Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, October 27-30, 2008 Wednesday, October 29th 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Track III: Venture Funding, Investment & Mergers - Leadership in the Entertainment & Technology Space: Broadband, Social Networks, Mobile and Games The VC and strategic investment community has always led the way in recognizing the newest opportunities in the technology and entertainment space. In this era of economic flux, boom and bust, there are as many interpretations of value, opportunity and investment as there are investors and analysts in the industry. In this session, we bring together a number of the formative players in the Media, Entertainment, Technology finance world who have played a part in the investments, mergers, acquisitions and takeovers over the past few years. At the moment there is more money chasing fewer ready resources, but as the market predictably shakes out, how the relationship between the traditional and new media companies settles will create a fascinating foundation for the next step in growth for our industry. Are we building toward another bubble or are we laying the groundwork for a period of hypergrowth in the convergence space? Media companies are making nine and ten figure bets in this new arms race and what the future holds is anyone’s guess Mike Buckley, Managing Director, Intel Capital Kent Godfrey, Partner, Pond Venture Partners Harshul Sanghi, Managing Director, Motorola Ventures Georg Schwegler, CEO, T-Venture Derek Norton, founder and Managing Partner, Watertower Group Greg Foster, General Partner, Noro-Moseley Partners Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc., Moderator Dr. Georg Schwegler, CEO T-Venture Holding GmbH: Dr. Georg Schwegler became part of T-Venture in October 2000. He was previously responsible for the INI-Ventures Fund and the Research and Analysis department. He has run the T-Com Venture Fund for T-Venture since 2004. Dr. Schwegler spent many years as a corporate consultant before joining Deutsche Telekom in 1997. His posts with the company since then have ranged from R/D and Market Analysis and Evaluation to Information and Innovation Management. Since 1st of March 2005 he is assigned as chairman of executives. Greg Foster is a General Partner at Noro-Moseley Partners in Atlanta, GA. NMP is one of the oldest and largest early stage venture capital firms in the Southeast. Greg has focused his investment activities in technology with an emphasis on digital media. Prior to joining NMP, Greg served as Vice-President of Corporate Development for Turner Broadcasting, where he was responsible for Turner New Media Investments, the company's early stage strategic investment arm, as well as M&A activities. Greg joined Turner after it acquired his company, Southern Direct, a business focused on building branded e-commerce extensions to linear cable channels. In addition to founding Southern Direct, Greg has been a member of the management team of two other successful start-ups, serving as SVP of Corporate Development at iXL Enterprises and VP of Business and Corporate Development at Silverpop Systems. He began his career as a consultant at Deloitte Consulting, where his efforts were focused on building internet strategies for clients including Prudential Insurance, Sonoco Products and the New York City Transit Authority. Greg is the chairman-elect of NVCA’s Corporate Venture Group Advisory Board and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Georgia Council on Economic Education. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, where he was a President's Scholar, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mike Buckley, Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation: Mr. Buckley is a Director of Strategic Investments for Intel Capital. His responsibilities include equity investing in early stage companies that are strategic to Intel’s Digital Home, consumer electronics, digital media and service related efforts. Mr. Buckley also contributes to the development of Intel’s strategies and acquisitions in these areas. Mr. Buckley has been a member of Intel Capital since 1999. Prior to his current investment focus on the digital home, Mr. Buckley also invested in communications components, systems and service companies and directed Intel Capital’s efforts related to Internet infrastructure and services. Prior to joining Intel Capital, Mr. Buckley was a Partner and Vice President at Orca Capital Corporation, a Pacific Northwest-based investment banking firm. At Orca, he led the communications and software practices. Mr. Buckley was also an Associate at Jones Lang LaSalle (formerly LaSalle Partners) where he worked as a real estate investment banker and asset manager. Mike received a B.A. in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University. Harshul Sanghi, Managing Director, Motorola Ventures: Harshul Sanghi manages the Silicon Valley office of Motorola Ventures, based in Sunnyvale, California. Harshul’s role includes identifying, executing, and managing strategic investments in startup companies that will drive the realization of Motorola’s vision of Seamless Mobility. He is also responsible for managing the Venture group’s investment activities in India. Prior to Motorola, Harshul was at Ucentric Systems, a leading provider of Whole Home Media solutions, where he was responsible for worldwide sales and market development of the consumer electronics sector. Harshul has extensive experience in the digital media, consumer electronics, and semiconductor industries. In his previous role, Harshul served as General Manager of the satellite and terrestrial business team of Philips Electronic’s North America Set-Top Box Division. Harshul’s early career was spent in various technical and sales management positions in Silicon Valley, Singapore, and Western Europe. Harshul holds an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Oregon. