The Complete Track
Launch at Digital Hollywood
Tuesday, June 12 - Wednesday, June 13th

I. Monday, June 11th
6:15 PM at Le Merigot
III. Venture and Private Equity Consortium Dinner at Digital Hollywood

Tuesday, June 12th
10:45 AM - Noon
Launch, Disruption & Innovation at Digital Hollywood – Part I
Companies will be selected to present innovative company products and business plans - from startups to established companies - presenters are based on innovation and disruption to the established business model. This session is part of the Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium
Co-Hosts:
Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Oris Capital
Jay MacDonald, Partner, Digital Media & Technology, DeSilva & Phillips LLC
See Company Descriptions and Bios Below
Presentations by:
Alan G. Wasserberger, Chief Executive Officer, Media River
Doug Imbruce, CEO, TheU.com
Zohar Yardeni and John Londono, co- CEO, RadiusIM
Jim King, CEO and Co-Founder, GlooMedia, Inc.
Bernie Laramie, CEO, MOS Sync, Inc.

Wednesday, June 13th
10:45 AM - Noon
Launch, Disruption & Innovation at Digital Hollywood - Part II
Companies will be selected to present innovative company products and business plans - from startups to established companies - presenters are based on innovation and disruption to the established business model. This session is part of the Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium
See Company Descriptions and Bios Below
Co-Hosts:
Chris Fralic, Partner, First Round Capital
Art Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC
Presentations by:
Kristin Criss, Vice President, Operations, Famster
Dinesh Bhatia, Vice President of Global Sales, fix8
Adam Lilling, Co-Founder and CEO, BiggerBoat
Lance Tokuda, CEO & Founder, RockYou
Oren Michels, CEO, Mashery
Arturo Artom, President and CEO, Your Truman Show

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"Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium Committee
Advisory Committee Members
Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
Isaac Palmer, Managing Director, Fortress Investment Group
Michael J. Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
David Britts, General Partner, ComVentures
Paul Vais, Partner, Apax Partners
John Hull, General Partner, OVP Venture Partners
Fred Wilson, Managing Partner of Union Square Venture
Harold Vogel, President, Vogel Capital Management
Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West
David Feinleib, Director, Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV)
Jay MacDonald, Partner, Digital Media & Technology, DeSilva & Phillips LLC
Keith Bencher, Vice President, Strategy & Development, CNET Games & Entertainment
Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier, founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech Venture Consulting
Arthur C. Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC
Allison Goldberg, Director, Time Warner Investments
Drew Marcus, Vice Chairman, Media & Telecom Group, Deutsche Bank Securities
Ariel Eckstein, Executive Director, Strategic Transactions and Development, AOL
David O. Higley, Managing Director & Head of Digital Media Technologies, UBS Investment Bank
Peter Levin, President, Bellrock Media / Co-owner, Chicago Rush / Partner, Palisades Baseball
Michael Aleles, Principal, TerraSur Investments
Allen Z. Sussman, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Jerry Panzer, Partner, Transaction Services Group, KPMG
Lori Einheiber, Manager, Transaction Services Group, KPMG
Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Oris Capital
Roy A. Salter, Principal, The Salter Group
Mike Buckley, Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation
Deric Emry, General Partner, ABS Capital Partners
David Yuan, Vice President, Technology Crossover Ventures
Mark T. Mondello, Managing Director, Duff & Phelps, LLC
Tim Chang, Principal, Gabriel Venture Partners
David Hutkin, 1st Vice President, ICB Entertainment Finance
Janice Roberts, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Peg Jackson, Managing Director, NeoCarta Ventures
Chris Fralic, Director, First Round Capital
Jeff Allen, Managing Director, Rocket Ventures
Gregory Chou, Associate, Norwest Venture Partners
Brian J. Marler, Vice President, Media, Sports & Entertainment Group, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Ajay Chopra, Partner, Trinity Ventures
Austin Noronha, Strategic Technology Partnerships, Sony Electronics
Greg Foster, Turner New Media Ventures, Turner Broadcasting
Mark S. Chasan, Chairman & Managing Director, Greenbridge Capital Group, Inc.
Gary Little, General Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
John Bautista, Partner, Orrick
Larry Marcus, General Partner, Walden VC
Donald Karl, Partner, Perkins Coie
Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc.
Stefan Abbruzzese, Senior Managing Director, Global Media Communications, GE Commercial Finance
Harshul Sanghi, Investment Manager, Motorola Ventures
Matthieu Coppet, Global Media Strategist, UBS
Connie Koch, Executive Director, Keiretsu Forum Southern California
Seth R. Page, Partner, Corporate Finance Partners - CFP Americas LLC
Matthew J. Schultz, Managing Director, Head of Internet and Digital Media Investment Banking, Merrill Lynch
Chi-Hua Chien, Associate, Accel Partners
Sergio Monsalve, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
Tolman Geffs, Managing Director, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.,
Robert Hoffer, Managing Director, Newforth Partners
Chad A. Burns, Director, Transaction Services, KPMG

