Nic Harcourt · Music Director & Host of Morning Becomes Eclectic · KCRW

Regarded as being the ultimate “tastemaker” in music and named the “most influential DJ in America,” Nic Harcourt has been an innovator as Music Director at the influential Los Angeles radio station KCRW, and as host of the highly-acclaimed music programs Morning Becomes Eclectic and Sounds Eclectic.

Nic has through the years been an early champion of many artists including Coldplay, Dido, Moby, Alanis Morrisette, Massive Attack, Damien Rice, Jem, Pete Yorn, David Gray, and Norah Jones.

Nic’s talents have made him uniquely suited to select innovative music for motion pictures, television and commercials. His program is monitored daily by studio and advertising executives. Nic has worked as a music consultant and/or music supervisor for such television shows as Queer as Folk, Life as We Know It, and In Justice, as well as advertising campaigns for Mitsubishi Motors, Apple’s iPod, and Victoria’s Secret. Nic has helped select music for the motion pictures Ice Age, Anchorman, Igby Goes Down, and The Dukes of Hazzard. He has also compiled and produced several volumes of live performance CD’s under the Sounds Eclectic name and recently completed his first book, Music Lust.

Thomas Hesse · President, Global Digital Business
Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Upon the completion of the Sony BMG merger, Thomas Hesse was appointed to the position of President in charge of Global Digital Business. He is responsible for Sony BMG’s worldwide revenues from digital exploitation via online and mobile media, anti-piracy measures, copy protection efforts and new format introductions.

Hesse has been with BMG in New York since 2000, when he moved from Bertelsmann AG in Guetersloh, Germany to serve as the Chief Strategic Officer. In that role, he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, digital business development and new technology. Prior to joining BMG, Hesse was Executive Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy at Bertelsmann AG. Hesse had previously held a number of executive positions at the company’s television division RTL, including Secretary General of RTL Television where he was in charge of program acquisition and distribution, and CEO of RTL NEW MEDIA.

He began his career in media and entertainment as a corporate consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he focused on Media and Corporate Finance. Hesse holds a BA and MA from Oxford University, an MSc from London School of Economics and a doctorate in Corporate Finance from St. Gallen University.

Jim Griffin · Managing Director · OneHouse LLC

Jim Griffin is Managing Director of OneHouse LLC, dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and works as a consultant to absorb uncertainty about the digital delivery of art.

In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for magazines, and is on the boards of companies and associations. He started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an International Representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C.

While at Geffen, Jim led a team that in June of 1994 distributed the first full-length commercial song on-line, by Aerosmith. Geffen was the first entertainment company to install a web server, and Geffen World was one of the first corporate intranet sites. Geffen was named by Network World in 1996 as one of the world’s top 25 technology companies, and one of only seven in the United States.

Jim is co-founder of the Pho group. Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets for discussion-oriented meals in cities around the world, electronically linked by the Pho mailing list. Pho’s many thousands of readers enjoy dialogue on the digital delivery of art and the new economy in music, movies, books and all media.

Jim testified in July 2000 before the Senate Judiciary Committee at its oversight hearing on file sharing and music licensing. He regularly moderates video and television shows on digital entertainment. He is often a keynote speaker or moderator at conferences (Internet Summit, Giga Conference, Comdex, CES, Webnoize, and many others) and lectures annually at business schools (Harvard, USC, UCLA, Berkeley). He also serves as an expert witness in digital entertainment, and has presented many Continuing Legal Education courses.

In addition to work with music, his expertise includes wireless work in Europe, including at Nokia’s Research Center in Helsinki, Finland, and with numerous companies in Finland and throughout Europe. He’s moderated numerous panels on wireless and given speeches on wireless issues around the world, ranging from music conferences to parliament meetings in Europe. He is a regular speaker at entertainment industry events and corporate and association meetings.

John T. Frankenheimer · Chair, Music Group
Partner & Co-Chair · Loeb & Loeb LLC

John T. Frankenheimer, Co-chair of Loeb & Loeb LLP, is a partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles office and is also Chair of the Firm’s Music Group. His practice is centered in the entertainment and media industries, with emphasis on both institutional and talent clients. This includes advising on the acquisition, sale and restructuring of companies, including financing, valuation, securitization and due diligence issues, as well as representing companies, artists and executives in all aspects of the music industry, including all forms of talent contracts, distribution, licensing, technology-related issues, publishing, sub-publishing, touring and live events and production activities.

He also represents writers, producers and directors in both film and television. Mr. Frankenheimer’s principal clients include record companies and distributors; multinational and independent music publishers; internationally recognized recording and touring artists; television writers, producers and directors; motion picture writers and producers; new media and technology companies and financial institutions and investors.

Mr. Frankenheimer also works on Internet, wireless and new media projects, representing both major companies and emerging concerns in structuring, financing, licensing and M&A activities. Mr. Frankenheimer speaks regularly at industry and financial seminars, such as UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium, USC School of Law, Forbes CEO Conference and the Billboard Music and Money Symposium, addressing cross-media issues.

Ralph Simon · Chairman, Emeritus & Founder
Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas

Ralph Simon, Chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas (MEF), is recognized as one the leading international authorities on mobile entertainment and mobile content rights and delivery. Simon leads the strategic vision and success of the MEF in the United States and Americas and is instrumental in leading the mobile entertainment industry for its members, as well as driving new membership programs, partner relations and all corporate marketing, branding and positioning within mobile entertainment - assisting member companies to grow their revenues and commercial effectiveness.

He has over 30 years of successful entrepreneurial and leadership experience in the recording, music publishing and entertainment industry. Currently, he advises and guides the mobile interests of some of the world’s leading recording artists and celebrities, including Justin Timberlake, U2, Shania Twain, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Simon is a true pioneer of the mobile entertainment industry having been the first to introduce ring tones to the USA, where he co-founded and became Chairman of Yourmobile (now known as Moviso, the US market leader in mobile entertainment) the first company of its kind in the USA and internationally, specializing in the development, distribution and application of mobile entertainment content, intellectual property and publishing rights for mobile phones, devices and content. Vivendi-Universal acquired Yourmobile/Moviso from Simon in 2002.

Prior to Yourmobile, Simon also co-founded and developed the Zomba Group of companies and Jive Records, growing it to become the world's most successful and leading independent music publishing and recording organizations. In addition, Simon also held the position of Executive Vice-President of Capitol Records and Blue Note Records, where he was instrumental in launching EMI’s global New Technology & New Media division.

Simon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the Academy of Recorded Arts & Sciences. He serves on the advisory board of Finnish company StarCut, one of the world leaders in the field of mobile entertainment.

Simon is based in Los Angeles.

Ted Cohen · Managing Partner · TAG Strategic

As Senior Vice President of Digital Development & Distribution for EMI Recorded Music, Ted Cohen oversees worldwide digital business development for this “big five” record company, which includes labels such as Capitol, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis. Under Cohen’s guidance, EMI has led the industry with its initiatives in new technologies and business models such as digital downloads, online music subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio.

In addition to seeking out, evaluating and executing business opportunities for the company, Cohen serves as both a strategist and key decision-maker for EMI’s global new media and anti-piracy efforts. He has worked to establish company-wide policies, which have allowed EMI’s artists and labels a substantial advantage in the digital music arena.

Cohen served previously as the Executive Vice President of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded and served as Chairman of the Webnoize ‘98 & ‘99 conferences. He currently chairs MidemNet, an international music/technology conference convened in Cannes each year. Cohen also held senior management positions at both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media.

Additionally, Cohen lead two highly successful new media consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios New Media, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and several other entertainment, computer and new media organizations.

A 25-year industry veteran, Cohen serves on the NARAS (Grammy) Los Angeles chapter Board of Governors, the Board of Directors for the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund, Co-chairs the new media arm of the T.J. Martell Foundation, and lends his time and talents to the Grammy In The Schools Program.

Tamara Conniff · Executive Editor & Associate Publisher · Billboard

Tamara Conniff is executive editor and associate publisher of Billboard, where she overseas all aspects of the Billboard brand — from editorial to face-to-face events. She is the youngest person and first woman to hold this post. Prior to joining Billboard, she served as the music editor for The Hollywood Reporter for five years and senior editor in charge of music for Amusement Business. Conniff’s work has also appeared in such publications as The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Daily News, The Boston Globe, The New York Post, among others.

