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Santa Monica
February 5- 7, 2013
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Aaron Kvitek
VP Marketing & Communications, Oversee.net Aaron is responsible for corporate marketing, corporate brand development and public relations efforts at Oversee and is also in charge of the Webfest Global conference franchise. Prior to joining Oversee, he held a variety of senior strategic marketing positions in companies, ranging in size from online start-ups to American Express. Over the course of ten years with American Express, his domestic and international growth strategies and cross-functional team leadership efforts produced over $9 billion in incremental sales worldwide. Aaron has an Industrial Engineering degree from Northwester University, plus an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
Aaron Shear
MD/CEO, Boost Search Media Aaron has been personally responsible for $4 billion in increased revenues for companies since the 1990s, including Zappos.com, Shopwiki, Repairpal, Microsoft, eBay and Shopping.com. Previously, Aaron was the Global Director of SEO with Shopping.com, an eBay Company. Prior to that, he was the CTO at SEO Inc. where he spearheaded optimization efforts with clients like IGN Entertainment, VEGAS.com, Sierra Trading Post, Sony Motion Pictures, Archer Daniels Midland and Alliance Business Centers Network. He has also worked at Inktomi as a Technical Account Manager, managing client relationships with MSN, IWon, Hotbot, and HP.
Adam Epstein
President & COO, adMarketplace Adam joined adMarketplace in November 2003 and became President & COO in June 2006. He is responsible for managing day-to-day business operations. Prior to joining adMarketplace, Adam launched Fancast.com. Before becoming an Internet entrepreneur, Adam clerked for a US District Court judge and was an attorney at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York. Adam graduated from Columbia University and the University of Michigan Law School.
Allen Morgan
Managing Director - New Ventures Group, Idealab Allen is Managing Director of Idealab’s New Ventures Group. He has spent 30 years counseling entrepreneurs throughout the startup process as a well-known Silicon Valley lawyer and then as a Managing Director at Mayfield. Prior to joining Mayfield, Morgan was a partner with two Silicon Valley law firms, Latham & Watkins and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In his career, he has closed more than 750 venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings. He is on the board of Oversee.net, BlackArrow, DECA, Tagged, and Montgomery & Co. and several Idealab operating companies.
Andrew Rosener
CEO, MediaOptions Andrew leads MediaOptions and is an active domain investor. He has been buying domain names since 1998, but in the last five years Andrew has leveraged his domain investment knowledge and sales expertise to grow MediaOptions to one of the top domain brokers for premium generic domain names. As a serial entrepreneur, he has helped the company to also develop some of their premium properties into standalone business, which were later sold, such as DX.com. The company’s enviable portfolio of premium domain names include White.com, Blood.com, PX.com, DAM.com, BikeRentals.com, Plume.com, Excitement.com, TheNet.com, Spearfishing.com, Scanner.com and thousands more like them.
Andrew Snow
Founder & President, Globabel Holdings Andrew is an attorney with an intellectual property and business background. Globabel Holdings is an IDN development and investment company that holds the world’s largest multilingual premium generic and geo IDN portfolio in over two dozen languages. Andrew has been involved with IDN issues since the late 1990s, including writing IDN related patents and participating in the development of the first IDN capable Internet browser.
Bardia Dejban
Founder, Lolay.com Bardia founded Lolay, which has launched dozens of mobile and web software projects for organizations, such as Thomson Reuters, eHarmony, MyLIfe.com (formerly Reunion.com), Gifts.com, Oversee.net and start-ups across the U.S. Prior to founding Lolay, he led CityGrid Media’s Mobile division as Director (engineering, product, and profitability) and has served in a variety of leadership and technical roles within the dating, payment card, banking and advertisement industries, including Senior Manager, Engineering at eHarmony.com Bardia’s prior roles also include Intuit and S1 Corporation.
Benjamin Kuo
Founder & Publisher, socalTECH.com Benjamin originally started socalTECH.com as a hobby to highlight Southern California’s diverse and growing high-tech industry. The site is now the regions go-to source real-time news updates, interviews with executives and investors, and a complete venture capital database. The site now has sister sites in the Rocky Mountain Region (techrockies.com), Texas (texastechpulse.com), the Pacific Northwest (nwinnovation.com) and Silicon Valley (www.silicontap.com). He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and has worked in a variety positions at high-tech firms in both Southern and Northern California.