The Goal: The Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium at Digital Hollywood" will take on tremendous importance within our future events. Since the companies participating in this consortium represent the backbone of the future of our entire industry, it will be critical to bring the leadership together on a regular basis. The intent of the "Consortium" is to create an future-looking group of industry executives and creative partners to help shape the future of the technology and strategic thinking and investment behind the PC, Consumer Electronics, entertainment and mobile industries. The Consortium group will meet at Digital Hollywood events, including Building Blocks, Digital Hollywood Europe in London and in Los Angeles. Our next dinner will take place at this event

The Session Hosts:

Arthur C. Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC, a media and entertainment advisory firm that helps creative managers and entrepreneurs make bet-the-company decisions on issues such as starting-up, financing, and buy-vs-sell decisions, particularly for companies where technology and the Internet play a significant role in determining success or failure. Tipping Point Partners also incubates new companies that will make investments in media and entertainment. Art hw firm, with the largest and the only international entertainment law practice in the U.S. Art joined Gas over 20 years of experience in start-up company settings, including a Chinese-language e-commerce company; an international television distribution business; and a $2.3 billion public real estate development. Prior to Tipping Point Partners, Art was Chief Operating Officer of GT Advisory Co., LLC, where he formed and managed software and services businesses that leveraged the law firm's capabilities. GT Advisory is a subsidiary of Greenberg Traurig, the fourth largest U.S. laT Advisory from the New York City Investment Fund, a $100 million venture capital fund organized by Henry Kravis and Jerry Speyer, where he provided advice on investments in distributed computing, enterprise software, and digital media. Prior to that, Art was an investment banker with experience on over $1 billion of diverse private equity and M&A transactions in power generation, real estate, equipment lease finance, biotech and technology. In 1997, Art co-founded Venture Downtown, the annual venture capital conference in New York City. Art began his career in architecture and real estate development, where he worked on over 50 residential, commercial and public projects totaling over $350 million in construction, including a $100 million project for I.M. Pei. Art volunteers on the Board of the Brooklyn Public Library Foundation, the supporting organization for the fourth largest public library system in the U.S. and on Yale's Alumni Schools Committee, where he interviews undergraduate applicants to Yale University. Art received his M.B.A. in finance from New York University and his B.A. in women's studies with a concentration in art history from Yale. Art lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Allison Thrush, a private equity professional, and their two boys.

Chris Fralic joined First Round Capital in 2006. Chris was most recently VP of Business Development at del.icio.us, which was acquired by Yahoo! in December 2005, focusing on distribution partnerships to integrate del.icio.us across a broad set of browsers, tools and publishing partners. Chris previously spent 6 years at eBay, and his last position there was a combination ad sales and business development role helping entertainment companies such as Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Music Group, Apple and Netflix reach and connect with eBay users. Chris previously led the Entertainment categories, managing the transaction, platform and supply/demand aspects of the books, movies and music marketplaces on eBay in the United States. Chris had been the VP of Business Development at Half.com, which was acquired by eBay in June 2000. Chris was one of the early employees of Half.com, where he helped develop many parts of the business including fund raising, content licensing, the affiliate program, supply and distribution partnerships, and advertising and sponsorships sales. Chris has over 20 years of technology industry experience, including significant Internet sales and business development roles since 1996. He was Vice President of Business Development at Nextron Communications, a Safeguard Scientifics funded startup focusing on web site development technology and services. He was Director of Business Development for the Enterprise division of America Online, which provided secure remote access and virtual private network services to businesses.

