Speakers

Warren Adelman
Warren Adelman
President and COO, GoDaddy
Breakfast Keynote: Customer Driven Innovation in a Socially Connected World

Warren is responsible for day-to-day operations, resource management, process improvement and corporate strategic planning for The Go Daddy Group, Inc. He oversees Information Technology, Information Security and Continuity Planning, Customer Care, Business Development, Human Resources and Policy Planning. Warren also heads up the Governance and Policy Committee, which is dedicated to oversight of Go Daddy's standards and practices. Warren joined Go Daddy after numerous senior positions in the technology market including CEO of NeoPlanet, a customer interaction software company where he established partnerships with Compaq, USA Networks, MTV, Universal Studios, New Line Cinema and others. Warren was also President of Strategic Relations at Network Associates (now McAfee) and Vice President of Business Development at Bigfoot, a leader in email communications and marketing automation technologies. Prior to entering the private sector, Warren served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces. He also spent six years in international relations at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., where he served as Chief of Public Affairs. During this time, Warren was a member of the media and communications team for Israel's Delegation to Bilateral Peace Talks held in Washington, D.C. between 1991 and 1996. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History from the University of Toronto. In his spare time, Warren enjoys using Twitter (@ASocialContract) and blogging (www.ASocialContract.com).


Valeria Alberola
Valeria Alberola
Partner, Q Advisors
How Does Innovation and Differentiation Play into the New World of M&A

Valeria has over 13 years of international experience in corporate finance and strategic consulting. At Q Advisors, Valeria has executed mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and strategic financial advisory engagements across the technology and communications sectors. Prior to joining Q Advisors, Valeria was the Director of Business Development for VeloCom, an international telecommunications company. Previously, she was a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company and an equity analyst with Citigroup. Valeria currently serves as a member of the Associate Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver and is a member of the Board of Directors of OpenWorld Learning and the Board of the International Business Circle of Colorado. Valeria received a B.S. in Economics and Business Administration from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management where she was a Fulbright scholar.


Gil Asakawa
Gil Asakawa
Manager of Audience Development, MediaNews Group Interactive
Online Revenue via Advertising or Subscriptions

Gil Asakawa has worked online since 1996, managing content for AOL and a succession of startups and news media companies. He's currently Manager of Audience Development for MediaNews Group, the parent company of The Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News. He started his career as music editor of Denver's alternative newsweekly Westword (1980-1991), and was entertainment editor and art critic for the Colorado Springs Gazette from 1992-1996. He has written freelance articles for NY Rocker, Request, Creem, Pulse and Rolling Stone magazines, and authored Being Japanese American (Stone Bridge Press 2004) and co-authored The Toy Book (Knopf, 1991). He writes a blog, Nikkeiview.com, about pop culture from an Asian American perspective, he Twitters, and he's a member of every social site and service he hears about.


Keith J. Berets
Keith J. Berets
Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish
 

Keith Berets is a partner in the Technology Transactions practice group, and a member of the Cooley Godward Kronish Business department. He joined the Firm in 2000 and is resident in the Colorado office, where he focuses on transactions involving the acquisition, development and commercialization of technology. Mr. Berets focuses on the legal and business needs of his clients in connection with their technology and intellectual property transactions. His clients include multinational public companies and start-ups financed by venture capital firms in the renewable energy, wireless communications, software, services and hardware industries. He has counseled clients on, and crafted and negotiated agreements involving, their renewable and clean energy products, systems and solutions; outsourcing, consulting, licensing, distribution, development and technology transfer; electronic commerce, Web and Internet transactions; and other strategic relationships. He has significant experience with both domestic and international matters.


Daryl Bernstein
Daryl Bernstein
Founder & CEO, RightSignature LLC
SaaS, Shaping the Future of Web Apps

Daryl Bernstein is an entrepreneurial thought leader, technology investor, and author. He is founder and CEO of RightSignature, a fast-growing software-as-a-service for signing documents online with handwritten signatures. With a rapidly-expanding user base of both small businesses and Fortune 500 enterprises, RightSignature enables parties to sign contracts, estimates, NDA's, and other business-critical documents in any browser or on the iPhone. Daryl was founder of Global Video, a market-leading educational media distributor and producer, which was acquired by School Speciality (Nasdaq: SCHS). He is an advisor to and investor in innovative software-as-a-service companies, including MindBody and YouMail. Daryl is the author of The Venture Adventure (Simon & Schuster) and is featured in Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul (HCI). He was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and is an advocate for youth entrepreneurship programs. A sought-after speaker, Daryl has been featured in media around the world, including CNN, CBS, NPR, Radio 3 Hong Kong, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, El Mundo, and TechCrunch.


Erik Boles
Erik Boles
Senior Security Engineer, McAfee
The Dark Side of Digital: Theft and Security

Erik Boles brings nearly 20 years of technical and business experience to the company. Prior to joining MX Logic (now part of McAffee SaaS), Erik founded two very successful startups, and has worked in business development and highly technical roles for companies like Freedom Communications building their interactive business unit and Verizon Business where he served as Senior Security Architect in the messaging division. Erik continues to serve on the board of many major corporations, speaks publicly and coaches companies large and small on business brand identity and security technology best practices.


Marc Braunstein
Marc Braunstein
CEO and Co-Founder, ShopAtHome
CrowdSourcing's Impact on Surfers and Business

Marc Braunstein is CEO and Co-Founder (along with wife Claudia) of Belcaro Group, Inc., a 23 year old direct response company that has evolved from the largest paper based catalog of catalogs (ShopAtHome Catalogs Directory) to one of the largest free coupon sites on the web (ShopAtHome.com), at over 20 million visits a month. ShopAtHome.com features coupons for thousands of online stores, printable grocery coupons, printable restaurant coupons and free samples that are available to consumers. In his spare time, Marc enjoys the great Colorado outdoors, gardening and producing his own music. He holds a BA in Biochemistry from the University of Rochester, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


Scott Burt
Scott Burt
CEO and Co-Founder, Integro, Inc.
The Dark Side of Digital: Theft and Security

Scott Burt is President and Co-Founder of Integro, Inc., a leading technology consulting company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The company is IBM's #1 partner for Enterprise Content Management including Records Management and Email Management. Scott has led Integro since its founding in 1995. The company has been recognized with many awards including recognition on Inc Magazine's Inc500 list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the US. Integro is again growing rapidly after posting 101% growth in 2005 and is poised to grow at a similar rate in 2006. Additionally, Scott is an owner of Vacation Solutions. This start-up company is enjoying astounding success helping clients take better, resort vacations very affordably.


