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Licensing International 2006

Where Digital and Mobile Meet Brands
  

Javits Convention Center
June 19, 2006, New York City

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Speakers
 

Todd Anderman

Dennis Digital

President

Todd is the President of Dennis Digital, a division of Dennis Publishing. As President of Dennis Digital, he is responsible for Dennis Publishing’s Interactive businesses, including the websites for Maxim, Stuff, Blender and The Week Magazines; as well as the mobile business for all of Dennis’ magazine properties.

Malcolm Bird

AOL

Senior Vice President and General Manager, AOL Kids and Teens

Malcolm leads the team responsible for the kids and teens experience on KOL and RED. In this role, he conceived and developed both services for the company and created the first-ever major licensing franchise for a web-based animated children's property, Princess Natasha, which will be available on the Cartoon Network and retail in early 2006. Mr. Bird is also responsible for launching highly innovative original web series including Project Freshman.

Carsten Boers

Flytxt

President and Co-Founder

Carsten has driven the concept creation and delivery of thousands of mobile projects, and is recognised as one of the world's most experienced mobile marketers. After co-founding Flytxt in 2000, Mr. Boers led its sales and client services team, before moving on to set up Flytxt's U.S. operation in 2003. He was previously with the Monitor Company, a leading strategy consulting firm, where he worked on telecommunications, logistics and pharmaceutical projects. A native German, Mr. Boers studied Philosophy and Economics at LSE in London.

 

Julian Corbett
IN-FUSIO
Vice President, Business Development and Brand Partnerships

Julian leads business development efforts for IN-FUSIO, an international publisher of mobile entertainment applications. He's played a central role in negotiating partnerships with Microsoft, Viacom, Universal and Fox. Mr. Corbett has also secured licensing agreements for global brands including the 'Halo' franchise and one of the world's largest online communities, Neopets.

 

Chris Coyle

Mobile Streams, Inc.

Vice President, Content Acquisition
Chris joined Mobile Streams in May 2005 to run the company's content acquisition program for the North and South American regions. Having gained over 10 years experience in the music and new media industry, he leads the company's licensing activities for TV, film, comedy, sports, video games, gambling, children, lifestyle and adult/glamour content. This licensed content is used to create ringtones, wallpaper and mobile video for carrier distribution around the world.

Anders Evju

I-play

General Manager, North America
Anders has extensive market leadership experience in wireless data and Internet integration with more than 12 years of wireless telecommunications experience. Prior to joining I-play, he was with MobileSpring as a Co-Founder and Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Evju has U.S. wireless carrier background from Omnipoint Communications, where he was responsible for strategic planning of Wireless Internet Solutions. This included the planning for overall wireless data strategy, mobile portal development, strategic Internet alliances and business strategy. Mr. Evju gained extensive European telecom experience during his three years in Norway at NetCom GSM, where he was as a Director of Business Development and responsible for the initial planning, development and commercial launch of Mother, one of the world's first mobile portals, as well as the development of content based text messaging products.

 

Greg Fawcett

IMG Media

Vice President, Business Development
Greg was Vice President of Marketing at software developers Sequence Design and Avant!/Synopsys prior to joining IMG. He developed a contextual commerce product as Vice President of Marketing for wireless Internet startup iSilk, worked in strategic planning for the News Corporation, in product development for New York Times Digital and started his career working for the Mayor of New York.

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.

 

Scott Jensen

Hands-On Mobile

Vice President, Brand Partnerships

Scott manages Hands-On Mobile’s partnerships with brand owners and media companies and is responsible for acquisition and management of entertainment brands. Prior to Hands-On Mobile, he was President of NuvoStudios, a wireless games developer.

 

Harry Kargman

Kargo

Chief Executive Officer

Harry worked at Intertainer (a broadband video provider) and at Intel in their venture group. He graduated with honors from Harvard College and holds two patents. Mr. Kargman has been featured in the New York Times, Today Show, 20/20, CNN, NPR and other publications. He founded Kargo in 1999.

Adam Kerr

Bango

Vice President, North America

Adam is responsible for business development and evolving the ongoing strategy for Bango's U.S. operations. With 15 years experience in the internet and payments industries, he has played key roles in developing start-up companies to become successful global businesses. Initially working for Pipex, one of Europe's first business focused ISPs, then taken over by UUNET, Mr. Kerr provided Internet services to companies such as JP Morgan. Most recently he worked with WorldPay, an Internet payment company who were purchased by Royal Bank of Scotland, the world's fifth largest Bank. Mr. Kerr was responsible their Asia Pacific Ecommerce operations and grew their Asian business from start up to become one of the strongest payment service providers in the region, before joining their global payment strategy team.

David Levin

Sony BMG

Senior Vice President, Digital Sales

David has revenue and management responsibility for all of Sony BMG’s U.S. computer based download, subscription and video partners including iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Google, MTV, Yahoo, AOL, Sony Connect and many others as well as all of SONY BMG’s U.S. mobile partners including Verizon, Sprint, Cingular and T-Mobile amongst others. His team manages day to day marketing and new digital product development with Sony BMG’s partners. Prior to joining the Global Digital Business Group, Mr. Levin was Vice President of New Media for SONY BMG’s Sales Company, responsible for all digital revenue from U.S. based brick and mortar retailers including Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy and others. He started as a College Representative at BMG Distribution in 1991 and held several roles at the Branch and National levels at BMG Distribution, including Marketing and Market Research roles prior to the SONY BMG merger. Mr. Levin tenured at the dot com pure play GetMusic, a joint venture between BMG and Universal, from 1999 to 2000 in database marketing.

