Alexis Maybank
Co-founder, Gilt Groupe
Alexis has dedicated her career to building and launching innovative and compelling ecommerce experiences for consumers. In 2007, Alexis became a founding CEO of Gilt Groupe, working to expand the company's sales categories from women's brands to include lifestyle categories such as sporting goods, home decor, children's apparel, local experiences and luxury travel services.

Prior to founding Gilt Groupe, Alexis served as general manager and business development director for AOL's ecommerce businesses. In 1998, she became an early member of the eBay team, where she helped launch the company's first strategic planning group and also launched eBay Canada, which grew to become Canada's largest ecommerce business. She later helped found eBay Motors, which grew to over $2.5 billion in gross sales and continues to be the largest category of goods sold on eBay today.

Joel Lunenfeld
VP, Global Brand Strategy, Twitter
Joel Lunenfeld is the VP of Global Brand Strategy  at Twitter, leading a team focused on creating custom advertising solutions for the most influential and iconic brands in the world. Joel has been one of the top influencers in the digital space for over a decade. He is known for encouraging his clients and teams to venture down unchartered paths to discover new ways of igniting conversations between brands and people.

Prior to joining Twitter, Joel was a founding member and CEO of Moxie Interactive, a top digital agency, leading engagement with world-class brands such as Verizon Wireless, L’Oreal, Twentieth Century Fox and Coca-Cola. Joel is an entrepreneur and change agent that believes in the power of participation and the new role technology plays connecting brands and their customers. You can follow Joel on Twitter at @joell

Frederick Townes
Sr Technical Advisor, Mashable; Founder, W3 EDGE
Frederick Townes is the Senior Technical Advisor to Mashable, from 2007 to January 2012, he served as the Chief Technical Officer, building / maintaining of the network of sites / products and scaling Mashable‘s infrastructure. He is also founder of W3 EDGE a new media oriented software development company. W3 EDGE has provided solutions for brands like: Constant Contact, CVS Pharmacy, Edelman, Hyatt, Kodak, Lord & Taylor, Microsoft, Sanyo, Southwest Airlines, Staples, Sony, REI, Weight Watchers and Yahoo. His passions and experiences are diverse, ranging from founding startups, user interface design and development, blogging and Internet marketing. Frederick currently splits time between Florence, Italy and Boston, Massachusetts and is a graduate of Boston University, where he focused on computer science and mathematics.

Don Hoang
Director of Business Development, Klout
Don Hoang is the Director of Business Development for Klout, which analyzes engagement across social networks to help users understand and unlock their influence. Hoang previously spent time as a Strategic Advisor to VentureBeat and spearheaded product marketing for Salesforce.com's Chatter product. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is active in the Stanford and startup communities.

Loni Kao Stark
Group Solutions Manager, Digital Marketing, Adobe Systems
As head of product marketing for Adobe’s Digital Marketing Solutions, Loni leads a team responsible for defining solutions and go-to-market strategies essential to CMOs and digital marketers worldwide. Stark has over 14 years experience helping businesses apply technology to optimize critical functions to meet business objectives including building brand awareness and driving consumer demand.

Stark is also Co-Founder of Stark Insider, a west coast online magazine covering technology, theater, arts, wine and food to over half a million readers/year.

John Trimble
Chief Revenue Officer, Pandora
John Trimble serves as the Chief Revenue Officer of Pandora Media where he is responsible for all advertising revenue, strategic sales marketing and advertising operations. Pandora's diverse revenue streams tap display, mobile, audio that reach consumers on their computers, mobile phones and consumer electronic devices. Pandora advertising offerings utilize the super-specific aspects of internet radio: a medium that enables advertisers to reach any type of consumer, anytime, anywhere - based on a multitude of quantifiable data.

Previous to Pandora, John was the EVP of sales at Glam Media where he helped guide their revenue and product expansion. Before that, John was part of the executive team tasked by News Corp. to develop and execute the creation of Fox Interactive Media where he was part of the acquisition team that brought MySpace.com and IGN.com into the Fox Interactive Media fold.

Kathryn Szumowski
Senior Media Director, Turner Media Group
Kathryn Szumowski is senior media director for Turner Media Group. In this role, she oversees digital media planning and ideation for all Turner networks and offline media planning for CNN, Turner Sports and Cartoon Network/Adult Swim. Szumowski is based in Atlanta and is part of the Turner Media Group.

Szumowski joined Turner in 2010 and previously held a number of different roles during an 18-year career with Verizon Wireless. Most recently, she managed the digital and multicultural media for Verizon Wireless, overseeing digital, SEM, mobile, social and video campaigns for product launches and programs, including Droid and VCAST. She also led the strategic development of the company’s multicultural media programs.

Michael Greer
Chief Product Officer & Chief Technology Officer, The Onion
Michael Greer has led digital products for The Onion and its partner brand the A.V. Club for the last 5 years. He is charged with delivering their comedy in its many forms to a hungry and tech-saavy world. His team has grown both brands across many platforms, and successfully integrated sponsors into satirical humor for the mobile & social mass audience. Greer joined The Onion from Time Warner, where he managed the web architects at Time Inc Interactive on such digital brands as People, EW, and InStyle.

Simon Heseltine
Director of SEO, AOL/Huffington Post
Simon Heseltine is the Director in charge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) at AOL Inc. In this role Simon and his team are responsible for organic search and training across all AOL and Huffington Post Media Group properties. In his previous position as Director of Search at a Washington D.C. based agency, Simon was responsible for developing and implementing organic search and social media strategies. He also developed and delivered organic search and social media training programs for clients.

Simon writes a regular column for SearchEngineWatch.com on a variety of topics within the marketing industry, and has previously written for other industry sites, such as SearchEngineLand.com (for their in-house marketing column). Simon teaches SEO at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. as part of their Digital Media Management program.

Catherine Cook
Co-founder, myYearbook
Vice President, Brand Strategy, Quepasa Corporation/MeetMe
Catherine is the Vice President, Brand Strategy for Quepasa Corporation, the public market leader for social discovery and owner of Latin-American platform Quepasa and North-American platform myYearbook. In April 2012, Quepasa announced plans of its platform rebrand to MeetMe™, part of a global strategy to expand how people discover and meet in an increasingly online and mobile world.

Catherine co-founded myYearbook with her brother Dave in 2005. The company merged with the Quepasa Corporation in Nov. 2011. Catherine is responsible for creating some of the most important applications on myYearbook and has been instrumental in driving the site’s growth by conceiving of the next popular features. As part of Quepasa Corp.’s management team, Catherine continues to drive new features that deliver on our mission -- to be the best place to meet new people.

Catherine graduated from Georgetown University in 2011, where she majored in OPIM and marketing. Catherine has been reported on extensively on CNBC, MTV, ABC News, Fox News, CosmoGIRL, BusinessWeek, the San Francisco Chronicle, and CBS.

David Perry
Business Development Executive, Software & Services, Google
David Perry is a business development executive within Google's software and services vertical. He helps global B2B software and services companies leverage Google’s advertising technologies to generate demand and build awareness of their solutions. Prior to joining Google in 2010, David was a business development executive at IBM, where he focused on creating a partnership “ecosystem” by recruiting six leading software companies to enhance complex global IBM solutions. As a senior consultant, also at IBM, he worked across several industries including electronics, financial services, telecommunications, aerospace & defense and automotive. David earned his bachelor’s degree at Colgate University and his MBA at the Johnson School at Cornell University.