Reid Carr
Reid Carr
President, Red Door Interactive
How Do You Value Customer Engagement or Build A Social ROI?

Reid Carr is the President of Red Door Interactive, a premier strategic Internet Presence Management firm that manages clients’ online presence. Clients include Cricket Wireless, Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill, ESET, Overstock.com, Charlotte Russe and La Quinta Inns & Suites. Prior to founding the company in 2002, Carr was the Director of Interactive and Advertising for the San Diego-based Marketing agency, McQuerterGroup. In that role he was responsible for forming the iGroup, the interactive arm of the organization. Previous to this endeavor, Carr was in Los Angeles working for PBJ Digital and TBWA/Chiat/Day.


Xavier Casanova
Xavier Casanova
Founder and CEO, LiveClicker
Building Your Business on a Shoestring and Avoiding Losing Control

Xavier Casanova is a Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneur, specialized in ecommerce, online marketing and video applications. He founded web analytics vendor Fireclick (acquired by Digital River), and fast media sharing company Wambo. He is currently the CEO and founder, of Liveclicker, a new startup located in Silicon Valley, California. In partnership with leading eCommerce sites, he is currently building a solution for enabling, managing and profiting from video commerce applications.


Ken Chan
Ken Chan
Founder and CEO, Next Internet
Building Your Business on a Shoestring and Avoiding Losing Control

Kenneth Chan is currently the CEO of Tobi, an ecommerce startup developing the next generation online shopping experience. In 2005, Kenneth founded Next Internet, an Internet incubator, where he incubated, funded, and built 5 profitable Internet businesses. Prior to Next Internet, Kenneth was the founder and CEO of Connexus, a business he started from his apartment in 2002 and grew profitability to over $100M in revenue. During his career, Kenneth has founded 10 Internet business, raised $50M in funding, built a top 50 website (Everyone.net), created one of the largest email service providers, invented an effective form of Internet marketing, and was the CEO of 75 person company at age of 25. Kenneth started his career as an Engineer at Intel Corporation. Kenneth holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.S. in Management Science from Stanford University.


Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen
Co-Founder, PowerReviews
CrowdSourcing's Impact on Surfers and Business

Andrew Chen is an American entrepreneur. He lives in San Francisco, California. Together with Robert Chea, Chen founded a privately-held Silicon Valley start-up in 2005. The duo moved on the idea that user-generated product reviews, particularly reviews from verified buyers of a given product, could play a critical role in the online shopping research experience. The company recently completed a second round of venture funding in September 2007. Prior to PowerReviews, Chen founded , an early online sporting goods storefront, along with Brett Allsop and Robert Chea. Several years after Fogdog was acquired by GSI Commerce, Chen joined Yahoo! Shopping.


Dan Clarke
Dan Clarke
Chairman and CEO, WinBuyer
What Services Will Help E-Retail Freshen Up, Post Recession?

Dan Clarke, a veteran executive of numerous high-tech and e-commerce companies, has recently stepped into the role of Chairman & CEO of WinBuyer, Inc. Winbuyer, which is headquartered in Tel Aviv and has offices in Scottsdale, AZ and London, UK, is a company that enables online retailers to accelerate consumer purchasing behavior via Winbuyer's onsite comparative pricing application. Prior to his work at Winbuyer, Mr. Clarke was the CEO and Director of Vcommerce Corporation, maker of a multi-tenant, end-to-end e-commerce platform used by leading online retailers on a private-labeled basis. In less than five years, Mr. Clarke grew the end-user transaction volume on the Vcommerce platform from $50 million to more than $1 billion annually. Prior to joining Vcommerce, Mr. Clarke served as President, CEO and board member of Primarion, a semiconductor company that he founded in 1999. In addition, Mr. Clarke spent seven years at Intel, where he held several key positions including Business Unit General Manager and Marketing Director of the video components, mobile computing and graphics divisions. Mr. Clarke serves on the board of directors of three e-commerce companies. He attended Ohio Northern University and the University of Central Florida in the electrical engineering programs.


Matt Cohen
Matt Cohen
Founder and CEO, OneSpot
User's Contributions Affect on Big Media

Matt Cohen is CEO and Founder of OneSpot, a Web content aggregation and curation service that allows publishers and brands to easily discover, curate and share the best of the Web for their audience through their email newsletters, Websites, and blogs. Previously, he was a Partner at G-51 Capital, an Austin-based early stage venture capital firm. Matt has been working with the Internet and digital content for nearly 20 years: he has consulted with companies nationwide on technology and business strategy, was CTO of New Century Network (a newspaper industry content and advertising network), and co-founded HoustonChronicle.com in 1994. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Rice University.


Bill Daley
Bill Daley
Associate, Townsend and Townsend and Crew
Exit Strategies When There Is No Exit

Bill Daley is a patent attorney with the intellectual property law firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew. His practice focuses on providing IP counsel within the electronics, software and mechanical arts fields. Prior to joining Townsend, Bill was a founding member of Leyendecker Lemire & Daley, LLC, where he offered intellectual property and business related legal services to entrepreneurs, inventors and small businesses. He also worked as an associate in the Denver office of an intellectual property law firm, where he handled all aspects of patent preparation and prosecution for a variety of clients including industry leaders in the electrical and software arts. Prior to entering the field of law, he worked as an electrical technician and process control computer programmer for West Virginia-based Wheeling-Nisshin Inc. He earned his law degree at the University of Denver College of Law.


Andrew Degenholtz
Andrew Degenholtz
Founder, eMagazines
Online Revenue via Advertising or Subscriptions

Andrew Degenholtz founded eMagazines in 2009 after founding ValueMags in 1999. eMagazines.com is a marketplace where consumers can purchase and try the digital version of popular magazines and newspapers across all software platforms and publishers. eMagazines provides answers to questions about the ongoing shift from print to digital. Prior to founding eMagazines and ValueMags, Mr. Degenholtz worked for more than five years as director of distribution, audit compliance, and advertising sales for a national college magazine with 1,000,000 public place circulation. In 2006, Mr. Degenholtz was invited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations to join its Magazine Fulfillment and Agent Committee, on which he now serves. Mr. Degenholtz earned a master's degree in marketing from Northwestern University and a B.A. from Muhlenberg College.