Additionally she has been interviewed as a music expert for such outlets as CNN, Fox News, CNBC,20/20, Access Hollywood, Extra, MTV, VHI, E!, BBC Television and Canal Plus. She was recently named one of Crain's New York Business 40 under 40. She speaks French, German and Spanish fluently. In addition to having written numerous liner notes, and some of her interviews are currently featured in the book “Dangerous Minds.”

Born and raised in Hollywood, Conniff began her journalist career as a writer for Music Connection. She moved to New York City in the early 1990s where she was a feature writer for seminal rock magazine Seconds, a columnist for New York Casting Magazine, and the managing editor for the online magazine, Entertainment Drive. She is also a Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, on the board of directors for the TJ Martell Foundation and an executive committee member of the City of Hope.

Ned Sherman · CEO & Publisher · Digital Media Wire, Inc.

Ned Sherman is CEO and Publisher of Digital Media Wire, Inc., where he works at the center of the rapidly growing digital media industry. Under his leadership, Digital Media Wire has grown from a small newsletter publisher into a well-respected B-to-B brand that owns and produces five annual conferences - Digital Music Forum, Games & Mobile Forum, Digital Media Conference, Future of Television Forum, Digital Commerce Summit and The Billboard Digital Entertainment Conference & Awards (now DEMXPO) - and provides daily news, information and community to 30,000+ executives and professionals at entertainment, media and technology companies throughout the world.

As digital media community-builder, Ned has established partnerships with the leading B-to-B media companies and educational institutions, including VNU Business Media, Billboard Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Reed Business Information, Multichannel News, Business 2.0, Business Week, CableFax/CableWorld, VIBE/SPIN, MidemNet, NYU's Stern School of Business, USC’s Center for Telecom Management and UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, and hundreds of the leading digital media companies, including Microsoft, Real Networks, Sony Corporation of America, AOL Time Warner, Napster, Yahoo! and many more.

Ned’s background is in law. Before joining Digital Media Wire, Ned spent 7+ years as a corporate and entertainment attorney practicing at several of the leading law firms in the world with an international client base across industries including technology, Internet, media and entertainment.

As a founding member of the iLaw Group in the Entertainment Department at Loeb & Loeb LLP in Century City, he handled complex licensing transactions and financings for media and entertainment clients including Universal Studios and MGM and launched dozens of Internet and new media start-ups. He has counseled company founders from initiation of a business plan to seed, angel, venture capital and later-stage private financings and managed all legal aspects of Internet clients from corporate organization, stockholder relationships, board compositions and dynamics, stock option plans, capital raising and security regulatory matters, Internet law issues, trademark, copyright, content and technology licensing, advertising and privacy issues.

He sits on the Board of Directors of Wild Way, a non-profit dedicated to cultivating environmental awareness and developing educational programs for inner-city and “at risk” kids and has traveled extensively from Europe to Asia to South America to Northern Africa. Ned is married and lives with his wife and son in Hollywood Hills, California.

Dave Goldberg · VP & GM · Yahoo! Music

David B. Goldberg serves as the Vice President and General Manager of Music at Yahoo! Inc., since the acquisition of LAUNCH Media, Inc. by Yahoo! in August 2001. Before the acquisition, Mr. Goldberg was Co-founder and CEO of LAUNCH Media, Inc. In his new position, Mr. Goldberg is responsible for the growth and continued development of LAUNCH, the music destination on Yahoo! as a compelling, global music destination for consumers, marketers and record labels.

Since its inception in 1994, Mr. Goldberg spearheaded LAUNCH’s vision to help music fans connect with their favorite artists and discover new music through a variety of interactive mediums. Under his leadership, LAUNCH developed into one of the leading entertainment brands and LAUNCH.com became one of the web’s premier music sites.

Prior to founding LAUNCH, Mr. Goldberg was Director of Marketing Strategy and New Business Development at Capitol Records in Los Angeles, California. While in this position, Mr. Goldberg was responsible for the development of new multimedia distribution methods and the development of alternative channels through which music and new artists could be effectively marketed to consumers.

Before Capitol, Mr. Goldberg worked as a management consultant at Bain & Co., a prominent strategic consulting firm. Mr. Goldberg graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. in History and Government.

Mr. Goldberg currently serves on the board of directors for LivePlanet and is a member of N.A.R.A.S (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences) and the Digital Coast Roundtable.

David Pakman · CEO · eMusic

David Pakman is a Managing Director of Dimensional Associates, the parent company of eMusic, The Orchard, Dimensional Music Publishing (formerly DreamWorks Music Publishing) and Dimensional Mobile Entertainment. He also serves as President and CEO for eMusic and Dimensional Mobile Entertainment.

Pakman is a pioneer and entrepreneur in the world of digital music. He was the Co-founder and President of Business Development and Public Policy at Myplay, Inc., the broadband application services company founded in 1999 that introduced the “digital music locker” and pioneered the locker category. After selling Myplay to Bertelsmann’s eCommerce Group in 2001, Pakman was named Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Public Policy for BeMusic, a division of Bertelsmann.

Prior to Myplay, Pakman was an early principal force and co-creator of Apple Computer’s Music Group, co-founding the Macintosh New York Music Festival and co-producing the then-largest industry webcast to date, the 1997 GRAMMY Awards. After Apple, he became Vice President at N2K Entertainment. He served as a board member of the Digital Media Association (DiMA) and was co-chair of its licensing committee.

Pakman has advised scores of companies in the digital entertainment space, and remains a board member of Knitting Factory Entertainment, and an avid musician and songwriter. Pakman has spoken at more than 100 events over the past decade, including Plug.in, Webnoize, Digital Hollywood, PFF Summit (Progress and Freedom Foundation), Paul Allen’s conference, Billboard, Winter Music Festival, SxSW, NxNW, AES, NAMM, Leadership Music in Nashville, Macworld, Digital Music Summit, Music 2.0, MobileMusicCon, and more.

He has testified in front of Congress on issues related to music copyright in a digital age, and has published in the American University Law Review. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering from University of Pennsylvania.

Amanda Marks · EVP, eLabs · Universal Music

As the Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group’s eLabs, Amanda Marks is responsible for the business development and business affairs departments of eLabs, the division of UMG that is dedicated to exploring and developing new business opportunities and new digital delivery systems for recorded music. eLabs houses advanced technology and business development teams to support all UMG businesses, focusing on emerging technology and convergence platforms for the distribution of music and music related content, including internet, wireless, and TV set-top box systems. eLabs’ efforts also include overseeing the launches of new physical formats such as SACD, DVD-Audio, and DataPlay.

Prior to her position at eLabs, Amanda Marks served as the General Manager for Jimmy and Doug’s Farmclub.com where she was responsible for the daily operations of Farmclub.com, including finance, business and legal affairs, business development and human resources. Farmclub.com was a frontrunner in interactive convergence — an innovative company which integrated a web site, television show and record label. Jimmy and Doug’s Farmclub.com was a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.

Before Farmclub.com, Ms. Marks was with Universal Music Group’s Business & Legal Affairs Department. In this position, she was responsible for helping to formulate UMG’s business and legal affairs policy for the exploitation of sound recordings over the Internet, providing general counseling and business and legal affairs services to several of the UMG record labels, assisting in the label integration process following the Universal — PolyGram merger, and drafting and negotiating agreements for UMG as a whole, the UMG labels and other divisions of UMG.

Ms. Marks also served as a liaison with the Recording Industry Association of America on industry-wide Internet issues. Ms. Marks has also served as Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs, for Mercury Records where she was responsible for negotiating and drafting a wide range of agreements, supervising all Internet exploitations of the label’s repertoire of sound recordings and providing general business counseling to the label’s executives and staff. Before joining Mercury Records, Ms. Marks served as General Counsel for Rock-It Cargo USA, Viscount Airlines and their affiliated companies, which provided logistical services for the touring side of the music industry. Previously, Ms. Marks worked as an associate at McKenna & Cuneo in Los Angeles.

