Speakers

David has more than 12 years of product, marketing and business development experience across the sports and entertainment media industry including 10+ years at the nexus of social networking, entertainment, sports, and digital media. David currently heads up the digital media business at Bebo, the third largest social networking site with over 40 million users worldwide. David is also company adviser to or investor in a number of Web 2.0 sports media companies including Yardbarker, Protrade, Sports Blog Nation, and a stealth company.

Juliette is an honors student attending Washington University in St. Louis, where she also works on Miss O & Friends. At age 10, Juliette tapped into her artistic creative side, drawing what she referred to as "cool girls." Along with the help of her sister, mom and other girls, after five years of just play, Miss O & Friends was formed for girls ages 8-12. As she explains, "We started with a Web site by girls, for girls, featuring real girls, including my sister, Olivia (Miss O), our Asian-American cousin Harlie, Justine, inspired by a local tween, Isabella, Olivia's friend, and me." Miss O & Friends fills the void for tween girls who have outgrown Barbie and are not ready for Britney.

Carl aims to use the upsurge of web broadcast capabilities to create personal stories that highlight relevant social and political issues facing California residents. In 2002, Carl moved from Brooklyn to the Bay Area, starting his own freelance video production company, Corduroy Media. His concern with social inequality, environmental racism and corporate control of information and media outlets motivates his projects with independent artists, non-profit foundations, and educational groups. He currently works with clients in the Bay Area and New York.

Thrillist.com's New York editor came of age as an itinerant southerner, traveling the bible belt with his father, a biscuit salesman, and his mother, a freelance hospice nurse. And while that's not true, it's a matter of record that he edited a glossy arts and culture magazine in Virginia before moving to New York City in 2002 to meet your daughter. He's since achieved editorial notoriety by reporting for the New York Daily News, managing a journalism school in Russia, and punditizing about online video for the Hollywood Reporter, the Online Journalism Review, and several other publications you haven't read. The New York Times once called him "the Zizek of online video," a superlative which he promptly laser-etched onto scrimshaw and mounted on his lime green Vespa.

At Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families, Linda oversees digital media strategy, program development, outreach to the education segment, as well as the growth and operation of the organization's regional offices. Previously, she was Senior Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Planning at SyStemix, a biotechnology start-up that she helped build and then sell to Novartis. Before that, Linda was a strategic management consultant at McKinsey & Company, serving healthcare and consumer-product companies; and in investment banking at Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, where she negotiated joint ventures between U.S. technology companies and the People's Republic of China.

For the last ten years, Bill, his partners and employees have developed Fuse into a leading youth culture marketing services firm. In 2002, Bill received Fast Company magazine's Fast 50 Award for his impact on popular culture and in 2001 was awarded Sports Business Journal's Forty Under 40 Award as one of the "most influential and important young executives in sports." Bill has been widely quoted in media ranging from Paper and Skateboarder magazines to The New York Times and Advertising Age. Bill provides counsel on many of Fuse's client initiatives, currently advises Yahoo!, Harley-Davidson, Mountain Dew (Pepsi), NBC Sports and others. Bill is a graduate of Gettysburg College (BA) and Michigan State University (MS).

Karl helped launch Inner City Enterprises, Inc., a strategic communications and entertainment holding company, to develop and launch creative programs that engage urban youth audiences worldwide. It has four integrated business segments: GTM...It Means A Lot (a youth marketing and promotions agency), Soul Underground (a live, positive entertainment platform for showcasing the best in underground urban talent), Wheat Bread Clothing (a progressive urban streetwear apparel company, and Change the Game (a non-profit community outreach initiative). Karl is responsible for designing innovative media & new business pitches targeting the youth subculture market. Karl received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from George Washington University, specializing in Electronic Media Marketing.

Director Guy (aka Todd) is the creator of Midwest Teen Sex Show. In an effort to showcase his filmmaking talents and provide a fresh take on teen sexuality, Guy began shooting Midwest Teen Sex Show with high school friend Nikol Hasler. Since its debut, the show has received millions of views and has been featured in national press. When he’s not busy editing episodes or duct taping Britney’s nipples, Guy produces new media content for online and broadcast venues. His commercial work and consulting services can be found at H-PEP.com. He also loves cheese.