I. ZDNet
Presentation by:
David Berlind, Executive Editor, ZDNet, CNET Networks, Inc.: David Berlind is Executive Editor of Tech Update Today, ZDNet's daily flagship newsletter that targets influential information technology and business readers. With a background in enterprise IT and 16 years as a tech journalist, David is one of the industry's most prolific and respected commentators, and his opinions are widely sought by the IT, business professionals, and consumers who visit ZDNet every day. Over the years, David has been on the cutting edge of technology issues and developments. Currently, David is the producer of an event called Mashup Camp where hundreds of mashup developers, API providers, and mashup enablers regularly meet to share their thoughts and experiences in a way that can only accelerate the evolution and pace of innovation in the just now-emerging mashup ecosystem. David is a recent recipient of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) President's Award for Journalism and has been recognized as a Web Influencer by Adweek's Technology Marketing magazine’s 8th Annual Influencer’s Report. Prior to his current position, David held various key positions within Ziff-Davis. He served as editorial director of Computer Shopper, a leading technology commerce brand in print and on the Web where he contributed to the early stages of developing an integrated print/web buying process to Computer Shopper Magazine readers and visitors to ZDNet's ComputerShopper.com technology buying site. Prior to that, he served as editor-in-chief of Windows Sources, where he led the magazine's push for exclusive coverage of Windows NT for business users. In 1992 during his time as PC Week's senior networking analyst, David helped develop the concept for Netweek, PC Week's highly successful networking section. After that, he took on the responsibilities of a lab director where he spearheaded PC Week's in-depth, hard-hitting reviews of enterprise hardware and software. After graduating from the University of Miami with a B.B.A in computer information systems, David joined the university's MIS division where he was in charge of PC software development, supporting the University's 13,000 administrative users across seven campuses in their use of business applications, local and wide-area networking, and mainframe connectivity. During that time, he was a member of the university's adjunct faculty, doing graduate work in expert systems and teaching computer classes to students majoring in business.

II. Intellext
Presentation by:
Alan G. Wasserberger, Chief Executive Officer, Media River
Alan G. Wasserberger, Chief Executive Officer, Media River: Al Wasserberger is a seasoned technology executive with specific experience in leading the development of new technologies and business models, and in funding and growing technology companies. Prior to joining Intellext, he was the chairman and chief executive officer of Spirian Technologies, which he founded in 1996 and built to a venture-backed Inc. 500 software company before selling the company to SecureInfo Corporation in 2003. At Spirian, he raised more than $20 million in venture and debt funding from firms around the United States, and spearheaded the generation of revenue from major clients such as Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, UBS, Gateway, EDS, and Archipelago. Prior to founding Spirian, Wasserberger was responsible for the successful start-up of PDM Engineering. PDM Engineering is the systems integration subsidiary of Professional Data Management, a leading insurance actuarial software company that was later acquired by IBM. His experience also includes engineering leadership and executive positions with systems integrators Universal Networks and PC Solutions, storage manufacturer Sanyo Icon and retailer Home Shopping Network. Wasserberger is a proponent of entrepreneurialism. As an active civic leader, he is engaged with several professional and community organizations. Wasserberger is president of The Orbis Forum, a non-profit member organization comprising the top technology entrepreneurs in Chicago, and serves on the board of directors for the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center. In May 2003, Wasserberger accepted Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's invitation and appointment to the Mayor's Council of Technology Advisors.

III. TheU.com
Presentation by:
Doug Imbruce, CEO, TheU.com
theU's network of 300 campus-specific blogs are quickly replacing campus newspapers as the primary source of up-to-date news and gossip for 50,000,000 college students and alumni, while its web site also serves as the #1 destination for high school students seeking college admissions advice. Based in New York City, theU was founded in 2005 by Doug Imbruce, then an undergraduate at Columbia University. The company's strategic partners and clients include DELL Computer, Citibank, AOL, The Princeton Review, Barnes & Noble's Sparknotes, VideoEgg, and many more.

