Jon Steinberg is the President of BuzzFeed in NYC. He was previously Strategic Partner Development Manager on Google's SMB (Small Medium Business) Partnerships team. Prior to Google, Jon was the Director of Business Development at Majestic Research and the founder of iBuilding, a commercial real est...
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Jon Steinberg is the President of BuzzFeed in NYC. He was previously Strategic Partner Development Manager on Google's SMB (Small Medium Business) Partnerships team. Prior to Google, Jon was the Director of Business Development at Majestic Research and the founder of iBuilding, a commercial real estate software company backed by Tishman Speyer Properties, Benchmark Capital, and 12 Entrepreneuring. He is a graduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and holds an MBA from Columbia University. He lives with his wife and two little kids on the Upper East Side. [ Minimize ]

As part of Kraft's CIS (Consumer Insight and Strategy) group, Frank leads the Knowledge Management and social media listening/consulting efforts. Frank helped develop the Community Intelligence Portal, which is the largest of its kind at Kraft. He also authors "Randomness," which is the top blog a...
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As part of Kraft's CIS (Consumer Insight and Strategy) group, Frank leads the Knowledge Management and social media listening/consulting efforts. Frank helped develop the Community Intelligence Portal, which is the largest of its kind at Kraft. He also authors "Randomness," which is the top blog at the company. His efforts have led to the integration and usage of such research into traditional "asking" research and shoppers insights. Frank has significant analytic and quantitative research experience across a number of well-known suppliers and manufacturers. [ Minimize ]

Entrepreneur, Writer and Technology afficionado, Michael is the Chairman, Founder and CEO of Syncapse. Responsible for overseeing global operations, product strategy, and solutions business for Syncapse, Michael spends almost as much time in the air as he does logged into the Syncapse Platform. Mich...
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Entrepreneur, Writer and Technology afficionado, Michael is the Chairman, Founder and CEO of Syncapse. Responsible for overseeing global operations, product strategy, and solutions business for Syncapse, Michael spends almost as much time in the air as he does logged into the Syncapse Platform. Michael's spirit and abiding energy is the backbone of the Syncapse culture - strategic, innovative and always looking forward, Michael and the team at Syncapse are always on the pulse. Previously serving as the Canadian Director of Facebook media sales within the Interpublic network, Michael worked with pioneering brands to integrate their marketing into Facebook starting in early 2006. When not traveling to Syncapse's five global offices or thinking up big ideas, Michael enjoys dim sum and good bottle of wine with his wife Adrienne and two dogs, Chloe and Coco. [ Minimize ]

Matthew Knell is a social media marketer, web technologist, community evangelist, and communications professional with a long history designing, developing, and marketing a wide array of successful digital products including a patented pay-per-click advertising system for About.com, the first social...
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Matthew Knell is a social media marketer, web technologist, community evangelist, and communications professional with a long history designing, developing, and marketing a wide array of successful digital products including a patented pay-per-click advertising system for About.com, the first social media strategies for JetBlue Airways, a social media platform for MTV Networks and social media marketing distribution strategies for CafeMom. He is a proud graduate of Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and serves as a Tech Mentor in Residence there. Currently, he is the Social Media Director at AOL. He also teaches Social Media and Web Marketing at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. [ Minimize ]

Rob Harles is Global Head of Social Media for Bloomberg LP responsible for developing and managing Bloomberg’s social media efforts and initiatives across the globe. He joined Bloomberg in September 2010 from Sears Holdings where he was Vice President of Social Media responsible for Sears’ socia...
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Rob Harles is Global Head of Social Media for Bloomberg LP responsible for developing and managing Bloomberg’s social media efforts and initiatives across the globe. He joined Bloomberg in September 2010 from Sears Holdings where he was Vice President of Social Media responsible for Sears’ social media strategy and programs. Before joining Sears Holdings, Rob was SVP and member of the Senior Operating Team for comScore Networks, in charge of the Retail, Travel and Technology client services practice. Rob started his career as a consultant in the Chicago office of McKinsey & Co. [ Minimize ]