AddictingGames is part of the Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group and Kate manages the site's business and daily operations. With more than 20 million visitors a month, AddictingGames.com is the largest youth-oriented online game site in the United States and has become one of the most popular Web sites among teens. It has grown its library to more than 3,000 games. Prior to her role at AddictingGames, Kate launched and lead product marketing for Shockwave.com's downloadable games business and also managed business development for its parent company, Atom Entertainment. Kate formerly was an associate at Advent International, a private equity firm, and an analyst at Volpe, Welty and Co., a boutique investment bank.

Catherine is a college freshman who leads a not-so-secret double life. Catherine is a co-founder of the fastest-growing social networking site on the Internet, myYearbook.com. She and her brother, Dave, brainstormed the idea-a digital yearbook for the modern age-then persuaded their older brother, Geoff, to jump on board as their first investor. In just over a year, Catherine helped grow the site to 1.7 million U.S. unique visitors and achieved low 7-figure annual revenue through partnerships with companies like P&G. She also helped raise $4.1 million in venture capital. Catherine currently is an International Business and Marketing major at Georgetown University. myYearbook.com currently gets 5 million unique visitors per month and over a billion page views per month.

John manages the daily operation of the company he founded and directs all content generation for the brand and its various products. John brings more than 18 years of experience in the interactive entertainment media industry to his role as president of What They Like. With expertise in every major sector of videogame media, he has contributed to a variety of well respected print and online consumer and trade publications in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to What They Like, John was senior vice president, editorial director of the Ziff Davis Game Group. In that role, he shaped and directed all 1UP Network editorial products, including 1UP.com, MyCheats.com, GameVideos.com, a suite of podcasts, Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, and a variety of special issues.

Roland is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing for Kadoink, responsible for leading the company's marketing strategy initiatives and product expansion efforts. Before joining Kadoink, Roland served as Senior Vice President at Grey Worldwide advertising in San Francisco, where he was responsible for managing engagements with several global B2C and B2B firms including SanDisk, McAfee, Experian, WellPoint, Macrovision and Cisco. While at Grey, he directed the launch of the highly successful SanDisk Sansa MP3 player aimed at the Gen Y youth market as well as the branding and market introduction of Tonik, WellPoint's first ever insurance product aimed at 19-29 year olds. Previously, Roland was a Co-founder of bSource.com; Vice President of Marketing for Visible Interactive; and Account Director at Saatchi & Saatchi.

Allison has been working with children of all ages for over 15 years. As a teacher, librarian, and literacy specialist promoting quality literature for children and young adult has been a central career focus. Her education and professional background reflects a consistent emphasis on addressing the issues and challenges most relevant to young readers today. As the new Ypulse Books editor, she brings a discriminating voice and fresh approach to coverage of the young adult publishing industry. She's also a hard-core knitter and mother of a 2-year-old son.

As CEO of Brickfish, Brian oversees all aspects of strategy, finance, sales, and operations for the company. He previously served as executive vice president, corporate development and chief strategy officer for Macrovision Corporation, the leader in copyright protection for the entertainment and video games industries. Brian also was general manager of Macrovision's digital cinema and video games businesses. His past experience includes CEO of Metavize; vice president of operations, corporate counsel and chief financial officer of Phase 2 Automation; financial management positions at Amdahl Corporation and PricewaterhouseCoopers; as well as practicing law at Fenwick and West LLP. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the California Bar.

Aria oversees all marketing and business development activities at Do Something, the national not-for-profit that enables teens to convert their energy and ideas into positive action. With her extensive experience in the field of cause-related marketing, Aria oversees initiatives with the Take Action Tour, Aeropostale, JPMorganChase, Sprint and other top teen brands. Her expertise also lies in baking brownies and blondies, but she has a serious weakness for vanilla cupcakes from her fave NYC bakery. Aria graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Economics and Political Science.

