Speakers

Burt Herman

Co-founder, Storify

Burt Herman is co-founder of Storify, a platform for creating stories with social media, and founder of Hacks/Hackers, a worldwide organization bringing together journalists and technologists. Storify was named one of the top 50 Web sites of 2011 by Time Magazine, and also won the grand prize in the 2011 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism, among other accolades.
Burt previously worked as a journalist at The Associated Press. In his dozen years there, he served as Korea bureau chief, founded a bureau covering the five countries of former Soviet Central Asia and reported on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, among other assignments worldwide. Burt was a 2008-9 Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University, where he also received a bachelor’s degree with honors in political science and master’s degree in Russian and Eastern European studies.

Charlene Li

Founder, Altimeter Group

Charlene Li is founder of the Altimeter Group and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership. She is also the coauthor of the critically acclaimed, bestselling book Groundswell, which was named one of the best business books in 2008.

She is one of the foremost experts on social media and technologies and a consultant and independent thought leader on leadership, strategy, social technologies, interactive media and marketing. Formerly, Li was vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research and a consultant with Monitor Group. She was named one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company in 2010 and one of the most influential women in technology 2009.Charlene is a frequently-quoted expert and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The PBS NewsHour, ABC News, and CNN. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Businessweek, USAToday, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She is a much-sought after public speaker and appeared at the World Business Forum in Radio City Music hall in October 2010.
Charlene is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association as well as The Poynter Institute. You can follow her blog at charleneli.com/blog or at twitter.com/charleneli

Chris Silva

Mobile Industry Analyst, Altimeter Group

Chris Silva is an Industry Analyst focusing on Mobile at San Mateo, CA based Altimeter group. A 10+ year veteran of the research industry, Chris helps end user organizations understand how to effectively manage mobile strategy in their organization for increased brand impact, worker efficiency and revenue. Chris also works closely with the vendors of hardware and software innovations in the mobile space to help these companies tailor their offerings to the current and future needs of their target markets.

Prior to Altimeter, Chris led the research, events and consulting operations of IANS Research, a boutique research firm focused on disruptive security technology as the Senior Vice President of Research and Service Delivery. Chris previously served as a Senior Analyst covering Enterprise Mobility at Cambridge, MA based Forrester Research where he pioneered research on the implications of ubiquitous mobility during his 5 year career with the firm.

Chris has served at IDC, two start-up boutique research firms and in the management consulting space. He is a frequent speaker at major industry events such as Interop and is frequently quoted in publications such as CNBC, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and has been featured on National Public Radio discussing implications of mobile technology.

Chris lives and works North of Boston where he lives with his wife and two rescue dogs. Chris is a graduate of the Isenberg School of Management at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Kara Swisher

Co-Producer, D: All Things Digital, Co-Executive Editor, AllThingsD.com, The Wall Street Journal

Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital,” with Walt Mossberg. It is a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering (http://www.allthingsd.com/d) is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.

She and Mossberg are also the co-executive editors of a tech and media Web site, AllThingsD.com (www.allthingsd.com), where her online-only version of the “BoomTown” column appears.

Kara Swisher worked in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau. For many years, she wrote the column, “BoomTown,” which appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also on The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web’s major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. She has also written a weekly column for the Personal Journal on home issues called “Home Economics.”

Previously, Ms. Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and her graduate degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

Brian Alvey

CEO, Crowd Fusion

Brian Alvey is founder and CEO of Crowd Fusion. He and Jason Calacanis founded Weblogs, Inc. — home to Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad, Blogging Stocks and many more top blogs, later acquired by AOL. Brian has been building digital publishing platforms for more than fifteen years, built the first web sites for TV Guide and Business Week as well as platforms for Capgemini and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was also the chief architect of Netscape's social news platform.

A graduate of TCU, Brian serves as the NYC co-host of the Open Angel Forum.

Brian can be found on twitter as @BrianAlvey

Dan Bennett

VP of Technology, Thomson Reuters

Dan Bennett is technology leader within the mobile technology division of Thomson Reuters. In this role, Dan provides internal consultancy services alongside responsibility for investment and development in shared mobile product platforms.

