Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here CES 2007, Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall Digital Hollywood at CES The Agenda - Day Two Tuesday, January 9th 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Session B - DH16 VC and Investment in the Entertainment & Technology Space: Games, Wireless & Broadband The VC and Investment community has always led the way in recognizing the newest opportunities in the technology and entertainment space. There are even signs of post-bubble investment and an IPO reversal on the horizon. VC funds are always available for the right idea and in this session, we will focus on the four sectors leading the entertainment and technology space today, broadband, wireless, the DTV/SVOD content and the digital home and technology and games opportunities. Broadband has been the Holy Grail for the entertainment industry for years, but what it represents today, is the reality of locking in millions of users. Wireless represents the explosive technology of the moment, DTV/SVOD represents the next explosive area of growth in the entertainment business - bringing new content to millions of consumers and games represent the next threshold of entertainment. Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Tim Chang, Principal, Gabriel Venture Partners David O. Higley, Managing Director & Head of Digital Media Technologies, UBS Investment Bank Mike Buckley, Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West Peter Levin, President, Bellrock Media, Inc. Dennis Miller, Managing Director, Spark Capital Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc., Moderator Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., based in New York, NY. Sun joined Oppenheimer in September 2006 to head the Digital Media and Internet investment banking practice. Sun's experience of over fourteen years in investment banking includes corporate finance coverage of Media (cable and entertainment), Digital Media, Internet and software companies at TD Securities, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers as well as equity research at Lehman Brothers. Over the years Sun has represented a wide range of clients in these sectors encompassing a variety of equity, debt and merger & acquisition transactions including Adelphia Communications, Autobytel, Comcast Corporation, Digital Domain, iVillage, Liquid Audio, Mediaplex, Scientific-Atlanta and TiVo. She also spent two years at TCSI in Berkeley, CA in Business Development and Finance. Sun graduated from Columbia Business School in 1988 with an MBA in Finance and a B.A. in Economics and International Studies from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN in 1984. David O. Higley, Managing Director & Head of Digital Media Technologies, UBS Investment Bank: David joined UBS from Prudential Volpe Technology Group where he was head of the Interactive Media and eBusiness Groups. During his career, Dave has raised over $6 billion for his clients and advised on over $2.5 billion in M&A and restructuring transactions. Prior to investment banking, Dave was a securities attorney at Thelen Reid & Priest, a national law firm based in San Francisco. During his time at Thelen, Dave was involved in numerous equity and debt offerings and M&A transactions for emerging growth companies. Dave has a bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California (where he was part of the Business Scholars Program) and a Law Degree from the University of Virginia. Mike Buckley, Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation: Mr. Buckley is a Director of Strategic Investments for Intel Capital. His responsibilities include equity investing in early stage companies that are strategic to Intel’s Digital Home, consumer electronics, digital media and service related efforts. Mr. Buckley also contributes to the development of Intel’s strategies and acquisitions in these areas. Mr. Buckley has been a member of Intel Capital since 1999. Prior to his current investment focus on the digital home, Mr. Buckley also invested in communications components, systems and service companies and directed Intel Capital’s efforts related to Internet infrastructure and services. Prior to joining Intel Capital, Mr. Buckley was a Partner and Vice President at Orca Capital Corporation, a Pacific Northwest-based investment banking firm. At Orca, he led the communications and software practices. Mr. Buckley was also an Associate at Jones Lang LaSalle (formerly LaSalle Partners) where he worked as a real estate investment banker and asset manager. Mike received a B.A. in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University. Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West: Mr. Stevens represents companies (ranging from newly formed startup teams to mature public companies), venture capitalists and investment banks involved in the information technology industries, with particular focus on complex transactions. As a lawyer and a business principal, Mr. Stevens has lead teams handling merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions with total announced value in excess of $20 billion. He has directed over 25 initial public offerings of technology companies and hundreds of strategic alliance transactions, ranging from technology and distribution partnerships to multinational joint venture transactions. The following are among the clients Mr. Stevens has represented: Electronic Arts Inc., Excite@Home, Inc., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Morgan Stanley, O'Reilly Associates: Education - Northestern University School of Law, J.D. cum laude, Order of the Coif; Santa Clara University, B.S. in mathematics magna cum laude. Tim Chang joined Gabriel in 2001 as a partner-track associate and was promoted to Principal in 2002. He brings to Gabriel a background combining operational, technical, and international business experience across Asia in three languages (Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and English). Tim leads Gabriel's wireless sector and also focuses on emerging opportunities in digrd, Tim joined Gabriel Venture Partners in 2001, where he has led Gabriel's investment and sital media as well as business development initiatives in Asia-Pacific. Tim began working in venture capital during his time at Stanford Business School , as part