February 23-24, 2006

4th Annual Digital Music Summit
Music Industry in the Digital Age

Radisson Hotel Los Angeles, Westside

Lee Abrams

XM Radio

Chief Creative Officer

Lee, has been shaping the American radio industry for over three decades. During the past 37 years, he has brought unparalleled ratings and economic success to radio stations in over 200 markets, including 97 of the top 100. Winning 318 programming battles, while losing only 11. In 1993, Newsweek listed Abrams as one of America's "100 Cultural Elite" for his contributions to creating modern radio; and Radio Ink listed Abrams as one of the 75 most important radio figures of all time. Abrams joined XM in June 1998 to help create the next generation of radio: satellite direct radio. With 100 stations to develop and program, Abrams is once again challenged to reinvigorate the radio landscape.

Scott Andrews

BMI

Executive Director

Scott is responsible for negotiating license agreements with U.S. Internet and wireless carrier companies, developing and implementing sales and marketing strategies and music performance agreements for new media customers, and for representing BMI’s repertoire and copyright clearance services. A seasoned media/music industry veteran, he has successfully been involved with the largest broadcast groups, Internet companies and wireless carrier networks and content providers. Additionally, Mr. Andrews has been directly involved in many of BMI’s new technology initiatives including BMI’s Digital Licensing Center for online licensing of Internet customers; BMI’s Electronic Music-Use Reporting System for broadcast radio station customers; and other initiatives designed to streamline business practices through the use of new technologies.

Bryan Biniak

American Greetings Corporation

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile

Bryan served as chief operations officer and executive vice president of Sales and Marketing at Vivendi Universal's wireless subsidiary, Moviso, chief executive officer of China-based MusicZone, and vice president of video game developer Harmonix Music Systems. He currently serves as a board member of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), and as a member of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's (CTIA) Executive Committee. Mr. Biniak is co-chairman of CTIA's Mobile Content Committee where he is working to establish industry policies on content classification and ratings, DRM, and superdistribution in the United States.

David Bloom

Words & Deeds

Principal

David is a writer and consultant with entertainment and technology companies on media relations and strategy, marketing communications and related services. He previously was vice president of corporate communications for MGM Inc. Before joining MGM, Mr. Bloom was an award-winning writer for more than 20 years for various publications, including Variety, Red Herring and the Los Angeles Daily News.

Rio Caraeff

Universal Music Mobile

General Manager

Rio oversees all areas of UMM-US, liaising closely with UMG's broad array of labels as well as the company's eLabs division to coordinate mobile music and non-music related initiatives with current and emerging wireless technologies and platforms. He leads all UMM-US initiatives, working with wireless carriers, device manufacturers and infrastructure providers to maximize mobile opportunities, create new products and enable new distribution channels for UMG content.

David Card

Jupiter Research

Senior Analyst and Vice President

David analyzes the media and music industries, focusing on cross-media programming, online revenue streams and audience segmentation. Previously, he directed media and marketing research, and, as Jupiter's Research Development Vice President, he helped guide coverage architecture, research methodologies, and overall quality. Mr. Card also helped launch the MindShare program for senior executives, initiated Jupiter's digital and interactive TV research, and was Senior Analyst in the Web Technology service.

Ted Casey

Verizon Wireless

Head of Mobile Music

Ted oversees Verizon Wireless' music business, including music strategy and the industry-leading mobile carrier’s V CAST Music, True Tones, Ringback Tones and music video services. He is a digital media veteran, with 15 years of experience managing award-winning digital media and Internet businesses. Prior to Verizon Wireless, Mr. Casey was General Manager of Lycos Music and Lycos’ HotBot search engine, manager of QuickTime VR for Apple Computer, and Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for GoFish Technologies. He 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.

Atri Chatterjee

Mercora

Co-Founder and Executive Vice President

Atri has a successful track record in Internet technology, consumer software, and Internet direct marketing. He was previously Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at McAfee.com Corp. prior to its merger with Network Associates, now McAfee Inc. Prior to McAfee.com, Mr. Chatterjee was Vice President of Marketing and Co-Founder of Responsys Inc., an Application Service Provider (ASP) for Internet direct marketing. He was also an early employee of Netscape Communications (acquired by AOL), where he held various roles including Director of Server Marketing and Director of OEM Business Development; Mr. Chatterjee helped grow the business from nothing to $100 million. He has also held Product Marketing and Engineering roles at a wide range of software and systems companies, including Clarify and Sun Microsystems.