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy and Financial Management from the University of Bombay, India. Harshul is an active member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Organization and a board member of the Strategic Venture Association in Silicon Valley. He is an observer on the Boards of Avvenu, Mobile Complete, and Ruckus Wireless. Harshul, himself an entrepreneur, enjoys working with entrepreneurs to drive the adoption of disruptive market technologies. Derek Norton, founder and Managing Partner, Watertower Group: Derek Norton is an accomplished entrepreneur and venture capitalist with over 18 years of business building and executive management experience in the technology, internet and media industries. Derek is the founder and Managing Partner of Watertower Group. He was most recently a partner at Entertainment Media Ventures (EMV), a Michael Milken backed seed and early stage venture capital fund located in Los Angeles, California. Prior to EMV Derek founded two southern California based technology companies. Derek was a founding member and partner of Entertainment Media Ventures, a $120 million dollar seed and early stage venture capital fund focused on investment in broadband infrastructure, consumer internet and digital media sectors. Having lead investments in Kassena, Matchcraft and Relegence amongst others, Derek helped guide and support EMV portfolio companies with their growth, strategic initiatives and capitalization strategies. Prior to EMV, Derek spent the first ten years of his career as a technology entrepreneur. Having founded both Jeffries Technologies and Digital Boardwalk, were he developed a diversified background in technology, media, business building and executive management. From 1991 until 1998, Derek helped build Jeffries into one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest growing privately held U.S. companies providing network enterprise architecture and systems integration to Global 2000 businesses. In 1995, he founded Digital Boardwalk, a provider of web based service solutions to traditional businesses and new media business ventures. As Netscape’s second commercial partner, Digital Boardwalk was a pioneer in the provisioning of internet technologies, e-commerce development, and marketing solutions to a wide range of companies and industries. Clients included CBS SporstLine, eToys, Office Max, Hughes Global Services, News Corp, and Hewlett Packard. Derek holds a BA in Communications from the University of Southern California. He serves on several corporate boards, and is the founder of Connex. He supports charities focused on improving the lives and education of at-risk youths, is a member of the board of directors of The Fulfillment Fund, a Los Angeles based organization providing educational mentoring and support, and was previously Vice President of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporaries. Kent Godfrey, Partner, Pond Venture Partners: Dividing his time between Europe and Silicon Valley, Godfrey has more than 22 years of executive management, strategic planning, sales, marketing and business development experience. Before coming to Pond, Godfrey served for five years as Chairman and CEO of Frictionless Commerce where he still serves as Executive Chairman. Over the years, he has led sales, business development, and marketing efforts at a number of companies including: IA Corporation, Epoch Systems, Sequent Computer, Pyramid Technology and Varian Associates. Godfrey has also served on the board of several organizations, including: TRM Corporation, Softcoin, Hipbone Communications, Pixel Devices, Invention Machine Corporation and Vocal Point Inc. Currently, he’s on the boards of Gigle Semiconductor and Broadway Networks. Godfrey earned a Master of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research from Babson College. Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners: Tim brings a combination of operational, technical and international business experience to Norwest Venture Partners. Tim focuses on investments in wireless and digital media as well as business development initiatives in Asia-Pacific. Tim has recently invested in 3Jam, a multiparty mobile text messaging platform and service, and has joined the board of directors. Prior to joining NVP in 2006, Tim was a principal at Gabriel Venture Partners where he was actively involved in over a dozen wireless-related deals and led Gabriel's investments in Iridigm Display Corporation (acquired by Qualcomm), Eyespot, Sequoia Communications, Sandbridge, and Kajeet. He also contributed to the boards of Placeware (acquired by Microsoft) and Arula Systems (acquired by Raritan), TestQuest, NextG Networks, and IPWireless. Tim built Gabriel's wireless sector practice and helped establish business development capabilities through strong, strategic relationships across the wireless value chain, particularly in Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining Gabriel, Tim spent more than five years working in Japan. He was a product manager at Gateway Inc. where he successfully launched direct-marketed PC servers in the Japanese market and quickly grew an enterprise product line into a full offering of network desktops, workstations, servers and configurable turn-key solutions. Prior to Gateway, Tim was a development engineer for General Motors. As a tri-lingual engineer based in Tokyo, Tim led project teams in China, Korea and Japan in the development, testing and sales of advanced chassis control systems for such clients as Toyota and Daewoo. Tim began his career in venture capital in 1999 during his time at Stanford Business School as part of the founding team of CTR Ventures K.K., a venture accelerator in Tokyo focused on seed and early-stage mobile consumer applications for the Japanese market. Tim currently serves on the advisory boards of the Wireless Communications Alliance (WCA), IBD Under the Radar, Digital Hollywood, VC Task Force Wireless SIG, Silicon Valley Chinese Wireless Association, as well as the IBF Wireless Investor Summit. Tim holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MS in electrical engineering/system engineering as well as a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan. Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S., Inc.: Joey Tamer is a widely-acclaimed strategic consultant to technology and media CEOs, U.S. and worldwide. Her work helps create wealth for founders and investors of entrepreneurial ventures, and a high return on investment for Fortune 1000 in-house ventures. Her capital strategies drive up her clients’ valuations and profitability. She consults to Fortune 1000 and mid-sized companies, capitalized start-ups, and investment funds. Her clients have included J.P. Morgan Capital, Sony, IBM, Apple, Hearst, Blockbuster, Technicolor, Harper Collins, Discovery Channel, and Time-Warner. Her clients say she is "a brilliant strategist and a practical, down-to-earth, get-it-done person," "invaluable in understanding the competitive landscape and alternative strategies" and that she "cuts right through the noise, giving a clear vision of the future," "protecting us from liability and cutting our costs." Through the emergence of the PC, new media, and the Internet, her clients have been in the business, enterprise and consumer sectors, with companies in technology, hardware and software, media and entertainment, publishing and advertising, distribution, and investment and venture funding. She has worked in the U.S., Europe and China. A strategist, policymaker, dealmaker, and negotiator, her work includes strategies on entry, exit, capitalization, return on investment, growth, positioning, pricing, distribution, risk-assessment, new market and international expansion, due diligence, and intellectual property. She speaks and publishes widely. Her website is www.joeytamer.com and she can be reached at joey @ joeytamer.com, or 310 245 5310.