Britta Schell is MTV's Director of Digital Strategic Insights. A millennial and digital native, Britta develops and implements innovative research methodologies to keep MTV fully immersed in millennial digital culture and emerging technology and behaviors. She also champions MTV's digital innovation...
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Britta Schell is MTV's Director of Digital Strategic Insights. A millennial and digital native, Britta develops and implements innovative research methodologies to keep MTV fully immersed in millennial digital culture and emerging technology and behaviors. She also champions MTV's digital innovation and optimization of the brand's digital experience for the millennial audience. Prior to joining MTV, Britta worked on digital, brand and innovation insights and strategy as well as creative campaigns and a few launches for a diverse group of brands including Coca Cola, P&G, RIM BlackBerry, American Express, HBO, Virgin America, Agent Provocateur, Jawbone and eos beauty. Pro bono engagements have included innovative digital campaigns for the nonprofit Nanhi Kali, social media and brand consulting for NYC startups, and green beauty advocacy as an influencer on Twitter. Britta is a graduate of the George Washington University and is based in MTV's New York office. http://about.me/britta [ Minimize ]

Rachel Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur based in New York. She is the founder of Change The Ratio, which increases visibility and opportunity for women in tech & new media, and Charitini, which encourages group giving around events. A former lawyer who writes about media, politics, culture ...
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Rachel Sklar is a writer and social entrepreneur based in New York. She is the founder of Change The Ratio, which increases visibility and opportunity for women in tech & new media, and Charitini, which encourages group giving around events. A former lawyer who writes about media, politics, culture & technology, she was a founding editor at Mediaite and the Huffington Post. She has written for outlets like the New York Times, Newsweek, Mother Jones and The Daily Beast, and she speaks widely at conferences, on panels and on TV. She is also the co-host of “The Salon” on The Jewish Channel (check local listing!). Rachel is a TechStars mentor and an advisor to several startups, including Hashable, Vox Media, Siftee, Lover.ly, The Daily Muse & Honestly Now. She was named to the Silicon Alley 100 in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and won two Mirror “People’s Choice” Awards in 2008. Follow her on Twitter at @rachelsklar - and watch for her latest project, TheLi.st. [ Minimize ]

Ian Schafer, CEO and Founder of Deep Focus (a part of Engine USA), is one of advertising’s most influential voices in interactive marketing and social media. Prior to founding Deep Focus in 2002, Ian was Vice President of the New Media division of Miramax Films.

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Ian Schafer, CEO and Founder of Deep Focus (a part of Engine USA), is one of advertising’s most influential voices in interactive marketing and social media. Prior to founding Deep Focus in 2002, Ian was Vice President of the New Media division of Miramax Films.

Deep Focus is an award-winning engagement and innovation agency boasting a client roster that includes brands such as AMC, Microsoft, Capital One, WellPoint, The National Association of Realtors, Samsung, and MoMA.

Under Ian’s guidance, Deep Focus has been lauded for its expertise and excellence at using digital media, technology, creative, and communications strategies to create engaging, value-driven experiences that get people talking. The Emmy®-nominated firm has been responsible for many memorable, award-winning efforts over the years including 2009’s MadMenYourself.com, and has been the recipient of numerous distinctions, including several Webby Awards and a Cannes Gold Lion.

Named a ‘Media Maven’ by Advertising Age and one of Adweek’s “Young Ones”, Ian has been featured in Wired, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Adweek, Advertising Age, USA Today, New York Magazine, Variety, CNN, Fortune, The Hollywood Reporter and The Harvard Business Review. Ian also sits on the executive board of the Social Media Advertising Consortium, and the Global Advisory Board of Global Social Media Week.

An avid technologist, Ian blogs at http://www.ianschafer.com and can be followed on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ischafer. [ Minimize ]

Todd Wilms is on the leadership team of SAP's Community and Social Media organization, helping SAP’s 47 solutions and a community of over 2.5 million members reach their appropriate audiences across 128 countries. He is responsible for developing the strategy, helping to execute the program, ...
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Todd Wilms is on the leadership team of SAP's Community and Social Media organization, helping SAP’s 47 solutions and a community of over 2.5 million members reach their appropriate audiences across 128 countries. He is responsible for developing the strategy, helping to execute the program, and then developing repeatable processes to help other teams be more successful. A 20 year marketer, he has held executive product and marketing leadership roles with some of the world’s best known brands like eBay/PayPal, Citrix, PeopleSoft, and agency George P. Johnson. He is an avid writer and blogs on Forbes and any place that will let him. He is married with two little boys and lives in the Bay Area.
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Twitter: @toddmwilms
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Jacob Shwirtz serves as Viacom Media Networks expert on social viewing and social media. In this role he blends strategy, business development and product management to maximize the company's efforts in social media and beyond. Jacob brings an entrepreneurial approach to VMN, as the creator of Tweet...
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Jacob Shwirtz serves as Viacom Media Networks expert on social viewing and social media. In this role he blends strategy, business development and product management to maximize the company's efforts in social media and beyond. Jacob brings an entrepreneurial approach to VMN, as the creator of TweetBookz, a service for Twitter users that creates high quality coffee table books of tweets, as well as PodBookz, a partnership with Kevin Smith to allow fans to purchase books of their favorite podcasts. [ Minimize ]

Kyle-Beth Hilfer is Of Counsel to Collen IP. She has over 20 years experience as an attorney specializing in advertising, marketing, promotions, intellectual property, and new media law.

