keynote speakers

Ken Doctor, a leading news industry analyst, is the author of "Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get" (St. Martin's Press). It's a handbook for the digital news decade to come. As news industry analyst for Outsell, and through his own Content Bridges blog, he has covered the transformation of the news media, as it moves from print and broadcast to digital, focusing on changing business models and the journalism created. His new site -- Newsonomics.com -- is a daily companion to the book, keeping up with the trends of the day.

In his work, he focuses on what's being lost and what's being gained and on how sustainable models of contemporary journalism can be built. He believes that the sprouts of the emerging journalism we see today will become mainstream in the next decade.

A veteran of the digital news industry, he combines deep experience as an executive in news strategy, revenue models and journalism. His experience includes 21 years with Knight Ridder, as well as time spent in the worlds of magazines, alternative journalism and syndication.

A 25-year subscription publishing executive, Holland lead the team that launched SubscriptionSiteInsider.com in 2009 to bring research, know-how, and connections to an industry overwhelmed by hype, but little practical information. Previously, as Founder and past President of MarketingSherpa Inc, Holland invented a million-dollar subscription site in addition to the company's Selling Subscriptions to Internet Content Summit series in New York City. Her past experience includes working with brands such as MIN (media industry newsletter), The Economist, The Oil Daily, Satellite News, and Jane's Publishing. She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, DMNews, Entrepreneur.com, Fast Company, and EContent Magazine, among many others.

Holland's current company Anne Holland Ventures Inc., is headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island. The firm publishes B2B media serving publishers and marketing professionals. Holland also serves on the Board of Directors for the Online Marketing Council, WiderFunnel Optimization Services, and uAmplify Inc.

Richard Hull occupies a rare position at the heart of traditional entertainment, digital media, and finance. He is an expert on using entertainment to market content to teen and young-adult audiences. Hull was most recently recruited to salvage and rebuild the asset value of Blowtorch Media & Entertainment, a company backed by Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm comprised of early Microsoft employees with almost $2 billion under management. Previously, as an early pioneer in Hollywood's charge towards online and mobile content, Hull created and led digital entertainment and finance strategies for major media companies such as Warner Bros., Walt Disney Company, Universal Studios and MTV Networks, as well as major private equity and venture capital groups. A former film and television producer/financier constantly on the leading edge of market trends, Hull quickly proved himself as one the most prolific in the business with collaborations that include virtually every major studio and network. His 20+ projects, primarily geared toward teen and young-adult audiences, have grossed hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide and include films like She's All That, one of the most successful teen movies in history.

As vice president & lead analyst at Gilbane Group, Inc., Bill Trippe leads the Content Strategies Consulting business, helping enterprises leverage content management, publishing technologies, XML, and other content technologies to better create, manage, and deliver information. Bill also covers trends and technologies in the content management industry and develops tutorials on XML and content management. Bill founded New Millennium Publishing, a Boston-based consulting practice formed in 1997, and has more than 20 years of technical and management experience in content management, XML, and related technologies. He specializes in large-scale applications of content management technology, working with publishers who are typically converting extensive legacy databases and systems into more contemporary, open technology. He brings a unique blend of strategic and hands-on knowledge of the products and trends that are shaping the publishing and content technology marketplace. He is a sought-after speaker and author in the XML field, the XML columnist for Transform, and frequently contributes to EContent magazine. He recently co-authored Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology (John Wiley & Sons) and SVG for Designers: Using Scalable Vector Graphics in Next-Generation Web Sites (Osborne/ McGraw-Hill).

additional speakers

Stephen Abram, MLS is Vice President, strategic partneships and markets for Gale Cengage.  He has been VP Innovation for SirsiDynix and Chief Strategist for the SirsiDynix Institute.  He is an SLA Fellow and the past president of the Ontario Library Association, SLA and the Canadian Library Association.  In June 2003 he was awarded SLA’s John Cotton Dana Award.  He received the AIIP Roger Summit Award in 2009. He is the author of Out Front with Stephen Abram and Stephen’s Lighthouse blog. 