The first such platform, ProView – the Thomson Reuters eBook platform – launched in the Canadian legal market in October 2011 and is now being rolled out globally. Dan has worked in a number of technology/product leadership roles since joining the Thomson Consulting business in 1997. Most recently, he led online development for WestlawNext, directing development from initial architecture and sizing through the groundbreaking launch of the new research service in February 2010.

A native of the UK, Dan is based out of the Thomson Reuters Eagan, MN campus and holds a BSc in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Leeds, UK.

Jim Brady

Editor-in-Chief, Digital First Media

Jim Brady is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital First Media -- which operates the Journal Register Company and MediaNews Group -- and oversees the editorial strategy and operations of its 75 daily newspapers, 292 non-daily publications and 341 online sites.

Before joining DFM, Brady served as general manager of TBD, a local startup that combined the values of traditional journalism and the power of citizen journalism. Brady joined TBD after more than four years as executive editor of washingtonpost.com, where he led the site to numerous awards and accolades. Brady was also part of washingtonpost.com’s launch team in 1996, and served in various roles there from 1995 to 1999.

In between his stints at washingtonpost.com, Brady spent more than four years at America Online, serving as Group Programming Director, News & Sports; Executive Director, Editorial Operations; and Vice President, Production & Operations. During his time at AOL, Brady was in charge of the service’s coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2000 presidential election.

Anthony Capon

Vice President, Content, Dow Jones & Company

Anthony Capon is Vice President, Content, of Dow Jones & Company and is responsible for the addition of content to all the Factiva branded product lines. From setting the strategic direction of content licensing and acquisition, and then from the moment contractual negotiations begin with a new publication through to it’s regular timely appearance complete with accurate application of Dow Jones Intelligent Indexing™ on products. Mr. Capon ensures the data quality for all products including Factiva.com, Companies and Executives, Watchlist, Sanction Alert, Anti Corruption, Communicator, Media Relations Manager and Insight.
Mr. Capon has been with Dow Jones twenty five years from October 1986 starting as an Abstractor/Indexer in London. In February of 2010, he was promoted to his current position.
Mr. Capon began his career with Finsbury Data Services (FDS) after earning a degree in Economics at Manchester University. FDS was acquired by Reuters in 1988 and Mr. Capon was part of the team responsible for adding the near real-time Reuters Newswires to Reuters Business Briefing (RBB). Following two spells in Singapore where he established the Chinese and Japanese-language operations for RBB he returned to London in 1998 as Manager, Global Content Operations. With the formation of Factiva in 1999 Mr. Capon was appointed Manager of the combined ex-RBB and ex-Dow Jones Interactive Content Management teams and moved to the US in 2001. The focus of the new role was to migrate the previous two products’ archives to a new format and XML-based platform and at the same build a new set of editorial tools to facilitate the content management processes. Both projects were completed successfully and at the same time the groups were reorganized into a ‘follow-the-sun’ operational model.
He lives in Princeton, NJ, with his wife and two children.

Christopher Carfi

Vice-President, Social Business Strategy & Colony Cartographer, Ants Eye View

Christopher Carfi is VP, Social Business Strategy at Ant’s Eye View, a management consulting firm. He joined Ant’s Eye View from Edelman Digital, where he was a Vice President in Edelman’s Silicon Valley office. Prior to Edelman, he was a co-founder and CEO at Cerado, which was founded in 2002 to provide software and services that enable businesses, organizations and associations to better connect and understand their customer and member communities. His blog, The Social Customer Manifesto, is a “Top 25″ marketing blog, and has won numerous other awards including “Top CRM Blog” in 2005, 2007 and 2008. He is also an active contributor to ProjectVRM, based at the Berkman Center at Harvard University, which focuses on improving customer-vendor relationships and is creating tools to equip individuals with tools of both independence and engagement. Prior to co-founding Cerado, Chris was a product marketing executive at Extricity, a provider of B2B integration services. He also spent nearly a decade at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) as a manager at Andersen’s Center for Strategic Technology in Palo Alto, California. At Andersen Consulting, he worked with clients to define and implement strategies that connected current business needs with the opportunities afforded by emerging technologies.Chris grew up in Chicago, holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Northwestern University, and currently lives in the Bay Area with his family. Chris blogs at http://www.socialcustomer.com. You can also find Chris on Twitter at @ccarfi.