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Kyle-Beth Hilfer is Of Counsel to Collen IP. She has over 20 years experience as an attorney specializing in advertising, marketing, promotions, intellectual property, and new media law.

In the social and new media areas, Ms. Hilfer helps clients leverage social media platforms while protecting their brands and intellectual property. Ms. Hilfer counsels on such issues as running prize promotions on social media platforms, managing employees in social media, intellectual property protection, user-generated content, testimonials and endorsements in cyberspace, loyalty programs, mobile marketing, affiliate marketing, and privacy issues. Ms. Hilfer was a judge for the PMA 2012 Reggie Awards, bringing her legal expertise and business acumen to the competition in choosing award winning marketing campaigns.

As an intellectual property specialist, Ms. Hilfer routinely advises companies on how to transform their ideas into legally protected copyrights and trademarks. Representing both licensors and licensees, she helps develop long-term business plans to maximize the value of their intellectual property portfolios. She assists in the development, use, maintenance, licensing and protection of their trademarks and copyrights, and she offers strategies for exploiting intellectual property in a global marketplace. In the world of e-commerce and social media, Ms. Hilfer counsels clients on the protection of their intellectual property and rights of publicity and privacy.

Ms. Hilfer negotiates and drafts all forms of agreements relating to advertising and marketing and intellectual property licensing efforts. She offers strategic advice to protect her clients legal interests while helping achieve their business goals.

Ms. Hilfer is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School. She is also an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, serving on the commercial and intellectual property panels and hearing large, complex cases. To contact Ms. Hilfer, email her at kbhilfer@collenip.com, follow her on Twitter @kbhilferlaw or find her on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/kylebethhilfer. [ Minimize ]

Kristin is the Director of Earned Media at The Barbarian Group where she works with clients developing ideas to grow their presence within social communities and develop creative ways to generate word of mouth newsworthy campaigns. Throughout her career she has had the pleasure of working on award...
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Kristin is the Director of Earned Media at The Barbarian Group where she works with clients developing ideas to grow their presence within social communities and develop creative ways to generate word of mouth newsworthy campaigns. Throughout her career she has had the pleasure of working on award-winning work with clients including Pepsi, Mattel's Barbie, Expedia, GE and General Mills. In between her daily client work she enjoys creating contextual meme sites like IsPinterest.com, a meme site devoted to surfacing up the actual purpose of Pinterest as well as keeping up on Ryan Gosling's latest do-goodings is by reading her favorite sites Buzzfeed & HelloGiggles. Prior to The Barbarian Group she worked as a Digital Strategist at BBDO working on the GE account. You can follow her on Twitter at @kmaverick. [ Minimize ]

Cindy Gallop's background is brandbuilding, marketing and advertising - she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. She is the founder and CEO of www.IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a web meets world platform that tur...
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Cindy Gallop's background is brandbuilding, marketing and advertising - she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. She is the founder and CEO of www.IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a web meets world platform that turns good intentions into action, one microaction at a time, to deliver Action Branding and build your Action Graph, which launched in beta with a demo at TED 2010, and of www.makelovenotporn.com, launched at TED 2009. She acts as board advisor to a number of tech startups and consults for companies around the world, describing her consultancy approach as 'I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.' She has a reputation as a highly compelling and inspirational speaker at conferences and events around the world on a variety of topics: her talk on ‘The Future of Advertising’ has been described on Twitter as ‘The most brilliant speech on the future of advertising ever – not the usual buzzword-laden bullshit’, and ‘Watching @cindygallop slice and dice the ad industry status quo like a ginsu knife. #purewin’. She published ‘Make Love Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on Human Behavior’ as one of TED’s line of TEDBooks and is currently working on a book about her philosophy of life and business. She will be launching http://makelovenotporn.tv in spring 2012. You can follow her on Twitter @cindygallop. [ Minimize ]