Paul Heine · Executive Editor, Radio & Records · Billboard

Paul Heine has covered all aspects of the radio business for leading industry publications as a reporter and editor. Since 1985, he has written extensively about industry trends, programming, new media, consolidation and the verdana of emerging new technologies on radio. Heine joined Billboard Radio Monitor in August 2004 as director of news, music and programming and was promoted to executive editor in January 2006. Following its acquisition by Billboard parent VNU, Radio & Records appointed him executive editor in August 2006.

Paul has interviewed numerous radio industry leaders, including Howard Stern, Mel Karmazin, John Hogan, Kevin Weatherly, Mark Cuban, Bob Neil, Bob & Tom, David Field, Jeff Smulyan, Joel Hollander, Tom Owens and others. He has been quoted in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and other publications and has appeared on numerous TV news shows.

After graduating from SUNY-Brockport with a B.A. in communications, Paul launched his career in radio on-air at WCMF Rochester before moving to WBUF Buffalo. After programming WGRQ Buffalo, he joined industry trade the Friday Morning Quarterback in 1985, eventually rising to vice president.

Ed Delfs · VP, National Ad Sales · RealNetworks

Mr. Delfs joined RealNetworks in 2004. As Vice President of National Advertising Sales and Operations, Mr. Delfs is responsible for driving Real’s advertising efforts forward by managing the National Advertising Sales force and the National Ad Operations team.

Mr. Delfs has over a decade of sales and advertising experience and joined Real from TheStreet.com where he was Vice President of Sales and Strategic Partnerships. During this role, he was responsible for structuring, staffing and managing TheStreet.com’s advertising sales and national strategic business development departments.

Prior to TheStreet.com, Mr. Delfs was Vice President of Sales for iVillage.com. Mr. Delfs received a Masters of Pacific International Affairs with a Japan International Business Management focus from the University of California, San Diego and a Bachelor of Arts degree with departmental honors from the University of Southern California.

Laura Goldberg · COO · Napster

Laura B. Goldberg serves as Napster’s Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for running the day-to-day business as well as setting strategy and product direction for Napster. Ms. Goldberg oversees all operational aspects of the service, including product dev, program management, backend technologies, customer care, content acquisition & clearance, reporting, & key vendor relationships, including Microsoft & Gateway.

Ms. Goldberg was an original member of the executive team at pressplay, a digital music venture jointly owned by Sony Music and Universal Music Group, and maintained her position as pressplay’s SVP, Operations through the company’s 2003 acquisition by Roxio and development into Napster. Ms. Goldberg came to pressplay from Universal Music Group, where she served as general manager for over two years. During her tenure at UMG, Ms. Goldberg helped to launch Global e, a UMG division charged with building a digital download business, and was also a critical member of the team that developed pressplay. Ms. Goldberg began her career as a strategy consultant with The MAC Group. Following business school, she worked at Credit Suisse First Boston in the Principal Investments Group and as a portfolio manager at Avenue Advisors, a distressed debt hedge fund.

Ms. Goldberg holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is on the board of directors of the Andrew Carnegie Society, an alumni organization at Carnegie Mellon.

David Del Beccaro · President & Founder · Music Choice

David Del Beccaro is President, CEO and Founder of Music Choice, the leading multi-platform digital music network. He pioneered innovative ways to produce, program, and deliver video and audio entertainment content to millions of consumers nationwide through their TVs, PCs, and cell phones. As a national authority on music and technology, Del Beccaro has been quoted extensively in The New York Times, AP, Reuters, and Billboard, among others. Del Beccaro founded MUSIC CHOICE in 1986, securing financing for his ground-breaking concept through a partnership of major cable and music companies, as well as Microsoft and Motorola.

Aydin Caginalp · Partner · Alston & Bird

Aydin S. Caginalp is the partner-in-charge of Alston & Bird’s New York office and also chairs the firm’s Entertainment and New Media Group. He focuses on business transactions and corporate law, with an emphasis on entertainment and new media and international matters.

Caginalp’s experience with Internet activities includes initiatives involving digital delivery of music and entertainment products as well as digital rights management. Caginalp has worked extensively in the acquisition of music, books, magazines, broadcast and production companies worldwide as well as international joint ventures. He received his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University, his J.D. from Tulane University and his A.B. from Indiana University.

Stephen Murray · President, Entertainment · BurnLounge

Stephen Murray is the founder, president of entertainment and chief creative officer for BurnLounge. His responsibilities include the overall creative direction for the company and serves as the liaison to the entertainment industry. With his unique blend of creative and business acumen, Murray has been a driving force behind many successful ventures in the digital music business for more than a decade.

Prior to joining BurnLounge, Murray co-founded 456 Digital LLC, a digital entertainment company, with television personality, Carson Daly (MTV, NBC), music executive, Jonathan Rifkind (Loud Records/Sony) and Ryan A. Dadd (BurnLounge). Prior to 456 Digital, Murray served as the creative director of RevImage, LLC, a digital consulting and creative services company providing services to a variety of clients in the entertainment industry as well as several Fortune 500 companies

Erik Flannigan · VP, Programming · AOL

Erik Flannigan oversees four distinct but interrelated entertainment sites on AOL and AOL.com including Moviefone.com, AOL Music, AOL Radio, and AOL Television. Mr. Flannigan is responsible for the overall development of innovative and original programming within each of these categories.

Mr. Flannigan was most recently vice president of programming for Buena Vista Datacasting, part of the Walt Disney Company. While there, he was responsible for programming and production on the MovieBeam VOD service, as well as day-to-day relationships and licensing deals with studio partners. Before that, he was Senior Vice President in charge of entertainment web sites for the Walt Disney Internet Group, including MrShowbiz.com, ABC.com and Movies.com. He also served as Vice President at RealNetworks, overseeing the company’s on-demand music and entertainment subscription businesses.

Flannigan, who hails from Seattle, WA, is the author of Led Zeppelin: Heaven and Hell – An Illustrated History (Harmony/Crown 1991). He is currently based in Los Angeles.

Mark Lam · Chairman, Exec Committee & CEO · Live365

N. Mark Lam serves as Chairman, Executive Committee and CEO of Live365. With thousands of broadcasters and millions of listeners worldwide, Live365 offers greater breadth and depth of music than any other site on the internet and is the world’s largest internet radio network. Our mission is to become the voices of the wireless web.

Prior to joining Live365, Lam was instrumental in securing funding, developing a new business model, and advising profitable growth as the former lead advisor to Live365. Previously, Lam specialized in forming global alliances and solving business and legal problems for international high-tech companies for over a dozen years. His clients included Philips Electronics and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd./Foxconn (ranked #2 in 2004 Business Week InfoTech 100 with over $20 Billion in 2005 revenue and is the world’s largest high-tech contract manufacturer as well as one of the largest investors into China), in which he successfully prosecuted and defended intellectual property claims as well as advising, negotiating, and consummating deals which contributed significantly to the success and rapid growth of Hon Hai/Foxconn.

Earlier in his career, Lam worked at GM/Hughes, Geneva Company, the leading middle market M&A firm in the 80’s, and Dynafund, an international venture capital firm. In 2000 and 2004, he served as a Presidential Elector and appeared on CNN, Good Morning Asia and the BBC. In 2001, he joined a delegation invited by leading Chinese universities and major T.V. stations in five cities including Beijing and Shanghai to lecture on China’s joining the WTO and its verdana on China’s media industry. He was also a speaker at the inaugural China and the Internet Conference in 2003.

Lam received a B.A. from Hamilton College, a J.D. from University of California Hastings College of the Law, and an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School.

Gerrit Meier · Senior VP & GM
Clear Channel Online Music & Radio

Gerrit Meier is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Clear Channel Online Music & Radio, a division of Clear Channel Radio, which is focused on bringing terrestrial radio listeners online to the company’s network of approximately 1,200 radio station websites. In this role, he oversees the group’s operations, finance, eCommerce, technology and business development departments.

Meier was previously responsible for EMI Music’s digital business in North America, where he was in charge of defining new business models, negotiating and closing digital deals with retail partners and integrating digital into EMI’s operating units. He also served as Vice President of Strategy for the EMI Group where he worked with EMI’s senior management to identify new business opportunities inside and outside of the traditional operational scope of a music company.