Scott Cohen

The Orchard

Founder and Vice President, International

Scott co-founded The Orchard in 1997 with legendary producer/songwriter and Co-Founder of Sire Records, Richard Gottehrer. The Orchard is the leading digital distributor of music in the world, representing over 2,500 labels from more than 75 countries covering every genre of music with offices in 20 countries. He began his career in the music business in the late 80's as an artist manager of both independent and major label artists. In addition to his responsibilities at The Orchard, Mr. Cohen manages The Raveonettes (Columbia/SonyBMG).

Ted Cohen

EMI Music

Senior Vice President, Digital Development and Distribution

A 30-year industry veteran, Ted is overseeing worldwide digital business development. Under his strategic guidance, EMI has led the industry with its initiatives in new technologies and new business models. Previous experience includes running a successful consulting practice, as well as senior management positions at Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media.

Brida Connolly

Radio & Records

Senior Editor

Brida has been covering consumer electronics and other technology news for leading radio-industry trade publication Radio & Records since 2000.

Brett Crossley

Tusonic, Inc.

Vice President, Business Development

Brett guides strategic development and planning for Tusonic and directs industry partnerships including content and marketing partnerships with companies such as Tribune Media, iBiquity, and Predixis. Prior to Tusonic, he was Product Manager in charge of IBM's content management integration products that brought together image, audio, video, and text content from multiple content management platforms.

Tonya DeGance

Intel Corporation

Media and Entertainment Strategic Alliances Manager, Digital Home Content Services Group

Tonya's expertise in online content and partnership includes program development for MTV online, Warner Music Group, Virgin Digital, DreamWorks and wi-fi pioneer, Boingo Wireless. In 1995 she helped steer Warner Music Group's first foray into the digital area, partnering game producers with the label's sales and marketing strengths. Subsequently Ms. DeGance developed online content programs for DreamWorks Interactive and DreamWorks Consumer Products. She led mtv.com's marketing efforts; and in 1999, developed the online group's first personalization efforts. In 2003, Ms. DeGance managed subscriber acquisition efforts for both an Idealab incubator and Boingo Wireless. In 2004 she launched Virgin's digital music store. 

Bradford Duea

Napster

President

Bradford is responsible for overseeing the business operations and defining the strategic direction of the Napster service. He took on this position after serving as Vice President, Worldwide Business Development for Roxio, Inc., where he was responsible for all business development efforts for the company, including those for Napster. Mr. Duea reports directly to Napster’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Chris Gorog. During his 12 months as Vice President, Worldwide Business Development at Roxio, Mr. Duea focused on Napster’s international expansion effort and the formulation of strategic partnerships, including those with Samsung Electronics, Intel, and Gateway. He was an integral member of the transaction team for the acquisition and integration of pressplay (a music subscription joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group) and certain assets from VUNet Tech.

Eric Garland

Big Champagne

Chief Executive Officer

Eric is recognized as one of the industry's leading authorities on the global file sharing phenomenon. His report to the California State Senate was the basis of the Associated Press story "Analyst: Internet file-sharing bigger than record business." Most recently, Mr. Garland contributed data and analysis to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development flagship publication "IT Outlook 2004" and Forrester's research report "From Discs to Downloads." His commentary appears in the media frequently, and his remarks can be found often in the pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

Dave Goldberg

Yahoo! Inc.

Vice President and General Manager, Music
Dave joined Yahoo! in August 2001 with the company’s acquisition of LAUNCH Media, Inc. Before joining the Yahoo! team, he was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LAUNCH Media, Inc. In his role at Yahoo!, Mr. Goldberg is responsible for the growth and continued development of Yahoo! Music as a compelling, global music destination for consumers, marketers and record labels. He has lead the transition of LAUNCH to Yahoo! Music to become the web’s #1 music site, giving consumers the ability to watch, listen to and control their digital music experience directly on Yahoo!. Mr. Goldberg has also helped forged unique relationships with Yahoo! Music and major brands such as Pepsi, Saturn and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Prior to founding LAUNCH, he was Director of Marketing Strategy and New Business development at Capitol Records in Los Angeles, where he oversaw 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.

Jefferson Graham

USA TODAY

Technology Reporter

Jefferson covers technology; mostly digital entertainment for USA TODAY, where he has been a staff reporter since 1984, writing about everything from television, movies and music to features about ice cream cones, Motel 6, Stuckey's drive-in and roller coasters. Now Mr. Graham mainly covers gadgets, cameras, MP3 players and websites.

