and BS in CS from Peking University. Back |
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Holger Luedorf VP, Head of Business Development of foursquare Holger is VP, Head of Business Development foursquare. He has held positions in internet and mobile services since 1998. Before joining foursquare, Holger worked at Yahoo Mobile as a Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, responsible for all of Yahoo’s strategic partnerships with global OEMs. Prior to Yahoo Mobile, Holger worked at T-Mobile International and Red Message. Holger holds a German Diplom in Business and Japanese from Hochschule Bremen and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Back |
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Rich MacKinnon CEO of Mifft Private Mobile Feedback Rich MacKinnon is a parallel entrepreneur. He’s the CEO and founder of Less Networks, an incubator and skunkworks. At this year’s South by Southwest, he launched one of his newest ideas, Mifft Private Mobile Feedback. He’s also the co-founder of the Austin Wireless City Project and often credited with bringing WiFi to that city. He’s been fortunate enough to experience start ups from idea to exit and knows that he prefers garages and couches to cubicles and boardrooms. In his spare time, he’s neck-deep in traffic issues while serving as one of Austin’s seven transportation commissioners. Back |
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John Malloy General Partner of BlueRun Ventures John is a General Partner and co-founder of BlueRun Ventures, formed in 1998. John brings global operations and marketing experience into such investment areas as internet services, digital media and mobile broadband services. He has more than 20 years’ experience as an executive, entrepreneur, investor, and director of venture-backed start-ups, and has served on the boards of more than 20 companies. Most notably, he was the first venture investor and board member in Paypal, for which he was named on Forbes’ Midas List of Top Venture Capitalists. Prior to founding BRV, John served in management and executive roles with Nokia, Go Communications and MCI. He holds a J.D. from George Mason University and B.A. from Boston College. Back |
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Peter Marx VP of Business Development of Qualcomm Peter Marx is vice president of Business Development, in this role, Marx handles commercialization for emerging technologies on behalf of Qualcomm’s Global Market Development and Qualcomm Labs Inc. Before Qualcomm, Marx was vice president of Technology & Digital Studio at Mattel, Inc., where he delivered branded digital and online experiences to consumers. Previously, Marx managed Analog Protocol, a consultancy specializing in media technologies and entertainment. From 2000-2005, Marx served as chief technology officer for Vivendi-Universal Games and vice president of Emerging Technologies for Universal Studios. Marx held engineering and producer positions at Electronic Arts, telemedicine, digital video, radiological imaging & biomedicine applications at UCLA, Apple Computer and 3M. He serves as an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Back |
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Dave McClure Founding Partner of 500 Startups Dave McClure is founding partner at 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, CA. He likes to hang out with entrepreneurs, and occasionally invest in startups foolish enough to let him. He has been an investor in over 250 companies including Mint.com, Twilio, Wildfire Interactive, SendGrid, TaskRabbit, SlideShare, Mashery, CreditKarma, KISSmetrics, and MakerBot, among others. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and worked with PayPal, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twilio, Mint.com, Simply Hired, O’Reilly Media, Intel, & Microsoft. He used to do real work like coding or marketing, but these days he mostly does useless stuff like hanging out on Facebook and Twitter. Dave also plays ultimate frisbee, if his knees let him. Back |
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Amy Millard VP, Marketing of Hearsay Social Amy is a cloud-based software marketing expert, a Facebook and Twitter addict, and a regular conference speaker on the subject of marketing and social media. Prior to Hearsay Social, Amy led marketing for several global software companies, and she also ran a division of Netscape. Amy earned her BS in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and her MBA from Stanford University. Back |
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Fred Neil VP, CRM and Customer Analytics of The Home Depot Fred Neil is vice president of customer relationship management (CRM) and customer analytics for The Home Depot. He is responsible for the implementation of the Company’s CRM initiatives and customer contact strategies that drive profitable growth from past and potential customers. Fred has 25 years of demonstrated accomplishments in fast paced start-up, turn around and growth companies. Prior to joining The Home Depot in June 2011, Fred served as global head of CRM, consumer, small and medium business at Dell Computers where he was responsible for strategy and execution of the company’s global customer relationship management practice, including targeted interaction, direct marketing, and customer and market insights. Previously, Fred was founder and principal of Spectrum Management Associates, a boutique business and marketing strategy consulting firm. He also held marketing leadership positions at Dunnhumby, CDW Corp and Prism Management Group. Back |
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Iryna Newman Mobile Marketing Manager of Groupon Iryna Newman, Mobile Marketing Manager at Groupon, leads the development of comprehensive marketing strategy for mobile user acquisition and engagement in Groupon’s Palo Alto office. She, along with the department she oversees, identifies and executes co-marketing initiatives with key mobile platforms and partners, works with the analytics team to quantify values and measure ROI, and defines the framework for hyper-local targeting and deal distribution. Before joining Groupon, Iryna guided the creation and growth of the WAP (mobile to mobile) channel at SendMe, Inc., a leading mobile entertainment provider. There, she was focused on driving growth, maximizing ROI, managing mobile CPM partnerships and amplifying SEO initiatives. Back |