Michael is a youth culture expert based in Los Angeles and New York. He is also an Emmy-award winning director and photographer. His book, ONE HUNDRED YOUNG AMERICANS: The True Story of Youth Culture In America was released in November 2007 by Harper Collins. The book features hundreds of his photographs of teens from every state, as well as biographies and essays on teen life in America. Michael founded and, for ten years, ran Public Interest, a nonprofit ad agency that created youth-targeted advertising for MTV and many other networks. Public Interest clients included organizations such as The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Girl Scouts of America, The Elton John AIDS Foundation, Rock The Vote, Google, Nationwide Insurance and the Partnership for a Drug Free America. Previously, Michael was Associate Director of Cambridge Technology Partners, where he managed software development projects for clients such as Charles Schwab, Fannie Mae and Cisco Systems. Michael holds degrees in cognitive science from Carnegie Mellon and in film production from the University of Southern California.

Anastasia is an award-winning blogger and often-quoted expert on American tweens, teens and early twentysomethings. Her blog, Ypulse.com, reaches a highly influential audience of agency, brand and media executives as well as social marketers trying to reach youth. The blog has been featured in several leading publications including USA Today, BusinessWeek, Forbes and Fast Company. Anastasia was one of the first graduates of the Medill School of Journalism's new media program at Northwestern University, where she earned an MSJ in 1999. Her first book about teens and technology called "Totally Wired" was published by St. Martin's Press.

Nancy is founder and CEO of the groundbreaking international publication, New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams, author of "How to Say it to Girls: Communicating with your Growing Daughter" and host of the New Moon parents' blog. Nancy is a national leader in the movement to empower girls and foster their creativity and self-confidence. New Moon's unique model puts girls in charge of the final product, a beautiful, advertising-free magazine with more than 100,000 readers worldwide. As put into practice by Nancy at New Moon, truly collaborative work by girls and adults is a promising counterbalance to societal pressures which lead many adolescent girls to abandon their dreams and silence their voices.

Sarah joined Electronic Arts in January 2007 as the Director of Kids Marketing for the EA Casual Entertainment Label. Sarah is responsible for the global marketing strategy for numerous videogames such as the highly anticipated BOOM BLOX, an action-puzzle Wii game developed in collaboration with famed director and producer, Steven Spielberg. Prior to joining EA, Sarah worked at THQ as Director of Global Brand Management, overseeing a group of marketing professionals and globally managing the company's kid licenses including Disney/Pixar, Nickelodeon, MGA, Sony and others. Sarah has extensive experience managing the marketing campaigns for successful brands such as Cars, Ratatouille, SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar, Bratz and many more. Sarah previously was Director of Marketing at Hasbro Inc.

Nikol is an expert of absolutely nothing with an opinion on just about everything. In the summer of 2007 she began writing for and hosting the video podcast Midwest Teen Sex Show. As a working mother of three, there is no such thing as free time. If she did, she would use that time to paint, write, and cook. Much of her professional focus is in encouraging people to talk about their own ideas concerning sex. She is grateful to have this opportunity to combine her warped sense of humor with her frank perspective on her own life experiences.

Liza has focused on improving advertising and marketing performance since her early days as a media planner. A veteran of the world of traditional brand advertising at FCB, retail marketing as a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, and online marketing with QuinStreet, one of the world's largest direct response advertisers, she has been focused on marketing accountability throughout her career. Liza earned her B.A. in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley and her M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Debbie spent four years leading educational filmmaking workshops in classrooms as part of Artsbridge America before moving to Southern California to work in the entertainment industry. After working with companies such as Disney Channel, NBC Universal, and Warner Brothers, she returned to the Bay Area to pursue her passion for children's educational media and created “Adina's Deck.” The film was based on cyber bullying research in Northern California. Two sequels are being filmed this summer. Debbie holds a BA in Film from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's Degree in Learning, Design & Technology from Stanford University.

As executive vice president, marketing, ad sales and business development, Sulake Corporation and president, North America, Sulake Inc., Teemu is instrumental in leading the continued growth of one of world's most popular online social networking and gaming communities for teens, Habbo.com, Sulake's top property. Since its launch in 2000, Habbo has grown to more than eight million unique monthly users worldwide, and has been launched in 32 countries on six continents. Its highly-trafficked North American sites, headed by Huuhtanen, receive over 1.6 million unique users per month. Prior to joining Habbo, Huuhtanen spent several years in senior posts for international digital entertainment start-up companies. American Venture Magazine named him one of the “Top 40 Under 40" executives to watch in the technology industry for 2007.

