John Koller
Director, Marketing, PlayStation Platforms
Sony Computer Entertainment America
As Director, Hardware Marketing, at Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), John Koller is responsible for the management and marketing of the PlayStation 3, PSP (Playstation Portable), PlayStation 2, PlayStation Network marketing, and all related peripherals in North America. In his current role, Koller is tasked with the management of all aspects of PlayStation hardware platforms, including brand management, product features, strategic initiatives, movie studio and music label content development, peripheral launches and more. He has managed or assisted with the launches of all current SCEA hardware products, including the PS3, PSP, PlayStation 2, as well as many PlayStation 2 peripherals. Koller has more than 12 years of consumer product marketing experience, including 11 years directly in the videogame industry. Previously, Koller launched more than 30 top-selling PlayStation 2, PSP and PlayStation software franchises as a product marketing manager at SCEA, including SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs, ATV Offroad Fury, Syphon Filter, and Ratchet & Clank. In this role, Koller was responsible for all aspects of software marketing, including global positioning strategies, TV, print, online and viral advertising, packaging, code analysis, as well as public relations and creative promotional events, and viral marketing and activities. Koller was also an associate product marketing manager for 989 Studios, a division of SCEA that developed games for the PlayStation computer entertainment systems and Windows personal computers.

William O. Leszinske, Jr.
GM, Digital Home Group
Intel
William Leszinske is the General Manager of the DTV (Digital Television) and Custom SoC (System-on-Chip) Group within Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. Leszinske is responsible for growing Intel’s business in the DTV market segment, spanning roadmap, marketing, business and ecosystem development to deliver platform solutions that will accelerate a new generation of Internet compatible digital TVs. Leszinske joined Intel’s Consumer Electronics effort in 2006 and has focused on developing the company’s overall strategy, business model and products. Leszinske has been with the Digital Home Group since its formation, and created the core Consumer PC Marketing and planning teams. Leszinske’s Intel career spans strategic planning, product development, marketing and extensive field sales experience. Leszinske joined Intel in 1989, and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Gilles Babinet
Chairman of Awdio,
Chairman of Eyeka
Gilles Babinet, Chairman and co-founder of EYEKA, has a proven history of creating and managing successful businesses with a specialization in mobile entertainment. After founding a major consultancy firm focused on product design and marketing at the age of 24 that was eventually sold to Euro-RSCG, Babinet founded Musiwave, which became the leading European provider of mobile music and entertainment services to telecommunication operators and media in just 5 years. After establishing Musiwave’s presence in more than 17 countries throughout the world and establishing relationships with over 30 mobile operators, Babinet sold Musiwave to Openwave, a publicly-traded American company, for $121M in January 2006. Babinet currently serves as non-executive director in the Mobile Entertainment Forum as well as in the company Digicompanion.

Ben Bajarin
Director of Consumer Technology
Creative Strategies

Mitch Berman
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
ZillionTV
Mitchell Berman’s 25 years of executive management and entrepreneurial leadership in multimedia entertainment and technology includes a combination of powerhouse television brands and rising television technology start-ups. Under his global leadership, Mitch has spearheaded the launch of consumer entertainment services spanning cable, DBS, IPTV, Broadband, P2P, VoIP, wireless, interactive television, video-on-demand (VOD) and digital advertising insertion. Prior to joining ZillionTV, Mitch was corporate vice president of global marketing for C-COR (acquired by ARRIS in December 2007; NASDAQ: ARRS), where he led the company’s successful repositioning and marketing strategy for its video-on-demand, digital advertising insertion, optical transport and operations support software products.

Savinay Berry
Vice President
Granite Ventures
Savinay Berry joined Granite Ventures in August 2008. He focuses on both software and communications. Prior to joining Granite Ventures, Savinay held associate positions at JK&B Capital and MK Capital. From 2000 to 2006, he held various positions at Dell Inc., most recently as senior global commodity manager for wireless products. He also served as a development engineer in the data recording equipment start-up at Instrumented Sensors Technology from 1998 to 2000.

