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Rafat Ali
Editor, Publisher, PaidContent.org
Rafat Ali is Editor and Publisher of ContentNext media, including paidContent.org, the award-winning digital media business news and analysis site, which he founded. He is also editor of MocoNews.net, a news site devoted to mobile content. Both sites form part of ContentNext, an independent media and information company covering the business of digital media. Previously, Ali was the managing editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter, where he wrote and edited daily news and feature stories on online media, technology and high-tech finance that were sent out as part of a daily e-mail newsletter to 50,000 subscribers. He was also a section editor for Venture Reporter magazine, a bimonthly publication on venture capital business, and wrote features on the online media/entertainment industry and allied technologies, analyzed startups and interviewed venture capitalists. In addition, he worked as a digital media reporter at Inside.com. Ali earned his bachelor's degree in computer engineering in India and a master's degree in journalism at Indiana University, where he was a Knight Foundation Fellow.

 

Maribeth Bacig
Director, Business Knowledge Services, Cargill
John Blossom
President, Shore Communications
Robert D. Bovenschulte
Director, Publications Division, American Chemical Society
Joe Bremner
CEO, Kennedy Information, Inc.
Lou Celi
Senior Vice President & Publishing Director, Economist Intelligence Unit
Jeff Cutler
Chief Revenue Officer, Answers.com
Jeffrey Dearth
, DeSilva & Phillips
Steven Goldstein
CEO, Alacra, Inc.
Steven Goldstein is Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alacra. Formerly, Mr. Goldstein was Vice President of Strategic Planning for Knight-Ridder's Business Information Services division. In that role he was responsible for Knight-Ridder's acquisition of Technimetrics and its pre-IPO investment in Netscape Communications. Mr. Goldstein previously held a range of sales and marketing positions at Knight-Ridder's Business Information properties. He served on the Small Business and Agriculture Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2008-2010. Mr. Goldstein has a BA in English from SUNY Albany and an MBA in Finance from Cornell University. He resides in New York City.

Gary Halliwell
President, ZoomInfo
Don Hawk
Co-Founder & President, TechTarget
Tom Hogan Sr.
President & CEO, Information Today, Inc.
Thomas H. Hogan, Sr., is the Co-Founder, CEO, and President of Information Today, Inc., (ITI), based in Medford, NJ.  ITI is a leading publisher of trade periodicals, directories, and books about and for the information industry.  ITI is also a major organizer of conferences about the application of information technology by users and enterprises, including Buying & Selling eContent '07.  Visit our web site at www.infotoday.com. 

Corey Johnson
CEO, Valeo Intellectual Property
Dick Kaser
Vice President of Content, Information Today, Inc.
Dick Kaser is a familiar face in the information industry. As Vice President of Content for trade publisher and conference organizer Information Today, Inc. (ITI).  Dick heads up ITI’s Content Group and directs the editorial operations for all trade periodicals, reference products, and conference programs—each aimed at the library community or professional btob information markets, including publishers.  Publications under Dick’s wing include Information Today, Searcher, ONLINE, EContent, KMWorld, CRM Magazine, Streaming Media, American Library Directory, Literary Marketplace, and Computers in Libraries, where he simultaneously serves as Executive Editor. He also directs the program for ITI's Buying & Selling eContent conference. 

Prior to joining ITI in 2001, Dick was Executive Director of NFAIS (the National Federation for Advanced Information Services).  At NFAIS he directed the federation’s publishing and conference programming, in addition to providing consulting services to member organizations.  Dick held prior management positions with Chemical Abstracts Service—the producer of STN International—and the Macmillan Electronic Publishing Group, including Pergamon Press, Molecular Design Limited, BRS Software, the BRS and ORBIT search services, and Macmillan New Media.  He has more than 25 years of experience in the information industry.  Published widely—from scholarly journals to the popular press—Dick observes and comments frequently on the industry. 

He holds a B.S., summa cum laude, and with Honors in Journalism, from Ohio University and an M.A. in International Communications from Ohio State.

Joseph E. Kasputys
Chairman, President and CEO, Global Insight, Inc.
Nikolai S. Kopelev
Director, Vendor Relations, GlaxoSmithKline

Nik Kopelev is Director, R&D IT Vendor Relations at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).  In this role he leads the company-wide information acquisition function and manages the R&D IT software portfolio.  Nik’s group is responsible for working with almost 300 publishers and software vendors.



In addition to license development and negotiations he is actively involved in identifying new information products to be licensed at GSK to cover emerging business needs, as well as in joint development initiatives with major information publishers.

 

Prior to joining SmithKline Beecham, Nik held various positions at ISI (Thomson Reuters), which spanned from indexing of chemical information to market, business and new product development.   Before then, he taught Inorganic Chemistry at several universities in the US and Russia.