Kevin Cohn

Vice President, Operations, Atypon

Kevin Cohn is Vice President of Operations for Atypon, a leading provider of software for digital content delivery, discovery, and monetization, with responsibility for delivery of the company's products and services. He is a frequent industry speaker, having presented on topics ranging from consumer monetization to content discoverability to the mobile revolution. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Statistics degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Barry Graubart

Vice President, Marketing, ReisReports, Reis, Inc.

Barry Graubart serves as Vice President, Marketing for the ReisReports unit of Reis, Inc., the leading provider of commercial real estate information and analytics. Prior to joining Reis, Graubart served as Vice President of Customer Development at cloud-based “publish everywhere” platform Crowd Fusion.
Graubart was previously Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development for Alacra. Prior to Alacra, he served in various product, business development and sales and marketing roles with ClearForest, Nelson Information, Leadership Directories and divisions of the Washington Post/Kaplan and McClatchy Newspapers. Graubart founded the Content Matters blog and serves as vice chairman of the content division of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).

Kathy Greenler Sexton

VP and General Manager, Content Division, SIIA

Kathy serves as the VP and General Manager of the SIIA Content Division, developing and delivering the many programs and initiatives of the Division.

Kathy is a dynamic, strategic and hands-on executive with deep experience serving Information, Internet and Media companies. After working in broadcast television and international marketing roles, she was a founding member, lead marketer and publisher for the web-based search engine pioneer AltaVista. She has also general-managed or marketed industry-leading online companies focused on news, small business information and general research including: ZoomInfo.com, BLR, Individual.com, Office.com and HighBeam Research. She has a BA in communications from Boston College.

Gerry Grenier

Staff Director, Publishing Technologies, IEEE, Inc.

Gerry Grenier is currently Staff Director of Publishing Technologies for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Piscataway, New Jersey. He leads an electronic publishing team at the IEEE responsible for the technologies that are used to create and distribute content including development and operation of IEEE Xplore -- a digital library containing 3.0 million journal articles, conference papers, and standards in electrical engineering and computer science.

Prior to joining the IEEE Gerry was Director of Publishing Technologies at John Wiley & Sons, serving as a key member of the team that developed Wiley Interscience.

He is on the Boards of CrossRef and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society.

Shafqat Islam

CEO, NewsCred

Shafqat Islam is the Co-Founder and CEO of NewsCred, a technology platform that connects publishers and brands with the world’s best journalism. As CEO, Shafqat manages the strategic growth of the company and is responsible for expanding NewCred's platform-services business. With extensive experience in the financial services industry, previously as a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, Shafqat also oversees global sales and manages the strategic growth of NewsCred. He has spoken at events including the 2011 Business Insider Conference, Digital Hollywood 2012, the Digital Content Monetization Summit, AAN Media Conference, and Wharton Entrepreneurship panels. He graduated with a dual degree in Computer Engineering and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Eric Johnston

Publisher and President, The McClatchy Company's The Modesto Bee & The Merced Sun-Star

With more than 20 years of experience across a variety of publishing disciplines, Eric Johnston brings a unique perspective and passion to the newspaper industry. With experience at community newspapers across the country, his experience includes photojournalist, designer, information technology specialist, classified advertising manager and interactive media business developer.

He has been involved in a number of industry-changing initiatives, including the introduction of digital photography into the newspaper production environment and the development, integration and maturation of online business models.

Johnston, an Eagle Scout, was born in Modesto and currently serves on the boards of the Central Valley Professional Exchange, the Education Foundation of Stanislaus County, The Gallo Center for the Arts and the Stanislaus Community Foundation. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Newspaper Publisher’s Association.

A graduate of California State University, Fresno, Johnston holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, is married and lives in Modesto with his wife Susan. They have two daughters: Brittany, currently serving in the US Navy and Morgan, a student at California State University, Chico.

