Ethan Applen
Director, Business Development
imeem
Ethan develops and drives content and strategic partnerships with content owners, publishers, and distributors to increase the scope and offering of imeem's video service. Ethan has worked in the entertainment and technology industry for over 11 years. Prior to imeem, Ethan worked in finance and strategy at Strategic Vision Consulting, EA Production and Yari Film Group. He started his career at Touchstone Television.

Ron Atkinson
CEO
eDef Media Labs
Ron Atkinson's new venture with HD3 High Definition Transformations is his latest innovation in a career of pioneering advances in his chosen fields of politics, local television and now the entertainment industry. The business of eDef MEDIA LABS is reprocessing and remastering "standard" media to transform it into True High Definition as the entertainment industry charts its course into this new realm. Atkinson's technology creates High Definition episodic programs and movies for broadcast, DVD, the internet and future technologies yet to be developed.

Bradford Auerbach
Senior Entertainment Executive, Digital Entertainment Services
Hewlett-Packard Company
Mr. Auerbach is a senior entertainment executive with extensive and unique expertise in production, content acquisition, Intellectual Property law and licensing, on a global level. He is currently handling Strategic Business Development with Hewlett-Packard for the mammoth Video Merchant Services project. He has had success in structuring many groundbreaking deals with a diverse range of rightsholders, including NFL, HBO, MTV, Olympics Committee, Screen Actors Guild, every Hollywood studio, Peter Gabriel, ESPN, Sesame Street/CTW, among numerous others. He has deep familiarity with each aspect of the media business, having sat on all sides of the deal-making table, on behalf of mobile, cable, satellite, Internet, hardware, software, distribution and production companies.

Anthony Bay
Chairman and co-Founder
MOD Systems
Anthony Bay, chairman and co-founder of MOD Systems, brings more than 25 years of experience as a technology executive and private venture investor. Mr. Bay sits on the board of CMGI (NASDAQ: CMGI) and chairs the technology committee, which governs its @Ventures VC subsidiary. He was also a principal in 21st Century Music, an independent music company. Mr. Bay served for five years on the board of European Capital Ventures (ECV), a small private equity investment firm in London, and he also served as chairman and vice chairman for four years at Active24, an ECV portfolio company and one of the largest pan-European small and medium business web hosting providers which was acquired in 2006.

Richard Bullwinkle
Chief Evangelist
Macrovision
Richard Bullwinkle is well known in the digital networking entertainment industry from his previous roles at Digital Networks North America, Inc. (DNNA), TiVo and Mediabolic. As Vice President of Product Management, Richard was a chief evangelist for Mediabolic, acquired by Macrovision in January 2007. Richard has helped to create and develop both TiVo and Rio products and played an instrumental role in their promotion as a senior member of their marketing teams. At ReplayTV, he oversaw the user experience, including software and interface design. Richard graduated from Rollins College in Florida with degrees in English and music.

Thomas Coughlin
Coughlin Associates
Tom is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates. In addition to regular technical and management consulting projects he publishes reports covering digital storage technology and applications including an annual report on digital storage for consumer electronics and one on digital storage for entertainment creation. He is very involved in the local IEEE as well as the Consumer Electronics and Magnetics Societies. He is also a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, TCG and SMPTE..

Rob Caldeira
Senior Product Manager
Focus Enhancements
For the past 20 years, Rob Caldeira has been a major force in the video systems industry, with a strong emphasis in file-based media storage and management. As Senior Product Manager at Focus Enhancements, he currently leads the company's family of Media Asset Management and format conversion products. Prior to joining Focus Enhancements, Rob showed his entrepreneurial strength as president and founder of both VideoCarbon and nNovia, providers of OEM digital video recording solutions. Rob has also held various engineering positions throughout his career for industry storage leaders, including Quantum and Seagate.

Bruce David Eisen
President
Digital Advisors
Bruce David Eisen is the president of Digital Advisors, a digital distribution consulting firm advising a broad range of clients, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, that are entering or expanding their operations in distributing content via the Internet and wireless applications. Digital Advisors' current and recent clients include Twentieth Century Fox, Blockbuster, Technicolor, Zoran Corp., Intent MediaWorks, CinemaNow, Inc., ClipBlast and the Independent Film and Television Alliance.