Besides serving as Senior Editor and Community Director at FastCompany.com, Lynne also writes Digital Media Diva, a technology blog following Web, media, and consumer trends, and guest blogs for techPresident and Black Web 2.0. Lynne serves on the Board of Directors of the Literary Freedom Project, a nonprofit arts organization that seeks to empower communities of color through literature, creative thinking, and new media. Prior to joining Fast Company, she was the General Manager, New Media for VIBE, SPIN, and VIBE Vixen, where she managed marketing, editorial, production, business development, and sales operations. Her personal blog, Lynne d Johnson music, media, my life, which launched in July 2001, is the recipient of the 2006 Black Weblog Awards Black Blogger Achievement Award.

Allison oversees content and community development for Girls Inc. Online, the Girls Inc. national Web site and online community for girls ages 9-17. An expert on COPPA compliancy and identity verification, Allison has managed the growth of both anonymous and identity-verified message board communities for Girls Inc. She has moderated tens of thousands of message board posts on subjects ranging from why Criss Angel would make a good husband to what it’s like to have gay parents in a small town. She has been a passionate girl geek since her teenage days on AOL as SkiBum1515.

Jared is the founder of WeGame, a media sharing platform for online gamers. In April 2007, during his freshman year, Jared took a leave of absence from University of California, Berkeley to found the company. Kim was raised in California and Shenzhen, China. In 2004, Jared founded Xinjun Software, an online gaming company in Shenzhen, China. In 2006, Jared founded Yaqqer, a mobile location-based social network for college students. Jared is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese and Korean.

Jacqueline joined C&R in 2006 and is responsible for leading its TeensEyes division. As an experienced researcher, she brings with her a wealth of experience in the teens/young adults market. Over her career, Jacqueline has conducted a variety of unique quantitative and qualitative research projects, immersing herself in the youth culture. Before joining C&R, Jacqueline worked as a independent consultant for a wide variety of clients and industries, including publishing, Internet/e-commerce, automotive, fashion and consumer packaged goods companies. Prior to that, Jacqueline held positions at Time Inc. and Scholastic Inc. assessing and developing marketing, brand awareness and research platforms. She holds a B.A. in Political Science & Sociology from Columbia University.

Jesus is the primary liaison between MTV Tr3́s and MTV/VH1 Latin America and artists, record labels, management companies and talent agencies and oversees the talent needs for both networks. An accomplished, creative, and vision-oriented music executive who has a unique understanding of the passion Latino youth have for music, Jesus has been a key member of the MTV Tr3́s strategy committee since 2005, helping to plan and launch the channel. Previously, Jesus researched, identified and developed international music marketing opportunities such as Coldplay Live launch and created the first ever, international multi-platform (on air, online and mobile) music initiative MTV 5 Star. Before joining MTV in 2004, Jesus was with EMI Music Latin America.

Charlene is a leading voice in the area of social computing and Web 2.0, and is recognized as one of America's most influential bloggers. In her work at Forrester Research, she advises companies on how to use technologies like blogs, social networking, RSS, tagging, and widgets for marketing purposes. Charlene is one of Forrester's most quoted analysts and has appeared in outlets like CNN, NPR, and BBC, as well as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and BusinessWeek. She is also an accomplished and frequently requested public speaker, and has presented at Web 2.0 Expo, Ad:Tech, Search Engine Strategies, and AlwaysOn.

Courtney is an award-winning journalist, author and speaker who has reached more than a million girls and women through her work, including her blog RespectRx.com and book, RESPECT: A Girls Guide to Getting Respect and Dealing When Your Line Is Crossed. Having been in online media for more than a decade, she was editorial director of the groundbreaking and Webby-nominated ChickClick.com, and her articles have been published by The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Daughters, Common Sense Media, The Huffington Post, Wired News, CNET News.com and others. To present empowering nationwide events for teen girls and women, Courtney partners with national organizations such as Girls For A Change, Girls Inc., Girl Scouts of the USA and the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty.