Jack Krawczyk
Senior Product Marketing Manager, StumbleUpon
As Senior Product Marketing Manager at StumbleUpon, Jack Krawczyk is responsible for the product marketing development of advertising and partnership solutions. Focused on Paid Discovery, StumbleUpon’s social media marketing platform, Jack has been working closely with marketers to understand how to better engage brand promise with consumers who are in the mindset of discovery. Jack is also responsible for the distribution of StumbleUpon traffic solutions, which enable site owners to more deeply engage and grow their audience.

Prior to joining StumbleUpon, Jack was at Google where he worked on the development of Google+, and previously industry marketing management of Fortune 500 advertising relationships in the media & entertainment, financial services, travel and local services sectors. He has also worked as an analyst at Banc of America Securities. Jack holds a BS in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

Prerna Gupta
CEO, Khush
Prerna Gupta is CEO of Khush, a start-up that develops intelligent music apps, like the #1 hit app Songify, which turns speech into music. Prerna has led Khush to profitability through Khush’s apps, with over 10 million downloads and 200 songs created to date. She is also responsible for producing viral videos for her products that have reached over 180 million views. Khush was recently acquired by Smule, the leading developer of social music apps. Prior to her foray into entrepreneurship, Prerna worked in consulting at Monitor Group and early-stage venture capital at Summit Partners. She studied Economics and Computer Science at Stanford University. Prerna was voted one of FastCompany’s Most Influential Women in Technology 2011, and her writing has been featured in the New York Times and TechCrunch. She is also a Resident Mentor at 500 Startups.

Chidi Afulezi
Product Director, Turner
Chidi Afulezi is Product Director with Turner Broadcasting’s Audience and Multi Platform Technologies (AMPT) organization. In this role, Chidi leads a team that is tasked with developing mobile and connected device product strategy and solutions, and providing mobile product analysis for Turner and its brands.

Prior to Turner, Chidi was a Product Director with Time Warner Cable in Herndon, VA, where he worked on new products and marketing for the Digital Voice business. He also worked at Sony Music in NYC as Director of Business Development. His first gig out of college was as a Wireless RF Engineer with AT&T Wireless, where he was part of the startup team that built and deployed the DC-Baltimore digital mobile network in ’97.

Maureen Schumacher
Head of Financial Services, YouTube, Google
Maureen Schumacher joined Google in 2006 to build their presence in the Southeast. Five years later it is staffed with close to 100 employees including engineers and a sales force providing Fortune 100 customers with innovative marketing solutions as well as centralized sales and service. Formerly a GE marketing veteran, Maureen brings 20-years of experience including strategy, planning, and advertising. She has worked in the US and abroad to expand GE's financial products globally. Prior to her career with GE, Maureen worked for Shell Oil Company and SunTrust.

Maureen is an active member of the CMO Roundtable, sits on the executive board of Junior Achievement and is a member of Google Grants, a program that supports non-profit organizations with in-kind advertising.
Maureen is a Pennsylvania State University graduate; she holds a BA and MBA and studied management and economics in Lima, Peru. Currently she is pursuing an Executive Doctorate degree from Georgia State University.

Michael Bayle
Senior Vice President & General Manager, ESPN Mobile
As Senior Vice President and General Manager, ESPN Mobile, Michael Bayle is responsible for developing and managing all aspects of ESPN’s mobile strategy and execution, including content production, programming and publishing on every ESPN Mobile platform.

Most recently, Bayle was Vice President of Monetization and Marketing at Amobee, a leading mobile marketing developer, where he led global ad operations, North American business and market development and strategic partnerships. Prior to Amobee, Bayle was Senior Director of Global Mobile Monetization at Yahoo!, where he launched Yahoo’s mobile advertising business, while building a global team that created mobile campaigns for Fortune 500 partners in 29 markets.

Douglas Busk
Mobile Brand Strategy - Global Connections, The Coca-Cola Company
With over 10 years leadership experience in the mobile space, ranging from interactive television to mobile grassroots strategy, Doug Busk brings a diverse background to his current role leading Mobile Brand Strategy for the Global Connections marketing team at The Coca-Cola Company. In that role, Doug is responsible for High Leverage Initiatives - strategic projects that have a direct impact on the company's sales via the use of mobile tech nologies. His current focus is on mobile commerce, 2D, and location-based services.

Topher Kohan
SEO Coordinator, CNN
Topher Kohan is the search engine optimization (SEO) coordinator for CNN Digital. In this position, Kohan oversees all SEO for CNN’s digital properties. He also trains and advises editorial in SEO best practices and works with the design and development teams to optimize SEO for each site. Based at CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Kohan reports to Kitric Kerns, vice president of product development and digital operations.

Since joining CNN in 2008, Kohan has worked with several of CNN’s digital news units, including CNN International, HLNtv.com, iReport, CNNMexico.com, CNNArabic.com and CNNEspañol.com. He has also helped increase search traffic for CNN Digital, including the 2008 Presidential election, one of the largest search traffic days in the site’s history, as well as the relaunch of CNN.com in 2009.

Amanda Steinberg
Founder & CEO, DailyWorth
Amanda Steinberg started DailyWorth.com as a way to give women key insights into building net worth. DailyWorth stands out as the go-to source about personal finance for smart, ambitious women. Since its inception in January 2009, DailyWorth has garnered 100,000+ subscribers and a stream of media appearances including the New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, and a recent 2-page spread in Cosmopolitan magazine. Prior to DailyWorth, Steinberg owned and operated multiple Website development consultancies. A graduate of Columbia University, Steinberg also contributes to ForbesWoman.com

Ian Wolfman
Principal & CMO, imc²
A pioneering, inspiring, strategic adviser, Ian is a leader who ignites innovative marketing initiatives across many of the world’s most accomplished brands. As CMO, Ian leads marketing, public relations and business development functions with prescient marketplace awareness.

Ian’s expertise has led to successful ventures that include founding the Web’s first online events and promotions company and creating an online music company that became the emerging artists’ channel on Kazaa. His ingenuity in the online music industry helped pave the way for subsequent digital micropayment models including iTunes. Today, Ian focuses on facilitating a similar shift in the practice of marketing.

At imc², Ian has cultivated and strengthened relationships with the agency’s clients and industry luminaries – including Procter & Gamble, The American Diabetes Association, Samsung Mobile, The A&E Network, Omni Hotels, RadioShack, Pizza Hut, The Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson.

Brandon Evans
CEO & Founder, Crowdtap
Brandon is a founder and the CEO of Crowdtap - the Influencer Marketing Platform. The Crowdtap platform enables leading brands and agencies to easily identify and activate crowds of their brand's influential consumers and was recently named “Up-and-Coming Social Media Service” by Mashable. Crowdtap's customers include American Express, Old Navy, Verizon Wireless, Sony Pictures, GE, Microsoft, and more.

Brandon’s work has spanned three successful startups, most recently he served as Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of Mr Youth which was sold in 2011 to LBi. Brandon is well known as a pioneer and leading expert in social marketing. His vision and thought leadership helped transform Mr Youth into one of the leading social marketing agencies in the country.

Jeff Ragovin
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Buddy Media
Jeff has more than a decade of experience building expansive brand relationships at major technology and marketing firms. As Chief Strategy Officer, Jeff leads the efforts that have resulted in eight out of the top ten global advertisers employing the Buddy Media Social Marketing Suite as their social enterprise marketing software of choice.