George Denlinger
George Denlinger
Regional Vice President, Robert Half Technology
Is Your Receptionist More Powerful Than You in Your Company?

George Denlinger is the Regional Vice President for Robert Half Technology in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas and Missouri. With over a decade of experience in the staffing industry, Denlinger has been recognized with numerous awards including Robert Half's prestigious Reach for the Stars award. He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Business Administration from the American Graduate School of International Management. Additionally, he is an active member of a number of local professional organizations including the Help Desk Institute, Institute of Internal Auditors and Financial Executives International. Denlinger is also active with the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization in Denver, CO.


Pete Dignan
Pete Dignan
President and Founder, ProtoTest
The Business Value of User Experience (UX)

Pete Dignan founded ProtoTest in 1998 after 15 years in the information technology industry in a wide variety of roles. He believes the success of a business should be measured by the quality of its products and services, the happiness of its employees, and the sustainability of its actions in the community and the world at large. Pete serves on the board of the CSIA, and is a former board member of the Software Quality Association of Denver. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, with a degree in Environmental Science.


Kevin Ertell
Kevin Ertell
VP Retail Strategy, ForeSee Results
What Services Will Help E-Retail Freshen Up, Post Recession?

Kevin leads ForeSee Results continued growth in the retail industry through his expertise and experience. He works with the product, delivery, client services, and marketing teams to maximize ForeSee Results’ value to our retail clients. Kevin has over 10 years of critical e-commerce experience and was formerly the Vice President and Managing Director of Tower Records. More recently, he was the Senior Vice-President of E-Business with Borders where he re-launched Borders.com as an e-commerce site. Kevin is a recognized and respected figure in the online retail industry. He has been a featured speaker at many e-retail conferences like Shop.org, eTail, and Internet Retailer, in addition to being featured and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, the Detroit Free Press, and more. He is also a member of Shop.org's Policy Advisory Committee, Cross-Channel Retailing Consortium, and the eTail Content Advisory Board.


Walker Fenton
Walker Fenton
General Manager of Media & Data Services, NewsGator
How Do You Value Customer Engagement or Build A Social ROI?

Walker began his career in the Internet working as a strategic analyst for Netcom Online Communications, the first nationwide dial-up Internet Service Provider. He has since been involved with several start-ups including dbDoctor, Inc. and Xaffire, Inc, where he worked as a product manager. Walker received a BA in Economics from Colby College and has an MBA from Regis University. He has been a frequent speaker in industry events including recent appearances at The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTDNA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas; Graphing Social Patterns Conference in San Diego; and the Digital Hollywood Conference in Santa Monica.


Justin Foster
Justin Foster
Co-Founder and VP Market Development, LiveClicker
What Services Will Help E-Retail Freshen Up, Post Recession?

Justin is Co-Founder and VP Market Development for Liveclicker, Inc., an early stage technology startup, where he is responsible for developing the overall market for video commerce in the e-commerce industry. Video commerce is a new paradigm for facilitating e-commerce through video content, leveraging both established and emerging online marketing channels. Additionally, Justin is President and Founder of the Video Commerce Consortium, the industry's largest trade group devoted to advancing the use of video in e-commerce. The VCC currently counts over half the Top 500 retailers as members.


Steve Foster
Steve Foster
President, Business Controls
The Dark Side of Digital: Theft and Security

Mr. Foster's 25 years of unique and diversified executive and operational leadership experience combines enterprise Governance, Risk & Compliance expertise, and expert knowledge regarding convergence of security and technology, as well as top level consulting and training in EEO/Internal Controls matters. Mr. Foster's expertise is rooted in developing integrated SaaS technology solutions in the Governance, Risk and Compliance space. Mr. Foster frequently lectures across the country on the topics related to risk management, ethics and corporate compliance, conducting ethical workplace investigations, fraud, workplace violence, and the convergence of technology and security.


Anthony Franco
Anthony Franco
President, Effective UI
The Business Value of User Experience (UX)

As a President of EffectiveUI, Anthony has the unique opportunity to listen to how companies like eBay, Adobe, Viacom, Microsoft, GE, Dow Jones, Qwest and Nielsen think about the internet and desktop software, and how innovative thinking can completely change the way they do business. Anthony has had the opportunity to brainstorm new software for these companies (and others). Effective UI finds themselves primarily developing using Adobe, Microsoft, and Apple platforms. In fact, Effective UI has been able to establish themselves as a premium services partner for all 3. They are an Apple development partner, a Microsoft “Global 20″ Agency, and an Adobe “Club 6″ Partner.


Kun Gao
Kun Gao
President and CEO, Chrunchyroll
Online Revenue via Advertising or Subscriptions

Kun is a co-founder and currently the President and CEO for Crunchyroll.com, the largest Anime and Asian professional content site. He has over 5 years of experience in consumer-facing websites. He was previously Founder and CTO of Rising Concepts LLC, which created large viral websites including Frappr.com and Planzo.com. He joined Slide.com when Frappr.com was acquired by Slide, and helped with Frappr and widget efforts at Slide. He joined HOTorNOT for a stint driving viral facebook applications including top 10 apps Moods and HotLists before pursuing Crunchyroll fulltime. Kun graduated from U.C. Berkeley with honors B.S. in Electrical Engineer and Computer Science and B.A. in Applied Mathematics in 2004, and attended PhD doctorate in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon focusing on Database research before founding Frappr and joining Slide.


Kevin Grieve
Kevin Grieve
CEO, Mocapay
Transmitting Personal Financial Data Over the Web and Cell Phones.

Kevin brings to Mocapay 20 years of experience with over twenty Fortune 1,000 companies in a variety of industries during his successful business and consulting career. Prior to joining Mocapay, Kevin held various leadership positions at First Data including Chief Strategy Officer and was most recently President of the Prepaid Services division which provided open and closed loop gift card, loyalty, and payroll services in over 25 countries to 250 national and global merchants in addition to 50,000 small businesses. Before First Data, Kevin was Senior Vice President and Partner with Diamond Management and Technology Consultants where he was leader of the US Financial Services practice and member of the firm's management committee. He was instrumental in rapidly growing the company enabling an IPO achieving a market capitalization at its peak of $3B. Kevin started his career in technology and large scale systems integration at Accenture. He received a BBA in Finance from Iowa State University and received an MBA from Northwestern's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.


