Stephen E. Arnold Managing Director, ArnoldIT.com |
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Mr. Arnold is a technology and financial analyst with more than 30 years of experience. Stephen has extensive operational and entrepreneurial experience, able to bridge the gap between new ideas and the financial implications of a technology.
Stephen is the author of six books and over 50 journal articles. In October 2004, CMSWatch.com published Stephen’s 450-page “The Enterprise Search Report.” This report profiles 27 enterprise search engines and includes management, budgeting, and technical information. He has published three technical monographs about Google: The Google Legacy (2005), Google Version 2.0 (2007), and Google: The Digital Gutenberg (2009). His most recent book, published by Pandia in Oslo, Norway, is “The New Landscape of Enterprise Search.”
Mr. Arnold's Web log “Beyond Search” is a widely read collection of critical commentary and opinion about information systems and methods available at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress.
Adam Ayer President, License Logic |
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John Barnes Senior VP, Strategic Development, Gale |
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John Blossom President, Shore Communications |
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Richard Bullwinkle Chief Evangelist, Rovi |
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Richard Bullwinkle joined Rovi Corporation in January 2007after the company acquired Mediabolic, where he had served as vice president of Products and chief evangelist. Since that time, Richard has served as chief evangelist responsible for corporate strategy. In his role, Richard helps define the direction of Rovi's products and technology solutions. He represents the company at numerous industry events to gather market perspectives and understand trends that have an impact on the company's customers and the end consumer in order to provide recommendations to the senior team. He also works to establish standards and lead the discussions to promote a better consumer experience throughout the CE industry.
With roles at Mediabolic, Rio Audio, and TiVo, Richard is well known in consumer electronics and entertainment industries. As vice president of products and chief evangelist at Mediabolic, Richard helped pioneer the connected home strategy of connecting entertainment media devices. As a senior member of Rio Audio's product marketing team, Richard played an instrumental part in the creation of some of the most popular MP3 players in the US. At TiVo, Richard was the company's chief evangelist and a senior member of TiVo's product marketing team. He helped create and develop the TiVo products and was behind the campaign to make the TiVo product a household name. Richard graduated from Rollins College in Florida with degrees in English and Music.
Joel Bush Director, Sales, NearTime |
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Youngsuk "Y.S." Chi Vice-Chair, Elsevier |
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Karen Christensen CEO, Berkshire Publishing Group |
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Jeffrey S. Cutler Strategic Consultant & Advisor, Collexis Holdings, Inc. VideoThang, LLC, Paxfire Inc. |
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Carol L Ginsburg Senior Consultant, BST America |
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Carol Ginsburg worked for more than 20 years at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, where she was a managing director and head of global business information services. In this capacity, she managed 100 information professionals who provided research services, training, destop deployment, intranet support and consultation to bankers worldwide. Ginsburg is currently a senior consultant with BST America LLC, where she works closely with partners Bill Noorlander and Sara Crowe in providing client services such as contract analysis, benchmark support, strategic planning, and product evaluation.
She is an active member of SLA, where she is currently co-chair of the newly established Content Buying Section. Ginsburg is a Fellow of SLA as well as a recipient of the Factiva Leadership Award and President’s Award and is a member of the SLA Hall of Fame.
Steven Goldstein CEO, Alacra, Inc. |
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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.
Kathy Greenler-Sexton Chief Marketing Officer, Business and Legal Reports, Inc. |
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Mr. Darrell Wayne Gunter President, Allerton Press a division of PLEIADES Publishing |
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Darrell W. Gunter is one of the leading advocates of semantic technology and social networking in the Science, Technical and Medical Industry. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at many information industry events advocating the benefits of semantic technology and social networking.
He is the President of Allerton Press Inc., a division of PLEIADES Publishing LLC. PLEIADES is the publisher of the Russian Library of Science that comprises 182 English language Russian scientific journals.
Previously he has served as the Chief Commercial Officer of AIP (American Institute of Physics) and as the EVP /CMO of Collexis a semantic technology and knowledge discovery company specializing in application management software. At Collexis he was one of the stewards that led Collexis to be acquired by Elsevier and he served on the Elsevier / Collexis integration team.
Prior to Collexis he served as the Sr. V.P. of Sales and Marketing for Elsevier and as the Nat'l Sales Director for Dow Jones Financial News Services after beginning his career at Xerox.
A graduate of Seton Hall University's Stillman School of Business, where he obtained his BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. He also earned his MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
He is an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University and served on many boards including the Content Board of the Software Information Industry Association up until May 2011, Olin College of Engineering Library Advisory Board, Seton Hall University Advisory Council and the Women's Venture Fund. His radio program "Leadership" airs Saturday mornings at 9:00 am on WSOU HD 89.5 FM / WSOU.net.