Prior to EMI, Meier headed Corporate Development for BMG Music, now SonyBMG Entertainment, in North America, where he led the development and management of internal initiatives aimed to accelerate operational improvement and the streamlining of business practices. He also served as Director of Corporate Development for Bertelsmann Inc. and oversaw BMG’s international new media activities to exploit content commercially online.

In addition, Meier was a strategy consultant with Accenture’s Media & Entertainment Practice in London focusing on operational and strategic issues regarding the future of the entertainment industry, digital content distribution and converging media technologies.

Meier has been actively involved in the global media and entertainment area for more than ten years and has been published by Harvard University and McGraw-Hill on the evolution of the music industry and the topic of digital music distribution. He holds business degrees from Harvard Business School and the European Business School in London and Paris.

Shervin Pishevar · President & COO · Freewebs, Inc.

Named “Bill Gates’ Worst Nightmare” by the Financial Times, Mr. Pishevar is a visionary technology entrepreneur, published researcher and technology incubation expert, best known for helping usher in the on demand web computing era with his first startup, WebOS. Mr. Pishevar has an extensive track record for technology innovation and his achievements have been highlighted by the Slashdot, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, LA Times, CNN and CNBC.

Mr. Pishevar founded his first company, WebOS, in 1997 when he was 23 years old and raised over $10 million for that venture from such investors as Adam Dell’s verdana Venture Partners and Grotech Capital. WebOS created the world’s first distributed operating system (patents pending) that heralded the dawn of a new era in advanced on demand windows-like web applications complete with a set of powerful API’s for developers. Mr. Pishevar pioneered the concept of ‘On Demand Services’ through WebOS — a vision that is now, in 2005, being acknowledged with ushering in a new era of web computing. Mr. Pishevar is most proud of having assembled the greatest minds in the WebOS space from Erik Arvidsson, Dan Steinman, Dan Savarese and Amin Vahdat all in one company.

Subsequently, he has advised such venture funds as the Vanderbilt University Technology Company (VUTC), the venture fund of Vanderbilt’s $2.3 billion endowment fund, on their portfolio companies as well as serving as a Director of Seges Capital, a multi-university venture consortium. In 2001 he founded Ionside Interactive, a leading award winning PocketPC software company, Application Corporation, creators of the Hyperoffice messaging and groupware suite, advised Elipse Networks and serves on the Board of Freewebs.com, the top 3 free web hosting company in the world. Products Mr. Pishevar has created have won awards such as the 2002 Top 100 Technology Award by Computer Shopper Magazine (Ionside’s Argentum), Top 5 Web Applications (Hyperoffice) by CNET and the NY Times Advertising Design Award Finalist (Elipse’s Evian Design).

Mr. Pishevar received his B.A (Interdisciplinary Studies) from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Pishevar completed over a year of graduate course work in Health Economics at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health with a 4.0 GPA.

Gerd Leonhard · CEO · Sonific LLC

Gerd (45) is a respected digital music & media expert, futurist and often-quoted visionary and thought-leader. He is well-known as a music & media industry innovator and a sought-after think-tank leader and strategic advisor.

Originally from Germany, Gerd has spent almost twenty years in the music and entertainment-technology industries, and is equally at home in the U.S. as well as in Europe. He currently lives in Basel, Switzerland. Gerd is the co-author of the best-selling book “The Future of Music”, and has a new book “Feels Like Free Media” coming up later this year.

As an entrepreneur, Gerd’s latest role is as Founder and CEO of www.Sonific.com — Soundtracks for blogs, photo and video sites, and social networks. During the .com fat years, Gerd was the Founder/President/CEO of LicenseMusic.com, Inc. in SF, an influential start-up that revolutionized the process of music licensing and B2B transactions for labels and publishers.

David Hyman · CEO & Founder · MOG

David Hyman is the CEO and founder of MOG (www.mog.com), a new online community where music lovers can quickly and easily show the world what they’re listening to, express their musical tastes, and discover people through music and music through people.

MOG launched last month and has already received a very enthusiastic response from the media and music lovers.

Dominique-Sébastien Forest · VP, Business Development
Puretracks LLC

Mr. Forest leads business development for Puretracks, focusing on developing new distribution opportunities for the Company’s various product offerings. Prior to Puretracks, Mr. Forest was the Chief Editor of MSN Canada, Canada’s leading portal. During his time at MSN Canada, the portal was established as the leading MSN property worldwide. Previous to MSN.ca, Mr. Forest founded Creative Research and Technology, the first “advergaming” firm in Canada, and served as Marketing Director for Insight.com. Mr. Forest holds a M.Sc. in marketing innovations in high technology.

Paul Leakas · General Manager · Nielsen Mobile

As General Manager of Nielsen Mobile, Paul Leakas is responsible for the rollout and development strategy of the company’s day-to-day global operations. Nielsen Mobile, a division of Nielsen Entertainment and VNU Media Measurement & Information, provides the monitoring and analysis of sales data for the mobile industry. Leakas oversees the service which currently tracks all polyphonic ringtone sales within the U.S. This data is utilized as the source material for the Billboard charts, which are regularly cited by major media outlets. Under Leakas’ direction, Nielsen Mobile is currently expanding to include sales data on all ringtone formats (which includes polys, masters, voice and ring backs) as well as mobile music downloads, games, graphics and video in the U.S. and other markets.

Paul Leakas is a veteran of the digital entertainment sector, responsible for building leading destinations on the Internet and mobile platforms during his tenure at The Walt Disney Company/ABC and Fox Broadcasting. Leakas’ credits include Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Oscars, The Emmys and American Idol.

Leakas is based at the Nielsen Mobile headquarters in White Plains, New York and holds a BA in Economics from New York University.

Raghav “Rags” Gupta · Director, Business Dev & Strategy
Brightcove

Raghav “Rags” Gupta is Director of Business Development & Strategy at Brightcove, the broadband video service, where he works on content and distribution partnerships. Prior to Brightcove, Rags consulted to a number of companies around their digital media strategy and fundraising, including NPR, Giant Step and kSolo, and currently works with digital media startups and entrepreneurs in an advisory capacity. Rags served as the COO of Live365, the leading internet radio network, building the company into a top user-created radio destination with thousands of channels and millions of users. At Live365, Rags drove the Company’s strategy and overall vision in a general management capacity, shaping the Company’s business development, label relations, advertising sales and development functions. Since becoming a member of the senior management team in late 2001, Rags helped to raise bridge funding and planned and executed a complete Company turnaround. He also served as a Board Member for DiMA, the Digital Media Association, from 2003 to 2005.

Prior to Live365, Rags was a strategy consultant at Mercer Management Consulting, working with Fortune 1000 clients in the insurance and publishing industries. Rags has spoken at a number of high profile industry events in the U.S., Europe and Asia including Digital Hollywood, Jupiter Plug-In, Streaming Media, Digital Music Forum, and the Kagan Radio Summit among others. He has been quoted in key media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, New York Post, and the BBC, and recently appeared in the PBS documentary on the dot com boom, “Message in a Bubble.”

Rags holds a degree from Princeton University where he majored in Civil Engineering and Operations Research. His personal blog can be found at www.ragsgupta.com.

Tim Bucher · CEO & Chief Product Officer · ZING

Tim Bucher, CEO and Chief Product Officer, is the principal founder and now leads the ZING team providing vision and guidance for the company. He has a twenty-year history of developing revolutionary products for consumers and professionals. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of Macintosh Engineering for Apple Computer, Inc., where he was responsible for product development on iMac, Mac Mini, PowerMac, PowerBook, iBook, eMac, and XServe, Apple display and wireless products — and managed the core technology of Apple’s iPod.

A serial entrepreneur, Tim is the founder and chairman of Mirra, Inc., a developer of digital content protection products for the home and small businesses (now part of Seagate), and was part of the founding team for WebTV Networks, the first company to bring the Internet to television and pioneer interactive TV. Following Microsoft’s acquisition of WebTV, Tim served as VP of Microsoft’s Consumer Products and was a leader of the Xbox program. Tim was also part of the team that formed interactive gaming systems pioneer 3DO and shipped the first CD-ROM based gaming console. Previously, Tim held senior engineering positions at NeXT computer and was an early employee at Sun Microsystems.