Bill Binenstock
Vice President and Manager
CBS.com
Bill Binenstock is the Vice President and Manager of CBS.com, the online home for the CBS Television Network. Mr. Binenstock came to CBS with the company’s acquisition of CBS SportsLine in 1998, where he served as the Managing Editor of GolfWeb.com. Subsequent to his duties with GolfWeb, Mr. Binenstock led teams of product managers and producers for CBS SportsLine. These teams’ responsibilities included servicing audiences and clients for SportsLine, the NFL, the PGA of America, the PGA TOUR, and the NCAA. In 2005, Mr. Binenstock was named Vice President of Consumer Products, a new unit inside of CBS SportsLine. The Consumer Products group operated in tandem with the Programming team to develop a portfolio of products which encouraged deeper customer interactions and relationships. These products included mobile applications, games, fantasy sports utilities, and partner and affiliate products. Mr. Binenstock moved to the Bay area in the spring of 2007 after CBS’s acquisition of CNET.

David Blumberg
Manging Partner
Blumberg Capital
David Blumberg is the Managing Partner of Blumberg Capital. David has been investing in early stage technology companies for more than 24 years. His current investment focus includes Digital Media, Social Media, Mobility, SaaS/Technology Enabled Services and Internet. Prior to founding Blumberg Capital in 1991, David managed technology investments with Claridge Investments, Adler & Co., Apax, and T. Rowe Price Associates. David launched the business development efforts for Check Point Software Technologies. David earned his AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard College and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and INSEAD. David speaks French and is proficient in Hebrew and Spanish. David serves as a member or observer on the Board of Directors of CaseStack, DoubleVerify, Siperian, Correlix, and isocket. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

David Broberg
Vice President of Consumer Video Technology
CableLabs
Mr. Broberg has been with CableLabs since 1999 and was a principal developer of the OpenCable™ hardware architecture. As a member of the Office of the CTO, he is currently responsible for identifying, analyzing and developing key strategic video technology and related specifications and standards. Mr. Broberg has more than 30 years of technical and business experience in the television industry including broadcast, cable, satellite and consumer electronics and holds four awarded patents in the field. Prior to joining CableLabs, Mr. Broberg served in several key strategic engineering management and product development roles for Mitsubishi Electric including digital broadcasting and consumer electronics. Mr. Broberg is a member of the SMPTE Task Force on 3D, the CEA 3D Task Force and chairs the SCTE Digital Video Subcommittee 3D Ad Hoc Group. Mr. Broberg is a Sr. Member of IEEE and a veteran of the US Air Force where he began his career in video technology and obtained an Associate in Applied Arts & Sciences, Electronic Technology from Mountain View College in 1980. As a hobby, Mr. Broberg began taking 3D photographs in 1976.

David Bryant
Senior Director of Java Marketing
Sun Microsystems
David Bryant is Senior Director of Java Marketing at Sun Microsystems, and with his team is responsible for Sun's Java platform technologies across four business areas - TV, Desktop, Embedded, and Card - as well as Sun's Java Store and Warehouse initiative. He has been at Sun since 1993, having managed a variety of engineering and marketing teams in the Solaris Desktop, iPlanet, Middleware, and Java business units. Prior to coming to Sun he spent fourteen years in research and development at Bell Laboratories, and holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Thomas Carpenter
VP Operations,
Digital Chief of Staff
Epix
Thomas Carpenter is the VP Operations and digital Chief of Staff at EPIX, the next-gen entertainment channel from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM. As head of ops, he is working to implement some of the industry's most innovative technologies on EPIX's multi-platform entertainment service. Prior to EPIX, Tom managed special projects at MTV Networks. Before that, he served as an expert witness and consultant for the Motion Picture Association of America. Tom has also held the CIO post at CCG.XM International/Bates Advertising, the CTO post at 141 Interactive/Bates USA, and worked with USWeb/marchFIRST as technology lead.

Eric Chen
Partner
WI Harper Group
Eric is Partner at WI Harper, venture capital firm with over $400M under management that invests in early stage companies with significant operations in China and the Valley. The firm has a track record of over 100 investments in the technology and digital media including Focus Media, DivX, Vizio, EditGrid, International Display Works among others. The firm manages over $400 million in invested capital from our offices in Beijing, Taipei and San Francisco. Eric is also an active angel investor in Valley focusing on seed stage Internet, consumer electronics and software opportunities. Eric works closely with WI Harper’s offices in the U.S and Greater China and is actively involved with Laszlo, Ooma, Mail.com Media and EditGrid. Eric was one of the first employees at E2open, a pioneer of the on-demand software model, and a co-founder of an e-commerce company operating in Silicon Valley. He earned an M.B.A. and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford.