Kevin Hale
Kevin Hale
Founder, Wufoo - Infinity Box, Inc.
Its All About Usability

Kevin Hale is the Co-founder of Infinity Box Inc, a Y Combinator seeded company. He is responsible for safe guarding and designing the user experience of their online HTML form builder, Wufoo. Kevin writes about interface design issues for the web development blog, Particletree and served as Editor-in-Chief of the web development magazine, Treehouse. As a child, Kevin was the kid in class who ate a box of crayons for a dollar.


Adam Haynes
Adam Haynes
Managing Director, St. Charles Capital
How Does Innovation and Differentiation Play into the New World of M&A

He has twelve years of corporate finance and investment banking experience, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory work and transactions involving bank, bond and equity placements. Mr. Haynes has completed more than 35 mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions with a total value in excess of $15.0 billion. As a former member of KeyBanc Capital Markets’ and Piper Jaffray’s Technology investment banking groups, Mr. Haynes has extensive Technology M&A transaction and corporate advisory experience. While at Chase Securities, Mr. Haynes completed bank and bond transactions, including recapitalization, spin-off and acquisition financings for Chase’s Global Syndicated Finance & Consumer Diversified Industries groups.


Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman
Co-Founder, Meetup
Breakfast Keynote: Enabling Community Online and Face to Face

Scott co-founded Meetup in 2002. Previously, he founded Fotolog (the leading photo blog service) and i-traffic (the first online ad agency). Scott was named MIT Technology Review's "Innovator of the Year" for 2004. He graduated from The University of Iowa, he is the Organizer of the NY Tech Meetup and has posted a daily photo on his Fotolog since early 2001.


James Hong
James Hong
Founder, HotOrNot
Its All About Usability

James Hong was the co-founder of HOTorNOT.com, a website where users submit their picture for others to rate on a scale of 1 to 10. Having raised no angel or venture funding, James and his co-founder famously built the site up to millions per year in earnings while working out of their living room without any employees. After operating the site for 8 years, the site was sold in 2008. James is also an active angel investor and advisor to companies including Slide, Mochi Media, Raptr, Simply Hired, Crunchyroll, Social Concepts, and BitTorrent. James attended UC Berkeley where he earned both his MBA and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.


Jeff Housenbold
Jeff Housenbold
CEO, Shutterfly
Breakfast Keynote: Retail Recession? What Recession?

As Shutterfly’s President and CEO, Jeffrey Housenbold leads the Company’s strategic direction and growth. Jeffrey is a new-media visionary with a successful track record of building online consumer franchises by artfully combining commerce and community. His leadership and vision are the driving force behind Shutterfly’s industry leading transformation of how people interact with their memories. Jeffrey has assembled a talented executive team that oversees the rapid growth of Shutterfly’s global customer base, strategic partnerships, technology platforms and innovative products and services. In June 2006, Jeffrey received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Award in the Retail and Consumer Products category for the Northern California region. Previously, Jeffrey was Vice President of Business Development & Internet Marketing at eBay, where he managed customer acquisition and retention. At eBay he also held positions as Vice President & General Manager of its Business-to-Consumer Group and Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions. Formerly, Jeffrey held senior management positions with AltaVista, including Vice President & General Manager, and was the Chief Operating Officer of Raging Bull, the award-winning community finance portal. Jeffrey earned his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Dean’s Fellow. Jeffrey is the co-author of The Shutterfly Guide to Great Digital Photos, an instructional book published by McGraw-Hill on the essentials of digital photography and managing images. He is an avid photographer and spends his weekends capturing the special moments created by his wife and three sons with this Canon EOS 5D Mark II.


Jameson Hsu
Jameson Hsu
Co-Founder, Mochi Media
The Power of APIs

Jameson Hsu is Chief Mochi and co-founder of Mochi Media. Prior to founding Mochi Media, Jameson co-founded the award winning interactive design firm WDDG where he led partnerships with major brands such as Kraft, HP, Burger King and many more. Jameson has been focused on gaming and interactive advertising for over 10 years, working closely with Flash developers, industry leading artists, advertising agencies, and Fortune 500 clients to develop innovative marketing and communication solutions.


Marc Huffman
Marc Huffman
VP of Worldwide Sales, NetSuite
How will Cloud Computing Fundamentally Change Our World?

Marc Huffman brings to NetSuite (NYSE: N) more than 15 years of experience in technology sales and management in the U.S. and Canada. Since joining NetSuite in 2003, Mr. Huffman has been instrumental in establishing NetSuite’s Toronto and Denver offices and building a world-class global sales organization with substantial growth across all sales channels. In 2006, Mr. Huffman was named in Canadian Technology Top 25 Newsmakers. Prior to NetSuite, Mr. Huffman worked with Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) for eight years in sales and sales leadership both in the U.S. and Canada. Mr. Huffman holds a Bachelor of Business degree from California State University, Chico.


Ian Isaacs
Ian Isaacs
GPS/PND Product Management, Intermap
Intelligent Mapping is the Wave of the Future

Ian Isaacs is the currently the Director of Product Management in the Consumer Electronics Business Unit at Intermap Technologies. Ian has worked at Intermap Technologies, since 1998. He recently moved from the Sales Division where he was responsible for NEXTMap USA Sales. Prior to this Ian was Intermap’s Production Manager, following which he worked with a small team developing the concept of the NEXTMap USA Program with several of Intermap's key clients. He is currently responsible for the direction of Product Management activities in the GPS area at Intermap. Ian completed his studies at the University of New Brunswick in Canada.


Frank Jacobsen
Frank Jacobsen
President, PassTime
Intelligent Mapping is the Wave of the Future

Frank has been in the data processing industry for over twenty-six years including 22 years with First Data Corporation (FDC). In his time with FDC he served in various capacities including sales management, business development, product development, and general management. In late 2001, he joined First Horizon Merchant Services, Inc (FHMS) to head up a new Business Development Team to diversify their portfolio. During his 6 years with FHMS he acquired five companies and created two new Business Units. In late 2005, First Horizon Nation Corporation made a decision to sell FHMS, a wholly owned subsidiary. Frank was part of the five member Executive Group responsible for selling the subsidiary to NOVA Information Systems.


Lee Johnston Jr.
Lee Johnston Jr.
Sprint
Transmitting Personal Financial Data Over the Web and Cell Phones

Lee is an experienced sales veteran of the wireless industry. An active CSIA member for several years, Lee has spent the last decade at Sprint and Nextel Communications. For the last five years he served as the Business Sales Manager for emerging markets in Colorado. His teams have specialized in bringing to market converged wireless/wireline applications as well as telemetry/GPS applications. Prior to that, he managed the Indirect Agent Channel for Nextel Communications where he oversaw double digit YoY growth. Earlier in the decade, Lee was one of the first hires to specialize in wireless data applications. He earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Cal Poly- San Luis Obispo and a MBA from CU-Denver.