Brian Garrity · Senior Correspondent
Billboard

Brian Garrity is a Senior Business Writer at Billboard Magazine. Prior to this, he worked as a Staff Writer at Investment Dealers’ Digest, a Senior Editor at IDD Newsletters and a reporter at the Springfield Union-News. Mr. Garrity is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism (M.S.) and Fordham University (B.A.).

Kelli Richards · President & CEO
The All Access Group

An established veteran in the digital music/media arena over the past two decades, Kelli Richards is President and CEO of The All Access Group where she connects the dots between major content brands, established artists, dynamic technology companies, and mainstream consumer brands to create innovative and profitable alliances.

Kelli has rich experience as an executive and senior strategist with both mainstream entertainment (EMI, others) and technology (Apple Computer, SGI, Motorola, Philips) companies, where she focused on developing traditional and digital music and entertainment initiatives for each. She also pioneered the first Internet-based artist subscription service, PatroNet, with rocker Todd Rundgren in the mid-90’s & many other “firsts”.

Ms. Richards is also an accomplished producer of award shows (20 years on The BAMMIES/California Music Awards, 5 years on the CIC/Pollstar Awards), concerts and celebrity fundraisers (ex. Paul McCartney’s Minefield Benefit shows), artist tribute CD/DVDs, and several digital music/media conferences.

Kelli recently co-authored the book/DVD “The Art of Digital Music: 56 Visionary Artists & Insiders Reveal Their Creative Secrets” (Backbeat Books, 2005) — see www.artofdigitalmusic.com. You can find more details about Kelli and her company, The All Access Group, at www.allaccessgroup.com.

Scott Fedewa · SVP & Executive Producer · Live Nation

Scott Fedewa is Senior Vice President & Executive Producer for Live Nation, the world’s largest concert promoter/venue operator. Scott runs the company’s Digital Products group, where he is responsible for creative development, strategy, design, and front-end production of the company’s web sites, including LiveNation.com, as well as other new media initiatives.

A pioneer in interactive entertainment, Scott has been building innovative online entertainment businesses since 1995. He founded the pioneering online music community, Musicosm.com, worked with a variety of venture capital-backed dot-coms during the boom, and helped build interactive businesses for top television clients including Bill O’Reilly, Larry King, Glenn Beck, and DIC’s Trollz.com. He is also a former investment banker and record label executive.

Scott’s book on e-commerce entrepreneurship, “Internet Riches”, was published by the American Management Association this spring. He wrote the first scholarly legal article predicting the verdana of the Internet on the music business in 1994.

Scott is a member of both the Recording Academy and the Television Academy, where he serves as a Judge for the Emmy Awards in Interactive Television. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Dave Ulmer · Marketing, Digital Media Services · Motorola

Ulmer is leading the company’s global marketing efforts for seamless music solutions that span across the home, phone, and automobile. This group has recently introduced iRadio, Motorola’s revolutionary new system to deliver 100s of digital radio channels to mobile phones and existing car stereos.

A veteran of the digital music market, Dave has held a variety of executive roles with wireless, hardware, and software companies, including as General Manager for Adaptec Software, initiating its spinout to form today’s Napster. Dave has a long history of championing and chaperoning leading edge products into mainstream consumer markets.

John Puterbaugh · CEO · Nellymoser

John Puterbaugh is the CEO and co-founder of Nellymoser, Inc. Nellymoser provides high quality solutions for delivering networked multimedia to mass market consumer products. Nellymoser’s solutions can be found in all Microsoft Xbox Live Games, Sony PSII Online Games, Leapfrog Products, Macromedia’s FlashMX, and the Warner Music Group’s Streaming Mobile Music Jukebox.

Prior to founding Nellymoser, he was the CTO of Voxonic, Inc and was part of the early team at Voxware, Inc., one of the first companies to provide real-time streaming solutions for the Internet for companies such as Disney, Microsoft, Nokia and Netscape. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Dartmouth and was an undergraduate at Oberlin College.

Maria C. Thomas · VP & General Manager
NPR Digital Media

As vice president and general manager for NPR Digital Media, Maria Thomas is responsible for the development and delivery of NPR content on new media platforms, including npr.org and mobile devices.

Prior to joining NPR in late 2001, Maria spent three years at Amazon.com. She played a key role in the launch and management of Amazon.com’s camera and photo store, including forging its partnership with Ofoto, a company engaged in the online photo services business.

From 1992-1999, Maria worked as an investment officer with the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC). In 1995, she was awarded an Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship to study the limitations to financing small- and medium-sized enterprises in Argentina. In 1997, Maria made the institution's first investment in a private company in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Her career at the IFC culminated with an appointment to the position of special assistant to the CEO.

Maria began her career on Wall Street where she spent five years in corporate and project finance with Kidder, Peabody & Company, Incorporated.

Thomas holds a M.B.A. degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in accounting from Boston University. She passed the CPA exam in Massachusetts. Thomas lives in Washington, D.C.

Albhy Galuten · VP of Digital Media Technology Strategy
Sony Corporation of America

Albhy Galuten is Vice President of Digital Media Technology Strategy for Sony Corporation of America (SCA). In addition to his technological achievements, Mr. Galuten is a Grammy award-winning record producer, songwriter and arranger.

Mr. Galuten joined SCA in March 2005, and is responsible for the Media Technology Group. The Media Technology Group assists with technology strategy and due diligence, research & development, relationships with the content industry and the development of standards.

Before coming to Sony, Mr. Galuten was Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology, Universal Music Group. Under Mr. Galuten, eLabs and Universal’s Advanced Technology group provided: strategic advice to senior management in the technology space, performed technical due diligence of software, hardware and business systems, invented technology and filed patents. Under Mr. Galuten, the group also managed standards participation, negotiated technology licenses and provided technical support for lobbying efforts and trade organizations.

Before working at Universal, Mr. Galuten was a Vice President at ION where he created and developed the Enhanced CD.

Prior to working in technology Mr. Galuten was a musician and record producer. In 1978 he won two Grammy awards including Producer of the Year. His original compositions and orchestrations for Film, Theatre and on record have won him a Dramalogue Award and two BMI Awards. During his music career which spanned more than 20 years, Mr. Galuten worked with numerous multi-platinum artists, produced eighteen No. 1 singles, and generated sales of more than 100 million records.

Ted Casey · SVP, Business Development & Partner Relations
MusicNet

Ted Casey serves as the Senior Vice President of Business Development and Partner Relations for MusicNet, the world’s leading provider of business-to-business digital entertainment services. Mr. Casey oversees worldwide business development, marketing, strategy, and partner relations for the company and is responsible for identifying, expanding and managing MusicNet’s global roster of distribution partners, which includes MTV, Yahoo!, HMV (UK), Virgin (US and UK), Charter, Adelphi and RCN (through Synacor), f.y.e. stores, iMesh, MusicGremlin, and more than 50 universities through Cdigix. In addition, he is responsible for marketing, strategy and public relations on a global basis.

Mr. Casey is a mobile and digital media veteran, with 16 years of experience and award-winning digital media and Internet business success. Mr. Casey joined MusicNet from Verizon Wireless where he headed the wireless carrier’s mobile music business. He managed the rapidly growing music services for Verizon Wireless’ 53 million customers, including ringtones, ringback tones, V CAST music videos, the V CAST Performances video concert series and the over-the-air full song download service V CAST Music that was launched in January 2006. Mr. Casey was responsible for business development, strategy, product planning, profit growth, partnerships, content acquisition, programming, and operations.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Casey served as General Manager of Lycos Music and Lycos’ HotBot search engine for the Lycos Network’s 99 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. Prior to Lycos, Mr. Casey managed the multimedia product, QuickTime VR, at Apple Computer, leading product strategy and planning, content development and partnerships. Mr. Casey also has served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for mBED Software and was Co-founder and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for GoFish Technologies.

Mr. Casey holds an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles and a B.A. from Duke University.

Dave Jaworski · Founder & CEO · PassAlong Network

As founder and CEO of PassAlong Networks, Dave Jaworski is responsible for ensuring the company offers the best possible experience to the consumer and the richest media platform to its business customers. This involves setting the technical and strategic vision for the company while leading the day-to-day operations.

Jaworski spent the last 20 years in various management positions for technology companies ranging from start-ups to multibillion-dollar corporations.