Simon Beale, Senior Vice President, Global Sales for ProQuest, is responsible for revenue streams of ProQuest's published and distributed electronic, print and microform products to its varied markets around the world. A well-known industry leader, Mr. Beale's extensive background and knowledge have been instrumental in bringing ProQuest's increasingly diversified portfolio of products and services to the global marketplace.

Scott Brown is owner of Social Information Group (http://www.socialinformationgroup.com), an independent information practice focused on the effective use of social networking tools for sharing and finding information. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, government and non-profit organizations, and individuals to help them understand and effectively use these tools. As Senior Information Specialist with Digital Libraries & Research, the library and information organization at Sun Microsystems, he provided in-depth secondary research and competitive intelligence; deployed information services, including eBooks; conducted stakeholder work; and used Six Sigma tools to determine customer needs and wants. He received his library degree from San Jose State University in California in 1999.

Jeff Catlin is the CEO of Lexalytics and  has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of search, classification and text analytics products and services. He has held technical, managerial and senior management positions within a variety of companies including Thomson Financial and Sovereign Hill Software. His roots go back to the earliest days of search on the Internet, where he worked on the development and scaling of the Infoseek search platform. Prior to the formation of Lexalytics, Mr Catlin acted as the General Manager for the unstructured data group of Astoria Software (formerly LightSpeed Software). He was responsible for sales, marketing and development efforts for the Knowledge Appliance, currently the Lexalytics Salience solution, and the iFocus products.

Prior to joining LightSpeed, he was co-owner of PleasantStreet Technologies, which produced a news-filtering product. Jeff and his partner were able to build a viable business and sell PleasantStreet Technologies to Chiliad Publishing in the fall of 2001. Mr Catlin recently oversaw the merger of Lexalytics with Infonic's Text Analytics Division to form a new company called Lexalytics, Limited. This new entity is the leader in sentiment analysis for enterprise applications. Jeff graduated from UMass Amherst with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987, and then worked on the GPS navigation system during its development phase.

Alan Cliford is the Product Manager for the leading social commerce site, LivingSocial.  Prior to joining the LivingSocial team, he served as an analyst at Revolution Health where he was responsible for various direct marketing campaigns.  A graduate of Arizon State University, Alan now resides in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Cohn joined Atypon in 2006 and is responsible for product management, project management, customer service, documentation, and marketing. He is a frequent industry speaker and participates in several community initiatives, including the NISO Content and Collection Management Topic Committee.

Caspar is responsible for the business to business (B2B) activities of the Financial Times Ltd. This includes the FT's syndication and corporate content sales and a portfolio of 15 niche brands such as The Banker and Financial Adviser. He became Managing Director of FT Business in March 2004. He became a board member of the Financial Times Ltd, following the merger of FT Business in January 2007. Caspar joined the FT in 1995. He has worked across the FT group in a variety of roles including product development, marketing, strategy and publishing. He has an MBA with distinction from London Business School and a degree in Psychology from Oxford University.

Eric Freese is a veteran of publishing production optimization.  From the early days of SGML he has worked in roles as varied as consultant, software developer, content architect and semantic web technologist in industries including defense, technical publishing, commercial software and legal publishing.  In his role as Director/Solutions Architect, Eric helps Aptara customers efficiently transition to cost-saving digital publishing models that simultaneously support eBook and other electronic delivery platforms, as well as traditional print production.

Stephen Garfield joined CCC in 2005 with the dual responsibility for the annual renewal of corporate licenses, as well as overseeing strategic account management plans designed to help companies educate their employees on copyright law and the benefits of the CCC license, while helping Rightsholders and industry organizations understand how their content is used in the marketplace.
 
Prior, Garfield spent eight years at Dow Jones as The Wall Street Journal’s Regional Manager, New England and Eastern Canada, and 13 years at McGraw-Hill publishing focusing on Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine.