George G Smith Jr is a blogger, social strategist, and digital native currently living in New York City. George graduated from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst with a degree in Communications and a minor in African Studies. He has worked with many brands in the social realm - including Cr...
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George G Smith Jr is a blogger, social strategist, and digital native currently living in New York City. George graduated from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst with a degree in Communications and a minor in African Studies. He has worked with many brands in the social realm - including Crocs, Walmart, and Pepsi. He has spoken at SXSW, Izeafest, Blog World Expo and other professional conferences on various topics within Social Media [ Minimize ]

Curtis founded Attention in 2006 and has since grown the agency to over 120 people in New York, Los Angeles, and London. The agency is differentiated by its ability to drive measurable business results through social marketing - across the marketing funnel – across the enterprise - integrated acro...
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Curtis founded Attention in 2006 and has since grown the agency to over 120 people in New York, Los Angeles, and London. The agency is differentiated by its ability to drive measurable business results through social marketing - across the marketing funnel – across the enterprise - integrated across earned, owned and paid media.
Attention represents over 80 brands including: Mattel, Pepperidge Farm, Thomson Reuters, Calvin Klein, Verizon, and Logitech.

Before founding Attention, Curtis created two highly successful new media practices at Ruder Finn and Middleberg. Curtis opened the first joint PR and online marketing practice in 1993 working with Internet pioneers such as CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy, Microsoft and Sprynet. One of the PR industry's first creative directors at Middleberg, he grew the agency into one of the most successful consumer technology agencies prior to its sale to Euro RSCG in 2000. Curtis tested his word-of-mouth campaigns by co-founding Film Movement (sold to Blockbuster in 2006), the first company to release films simultaneously in theater and on DVD. [ Minimize ]

Mario Zelaya is the founder and Managing Director of Majestic Media, Canada's first Facebook Marketing agency. His extensive experience on the Facebook platform includes building out social strategy, campaign ideation, app architecture and social design for big brand clients such Volkswagen, Kia, Ge...
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Mario Zelaya is the founder and Managing Director of Majestic Media, Canada's first Facebook Marketing agency. His extensive experience on the Facebook platform includes building out social strategy, campaign ideation, app architecture and social design for big brand clients such Volkswagen, Kia, General Motors, Mazda, Gatorade, Hot Wheels, Infiniti, Nissan, Visa and many others. Under Mario's leadership, Majestic Media has become Canada's largest builder of custom Facebook applications for agencies and big brands. [ Minimize ]

Megan Berry is the founder of LiftFive, helping early-stage startups build community and gain momentum. LiftFive is partnered with Lerer Ventures and current clients include Newsle, CasaHop, BestVendor, Vook and RebelMouse. Megan Berry was formerly the Senior Marketing Manager at Klout, where she bu...
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Megan Berry is the founder of LiftFive, helping early-stage startups build community and gain momentum. LiftFive is partnered with Lerer Ventures and current clients include Newsle, CasaHop, BestVendor, Vook and RebelMouse. Megan Berry was formerly the Senior Marketing Manager at Klout, where she built the community and brand behind Klout from early 2010, when she joined as their fourth employee. She blogs about marketing, influence, and social media strategy on The Huffington Post,Mashable and Amex Open Forum. She’s spoken about influence and community at numerous conferences including Lucky’s FABB conference, Socialize, Social Media Camp, Wappow Emerging Media, Columbia School of Journalism and SXSW. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University. [ Minimize ]

Lisa Joy Rosner is the Chief Marketing Officer at NetBase, where she works with the largest brands in the world—including Coca-Cola, Kraft and HP—as they change their approach to understanding consumers’ desires. Ms. Rosner is a tenured marketing executive in Silicon Valley, who is known for...
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Lisa Joy Rosner is the Chief Marketing Officer at NetBase, where she works with the largest brands in the world—including Coca-Cola, Kraft and HP—as they change their approach to understanding consumers’ desires. Ms. Rosner is a tenured marketing executive in Silicon Valley, who is known for her creative and educational marketing approach. Before joining NetBase, she was an e-commerce expert, having served as vice president of Worldwide Marketing at BroadVision Inc. and vice president of Marketing at MyBuys, where she worked with such companies as Sears, Wal-Mart and Circuit City. Prior to that, Ms. Rosner worked in the business intelligence market at Brio, DecisionPoint and Oracle. Lisa Joy is a frequent guest lecturer at universities including, the Hass School of Business, Stanford and the Tuck School of Business. Ms. Rosner serves on the content committee for the AMA Market Research Conference and the Benchmark Social Measurement Conference and was named a Gold winner at the ARF Great Minds Awards in 2011. Ms. Rosner received a bachelor’s degree (sum cum laude) in English literature from the University of Maryland. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. [ Minimize ]

