Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Monday, October 29th 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Session A: Mainstream Hollywood Meets the VC and Private Equity Community: Exploring the Future of TV - Film - Broadband Finance Roy Salter, Principal, The Salter Group Conrad Riggs, Mark Burnett Productions Virginia Turezyn, Managing Director, American Capital Howard T. Owens, Managing Director (Co-Head of Domestic Television & Head of Digital), Reveille LLC Phil Ressler, Vice President, Clearstone Venture Partners Mark Kapczynski, CEO, Kontrol Media Corp, Moderator Roy Salter, Principal, The Salter Group: Mr. Salter is a Principal based in the Los Angeles office of The Salter Group where he directs the firm’s overall practice and project management efforts. The Salter Group is an independent financial and strategic advisor specializing in several industry sectors including Entertainment & Media, Life Sciences & Health Care and Telecom & Media Tech. Prior to The Salter Group, Mr. Salter was a Principal and Managing Director with the investment bank Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, where he co-managed the firm's global industry group practices including, Entertainment & Media, Health Care, Telecom-Media-Technology and Diversified Industries between 1988 and 2003. Therein, Mr. Salter co directed the development and operating methods associated with the firm's industry groups. Further, Mr. Salter directly managed the valuation and transactional activities of the firm's entertainment and media industry practice, and led the development of methodologies and systems to evaluate entertainment and media properties. Mr. Salter frequently lectures on a variety of media and entertainment corporate finance subjects. Mr. Salter has taught MBA courses in the Anderson School of Business at UCLA on the subjects of business valuation and business-plan development. Mr. Salter has taught similar courses in the Harvard Business School, California Institute of Technology, the European Media Business School and other venues. In addition, Mr. Salter has authored a text on the subject of valuing media and entertainment industry investments published by Warren Publications. Mr. Salter is a member of the Board of Directors of California United Bank. In addition, Mr. Salter is a founder and board Principal of Royalty Review Council, an independent music royalty administration company. Prior to Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Salter was a Vice President with Wells Fargo Capital Markets, Inc., where he provided mezzanine financing and M&A services to select bank clients. Previous to Wells Fargo Capital Markets, Mr. Salter was a Vice President in Well's Fargo's Commercial Banking Group focusing on providing loans to middle-market companies in Southern California. Mr. Salter attended California State University at Northridge where he earned a B.S. in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Business Economics and Investment Management, and Loyola Marymount University where he earned an M.B.A. Phil Ressler, Vice President, Clearstone Venture Partners: Phil joined Clearstone in 2003 to provide operating perspective on investment evaluations, decisions and guidance of portfolio companies. Phil has been engaged in building businesses in technology, consumer electronics and advertising sectors since 1979, including 16 years in executive and management positions in software and Internet companies. His technology career is comprised of executive marketing positions in raw start-up, growth-stage and public companies ranging from pre-product, pre-revenue to billion-dollar environments. Phil has been part of executive teams that raised over $100 million in capital for growth companies and he has created market demand for well over $600 million in incremental new product sales in the software sector, in addition to sustaining base revenues. Whether in turn-around or start-up efforts, throughout his career Phil has propelled early-stage and established companies into mainstream acceptance and revenue growth for groundbreaking product innovations, including object-oriented development tools, enterprise client/server tools and databases, collaborative groupware, software change management, Internet and enterprise business performance applications. His technology career includes executive positions at Nantucket Corporation, Lotus, Gupta, Continuus Software, inquiry.com and Callidus Software. Howard T. Owens, Managing Director (Co-Head of Domestic Television & Head of Digital), Reveille LLC: Howard T. Owens has been with Reveille LLC, since the company's formation in March 2002. He is the executive producer of American Gladiators and Identity for NBC as well as 30 Days for F/X. Mr. Owens is the co-creator and executive producer of USA Network's Nashville Star, which recently wrapped its fifth season and cable's longest running reality competition series. He is also the co-creator and co-executive producer of NBC’s The Restaurant, Reveille's first hit series, as well as Bravo’s Blow-Out, and MTV’s Date My Mom and Parental Control. Owens recently helped architect the landmark deal between Reveille and Microsoft, joining