Since joining Buddy Media, Jeff has played a central role in guiding the company from a start-up into the premiere social marketing system in the world. Jeff is often called upon to give his insights and vast knowledge on social media and digital marketing to various news outlets and industry events, including Adweek, MediaPost, iMedia Connection, the Direct Marketing Association, the Kraft Social Media Summit, Anheuser-Busch Social Media Summit and Digital Hollywood.

Matt Crenshaw
VP of Marketing & Analytics, Discovery Digital Media, Discovery Communications
Matt oversees audience development efforts for Discovery's entire portfolio of digital brands, including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet and Howstuffworks. His expertise lies in applying data-driven strategies to engage audiences through search, social media, brand extensions and media partnerships.

Matt was part of the management team at Howstuffworks when the company was acquired by Discovery in 2007. At Howstuffworks, he focused on growing the site's publishing platform and turning the site from a niche content publisher into one of the most popular destinations on the Web. Matt holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and a master's degree from Harvard University.

Randi Stipes
Vice President, Client Solutions, The Weather Channel Companies
As vice president, client solutions, for The Weather Channel Companies, Randi Stipes oversees the client solutions team in creating ad products and custom media solutions across all TWCC properties, including broadcast, weather.com, TWC mobile and tablet. Stipes has been instrumental in creating powerful campaigns that connect TWCC advertisers with their target audiences in meaningful ways, and has helped craft award-winning digital and cross-platform campaigns for such brand giants as Disney, The Home Depot, Verizon, American Express, Toyota, Sears, GM, Johnson & Johnson, Starwood Hotels, RadioShack and Merck.

Matt Peters
Co-Founder & Creative Director, Pandemic Labs
Matt Peters is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Pandemic Labs, the nation's leading social media marketing and analytics agency. Since the agency's inception, Matt has been one of the primary creative and strategic forces behind campaigns with clients such as The Ritz-Carlton, Puma, Canon, The WILD Foundation, Au Bon Pain, and DirecTV. Matt speaks frequently at social media conferences, and is often brought in by companies, think tanks, and traditional ad agencies to provide education and consulting on social media marketing.

Laurie Hood
Vice President of Product Marketing, Silverpop
Laurie Hood is currently vice president of product marketing for Silverpop, a leading provider of digital marketing and marketing automation solutions. In this role Hood is responsible for product- and market-specific messaging and positioning, product launch activities and sales enablement.

Hood brings 20 years of experience in technology marketing and product management to Silverpop. Prior to joining Silverpop, she was vice president of product management for Equifax Technology and Analytical Services.

Michael Wolfe
Sr. Director at "The Worth" Modeling Group, BBDO
Michael Wolfe has 25+ years of experience in marketing analytics that has taken him across firms such as Kellogg’s, Fisher-Price, Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola and his own firm, Bottom-Line Analytics. Michael has a masters in Economics from the University of Iowa and Ph.D coursework at Indiana Univ. Presently, Michael helps lead the modeling practice called “The Worth”, a group specializing in marketing and media response modeling and part of the agency BBDO Inc. Some notable clients of “The Worth” include such firms as AT&T, L’Oreal, Hyatt Corporation, Starbucks, Federal Express and Capital One. Recently, Michael’s expertise in marketing - mix modeling has led him to develop innovative approaches for measuring the impact and ROI of social media on client brands.

Bryon Morrison
President, Mobile Marketing, The Marketing Arm
Bryon Morrison is the president of mobile marketing for The Marketing Arm, an integrated marketing agency that agency provides best-in-class consulting within entertainment, sports, multicultural, and cause marketing.

In addition to serving as a strategic resource for clients such as JC Penney, VS Pink, Novartis, AT&T, Chili's, and Frito-Lay, Morrison oversees the agency¹s day to day operations, initiates and manages strategic partnerships, and directs business development efforts for the mobile practice.

Tony Haile
CEO, Chartbeat
Tony Haile is the CEO of Chartbeat, the real-time analytics service used by everyone from the New York Times to Groupon. Tony was an early employee at, and now acts as an advisor to, Betaworks, the company behind Summize (now Twitter Search), Bit.ly and Tweetdeck, where he led Twitterfeed, the largest publisher to Twitter. Prior to moving headlong into the world of digital startups, Tony spent time leading and managing polar expeditions and acting as bowman for Team Logica on a Round-the-world yacht race. Startups are apparently similarly exciting with less risk of losing a limb.

Erika Jolly Brookes
Vice President of Marketing, Vitrue
Erika Jolly Brookes is the Vice President of Marketing for Vitrue, the leading provider of social marketing publishing technology that provides businesses with the power to manage, message and moderate their presence on social networks.

Erika joined MindSpring enterprises in 1995 as Director, Product Marketing, focused on the end-to-end customer experience. From 1997-1999, Erika was the Vice President, Product Marketing for MindSpring Enterprises and launched innovative services such as Spaminator & broadband. From 2000-2006, Mrs. Brookes was Vice President, Brand Strategy & Product Marketing, and contributed to growing Earthlink’s total awareness to 60% of US households and its customers to five million. Mrs. Brookes led the launch of new product features such as, high speed, Pop Up Blocker & Accelerator. From 2006-2008, Erika managed the marketing and product as well as revenue forecasting for an EarthLink business unit that generated revenue from value added product sales, advertising and search. As Vice President, Marketing from 2008-2009, Mrs. Brookes ran all aspects of marketing including brand, media, marketing services and loyalty efforts.

Eric Orme
Chief Technology Officer, Remark Media
Eric Orme is Chief Technology Officer for Remark Media where he has led large platform initiatives for global media companies, including HowStuffWorks International, Sharecare.com, Dr.Oz.com, and Curiosity.com. Currently, his expertise is focused on the Remark Media suite of services and proprietary properties and platforms. His experience extends into China and Brazil, where he launched HowStuffWorks.com to international audiences and navigated the localization of the brand's content and technology. Eric oversees product, technology, and design. He has been called a leader with the "x factor" and has inspired a loyal team of developers known for their tech savvy and integrity.

Prior to joining Remark Media when it started in 2007, he worked for Ashworth University where he ran operations and development. Under his vision, his team moved all of the company's educational content to the web and created tools for effective communication among teachers and their student communities. He also pioneered technology at Web.com and Georgia-Pacific.

Kurt Krejny
Director of Online Marketing, Fathom
Kurt Krejny specializes in applying online marketing with strategic vision to develop custom solutions for clients in the technology, manufacturing, education and healthcare industries. As Director of Online Marketing at Fathom, he leads a team that handles more than 200 accounts with a focus on exceeding clients’ goals and consistently improving ROI. He has a diverse skill set that includes traditional marketing, graphic design, usability, website development and video.

Over the last decade as an online marketer, Kurt has worn many different hats, always staying ahead of the curve in a continuously changing field. Kurt shares his expertise by speaking at marketing events on a wide range of topics, including SEO, social media and website usability.

Jason Weaver
CEO, Shoutlet
Jason is considered an authority in social media with more than 15 years experience as an entrepreneur, executive, and innovator. In 2002, years before the launch of Facebook and Twitter, he discovered the power of working collaboratively through social networks to help execute engagement-marketing campaigns within online communities. His invention, Shoutlet, is now a leading Social Media Marketing Platform used by global brands, small businesses, and marketing agencies to build, engage, and measure their social media communication.

