Speakers

* Will be the CEO of Reuters, the combined Thomson Financial unit and Reuters financial and media businesses, after Thomson-Reuters merger completes.

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Chris Ahearn, President, Reuters Media
Chris Ahearn is responsible for the strategy, marketing and profitability of the Reuters division that supplies news and information directly to consumers and to the world's newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, websites and mobile phone operators. He manages two business groups: Reuters News Agency and Reuters Consumer Media. Previously, Chris was EVP in charge of Reuters Research & Advisory business. He joined Reuters in 2001 from J.P. Morgan, where he was an M&A banker and held other positions.

Neil Ashe, CEO, CNET Networks

Neil Ashe joined CNET Networks in 2002 as SVP, Corporate Strategy and Development. In 2005, he became EVP. His responsibilities expanded to include day-to-day management of the Community and Lifestyle, Business, Channel and International divisions. He has led the company's content expansion strategy, including numerous acquisitions to develop its existing products and expand into new categories which attract new audience and customer segments. Previously, Neil founded and served as CEO of several start-up companies in the Internet, business-to-business, electronic-marketplaces, and financial-services industries.

David Carey, Publisher, Condé Nast Portfolio

David Carey is leading Condé Nast's push into business media, with the goal of creating a collection of leading business publications (and their related websites), through start-ups, acquisitions, and alliances. Portfolio launched in April. Previously, David was VP and publisher of The New Yorker. In 2004, while there, he was named by AdWeek as the industry's “executive of the year” and in 2005, he was named by FOLIO: Magazine as a member of its "Dream Team" of publishing executives. He was founding publisher of SmartMoney, and in 1996, at Condé Nast, served as Publisher for the re-launch of House & Garden.

Bob Carrigan, CEO, IDG Communications

Bob Carrigan oversees IDG's print and online publishing and events subsidiary. He has global responsibilities and also oversees eight business units in the U.S. Bob returned to IDG in April 2003 as president and CEO Computerworld from AOL, where he was SVP in the Interactive Marketing Group. Carrigan previously spent seven years at IDG's PC World in several senior sales management positions. Carrigan began his career at IDG's Digital News as an intern, while an undergraduate at Boston University, and went on to become the New England regional manager and Eastern sales manager.

Neil Cavuto, SVP, Anchor & Managing Editor of Business News, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel

Neil Cavuto oversees all business coverage for Fox News Channel (FNC) and Fox Business Channel (FBN) and serves on the network's executive committee. He appears on air for both channels, including the popular Your World With Neil Cavuto on FNC. Neil was named Anchor and Managing Editor of business news for FNC in July 1996. He also serves as SVP of Business News. Prior to joining FNC, he anchored and hosted more than three hours of live programming daily for CNBC and served as a contributor to NBC's Today Show as well as NBC News at Sunrise. His 20-plus years of financial reporting include stints at PBS' Nightly Business Report, where he was the New York bureau chief, and Investment Age Magazine.

Susan Clark, Global Marketing Director and Publisher, Contintental Europe, Middle East and Africa, The Economist

Susan Clark was appointed Global Marketing Director of The Economist in 2005, with a mandate to develop the brand. She has responsibility for circulation marketing in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She was previously at Le MeridiŽn Hotels & Resorts, where she was SVP, Marketing and Sales. Between 1992 and 2001, Susan was a founding partner in The Phineus Company, a marketing and strategy consultancy. She spent 15 years with American Express in New York, Washington DC and Sydney.

L. Gordon Crovitz, Publisher, The Wall Street Journal

L. Gordon Crovitz is Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, EVP of Dow Jones & Company, and president of the Company's Consumer Media Group, responsible for media operations serving consumers, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and other Web and print properties. He has previously been SVP of the Electronic Publishing group, VP/planning and development and managing director of Dow Jones Telerate's Asia/Pacific region. Gordon began his career at Dow Jones in 1980 as a summer intern writing editorials.

Trevor Fellows, Global Head of Media Sales, Bloomberg

After four years in the British Parachute Regiment, Trevor Fellows joined the marketing department of Reed Publishing in 1984, followed by two years as Publisher of the Japanese language edition of financial magazine Euromoney in the late eighties. He ran the international editions of Institutional Investor magazine until joining Bloomberg in 2000 as head of European Media Sales. After stints running both sales and distribution in Europe and Asia, he was appointed to his current job.