Itzik Cohen
Founder and CEO
ClipSync
Itzik Cohen is the Founder and CEO of ClipSync. Based in Silicon Valley, California, ClipSync was co-founded by former WebEx veteran Itzik Cohen to research, create, and implement a Social TV platform that makes TV viewing highly interactive, engaging and more fun. ClipSync's ongoing mission is to cultivate and promote innovative ways to bring TV viewers together to interact with each other and engage with the content they’re viewing online. Cohen was centrally involved with funding and IPO at WebEx Communications, the Web Meeting Applications Company Acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO). Prior to WebEx, he was Director of Business Development at NetManage Inc., where he led the Advanced Technology team focusing on collaborative technologies. A well spoken industry expert in online social media, Cohen has contributed to several panels and conferences over the years, including Digital Hollywood, AlwaysOn Media and OnHollywood to name a few.

Colin Dixon
Senior Partner, Advisory
The Diffusion Group
Mr. Dixon brings a wealth of knowledge on the rich media, DTV, and IPTV spaces to The Diffusion Group. Over the last 15 years he has held senior executive positions at Microsoft/WebTV, Liberate and Oracle delivering products and services to the Cable, Satellite and IPTV industries. Mr. Dixon is the author of many reports and opinion pieces including Broadband Video: Redefining the Television Experience and Pay TV Service Providers and Online Video Delivery: How Soon is Now? He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering and has post-graduate business education experience from Stanford. Mr. Dixon is a frequent speaker and moderator at many industry events such as Digital Hollywood, NAB, and FierceIPTV. Mr. Dixon was also nominated one of IPTV’s Top 50 People by IPTV Evangelist.

Pat Dunbar
Director, Advertising
TV, Video & Music Business Group
Microsoft Corporation

Andrew Gellis
Senior Executive
Evergreen Films
Gellis oversees an ambitious slate of 3D projects being produced across multiple 3D platforms. His consulting work for various film companies and Wall Street investment firms covers the transition from film to digital, in production, distribution, and exhibition, as well all things 3D. He has recently become heavily involved with the aggregation of content for 3D in the home. Mr. Gellis served for six years as Senior Vice President for Film and Distribution at the IMAX Corporation, where he pioneered the development of 3D narrative filmmaking for IMAX screens. His 3D producing and writing credits include: Space Station 3D, T-Rex, Galapagos, The IMAX Nutcracker, and The Hidden Dimension. Previously, as a Producer and Executive Consultant for Sony Pictures, he developed the strategy for Sony’s entrance into IMAX production and wrote and produced Across the Sea of Time: New York 3D. In addition to his work in the large format medium, he has worked as an executive and producer at various studios.

Jordan Greenhall
Co-Founder and former CEO
DivX
Jordan Greenhall, age 38, was a co-founder of DivX and served as the Company's CEO until July 2007 and Chairman of the Board of Directors until December 2007. Mr. Greenhall was responsible for DivX's corporate strategy and overall strategic direction. From January 1999 to June 1999, Mr. Greenhall was Vice President at MP3.com, a digital media company, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the company's business and content development model. From July 1999 to January 2000, Mr. Greenhall served as a Strategic Consultant with INTERVU, a premier streaming media services provider. Mr. Greenhall received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a B.A., summa cum laude, from Texas A&M University. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute and the Board of Directors of MXP4.

Patrick Griffis
Senior Director, Technology Policy
Dolby Laboratories Inc.
As Senior Director, Technology Strategy at Dolby Laboratories, Patrick Griffis is charged with helping define future technology strategy for the company. Prior to joining Dolby, Pat spent 10 years at Microsoft leading global digital media standards strategy, including adoption of the Digital Living Network Alliance as a baseline media sharing standard in Windows 7 and standardization of Windows Media Video technology as an international SMPTE standard. Prior to Microsoft, Pat spent 15 years at Panasonic in senior management positions, including Vice President of Strategic Product Development at Panasonic Broadcast, where he helped launch DVCPRO and drive US strategy for HDTV Pat started his career at RCA, earning eight patents in TV product design.

Jason Henderson
Games Product Manager
Verizon Communications
Jason Henderson manages online gaming for Verizon Communications, where subscription gaming has been a success story since its launch in 2005. He is the creator of several comic book series including "Sword of Dracula" and is the author of several science fiction novels, both original IP and for brands like Incredible Hulk, X-Men and Spider-Man. His most recent books are THE DARKLING BAND and the manga PSY-COMM 2. A Texas attorney, he has over 10 years of experience in the games industry, with game production credits for Electronic Arts, Microsoft and Ion Storm.