Michael applies a passion for communication, clarity, and collaboration in his role as the Vice President, Creative Director for brand activation agency The Marketing Store Worldwide. Michael’s team in Toronto is a multidisciplinary collection of creative talent tasked with delivering integrated m...
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Michael applies a passion for communication, clarity, and collaboration in his role as the Vice President, Creative Director for brand activation agency The Marketing Store Worldwide. Michael’s team in Toronto is a multidisciplinary collection of creative talent tasked with delivering integrated marketing solutions for the agency’s largest clients, including Nissan, McDonald’s, Coke, and Infiniti. With over 12 years experience in digital marketing and user experience design, Michael has found ways to apply inspiration gained through his work for gaming industry giant Electronic Arts to the CRM, Loyalty, and engagement programs he is currently tasked with building. Follow Michael on Twitter @michaeljoliver [ Minimize ]

Alan Berkson is founder and principal at the Intelligist Group, a business strategy advisory service. In a fast-changing economic and technological landscape, he specializes in fostering change within organizations to ensure growth and profitability. Alan has spent time in the financial servic...
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Alan Berkson is founder and principal at the Intelligist Group, a business strategy advisory service. In a fast-changing economic and technological landscape, he specializes in fostering change within organizations to ensure growth and profitability. Alan has spent time in the financial services, publishing and entertainment industries, and was a pioneer in the IT managed services space for the SMB marketplace. His recent focus has been on the impact of pervasive communications on business and society. He is also Director at 2020F, a start-up focused leveraging the global community to help identify disruptive trends and events that shape our world. [ Minimize ]

Marci Ikeler (the last name’s pronounced just how it looks: “ike” + “ler”) is a strategist with a background in user experience design. Since 1999, Marci has helped advertising agencies, Fortune 500 brands, and start-ups to engage with their consumers digitally. She has worked with brands ...
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Marci Ikeler (the last name’s pronounced just how it looks: “ike” + “ler”) is a strategist with a background in user experience design. Since 1999, Marci has helped advertising agencies, Fortune 500 brands, and start-ups to engage with their consumers digitally. She has worked with brands such as Ally, Dove Chocolate, Foot Locker, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Stella McCartney, and TNT. Currently, she leads the rapidly growing Digital Strategy Group at Grey New York. [ Minimize ]

Gregory Galant is the CEO of Sawhorse Media, a movement to make it easy to find the right people on the social web through products including the Shorty Awards, Muck Rack and Listorious. To help fellow entrepreneurs, Greg created Venture Voice, a podcast interview series with the founders of Twi...
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Gregory Galant is the CEO of Sawhorse Media, a movement to make it easy to find the right people on the social web through products including the Shorty Awards, Muck Rack and Listorious. To help fellow entrepreneurs, Greg created Venture Voice, a podcast interview series with the founders of Twitter, LinkedIn, The Vanguard Group, Brooklyn Brewery and more. Greg's a mentor in the TechStars program and an advisor to SocialShield. BusinessWeek named him one of the "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs". He's also a member of Twitter's exclusive first name club. You can follow him at @gregory [ Minimize ]

Eleanor Cleverly supplements the research and consulting services of HI with a master’s in Media Studies from the New School University. Her graduate research focused on the persuasive quality of narrative, and innovative approaches to evaluation and data visualization for the social sciences. She...
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Eleanor Cleverly supplements the research and consulting services of HI with a master’s in Media Studies from the New School University. Her graduate research focused on the persuasive quality of narrative, and innovative approaches to evaluation and data visualization for the social sciences. She has authored two of HI's recent case studies, an entertainment evaluation of the 2010 feature-length documentary Waiting For "Superman," and the 2011 original MTV movie (DIS)CONNECTED. In 2009, she authored FTW! Net Neutrality For The Win: How Entertainment and the Science of Influence Can Save Your Internet. [ Minimize ]