forces for a multi-million dollar, multi-project deal whereby Reveille is creating and producing online content for MSN. As part of the 30 Days production team, Owens has won a GLAAD Award for the episode “Straight/Gay”. In addition, Owens has been honored by the Muslim Public Affairs Council with their 2005 Voice of Courage and Conscience Media Award for the 30 Days episode “Muslims and America”. He was also nominated for a prestigious PGA award for best non-fiction series for his work on the series. Prior to Reveille, Owens was an agent in the corporate consulting and television packaging divisions at the William Morris Agency, representing television producers as well as top brands including Maxim Magazines, InStyle Magazine, eBay and Miramax Films. Before working at the William Morris Agency, Owens co-founded and served as a managing partner for Outdoor Concepts, a privately held outdoor media company that was purchased by Titan Media/New York. Prior to beginning his media career, Owens was an attorney in private practice in Bridgeport, Connecticut where he also served as a staff clerk for the Office of the State’s Attorney. Conrad Riggs has worked with Mark Burnett since 1998 handling the United States and international business development, business affairs, network agreements and other distribution arrangements, sponsor/advertiser relations, and related matters for Mark Burnett Productions, a leading content production company. Among his many precedent setting accomplishments is the deal between Mark Burnett Productions and CBS Television for Survivor. It became the most watched summer series ever and, thirteen editions later, continues to rank among top programs in American television . He and Burnett also successfully reintroduced sponsorships, product placement and marketing tie-ins as an integral part of television, internet and wireless content, garnering 24 Emmy nominations since 2001. Mark Burnett was named the #1 Most Valuable Player by TV Guide and featured in Time Magazine's "Top 100 Most Influential People in the World Today." Mr. Riggs serves as a co-executive producer on Survivor and other productions, such as The Apprentice (NBC), Rock Star (CBS and VH1), The Contender (ESPN), Gold Rush (<http://aol.com/>aol.com) and On The Lot (FOX and <http://thelot.com/>thelot.com). Mr. Riggs graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Applied Science and received his Juris Doctorate degree from the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He lives in California and enjoys tennis and surfing. Virginia M. Turezyn joined American Capital in April 2006 as Managing Director of the Technology Group. She is currently Co-Head of the group and runs the Palo Alto office. Ms. Turezyn has over 24 years of experience as a technology investor in areas that include consumer internet, digital media, software and communications. Previously she served as Managing Director of Constellation Ventures, a digital media fund which is affiliated with Bear Stearns. Earlier, Ms. Turezyn co-founded and was a Managing Director of Infinity Capital and Information Technology Ventures. She also worked for 12 years at Morgan Stanley as a Vice President in the Venture Capital Group where she opened and established the Firm’s west coast presence and practice. Ms. Turezyn is currently on the Board of Geosign and is involved with investments in HomeAway, CreditCards.com and Coghead as well. Ms. Turezyn has been recognized as one of the smartest women in the Money Business by Money magazine and has been on the Forbes Midas List. Presently, at American Capital, Ms. Turezyn is focused on technology venture and buyouts, industry aggregation and innovative digital media transactions. Mark Kapczynski has a successful track record as a serial entrepreneur, chief executive and media industry expert. His current venture, Kontrol Media Corp., is an idea incubator for startups and senior professionals in the media and technology markets including Web 2.0, mobile, and television. Prior to that, he was founder and CEO of MESoft, a media and entertainment software company, for which Kapczynski raised two rounds of seed and venture capital funding exceeding $8MM. Under his leadership, the company also grew its distribution to a global level and partnered with leading IT companies, such as IBM, Sun and AMD, and media companies that include Avid, Ascent Media and Sony. Additionally, he received a patent for a digital media workflow process. From 1995 to 2002, Kapczynski worked at Microsoft Corporation as their Director of Worldwide Media & Entertainment Solutions Group. During that time, he worked with numerous digital media and internet start-ups such as Homestore (now Move.com), Movielink, and MeTV. Mark Kapczynski got his first taste at being an entrepreneur in 1993 when he founded Digital Genesis-a pioneer in the internet/e-commerce space-which was sold to publicly-traded Netgateway, Inc. (NGWY, now IIG) three years later. Mr. Kapczynski graduated from UCLA film school and continues to be active in multiple industry associations that span media, mobile telecom, technology, and Internet Web 2.0. In his free time, Mr. Kapczynski enjoys car racing and playing the drums.