Brad Wilkinson
Director of Product Management and Analytics, Oversee.net Brad has 15 years of experience in technology and has been with Oversee.net since 2005.As Director of Product Management and Analytics, he is responsible for product planning, product management, and analytics for DomainSponsor. From 1998 to 2005, Brad worked for Prestige Software, Inc., a full service project management company that specialized in delivering software solutions. From 1994 to 1998, he worked in politics as a State Legislator’s Field Representative. Brad was elected by the voters to the Anaheim City School Board in 1998 and the County Central Committee in 1996, 1998, and 2000.
Braden Pollock
President, Legal Brand Marketing Braden is a domainer and serial entrepreneur who owns several online and offline companies, including Legal Brand Marketing, which focuses on lead generation for attorneys and is the leading provider of DUI leads in the United States. He owns several franchises of Smart Start, an ignition interlock provider, ScienceFiction.com, and SignatureFiling.com as well as sits on the Board of Epik. Braden is a regular speaker on the international domain conference circuit, a domain and internet consultant for corporate clients, and marketing trainer for criminal lawyers.
Bryson Meunier
Director of Content Solutions, Resolution Media Bryson is a primary architect of Resolution Media’s natural search product and ClearTarget™ Digital Behavior Analysis. He currently works with the content team to help drive SEO strategy and execution for Resolution Media clients and assist them in adopting emerging technologies when they are relevant to their business. Bryson has had the opportunity to help some of the world’s top brands achieve success in mobile marketing, social media, and SEO, including Lowe’s, Briggs & Stratton, Apple, FedEx and others. He currently writes a monthly column in Search Engine Land and is writing a book on mobile SEO.
Christian Neeser
Product Manager for SEO, Acquisition and Optimization, MyLife.com Christian is a search engine optimization expert. He has managed SEO and link building campaigns on behalf of clients, such as Scion Motors, Yahoo Health, and Royal Bank of Canada. His current position with MyLife.com, a leading People Search & Personal Relationship Management site based in Los Angeles and website that features over 400 million indexed pages on Google and generates millions of organic visitors per month, focuses on SEO, acquisition and optimization.
Cindy Krum
CEO and Founder, MobileMoxie, LLC Cindy is the author of Mobile Marketing: Finding Your Customers No Matter Where They Are. She brings fresh and creative ideas to her clients, providing on-site training and workshops as well as speaking at national and international trade events on a regular basis. Cindy is an active member of the search community and has been published in Website Magazine, Advertising & Marketing Review, Search Engine Land, and Search Engine Strategies Magazine as well as quoted in PC World, Internet Retailer, TechWorld, Direct Magazine and Search Marketing Standard.
Daniel Schindler
Co-Founder and EVP, Sales and Marketing, Donuts.co Dan co-founded Donuts in 2009 and oversees the company’s sales and marketing programs. A seasoned technology executive, Dan has founded and developed businesses his entire career -- from coal-mining to convenience shopping, and from the automobile industry to professional sports management. Dan was CEO of CentralNic, a domain name industry leader that recruited nearly every accredited registrar as resellers of second-level names, and grew the company many times over to multi-million dollar profits. Dan also founded Gecko Internet. He is also the past sales director of Visi Systems Ltd., producers of business and medical software.
Danny Sullivan
Editor-in-Chief, SearchEngineLand.com Search Engine Land is a publication that covers search marketing and search engine news. He is considered a leading search engine expert and journalist. Danny Sullivan has written about search for more than 15 years. He produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo conference series and writes a personal blog called Daggle.
Debra Domeyer
CEO, Oversee.net Debra has over twenty five years of experience in technology. Prior to joining Oversee.net, she was the Chief Technology Officer at Internet Brands (INET). Previously, Debra served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Pacific Gas & Electric Energy Services. Other positions have included Vice President of Information Systems for the Times Mirror Company. Her public sector career includes serving in the White House during the Reagan administration. In 2001, Debra was named one of the top 25 CTOs by InfoWorld Magazine and was listed in the ComputerWorld Premier 100 IT leaders.
Dwayne Walker
VP & GM - Monetization, Oversee.net Dwayne’s area of responsibility includes DomainSponsor, Advertising Partnerships, and Publisher Partnerships. He has also held senior management positions within the company’s vertical markets division. Dwayne has served in executive management at Microsoft, Fidelity, and several other companies with responsibilities spanning engineering, sales, marketing and business development. For over ten years, he has been a member of the domain community with experience in domain aftermarket, domain monetization and web businesses. Dwayne has been on the board of directors at Escrow.com, iClick.com, FreeShop.com and Micro General.