of the founding team of CTR Ventures K.K. in 1999, a venture accelerator in Tokyo focused on seed and early-stage mobile applications and technologies startups for the Japan market. Upon graduating with his MBA from Stanfoerved as a director on the boards of Iridigm Display Corporation (which was acquired by Qualcomm in 2004), Sequoia Communications, and Kajeet. Tim built Gabriel's Wireless sector practice, and is responsible for much of Gabriel's reputation and thought-leadership in handset technologies, as well as in next-generation wireless applications and services. Tim has led or been actively involved in all of Gabriel's wireless investments, and has also helped to establish Gabriel's business development capabilities through strong strategic relationships across the wireless value-chain, and particularly in Asia-Pacific. Tim previously contributed to the boards of Placeware (acquired by Microsoft) and Arula Systems (acquired by Raritan). Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S., Inc.: Joey Tamer is a widely-acclaimed strategic consultant to technology and media CEOs, U.S. and worldwide. Her work helps create wealth for founders and investors of entrepreneurial ventures, and a high return on investment for Fortune 1000 in-house ventures. Her capital strategies drive up her clients’ valuations and profitability. She consults to Fortune 1000 and mid-sized companies, capitalized start-ups, and investment funds. Her clients have included J.P. Morgan Capital, Sony, IBM, Apple, Hearst, Blockbuster, Technicolor, Harper Collins, Discovery Channel, and Time-Warner. Her clients say she is "a brilliant strategist and a practical, down-to-earth, get-it-done person," "invaluable in understanding the competitive landscape and alternative strategies" and that she "cuts right through the noise, giving a clear vision of the future," "protecting us from liability and cutting our costs." Through the emergence of the PC, new media, and the Internet, her clients have been in the business, enterprise and consumer sectors, with companies in technology, hardware and software, media and entertainment, publishing and advertising, distribution, and investment and venture funding. She has worked in the U.S., Europe and China. A strategist, policymaker, dealmaker, and negotiator, her work includes strategies on entry, exit, capitalization, return on investment, growth, positioning, pricing, distribution, risk-assessment, new market and international expansion, due diligence, and intellectual property. She speaks and publishes widely. Her website is www.joeytamer.com and she can be reached at joey @ joeytamer.com, or 310 245 5310. Dennis Miller is a General Partner at Spark Capital. His investments at Spark include Twistbox Entertainment and DoctorsDirect.com. Mr. Miller was most recently a Managing Director of Constellation Ventures in New York City where he focused on programming services, distribution opportunities on new platforms created by the increasing fragmentation and dislocation in the media marketplace, and technologies that allow media to be provided in ways that reflect today's consumer. His investments at Constellation include College Sports Television, TVONE (a joint venture between Comcast, Direct TV, and Radio One); K-12- an online education service founded by Bill Bennett, Lowell Milken and Larry Ellison; The Gospel Channel, Fathom Online (a leading search engine marketing company). He has also served on the Board of Directors of Capital IQ which has been sold to McGraw Hill. Prior to Constellation Ventures, Mr. Miller served in a number of high level executive positions at leading media companies. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Miller was Executive Vice President of Lions Gate Entertainment. In this capacity, Mr.Miller was integrally involved in Lions Gate's aggressive acquisition and growth strategy which in two years, acquired a film production and distribution entity, an animation company, a film studio plant, and started a television division resulting in annual sales of $175 million. During his tenure, Lion's Gate successfully sold a one third interest in Lion's Gate to Scandinavian Broadcasting System, Telemunchen, and Paul Allen in early March of 2000. Prior to joining Lions Gate, Mr. Miller was Executive Vice President of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Mr. Miller was responsible for the television operations of SPE which accounted for roughly two thirds of SPE's operating income, and was actively involved with strategic planning and new media. During Mr. Miller's tenure, Sony's television operation became the second largest supplier of television programming in the United States. Mr. Miller had responsibility for Sony's television operation that included, network, first-run, cable, international channels and new media. Sony owned, operated or had and interest in 12 channels or platforms including HBO Ole, the Action Channel in Asia, two movie channels in Australia, and a general entertainment channel in India. During Mr. Miller's tenure, Sony's new media division launched its primary internet initiative - the Sony Station. Mr. Miller's division included over 750 individuals with annual revenues of $1.4 billion and EBITDA of roughly $180 million. From 1990-1995, Mr.Miller was Executive Vice President of Turner Network Television, with responsibility for production, business affairs and original programming for the TNT Network, overseeing all aspects of the network's operation. Mr.Miller's responsibilities included oversight of 100 million in annual original programming, scheduling and marketing both the NBA and the NFL programs and the management and day to day operations of a 256 person team. During this period, Turner Network Television grew from 34 million subscribers and $240 million in revenues to 55 million subscribers and $525 million in revenues with $150 million in free cash flow. In 1997, Mr. Miller took on the additional responsibility for the Turner Entertainment Company, which spearheads the utilization of Turner's library of more than 3,000 motion picture titles. Mr. Miller began his career as an attorney with Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg and Phillips in Los Angeles. He received his Juris Doctorate from Boalt Law School at the University of California at Berkeley in 1982.