Lauren Rich Fine, Media Analyst

Lauren Rich Fine of Kent State University Communications School is a CFA and was until recently a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in Equity Research. A 19-year veteran, she covered the publishing, information, advertising and online industries. She was a ranked member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team for 14 years, holding the number one position for 11 years. Lauren is on the Boards of the Cleveland Film Society, the Cleveland Jewish News, the Chautauqua Foundation, In Counsel with Women, Laurel School, and Urban Community School, a not-for-profit school for low income families in Cleveland.

Keith Fox, president, Business Week Group

Keith Fox was named to his position in April 2007 and oversees the BusinessWeek franchise, including the magazine, the Web site and the national TV program BusinessWeek Weekend. Since September 2004 Keith had been president of McGraw-Hill Professional. He first joined McGraw-Hill in 2000 as SVP of Marketing and Business Development for BusinessWeek. Previously, Keith was VP of New Media at Reader's Digest Association, where he launched Readers Digest Health with Web MD and ReadersDigest.com. He started his career as a consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton in New York before moving to Unilever as a brand manager.

Mark Hoffman, President, CNBC

Mark Hoffman was named president of CNBC in February 2005. An award winning broadcasting veteran with a record of developing programming and increasing revenue and ratings, he reports directly to Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal. Previously, Mark was president and general manager of WVIT/NBC30, NBC's owned and operated station in Connecticut. He came to WVIT/NBC30 from CNBC, where he was vice president & managing editor, Business News since January 1999. At CNBC he was responsible for setting the editorial direction for the network's daytime business programming -- resulting in dramatic increases in viewership. He has also served as acting president and managing director for CNBC Europe and developed and launched the digital cable network CNBC World.

Peter C. Horan, CEO, IAC Media & Advertising

Peter Horan is responsible for the strategic growth of IAC's Media & Advertising sector, which is comprised of the IAC Search & Media businesses — Ask.com, IAC Advertising Solutions and IAC Consumer Applications & Portals — as well as the Citysearch and Evite brands. He previously served as CEO of AllBusiness.com, and CEO of About.com where he led the sale of the property to the New York Times Company for $410 million. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of DevX.com, Inc., an Internet media company that was later acquired by JupiterMedia Corporation.

Alan Ives, SVP, Sales, CNNMoney.com
Alan Ives is responsible for all digital advertising revenue at CNNMoney.com. The digital advertising sales team reports to him. Alan joined Time Inc. last month from ABC, where he served as VP of ABC Digital Media Sales. Prior to working at ABC for four years, he spent five years at Microsoft Corporation, where he oversaw regional sales for MSN and national sales for MSNBC.com. Ives also held sales management and marketing jobs with Sony Corporation, Turner Broadcasting and The New York Times. He has more than 20 years in advertising, sales and marketing experience, including more than 13 years in digital sales positions, eight of them in sales management.

David Jackson, CEO, Seeking Alpha

David Jackson is the founder and CEO of Seeking Alpha, a provider of stock market opinion and analysis from blogs, money managers and investment newsletters, and a provider of its own financial content. After working for five years as a technology research analyst for Morgan Stanley in New York, David left in early 2003 to manage money (long/short) and explore new approaches to financial publishing, ultimately leading to the creation of Seeking Alpha. Earlier in his career, he worked in technology venture funding and macro-economics (HM Treasury in London and The Bank of Israel).

John Koten, CEO, Mansueto Ventures

John Koten is CEO of Mansueto Ventures and editor in chief of Inc. and Fast Company magazines. He oversees the editorial and business departments of both. From September 2002 until July 2005, he was editor of Inc. Previously, John was editor in chief of Worth magazine for 10 years, and for 15 years was at The Wall Street Journal as bureau chief, senior editor, and reporter.

David Levin, CEO, United Business Media

David Levin overseas UBM, which includes two principal businesses: CMP and Commonwealth Business Media, and PR Newswire. Previously, David was CEO of Symbian, a leader in smart-phone operating systems, COO of Psion, Symbian's parent company and held senior management positions at the international business publisher Euromoney Institutional Investor. He also worked for the venture capital firm Apax Partners, and for Universal Grinding Wheels of Stafford and in Asia. He began his career with the Bain and Company consulting firm where he worked in several world regions. He is a member of the World Economic Forum and the Oxford University Press.