Larry is known as both a technology journalist and an Internet safety advocate. A syndicated technology columnist and broadcaster for more than two decades, Larry contributes regularly to CBS News, the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and other media outlets. He served for 18 years as a technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times and his columns also have appeared in numerous other newspapers and Web sites throughout the world. An Internet safety advocate, Larry is founder of SafeKids.com and SafeTeens.com and is co-director of ConnectSafely.org. He is the author of Child Safety on the Information Highway and Teen Safety on the Information Highway, Larry's newest book is MySpace Unraveled: A parents guide to teen social networkng, coauthored with Anne Collier.

In her role as Director of Trends & Research at NGT (Next Great Thing), the insights arm of Fleishman-Hillard's Youth and Mobile Marketing practice, Allison tracks youth-driven wireless trends and innovations that are changing the communications industry around the world. Allison is also a regular contributor to the trends blog PSFK.com and has written for Radar, Glamour, Stereotype among other publications. Before joining Fleishman-Hillard, she worked at Details Magazine as Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief and staff writer, and at Random House in the Doubleday Broadway Marketing department. Allison graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with majors in English and Psychology and a minor in French, then attended the Columbia Publishing Course at the University's School of Journalism.

Hemanshu is Chief Security Officer for News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media (FIM), where he oversees all safety, security, education, privacy and law enforcement programs for MySpace and other FIM properties including IGN and Photobucket. He oversees globally all safety teams, law enforcement relations, school and education programs, partnerships with NGOs, as well as the development of safety and security features and enhancements on FIM properties. Hemanshu has championed key safety milestones for MySpace including the launch of Sentinel SAFE, a technology that allows the company to identify and remove registered sex offenders. Hemanshu's career includes serving as a federal prosecutor against Internet child exploitation and computer crime for the U.S. Department of Justice, as an advisor to a Congressional commission on online child safety, and an advisor to the White House on cyberstalking.

Mortified is a grassroots organization that creates comic excavations of adolescent writing, art and media. Hailed "a cultural phenomenon" by Newsweek, Mortified has been celebrated by This American Life, The Today Show, Entertainment Weekly, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe and DailyCandy. Nadelberg produces Mortified content for the stage (nine shows worldwide), the page (two books with Simon & Schuster) and the Web (watch video series at getmortified.com). His most recent book is Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield. He is based in Los Angeles, the official home of public humiliation.

As co-founder in 2003, Mei oversees the marketing, communications and customer service for mig33, a global mobile social network bringing the power of the Internet and community together for anyone with a mobile phone in more than 200 countries. As the popularity of the services grew to millions of users across Asia, Africa and Europe, the founding team secured venture capital and relocated the company to the U.S. in 2007 to further accelerate the business. Before co-founding mig33, Mei Lin was the marketing manager with Australian-based financial services firm, Sanford Securities Limited. She has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree with Honors in Marketing from the University of Western Australia.

Antti is a co-founder of Blyk. Antti has over 25 years experience as a senior manager in branded goods, retail and wholesale, publishing, film and advertising industries. In 1991 Antti was appointed Managing Director of Film and TV production at WSOY one of the leading publishers in Finland. He has since gone on to produce a number of award-winning documentaries, corporate and marketing films which have won plaudits in the USA and Europe. Antti is the chairman of Contra Advertising, which operates in London, Helsinki, San Francisco, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. He is also on executive boards for more than 10 companies; a well-versed speaker, Antti is a regular at lectures on global marketing and brand issues for international audiences.

Stefanie covers science, technology and culture for CNET News.com. For the last several years, she has written a regular feature series called Digital Kids examining kids' unique immersion in technology.

As the Slide community advocate, Tony makes sure that the users' voices are heard as Slide develops its popular features and applications -- like Slideshow, FunWall, SuperPoke! and Top Friends -- that reach nearly 200 million people every single month. Tony also manages relationships with celebrity Slide users, including movie stars, politicians and musicians who use Slide to market and distribute their albums and videos across multiple social networks. Tony graduated from Grinnell College and is also a Fulbright Scholar.