Early in his career, Jaworski put his computer science degree to good use at a pre-public Microsoft where he spent eight years, receiving the first Bill Gates Chairman’s Award for Excellence. At Microsoft, Jaworski was responsible for 80 percent of the U.S. retail sales budget as well as heading up U.S. sales operations and Microsoft University. He also ran technical teams, including all U.S. systems engineer training and development, and developed international experience while running national sales at Microsoft Canada.

Jaworski went on to launch several successful software companies and to head a technology team that architected and implemented an e-business platform for the sale of music and management of content on the Internet.

In addition to his tech experience, Jaworski has held on-air broadcast positions with AM and FM stations and has extensive production experience.

Mark Pascarella · President
Gotuit Media Corp.

Mark Pascarella is President of Gotuit Media Corp. As one of Gotuit’s founding investors, Mark has been a member of the company’s Board of Directors since inception and joined Gotuit full-time in 2001. Under Pascarella’s direction, Gotuit has pioneered video search/navigation and has become the leading provider of on-demand video products for multiple platforms including: cable, broadband and mobile.

Before joining Gotuit Media, Pascarella teamed up with Sidney Topol, the former Chairman and CEO of Scientific-Atlanta (SFA), to found The Topol Group, an early-stage investment firm. In addition to Gotuit, The Topol Group’s investments include broadband router manufacturer RiverDelta Networks (Motorola), cable services provider Navic Networks, VoIP switch maker Cedar Point Communications, and the multimedia semiconductor company Lumic, where Pascarella served on the Board of Directors. From 1992 to 1997, Pascarella worked in Business Development at Procter & Gamble.

Pascarella is a frequent speaker at industry events and holds a BS in Management from Bucknell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ken Parks · SVP, Strategy & Business Develoment
EMI Music

Kenneth Parks is Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development for EMI Music worldwide. In that role, he has deal making responsibility for distributing EMI’s recorded music repertoire across the spectrum of new, legitimate music platforms, ranging from Internet distribution, advanced audio formats, wireless devices, satellite, set-top boxes and on-demand services. He also has functional responsibility on a global basis for business affairs issues related to digital distribution of EMI repertoire.

Prior to joining EMI, he served as General Counsel for GetMusic LLC, an online music/lifestyle company. Before that, Mr. Parks was Chief Technology Counsel at Reuters Group PLC, where he had global responsibility for their technology related legal affairs, including the company’s new media operations. Before Reuters, Mr. Parks was in private practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges in New York, where he specialized in intellectual property litigation and transactions.

Mr. Parks obtained his Law Degree from the Columbia University School of Law. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette College and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.

David Marcus · VP of Strategic Marketing &
Business Development · Ticketmaster

David Marcus is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Ticketmaster, the world’s leading ticketing company. Mr. Marcus is responsible for leading the development and execution of strategic growth initiatives that extend Ticketmaster’s capabilities as a sales and marketing partner within its core verticals, including concerts and sports.

Prior to joining Ticketmaster in 2005, Mr. Marcus served as Founder and Managing Director for Treble Music Marketing, a consulting practice providing strategic business and marketing development services, where he was responsible for strategic partnerships and mergers & acquisitions for various music industry clients. Prior to that, he held the post of Vice President of Business Development and Legal Affairs for RadioWave, a Motorola venture that provided interactive technologies to broadcast radio and new media companies. Mr. Marcus’ legal experience includes his practice with the Entertainment & Intellectual Property Group in Chicago, and the law firm O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, California.

Mr. Marcus earned a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and a BS in Finance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a past Chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Entertainment Committee, past Council Member for Arts 4 Learning, a not-for-profit organization that connects Chicago Public Schools teachers with exemplary arts-in-education programs, and a Governor on Steppenwolf Theater’s Auxiliary Council.

David Marcus is based in Ticketmaster’s West Hollywood, California corporate headquarters.

Gary Cohen · General Manager · AOL Music Now

Gary Cohen is President of AOL Music Now. Founded as “FullAudio” in 1999 and purchased by Circuit City in 2004, MusicNow was acquired by AOL in 2005 and operates as a stand alone, wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL Premium Services LLC.

Tess Taylor · President · NARIP

Tess Taylor is founder and president of the Los Angeles Music Network (est. 1988) and the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (est. 1998). Through her work in the US and abroad Ms. Taylor has connected countless people to industry jobs and opportunities, and facilitated in launching hundreds of projects and several companies. She has consulted leading businesses such as MySpace.com, InsideSessions (a joint venture between the Universal Music Group and Penguin Putnam, Inc.), The Walt Disney Company, BMG Entertainment (now Sony BMG), Concord Records and others.

Knowledgeable about a wide range of music and record industry issues, Ms. Taylor is a frequently quoted analyst of industry developments in entertainment, trade and consumer publications, and a sought-after source of information and commentary. A popular guest speaker and participant in industry conferences internationally, she will keynote later this year at the Summer Music Conference in San Francisco, lecture at the VUT Congress (Verband unabhängiger Tonträgerunternehmen = independent record label association) in Berlin and at the Born Free Art School in Bangalore. Recently she served as keynote for the University of Florida’s Music Law Conference (2005), the SAG / AFTRA Entertainment Industry Resource Summit (2005) and Berklee College of Music’s Summer Conference (2003).

A defender of intellectual property rights, Ms. Taylor debated Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow on “free music” at Dartmouth (2006). Along with workshops and seminars for her clients, she teaches “Advancing Your Career in the 21st Century & Beyond,” a course she developed at UCLA, at institutions worldwide. She is an instructor, music business lecturer and speaker at institutions ranging from the Harvard Business School to USC, the Academy of Contemporary Music in London and the Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen. From 1988 to 1993 Ms. Taylor was employed at MCA Records, last serving as Associate Director of Marketing. A classically trained pianist, she studied music at the University of Vienna, and is a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Redlands Johnston College where she received her BA degree in music, German and literature.

Jozef Nuyens · Founder/SVP, Int’l Dev. · PassAlong Networks

Jozef Nuyens, Founder & Senior Vice President of International Development, oversees all of Passalong Network’s global business expansion efforts. Nuyens' extensive music industry experience is also put into practice at PassAlong Networks as he leverages his record label relationships in order to expand the company's licensing business globally.

For the past 20 years, Nuyens founded and served as president & CEO of one of the most successful recording complexes in the Southeast, The Castle, recording projects by more than 300 Gold and Platinum artists from around the world. A three-time Grammy-nominated producer, Nuyens also founded Castle Productions, Castle Publishing, Castle Recording Studios and Tower I & Tower II Publishing companies, a joint venture with Time-Warner’s Warner-Chappell. During that time, he also formed NAPRS (National Association of Professional Recording Services) and served as its president, signing more than 95 professional companies as members in the first three years. He currently serves as a board member of NARAS, the association that organizes the “Grammies.”

During the 1980s, Nuyens entered into a record label joint venture with Clive Davis’ Arista Records, the label that launched Whitney Houston, TLC, Santana, Alan Jackson and many others.

Born and raised in Europe, Nuyens has a strong background in international business & finance. His passion is in Geo-Political and Socio-Economic global strategic forecasting. He traveled the world as an artist and a business man to acquire cultural and geopolitical understanding.

Marty Lafferty · CEO · DCIA

Marty Lafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA): As DCIA’s CEO, Marty Lafferty is responsible for industry outreach, strategic development and management of all association initiatives. He is an accomplished new media industry leader with a track record of successful multi-business collaboration and excellence in pioneering the distribution of content via new technologies.

Throughout his career, Lafferty has served in senior leadership positions for some of the world’s most innovative technology and entertainment companies. Lafferty joined DCIA from Lafferty Media Partners LLC (LMP) where he served as Managing Partner. Prior to LMP, he was CEO of Zoom Culture, which he transformed from a year-old dotcom into a thriving digital television and new media firm within 24 months, working with partners including NBC and PAX TV. He also led Zoom’s software development team and partnered with Apple engineers to serve as the first Beta client for Scale 8’s advanced global storage network and edge content distribution system. Previously he served as CMO for StreamSearch.com, where he oversaw the conversion of streaming video search engines from a technological to an entertainment market focus, working with and for major studios such as Paramount and Artisan. During his tenure as Microsoft TV VP of Corporate & Service Marketing, Lafferty supported the strategic refocus of Microsoft’s WebTV acquisition from a purely B2C niche subscription offering to a B2B application suite for multichannel service distributors and their set-top suppliers, in addition to introducing plans for the Xbox game console.