As senior manager in Hoover’s product marketing group, Marybeth Gavin ensures that Hoover’s customer base is continually growing.  This effort involves managing an online marketing team responsible for developing strategies that attract new prospects and enhance customer retention, designing campaigns that increase conversion and promote cross-sell/up sell opportunities, and implementing new technologies that boost campaign performance and ecommerce revenue.

Prior to moving into a marketing role, Marybeth worked in a variety of product development and project management positions at Hoover’s.  Her background includes over ten years in sales management and consulting in the travel industry.  Marybeth holds a B.S. from St. Edward’s University and an M.A. in Human Resource Development from the University of Texas.

Mr. Gensch brings more than 20 years of customer-focused sales and marketing experience to MuseGlobal, where he has been highly successful in achieving revenue and customer acquisition targets by building growth teams and strategic programs.

Before joining MuseGlobal, Mr. Gensch served as Chief Growth Officer at Cygnus Business Media where he analyzed the talent and assets within all of Cygnus Business Media and assisted in developing platforms that provided growth opportunities for digital media programs to drive new revenue streams by repackaging existing assets and developing new ones that increased growth.

As Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Knovel Corporation, a technical information service, Mr. Gensch led global customer acquisition efforts to more than 400 corporate institutions and 135 universities.

Prior to Knovel Mr. Gensch served as Vice President, Content & Premium Service at Payment One, a billing and payment activation company. During his tenure there, Mr. Gensch developed key customer relationships globally with Microsoft, Yahoo and Earthlink. He also served as Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Tele Knowledge, a provider of content monetization, customer management and billing software solutions for the largest Telco and Internet service providers in the world. In addition to his Internet and content experience,

Mr. Gensch assisted in building an e-support infrastructure for Fortune 100 companies as Vice President, Sales - Eastern Region for Support Soft. He successfully contributed to building the quarterly revenue growth for two successful IPO'S as the Vice President of Sales.

In his position as Chief Revenue Officer for MuseGlobal, Mr. Gensch is responsible for growing top line revenue within large partnership programs, national accounts and customer loyalty programs. The position combines both revenue generating and strategic marketing responsibilities, with business development for the entire team

Darrell W. Gunter is the EVP / Chief Marketing Officer for Collexis Holdings, Inc. He is responsible for the corporate strategy, business development and marketing to support the company’s strategic objectives.  Previously, he was the Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing for the Americas for Elsevier.  He led the development and growth of Elsevier’s first commercial sales organization and managing the transition from print to ScienceDirect.  Prior to Elsevier he worked for Dow Jones Financial News Services and served as the National Sales Director.  He began his career in sales at Xerox Corporation.  He received his Business Degree from Seton Hall University and his MBA from Lake Forrest Graduate School of Management. Darrell is an adjunct professor in the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University.  He serves on the Content Board of the SIIA, Olin College of Engineering Library Advisory Board, and Seton Hall University Advisory Council and is the Chairman of the Board for the Women’s Venture Fund. He is also a member of ALA, SSP and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.  His radio program “Leadership” airs Saturday mornings at 7:30am on WSOU HD 89.5 FM / WSOU.net.

As manager of Technical Library Operations at Sandia National Laboratories, Donald Guy has responsibility for leading the Sandia Technical Library's transformation into the Library of the Future.  The Technical Library's strategic identity is to become a fully functional Library of the Future, meeting the needs of Sandia's researchers and management through the deliberate use and deployment of technology as a research and reporting tool.  Don has over 20 years library experience, with 14 of those years within special libraries at Motorola and now Sandia.  Don has held positions in reference, collection management, information research, solo librarianship and library management.  He holds a Master of Library Science from The University of Arizona.

Adam brings more than 20 years in marketing and business management expertise, including leading Marketing for eContent companies Hoover's, Questia Media and KnowledgeNet (now part of Thomson/NETg). He led eBusiness for ViewSonic Corporation, business development and strategic planning for Compaq's Commercial Desktop and Displays Division, and managed Compaq's Higher Education marketing organization.