 

Nik holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Moscow State University and an M.S. in Information Systems from Drexel University.

 

Janet Liggett
, Pfizer
Michelle Manafy
Director of Content, Free Pint, Limited Chair, Buying & Selling eContent
Michelle Manafy is the Director of Content of Free Pint, Limited  a publisher of sites and resources for the business information industry. Michelle previously served as as the Editorial Director of the Enterprise Group, for Information Today, Inc. In this role, Michelle served as Editor-in-chief of EContent magazine and the Intranets newsletter. She also served as the the programming chair of Information Today's Enterprise Search Summits and the Buying & Selling eContent Conference.

Michelle is a contributor to and co-editor (with Heidi Gautschi), of the book, Dancing With Digital Natives: Staying in Step with the Generation That is Transforming the Way Business is Done, (2011, CyberAge Books). She speaks at a variety of industry events and serves as a judge for many content and technology competitions and was the editor of the book Cashing in With Content: How Innovative Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers into Buyers, by David Meerman Scott. Michelle speaks at a variety of industry events and serves as a judge for various content and technology competitions. She has worked in book, magazine, and digital publishing for more than 20 years in areas ranging from pop culture to academic nonfiction, and holds a B.A. in Journalism from San Francisco State University.  

David Mandelbrot
General Manager, Search Content, Yahoo!
Jeff Massa
President & CEO, YellowBrix

JEFFREY P. MASSA is a managing founder of YellowBrix since its inception in 1997 and has served as President and CEO of the company since September of 2003. Prior to serving as CEO, Jeff was the Chief Technology Officer of YellowBrix and served as a Director of the Company since 1997. Before launching YellowBrix, Jeff was the SVP of Technology of the Corporate Information Division of Infoseek Corporation. Jeff has served as the SVP of Technology for IntellX and as VP of Technology for COMTEX Scientific Corporation. Most notably, Jeff served three Presidents as the Manager of Information Systems and Deputy Director of Systems from 1987 - 1993 for the Executive Office of the President, National Security Council, The White House. Jeff is currently a member of two information industry executive boards, the Executive Leadership Committee for Outsell, and the Executive Committee for ASIDIC.

 

Ross Mayfield
Chairman, President and Co-founder, Socialtext
Ross Mayfield is chairman, president & co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to more than 4,000 customers with software-as-a-service, appliance and open source solutions. Previously, Mayfield served as VP of marketing for a Fujitsu spinout and CEO of an enterprise risk management software company. Mayfield co-founded and served as president of Ratexchange. He is a former advisor to the office of the president of Estonia and began his career in the non-profit sector. Mayfield holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and completed the management development for entrepreneurs (MDE) program of the Anderson School of Business.

Erica Mobley
Director, IET Inspec
Bill Noorlander
Principal, BST America
Willem (Bill) Noorlander has served in domestic and international positions with several global banks and consulting firms and has a wide range of experience in the Financial and Information industries. His long term experience and background includes finance/accounting, operational management, risk management and general management. During the last 15 years he has focused on information management, including in-depth knowledge of usage requirements, information sourcing and contract negotiations. Bill is a Principal in BST America, a Market Data Consulting and Outsourcing firm, located in New York city. In his current role he is the Partner in charge of BST's Market Data consultancy practice.


R.J. Pittman
CEO, President, and Co-Founder, Groxis
Chuck Richard
, Outsell Inc.
Max Schireson
Vice President of Services & Alliances, Mark Logic Corporation
Mike Stelzer
Director, Global Vendor Management, Ernst & Young
Dr. David Weinberger
Co-Director Harvard Library Innovation Lab, Harvard University & Author, Too Big To Know; Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, & Co-Author,Cluetrain Manifesto
David Weinberger is editor of The Journal of Hyperlinked Organizations (JOHO), an online journal about how the Web is changing the way businesses run and people work together. He is also president of Evident Marketing, a strategic marketing consulting firm.

Before that, Dr. Weinberger was one of the architects of the transformation of Open Text into the leading provider of intranet application software . Dr. Weinberger was VP of Strategic Marketing there for 2.5 years. Prior to that he held a similar position at Interleaf. Before that, he taught college philosophy for 6 years.

Dr. Weinberger has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto and a BA from Bucknell University. He co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto (Perseus).

Dr. Weinberger has had extensive experience in the electronic document management and delivery markets. He was editor of the Gilbane Report (the leading journal on document management), publishes frequently in magazines such as Wired and speaks at conferences around the world on the future of documents and the Web's influence on business processes. He is an elected member of AIIM's Emerging Technology Advisory Group and is on the advisory boards of Xplor's Marketspace, The Seybold Conference and The World Congress of Philosophy. He lives in Boston with his family and can be reached at self@evident.com.

Bob Weiner
Senior Vice President, Licensing, Copyright Clearance Center