Lafferty has received recognition from, and held leadership positions in, numerous industry organizations throughout his career. He was awarded the Council for Entrepreneurial Development Award as a top-fifty new company. He served as Membership Chairman of the Interactive Services Association, and was named Chairman of the International Digital Satellite Television Symposium. Lafferty also co-founded the Satellite Broadcasting Communications Association and served as its first Vice Chairman.

Lafferty holds a Master’s degree from Yale University and Bachelors with honors from Williams College. He has received the NCTA’s President’s Award and a CTAM TAMI Award for industry service.

Lance Ware · CEO · SyncCast

Mr. Ware is a successful entrepreneur and visionary in the streaming media industry. His expertise and consulting have been used to power solutions for such distinguished companies as Microsoft, Billboard, The Motion Picture Association of America, Hitachi Data System, Lions Gate Entertainment, Universal Music, EMI Music Group and many others. In 1995, Mr. Ware founded WareNet, a self funded and profitable infrastructure and development company. In 2000, Mr. Ware co-founded SyncCast, a leader in providing digital rights management, distribution, and content management technologies. As a 10-year veteran and U.S. Patent holder for video technology, Mr. Ware is frequently relied upon to evaluate startup companies for venture capital firms or other private investors. Mr. Ware holds a degree in Imaging Science from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Chris Montgomery · EVP Marketing & Product Management · Musicrypt

Chris Montgomery is the former CEO, MP3.com Europe and CMO of VU Net USA Technologies. Montgomery lead the MP3.com Europe team after three-years at MP3.com (San Diego) where he had served as Senior Vice President of Digital Media Technology for Vivendi Universal Net (Paris) and Vice President, Subscription Services for MP3.com. He was the architect behind the concept, design and execution of MP3.com’s revolutionary on-demand music subscription model - the first of it’s kind on the Internet (May 2000).

Montgomery’s entertainment industry experience began in 1994 when he spent four years with BMG Entertainment North America. In 1997, he left BMG and earned his MBA at the University of Edinburgh Management School (UK) where he completed his Master’s dissertation, “Electronic Distribution and Strategic Change in the Music Industry.” ©1998 University of Edinburgh. Following the completion of this degree he was a founding member of RioPort.com (Rio MP3 player/Diamond Multimedia).

Montgomery is a consultant to diverse industry brands such a Target Corporation, Musicrypt, Intelligent Mechatronic Systems and Freehand Systems.

Montgomery holds a bachelor degree in music from the University of Western Ontario, a bachelor of education degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh ‘98 (UK). He is a visiting professor of business (Entrepreneurship and Marketing) at the University of Edinburgh Management School and has taught in the USA, Canada, UK and France. He is also the author of “Prelude, Fugue and Allegro: Harmonic Transformation or Digital Dissonance” Seamont Music Group©2003, written specifically for the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts, exhibit 2003; co-author of “You say you want a revolution? A case study of MP3.com” Senate Hall Academic Publishing ©2002; author, “We are Family – A case study of the acquisition of MP3.com by Vivendi Universal” Seamont Music Group©2003; and author of “Let us entertain you – a look at the marriage of newspapers and the music industry” INMA ©2005 (International Newspaper Marketing Association).

Ron Milkes · VP, Business & Legal Affairs, General Counsel · Network LIVE

Ron Milkes is Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs and General Counsel of Network LIVE. Mr. Milkes is responsible for all business affairs and legal matters relating to the company’s operations. These areas range from acquisitions, domestic and international licensing and distribution of content, corporate mergers, and establishing joint ventures.

Prior joining Network LIVE, Mr. Milkes served as Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs and General Counsel of The Firm, the largest entertainment and brand management company in the industry. While at The Firm, Ron was responsible for all business affairs and legal matters relating to The Firm and its various operating divisions. Prior to joining The Firm, Ron was an attorney in the corporate group at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan, focusing on business transactions for entertainment companies.

Michael Weiss · CEO · StreamCast Networks

Michael Weiss has extensive experience in the Internet and entertainment industries. Prior to StreamCast, Michael Weiss was founder of WebRadio.com, a subsidiary of GEO Interactive Media Group, Ltd. (GIM:LSE) and served as its vice president and general manager. Previously Michael Weiss was vice president marketing and entertainment at CD-ROM company, Sirius Publishing from 1994 to 1998. He was a pioneer in the home video industry having established one of the first video stores in the world in 1978. He was actively involved in lobbying efforts against the Motion Picture Association of America’s efforts to repeal the First Sale Doctrine thereby paving the way for legal video rentals. In 1974, Michael Weiss helped establish one of the music industry’s first major record pools, Chicago’s Disco-Tech, Inc., helping to gain exposure of new recording artists that could not obtain radio airplay.

Greg Scholl · CEO · The Orchard

In addition to his Dimensional role (Dimensional acquires and operates media and technology businesses, including The Orchard, eMusic, and Dimensional Music Publishing), Scholl serves as Chief Executive of The Orchard, which is the world’s leading distributor of independent music.

Jan Eglen · CEO · Digonex Technologies,Inc.

Dr. Eglen attended Indiana State University and graduated with an A.B. degree in Pre-Medicine, M.S. in Psychology, M.S. in Life Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. He completed an APA Approved Internship at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Danville, Illinois and is licensed as a Health Service Professional Provider (Psychologist)* *in Indiana. His doctoral dissertation was “The Effects of Stress Management Training on Alcohol and Substance Abusers in a Milieu Therapy Setting”.

Dr. Eglen holds a patent on a recreational hovercraft that was the Neiman-Marcus His and Hers Gift of the Year in 1974. He holds the Diplomat in Counseling Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology and continues to serve as a consultant to the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Danville, Illinois. He retired as a full time psychologist and President of Associated Psychologists and Counselors, PC in June of 2004, having accumulated nearly 40,000 hours of experience as a therapist. He is the author of “A Fogging of Basic Values – a behavioral analysis of online downloading” published in September, 2004.

Chip Venters · CEO · DigitalContainers, Inc.

Chip Venters, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalContainers, Inc., is a career entrepreneur with experience in the startup, product development and marketing of information services and software. DigitalContainers has technologies and patents that enable an entirely new digital content distribution and sales system where all intellectual property has a profitable business model. With this system, the creators of digital media, documents, software, games and other intellectual property can quickly and easily monetize their digital goods by creating, packaging, registering and releasing them into the global market in just a few easy steps. Previously he was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of SiteScape, Inc., a start-up teamware and community software company that grew to a position of industry leadership and 350 enterprise customers in just 18 months. Chip authored numerous white papers and was a frequent presenter at international conferences on teamware and communities of practice while at SiteScape. Chip was a founder of DeskGate Technologies, the original inventors of the DigitalContainers technology. DeskGate’s pioneering systems for the sale of digital goods, lead to major industry awards within the first two years of the company’s inception, (Best New Company, Internet World, 1998). Many of DigitalContainers patents are based on the technologies developed by Deskgate. Venters was the founder of Smart Communications, an electronic communication service bureau serving the trade associating industry. Smart was parent company of TotalFax, a major provider of enhanced fax services, which was sold to Premiere Communications, Inc., TotalAccess Communications, another Smart company was an Internet service provider in DC who combined with Interpath, now owned by Progress Energy.

Eric Garland · CEO · BigChampagne

Eric Garland is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BigChampagne Media Measurement, a privately-held technology and market research company specializing in online media, with a focus on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Garland is recognized as one of the industry’s leading authorities on the global file sharing phenomenon.

John Boyle · Owner & President · The BAM Group

After marketing stints at record companies and working for Sanctuary Music Group, John is now running his own management firm. John founded the SnoCore Tour and Extreme Consulting and still runs them from his Los Angeles office. Currently, he manages Xzibit, Blackalicious, Alien Ant Farm and many other artists.