JR Johnson
JR Johnson
President, Lunch.com
Its All About Usability

J.R. Johnson is the CEO and founder of Lunch. Before starting Lunch, J.R. was the founder and CEO of VirtualTourist.com and OneTime. Under his leadership, VirtualTourist.com grew to a one million-plus member organization and has earned honors from Time magazine, Newsweek, and Travel Leisure, among others. The three-time entrepreneur sold VirtualTourist to Expedia in 2008. A graduate of the University of Southern California and S.M.U. Law School, J.R. is now considered a pioneer in the field of Internet information sharing and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. After growing up in Westlake Village, California, J.R. returned to his birthplace, Manhattan Beach where he currently lives. He likes watching sports and rooting for his beloved USC Trojans.


John Kanarowski
John Kanarowski
President, Zerista Software
Intelligent Mapping is the Wave of the Future

John manages the sales, marketing and business development functions at Zerista. Before Zerista, he was a Regional Director and National Accounts Director at Merced Systems, a leading provider of Sales and Service Performance Management software. While at Merced, he helped grow revenue by more than 100% annually for four consecutive years. Before that, he was in consulting and alliances roles at Siebel Systems (now Oracle CRM). Before that he managed sales, marketing and business development at iDeal International, a venture-funded online auction company. He has degrees from Harvard Business School, Univ. of California, Berkeley, and Dartmouth College.


Ross Kimbarovsky
Ross Kimbarovsky
Co-Founder, crowdSPRING
CrowdSourcing's Impact on Surfers and Business

In 2007, Ross co-founded crowdSPRING, LLC, a technology start-up that is helping to transform the creative industries by providing a level playing field for talented designers worldwide, while also offering small and mid-size businesses around the world real choice for their graphic design needs. crowdSPRING has received many accolades in its short existence: WIRED Magazine's 2008 Small Business of the Year, Business.com best people solution, Illinois Technology Association's Newcomer of the Year in 2009, nominated for a 2009 Webby Award (as one of only five startups in the world) for the Community category, named an Official Honoree for the Services and Applications category in the 13th Annual Webby Awards, and a Stevie Award for Best Product/Service. Prior to founding crowdSPRING, Ross spent thirteen years as a successful trial attorney, most recently as Chair of the Intellectual Property group at a Chicago law firm. He has counseled and represented clients from around the world, including many startups and Fortune 100 companies in complex disputes involving a wide range of business and intellectual property issues. Passionate about technology and realizing that he couldn't wear shorts and sandals at work unless he started his own company, Ross decided to pursue his dream (and to change his wardrobe). Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Ross emigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1979.


Scott King
Scott King
Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales and Marketing, ReadyTalk
Building Your Business on a Shoestring and Avoiding Losing Control

Scott is the co-founder and vice president of sales and marketing for ReadyTalk, a leader in web and audio conferencing. Scott helped launch ReadyTalk in December of 2001 and is actively involved in building ReadyTalk's wholesale and retail business. He has more than 25 years of experience in the communications industry and has led teams at both TellSoft Technologies and Hewlett-Packard's Telecommunications Systems Business. Scott earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Colorado while attending on a cross country and track scholarship. He continues to be an avid runner, enjoys coaching soccer and riding to work from Boulder to Denver with other avid cyclists from ReadyTalk.


Michael Kranitz
Michael Kranitz
CEO, Kaango
Online Revenue via Advertising or Subscriptions

Michael Kranitz is the principal architect of Kaango and its President and CEO. Kranitz was also the principal software developer and application creator for the RCUniverse.com community site which is owned and operated by Kaango. Prior to his involvement in RCUniverse and Kaango, Kranitz founded Denver-based DriveOff.com and sold it to an MSN/Ford joint venture in 2000 after building it to 77 employees and more than 3,500 member dealerships. Kranitz also served as Vice President of MSN Autos (f/k/a MSN CarPoint) at the time. Kranitz created the Kaango network from the ground up and established the company's industry relationships before selling an 80% share of the company to Kaango Ventures, LLC, a consortium owned by Hearst and MediaNews Group. Kranitz is a former litigator and corporate reorganization lawyer with 11 years of practice in three states. His clients have included GMAC, Midway Airlines, Bank One and Key Bank. In 1996 Kranitz released LeaseWizard® Lease and Loan Software for consumers and professionals. LeaseWizard has been recommended in major automotive magazines since then.


Dominique Lahaix
Dominique Lahaix
CEO and Founder, eCairn
How Do You Value Customer Engagement Or Build A Social ROI?

Dominique Lahaix is the Founder and Ceo of eCairn, a software company based in Silicon Valley, delivering an innovative social media marketing platform to marketing agencies and marketing groups. He has previously founded and managed a software startup specializing in emailing optimization with clients like eBay, HP, Apple. Before, he has lead several organizations in Hewlett Packard Services (R&D, Consulting and Business Dev) and has 20 years of expertise in managing Technology organizations. He has published, lectured on IT strategy and Knowledge Management.


Stephanie Leffler
Stephanie Leffler
CEO, Juggle.com
CrowdSourcing's Impact on Surfers and Business

Stephanie Leffler serves as CEO of Juggle, LLC. A graduate of Washington & Lee University, Leffler previously developed and led MonsterCommerce – an online store-building solution. Under Leffler, MonsterCommerce was named one of St. Louis’ best places to work by the St. Louis Business Journal in 2005, was awarded the SIIA Codie Award for best e-commerce software, and increased its sales by over 800% between 2002 and 2004. The St. Louis Business Journal also featured Stephanie as one of the “30 under 30” young entrepreneurs to watch. Stephanie successfully negotiated MonsterCommerce’s sale to Network Solutions in 2006. In late 2007, she and partner Ryan Noble left the company to begin a new start-up, Juggle.com.