A 10-year veteran of the film and television business, John most recently led mobile media research and design for Sony R&D in Tokyo, focusing on developing market-enabling applications for camera phones and other media-rich devices. Before Sony, he founded Meteor Studios, one of Canada's largest digital animation studios. He also was previously president and executive producer of Icestorm Digital studio and held design and product marketing positions at Softimage and Avid Technology. John earned his undergraduate degree in cinematography from Boston University, where he also later served as an adjunct professor in the graduate film program.

Since 2004, Ashley has been building her teen-targeted company, WhateverLife.com from her hometown based near Detroit, Michigan. Her Web site WhateverLife.com reaches up to 250,000 unique teenage girls each day, spreading color, design, and Web knowledge within its growing community. Ashley has been featured in the national magazine Fast Company, on ABC's The View, CNN, Forbes.com, Seventeen Magazine, CosmoGIRL!, Yahoo, and many more. She currently is expanding the Web site and community into WhateverLife's very own storefront, targeting mainly tweens, teens, and young adults!

AllyKatzz.com is the safe social networking site for tween and teen girls. It's where girls come to talk about everything that's important in their lives: fashion, music, games, beauty, entertainment, food, parents, technology, friends and their deepest secrets. With their 24/7 "straight from their hearts and heads" conversations, AllyKatzz girls are a massive focus group, laboratory and tween-teen girl reporting authority. Denise captures their pulse-check. Often quoted as a tween-teen expert, Denise has been featured in various media including ABC, NPR, More magazine and USA Today Prior to AllyKatzz, Denise was Vice President of Sales at USA Today.

As the senior Web editor of Hearst-owned social sites eSPIN.com and eCRUSH.com, Holly is the sites' lead content creator and oversees the teen user experience. She is also the voice of "Advice Girl," an advice column and community dialogue dedicated to the trials and tribulations of teen angst, crushing, flirting and other relationship woes. A grad of New York University's film program, Holly previously worked in documentary production and led video workshops for underprivileged teens and tweens in New York and New Jersey public schools.

Since 2004, Ian has overseen MTV's on-air and off-air "pro-social" campaigns that build awareness of issues of importance to the MTV audience and encourage them to take action. Before MTV, he was the Director of Strategy and Performance Measurement for USA Freedom Corps at the White House, the President's volunteer service initiative. Ian is an Echoing Green Fellow, spent two years at Teach For America, received an MBA from Harvard Business School and holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Cornell University.

For the Gen Y audience, 22-year-old Jake is the man. Unscripted, offbeat and at times outrageous, he's the new voice of the late night talk show The Edge with Jake Sasseville, which debuts on 40+ ABC affiliate stations around the country on February 14, 2008. In four short years, Sasseville has brought his show to New York and ABC affiliates from its humble beginnings on Maine public-access TV; traveled the world taping shows, including a trip to Africa that made the news on CNN; built a wide and diverse audience for the show from his tireless promotion, online social networking and blogs; attracted big-name advertisers anxious to reach the 18-to-34 crowd; and founded the Xander Foundation to help children in need.

Michael is a technologist, writer and programmer whose work runs the gamut from mobile social software to gestural music interfaces to big games and everything in between. He is the co-founder Socialight, a New York-based company developing social media tools for mobile devices and an Adjunct Professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His company or work has been featured in a number of outlets including The Discovery Channel, The New York Times, Wired, The Guardian, The London Times, Business 2.0, Time Out NY, Smart Mobs, and Engadget, among others. His writing has appeared in a number of publications in the U.S. and South Africa.

During business hours, Craig lives in gaiaonline.com, the leading teen hangout on the web. Craig leads the company's strategic planning, management, and technology development. Prior to joining Gaia Online, Craig served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Craig was also COO of MyFamily.com, where he helped grow the company from $23 million to $150 million in sales and transform it from an advertising-based site to a highly profitable consumer subscription business. Before this, Craig held senior positions at American International Group, where he ran all marketing and Internet sites for AIG in Japan and Korea. Previous to AIG, Craig was CEO of Cendant Japan, a joint venture founded by Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation.