 

John Matra

GoldPocket Wireless

Senior Vice President, Business Development
John oversees the company's business development efforts with major media companies (i.e., film, music, television, radio and print) and national brand advertisers. He is also responsible for developing long-term relationships with key strategic partners including wireless carriers, device manufacturers, content / application developers, technology partners, etc. Before joining GoldPocket Wireless, Mr. Matra was Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategy at SMS.ac, a wireless application provider based in San Diego. Other positions held by Mr. Matra include: Vice President of Business Affairs at Sony Pictures Digital, Director of Business Affairs at Columbia TriStar Interactive, Director of Business and Legal Affairs at Event411.com, and associate lawyer at Behr & Abramson, a boutique entertainment law firm in Beverly Hills. He received his law degree from U.C. Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Mike Merrill

Smartphones Technologies

Chief Executive Officer
Mike is a 17-year veteran of the wireless industry, and has been directly involved in more than 50 product launches. Prior to starting Smartphones, he was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Totally Wireless and ePhones. An early pioneer of wireless data, Mr. Merrill opened the nation’s first retail chain dedicated exclusively to wireless products and services. As the Chief Executive Officer of ePhones, he raised $28 million in venture capital funding, and provided wireless Internet technology, infrastructure, logistics and support for more than 300 companies nationwide. Mr. Merrill is also the author of “Dare to Lead: Uncommon Sense and Unconventional Wisdom from 50 Top CEOs”. In addition to speaking at many major wireless conferences, he is a frequent speaker at leading business schools, including: Georgetown, Stanford, Columbia and Harvard Business School. Mr. Merrill is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Army Ranger School, and he served as a Captain in the Field Artillery.

Anne-Carole Nourisson

Universal Music Mobile International
Senior Vice President, Licensing and Marketing

Anne-Carole leads the international licensing and marketing strategy for Universal Music Mobile International, a division of Universal Music Group International producing and distributing personalization and content services for cellphone users across Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Her professional background is international marketing and sales, both in FMCG and Entertainment companies, in the off, online and mobile world. Ms. Nourisson started her marketing career at Unilever, then joined Seagram for Tropicana European HQ division, then UK&Ireland Marketing Manager before moving into the Entertainement industry as Marketing Director of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainement France. She joined the Internet division of Vivendi Universal in 2000, accompanying the European launch of Internet e-commerce sites then focusing on enhancing cross marketing opportunities between all Vivendi Universal Internet business units in Europe. Ms. Nourisson holds an Engineer Degree in Agronomy and a Master in Business Economics.

Andy Nulman
Airborne Entertainment
President

Andy is the "Entertainment" spirit in Airborne Entertainment, instrumental in bringing superbrands like Maxim, Family Guy, the NHL, For Dummies, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, SPEED TV and more to the mobile world. A mobile pioneer, co-founding Airborne with Garner Bornstein in 1999, he is also a renowned author, speaker, live-show director and TV producer.

 

Chris Pizey

Uclick Mobile

Chief Executive Officer

Chris has over 20 years of experience in publishing technology, infrastructure and business development. He has led the expansion of uclick's content syndication business through strategic deals with the Web's premier publishers, while expanding uclick's online publishing business from its infancy to current levels in excess of 75 million pages delivered each month. uclick's award-winning websites include: MyComicsPage.com, uPuzzles.com, Garfield.com, Doonesbury.com, uComics.com and uExpress.com. Mr. Pizey's leadership has been instrumental in shaping uclick's industy-leading development of Web-for-fee subscription services and wireless content licensing. He is a 1984 graduate of Heidelberg College.

Chris Pizzurro

Turner Entertainment

Vice President, Digital, New Media Advertising Sales and Marketing

Chris is charged with setting digital sales strategy and driving significant incremental ad revenue in VOD, wireless and broadband areas across all entertainment platforms. He is based in New York and reports to Chris Eames, senior vice president of New Media Advertising Sales and Marketing, Turner Entertainment. Prior to joining this new division, Mr. Pizzurro worked as Vice President of Market Strategy, where he developed and directed the strategic multimedia marketing efforts in support of the entire portfolio of TBS, Inc. networks, including entertainment leaders TNT, TBS and Cartoon Network as well news giants CNN and CNN Headline News. In 2001, Mr. Pizzurro was tapped to develop the company's advertising sales efforts on behalf of its digital media offerings. He served as liaison to advertising agencies, investors and consumers as well as to cable and satellite operators, introducing the company's digital media products, part of the ongoing innovation that is synonymous with TBS, Inc.

Rick Wardell
TiVo Inc
Director, Advertising Sales

Rick has three decades experience with electronic media and media software companies as a sales and marketing executive. The foundation of his sales and marketing expertise was built on 18 years of operational, sales and marketing positions held at broadcasting and electronic media applications companies throughout the United States including NBC Television, Katz Communications, Petry Television, Enterprise Systems (now Harris Systems) and Donovan Data Systems. In 1996 Mr. Wardell helped design and manage business development for BeFree, Inc.'s affiliate marketing and advertising applications during its start-up stage. Since then, he has participated in other early stage companies including iMediation, Centrport and TruEffect, Inc.

Scott Williams
Time Inc. Interactive
Director, Business Development and Mobile

Scott is in charge of new media business development, mobile, and emerging media platform sales development for the Interactive division at Time Inc. Previously, he served as Director of Business Operations and Development for the CNN News Group, and had responsibility for managing CNN's mobile Internet business CNNtoGo from 2000-2005.

 

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