Derek Handley
CEO
The Hyperfactory
Derek Handley is one of the mobile advertising industry's leading entrepreneurs and has been at the forefront of some of the world's most successful innovative and technological ventures over the last five years. Derek's breadth of experience covers a range of different sectors and demonstrates his foresight and commitment to emerging technologies and markets. As co-founder and CEO of interactive mobile ad pioneer, The Hyperfactory, Derek is the visionary responsible for the company's strategic growth and direction. Over the past several years, Derek has dedicated much of his time to growing The Hyperfactory globally. In 2004, Derek opened The Hyperfactory's first offshore office, in Hong Kong, where the team used its expertise gained in the advanced New Zealand market to introduce innovative mobile marketing initiatives to the technologically sophisticated and rapidly growing Hong Kong and Chinese markets.

Steve Harris
Director of Product Management
PacketVideo
Steve Harris is the Director of Product Management at PacketVideo. Steve works directly with mobile operators to define leading music, video, and mobile TV services based on the PV MediaFusion platform. He also guides the strategy for the PV product line, from global mobile services to consumer electronic and home media offerings. Prior to joining PacketVideo, Steve worked at Motricity as the product manager for their mobile community. He has an MBA from Duke University.

Jason Klein
President and co-CEO
Special Ops Media
Jason Klein is President and co-CEO of Special Ops Media, a full-service interactive agency he co-founded in 2002 with Chairman and CEO Christian Anthony. He is expert in online marketing & strategy, online media (planning & buying), creative services and online publicity. Jason's passion for and experience in the entertainment industry has spurred Special Ops to lend its expertise to both mainstream and independent cinema, with industry clients including Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Lionsgate and Paramount (theatrical and DVD releases).

Adam Levin
CEO
CinemaElectric
As co-president and co-chairman of Cinema Electric, Adam Levin is responsible for the business' day-to-day operations, strategy and public company oversight. In this role since December 2005, Levin's primary focus at CinemaElectric is on building the company into a global, cross-platform media company.

Tony Liano
VP, Programming
Crackle
Tony joined Crackle from BlueRain Films where he served as a rainmaking entrepreneur, giving life to independent film projects. Previously, he spent 10 years as a technology investor, directing seed funds into over 25 private equity opportunities (including Crackle). Tony started his technology career in 1992 at Microsoft and left after four years to start Cognisoft, which was later sold to Verity where he served as VP Marketing until 1998. His prior career includes a brief stint in advertising and working the aisles of Wrigley Field as a hot dog vendor.

Jim Mclaughlin
VP, Business Development
Pulse Entertainment
Jim McLaughlin is a wireless industry veteran with 15 years of experience in wireless.  His expertise in content market development and distribution has launched the foremost brands onto the carrier’s decks today.  He has pioneered wireless games marketing and carrier/consumer marketing programs in the US.  Recently, Jim has raised the stakes by launching a new UGEN messaging application allowing film and television licensors to embrace mobile in the hottest new wireless markets beyond streaming.

Paula Montondo
CEO and Founder
Short Brain TV
Paula Montondo, CEO and Founder of Short Brain TV formerly Blip TV (www.bliptv.com ) realized the potential market for short films and video clips in the emerging mobile market. Montondo has taken Short Brain TV from concept to fruition and has secured contracts with Sprint, Mobi TV, ROK TV, and Cellfish, as well as other major mobile and new media outlets. Before founding Short Brain TV, Montondo was part of key management of New Generation Films, one of the first on-line streaming media companies with a proprietary streaming technology.

Colleen Nystedt
President and CEO
MovieSet
MovieSet founder, Colleen Nystedt, spent 20 years in the film production trenches before shifting her focus to the Internet. Her previous company, New City, which she sold in 2000, produced numerous feature films and TV movies for Universal Pictures, Paramount, MGM, CBS, NBC, ABC, USA, Showtime and Lifetime Networks. Recognizing that marketing and distribution of feature films needed to be re-conceptualized in the Internet age, she began to develop MovieSet, a next generation online platform that creates social networks around movies while they're in production.