Peter Marney

Senior Vice President, Thomson Reuters

Peter Marney is a Senior Vice President at Thomson Reuters, the world's leading source of intelligent information to businesses and professionals. Peter leads the team that defines and implements the company's information architecture strategy known as Content Marketplace. It is Thomson Reuters' approach to federated master data management built on a uniform set of policies, a common language of content and a standardized set of interfaces. The Marketplace enables otherwise disparate databases, both internal and external to Thomson Reuters, to distribute interoperable and easily commingled information.
Peter is also active in the information services industry. In addition to public speaking engagements, he serves on the Content Board of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). In 2011, Peter was selected by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the independent agency of the US government that regulates futures and options markets, to serve on its Subcommittee on Data Standardization, part of the CFTC's Technology Advisory Committee. Peter also sits on the board of directors of Thomson Reuters Global Resources, the entity that owns Thomson Reuters' intellectual property and he is also a director of Israel-based ClearForest, a Thomson Reuters subsidiary.
Peter has held many senior positions during his 20 plus year career at Thomson Reuters and has principally focused on products and services directed at the investment banking community. Peter received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Franklin and Marshall College, and is a proud member of the Executive Board of the Global Abilities Foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to increase cultural understanding and provide resources to help persons with spinal cord injuries become independent, productive members of society around the globe.

Jeffrey Massa

President & Chief Executive Officer, YellowBrix featuring iSyndicate.com

Jeffrey P. Massa is one of the Founders of YellowBrix and has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer since October, 2002. Prior to that point he served as the Chief Operating Officer. Prior to launching YellowBrix, Mr. Massa was the SVP of Technology of the Corporate Information Division of Infoseek Corporation, the SVP of Technology for IntellX, and the VP of Technology for COMTEX Scientific Corporation. Notably, Mr. Massa was the Manager of Information Systems and Deputy Director of Systems from 1987 - 1993 for the Executive Office of the President, National Security Council, serving Presidents’ Reagan, Bush and Clinton.

Teri Mendelsohn

President, Mendelsohn Consulting

Teri Mendelsohn is President of Mendelsohn Consulting, Inc., a New York-based practice which specializes in the creation, implementation and launch of digital information products and their enhancements. Clients include The Economist Intelligence Unit, IDEO and Advanstar Communications. Previously, she was Director of Clinical Markets at Ovid Technologies, a Wolters Kluwer nv company and leading provider of biomedical full-text and citational databases. Also at Ovid, she was Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development. Before that, Ms. Mendelsohn was an Associate in the media practice of the global strategic consulting firm Mitchell Madison Group. At MIT Press, she was Coordinating Editor, Cognitive Science before becoming Assistant Acquisitions Editor, Philosophy. Ms. Mendelsohn received her MBA from Columbia Business School and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ann Michael

President, Delta Think, LLC

Ann is President of Delta Think, a publishing and digital media consultancy focused on innovation in product strategy, product development, and content management. Delta Think clients include Nature Publishing Group, Reed Elsevier, Sage Publications, the American Institute of Physics, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, the American Society for Microbiology, the American Board of Otolaryngology, the American Academy of Dermatology, the Drug Information Association, Kaplan Higher Education, Kaplan Publishing, and many others. Engagements focus on building the flexible products and product development environments needed to thrive in a changing world. Although Delta Think has extensive background implementing large business and technical programs, their unique value is their successful experience managing change in publishing environments.

Rachael Monroe

Vice President, Client Services , BBN Networks

Rachael has nearly a decade in B2B Advertising and Publishing experience. In her prior role as Publisher, she successfully led a multi-media B2B publication through one of the most difficult economic times by developing innovative marketing programs for tax, accounting and small business communities, while shifting the publication’s revenue model to predominately digital. Rachael has a Master of Arts degree in Educational Leadership and serves her community through leadership positions in United Way, Kiwanis International, and Shawnee Community Foundation.

Joy Moore

Chief Product Strategist , Silverchair Information Systems

Joy Moore is the Chief Product Strategist at Silverchair Information Systems. She works with STM and scholarly publishers to maximize the success of their publishing programs using Silverchair’s semantic and platform products, and guides ongoing product development to best meet market needs.