Clint Beharry is a recent MFA Interaction Design graduate from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where he designed and developed software and hardware prototypes for applications in psychology, sensory immersion, and data visualization. Prior to graduate school, Beharry designed for print, mobile, a...
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Clint Beharry is a recent MFA Interaction Design graduate from the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where he designed and developed software and hardware prototypes for applications in psychology, sensory immersion, and data visualization. Prior to graduate school, Beharry designed for print, mobile, and web; developed front-end websites and back-end web applications; and received commissions for visual art. His clients include Gamelab, The Philip Johnson Glass House, and Maventy Health International. He has an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Miami. [ Minimize ]

Wayne St. Amand is a veteran marketing leader with a track record of significantly accelerating the growth trajectory and valuation of technology businesses. At Crimson Hexagon, St. Amand is responsible for driving business expansion through the company’s global corporate and product marketing eff...
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Wayne St. Amand is a veteran marketing leader with a track record of significantly accelerating the growth trajectory and valuation of technology businesses. At Crimson Hexagon, St. Amand is responsible for driving business expansion through the company’s global corporate and product marketing efforts. Most recently, St. Amand was the director of marketing for ExaGrid Systems, a fast-growing, multi-award-winning developer of advanced data storage and back-up appliances. Before ExaGrid, St. Amand ran Electronic Vaulting product marketing for Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), helping to grow the product line from $12 million to $100+ million in revenues. Prior to Iron Mountain, he managed product marketing as well as corporate communications for Connected Corporation, a provider of PC data protection services and software, which was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2004 for $120 million. Prior to Connected, St. Amand managed global corporate communications for SilverStream Software, helping the company navigate a successful IPO (NASD: SSSW) and an acquisition by Novell in 2002 for $212 million. Earlier in his career, St. Amand led successful communications campaigns for a number of well-known technology companies including HP, Motorola and Texas Instruments, while working for several of the Boston area’s most influential marketing services firms. He holds a B.S., with honors, in Communications and Marketing from Boston University’s College of Communication. [ Minimize ]

Andrew has 17 years of marketing experience, primarily in beer marketing at Anheuser Busch InBev, where he joined the company via Labatt in Canada. He is currently responsible for leading AB InBev’s marketing for the Stella Artois and Beck’s brands globally, based in New York. Previous to his ...
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Andrew has 17 years of marketing experience, primarily in beer marketing at Anheuser Busch InBev, where he joined the company via Labatt in Canada. He is currently responsible for leading AB InBev’s marketing for the Stella Artois and Beck’s brands globally, based in New York. Previous to his current role, Andrew was the Global Advertising Director for Budweiser, leading the communication for the King of Beers in the US and abroad. Prior to joining AB InBev, Andrew started his marketing career at Kraft, and is a Business graduate from Queen’s University, in Canada. Andrew lives in Larchmont NY with his wife Kerry and two boys, Gavin (6) and Carter (4). [ Minimize ]

Jeffrey L. Cohen is a Social Strategist at Radian6, a salesforce.com company. Radian6's social media monitoring software helps businesses listen, discover, measure and engage in conversations across the social web. Jeff works with B2B and B2C enterprise companies to assess their social media strate...
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Jeffrey L. Cohen is a Social Strategist at Radian6, a salesforce.com company. Radian6's social media monitoring software helps businesses listen, discover, measure and engage in conversations across the social web. Jeff works with B2B and B2C enterprise companies to assess their social media strategy and adoption, and advises them on how social media marketing, communications and engagement can help them meet their business objectives. 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 , and is also the co-founder and Managing Editor of SocialMediaB2B.com, the leading online resource for social media’s impact on B2B marketing. [ Minimize ]

Becky Wang has joined Droga5 as the Head of Analytical Strategy. She will focus on unlocking creative opportunities for the agency to develop data-informed communication ideas, utilities, products, and services as well as to optimize for creative effectiveness.

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Becky Wang has joined Droga5 as the Head of Analytical Strategy. She will focus on unlocking creative opportunities for the agency to develop data-informed communication ideas, utilities, products, and services as well as to optimize for creative effectiveness.

Prior to joining Droga5, Becky led the insights and analytics practice at Saatchi & Saatchi NY in search of patterns in data to tell a story. There she built and validated the use of data and analytics in the creative development process and led the culture change to one of data-informed. She served as the digital director on several brands such as Olay and Trident.