Elizabeth Murray
EVP and CFO, Oversee.net Liz has more than 25 years of experience in financial management, strategic investment, and M&A activity. Before joining Oversee, she was Executive Vice President and CFO of Fluid Music Canada, Inc. She also was CFO for RazorGator Interactive Group, Digital Insight Corp., and KornFerry International. Prior to that, Murray held key financial roles at Hughes Electronics, which she joined after 4 years at Deloitte. She played significant roles in the public offerings for Fluid Music and KornFerry. She is a Chartered Accountant and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
Gary Rudolph
Founder, Lolay.com Gary founded Lolay, which specializes in cross-platform development and marketing of mobile applications for several premier brands with a rich domain experience across consumer and B2B applications. Prior to Lolay, he was a VP of Technology at Citysearch/CityGrid, a division of IAC; Director of Engineering at eHarmony; and an Architect at Intuit and Sprint.
Gene Chuang
CTO, Oversee.net Gene is known for his expertise in mobile, social, and search marketing platforms. He was Executive Director of AT&T Interactive, leading teams of engineers in YP Mobile, Data Systems and Buzz.com. Gene also served as Director of Engineering at Yahoo Search Marketing. Most recently, he was Director of Engineering at Chegg, an online network for college students that offers assistance with homework, course selection and textbook rentals. Gene is a frequent speaker at tech industry events and has received numerous industry awards.
Greg Sterling
Senior Analyst, Internet2Go/Opus Research Greg has multiple roles as a contributing editor, senior analyst, and founder of Sterling Market Intelligence, a consulting firm focused on the Internet’s impact on offline consumer behavior. Previously, he ran BIA/Kelsey’s Interactive Local Media program. Greg was also a producer at TechTV where he worked on the show "Working the Web." Before TechTV, he was a founding editor at AllBusiness.com, a small business portal. Prior to AllBusiness, Greg was a practicing attorney in San Francisco. He is frequently quoted in leading US news publications about the search, local, and mobile markets.
Henry Tam
Vice President, mMedia Advertising, Millennial Media Henry manages sales, product development, and operations on the demand side mobile display advertising platform. Prior to joining Millennial, Henry held managerial roles at The Washington Post and The Atlantic where he led the development of mobile and web strategy, including mobile applications and websites. At The Washington Post, Henry led the business efforts of the industry-leading Cars.com franchise where he oversaw the franchise’s P&L, sales, and marketing in the regional market.
James Keating
GM - Online Retail Group, Oversee.net James is a successful online affiliate sales and search marketing executive, having driven over $130 million in revenue over the course of his career. Since joining ShopWiki.com, he has played a critical role in SEO strategy advancements, product development, and the expansion into eleven international markets. James is also currently leading efforts to re-launch and grow CouponFinder.com. Prior to ShopWiki, James was Vice President of Partnerships at Guidester. Earlier in his career, James led LinkShare’s publisher account team. Also, as National Sales Manager at ThomasRegister, James built a business generating of over $42 million in revenue.
Jay Chapman
President, Digimedia Jay is a serial entrepreneur, cultivating the value, use, and future of the company’s portfolio. He leads Digimedia’s mission as creator, incubator, developer, investor and/or advisor for a spectrum of start-ups and emerging companies around the globe, including Bump, WedDesign, Shops, Bobbleheads and Swap.com. He also serves others through efforts on nonprofit boards and service projects. Jay and his wife, Amy, reside in Oklahoma City with their three children. He recently enjoyed Les Miserables, teaching his kids to ride a unicycle, and the college football bowl season (excluding the Cotton Bowl). His favorite domain is Make.com.
Jay Weintraub
Founder & CEO, NextCustomer, Inc. Jay heads up the company that develops and promotes the LeadsCon and LoCo Summit (previously Daily Deal Summit) conference series that serve more than 5,000 people per year. Prior to founding NextCustomer, Jay was part of the founding management team of Los Angeles based Oversee.net, where he spent five years in a variety of management roles. Jay also spent two and a half years at Advertising.com and created the company’s first product monetizing undersold inventory. He is a recognized thought leader on online customer acquisition, an active advisor, and has invested in more companies than his wife would like.
Joanna Lord
Vice President, Growth Marketing, SEOmoz.org Joanna currently heads up SEOmoz’s lifecycle marketing efforts for Moz’s 20,000 member customer base. She is also a well-known social media enthusiast and frequent conference speaker. Her diverse experience in data analysis, performance marketing, inbound marketing and retention programs enables her to provide tactical strategies that work.