Sean Cook
CEO, ShopVisible, LLC
Sean Cook is CEO of ShopVisible. He envisions an aligned evolution of commerce - creating an ecosystem that continually expands the limits and connections to customers on all levels.

Cook drives this constant innovation through extensibility, agility and the iterative enhancements of the ShopVisible technology and the best practices of the ShopVisible team. He assures that solutions are robust, react in real time, and adapt to changing market and technology conditions faster than the competition. He is a frequent presenter and educator on the topic of integrated touch point commerce at conferences like Shop.org and Innovate. Cook is currently slated to speak at IRCE 2012. Additionally, he has published articles in tier-one publications such as Forbes, 1to1 Magazine and Internet Retailer and his commentary has been included in popular retail and ecommerce publications like Website Magazine, Ecommerce Times and DMNews. In 2011, Cook was listed as a top 25 Entrepreneur to watch, by Business to Business Magazine.

Jordan Franklin
Director of Social Strategy, Clickable
As Director of Social Strategy, Jordan wears many hats at Clickable. After functioning as an account strategist for both search and social accounts on Clickable’s Solutions team, Jordan managed the development of the Social Act Engine’s algorithmic approach to bidding and budgeting as well as executing the new Social Analytics Dashboard. A master campaign optimizer, Jordan has built and launched some of the most complex accounts for an impressive roster of clients. Jordan is deeply versed in the social advertising space and plays an important role as a thought leader, advancing Clickable’s product development to bring clarity and actionable insight to social advertisers, marketers, and agencies. Jordan is a graduate of Yale University with a Bachelors Degree in American Studies, specializing in 20th Century American Culture.

Grey Garner
Market Strategist, Emma
Grey Garner is the Market Strategist at Emma, the Web-based email marketing and communications service. Launched in 2002, Emma powers the email newsletters and campaigns of more than 30,000 organizations around the world, supporting the efforts of stylish small businesses, nonprofits and agencies around the U.S. and beyond. Prior to Emma, Grey worked for Nashville-based Emagination-Media, creating studio recordings and video production for major label and indie artists. In his time at Emma, Grey has seen all sides of the business from design and client services to product management. Also, his ability to air drum Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” astounds most who are lucky enough to witness it.

Barry Nelson
Social Media Analyst, Microstrategy
Barry Nelson has an extensive professional and academic background in social channel marketing, digital advertising, branding, and messaging strategy. Barry has over 8 years’ experience in digital advertising, and has developed comprehensive social commerce programs for clients as diverse as Hewlett-Packard, Heinz, and the Americana Music Association. A recent Marketing/Strategy MBA graduate from Vanderbilt University, Barry joined the MicroStrategy Social Intelligence team in July 2011, where he focuses on developing implementation strategy for clients.

John Lawson
Founder, ColderICE.com
John is the CEO of 3rd Power Outlet and the founder of the award-winning e-commerce industry blog at ColderICE.com. John is an Platinum eBay Power Seller, Top-Rated Amazon Seller, Social Media Personality and e-commerce analyst for Wall-Street firms. John specializes in multi-channel e-commerce, social rich-media marketing and mobile commerce.

Named Small Business Influencer Champion by Small Biz Trends and Savviest in Social Media by Startup Nation, John Lawson, formally of Accenture consulting firm, today is an Ecommerce Business CEO, International Business Keynote Speaker, Award-winning Social Media Strategist, American Express Featured TV Personality and appeared on Fox News.

Richard Qiu
VP of Business Development, TRUSTe
Richard is responsible for identifying, developing and executing on new business opportunities in areas of online privacy, mobile media, online advertising and data management at TRUSTe.

An expert in the digital media and advertising, Richard has held a number of senior management positions with emerging media and mobile companies. Prior to TRUSTe, Richard was EVP of Business Development at 4INFO and has been a key figure in shaping 4INFO's growth from a messaging powerhouse to growing the mobile industry's third largest mobile display network that holds over 90M unique mobile users; driving the direction of mobile publishing and advertising and responsible for platform strategy and operations and strategic partnerships. Richard was VP of Worldwide Business Development at FanBox, a mobile data and billing company that pioneered mobile social community.

Todd Sawicki
Chief Marketing Officer, Cheezburger Network
Todd is the Chief Marketing Officer at Cheezburger Network, the largest online humor publisher in the world. He is an entrepreneur at heart with more than 16 years of experience in online startups, media companies and everything in between. Todd has worked in senior sales and marketing management with many startups including most recently Lookery and is on the advisory boards for Wetpaint and BuddyTV.

Kyle Lacy
Principal, Marketing Research and Education, ExactTarget
Kyle Lacy is Principal of Marketing Research and Education for ExactTarget, a leading provider of interactive marketing solutions. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Twitter Marketing for Dummies (2nd ed) and Branding Yourself (2nd ed). Prior to ExactTarget, Kyle co-founded a marketing technology company, helping over 350 clients build and deliver digital marketing experiences. You can follow him on Twitter at @kyleplacy or visit his blog at KyleLacy.com

Adam J. Epstein
President & Chief Operating Officer, adMarketplace
Adam serves as President & COO, and is responsible for managing day to day business operations. Adam joined adMarketplace in November 2003 and was tapped to become President & COO in June 2006. Prior to joining adMarketplace, Adam launched Fancast.com. Trained as an attorney, Adam clerked for a US District Court judge, and was an attorney with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York. Adam graduated from Columbia University and the University of Michigan Law School.

Leo Dalakos
Vice President, Client Services, Performics
In his eight years at Performics, Leo Dalakos has worked in a variety of capacities. He originally joined the Affiliate team, eventually moving to Search and Client Services and most recently leading up our efforts within Strategy + Analytics. He has developed client-specific and company-wide best practices, as well as implemented scalable strategies for countless search programs.

In his current role Dalakos is always focused on identifying, testing, and efficiently leveraging the next new shiny object within digital marketing. He fosters senior level partnerships with key search engines, and developed a new account planning methodology that is current being rolled out globally. He has overseen search marketing campaigns for numerous clients, including Microsoft (Globally), Target, Kohl’s, Bose, FinishLine, Verizon, American Eagle Outfitters, and Lexis Nexis.

Adam Harrell
Founder & President, nebo
Adam is founder and President of nebo, a leading digital marketing and design agency located in Atlanta. Adam started nebo in 2004 and has been instrumental in building the company into a multi-million dollar agency serving some of the world’s best brands.

Adam's passion is helping clients craft interactive experiences that connect with their customers. He believes that a good user interface shouldn't require instructions, and that design can be a differentiator. With a bevy of awards under his belt and a love of all things digital, Adam's energetic approach is a key part of what differentiates nebo from the competition.

Brianne Keating Forst
Director of Ecommerce, Plow & Hearth, Inc.
Serving as the Director of Ecommerce, Brianne Keating Forst manages the e-commerce marketing initiatives for six titles under the Plow & Hearth multi-channel umbrella. Brianne has focused her entire career around ecommerce, previously developing and executing email marketing and web development for multi-billion dollar organizations, leading and directing all marketing efforts for ecommerce only start-up brands, and driving all ecommerce initiatives for a variety of B2B and B2C titles.