Prior to Compaq, Adam was a senior consultant for Gemini Consulting, specializing in customer and channel marketing strategies, and national program manager for Higher Education at Apple. Adam holds an MBA in Marketing from The Wharton School and a B.S. in Economics and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Marcien Jenckes is responsible for the Media and Content divisions of Grab Networks and previously served as the CEO of Voxant (Voxant and Anystream merged in 2008 to form Grab Networks).  Prior to Grab Networks, Jenckes held a variety of roles at AOL, including SVP of Messaging, Community and Voice where he oversaw AOL's community products, including AIM and ICQ.  Previously, he was responsible for launching AOL's free web services by overseeing the AOL network, including the launch of the free AOL.com portal, as well as leading Strategy & Operations. Before AOL, Jenckes was a member of McKinsey & Company's Media and Technology practice.

Jenckes holds an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia, and a BA in Economics and Political Science from New York University.

C. Alan Joyce is the Executive Content Manager for Wolfram|Alpha, one of Time magazine's 50 best websites of 2009. He was previously Editorial Director for World Almanac Books and Editor-in-Chief of the #1 bestselling The World Almanac and Book of Facts, and is the former Executive Editor of The New York Times Almanac and The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge.

For more than 25 years, Dennis has served in sales, general management and consulting capacities in the technology sector. Prior to joining Safari Books Online, he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for WiLine Networks.

Additionally, he has held several senior-level positions including various management positions with AT&T; Vice President of Sales for TELUS Corporation in Canada; President and CEO of Professional Sales Learning Center; Vice President and GM for a software division of Trintech, Inc; and Vice President of Enterprise Services for NEC Solutions America. Dennis earned a BSME from the United States Naval Academy and a Master's in Business Administration from St. Mary's College.

Michelle Manafy is the Editorial Director, Enterprise Group, for Information Today, Inc. In this role, Michelle serves as Editor-in-chief for EContent magazine, the Intranets newsletter, and the Enterprise Search Sourcebook. She is also the programming chair of Information Today's Enterprise Search Summits and the Buying & Selling eContent Conference. Prior to joining EContent as Editor, she served as Associate Editor of EMedia magazine where she specialized in author acquisitions and editorial development. Michelle has written on a variety of technology topics including digital publishing, content development and distribution, streaming media, and audio, video, and storage technologies. She 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 and magazine 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.

Jonathan Morgan has worked within the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society since the year 2000 in advancing the value and innovations of the Society's 38 online peer-reviewed scholarly research journals. Roles with ACS have included Circulation Manager, Product Marketing Manager for the biological and medicinal chemistry program, and his current role of Assistant Director of Web Strategy & Innovation. Jonathan oversees a wide range of responsibilities for the ACS Web Editions Platform, including strategic development, front-end design, production and site maintenance, online community development, web advertising, metadata partnerships, and usage reports and analysis. Launched in November 2008, the ACS Web Editions Platform was the proud recipient of the 2008 Association of American Publishers' PROSE Award for Best eProduct/Website or Platform. Jonathan has recently overseen design and development efforts for ACS Mobile, a new iPhone application that delivers a multi-journal, real time stream of peer-reviewed research content for the ACS publishing program.

Paul Mouton has been on the frontlines of the evolving information industry for fourteen years. His experience encompasses electronic publishing, content aggregation, online business partnerships and relationships with search engines. He has successfully managed and grown Gale's relationships with top Internet services, including Amazon, CBS Interactive, Google, and Yahoo, and has been instrumental in developing Gale's own growing Web presence, including unique content sites Goliath and AccessMyLibrary. Paul is a strong advocate for content providers considering new approaches to realizing the full potential of their content assets on the Web.