Om Malik, Founder, GigaOmniMedia

Om Malik calls his influential blog, GigaOm, his "personal weblog where I ruminate about broadband and its impact on our lives." He was a senior writer for Business 2.0, a senior writer for Red Herring and part of the founding team of Forbes.com. His writings have also appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Brandweek and Crains, New York Business. In 1999, he left Forbes.com to join Hambrecht & Quist Asia Pacific as an investment manager. In 1995 he co-founded a South Asian portal, Masala.com and has several other "tiny projects."

Roger McNamee, Managing Director, Elevation Partners

Roger McNamee is a managing director of Elevation Partners, a private equity partnership focused on media and entertainment content. Roger began his career at T. Rowe Price, where he managed the Science & Technology Fund. In 1991, he launched crossover fund Integral Capital Partners in partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 1999, Roger co-founded Silver Lake Partners, a private equity fund focused on technology businesses. Elevation, which was formed in 2003, has made five investments to date: Move.com, Video Game Holdings, Forbes, SDI and Palm.

Alan M. Meckler, Chairman & CEO, Jupitermedia Corporation

Alan Meckler created a newsletter in October 1990 called Internet World and went on to create the Internet World trade shows and various related print and Web publications. Mecklermedia sold its print and tradeshow properties to Penton Media in November 1998, and Alan purchased an 80.1% interest in Internet.com. JupiterOnlineMedia is the cornerstone for his company. It operates five online networks, and holds more than 150 Web sites and nearly 150 e-mail newsletters viewed by over 20 million users who generate over 400 million page views monthly.

Scott Moore, SVP, Yahoo!

Scott Moore heads Yahoo!'s News and Information division, which includes news, finance, sports, tech and lifestyle. Scott joined Yahoo! in 2005 from Microsoft, where he was general manager of the MSN programming group, managing editorial, design and product development for four publishing teams, and concurrently serving as president of MSNBC.com. Previously, Moore was publisher of Slate and has also held positions as advertising manager for Expedia Travel and business development manager for Sidewalk. He is also a past member of the board of directors for the Online Publishers Association.

Rob Norman, Global CEO, GroupM

Rob Norman is a member of the global GroupM Executive Committee that supervises the activities of the 13,000 person, $40 billion agency group. GroupM is the world's largest buyer of interactive media, with billings close to $3 billion. Rob joined Tempus Group PLC 's media agency CIA in 1986, founded CIA Interactive in 1994 and Outrider, its search unit, in 1998. In 2000 he joined the Tempus board. Following the acquisition of CIA by WPP in 2001 Rob led the combined digital offer of Mediaedge:cia and was Chairman of the Mediaedge:cia Group in the U.K.

Steven Rattner, Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC

Steven Rattner joined Quadrangle at its founding in 2000. Today, the private investment firm has more than $6 billion in assets under management. Previously, Steven served as deputy chairman and deputy CEO of Lazard Frres and managing director at Morgan Stanley. Before beginning his investment banking career in 1982 with Lehman Brothers, he was assistant to columnist James Reston at The New York Times and then become an economic correspondent in New York, Washington and London. Steven is active in philanthropic organizations, is deeply involved in public policy matters and serves on the board of IAC/InterActiveCorp and other companies.

Gloria Scoby, SVP/Group Publisher, Crain Communications Inc.

Gloria Scoby oversees publications in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and London, including Advertising Age, BtoB, Investment News and TelevisionWeek. She joined the company in 1978 as a member of the team that launched Crain's Chicago Business, the first of four Crain city business publications. She has been advertising director, associate publisher and publisher. She was named group publisher in September 1995. She initiated Crain Communications' first foray into online publishing, launching Crain's Chicago Business online via America Online. Previously, she was a partner in Ruba House, a literary venture company that produced the nationally-syndicated sports medicine column, Dr. Jock.