Alan Hoff
Vice President of Product Marketing
SeaChange International

Ari Levy
Senior Technology Reporter
Bloomberg News
As a technology reporter at Bloomberg, Ari Levy has covered networking, Internet and mobile-phone companies while following deals and dealmakers in private equity and venture capital. He joined Bloomberg in 2003 as a stock market reporter in New York and moved to San Francisco in 2006 to write about Silicon Valley. After an 18-month hiatus to cover the financial crisis, he re-joined the tech team as a senior reporter in August. Ari has a master's degree in business journalism from Baruch College in New York.

Brad McManus
Director of Investments
Panasonic

Buno Pita
Co-Founder and CEO
Sezmi

Carmen Rizzo
two-time Grammy Nominee and electronic musician
Two-time GRAMMY Nominee, electronic musician & underground darling Carmen Rizzo, is a frequent fixture in album credits as a producer, mixer, remixer, musician, and co-writer for a wide range of influential artists including Seal, Coldplay, Alanis Morissette, Paul Oakenfold, BT, Tiesto, Jem, Esthero, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cirque du Soleil, KD Lang, and Pete Townshend of The Who, the mention a few. Also known as a recording artist releasing two Electronic driven albums “The Lost Art Of The Idle Moment” (Lab/Universal) & “Ornament Of An Impostor” (Electrofone Music) featuring collaborations from Jem, Kate Havnevik, Esthero to Grant Lee Phillips. Carmen also co-founded the highly influential group Niyaz (Six Degrees) with Azam Ali & Loga Ramin Torkian, & Lal Meri (Six Degrees) with Nancy (Rosey) Kaye & Ireesh Lal. As a composer, Carmen recently did the score of two films from acclaimed British Oscar winning director Michael Apted for the film “Power of the Game" (Pathe) and a short film called “Party guest”, and also composed & performed the music for the closing theme of the Sony Play Station 3 game Un Chartered 2.

Tushar Saxena
Director of Home Networking Technologies
Verizon Communications
Tushar oversees the development and execution the next generation digital home strategy for broadband services including FiOS, DSL and LTE. His group also represents Verizon on industry and standards forums such as the MoCA Alliance, DSL Forum, RVU alliance and DLNA. Tushar was also the chief architect of VoiceWing, Verizon's consumer VoIP service launched in 2004. Prior to Verizon, Tushar held key positions at GE Global Research and BBN Technologies where he was responsible for the development of a number of key innovative government and military solutions using emerging IP networking technologies Tushar holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York, Albany and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Jimmy Schaeffler
Chairman & CSO
The Carmel Group

Russ Schafer
Senior Director of Product Marketing
Yahoo! Inc.
Russ Schafer brings twenty years experience in product and corporate marketing to his role as Senior Director of Product Marketing for Yahoo! Connected TV. Russ has global product marketing responsibility including consumer insights, segmentation, concept development, branding, pricing, positioning and compelling “out of the box” consumer experiences. Yahoo! Connected TV is at the leading edge of the Web’s intersection with the “10-foot experience” of television viewing. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Russ held positions as Director of Marketing, Director of Technology Management, Director of Business Development and Operations, and Regional Sales Manager for Intel, Sybase, and IBM. He has marketed a broad range of hardware, software, and Internet products and services to consumers and businesses. His responsibilities spanned the entire product lifecycle, including research, design, development, branding, pricing, manufacturing, inventory management, distribution and intellectual property. Russ’ experience as an entrepreneur included time as Director of Product and Business Management for an Intel-funded startup that developed a mobile wireless and e-commerce software platform and service. He was responsible for market development and business management including market research, pricing, user interface design, e-commerce transactions, e-coupon advertising, and a multi-million dollar P&L. Russ holds an MBA in international business from Duke University and a BBA in Management from Texas A&M University.

Rob Schonfeld
VP, Pay Television and Interactive Media
Disney ABC Domestic Television
Rob Schonfeld currently serves as vice president, pay television and interactive media, Disney«ABC Domestic Television (DADT), which licenses its vast library of movie titles and broadcasting assets from The Walt Disney Company in pay television, pay-per-view, video-on-demand, mobile and digital media. Named to the newly created post in 2005, Schonfeld oversees the development of viable business strategies for the distribution of these products in all areas of digital and on-demand media, and the execution of business partnerships and licensing agreements in fulfillment of those strategies. He has over twelve years of experience in the entertainment industry and is an expert in the fields of digital technology and creative content. Schonfeld is based at the company’s Burbank headquarters.