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Joe Nolan Director, New Media of Men’s Wearhouse Joe is responsible for social business and content marketing at Men’s Wearhouse®. He brings a decade of integrated marketing and change agent experience at industry-leading brands to North America’s leading menswear retailer. Immersed in the social media craze from its beginning, Joe led the establishment of social business units at Lexus, General Motors and Symantec. He is also a prominent thought leader in the social analytics and intelligence industry. Joe is an alumnus of the University of Southern California Annenberg School, where he earned a master’s degree in strategic public relations and frequently guest lectures. Back |
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Ben Parr Columnist and Commentator of CNET Ben Parr is a respected technology commentator and journalist, web entrepreneur and aspiring world changer, startup advisor and recently completed his first sci-fi thriller novel, Desel. He is the co-founder of The Peep Project and a technology columnist and commentator for the popular technology news website CNET. Previously, he was the Editor-at-Large of Mashable, the world’s largest independent digital news website focused on social media and web technology. His previous experience includes project management for Facebook applications and content management in the web health space. Ben’s work has been featured in media such as Fortune, Fox News, CNNUSA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Washington Post, Toronto Sun, CBS News, Del Spiegel, Business Insider and The New York Times. Back |
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Damien Patton Founder and CEO of Banjo Damien Patton, Banjo Founder and CEO, is a serial entrepreneur and problem solver who developed Banjo in 2011. Not satisfied with the hurdles that hinder people from connecting across social networks on a mobile phone, he felt he had no choice but to tackle the problem himself. A trailblazer in the mobile industry, Damien speaks frequently at conferences on subjects ranging from social media to location-based technology and is currently serving as a mentor for the Harvard Innovation Lab Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program (IXP). Damien’s diverse background includes NASCAR Chief Mechanic, Desert Storm veteran and crime scene investigator (no joke). He cruises the Bay Area on his Harley, loves Boston and never misses a chance to see the Dropkick Murphys. Back |
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Marc Prioleau Managing Director of Prioleau Advisors Marc is the Managing Director of Prioleau Advisors. Whether through brilliant foresight or lack of imagination, he has worked in the location and local services market for over 15 years. He enjoys the recent surge in interest in LBS because it makes him more interesting at parties. Prioleau Advisors provides strategic and M&A advisory services for the location and local search markets. The core tenet of Prioleau Advisors is that successful M&A is rooted in deep understanding of the market dynamics, strategies and people involved. We are surprised to find these elements frequently lacking in M&A and try to fix that in our space. Prior employers have included Trimble Navigation, SiRF, deCarta and CloudMade. Back |
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Nancy Ramamurthi VP, Product Management & Marketing of TripIt As the vice president of product management and marketing at TripIt, Nancy is as a brand evangelist, helping people discover the free TripIt app and making it easy for travelers to organize and share trips no matter where they book. She is also a product craftswoman, working with the team to hone and sharpen every aspect of TripIt to solve traveler problems with smart, easy-to-use and truly useful technology. Nancy has a passion for building new global businesses that make people’s lives better. She has had a variety of management, product and consumer marketing roles over 18 years at TripIt, eBay, Yahoo!, Coca Cola, Pfizer and Kraft. Nancy received her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Government from Georgetown University. Back |
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Victoria Ransom Founder and CEO of Wildfire Interactive As founder & CEO of Wildfire (www.wildfireapp.com), Victoria led the company to profitability in just one year and has built the company to tens of thousands of customers and eight offices worldwide. Clients include brands and agencies such as Facebook, Pepsi, Unilever, Sony, AT&T, Ogilvy, Publicis, and Digitas. Wildfire is a two-time winner of the fbFund; investors include Summit, Facebook, Accel Partners, and the Founder’s Fund. Victoria has been featured in several publications and was named one of the ’25 Women to Watch in Tech’ for 2011 & 2010 and the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for New Zealand. Back |
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Rob Reed Founder and CEO of MomentFeed Rob Reed is Founder and CEO of MomentFeed. The company offers a unified solution for managing Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, and Instagram across hundreds or thousands of locations. Rob’s background is in journalism and marketing. He spent 10 years writing about snowboarding, luxury travel, and automotive culture for magazines like National Geographic Adventure, Elite Traveler, and Men’s Journal. He authored The Way of the Snowboarder (2005) and later started MaxGladwell.com, a leading independent blog on social media, sustainability, and geolocation. Rob also worked in cleantech for several years as SVP of Marketing for Earth Biofuels, a publicly traded energy company. He collaborated with Julia Roberts, Willie Nelson, and Morgan Freeman to promote biodiesel fuel as a clean alternative to petroleum, specifically in our nation’s school buses. Back |