Jane Seagrave, VP, New Media Markets, The Associated Press

Jane Seagrave has financial and content responsibility for AP Digital. A former AP journalist, Seagrave returned to the AP in 2003 after managing the integration of American Lawyer Media with law.com. Seagrave first joined the AP in 1980, having had assignments in Santa Fe, N.M., Grants Pass, Ore., and Boston before leaving in 1985. She has also served as VP-editorial and production for Lawyers Weekly Publications in Boston, president and chief operating officer of Legal Communications Ltd. in Philadelphia, president and publisher of American Lawyer Media/Mid-Atlantic in Philadelphia, and chief executive officer of localbusiness.com in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Tad Smith, CEO, Reed Business Information

Tad Smith overseas some 80 publications and Web sites, including Variety, Publishers Weekly, and Broadcasting & Cable. FOLIO: Magazine called him one of the 40 most influential people in the magazine industry, and he received Media Business magazine's 2007 Top Innovator Award. He chairs the New York Roundtable for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, and serves on the boards of American Business Media, the Business Press Educational Foundation, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau. As adjunct professor, he teaches the corporate finance and strategy course on entertainment, media, and technology companies at NYU's Stern School of Business.

Patrick Spain, CEO, HighBeam Research

Patrick Spain created HighBeam Research as Alacritude, LLC, in August 2002 to serve as a vehicle for building an online research service for individuals. Spain is a cofounder and was former chairman and CEO of Hoover's, a leading online provider of company information. Spain led Hoover's from an unprofitable private book publishing company with a few hundred thousand dollars of revenue to a publicly traded profitable media and business information company with $31 million of revenues. Prior to Hoover's, Spain worked in the telecommunications industry first as a lawyer and then as a business executive, and as a real estate developer and an economic consultant.

James J. Spanfeller, President and CEO, Forbes.com

Jim Spanfeller joined Forbes.com in 2000 and oversees its strategic and operational management. In 2006, BtoB Media Business named Spanfeller "Top Innovator in Business Publishing," and he was inducted into min's first-ever Digital Hall of Fame. Prior to Forbes.com, Jim was President of the Consumer Magazine Group of Ziff Davis Media, Inc., Publisher of Inc. magazine and also held senior positions at Playboy Enterprises Publishing Group and Newsweek. He is currently Chairman of the Board for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), having served as Vice-Chairman in 2005, and is actively involved in the Online Publishers Association (OPA).

Greg Strakosch, CEO, TechTarget

As co-founder, Greg Strakosch has led TechTarget from start-up in 1999 a fully-diversified public IT media company. Prior to founding TechTarget, Greg was President of the Technology Division of UCG, a leading business-to-business information provider. He joined UCG in 1992 when the company acquired Reliability Ratings, a successful IT publishing company he founded in 1989. Previously, Greg spent six years in senior sales and marketing positions at EMC Corporation, which he joined as the company's 29th employee.

John S. Suhler, President, Veronis Suhler Stevenson

John Suhler participates in the presentations and reviews of nearly all portfolio company acquisitions and significant add-ons at VSS. He has served on the Board of Directors of many of the fund's portfolio companies and attended board meetings as observer for most of the balance. Prior to co-founding VSS in 1981, he was president of CBS Publishing Group and was VP-Publisher of the Psychology Today group at Ziff Davis Publishing and CRM, Inc. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Association of American Publishers and the Magazine Publishers of America, and an affiliate member of the American Newspaper Publishers.

Devin Wenig, COO, Reuters

Devin Wenig was appointed COO of Reuters in June 2006 after serving as President of Business Divisions, overseeing all four Reuters divisions since 2003. Devin joined Reuters in 1993 as Corporate Counsel, Reuters America, and held a number of senior management positions before being appointed President, Reuters Information in January 2001.

Kathy Yates, CEO, AllBusiness.com

Kathy Yates joined AllBusiness in late July 2005, after serving as President and COO of MarketWatch.com, where she oversaw all day-to-day operations and actively managed the growth of the company to $80 million in revenues annually. She led the completion and integration of a major acquisition (Pinnacor, Inc.) and actively participated in the sale of MarketWatch to Dow Jones. Previous roles include founder and Vice President/Business Development for Knight Ridder Digital, founding Board Member of CareerPath (now CareerBuilder) and Classified Ventures, and Vice President/Product Development for Women.com. In 2004, the San Francisco Business Times named her one of the Bay Area's 100 most influential women in business.

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