Joerg Schnermann
GM - DomainSponsor Europe, Oversee.net Joerg previously was Chief Operating Officer of KeywordDomains.com where he managed and expanded large portfolios of ccTLDs and monetized traffic through multiple channels. Prior to working in the domain business, he was a marketing manager with the Coatings Division of BASF AG where he was responsible for the development and launch of value-added services in eight European sales organizations. Joerg also has a corporate banking background with Commerzbank AG.
John Morris
CEO Advisory Group Chair, Vistage International John is Chairman Emeritus of the Tech Coast Angels, the largest angel organization in the country. He is an experienced venture capitalist and angel investor, helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses. John is a frequent guest speaker on related topics at UCLA and USC. Since 2005, John has served as a member of the faculty of UCLA Anderson School of Business. He has extensive investment banking and venture capital experience with regional firms. Visit Vistage International.
Lavin Punjabi
President & COO, Affinity Lavin heads Affinity, a leading online advertising network. He has rich and varied experience of almost a decade in the online advertising industry. Throughout his successful career, Lavin has spearheaded the development of innovative products and services related to search, contextual, display and performance advertising. He has also been instrumental in fostering the adoption of alternative and more effective ways of domain monetization amongst Affinity’s clientele of global brands.
Mason Cole
VP, Communications and Industry Relations, Donuts.co Mason is a twelve-year veteran of the domain name industry and is a widely respected contributor to Internet policy and business development. He was part of the founding management team at SnapNames.com. He edited and published State of the Domain and directly oversaw the granting of 18 patents in the U.S., Canada and China. After the successful sale of SnapNames to Oversee.net in 2007, Mason was VP of Communications and Industry Relations for the parent company. Most recently, he was principal of 5x5 Communications, a policy and communications consultancy. Mason continues to serve in Internet policymaking leadership roles.
Merry Morud
Account Manager, aimClear Merry specializes in social media marketing, full-contact Facebook advertising, and deep psychographic research. She has spoken at SES SFO & Chicago 2012, many SMX conferences, International Search Summit London 2011 and the first ever Hero Conference. Merry has also presented multiple Search Marketing Now webcasts on Facebook Advertising, is a ClickZ workshop trainer, and presents at aimClear’s® Facebook Marketing Intensive Workshop.
Michael Gilmour
Executive Director, ParkLogic Born in Melbourne, Australia Michael has been working in the BBS and Internet industry for the past 20 years. After completing his MBA and founding a number of ecommerce businesses Michael served as a director of the prestigious Australian Internet Industry Association, the last two of which he was elected to the position of vice-chairman. As a member of the board he contributed to forming Internet industry policies for; cyber-crime, copyright as well as chairing the committee for establishing online advertising standards. Michael has been a domain investor for over 10 years and together with his business partner David Gibbs founded ParkLogic which both maximizes domain revenue and manages domain portfolios as true valuable assets.
Mike -Zappy- Zapolin
Founder, Internet Warrior Zappy is the visionary behind Internet brands, including Music.com, Beer.com, Computer.com, Creditcards.com, Debt.com, Diamond.com, PrescriptionDrugs.com and Silver.com. He has been featured multiple times on NBC’s Today Show, numerous TV networks, and magazines. Zappy is the creator of the Harvard Business School elective eBusiness and was a featured speaker at The Economist Magazine’s Global Branding conference in Shanghai. His career began at Drexel Burnham Lambert and he later became one of the youngest Vice Presidents at Bear Stearns. Along with Deepak Chopra, he co-authored Ask the Kabala and they are now producing a documentary film called The Reality of Truth.
Min Chan
GM - Mobile Solutions, Oversee.net Min is an experienced technology executive with a long track record in developing and delivering successful mobile strategies. In his most recent position as Executive Director, Mobile Consumer Products for YP Holdings LLC (formerly AT&T Interactive), he led product and distribution efforts for the YP mobile app. Prior to that, Min was Director, Mobile Search, Ads, and Digital Media Service for Helio LLC. Other positions have included Consultant, Business Strategy for Disney Mobile; Co-Founder of Mtogo Inc., the leading direct-to-consumer mobile content website for the Asian-American niche; and Senior Manager, Business Development for Schlumberger in Beijing, China.
Morgan Linton
Founder, Linton Investments Morgan is the founder of Los Angeles-based Linton Investments, a domain name investment firm that specializes in helping startups find and acquire domain names. Last year, the Company helped more than a dozen start-ups acquire the top choice domain for their brand. Morgan is also the co-founder of Fashion Metric, a tech startup that he and his wife, Daina, started last year.
Paul Nicks
Product Director - Aftermarket, GoDaddy.com Paul is responsible for strategic growth and development of GoDaddy’s aftermarket product division. He joined the company in 2007 as a lead developer for domain name parking services and later was promoted to Aftermarket Development Director before moving to his current role. Prior to joining GoDaddy.com, Paul spent seven years as a software engineer.