Before that, she led the business and channel development for a social media marketing and analytics firm, PeopleBrowsr, managing and executing successful online marketing campaigns involving content platforms, social aggregation, social media and digital word-of-mouth for clients including Gilt Groupe, Comcast Entertainment, and Pepsi. In the past, Becky’s served as a creative executive at Laura Ziskin Productions, a film and television production housed at Columbia Pictures, and as digital marketing consultant to entertainment groups such as the Entertainment Industry Fund (EIF) and LA-based fashion house Linda Loudermilk. She has also held executive and management positions with a focus in new product development, financial analysis, data mining, semantic analysis, and web development at CNET, Washington Mutual, and Revere Data, an index-building business and investment research firm.

She produced an independent film that premiered at the New York International Latino Film Festival and Los Angeles United Film Festival and recently spoke at SXSW on #BigData - which was recently featured in the Huffington Post.

She currently serves as a member of the advisory board for a venture capital firm and two technology start-ups. [ Minimize ]

Steve Krakauer joined CNN as the digital producer of Piers Morgan Tonight in November 2010, and was named CNN’s first senior digital producer for the network in October 2011. In his current role, he shapes the digital output (social media and web) of all CNN programs, as well as major events like ...
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Steve Krakauer joined CNN as the digital producer of Piers Morgan Tonight in November 2010, and was named CNN’s first senior digital producer for the network in October 2011. In his current role, he shapes the digital output (social media and web) of all CNN programs, as well as major events like debates and elections. He also runs the @CNN Twitter account. Previously he was senior editor of Mediaite.com, which he helped launch the site in July 2009. He was previously an editor at TVNewser.com, and was part of the NBC page program. He was named a “rising star” by the New York Times in April 2010. He graduated from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School in 2006. [ Minimize ]

Erin Newkirk is the CEO and Co-Founder of Red Stamp, a consumer-focused tech company on a mission to make relationships stronger by elevating each + every correspondence with style + grace via the Red Stamp app, available for free in the Apple App Store. Founded in 2005, Red Stamp has been feature...
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Erin Newkirk is the CEO and Co-Founder of Red Stamp, a consumer-focused tech company on a mission to make relationships stronger by elevating each + every correspondence with style + grace via the Red Stamp app, available for free in the Apple App Store. Founded in 2005, Red Stamp has been featured in dozens of media outlets such as The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, USA Today, Fast Company, Mashable, the Today Show, and more. In conjunction with Red Stamp, Ms. Newkirk is an active speaker + advisor to women tech entrepreneurs in Minneapolis + New York City. Prior to Red Stamp, Ms. Newkirk was in Brand Management at General Mills, a Fortune 500 company and home to great American food brands such as Cheerios, Pillsbury, and Betty Crocker. She received the coveted Chairman’s Champion Award for her work. Ms. Newkirk began her marketing career at Kaplan Educational Centers, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. Ms. Newkirk received her MBA in Marketing + Operations from Indiana University Kelley School of Business and has a Certificate of French Studies from the Université Paris Sorbonne. She tweets @redstamp_erin, pins at pinterest.com/redstamp + maintains a personal blog at erinredstamp.tumblr.com. [ Minimize ]

Sebastian Majewski’s social media philosophy focuses on the potential for social media to influence, inform, and regulate global politics. Majewski is known for his research on stakeholder influence models in social media. He is currently working as Analysis and Impact Coordinator with UNICEF....
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Sebastian Majewski’s social media philosophy focuses on the potential for social media to influence, inform, and regulate global politics. Majewski is known for his research on stakeholder influence models in social media. He is currently working as Analysis and Impact Coordinator with UNICEF. [ Minimize ]

Melle Hock is a Senior Account Supervisor with Edelman, Brand Stewardship. She is responsible for providing strategic and creative counsel across Edelman’s client roster, and working with teams to advance brand-centric thinking and create programs of enduring relevance to their target audiences. M...
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Melle Hock is a Senior Account Supervisor with Edelman, Brand Stewardship. She is responsible for providing strategic and creative counsel across Edelman’s client roster, and working with teams to advance brand-centric thinking and create programs of enduring relevance to their target audiences. Melle also leads strategic planning and program execution for Schick Xtreme3 consumer marketing. Melle has extensive experience leading holistic communications initiatives for consumer brands, from strategic development and media relations to digital and social strategy and brand building. In a rapidly evolving media environment, Melle specializes in helping organizations understand the latest consumer and commercial trends and technologies and leveraging them in impactful ways. She currently leads integrated consumer engagement campaigns for Schick that span traditional, digital, social and owned media. Prior to joining the Brand Stewardship group, Melle spent five years in Edelman’s Consumer Marketing practice. She managed the development and execution of communications programs for a variety of food, tech and lifestyle bands, including Zagat, 9-11 Memorial, Microsoft, Trojan and Pepsi. [ Minimize ]