Most recently, Joy was VP of Global Partnerships at Seed Media Group, creators of innovative products and services for the communication of science, including ScienceBlogs.com, ResearchBlogging.org, and visualizing.org. Prior to that, she was a journal publishing manager and online product publisher for Blackwell Science, and society journals publisher at Nature Publishing Group, where she also launched Nature Network Boston, a social networking site for scientists. She is a graduate of the College of William & Mary.

Joy has been a long time contributor to a number of STM industry associations, including the Council of Science Editors, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, and the American Association of Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing division.

Robin Neidorf

Director of Research, Free Pint Limited

Robin Neidorf is the Director of Research for Free Pint Ltd., a UK-based publisher providing practical insight on tools, trends and resources in the information industry (http://www.freepint.com/). Robin manages internal, external and custom research projects for FreePint and its customers around the world. Prior to joining FreePint in 2006, Robin ran a research and communications consulting business for 10 years. As a consultant, she focused on strategic planning, using information to make better decisions, and creating effective audience-focused communications across different media. She currently sits on the Content Division board of the SIIA.

Tom Rump

Managing Director, HighWire Press, Stanford University

Tom Rump came to HighWire Press in 2011 to strengthen the company's management processes, further develop its strategic and business plans, and to help lead HighWire to new levels of success. Tom's career encompasses senior positions throughout the technology value chain.

His most recent post was as General Manager of the Wolters Kluwer company, CT Summation Solutions, which provides software and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions supporting enterprise content management, e-Discovery and litigation for Law Firms, Corporations and Government. During his four-year tenure, Tom drove the company strategy, and delivered to the market a suite of products that garnered numerous industry awards and high customer satisfaction.

Prior to Summation, Tom was a client partner in Cognizant Technology Solutions, and before that president of Cyntergy, a professional services company providing consulting and call center solutions for global hospitality and food service companies. For five years, Tom was CEO of the Cedar Group, responsible for the North American strategy and execution for that company; subsequently he led Cedar's world wide consulting practice with particular successes in higher education and government sectors.

Tom began his career with IBM, rising to Chief Officer for finance, planning, and administration of an IBM unit responsible for sales and marketing for the Mid-Atlantic region of the US. While at IBM, Tom received numerous awards and promotions.

Louise Russell

Chief Operating Officer, Publishing Technology

As Chief Operating Officer at Publishing Technology Louise has overall responsibility for the Online Solutions Division which incorporates Product Development & Strategy, Engineering, Project Management, Client Management, Library Services and Production for the pub2web, ingentaconnect, information commerce and Heron product lines. Louise’s 15 years in the digital publishing industry have included positions with primary and secondary publishers, as well as with intermediaries and software providers.

Larry Schwartz

President, Newstex, LLC

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

Fred Silverman

Chief Executive Officer, NewsLook

Fred Silverman is the CEO and Founder of NewsLook. Silverman developed some of the first interactive computer based materials for the education market in the early 1980's after leaving New York University as their Director of Educational Technology. Originally with CBS News, Silverman has, over the past twenty-five years, produced a number of award winning documentary films for PBS. His work has also appeared on commercial broadcast and cable networks here and abroad.

Marc Strohlein

Principal, Agile Business Logic

Marc Strohlein is Principal at Agile Business Logic, a consultancy that helps small and medium-sized businesses, associations, and non-profits unlock their full performance potential by optimizing strategies, people, processes, and technologies and their interactions to create “energized enterprises.”

Previously Marc was Lead Analyst and Chief Agility Officer at Outsell Inc., a market research firm for the information industry. Before joining Outsell, Marc was COO of Classroom Connect, a division of Harcourt Education that provided K-12 e-learning products. Marc was SVP of Operations and Information Systems with Gartner Group, the world’s leading IT advisory services company, responsible for worldwide IT, product fulfillment, and customer service.

Marc also served as VP of Operations and CIO at Teltech Resource Network, a knowledge management professional services firm, and prior to Teltech, Marc served as VP of Worldwide Operations at Dataquest, the IT advisory services company.

Marc holds an M.S. degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Tennessee, and a B.S. in Sociology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He serves on the board of Forte Research Systems and has served on the SIIA Content Board.