Albin Serviant
CEO
MXP4
Graduate from ESSEC business school former EVP and GM at Vivendi Mobile Entertainment Albin Serviant brings forth strong leadership expertise in developing emerging new tech & content driven projects. Focussing primarily on sales, marketing, and leading business development positions in successful European start-ups and major corporations such as Musiwave (Sold to Openwave, 2007 and Microsoft, 2008), iBazar (Sold to eBay, 2002), LibertySurf, PepsiCo, and Sony Music, Albin is now working as CEO at MXP4 - a new interactive music start up.

Steve Shannon
Executive Vice President
RealD
Steve Shannon is Executive Vice President of RealD Home and is responsible for delivering on RealD's mission to enable 3D content is the living room. Prior to RealD, Steve was Executive Vice President and General Manager for Product Development at Gemstar-TV Guide, Int. (acquired by Macrovision). At Gemstar and Macrovision, Steve led product strategy and software development. In 2002, Steve founded Akimbo Systems, Inc., the first Internet video-on-demand service for televisions. Prior to Akimbo, Steve was a co-founder at ReplayTV where he helped launch the first digital video recorder, driving product, marketing, and sales strategies. Before ReplayTV, Steve was Director of Internet Authoring at Macromedia, where he launched Dreamweaver; now Adobe's market-leading Web-authoring tool. Steve joined Macromedia when it purchased iband, the company he co-founded and the original developer of Dreamweaver. Steve holds a bachelor's degree from UCLA and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Sanjay Sharma
Worldwide Director for Market Development,
Cloud Computing Business
Sun Microsystems
Sanjay Sharma, is the worldwide Director for Market Development for the Cloud Computing Business Unit at Sun. He has Worldwide responsibility for partnerships and business development for Cloud Computing and is also responsible for the Sun Startup Essentials Program and Solaris-on-demand program for SaaS. At Sun he has been in previous leadership roles in partner management for software infrastructure and security markets. Prior to Sun, he was responsible for the US Operations of Bluestar, a software consulting company based in San Jose, CA. Prior to Bluestar, he was a part of a Startup Software Consulting company in San Jose and has worked in different sales and marketing positions in startup operations in Europe and India.

dalas verdugo
Community Director
Vimeo.com
dalas verdugo (sic) is Community Director at Vimeo.com, a website for sharing high-quality film and video content. dalas attended Rochester Institute of Technology to pursue a BA in Film and Video Production. He focused mainly on experimental techniques, working to find ways to harness new technologies as a part of the creative process. After graduation in 2003, his work earned him a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Norway, at the Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, where he collaborated on live multimedia performances. Shortly after his return to New York City, where he was doing freelance video production work, dalas became involved in the early stages of Vimeo.com, founded in 2004. Over the course of five years, he has worked to shape the direction of Vimeo, with an emphasis on building a community of talented, creative, and respectful members.

Paul Wehrley
co-founder and COO
Clicker.com
Paul leads the business operations function at Clicker. Prior to founding Clicker, Paul spent nine years at Ask.com in both operational and M&A roles. As Ask’s VP Strategy & Operations, he oversaw the Ask P&L, drove its strategic planning process, and managed the company’s business development group. Previously, as Ask’s VP Corporate Development, he completed over 15 M&A transactions, including the acquisitions of Teoma Technologies, Interactive Search Holdings, and Bloglines. Before working at Ask, Paul was a Financial Analyst in the mergers & acquisitions group at Volpe Brown Whelan & Co, a San Francisco-based technology investment bank. Paul holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University.

Mitch Weinraub
Executive Director - Business Development
Comcast Media Center
Mitch Weinraub is Executive Director, Business Development for the Comcast Media Center, a business unit of Comcast Cable. In this role, he oversees development and implementation of the company’s content creation, management and distribution services. The Denver-based CMC’s products and services encompass production and postproduction facilities, a national VOD platform, web streaming, store and forward delivery and video over IP, including IP multicasting via satellite and delivering video to PCs and portable media devices. Weinraub has over 18 years of experience designing facilities, systems and processes for the purpose of managing technology. Before assuming his current assignment at the CMC, he served for two years as Executive Director, Products and Services and six years as Senior Director, New Media Initiatives and Implementation.