Jamie Perlman · Director of Business Development for Retail Partners · SNOCAP

As the leader of SNOCAP’s business development efforts with retailers, Jamie is responsible for identifying and establishing retail partnership opportunities with existing businesses and those that are exploring entry into the new space of digital music commerce. He brings with him more than 15 years of experience in the music industry - as a musician, producer, and general manager of an independent record label, Satelitemusica Records. Mr. Perlman resides in San Francisco and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

Joshua James · Co-Founder & CEO · Basecamp Productions

Joshua James is the co-founder and CEO of Basecamp Productions. With clients that include Pearl Jam, The Doors, and Live Nation, Basecamp Productions is the premiere provider of “boutique” music download software. Beginning with the trailblazing live “Official Bootlegs” series with Pearl Jam, Basecamp has developed a unique business approach that allows artists to create their own branded online download systems to sell music through their existing website. Rather than re-directing traffic to a 3rd party website, the Basecamp system integrates with the artist’s website, allowing fans to download music direct from the artist. The look and feel of the software can be easily tailored to match whatever the artist prefers. Focusing on the live music market and with over 10 million downloads in the last 12 months, the Basecamp business model is serving an area that the large corporate online music services are unable to attend to.

Before starting Basecamp Productions, Mr. James was the founder and CEO of pioneering digital communications company RiseTech. In 1995, RiseTech was among the first companies in the world to begin wiring high-rise office buildings with fiber-optics for direct data connections to the Internet. After successfully selling RiseTech in 1999 to Equity Office Property (Nasdaq:EOP), Mr. James spent time as an executive at both Laptop Lane and Fisher Communications before founding Basecamp Productions in 2002.

Dorrian Porter · CEO · Mozes, Inc.

Dorrian Porter is the founder and CEO of Mozes, a mobile community and marketing company in Palo Alto, California. Previously he co-founded HigherMarkets, an on-demand software company in March 2000, where as CEO he led it to its acquisition by a Nasdaq listed company. Dorrian worked with the combined company until July 2005, where he helped significantly grow the business and shape the company's product offerings. Previously, Dorrian practiced law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he represented a wide range of technology companies. Prior to joining WSGR, he worked in Canada as an associate at McCarthy Tetrault, an analyst at Harrowston, Inc. (now TD Capital) and at the Canadian Parliament, including the Prime Minister's Office. He received his law degree and MBA from the University of Toronto and Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Ottawa.

Christopher Amenita · SVP of ASCAP’s Enterprises Group · ASCAP

Christopher Amenita is the Senior Vice President of ASCAP’s Enterprises Group, which is the entrepreneurial division of ASCAP. The Enterprises Group focuses on two main areas: The first is the society’s internet activities, which includes ASCAP’s licensing efforts as well as the evaluation of emerging technologies surrounding the digital delivery of music on the internet. The second area centers on investing and partnering in developing technologies and ventures. Chris was responsible for overseeing ASCAP’s creation of Mediaguide, which is the largest Broadcast Monitoring and Data Information company utilizing audio fingerprinting technology. Chris was also involved in the creation of ASCAP's New Media and Technology Department, ASCAP's Web Site, and has directed numerous projects in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer. Chris currently serves as Chairman of DDEX (The Digital Data Exchange), a consortium of organizations that represent songwriters and publishers, digital service providers and record labels whose mission is to develop and maintain standards to support the digital distribution of digital content. He continues to appear on panels discussing the verdana of technology on the Music/Entertainment industry. Chris received a Bachelor of Science degree from the New York Institute of Technology.

David G. Powell · Owner & President · The Music Bridge

David G. Powell, Los Angeles, is a Music Supervisor and Music Rights Specialist with over twenty-five years of experience. He is owner/president of The Music Bridge LLC, a full-service music clearance and licensing company whose clients include digital rights media companies and ringtone aggregators, as well as film and television studios and production companies, advertising agencies, national/Intl. corporations, and more. David Powell has appeared on numerous music industry panels as a guest speaker.

David D. Oxenford · Partner · Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Oxenford has over 25 years of experience in representing radio and television broadcasters before the Federal Communications Commission and other regulatory agencies, dealing with issues including the FCC multiple ownership rules, the conversion of radio and television to digital transmission, alien ownership, and all aspects of the content and technical rules regulating broadcast operations.

Les Watkins · VP, Bus. Affairs & Bus. Dev. · MRI

Les Watkins is Vice President of Business Affairs & Business Development at MRI. He is responsible for identifying new business opportunities and cultivating and developing client relationships and strategic alliances. Mr. Watkins is also charged with the negotiation and execution of client service agreements as well as licenses with the music publishing, artist and label communities.

Mr. Watkins is a music industry lawyer with many years of transactional deal-making experience as a record label executive, artist lawyer and artist manager. He served in the Business Affairs and Law Departments of Sony Music Entertainment, in New York and Los Angeles, and at Sony's new media ventures group, 550 Digital Media Ventures.

Prior to joining MRI he was in private practice for preeminent artist representation law firms, such as King Holmes Paterno & Berliner in Los Angeles. Mr. Watkins has published articles in scholarly legal journals on “The Digital Performance Right In Sound Recordings Act Of 1995” (the precursor to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and is a frequent panelist at industry conferences and law schools focused on digital music licensing and payment models. He is a 1989 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University Of Georgia and a 1996 graduate of the University Of Georgia School of Law.

Daniel Harris · CEO · MediaPass Network

Mr. Harris has been at the forefront of Digital Music for nearly 10 years. After the .com bubble burst, Mr. Harris saw a unique opportunity to connect with Gen Y – X Audiences through online music. Since Founding MediaPass Network <http://www.mediapass.net>, Daniel has been an industry trendsetter in the areas of live event webcasting and branded video content. Daniel was part of the team that released Madonna’s 1st legal download on the Internet and personally secured the rights and exclusively distributed Internet Webcasts for the most coveted independent live events throughout North America and Europe. This includes producing hundreds of individual live-on-demand webcasts and numerous marquee live events including the 2002 – 2003 – 2004 American Dance Music Awards, 2001 – 2002 – 2003 Ultra Music Festival, UK’s MOBO Awards, and Voodoo Festival. This lifestyle credibility resulted in MediaPass Network being selected by Microsoft Corporation to participate in the Beta Launch of Windows Media 9 Series in September 2002 and the National Press Launch of the Portable Media Center in 2005.

Previously, Mr. Harris operated his own production company where he initiated business relationships and earned producing credits for clients including: Promax & BDA, Adidas, ABC Sports, and Fox Sports World. During this time, Mr. Harris was a Tartikoff Award Finalist (top industry new comer) in each of his two years of eligibility. Prior to relocating to Los Angeles in 1996, Daniel was Co-General Manager of the New Orleans A League Professional Soccer Franchise where he tripled revenue and doubled attendance each season. Daniel managed all media partnerships, community outreach programs, and key accounts including: Coca Cola, Cox Cable, Gatorade, Pizza Hut, Snickers Brand, and WWL Radio. A native of Washington DC, Mr. Harris holds a B.S. Degree in Marketing from Loyola University of New Orleans.

Steve Skrzyniarz · Founder & CEO · Soundflavor

Steve is a technologist and entrepreneur, with a passion for supporting independent musicians. He is a nine-year veteran of Microsoft, shipping over 50 products as both software developer and senior product manager.

Steve was active in the Seattle music scene of the late 80's and early 90’s, operating three independent record labels, handling A&R, production, packaging, marketing, distribution, and tour support for his bands. Steve authored a do-it-yourself guide to help artists release their own records, which formed the basis of the now-legendary Mechanics Guide To Putting Out Records. In 1999, he founded a multi-year research project with the goal of using technology to help music fans quickly find great music, based on their personal tastes. This research is the foundation of Soundflavor’s current products.

Maurice Russell · VP, Licensing · Harry Fox Agency

Maurice A. Russell is the Vice President of Licensing and Label Relations, for the Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA). Russell oversees the HFA Licensing Department as well as the Label Specialist Program, which seeks to strengthen relationships with key music company personnel to identify recording project priorities and provide faster, more accurate licensing and collection services for the benefit of the distribution companies and HFA’s affiliated music publishers. He reports directly to Michael Simon, HFA’s SVP Business Affairs, General Counsel and Chief Strategic Officer.

Russell has broad-based entertainment industry and distribution experience. Before joining HFA in 2002, Russell was the founder and CEO of Machine Enterprises Inc., where he provided commercial artist management and business consulting services to creat