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Olivier Ricordel Senior Manager LBS of DigitalGlobe Product Expert in the Valley for more than a decade, Olivier has released white label Location Platforms, MRM solutions, Social solutions and Mobile Apps, while working at Autodesk, Oracle and startup Qipit. As an entrepreneur, Olivier also developed and released Sprinkle GPS for the iPhone, a social fitness tracking App that reached the Top 10 spot in many countries. Olivier is currently working at DigitalGlobe, the leader collecting high resolution aerial and satellite imagery for the largest local search engines (Baidu, Bing, Google, MapQuest, Nokia, Tencent and Yandex). He is focusing on growing the ecosystem of consumer brands that democratize the use of satellite imagery. Olivier graduated with an M.S. in Computer Science (Dipl. Ing) from the University of Technology of Compiegne, France. Back |
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Mark Silva SVP Emerging Platforms of Anthem Worldwide Mark Silva is SVP Emerging Platforms at Anthem Worldwide, a division of Schawk, Inc. Mark is best-known for leading the digital marketing firm he co-founded, Real Branding, representing brands at Anheuser-Busch, ABC/Disney, Darden, PepsiCo and Unilever. The digital division of Anthem Worldwide focuses on the intersection of Brand Strategy, Brand Development and Brand Deployment across all channels with award-winning work that drives big brand results. Back |
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Ed Simnett CEO of Delivr Ed brings more than fifteen years of technology and mobile experience to Delivr, a real-world analytics business. After founding a messaging company (ePostings) and working in the VoIP space, he spent six years at Microsoft, launching the first version of both Live Communications Server and Communicator, and then extending the reach of the product with web and mobile clients. After that he built the product strategy for Windows Live Mobile Search (now Bing Mobile). After Microsoft, Ed moved to Nokia, where he was responsible for strategy and business development within the services group, working on new products and M&A in local commerce, mobile app, address book, and social music. Back |
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Tyler Sterkel Co-Founder and CEO of MondoWindow Tyler is a specialist in web and online media management, museum exhibit development, and history and archaeology public education. With a decade of experience creating interactive properties for museums like the Smithsonian, the de Young, and others, as well as project management and localization at Macromedia, Tyler brings inspirational geo-curation to MondoWindow. His experience in the museum world, which has recently gone through complete disruption thanks to the spread of the mobile Internet, stands him in good stead as he takes on in-flight entertainment, the next sector to be upended. Back |
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Michael Stich SVP and Chief Growth Officer of Rockfish Michael Stich is Chief Growth Officer for Rockfish, with responsibility for its client service, business development, enterprise solutions, technology planning and brand ventures teams. Michael and his teams work with clients to capitalize on the latest digital innovations, and improve their business as a result. Michael serves as a frequent speaker and writer on a variety of digital marketing topics, including e-commerce, analytics, mobile, retail, social media, CRM, product development and organizational consulting. Prior to Rockfish, he served as group director of strategic planning at WPP agency Bridge Worldwide, where he grew clients such as P&G, Abbott Nutrition, Kroger, Luxottica, Walgreens, Hershey and Pharmavite. Previously, he served in senior marketing, strategy and venture capital roles for Texas Instruments, McKinsey & Company, and Dell. Back |
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Blair Swedeen SVP, Strategy and Business Development of Placecast Prior to joining Placecast, Blair founded Partenza Consulting, a strategy and business development consultancy advising leading players and investors in the mobile industry. Blair also launched the mobile content product line for NAVTEQ, the leading digital map company now owned by Nokia. Before joining NAVTEQ, Blair was a Director and Quantitative Analyst at UBS Global Asset Management where he led development and operations for the firm’s global equity valuation platform and supported the development and launch of the firm’s first long-short global equity hedge fund. Blair has more than twelve years of experience in business development, strategy, and product management in mobile content and applications, digital advertising and analytics. Back |
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Owen Thomas President of Ditherati Communications Owen Thomas is an editor, writer, and media gadfly. Ditherati, his daily selection of quotes from the digital universe, has been sending up the digerati since 1997. As Gawker Media’s Valleywag, he kept the technocracy of Silicon Valley honest. Most recently, he was the founding editor of the Daily Dot. He’s also worked at NBC, Time Inc., and VentureBeat. Back |
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Hermione Way Founder of Newspepper.com Hermione is active in promoting entrepreneurship and encouraging more women to become involved in technology. In a very short space of time she has become a leading figure in new media and internet startups in London and globally. In addition to her wide-ranging online broadcasting activities, she is currently Video Director of TheNextWeb.com, founder of her own startups Newspepper.com & TechFluff.tv and has launched a world-wide competition called Startup World to find the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg! Back |
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Emily White Director, Mobile Partnerships of Facebook Since September 2010, Emily has been Director of Local and most recently Mobile Partnerships at Facebook Inc., a social networking company. Prior to joining Facebook, Emily was at Google Inc. running the North America Online Sales and Operations channel from 2001 to 2007 and the Asia Pacific & Latin America businesses from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 through 2010 Emily ran the Local and Commerce monetization businesses. She serves on the board of Lululemon, a public yoga-inspired clothing retailer, Meltwater, a private reputation management company, and the National Center for Women in I.T., a non-profit coalition working to increase the participation of girls and women in computing and I.T. She received a B.A. in Art History from Vanderbilt University. Back |
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