The Complete Track
Monday, October 29 - Wednesday, October 31st
Launch at Digital Hollywood
I. Monday, May 5th
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
I. Venture and Private Equity Consortium Dinner at Digital Hollywood
The ETC - Studio Executive VIP Dinner & "First Look - VC - Company Launch
ETC Board Members from Disney, Fox, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros
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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, Norwest 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 & CEO, Transformative Capital, 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
Satya Patel, Partner, Battery Ventures
Roger Lee, Partner, Battery Ventures
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
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Track I - Money, Media, Entertainment & Technology
The New Hollywood Equation – Content Owners, New Platforms, Agents & Commerce
Michael Jay Solomon, President and CEO, Solomon Entertainment Enterprises (SEE), former President of Warner Bros. International Television
Donick Cary, Executive Producer, “Lil’ Bush”
Chris Moore, Partner, Redpoint Ventures
Alex Barkaloff, Executive Producer, Digital Media, LIONSGATE
Lesley Pinckney, Director, Digital Development, Essence Communications Inc.
David Brooks, director/editor/effects artist
Jon Healey, Editorial writer, Los Angeles Times, Moderator
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2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
The Track - Money, Media, Entertainment & Technology
Mainstream Hollywood Meets the VC and Private Equity Community: Exploring the Future of TV - Film - Broadband
Chris Gunn, Director, Digital Media, Endemol
Howard Owens, Executive Producer, Reveille
Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
Stephen Andrade, Senior Vice President, Digital Development and General Manager, NBC.com
Patrick Mahoney, Senior VP Digital Media, Entertainment Studios
Darren Miller, Producer/Partner, Montage Media Group, Inc.
Mark J. Kapczynski, VP & GM InStream Solutions, EyeWonder, Moderator
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3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Track I - Money, Media, Entertainment & Technology
VC, Equity, Hedge Funds and Hollywood – From Broadband, Social Media and Mobile Content to the Feature Package
Josh Tanzer, Managing Director, Revolution Partners
Robert N. Fried, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Ideation Acquisition Corporation
Dan Beldy, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures
Roy Salter, Principal, The Salter Group, Moderator
Additional speakers to be announced
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Track III - Hollywood 2.0 – Platforms and Content
The Exploding Appetite of Film, Cable, TV and Broadband Networks - The New Golden Age of Hollywood
Michael Kernan, Chief Executive Officer, NuMedia Studios (former executive ICM)
Will Flannery, Vice President, Advanced Services, Fox Cable Networks
Ivana Ma, Director of Development, Generate
Shannon Pruitt, Vice President Integrated Marketing, Sponsorships and Live Events, FremantleMedia North American
Gaurav Dhillon, founder and CEO, Jaman
Mark J. Kapczynski, VP & GM InStream Solutions, EyeWonder, Moderator
Additional speakers to be announced
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Tuesday, May 6th
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Disruption & Innovation – Demos at Digital Hollywood
Hosted by:
Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Oris Capital
Art Chang, founder and CEO, Tipping Point Partners
Presentations by:
Federico Grosso, Senior Vice President, Business Development, blinkx
Michael Hoydich, co-founder, uvLayer, division of unknown vector
Jonathan Strietzel, co-founder, Big Stage
Sean Darwish, CTO/CSO, Broadramp
Ed Zylka, CEO, tvCompass Inc.
Iain Scholnick, CEO and President, ImageSpan
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Wednesday, May 7th
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track III:
Venture Funding, Investment & Mergers - Leadership in the Entertainment & Technology Space: Broadband, Social Networks, Mobile and Games
Curt J. Nichols, Vice President, Intel Capital, Managing Director, Digital Home Sector, INTEL CORPORATION
Derek Norton, founder and Managing Partner, Watertower Group
Harshul Sanghi, Managing Director, Motorola Ventures
David O. Higley, founder, Higley & Company LLC
Dana Settle, Partner, Greycroft Partners
Amy Jurries, Executive-in-Residence, Advent Venture Partners
Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc., Moderator
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