Warren Raisch
Executive VP, Digitaria
Warren, Digitaria’s Executive Vice President is a strategic digital industry leader and a McGraw-Hill published author in the digital marketing industry. Warren manages our largest corporate client relationships including leading companies such as Intel Corporation, DreamWorks, Cisco, Comcast, MTV Networks and others.

Warren has two decades of leadership experience in Silicon Valley building global brands across over 190 countries for industry leaders in the HighTech & Digital Agency industries. His 25 years of leadership experience includes being a senior executive at some of the most successful global companies such as Apple Computer, Gateway, 3Com, Autonomy|Interwoven, Adobe|Omniture as well as leading digital agencies Digitas/Publicis, MarchFIRST and Digitaria|JWT.

David Cummings
CEO and Co-Founder, Pardot
David has been an entrepreneur for over a decade. In early 2001, David founded Hannon Hill, which was recognized as the 247th fastest growing company in the U.S. by Inc. magazine as part of the Inc. 500 awards. In early 2007, David co-founded Pardot, which was recognized by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as the fastest growing technology company in 2010 and the third fastest-growing company in all of Atlanta that same year. David also co-founded Clickscape real estate technology (clickscape.com), Rigor web performance management (rigor.com), and SalesLoft sales intelligence (salesloft.com).

David blogs at DavidCummings.org, tweets at (@davidcummings), and is author of the book Startup Upstart and co-author of the book Think Outside the Inbox, both available on Amazon.com.

Jed Williams
Program Director, Social Local Media, BIA/Kelsey
Jed Williams is a senior analyst and the program director for BIA/Kelsey’s Social Local Media practice. In this role, he analyzes, forecasts and advises clients on the evolving digital media ecosystem. He has led strategic consulting projects for AT&T, NAA, NBC, Time-Warner Cable and Yahoo!. He is a frequent speaker at industry events whose insights have been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Financial Times, Bloomberg and Ad Age.

Williams has written extensively on creative destruction and disruptive media. His work has been published by the Columbia Journalism School and the Yale School of Management. He received his master’s in media business from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was named the Outstanding M.A. Graduate by the school in 2010.

Gavin Finn
President & CEO, Kaon Interactive, Inc.
Gavin is an experienced executive with more than twenty-five years of success in building growth-oriented marketing and technology companies. Gavin is President & CEO of Kaon Interactive, the leader in 3D interactive product demonstration applications for marketing and sales. Under his leadership, the company has experienced substantial growth and has introduced numerous award-winning products. He teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing at Tufts University. Gavin was President & COO of Bluestreak, a provider of online marketing software. He led the company through three successful acquisitions, and a European market expansion. Previously, Gavin was the President & CEO of Prescient Technologies, a provider of data quality and automation software. He holds a Ph.D. and MS from MIT.

Mike Baker
President & CEO, DataXu
Mike Baker has been pioneering digital media platforms for 20 years and is a widely recognized thought leader in interactive advertising. Before co-founding DataXu, he was vice president at Nokia, where he created and ran Nokia Interactive. Baker came to Nokia through its acquisition of mobile advertising leader Enpocket in 2007, where he was the founding investor and CEO. He has also been executive vice president at Engage Technologies, an innovator in online advertising and behavioral targeting. An active angel investor in digital media, he is currently chairman of the board of Nexage, a mobile advertising solutions provider.

Scott Huie
Senior Manager, Banking Advisory Services, Ernst & Young
Scott acts as a banking and eCommerce expert for Ernst & Young, helping companies identify and execute transformational change to move their business forward. His balanced background includes both business strategy, customer design and technology delivery. Specific examples of success include creating new solutions to combat revenue loss, designing customer focused solutions and leading enterprise level business strategy. Scott previously spent time with Anderson Consulting/ Accenture and Bank of America.

Amy Ellis
Head of Integrations & Partnerships, MailChimp
Amy Ellis is the Head of Integrations and Partnerships at MailChimp. Her professional background stems from marketing and public relations for nonprofit organizations and she takes her job at MailChimp so seriously that she only eats bananas. In her spare time, Ms. Ellis manages social media and community for the Atlanta Rollergirls in addition to skating for one of the league’s home teams. She loves a good yarn bombing.

Michael Loban
CMO, InfoTrust, LLC
Michael Loban is a CMO of InfoTrust, a digital marketing company that helps organizations analyze their digital marketing presence and increase their marketing ROI through web analytics, conversion optimization and CRM integration. He is Google Analytics Qualified Individual and holds a certification in Digital Marketing from Columbia University. Michael has conducted over 250 workshops on web analytics, website conversion optimization, CRM integration and social media. Recently, he co-authored a book on Practicing Leadership that is being used by colleges across the country. Michael serves on boards of several non-profit organizations including a Marketing Board of the Xavier University Williams College of Business.

Joellyn "Joey" Sargent
Principal, BrandSprout LLC
Joellyn "Joey" Sargent is principal of BrandSprout LLC, a strategic marketing and management consulting firm that helps companies turn daunting business challenges into compelling success stories. An avid fan of technology and innovation, Joey's approach merges new media with traditional marketing. Before founding BrandSprout, Joey spent 20 years leading marketing strategy for businesses ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500, including UPS and BellSouth (now AT&T). As a senior marketing executive, she had global responsibility for branding, marketing strategy, communications and product management functions. Joey has been quoted in Fox Business, Huffington Post and Social Media Today. She holds an MBA from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Read her blog at
www.Fresh-Sprouts.com

Mick Winters
SVP, E-commerce and Customer Experience, National Builder Supply
Mick Winters is a veteran interactive user experience architect, designer, strategist, and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia. In over 14 years as a professional creative, Mick has worked in advertising agencies, Fortune 250 in-house design departments, interactive studios, and as an independent brand consultant. As SVP of E-commerce and Customer Experience at the online-only plumbing and lighting fixture retailer National Builder Supply, Mick is building a culture of conversion optimization through agile UX and iterative design. Mick actively works to mentor the next generation of user experience designers and developers as an Adjunct Professor at The Creative Circus.

Matt Gault
VP of Channel Strategy, Yesmail Interactive
Matt is Director of Channel Strategy at Yesmail Interactive, an Infogroup company that powers intelligent customer interactions. Matt leverages his integrated database marketing and strategic services expertise to grow Yesmail’s emerging agency practice. He designs interactive solutions specifically geared towards helping agencies and their clients achieve their desired outcomes while maximizing their return on investment.

Most recently Matt was Vice President, Partner Channel at GX Software. There, he expanded the release of their BlueConic multichannel online engagement platform, which allows marketers to communicate and establish relationships with customers across multiple channels, turning them from unknown to known, by integrating critical data across online and offline systems to help bridge the engagement gap created by disparate data sources.

Kelly Quattlebaum
Social Media Trainer & President, Global Marcoms
Social media trainer Kelly Quattlebaum is the President of Global Marcoms, a full-service marketing and communications company based in Atlanta that offers social media and Internet Marketing consulting and training, as well as marketing, public relations and business development support for businesses. Kelly is an expert on social networking, specializing in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and foursquare. She shares her knowl edge with others as a social media trainer and public speaker, hosting a series of seminars that provide social media training for executives. Her passion is the art of communication. With more than 10 years of international business experience, Kelly has a deep understanding of intercultural communication and speaks English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.