Peter Hamilton
CEO, HasOffers.com Peter has helped to pioneer change in performance marketing and garnered clients, such as Zynga, Beachmint, Intuit, Rackspace, SEOmoz, and Sears, along with industry leading affiliate networks, allowing anyone to manage their own publisher relationships. He and his partners have also launched a new platform specifically designed for attributing mobile app installs and in-app events back to publisher sources. Peter comes from a consulting and agency background of online marketing, including SEO, PPC, and display and performance advertising, providing a broad view of the online marketing landscape along with specific and actionable insights.
Philip Corwin
Founding Principal , Virtualaw LLC Philip serves as Counsel to the Internet Commerce Association, representing its members in Washington, D.C. and before ICANN proceedings. He successfully advocated for a .Com wholesale price freeze while working to assure that rights protection measures for new gTLDs preserve and protect domain registrant rights. He is Of Counsel to the IP law firm of Greenberg & Lieberman and has been a guest on the Wall Street Journal Report, testified before Congress, taught sessions on Internet law, and written extensively about technology policy. He is a District of Columbia Bar member and admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Raj Beri
GM - Travel Group, Oversee.net Raj is a senior digital media executive with a proven track record of increasing revenues, building online communities, and driving user engagement in online travel and media companies. Most recently, he was the Director and COO of IgoUgo, an online travel planning and content site owned by Travelocity. Prior to his position at IgoUgo, he served as Director of Global Digital Strategy at the McGraw-Hill Companies and as a leader in the digital media practice of management consulting firm The Monitor Group. Raj also serves as a Board Advisor to various online startups.
Scott Jarus
Chairman and CEO, Ironclad Performance Wear Scott is Chairman and CEO of Ironclad Performance Wear. Previously, he was an investor in and Chief Executive Officer of Cognition Technologies, Inc. Prior to these positions, Scott was Chief Executive Officer and President of j2 Global Communications, Inc. He also served as President and Chief Operating Officer for OnSite Access. Scott was Senior Vice President of Operations at RCN Telecom and a co-founder and Vice President of Multimedia Medical Systems. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Ironclad Performance Wear, Oversee.net, Cognition Technologies, and Global Conference Partners (FreeConference.com).
Tim Ash
CEO, SiteTuners.com Tim is the author of the bestselling book Landing Page Optimization, and CEO of SiteTuners, a firm that specializes in improving website conversion rates through landing page diagnosis and redesign, custom conversion consulting, a/b and multivariate test planning and staff training/mentoring. Since 2002, SiteTuners has worked with hundreds of clients, large and small, including Google, Facebook, American Express, CBS, Sony Music, Universal Studios, Verizon Wireless, Texas Instruments, and Coach. Tim is the founder and chairperson of Conversion Conference. He is the host of the weekly Landing Page Optimization podcast on WebmasterRadio.fm.
Tim Switzer
COO/CFO, DotGreen Community Inc. Tim has extensive experience in the domain industry and at ICANN. He worked at Neustar, Inc. where he led the Domain Name Registry business unit as well as worked on several acquisitions. Prior to Neustar, he was the Vice President of Business Operations and Finance for Visa Interactive. Tim started his career at IBM where he spent 15 years working in business and finance roles at field and HQ locations. DotGreen applied to ICANN for the .GREEN TLD, which is intended to unite individuals, non-profits, governments, and businesses and host the global green movement’s active online presence.
Todd Greene
Chief Legal Officer and SVP Human Resources, Oversee.net Todd has over 15 years experience, advising companies on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues, including general corporate, labor and employment and M&A transactions. He manages the company’s legal, compliance, and insurance functions as well as its human resources department. Prior to joining Oversee, Todd was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Bingham McCutchen LLP. He has represented numerous private equity firms and public and private companies across a number of different industries and in all stages of development. Prior to joining Bingham, Todd practiced law at two other national law firms in New York City.
William Hsu
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, MuckerLab William has spent his career as a start-up entrepreneur and an executive of a Fortune 100 company. Prior to MuckerLab, he was SVP and Chief Product Officer of AT&T Interactive where he doubled revenue to over $1 billion and helped establish it as the largest digital local advertising company, and the second largest mobile advertising company in the U.S. At 23, he founded and served as EVP of Product Development for BuildPoint, the leader in providing bidding management and marketplace services to the commercial construction industry. In between, William has led product teams at eBay, Green Dot, and Spot Runner.
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