Robin Neidorf has been the General Manager of FreePint since 2006 and holds primary responsibility for product development, business development and research. Under her direction, the FreePint Family of products and publications serving the information industry has grown significantly - full details on the range of resources can be found at http://www.freepint.com/

Prior to joining FreePint, Robin ran a consulting practice focused on research and communications for over 10 years. She is a member of the Content Board for the Software and Information Industry Association and frequently writes about and presents on research results for industry publications and events. She can be contacted at robin.neidorf@freepint.com

Chris Palma is Strategic Partner Development Manager for Google, where he is responsible for Google Books partnerships in the Western U.S., India, Australia, and New Zealand.  The Google Books Partner Program now has over 30,000 publisher partners world-wide, representing over 2 million full-text books discoverable from the Google index in over 70 international domains. 

Prior to joining Google, Chris was Vice President of Content and Business Development for ebrary.  He was Sales Director at Harvard University Press, during a scholarly publishing career that spanned spent 15 years.  Mr. Palma holds a B.S. in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Lindsey Schell is the Bibliographer for Journals, English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Texas Libraries in Austin, where she has worked for 8 years. She received her M.L.S. from the University or North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from Tufts University in History and Women's Studies. She serves on the collections team, manages budgets and policies related to serials in all disciplines and coordinates pay-per-view pilot programs. She has written and presented about ebooks in national and international forums since 2002.

Larry Schwartz is a co-founder of Newstex and President of the company. Larry has guided numerous entertainment and new media ventures, from start-up through growth, development and maturity, including Bolenka Games Online (Trivial Pursuit Online), GFI Group (Nasdaq:GFIG - financial), Wizard World (publishing), Patron Technology (technology) and Tickets.com (Purchased by MLB.com). Larry attended Bates College and the Yale University Graduate School of Drama. He serves on the Content Board of Directors for the Software Information Industry Association, and is Chairman of the very successful SIIA Previews events. When he's not adding value to content, Larry blogs at www.newstex.com and is a show manger for hunter/jumper horse shows, is on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Horse Show Association and maintains several horse web sites and blogs (www.chsaonline.com, www.srostables.com). Larry, a confirmed gadget geek, also spends time on Broadway with his theatrical agent wife and two daughters.

Springer Channel Marketing Director George Scotti currently manages Channel Marketing and Account Development for Springer. Most notably, George has been working very closely with librarians all over the world through Springer’s Library Advisory Board (LAB) program. Through the program, Springer’s executive team has the ability to receive direct feedback from academic, corporate and government librarians. The innovation being driven at Springer is a direct result of the LAB and the partnerships it is has forged. Previously, George worked as a Global Marketing Manager for Kluwer Academic Publishers and held marketing positions at Lucent, Verizon and W.R. Grace & Co. He also has an MBA in international business from Bentley College.

Steve Sieck is a management consultant and industry analyst with over twenty-five years' experience helping the world's leading information content and enabling-technology providers develop new products, enter new markets, make strategic investment decisions and align organizational resources with strategic and financial objectives. 

In 2006, Mr. Sieck formed SKS Advisors, Inc., an independent consultancy helping media and information companies to accelerate innovation and capitalize more effectively on new business opportunities.   Since then, the firm has provided strategy consulting services to clients in business to business media, engineering information, information technology, academic research, educational publishing, law publishing, medical information, historical collections, intellectual property, and financial services. 

Previously, Mr. Sieck led the U.S. market entry of EPS, Ltd, a London-based provider of information industry advice, analysis, and industry intelligence.  As Managing Partner, he managed US client relationships, led transatlantic strategic consulting engagements, and contributed to EPS' ongoing analysis of information markets and industry trends.

Prior to EPS, Mr. Sieck served as Industry Practice Leader for the Media & Entertainment practice at e-commerce integrator iXL/Scient, and managed many critical information industry strategy consulting engagements as a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting Services.  Earlier in his career, as Vice President, Electronic Services, he helped lead interactive media research pioneer LINK Resources from its initial startup to becoming a major division of IT industry research leader IDC.   He recently served as the elected vice chairman of the Software & Information Industry Association's Content Division board of directors, and on the eContent 100 judging team.