Tom Ohanian
VP, Product Management
Signiant
Tom Ohanian oversees the development, improvement and customer acceptance of all Signiant offerings with a special focus on exceptional customer experiences and continuous innovation. Ohanian is an accomplished strategist, designer, and inventor of digital media products and workflow solutions and was a founding member of Avid Technology. Drawing upon his 26 years in the media industries, his inventions and efforts in product creation and evangelization have led to the widespread adoption of digital nonlinear video, film editing systems and workflow strategies in addition to LAN and WAN digital media collaboration. He is an Academy Award® and a two-time Emmy® recipient.

Martin Percy
Senior Interactive Filmmaker
British Telecom
Martin has been nominated for an Emmy and a British Academy Award for his interactive video work with Sir Ian McKellen and the National Theatre. And nominated for a Webby for his interactive movie work for Tate Modern. His interactive videos were integral to the 'Tate Tracks' campaign which won a Gold Lion at the Cannes Ad Festival and Best in Show at The One Show in NYC. For the past five years, all Martin's work has been live-action video, with interactivity IN the video, for broadband and now for digital cinema. This work builds on his previous experience as a director of over 100 linear TV Commercials. But has nothing whatsoever to do with his degree in theology from Cambridge University.

Michael Polin
CEO
American Television in China, International
Attorney Polin is CEO of two China-Asia Entertainment companies, ATC and ITA. These companies are focused on Mobile , cable, broadcasting, satellite and all forms of television along with publishing, merchandising, and co-production deals in China/Asia. Attorney Polin has acted as a principle, partner, and owner in many transactions. Attorney Polin's companies are distinctly focused on multimedia entertainment and content (i.e. gaming, animation,, music videos, concerts, short films, feature films etc.) for delivery to multiple mediums including Cable TV, cell phone, Internet, and terrestrial television.

Krishnan Rajagopalan
VP, Digital Media Technology
Motion Picture Association of America
Krishnan Rajagopalan is the Vice President of Digital Media Technologies at the MPAA/MPA Office of Technology. Krishnan’s focus is on emerging technologies and worldwide initiatives that are related to the Internet and PC platforms, and he supports the MPAA member companies on a wide range of technical and legal activities, including content protection license and specifications negotiations, inter-industry consensus building, standards development, compliance testing and enforcement, and external technology development (providing feedback and direction to vendors of new technologies).

Kevin Schaff
Founder and CEO
Thought Equity Motion
As CEO of Thought Equity Motion, Kevin leads the company's corporate strategy, drives product direction and positioning, raises funds, and generates awareness for Thought Equity Motion among industry analysts and potential partners. Kevin is a well-regarded entrepreneur who has successfully founded, financed, operated and sold companies from the beginning of his career. He brings decades of experience in the advertising, marketing and business realms and his leadership efforts have been recognized by publications such as CIO, Small Business Computing, Advertising Review, Yahoo Magazine, and others.

Bill Volk
CEO
MyNuMo
Over 20 years of design, technology, multimedia, and general management experience. Former VP Activision where he was responsible for development of first CD-ROM entertainment project, The Manhole, and the 'discovery' of its authors, who created the best selling CD-ROM of all time, Myst. Went on to help create products that secured Activision's success, including the highly acclaimed Return to Zork. At The Lightspan Partnership his team produced 110 titles for Sony Playstation and earned industry awards and recognition.

Steve Walton
COO
Capzles
Steve Walton is the Chief Operating Officer at Capzles, a social networking and storytelling company set to change how people communicate on the Web. Steve joined Capzles from Riedon Inc., a high-tech electronics company where he served as the CFO at the U.S. headquarters and as the President of the company's Asian and European business units where he was responsible for global strategy and mergers & acquisitions.

Prior to this position, he co-founded one of the U.K's largest outsourcing solution providers, which he sold in 2000 to Johnson Controls of the U.S.

Steve holds B.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Corporate Finance as well as an MBA in Finance from the University of Southern California.