Alex Leo is the Director of Web Product for Thomson Reuters Digital. Before that she was a senior editor at The Huffington Post and an associate producer at ABC News. She was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media in 2012 and chosen by NBC New York as one of the top twenty people to follow on Twit...
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Alex Leo is the Director of Web Product for Thomson Reuters Digital. Before that she was a senior editor at The Huffington Post and an associate producer at ABC News. She was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media in 2012 and chosen by NBC New York as one of the top twenty people to follow on Twitter. Her work has appeared on The Daily Beast, Jezebel, ABCNews.com, The Hairpin, and more, as well as in the play "Love, Loss and What I Wore." Alex Leo Twitter: @AlexMLeo [ Minimize ]

Erica Berger is the Director of Product & Partnerships for Storyful, the world's first social media newsroom. Storyful's team of journalists provide news organisations with early warning of big stories, discovering and verifying content and contacts through a combination of good journalism and pion...
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Erica Berger is the Director of Product & Partnerships for Storyful, the world's first social media newsroom. Storyful's team of journalists provide news organisations with early warning of big stories, discovering and verifying content and contacts through a combination of good journalism and pioneering technology. Previously, Erica was on the New Products team at The Economist, where she helped launch The Economist Group Media Lab and managed Electionism amongst other apps and digital products for economist.com. Her editorial work focused on technology, environmental issues, and sometimes on indie music can be found in The Economist, VentureBeat, GOOD.is, NewBandDaily and other publications. Originally from Chicago, she is a graduate from the University of Southern California's School of International Relations, and now resides happily in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Twitter: @GoodBerger [ Minimize ]

Jennifer Still is the managing editor for HelloGiggles, where she also posts interviews with various media figures and raves about her latest favourite skincare products. She also serves as the managing editor for TheConversation.TV, the companion website to the new Lifetime interview series hosted ...
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Jennifer Still is the managing editor for HelloGiggles, where she also posts interviews with various media figures and raves about her latest favourite skincare products. She also serves as the managing editor for TheConversation.TV, the companion website to the new Lifetime interview series hosted by Amanda de Cadenet. She is also an entertainment reporter for DigitalSpy. When not editing or writing, she can be found tweeting @jenniferlstill. [ Minimize ]

Sachin is the CEO and co-founder of Parse.ly. Parse.ly's flagship product, Dash, provides insights to the web's best publishers. This next-generation analytics tool informs writers and editors which posts, sections, authors, and referrers are performing best on their site. It also automatically grou...
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Sachin is the CEO and co-founder of Parse.ly. Parse.ly's flagship product, Dash, provides insights to the web's best publishers. This next-generation analytics tool informs writers and editors which posts, sections, authors, and referrers are performing best on their site. It also automatically groups all of a publisher's analytics data by topic and visualizes this data elegantly. Dash can answer concrete editorial questions with hard data: Which topics are trending on my site right now? Who is writing about those topics? How are they performing in social media and search engines? How does our traffic compare with webwide trends? Previously, Sachin started an edtech consulting company helping schools in NYC build, implement and manage technology. Prior to that, Sachin taught math and economics at an alternative high school in Brownsville, Brooklyn through the New York City Teaching Fellows. [ Minimize ]

Michael is Vice President, Mobile for MTV. His responsibilities span across all major wireless content and service types, including social TV, apps, mobile web, video, games, SMS and on-air interactivity. He currently works to create MTV experiences across multiple platforms including mobile/tablet/...
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Michael is Vice President, Mobile for MTV. His responsibilities span across all major wireless content and service types, including social TV, apps, mobile web, video, games, SMS and on-air interactivity. He currently works to create MTV experiences across multiple platforms including mobile/tablet/connected TVs and gaming consoles. He also manages unique social media integrations and visualizations into MTV tentpole events such as the VMAs and Movie Awards. Prior to joining MTV, Scogin served as Sr. Director of Multiplatform Programming for Fuse Networks. At Fuse, Scogin was responsible for the extension and interaction of on-air programming across multiple platforms including online, wireless, interactive television and video-on-demand. Previously, Scogin served as Senior Director of Platform Strategy for Bolt, Inc., one of the largest online communities for young adults. At Bolt, Scogin was responsible creating the strategy to extend Bolt’s community tools, applications and user-generated content into emerging platforms such as wireless and white-label online community services and applications. [ Minimize ]