More information is available at www.sksadvisors.com.

Patrick Spain is the co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Newser. He was formerly the CEO of HighBeam Research, a rapidly growing online research company based in Chicago, which he founded in 2002 and sold to Cengage Learning in December 2008. Spain was also the co-founder and long-time chairman and CEO of Hoover’s, Inc., leading it from a small book publisher when he became CEO in 1992 to a profitable, publicly traded company with $31 million in revenue in 2001. He remained on the Board until Hoover’s was sold to Dun & Bradstreet in 2003. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Spain worked as a consultant, lawyer, and executive in the telecommunications industry, and as a real estate developer. He has a B.A. in Ancient History from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Boston University. He sits on the boards of several public, private, and not-for-profit organizations.

Charles Terry is a 30 year veteran of online information, e-content and real-time news businesses including 14 years with CompuServe, 9 years as CEO of COMTEX News Network and most recently president of MarketResearch.com. Throughout his career, Terry has been in a missionary role chartered to create new markets with innovative information and network-based products.

At CompuServe in the 80's, Terry was on the forefront of B2B go-to-market initiatives for new products including electronic mail, videotext, financial information databases, and other network-based applications. From the mid-90's through the dot com bust, Terry was CEO of COMTEX News Network, created the largest aggregator and re-seller network of real-time news. Most recently, Terry was president of MarketResearch.com where he doubled their revenue through the acquisition of Profound from Thomson-Reuters.

Terry graduated from Brown University with an independent major in Management Sciene. Terry serves on several publishing industry boards and advisory boards including the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, the Global Media Forum, and Anne Holland Ventures. Currently, Terry is leveraging his missionary go-to-market experience through his CEO advisory consultancy, CWT Group (www.cwtgroup.net). He blogs regularly at www.contentmusings.com and tweets via @cwterry.

Kelly Thompson serves as the chief operating officer of iStockphoto, overseeing the global strategy and operational leadership of iStockphoto’s products, services, technology and sales.

Kelly has served in several roles at iStockphoto, most recently, executive vice president. In his initial role as vice president of marketing in 2004, he propelled the company from a few thousand photographers and thousands of clients to a worldwide presence with half a million clients, making microstock a compelling new business for Getty Images to acquire. Kelly is still a programmer at heart, despite his business acumen, and has been the driving force behind many iStock innovations, such as the patent-pending CopySpace™, which many in the industry are now trying to duplicate and advanced search features at iStock.

Prior to iStockphoto, he was senior brand manager at the enterprise search company Verity, Inc.

Rob Urbanowicz is a Geehan Group Principal and Vice President of Client Services, responsible for the delivery and execution of all Geehan services. Rob joined Geehan in November, 2006, and has an extensive background in consulting, marketing and sales, including 20 years of experience.

At Geehan, he leads delivery of our end-to-end service portfolio for our strategic customer centric programs, including advisory boards, summits and other executive programs. He is a highly experienced executive facilitator and leads the global Springer Library Advisory Board program for the Geehan team. His client base also includes Oracle, Microsoft, Broadlane, Standard Register, Autodesk, Business Objects, Harris and others.

Rob came to Geehan Group from Reynolds and Reynolds, where he served as the Director of Marketing responsible for all CRM Customer Marketing and CRM Technology initiatives, and was actively involved with Reynolds Customer Advisory Board. Prior to Reynolds, Rob spent 15 years with Deloitte, and was Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting, responsible for the Ohio Valley region's Customer Relationship Management practice, including developing strategies and implementing CRM programs for Fortune 1000 companies. Rob has extensive industry experience in high-tech, software, manufacturing and automotive, and worked with clients such as Gateway, Johnson & Johnson, Dow and Safelite.