Paul Levine
Paul Levine
Senior VP Interactive Platforms Group, National Geographic
Using Technology with Established Brands to Expand Market Share

Paul Levine is senior vice president, Interactive Platforms Group, and he also heads up Business Development for National Geographic Global Media. As head of the Interactive Platforms Group, Levine leads the global division responsible for National Geographic's Mobile, Games and Maps businesses. In addition, the group is also playing a lead role in National Geographic's cross platform e-Publishing efforts. Interactive Platforms leverages National Geographic's award-winning content, editorial, cartography, creative resources and brands to create new interactive consumer products, services and franchises across multiple platforms to further extend the Society's mission of inspiring people to care about the planet. Before coming to National Geographic, Levine spent a number of years at AOL, where he led business development, strategy and strategic alliance efforts for various business units including Digital Media Services, AOL Mobile, AOL Technology and Web Properties. Levine has more than 15 years of experience across the Internet, entertainment and consumer-technology industries from business, legal and technology perspectives, including development and management of broadband entertainment, mobile, gaming, communication, social networking and emerging digital media platforms.


Paul McGough
Paul McGough
Chief Scientist, Relevant Security
The Dark Side of Digital: Theft and Security

Paul is the inventor of Relevant Security’s patented Real Privacy Management (RPM) technology, which uses unique, modular arithmetic to continuously authenticate and secure data between all nodes on any network. With more than 25 years of experience, Paul has created, developed and published multiple authentication protocols and encryption stream ciphers, filing seven patents. He has started and obtained more than $2 million in funding for three different software companies – all focused on different aspects of network security and communications. In addition to being an inventor and entrepreneur, Paul has held executive positions with AOL, CSC and SAIC, and spent more than 10 years as a manager and software engineer on many highly classified government communication security projects.


Tom Melaragno
Tom Melaragno
Founder and CEO, Compri Consulting
How will Cloud Computing Fundamentally Change Our World?

Tom Melaragno is founder and CEO of three successful technology services firms, the most notable being Compri Consulting. Compri is an information technology consulting company providing IT project outsourcing, custom software development and IT managed services. Mr. Melaragno has over 25 years of technology-based professional services consulting and management experience. Melaragno was profiled in Inc. Magazine after leading Compri to exceptional growth and achieving a ranking in the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the nation for three consecutive years. Prior to founding Compri, Melaragno was a software engineer by trade, and delivered a national training program on the SEI CMMI software process framework directed to software engineers working for Schlumberger, Microsoft and Intel. Melaragno attended Colorado State University where he earned his B.S .in Business and his M.S. in Computer Information Systems. He is a board member of CSU's College of Business, Computer Information Systems Advisory Board.


Oren Michels
Oren Michels
CEO, Mashery
The Power of APIs

Oren Michels has a record of success in a variety of executive positions spanning multiple industries. Oren co-founded and managed WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for public access wi-fi hotspots. He has served as president for two companies: Colt HR, a leading provider of mid-market benefits administration software and services; and Winebid.com, a leading online wine auction service. He also served as president and CEO of The Groundlings, a Hollywood-based entertainment production company, and has held COO positions at manufacturing companies. Prior to joining Mashery, Oren worked as vice president of business development at Feedster, where he managed the company’s activities in China and negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks, and Mitsui.


Peter Murane
Peter Murane
President and Founder, BrandJuice
Using Technology with Established Brands to Expand Market Share

Murane has twenty-two years of brand management and new product development experience but is most proud of BrandJuice's success in helping clients grow their businesses. Peter's perspective is valued by leaders of major brand-driven organizations such as P&G, J&J, The Clorox Company, General Mills, Pepsi, Arm & Hammer, Johnsonville, Orange Glo, Verizon and WhiteWave Foods.Peter offers clients a depth of insight and experience from many years bringing new products to market and developing unique positioning strategies. His leadership style blends expertise in entrepreneurship, consumer insight, business strategy and creative problem solving. Peter has been a featured speaker for the Accelerate Proctor & Gamble innovation conference, AMA local and national events, DMA, Frost & Sullivan, The DaVinci Institute, The Advertising Show, Business for Breakfast, the Universities of Colorado and Denver and more.


Micki Nelson
Micki Nelson
CIO and VP of Global IT, MWH
Is Your Receptionist More Powerful Than You in Your Company?

Micki Nelson’s 30-year career in engineering and information technology has spanned multiple industries including architectural, civil and structural engineering and analysis, construction supervision, aerospace engineering and information technology operations and management. Ms. Nelson is currently Vice President and Chief Information Officer for MWH, a worldwide environmental engineering and construction firm with $1.5 Billion in revenues yearly. MWH is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. Micki joined MWH in 2000 where she was originally tasked with managing the contract for an out-sourced IT department and later, reintegrating it back into the company. She currently leads a global team of 165 IT professionals located as close as Denver, and as far away as Pune, India. This team supports the IT infrastructure for the 200 MWH offices worldwide.


Ari Newman
Ari Newman
President and Founder, Filtrbox
How Do You Value Customer Engagement Or Build A Social ROI?

Ari is a seasoned entrepreneur who excels in creating value in ideas and technology and thrives on the challenges and opportunities that define early stage companies. He has over 12 years of experience in technology start-ups, and founded Filtrbox in 2007. In the year since its launch, Filtrbox has become one of the fastest growing companies in Boulder. Previously, Ari was Founder and Principal of Newman Venture Advisors, VP of Product Management at CreekPath Systems (sold to Opsware) and Director of Operations at Volera. His expertise includes SaaS, consumer Internet, enterprise application software, IP networks and enterprise storage. He has a BS in Marketing from the University of Colorado.


John Oechsle
John Oechsle
Senior Vice President and CIO, IHS Inc.
How Does Innovation and Differentiation Play into the New World of M&A

John Oechsle joined IHS Group in July 2003 as Senior Vice President, CIO. He is responsible for both IHS Group worldwide IT services and systems, including Product Development & Technology, Internal Systems, and IHS Hosting Services. He brings to IHS Group experience in worldwide IT infrastructure standardization and business e-connectivity as well as expertise in strategic IT enabled business planning, large program/project management and technology business solutions. Prior to IHS Group, John worked as CIO, Vice President Information Management Worldwide, for Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a $1.5 billion Johnson & Johnson company, where he was responsible for all technology and e-business on a worldwide basis. Prior to Ortho, John established the Latin American business unit of Networking & Computing Services (NCS) for Johnson & Johnson and also served as the unit's Executive Director. John has also held executive positions as Senior Vice President, CTO for Land America Financial Group and Director and Global Information Management for Kellogg Company. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University in Camden, NJ and is a graduate of the Tuck Executive Program at Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business in Hanover, NH.