Ken Hertz

Goldring, Hertz and Lichtenstein

Partner

Kenneth specializes in representing talent in the entertainment industries. The firm’s clients include Will Smith, Destiny’s Child, Beyonce Knowles, Christina Aguilera, No Doubt, Hillary Duff and Alanis Morissette. Prior to joining the firm, he was Vice President of Music, Business and Legal Affairs, for The Walt Disney Company. Mr. Hertz is also a principal in Membrain, an entertainment marketing strategy consulting firm that consults a number of firms engaged in businesses operating in the entertainment content, technology and marketing industries (including Hasbro, Alliance Entertainment, BMG and The Estate of Elvis Presley, Def Jam and Paul Frank Industries). He is a frequent speaker on the subjects of entertainment, convergence and technology, and has been an instructor at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management. Mr. Hertz is also active in various causes and in December 2002 he, and his partner Fred Goldring, received the ACLU’s Bill of Rights Award for their extraordinary commitment to social justice.

Chad Hodge

Microsoft Windows

Media and Entertainment, Consumer Electronics Marketing

Dan Hoffman
Razor & Tie
Executive Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs
Dan's extensive career encompasses several years as Senior Vice President / Head of Business and Legal Affairs and Administration at Tommy Boy Music (the prominent independent music company then co-owned by Warner Music Group), as well as stints as Senior Vice President / General Counsel at BMG Music and Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs at RCA Records. Prior to joining BMG, he was a Partner in the Entertainment Law practice at the Los Angeles firm Ziffren Brittenham Branca and Fischer. At Razor & Tie, Mr. Hoffman oversees all transactions and directs business and strategic development, including responsibility for key digital and mobile initiatives. He has supervised all business and legal matters, as well as developing and implementing key operational business strategies in the product development, distribution, international and internet/new technology areas, for both major music companies and successful independents.

Courtney Holt

Interscope

Head of New Media and Strategic Marketing

A pioneer in the convergence of new media, music and marketing, Courtney works to define the modern music business. His vision of integrating technology, art and traditional brand marketing has resulted in enormously successful efforts for artists such as Eminem, 50 Cent, U2, Sting, Gwen Stefani, Dr. Dre and Sheryl Crow.

Kieve Huffman

InfoSpace

Vice President, Media Content

Kieve is responsible for developing and obtaining a broad spectrum of next generation mobile content. He has more than 15 years of music licensing and marketing related experience. Most recently, Mr. Huffman served as the Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Business Development for Sony BMG's Global Digital Business Group. There he managed the digital sales and licensing negotiations for all new technology deals, such as audio and video downloads, mobile gaming and mobile music recognition. Mr. Huffman was also responsible for managing all existing U.S. online and mobile business relationships.

Drew Hull

The NPD Group

Research Director, Mobile Content

Drew is responsible for providing clients with strategic advice and insights on the market for mobile content including games, music, video and personalization products. Prior to joining The NPD Group, he managed various lines of mobile content businesses at Sprint including wallpapers, ringtones and ringbacks. In those roles Mr. Hull developed a broad base of experience working with content providers, from the major record labels to content aggregators, and infrastructure providers.

Kris Jacob

Executive Vice President of Business Development, Sales and Marketing

Kris has responsibilities for shaping and fulfilling the advertising products for the family of brands comprising the PodShow Podcast Network.  He brings considerable industry knowledge to his current post at PodShow, including a recent role in business development at Yahoo!, Inc., following the acquisition of Stata Labs, where Mr. Jacobs was the Vice President of Business Development.  At Yahoo!, he negotiated a product licensing agreement with Corel for Bloomba (now WordPerfect Mail 12), the critically-acclaimed search-based email product developed at Stata Labs.

Susan Kevorkian

IDC

Program Manager, Consumer Markets: Audio

Susan examines the evolving world of digital audio hardware, software and related technologies, and provides market insight on and in-depth analysis of emerging markets for MP3, DVD-Audio and SACD players and content, A/V and DVD receivers, terrestrial and satellite digital radio hardware and services, IP-based and wireless music services, and the music industry.

Talmon Marco

iMesh

Co-Founder, President and Chief Marketing Officer

Talmon is a rare combination: savvy businessman and a technology pioneer. Before the age of 30, he has brought to market multiple innovative technologies. Starting 1993, Mr. Marco served as Chief Information Officer for the Israeli Defense Forces Central Command. In 1995, he co-founded Nortex Software, a developer of Civil Engineering software. In 1997 Mr. Marco co-founded Expand Networks, a privately held, venture back, world leader in Application Traffic Management. He served as President at Expand Networks until 2004, at which point the company reached a run-rate of $20M/yr. In 1998, Mr. Marco co-founded iMesh. Following the RIAA settlement, he joined iMesh as President and Chief Marketing Officer in order to help propel iMesh forward. Mr. Marco holds a degree in Computer Science and Management from the Tel-Aviv University.