IV. Famster
Developed with the needs of today’s Internet-savvy family in mind, Famster provides its members a place to celebrate and nurture their family lifestyle. Famster is the only online community to combine best-of-class networking tools and accessible expert advice that aids in the development of a more fulfilling life. Famster members can blog, share photos and video, create virtual scrapbooks, keep track of dates and addresses, instant message, email and so much more, all in a private environment. A subsidiary of iVenue.com, Famster is a privately-held, Nevada-based company.
Presentation by:
Kristin Criss, VP of Operations, Famster: As vice president of operations for Famster, Kristin Criss oversees the company’s strategic planning, financial operations, and development direction. In addition to this role, Criss also serves as the VP of operations for Famster’s parent company, Ivenue. Criss joined Ivenue in 2001 as the director of training and marketing and was quickly promoted to vice president of operations. Since taking on this role, Criss has been instrumental in developing the company’s core strategy as well as guiding the company through the launch of Famster in late 2006. Prior to joining Ivenue, Criss held positions at NOS Communications where she served as the director of recruitment and hiring. In this role, Criss was responsible for all recruitment for the 4,000 employee, 500 million dollar Telecommunications company.

IV. fix8
Presentation by:
Dinesh Bhatia, Vice President of Global Sales, fix8
Dinesh is a start-up entrepreneur who has founded and pioneered new technology in the Internet communication space. His previous startup made the first phone/pda prototype with WAP browser in 1999 and he has been involved in a combination of ventures spanning biomedical, wireless, tv, and software. He was awarded the Alumni Award in 2001 by his alma mater Washington University for pioneering and innovating business systems amongst other awards. He has presented globally at many conferences and seminars around the world. He grew up in Singapore and currently resides in Los Angeles. Dinesh is currently Vice President of Global Sales & Business Development for fix8.

V. BiggerBoat
BiggerBoat is an emerging leader in entertainment discovery. BiggerBoat helps people discover entertainment by giving them everything they need to explore and experience music, movies, TV shows and video games. The company’s entertainment discovery solution provides consumers with information, previews and recommendations for content they’re likely to enjoy. BiggerBoat’s targeted delivery platform places rich entertainment-specific information directly in the path of consumers when and where they’re seeking to be entertained and ensures that recommendations are contextually relevant. BiggerBoat works with more than 40 major entertainment brands. The information, previews and recommendations it provides reach more than 7 million consumers each month through its syndication partnerships with leading online publishers including AllMusic.com, Billboard, and Entercom..
Presentation by:
Adam Lilling, Co-Founder and CEO of BiggerBoat
Adam Lilling is an entrepreneur and digital media innovator who has been creating pioneering entertainment and technology companies for more than a decade. As CEO of BiggerBoat, which he co-founded in 2003 with Barbara De Lury, he oversees all of the company’s business development, operations and financing activities. In 1999, Adam founded Pazanga, a worldwide entertainment e-commerce services company whose clients included Virgin Megastores. Pazanga was formed when Richard Branson and Virgin purchased a stake in Pentagon CDs & Tapes, which Adam founded in 1994. Pentagon was the first online retailer to directly ship music and movies worldwide. Adam started Pentagon after spending several years in leading sales and marketing roles within the music industry. In 2000, VARBusiness named Adam to their “30 Before 30” list of Internet entrepreneurs transforming the online world.

VI. RockYou
RockYou is the leading provider of widgets across all social networks. Widgets include Flash-based slideshows, dynamic text, and voice tools to help users express themselves online. Founded in 2006, the site serves over 100 million widget views a day. RockYou is directly partnering with major networks to enhance their options for self expression. In direct integrations with Friendster, Bebo, and other networks, RockYou widgets have garnered the highest levels of user adoption increasing social networking page views by 15% or more. About RockYou (<http://www.rockyou.com/>www.RockYou.com)
Presentation by:
Lance Tokuda, CEO & Founder, RockYou: Lance has over 15+ years of software and management experience. He was employee four at Resumix (now Yahoo! Hotjobs) and employee three at Documagix (now j2 Global Communications). His two previous positions were as VP & CTO in consumer (Iconix) and enterprise (Open Harbor) web service. Lance has multiple patents in text extraction, document categorization, and email (pending).. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas.