Darrell resides in South Orange, NJ with his wife Deb and daughter Bailee.
David Gurteen Director, Gurteen Knowledge |
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An independent knowledge consultant, educator, and coach, David Gurteen helps people share their knowledge, learn from each other, innovate, and work together effectively to make a difference in each other’s understanding of complex situations. Buying & Selling eContent 2007 will be punctuated with Gurteen-inspired conversation opportunities, led by industry experts, each of whom will host a focused conversation in a “Knowledge Café” format on Monday afternoon.
Barbara Hirsh Director, Information Resources, NERA Economic Consulting |
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Tom Hogan Sr. President & CEO, Information Today, Inc. |
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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.
Ed Keating Vice President, Content Division, Software & Information Industry Association |
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Ed has worked in the information industry for more than twenty years. During that time, he has worked for both startup and established information companies leading product management, marketing and sales organizations. Ed currently runs the Content Division of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) -- a Washington DC-based trade association formed to promote, inform and protect the software and digital content industries. In this role, he works with content companies, aggregators and service providers to help them achieve their policy, promotional and business development goals. Ed is also a frequent speaker at industry events and has been quoted recently by Marketwatch and Crains Business. His industry blog can be found at
http://edcontented.blogspot.com/
Andrew Keen Silicon Valley Entrepreneur & Impresario |
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Janice Lachance CEO, Special Libraries Association |
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Janice Lachance has been CEO of SLA (the Special Libraries Association), since 2003. SLA is the global association representing the interests of 11,000 information professionals and their strategic partners in 75 countries. She has led reformulation of the association's mission, vision and strategic plan, created the online Click University, and expanded SLA's public policy program. She designed and leads a multiyear comprehensive research effort that will produce a shared and evidence-based vision of the future of the information profession and the association's role in it. She serves on the board of the American Society of Association Executive's Center for Association Leadership and is a Fellow and a Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the National Academy of Public Administration. She was a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society.
Formerly, Janice advised nonprofit organizations on strategic planning, organizational transformation and culture change. From 1997 to 2001, she was the Director (CEO) of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the federal government's independent human resources agency with a 3,700 person workforce and a $27 billion budget serving the 1.8 million member civil service. She received her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law and B.A. from Manhattanville College.
Anne Lonergan Manager, Strategy, Research & Innovation, Deloitte |
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Randy Marcinko CEO, Groxis |
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Bill Noorlander Principal, BST America |
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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.
Chase Norlin CEO, AlphaBird |
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Chase Norlin is the CEO of AlphaBird, a leader in online video syndication. Chase has spent the last 15 years in the digital media and online advertising industries. Prior to AlphaBird, He was the founder and CEO of Pixsy, a pioneer in video search. Previously he served as a senior executive at ValueClick where he managed publisher distribution for the display advertising network, paid search, and comparison shopping divisions.
Prior to ValueClick, Chase held the position of Senior Business Development Consultant to InfoSpace, charged with publisher distribution and emerging applications for the paid search division. Previously, Chase developed Sony's first online photo sharing venture and founded the web's first online video sharing company ShareYourWorld. He also served as an EIR at Boeing Ventures in launching Boeing's online video and image licensing division.
Chase has served on the advisory board of CampusPoint and currently serves on the advisory boards of EgoTVOnline, AdBidCentral, Kerosene and a Match, VideoThang, PickupPal and Adgregate. Additionally, he serves as Chair of the Video Committee at the Internet Content Syndication Council. He received his BA from UC Berkeley and MA from The University of Chicago and is a regular speaker on video syndication, online advertising, and search. Recent speaking engagements include the Goldman Sachs 9th Annual Global Media Conference, NATPE, NAB, ad:tech, and PubCon.
William O'Conor EVP and Managing Director, Financial Services, Generate |
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Mike Orren President, Pegasus News |
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Russell Perkins Founder & Managing Director, InfoCommerce Group |
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Pamela Springer CEO & President, ECNext |
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Raul Valdes-Perez Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, Vivisimo |
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Raul Valdes-Perez, Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, has led Vivísimo since co-founding it in June, 2000. During his tenure, he has been recognized as a top ten reader favorite for entrepreneur of the year by Inc. magazine, a CEO of the year finalist by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, and three times as one of the fifty most important hispanics in business and technology by Hispanic Engineer magazine. Before Vivísimo, Raul was on the Carnegie Mellon computer science department faculty since 1991; he is now an Adjunct Associate Professor there. His research on new methods and applications of knowledge discovery led to publishing nearly 50 journal articles in natural, social, and computer science. He was a principal investigator on six grants from the National Science Foundation, served on its advisory committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, and was an action editor of the journal Machine Learning. He received a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon, studying under Herbert A. Simon, and BS and MS degrees in information engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Chris Willis VP, Social Media, Footnote.com |
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