Jenny Schmitt
President & Senior Spark, CloudSpark
Jenny Schmitt is the First Employee and Senior Spark at CloudSpark, an award-winning strategic communications and social media company that specializes in helping new and emerging companies answers the key questions of “What now?” and “What next?” With experience, expertise, inspiration – and a spark or two – the company provides answers that help business stand out and achieve results. A veteran public relations and marketing professional and sought-after public speaker, Jenny is a frequent media contributor and has been quoted in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, BrandWeek, Ragan’s PR Daily, Nielsen’s Small Business among others; an author as well, she regularly contributes to the online world through blogs relating to social media and public relations. Jenny’s company has been recognized as one of the “Top 10 Agencies Who Get Social Media” in a national CMO survey conducted by ZDNet. Jenny can be followed on Twitter at @cloudspark.

Joseph Dickerson
User Experience Architect, Fiserv
Joseph Dickerson currently serves in a lead role within Fiserv's Innovation team, where he is focused on integrating Web 2.0 technologies and improving the usability of the Fiserv’s suite of banking applications. Fiserv, a Wisconsin-based Fortune 500 company with over 16,000 clients, is the largest provider of IT services to the US financial industry. Previously, Joseph worked at Cingular Wireless/AT&T's human centered design group, where he implemented processes in user testing and design and was instrumental in setting up Cingular’s first usability lab.

Efi Rodik
Co-Founder & CEO, Relevantor LLC
Efi Rodik is the Co-Founder and CEO of Relevantor LLC, a content optimization service dedicated to creating dynamic, personalized web experiences through relevant content. Launched in 2011, Relevantor works with small and medium-sized businesses to increase conversions, reduce bounce rates, heighten engagement, and ultimately boost ROI by analyzing web visitors and matching them to the web content most relevant to them. Efi has been a digital marketing innovator and visionary for over a decade, leading teams and businesses to achieve their goals by thinking outside of the box and creating extraordinary solutions to the problems that pain web marketers everywhere.

Prior to launching Relevantor, Efi founded Push Online, a digital marketing firm committed to helping companies establish online presence. Efi was instrumental in generating over $50 million dollars for the company’s clients, increasing their individual online revenue and conversion rates by 400% to 1600%. He also acted as the VP of Interactive Media for Twin America LLC where he implemented creative online marketing techniques to enhance the company’s bottom line.

Richard White
Creative Director, Sojo
Richard White's talents extend to corporate and brand identity, print systems, publication design, architectural signage, exhibition design, interactive development and photography.

He takes pride in challenging himself and his team to dig deep into the client’s world to uncover the authentic truths that underlie effective strategies.

Prior to Sojo, Inc., Richard has worked for Sony Music, Jack Morton, HBO, Seven Worldwide and Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, providing marketing communication and design services to a diverse number of customers including fashion, financial institutions, foods products, manufacturing and technology companies. In addition to business development and customer relations management, Richard was responsible for concept development and the design and production of a range of projects including corporate identity programs, trade advertising, marketing collateral, direct mail campaigns, exhibit graphics, interactive and mobile design.

Kevin Lee
CEO, Didit
Kevin Lee Didit CEO, an industry pioneer in Search Engine Marketing and Digital Marketing since 1995 has authored hundreds of ClickZ columns and his most recent of three books Search Engine Advertising is widely praised. Kevin leads the evolution of Didit’s proprietary Maestro search and auction- based display campaign optimization technology.

Kevin pioneered the area of holistic search-display campaign management and Didit offers Maestro as Managed Technology, delivering Excellence, Service and Price to marketers AND agencies. Didit’s growth earned Didit Inc. 500 & Deloitte fast 500 recognition. Kevin has spoken at over 450 conferences sharing best practices. In addition, Kevin served on the Board of Directors of SEMPO (9 years). Kevin is also active in cause marketing as a founder of We-Care.com.

Kevin earned his MBA from Yale School of Management in 1992, and was recognized as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® finalist in 2008 and 2009.

Garrett Kuk
Social Media Strategy Partner, Speakeasy Media
Garrett Kuk is the founder of Speakeasy Media, a Digital Customer Strategy consultancy in Atlanta. He is a social media early adopter, and helps businesses grow and differentiate themselves via their online presence and meaningful customer engagement. He specializes in helping organizations understand social media's role within the overall customer purchase pathway, from creating brand awareness and attracting new customers, to building loyalty and g athering actionable customer feedback. He has successfully implemented new digital and internet-based technologies in a variety of industries, including wealth management, professional and collegiate sports, healthcare, travel & tourism, nonprofits, and food and beverage industries.

Anthony Franco
President & Co-founder, EffectiveUI
A self-described, “usability fanatic,” Anthony Franco, president of Denver-based EffectiveUI, co-founded his company in 2005 under the core belief that people deserve better software.
In his role as president, Anthony is responsible for building and strengthening business relationships, identifying new business opportunities and market solutions for clients, and communicating the value and importance of user experience-driven business strategies.
Prior to EffectiveUI, Anthony founded successful technology-based consultancy companies beginning in 1998. He specializes in many disciplines including interface architecture, technology enablement, and strategic product visioning.

Anthony has served as a presenter and panelist at numerous industry trade shows and conferences, including Adobe MAX, Web 2.0 Expo, Microsoft MIX, AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, and AlwaysOn Media. He has also written and contributed to several industry white papers, Forrester research reports, and articles, including “Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software,” a book published by O’Reilly Media on the process for creating great software.

Kate Keib
Director of Digital Marketing, 11Alive/Gannett
Kate Keib Director of Digital Marketing The Networks of 11Alive Kate Keib joined 11Alive, Gannett's NBC affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia, in January 2001. At 11Alive, Keib leads the digital marketing, focused on communicating the brand message of the networks of 11Alive online. With a focus on social media, 11Alive now leads Gannett and the Atlanta TV market in Facebook likes and engagement. The networks of 11Alive include 11Alive News, WXIA-TV, myATL TV, Boune TV, Antenna TV, WIZ TV, 11Alive.com, Atlanta & Company, and Deal Chicken.

Jim Zimmerman
CTO, Thuzi
Jim Zimmerman is currently a Windows Azure MVP. Jim has spoken at Facebook Mobile Hacks in New York and Boston on best practices for building native iOS and Android apps for Facebook. He also has spoken on various web related topics including Azure, Ajax, jQuery, and ASP.NET MVC at Code Camps and .NET user groups in Florida and around the country. Jim has been a contributing member of several open source projects including the Facebook C# SDK, Windows Azure Toolkit, PHP Azure Toolkit, Ajax Control Toolkit, and SubSonic 3. He co-authored the book, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax from Wrox press, which was published in July of 2007.

Jim is the CTO of Thuzi and has worked with several online web startups for the last 15 years, Jim currently specializes in scalable web application development using jQuery, Node.js, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, C#, AJAX, along with the Facebook API. He has 15+ years experience in web development with past experience using other languages such Perl, Php, C, C++, Java and Visual Basic. He also specializes in SEO for clients using organic search, PPC, and online marketing strategies.

Lance Weatherby
Chief Operating Officer, Half Off Depot
Lance Weatherby is the chief operating officer at Half Off Depot, a leading online commerce marketplace that connects progressive businesses with savvy consumers. Previously he was a Startup Catalyst with the Advanced Technology Development Center, a startup accelerator at Georgia Tech. Lance has experience with both early stage and high growth startups. He has held executive business development, marketing and general management positions at CipherTrust, EarthLink, and MindSpring. He can be found online at Force of Good, a popular blog covering Atlanta startup and technology news.