Joey is the editor of Virtual Worlds News, the leading news site for the industry. VirtualWorldsNews.com tracks the business side of virtual worlds from enterprise services to kids worlds and everything in between. Joey recently completed a comprehensive survey of over 100 youth-oriented worlds that are live or in development and regularly tracks investment in the space. Virtual Worlds News is the news branch of Virtual Worlds Management, the leading virtual worlds trade media company, providing virtual worlds-focused trade events, media, research and online services. You can find more of his news and research at www.VirtualWorldsManagement.com.

Chloe is a 17-year-old blogger who has been blogging about the hugely popular kids site Neopets for over two years. Some pages of her blog, NeopetsFanatic.com, sport more than 3000 comments. Chloe monetizes her 11,000 daily pageviews into cold hard cash with Google AdSense. She's a busy girl and only blogs once or twice a month, but still she makes between $10 and $40 per day — money while she sleeps! Early this year, Chloe launched her newest blog, QuizFanatic.com, full of personality tests for teenage girls, such as "How Boy Crazy Are You?" Chloe is an aspiring documentary filmmaker who lived in New Zealand for eight years, returning to Wisconsin last year, where she resides with her parents and two sisters.

Lance is a co-founder of RockYou!, and brings more than 15 years of software and management experience to the company. Prior to RockYou!, Lance held Vice President & Chief Technology Officer positions in consumer and enterprise Web services companies Iconix and Open Harbor, and was an early employee at Resumix, now Yahoo! HotJobs. Lance holds patents in text extraction and document categorization, with an email patent pending as well, and has received the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Award of Innovation for work on spatial text understanding. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas.

Scott has spent a majority of his life competing in action sports, including motocross, BMX and downhill mountain biking. His passion for sports and competition is matched only by his vision for business. In 2001, Scott co-founded SponsorHouse.com, the leading online destination for athletes to connect with sponsors, serving as its CEO. SponsorHouse has made more than 600,000 sponsorship matches since its inception. He went on to launch Loop'd Network, a sports social network that provides innovative solutions to athletes, brands and sports marketers, in November 2007. Loop'd Network already has attracted a global audience of athletes, enthusiasts and hundreds of brand partners, including Monster Energy, Oakley, PacSun and Nike. Scott has a degree in sports medicine from Elon University and a master's degree in Internet business systems from Mercy College.

As Kongregate's chief revenue officer, Lee is integral to the growth and monetization of one of the Web's top indie gaming sites. He is responsible for driving advertising partnerships that leverage the high user engagement of Kongregate's young male audience. Previously, Lee was a vice president of sales with Viacom, MTV Networks, where he nearly tripled ad revenue over a three-year period at Atom Entertainment. He also was the long time publisher of the Ziff-Davis Media Game Group, which includes 1Up.com and Electronic Gaming Monthly. Lee holds a BS in marketing from the University of Delaware and an MBA from Temple University.

Working in the fields of online community and ecommerce for more than 30 years, Michael long has been bringing exciting new technologies to consumers. In 2001, Michael joined There.com as an investor and currently serves as CEO with the goal of making There.com the premiere 3D virtual world for consumers. He was one of eBay's first employees, where he was responsible for building the organization and technology for the world's largest and most successful ecommerce site. Michael began his career at Macy's California, where he developed point of sale and electronic credit card authorization systems, later becoming the youngest senior executive in the company's history. He also has held key positions at daVinci Time and Space, The Well, and Well Engaged.

After obtaining her Master's Degree in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design in London, Saskia moved to Los Angeles to work as an art director for music videos and commercials. She then became co-director of the Silver Lake Film Festival (SLFF), creating a new media arm to the festival. Since leaving SLFF, Saskia has maintained her ties to the film festival world, serving as a documentary programmer as well as a film juror and panelist for festivals. Saskia currently is the manager of global outreach for VC2 (the viewer-created content arm of Current TV), where she spearheads projects designed to gain new short format documentary content for the network from international filmmakers, while initiating content partnerships and overseeing the development of VC2 producers.