VII. Mashery
Mashery provides on-demand business and technology infrastructure for managing Web Services APIs. As more web applications are created out of API “building blocks”, more companies seek to create API distribution channels for their core services. Mashery provides all necessary infrastructure for Web Services providers to deploy a well-managed API quickly and economically, under their own branding, and with complete control over each developer’s access and business rules through an easy-to-use dashboard. The API channel is managed by the business development or product marketing team, without intervention by IT to control access or report on usage. Specific features of our solution relate to security and access control, metrics and reporting, scalability and performance, and developer community management, as described at <http://www.mashery.com/page/features>http://www.mashery.com/page/features. Presentation by:
Oren Michels is CEO of Mashery. Previously, Michels was VP business development at Feedster, where he negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks and Mitsui, and oversaw the company's activities in China. Prior to Feedster, Michels was president of Colt HR, a provider of outsourced benefits administration software and services to the mid market. He also co-founded WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for wi-fi hotspots; served as president of winebid.com; served as COO of two manufacturing companies; and was CEO of The Groundlings, an entertainment production company in Hollywood. Michels began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft and has been a consultant to companies in the management, financial, marketing and information technology industries. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA's Anderson School.

VIII. Your Truman Show
Your Truman Show, Inc. is a privately-held San Francisco-based company committed to helping great storytellers to share their stories on video. YourTrumanShow.com provides a free platform that enables anyone to create their own on-demand channel, share their lives and and watch, rate and review other people's lives. YourTrumanShow.com extends the fiction of life on camera into a network of tomorrow's online reality stars, migrating user generated content from single videos to online series. By submitting their ratings, viewers vote for the best content in each category, collectively selecting the most compelling stories to be highlighted on online and traditional media networks. The company was founded in 2006 by Arturo Artom and Luca Ferrero and has assembled a global team of technology and media experts in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, San Diego and Europe.
Presentation by:
Arturo Artom, President and CEO, Your Truman Show: Arturo Artom, one of Europe's most successful serial tech entrepreneurs, founded San Francisco-based Your Truman Show in October 2006 to build the largest online inventory of personal stories on video and enable anyone to watch, rate and review people lives. A leader in the technology and telecom industry since he early 90s, Artom is widely recognized as the "father" of telecom market liberalization in Europe. In 1993 he founded Telsystem, the first telecom carrier to successfully challenge SIP fixed-line monopoly in the Italian market. In the following years, Artom held a series of executive roles, first as Managing Director of Infostrada long-distance phone service, then as Senior Vice President of Omnitel/Vodafone, followed by the CEO role of Viasat, a leader in satellite positioning systems. In 2000, he founded Netsystem, the leading European broadband satellite ISP, which solved the digital-divide problem in many European areas. In 2004, Artom created Artom Innovazione, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on startups that marry innovations in technology and industrial design. Its most significant initiative is Muvis, the Italian company that created the first intelligent digital lighting system for the home. As Muvis's CEO, Artom inked strategic distribution and technology partnerships with global brands and established Muvis as an international case study in Made-in-Italy tech innovation. Arturo is a member of the board of the Aspen Institute Italy, he wrote "Free Telecommunications" and is often quoted and interviewed by the Financial Times, WSJ Europe, Business Week and CNBC.

IX: Presentation by:
Jim King is co-founder of GlooMedia (www.gloomedia.com) and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. King has over 22 years of ever increasing business, operations, and technology leadership experiences. Most recently Mr. King was Global Chief Information Officer for Brightpoint, a global leader in the mobile communication and computing space. For the previous five years Mr. King was a senior leader with The McGraw-Hill Companies in New York City, where he was SVP of Business Operations for McGraw-Hill Construction and CIO for The McGraw-Hill Companies Information Media group – including BusinessWeek Magazine, JD Powers, and the Broadcast Group. Mr. King was previously with the Microsoft Corporation and worked on next generation information web services and was Chief Technology Officer for Reed Elsevier plc and its LexisNexis group. A deep applied media and search technology background was formed as member of AT&T GIS and as Director of Architecture for NCR Corporation. His education includes two Masters’ degrees and doctoral work in artificial intelligence.