Ted Mico

Capitol Records

Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing

Ali Partovi
GarageBand.com, Gcast.com

Chief Executive Officer

Ali has a long track record with grass-roots ventures. He was a co-founder of LinkExchange, a startup that helped small businesses build web traffic and revenue, rapidly became the web's largest small business portal, and was acquired for $265m by Microsoft in 1998. Mr. Partovi has provided strategic consulting to Google, Overture, PayPal, and Yahoo. He also co-founded "DrinkExchange," a grass-roots social and networking community with regular events in San Francisco, San Diego, Washington DC, Tokyo, Sydney, and London. Mr. Partovi has Bachelors and Masters degrees from Harvard.

Jamie Perlman

SNOCAP Inc.

Business Development

Jamie leads SNOCAP's business development efforts with retailers. SNOCAP is the first end-to-end provider of digital licensing and copyright management services for the digital media marketplace. SNOCAP's digital content registry and clearinghouse enables content owners to sell their entire catalogs through SNOCAP-enabled retailers, including peer-to-peer networks. Mr. Perlman is responsible for identifying and establishing retail partnership opportunities with existing businesses and those that are exploring entry into this new space. He brings with him over 15 years 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 and a BA in Art History and Spanish from Colby College in Maine.

Louis Posen

Hopeless Records

Chief Executive Officer

Louis began working in the entertainment industry as a director/producer of music videos while attending film school at California State University – Northridge (CSUN). The first video he directed was for NOFX’s track “Bob.” His second video was for Guttermouth’s track “1, 2, 3 Slam!.” The video won the Cal State Academy Award for Best Music Video. At the request of Guttermouth, Hopeless Records was created to release a 7” for them as they were between labels. Mr. Posen had no prior experience running a record label, so he bought a book called “How to Run an Independent Record Label” and released the 7” in December of 1993. The first track on the 7” was called Hopeless. Realizing he needed to name the label, he borrowed the name and thus Hopeless Records was born.

Paul Resnikoff

Digital Music News

Founder and Editor

Paul's experience includes work at offline and online music companies. As head of Lycos’ US Digital Music Group, he developed scores of special artist promotions and implemented new technologies for various labels. Prior to that, Mr. Resnikoff managed international marketing for Epic Records / Sony Music Entertainment. His experience covers internet and television advertising, CD-based exclusives, DRM, live webcasts, and other music technologies.

David Ring

Universal Music Group

Senior Vice President, Business Affairs and Business Development, eLabs

David previously served as both a business development executive and the Head of Business & Legal Affairs. Prior to that, he was Head of Business & Legal Affairs for UMG’s global e-commerce and Advanced Technology (eCAT) division. Prior to that post Mr. Ring was Director of Business and Legal Affairs for UMG, where he was responsible for negotiating and drafting agreements in the areas of recording, labels, soundtracks, distribution, interactive media and new technologies. Before joining UMG in March of 1996, Mr. Ring was in private practice representing recording artists, labels, songwriters, and producers, as well as film and television writers. Prior to that, he served as an associate at the Los Angeles law firms of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Riley and Rosenberg, Nagler & Phillips, where he handled intellectual property and business litigation with an emphasis on music and other entertainment-related issues.

Syd Schwartz

Virgin Records America

Vice President, Interactive Marketing

Syd is responsible for managing the creative planning, technical development and strategic direction of all Virgin Records America artist websites and Internet marketing initiatives, including artists such as Lenny Kravitz, Robbie Williams, Janet Jackson, Stacie Orrico and Ben Harper. Prior to Virgin, he was with Wind-Up Records, where he began in 1995 as Director of Sales & Marketing, but a persistent push to get the company online resulted in his assuming the newly created position of Director of Technology in 1996. Mr. Schwartz was promoted to Vice President of New Media in February 1998, Senior Vice President of New Media in 2000 where he was responsible for a series of groundbreaking online promotions for Creed.

Brad Gregory Serling

nugs.net enterprises, LLC

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Artists ranging from Phish to Metallica to Dave Matthews have turned to Brad to distribute their content to their fans. He created nugs.net as a fan website in 1993 and turned it into a profitable band-to-fan business in 2002. Today over 120 artists distribute their music and video through the nugs.network.