Jacqui Chew
Founder, iFusion Marketing
Jacqui believes innovation drives growth and economic recovery. She puts this belief to work at iFusion Marketing by helping technology startups and e-commerce businesses identify and build products that customers want. She was Silverpop's first marketing director and helped launch its first product at the prestigious DEMO conference in February 2001. An award-winning marketer, Jacqui has had 15 years of leveraging digital and traditional programs to grow enterprise software, Internet, information security, consumer products and professional services businesses. Companies include IBM e-Business Services, eBay, NanoLumens and KontrolFreek. Jacqui is Venture Atlanta's editorial director, TEDxPeachtree's co-organizer and board director at the Atlanta Press Club.

Ray Peabody
Account Director, Definition 6
Ray Peabody has served in interactive marketing leadership roles for 17 years including AOL, Cox Interactive Media, NCI and now at Definition 6, a unified marketing agency in Atlanta and New York. He currently chairs the Tech SIG for IABC Atlanta and the Programming committee for SEMPO Atlanta. An early adopter/innovator of SEO and PPC, Ray has attracted millions of consumers at both the national and local level to a myriad of sites. His real estate portal became the 8th most visited for that category. Recognizing early the importance of content syndication for SEO, Ray has negotiated partnerships with Google, Yahoo, CBS TV, IAC, Microsoft, and The Wall Street Journal and many others.

John Cattarulla
Director of the Southeast, Specific Media
John Cattarulla is President of the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association, and Director of the Southeast for Specific Media & MySpace. As the Director of the Southeast for Specific Media & MySpace, John is responsible for building and leading a world-class sales team covering 13 states. John’s team collaborates with advertisers and agencies to deliver seamless audience targeting across both the #3 largest online display ad network and #2 largest video ad network.

Previously John served as a Director at Microsoft Advertising, which encompasses digital media brands such as MSN, MSNBC, Bing, WonderWall, and XBox. His team was responsible for providing integrated advertising solutions to Fortune 500 clients including Porsche, Coca-Cola, Verizon Wireless, Qwest, Nationwide, Home Depot, Office Depot, and the Intercontinental Hotels Group.

Jake Dolce
Director of Sales-East Coast, Jumptap
As Director of East Coast Sales at Jumptap, Jake Dolce oversees the sales and RFP process for the ad network’s top accounts. Mr. Dolce has more than 15 years of experience selling in the advertising, media and mobile industries. Prior to Jumptap, Mr. Dolce served as Regional Sales Manager at Tremor Video. He has also held sales positions at Glam Media, Bloomberg and Clear Channel Radio New York.

Rudi Shumpert
Sr. Director Technology Solutions Group, Keystone Solutions
Rudi is the Senior Director of Technology Solutions at Keystone Solutions where he puts his years of experience in both development and digital measurement to use with his clients.
Helping the biggest clients with their biggest digital measurement problems, this is what he does with the team at Keystone Solutions. He is focused on solving the business challenges that span across the entire digital marketing landscape. Without an integrated strategy for digital marketing, it is impossible to create value and lower the total cost of ownership of the digital marketing architecture.

Bill Leake
CEO, ApogeeResults.com
CEO of ApogeeResults.com, a McKinsey & Co. and Dell Computer veteran, Bill draws on a deep expertise in both business and marketing to help increase revenues for a wide range of clients. Bill has been driving provable revenues through Internet marketing techniques since the mid 1990s when, as part of the management team at Power Computing, he built the first company to sell $1 million of product over the Internet.

Bill has guided Apogee-branded marketing companies from inception to success, creating of the 20 largest independent online marketing agencies in North America and one of the fastest growing companies on the Inc. 500 list. Apogee has been particularly instrumental in building dozens of “Internet Retailer 500”, “Software 500”, and VC-backed companies, growing more Inc. 500 / 5000 companies than anyone else in the industry, and serving top global brands like Whole Foods, IBM, SAP and Hewlett Packard.

Daniel Maloney
CEO & Co-Founder, PinLeague
Danny Maloney is an internet entrepreneur who has spent his career building consumer internet businesses that connect consumers to each other and to brands more effectively. Currently, Danny is CEO and Co-founder of PinLeague.com, the world's largest Pinterest Influencer Network, helping brands large and small build a prolific and highly targeted marketing channel on the world's hottest social network. Previously, Danny lead the New Initiatives team at YouTube and Google Maps/ Local Search, rebuilt AOL's Video business from #13 to #2 in US online video and co-Founded BridesView.com, an online community that enables engaged couples to style and plan their dream wedding through real wedding photography. Danny is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania's Jerome Fisher M&T Program.

Jonathan Kay
Founder & COO, Apptopia
Jonathan is the Founder and COO at Apptopia, a marketplace designed to help broker mobile app acquisitions. Their goal is to make buying & selling mobile app ownership (code, users, revenue, etc.) as simple as eBay. Jonathan is extremely passionate about branding, story telling, and customer engagement. More than anything though he loves meeting and connecting new people. Before starting Apptopia Jonathan was the Ambassador of Buzz at Grasshopper, Founder of BarCamp Tour, and author of Learn2Buzz. You can always reach him at @jonathanckay or Jon (at) apptopia (dot) com.

Brandon Hess
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, ReadyTalk
Brandon Hess is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at ReadyTalk, focusing his efforts on ReadyTalk’s mobile, video, and audio conferencing initiatives. He spends a significant amount of time talking to marketers about their top-of-mind issues and the role webinars play in their demand generation and content marketing strategies. Brandon initially began his career journey as a web designer and online content editor in the newspaper industry before eventually transitioning into the digital agency and startup world where he honed his online marketing and strategy skills. In his free time, he enjoys writing, drawing, spending time with his wife and two dogs, being tall and imagining the multiple ways Batman could win in a fight.

David Rollo
Chief Strategy Officer, BLINQ Media
David Rollo is the Chief Strategy Officer for BLiNQ Media and brings over 20+ years of experience in digital marketing innovation to both agencies and big brands. David oversees the marketing and sales strategy teams where he leverages his extensive social media expertise to enhance product and technology offerings, build brand and market leadership and lead social media strategy for key clients. David is recognized for a client-focused approach to innovation. He has deep experience in leveraging paid, owned and earned marketing to build engaged customer bases that amplify and extend brand value.
Throughout his agency career, David has worked closely with brands like Coca-Cola, Hard Rock, UPS, Time-Warner, Baskin-Robbins and International Hotels Group.

Glenn McGonnigle
General Partner, TechOperators
Glenn McGonnigle is a General Partner at TechOperators. Prior to launching TechOperators, Glenn was most recently Chairman and CEO of Atlanta-based VistaScape Security Systems, a leading provider of enterprise intelligent video surveillance software where he was recruited by the company’s board to raise capital and grow the business. He subsequently oversaw the successful sale of the company to Siemens Building Technologies. An authority on IT and physical security convergence and a frequent contributor and expert speaker for numerous industry publications and events, Glenn helped shape President Bush’s 2005 National Strategy for Maritime Security.