Adam Oliveri
Adam Oliveri
Managing Director, Private Company Market, SecondMarket
Exit Strategies When There is No Exit

One of the first three employees hired by SecondMarket, Adam Oliveri has played a critical role in the growth and development of the company’s online marketplace for trading illiquid assets. Currently Managing Director of SecondMarket's Private Company Market, Mr. Oliveri is responsible for leading the firm's efforts to create an administration and liquidity platform for private company securities. Prior to this, Mr. Oliveri was Co-Head of the SecondMarket trading desk, and responsible for managing the company's public and private company markets. In this role, he also helped in the development of SecondMarket's online platform for trading auction-rate securities.


Bob Ogdon
Bob Ogdon
CEO, Swiftpage
SaaS, Shaping the Future of Web Apps

Bob Ogdon is an executive technologies and business professional with more than 27 years of experience in the multimedia market. His background includes expertise in multimedia, telecommunications and computer-based high technology companies. Bob founded and served as CEO of four companies, the latest being SwiftPage Email, an email marketing company that has helped hundreds of for-profit and non-profit organizations create, send and track the performance of email campaigns. Most recently, SwiftPage Email became the first server-based email management system to be fully integrated into ACT!, the leading contact management system in the world. Prior to SwiftPage Email, Ogdon founded MSHOW.com, a leading web interactive broadcasting company. Prior to MSHOW.com, Ogdon founded Mammoth Micro Productions, a pioneer in CD-ROM multimedia tools, technology and publishing, and Action Graphics, a game design and software development company.


John P. Raeder, Jr.
John P. Raeder, Jr.
President and CEO, IQNavigator
SaaS, Shaping the Future of Web Apps

John P. Raeder, Jr. is president and CEO of IQNavigator, Inc. Under Raeder’s leadership, IQNavigator has transformed from a start-up Contingent Workforce Management vendor into the market-leading, global Services Procurement and Optimization solutions provider. As the driving force behind IQNavigator’s solutions and services strategy, Raeder also oversees operations, product development and delivery, sales and marketing, finance and administration along with his executive team. Since 1999, Raeder has led IQNavigator through 33 consecutive Quarters of record revenues. He has orchestrated an impressive surge of 1,177% compounded annual revenue growth over the past 5 years as recognized by Deloitte and Touche’s Technology Fast 50. IQNavigator’s Global Fortune 500 customer base includes marquee clients in every major industry vertical including: Financial Services, Energy, Telecommunications, Consumer Packaged Goods, Electronics Manufacturing, Healthcare, and various Services industries.


Robert Reich
Robert Reich
Founder, OneRiot
User's Contributions Affect on Big Media

Robert Reich is a founder and creator of OneRiot's patent pending algorithm, which is the technology that makes OneRiot unique in the Real Time Space. He founded Add-On-Con, a conference focused on the development and marketing of Add-ons, founded and moderates the monthly Boulder Denver New Technology Meetup and co-hosts a monthly talk show called Entrepreneurs Unplugged. He actively speaks at different technology conference and currently sits on the entrepreneurial advisory board for CU, Boulder Digital Works and is a board member for OneRiot. Prior to founding OneRiot, Robert was the founder and CEO of Ecosystems, a software company focused on selling collaboration technologies to the global 2000.


Adeo Ressi
Adeo Ressi
Founder and CEO, TheFunded.com
Building Your Business on a Shoestring and Avoiding Losing Control

Adeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 12,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. Over the course of his career, Adeo was an early pioneer in the growth of the World Wide Web, an advocate for the burgeoning private space exploration industry, and a champion of casual games and related entertainment.


Jim Reuter
Jim Reuter
President, FirstBank Data Corp.
Transmitting Personal Financial Data Over the Web and Cell Phones

Jim Reuter has served as President of FirstBank Data Corporation since 1999. FirstBank Data Corporation provides services such as check processing, call center, electronic banking, credit/debit card processing, and information technology for over 100 FirstBank locations in Colorado, California, and Arizona. FirstBank Data Corporation currently has over 500 employees, including 100 IT professionals. Jim was hired by FirstBank in 1987 as a management trainee. In 1988, he transferred to the Data Corporation where he served as manager of various retail and bank operations. In addition, Jim serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Cerebral Palsy of Colorado, is on various committees of the Colorado Banker’s Association, and is a member of the Federal Reserve Tenth District Operations Council.


Rip Ripley
Rip Ripley
President Denver, GyroHSR
Using Technology with Established Brands to Expand Market Share

Rip Ripley brings more than 28 years of business-to-business and consumer account management experience to his clients. Over that time, Rip has gained a reputation for making projects sail smoothly, and rapidly, from strategy development through execution. Armed with a degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Colorado, Rip began his career at J. Walter Thompson before moving to Tracy-Locke/BBDO. Rip broadened his marketing experience by joining Broyles, Allebaugh & Davis. Rip was vice president at ACI/West and the Evans Group before forming his own company, Apache Marketing, in 1994. He joined Brozena Ripley & Partners in 1996. He successfully merged BR&P with HSR Business to Business in 2007. As a member of the HSR Board of Directors, Rip helped join HSR with Gyro International to form GyroHSR were h is a part of the global management team.


Michael Robnett
Michael Robnett
Service Delivery Manager, FORTRUST
The Power of APIs - How to Leverage them for New Revenue Channels

Michael is responsible for the service assurance and delivery of all FORTRUST Managed Services offerings which requires him to engineer best-in-class technical solutions including storage, backup monitoring and full end-to-end management of servers, applications, and security. He brings more than two decades of data center experience to FORTRUST along with numerous accreditations including Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Six Sigma Greenbelt, and Microsoft certifications.


Roy Rubin
Roy Rubin
CEO, MagentoCommerce.com and Varien, Inc.
Lunch Keynote: Revolutionizing Cost Structures By Aligning with the Open Source Revolution

Roy Rubin founded Varien in 2001 as a consultancy and has since transformed the eCommerce platform market with the release of the Magento platform. In a period of 18 months, Varien's flagship product, Magento, surpassed the 1 million downloads milestone and now records billions of dollars of transactions worldwide by tens of thousands of merchants. It is the fastest growing eCommerce platform in the world.


Dave Schafer
Dave Schafer
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Examiner.com
User's Contributions Affect on Big Media

Dave Schafer is the co-founder of Examiner.com, a Denver-based media company recently named the fastest-growing news site by Nielsen Online. More than 18,000 contributors, known as Examiners, create content for the site in 25 topic channels and 109 markets in the U.S. Dave currently serves as Chief Operating Officer, participating in product strategy, new partnerships and daily operations. Dave was previously the General Manager of MapQuest and led the popular maps and directions website as it grew from 5 million to 50 million unique visitors. Before moving online Dave was a newspaper reporter and photographer in the Pacific Northwest.