Adam Sexton

Groove Mobile

Vice President, Marketing and Product Management
Adam has over 14 years of experience in marketing and management in the music and technology industries. In 2000, he was named by Advertising Age as one of the Top 100 Marketing Executives in the United States. Prior to joining Groove Mobile, Mr. Sexton was the Vice President of Marketing for the Entertainment Technology Group at Macrovision. Earlier in his career he was Vice President of Product Management at Arista Records, where he was responsible for the marketing of all of Arista's pop and rock artists, including Santana, Sarah McLachlan, Dido, and Whitney Houston, among many others. Mr. Sexton held previous executive roles at Supertracks, EMI and BMG International.

Aram Sinnreich

Radar Research

Founder and Managing Partner

Aram is a writer, speaker and analyst covering the media and entertainment industries, with a special focus on music. Named one of the 15 "Innovators and Influencers of 2001" by InformationWeek, he is often quoted in media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, Billboard, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, The CBS Early Show with Bryant Gumbel, CNN, CNBC, BBC Radio and Fuji TV. Mr. Sinnreich has also addressed several university audiences and professional organizations, including NYU's Graduate Music Business Program, Fordham University's MBA Program, USC's Communication Management Master's Program, and The New York State Bar Association.

Daren Tsui

MSpot

Chief Executive Officer

Daren was the vice president of business development at Enpocket, a global mobile media company providing integrated entertainment and marketing services, responsible for U.S. mobile carrier relationships and business development. In addition, he oversaw Enpocket’s Japanese operations including sales, product marketing and professional services. Mr. Tsui joined Enpocket as a result of the SkyGo acquisition, an early pioneer in mobile marketing funded by VeriSign, Vanguard Ventures and others.

Pedro Vargas

SanDisk Corporation

Director, Mobile Entertainment

Pedro is responsible for setting SanDisk’s strategy and direction in content and digital entertainment (music, video and games) for the mobile and portable media markets. Prior to SanDisk, he was at Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Music where he was responsible for business development across content, digital media and music services. Mr. Vargas also founded two venture funded digital music companies: DigMedia and NewTechMusic.

Fred von Lohman

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Senior Intellectual Property Attorney

Fred is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property issues. In that role, he has represented programmers, technology innovators, and individuals in litigation against every major record label, movie studio, and television network (as well as several cable TV networks and music publishers) in the United States. In additon to litigation, Mr. von Lohmann is involved in EFF's efforts to educate policy-makers regarding the proper balance between intellectual property protection and the public interest in fair use, free expression, and innovation.

Damon Williams

Music Choice

Vice President, Programming

Damon joined Music Choice in 1998 to head-up the Urban programming team. As he pursued additional responsibilities, Mr. Williams realized several promotions which ultimately lead to the management of the entire Music Choice programming group in 2003. Under his leadership, the programming team has grown substantially and is now responsible for producing audio and video programming for the Music Choice Television Network, the new broadband music service, and the Music Choice channel on Sprint's PCS service.

Robert Williams

RealNetworks, Inc.
Vice President, Music Software
Robert is responsible for developing the company's world-class music products, including the award-winning Rhapsody service. Before joining Real in 2005, he was General Manager and Vice President of the Client Product Group at Openwave Systems, a global provider of standards-based software and services for the mobile industry. Mr. Williams came to Openwave in 2001 through the company's acquisition of Avogadro, a company he co-founded to help bridge the gap between PCs and mobile devices. Mr. Williams' prior experience includes eight years at Microsoft Corporation where he was a key contributor to Microsoft Windows' networking and multimedia technologies. He holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Roger Wood

AirMedia, Inc.

Executive Vice President, Marketing

Roger was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Practice for the British consulting firm Willis Group. Prior, he served as Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing at Reebok International. Mr. Wood served as Director and General Manager of the international business for the predecessor companies to T-Mobile Wireless, then known as Omnipoint. His career began with Motorola, where he led marketing for the iDEN phone division.

Paul Wright

Mediaguide, Inc.

Vice President, Music Business Development

Paul oversees strategic partnerships for the media monitoring and technology company focusing on connecting online and offline communities. Prior to Mediaguide, he co-founded Frequency Media, which combined with Mediaguide in 2002; worked corporate development for Imax Corporation and Media & Entertainment Corporate Finance for Bear Stearns. Mr. Wright graduated Cum Laude with honors from Washington & Lee with B.A. degrees in Economics and Journalism.

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