Mark Walker is the Region Business Leader for Yahoo! News and Education, where he oversees the industry-leading news and education properties in the North American Region. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mark was co-principal, alongside music industry legend Al Teller, of Oceanaix Ventures LLC, a media consultancy advising investment firms, including Acorn Capital Management and Tracer Capital Management. As the head of international legal and business affairs at BMG Entertainment from 2000 to 2003, Mark led BMG's legal and business affairs activities in more than 48 countries worldwide. He was the Executive Vice President, Business Affairs of Atomic Pop LLC (an Internet music company financed by the Apollo Group) and Senior Vice President, Business Affairs for Red Ant Entertainment, an independent record label financed by Wasserstein Perrella & Co. Mark's entertainment industry career began in 1993 with PolyGram Records (now part of Universal Music Group); first as Director, Legal Affairs and ultimately as Vice President, Legal Affairs. From 1988 until 1993, he was an associate in the Media Finance Group of the O'Melveny & Myers law firm in New York. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Pi Tau Sigma) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and J.D. from Stanford University.

Prior to co-founding ebrary®, Mr. Warnock consulted at Stanford University, where he helped develop a method in which University Presses could implement an electronic workflow solution for the electronic distribution of publications. He also provided feasibility research for Octavo Corporation, which publishes and preserves rare books and manuscripts using advanced digital tools and formats.
From 1991-1996, he worked at Adobe Systems as a systems engineer, project manager, and product marketing manager for Adobe Acrobat.
Mr. Warnock holds a B.S. in Philosophy from the University of Utah.

Based in Princeton, NJ., Mr. Warren is responsible for global solution strategy and direction in the Research and Knowledge Worker segment of the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. Mr. Warren joined Dow Jones in April of 1998 as an Enterprise Sales Consultant in the Interactive Publishing division. Since that time, he has served in a variety of roles at Dow Jones and Factiva, including Business Development Channel Manager, Product Manager, Manager of the CEO’s Office, Director of Global Sales Operations, Director of Commercial Policy, Managing Director of FIS Private Markets, and Executive Director of the EMG Program Office. Mr. Warren is a graduate of the University of Alaska Anchorage, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Public Communications. He also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ.

Richard (Dick) H. Weaver, Senior Vice President, Infotrieve, Inc. Mr. Weaver joined Infotrieve as Senior Vice President in January 2006. He has more than 30 years of leadership experience within the information industry and expertise in the areas of development, operations, technology, and marketing for information-based services. Formerly, Mr. Weaver was Vice President, Account Management for CentrPort, Inc., an e-marketing company that served the automotive, telecommunications, and travel and leisure industries. Other recent positions include Vice President, Agricultural Producer Services at DTN, and Vice President of One System Group, LLC, a wholly owned IT outsourcing subsidiary of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Mr. Weaver also successfully founded and developed two start-up businesses that specialized in the delivery of electronic information services to farmers and commodity traders. Mr. Weaver began his career in 1974 as a research statistician for the United Nations, based in Iceland. He holds a B.A. degree in Mathematics from Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO and a M.S. degree in Statistics from Colorado State University. He is also a graduate of the University of Kansas Leadership Institute.

As vice president of marketing at Brightcove, Jeff Whatcott leads all marketing activity for the company. Prior to joining Brightcove Jeff launched Acquia, a commercial open source startup, and continues as an advisor to the company.  Prior to Acquia, Jeff served as vice president of marketing and business development in Adobe's enterprise business unit, responsible for the Flex and LiveCycle product lines.  Prior to Adobe, Jeff held a variety of senior product leadership positions at Macromedia and Allaire.

Jeff is a proven thought leader in web platform technology strategy and a passionate advocate of the open source development model and community-centered marketing.  He is a frequent public speaker and panelist on topics including open source, social publishing, and rich Internet applications.

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and Master of Business Administration degree, both from Brigham Young University.  Fluent in English and Japanese, Jeff has helped grow strong businesses and form successful alliances worldwide.