Kevin Sheen
Kevin Sheen
Managing Director of Global Offshore Services, Perficient
How Do You Value Customer Engagement Or Build A Social ROI?

Kevin is responsible for Perficient's overall offshore strategy and service offerings as well as the business alignment of Perficient's CMMI-Level 5 Global Delivery Center in Hangzhou, China to those offerings. Kevin has over 22 years of experience in application development, agile methodology and outsourcing for a variety of industries such as telecommunications, manufacturing, CRM and retail and often works with clients to develop winning strategies and roadmaps for effective multi-sourcing.


Meyar Sheik
Meyar Sheik
CEO and Co-Founder, Certona Corporation
 

Meyar Sheik, CEO and Co-founder of Certona Corporation is a seasoned software industry executive with over 25 years of experience. Since 2000, Meyar has been a web analytics pioneer working with some of the largest sites on the Internet such as ESPN, Fox, Sony, Best Buy, Disney, CBS and many other leading retail brands, in the areas of web analytics, personalization and real-time content optimization. Since co-founding Certona in 2004, Meyar and the Certona team of predictive analytics experts have been focused on applying Certona's innovative, real-time behavioral targeting, optimization and adaptive personalization technologies to generate more revenue and higher conversion rates for online and multi-channel retailers.


John Street
John Street
Former CEO, MX Logic
How Does Innovation and Differentiation Play into the New World of M&A

John Street, former Chairman and CEO of MX Logic (Now part of McAfee's SaaS Unit). In the world of technology companies and Internet start-ups, John Street, the co-founder and former CEO of MX Logic, is a bit of an anomaly. A CPA by training, John is a numbers guy with a chronic compulsion and knack for building successful businesses. In fact, John is the only known CEO to have led three separate companies six times to Inc. Magazine's 500/5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America list, including MX Logic in 2007, 2008 and 2009.


Lisa Stone
Lisa Stone
CEO and Co-Founder, BlogHer
User's Contributions Affect on Big Media

Stone is the CEO and co-founder of BlogHer, an online community for women. Begun as a labor of love in 2005 as a conference for women who blog, BlogHer is now the leading participatory news, information and entertainment network for women online, reaching more than 15 million women each month via annual conferences, a Web hub, and a publishing network of more than 2,700 blog affiliates. The former VP of Programming and Editor-in-Chief of Women.com, Stone has launched blog networks and interactive programming for Hearst, Rodale Magazines, Knight-Ridder Digital and Glam Media. She is the first internet journalist awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University.


Adam Swiecki
Adam Swiecki
Founder, SkateboardsEtc.com
What Services Will Help E-Retail Freshen Up, Post Recession?

Adam Swiecki started his ecommerce businesses after serving as an Army Officer and financier. The quintessential bootstrapper, Adam avoided large startup costs by learning to program a website, partnering with drop shippers, and housing inventory in his basement. After four years, he is out of the basement, running multi-million dollar ecommerce sites (SkateboardsEtc.com, SurfboardsEtc.com and GogglesEtc.com), and still growing using free cash flow.


Josh Swihart
Josh Swihart
CEO, Aspenware
Its All About Usability

Josh Swihart is the president and CEO of Aspenware Internet Solutions. Prior to Aspenware, Josh served as the vice president of global marketing for K2, a global practice manager for EMC, a practice principal for the Interlink Group, was a cofounder of 3t Systems and served on Microsoft's partner advisory council for collaboration and portals. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/swihart.


Matthew Taylor
Matthew Taylor
VP of Managed Services and IT/IS Operations, ViaWest
How will Cloud Computing Fundamentally Change Our World?

Taylor joined ViaWest as the Vice President of Hosting and IT Operations in May 2006. Utilizing his over 16 years of technology management experience, Taylor reconstructed the hosting and IT organization to provide increased support levels for customer purchased services. He supported the migration of several key initiatives including new definition and standardization of managed services projects, implementation of best practice compliance services and new product development processes. Taylor was also responsible for integration of IT/IS functions for several ViaWest acquisitions, as well as introducing new reporting and managed services solutions to customers. Taylor began his career with General Reinsurance Corporation, becoming the youngest manager in the companies’ history. Next, he co-founded GreatLand Insurance Company, serving as both the CIO and VP of Underwriting. Taylor then accepted the role as Director of Strategic Planning for Kemper Insurance Company, founding its CIO Council. Before joining ViaWest, Taylor held roles as VP Southwest region for Agile Technologies, growing the $2 million book of business. Taylor also spent part of his career as Interim CIO for one of the world’s largest managed hosting companies managing numerous initiatives including the complete restructuring of the internal infrastructure.


Steven Warshawsky
Steven Warshawsky
Director Cloud Solutions, Perficient
How will Cloud Computing Fundamentally Change Our World?

Mr. Warshawsky has over 25 years of technology-based professional services consulting and management experience. He has led multiple logistics and technology professional services projects in a wide variety of industries providing significant bottom-line value to the clients. As a thought leader, Mr. Warshawsky has been responsible for the development of Perficient's Cloud Computing Practice, guiding clients in the development of their strategic vision, and the creation of Perficient's Value Alignment offering.


Tom West
Tom West
CEO, JC Whitney
What Services Will Help E-Retail Freshen Up, Post Recession?

As President and CEO, Mr. West is responsible for all operations for Whitney Automotive Group. Whitney is the leading direct to customer retailer of aftermarket auto parts and accessories. The company does business under JC Whitney, Stylin' Trucks and Carparts.com. It is headquartered in Chicago with major operations in LaSalle, Ill and Cleveland, Ohio. The company is privately held by the Riverside Company based in New York. Mr. West spent the last 10 years at Dell in Austin, Texas where he served in various sr. executive roles in online and direct marketing. Prior to Dell, Mr. West was a manager at Bain and Company in Chicago and served as a commercial banking officer for PNC Bank in Pittsburgh. Mr West has founded or helped to found a number of businesses in the mid west and served on the board of the Big Brothers of greater Pittsburgh and the Austin Area Urban League. Mr West currently serves on the advisory board for the Martini Media Network. He has a bachelor's degree in business from Indiana University in Bloomington and an MBA from the University of Chicago.



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