Previously, Glenn was a co-founder and top executive of Atlanta-based Internet Security Systems (ISS) where he helped raise initial venture capital and launch the business. During his tenure, the company grew from startup to revenues of over $225 million and was recently acquired by IBM for $1.5 billion. Glenn oversees the fund's investments in Immunet, JouleX, and Endgame Systems.

Julien Emery
Senior Account Executive, HootSuite Media Inc.
Julien is a member of HootSuite's strategic accounts business development team. In helping launch the HootSuite sales force and working with HootSuite's large customer base, Julien has developed a deep understanding of social media. He is responsible for establishing new client relationships, and helping clients reach their corporate communication goals through social media. Prior to HootSuite, Julien cultivated business development and digital and social strategy at Invoke Media and operated his own company JE Strength and Conditioning, which delivered athlete conditioning programs through online e-commerce. Julien is a graduate from the University of British Columbia with a degree in Kinesiology and Commerce.

Eric Shoicket
Director of Brand Partnerships, Kiip
Eric Shoicket is the Director of Brand Partnerships at Kiip where he focuses on building strategic alliances for Kiip's mobile gaming rewards platform. Eric is a 10 year media veteran with a diverse background in both digital media sales as well as traditional media strategy. Prior to Joining Kiip as their Director of Sales, he held director level positions at both Technorati Media and CNET Networks.

Kiip is the world's first mobile rewards network. We connect brands to their consumers via the games and apps they love at moments of achievement within their mobile gameplay. Leveraging the massive scale of mobile with the deep engagement of mobile games, Kiip has created several unique solutions for brands to connect to the hundreds of millions of mobile users at the most important part of their experience, when they are happy.

Brandon Eley
Interactive Director, Kelsey Advertising & Design
Brandon Eley is an Interactive Director, entrepreneur, and author. Brandon has 12 years of experience in online marketing and e-commerce. As the Interactive Director for Kelsey Advertising & Design, a small+smart advertising agency with a strong focus on digital media, Brandon oversees interactive projects, online marketing campaigns and information architecture. Brandon is the co-author of "Online Marketing Inside Out," and frequently speaks about online marketing at conferences and organizations all over the country. He also co-authors the SitePoint Tribune email newsletter that reaches over 200,000 web professionals weekly. Brandon is the owner of 2BigFeet.com, online retailer of large men's shoes, as well as several other websites and blogs.

Matt McFadden
Director of Marketing, Merge
Matt McFadden is director of marketing/account executive for Merge - a digital strategy agency based in Greenville, South Carolina. With more than 12 years of marketing and business development success, Matt is responsible for making Merge its own best success story. He designs winning strategies for Merge and its clients (which include Clemson University, Erskine College and Seminary, McMillan Pazdan Smith, Michelin NA and many others). He directs all search marketing strategies: paid and organic search; content strategy and creation; lead generation and nurturing campaigns; and social media management. Matt’s contributes regularly to Merge’s blog on a wide range of digital marketing topics. Before Merge, he held marketing and business development positions for Prudential Financial and the YMCA. He graduated from Auburn University, earning a Bachelor’s of Science in Marketing.

Mark Cooper
Co-Founder & CMO, Offerpop
As co-founder of a technology based company that is required to innovate constantly, Offerpop CMO Mark Cooper lives at the forefront of Facebook innovation - serving clients such as Audi, AmEx, Gap, Birchbox and more. Mark has nearly 20 years of experience in management, marketing and strategy. Prior to Offerpop, Mark helped launch Frontal, an open source language for rich media. Before that, Mark was Sr. Director of Product Marketing at ESPN for their mobile business.

Shane Eubanks
Innovation Manager, Shaw Industries Group Inc.
Shane Eubanks is the Innovation Manager of Interactive Marketing for Shaw Industries Group Inc., which is the world's largest carpet manufacturer and a leading flooring provider. Shane leads digital innovation for Shaw's commercial division by implementing strategies that drive customer acquisition through websites, email campaigns, search marketing, and more. Shane continuously drives growth and increases ROI by implementing innovative solutions in ema il marketing, search engine optimization, social media, and emerging digital technology for Shaw's commercial brands including Shaw Contract Group and Patcraft.

Maria Peagler
Founder, SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com
Maria Peagler is founder of SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com, offering the world's largest selection of 24/7 courses on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Slideshare, and more. Her articles and infographics have been featured worldwide on blogs such as Alltop, AllFacebook, and SmartBlogs on Social Media. She is a serial entrepreneur, and a Benjamin Franklin award-winner for a Best Book of 2010. She drove sales of her eighth book exclusively with social media, going from unknown to Amazon's top ten list for its category for two years - despite the down economy. Peagler is former Director of Courseware Development for ExecuTrain, the nation's largest computer training company, and is a veteran technology trainer who specializes in making the complex simple.

J Cornelius
VP Operations, CoffeeCup Software
J Cornelius is a software developer, Web developer, and Formula 1 fan in Atlanta GA who is passionate about efficient, usable, aesthetically pleasing design; and exceptional service. He also has a strange affinity for odd numbers, european sports cars, thoughtful analogies, and is hopelessly addicted to chips & salsa. He's currently the VP of Operations at CoffeeCup Software, and President of the Atlanta Web Design Group.

Brandy Nagel
Marketing Catalyst, nagliTech
As a Social Media and LinkedIn Coach, Brandy Nagel has traveled the Southeast speaking and teaching high-profile executives how to use social media for business and career development at over 40 organizations. She holds an MBA from Mercer University and volunteers with MicroMentor, helping entrepreneurs develop social media marketing plans to grow their business. Previous clients include Pennzoil, Quaker State, Tony Roma’s Restaurants, Simmons Bedding Company and more. Most recently, Nagel worked at Georgia Tech’s Innovation Institute as a Marketing Catalyst. Her book, Digitally Famous: Visibility Campaigns for Job Seekers is available on Amazon and Kindle.

Vince Baskerville
VP of Product, TripLingo
I'm a co-founder and VP of Production for a startup: TripLingo, and I maintain an industry blog at VincentJordan.com. I've been working as a Developer and Designer for over a decade and I'm known for crafting highly intuitive/engaging digital product — in addition for being an adrenaline junkie! I've had the opportunity to work for the military (I was enlisted in the US Navy and did various consulting work afterwards), educational institutions, creative agencies and startups. That said, currently most of my time is being focused on TripLingo and being an awesome husband.

Allan Branch
Co-Founder, LessEverything
Allan Branch grew up cleaning cars at my family's car washes. He has scars from being a former college offensive lineman. He enjoys the band Journey, hamburgers and people that like to hug. He co-founded the coolest company you've never heard of, LessEverything.com. He spends his day writing in third person and adjusting/improving the sales funnel of LessAccounting.com.

Sarah Hatter
Director of Brand Partnerships, Kiip
Sarah Hatter is founder of CoSupport, a company that's teaching small app teams worldwide how to offer amazing customer support. Sarah started CoSupport after building up the support team at 37signals and has since trained the support teams of the top-rated web and mobile apps. She likes wine.

Eric Gregg
Co-Founder, TechMedia
Eric co-founded TechMedia, which produces technology and entrepreneurial events including Digital Summit, Southeast Venture Conference, Digital East, and the upcoming Internet Summit. Eric brings his previous experience in venture capital and the startup community to help continue to foster entrepreneurship in the southeast and mid-atlantic along with the rest of the TechMedia team. He also serves as Publisher for TechJournal.org, covering the latest trends and best practices in the digital world.