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Digital Hollywood Fall 2006
Monday, October 23
4:10 PM – 5:15 PM
Session C:
Advertising NEXT: Pods, Social Nets, Blogs, Ims, Broadband and Mobile, - It's the Breakthrough Year!
Murgesh Navar, founder and CEO, Podbridge
Henry Copeland, founder, BlogAds
Don Loeb, Vice President, Business Development, Feedburner
Ian Wessman, Director of Creative Technology, Saatchi & Saatchi LA
Nancy Dunn, Vice President, Advertising Strategy, ClipSyndicate
Martin Green, Senior Vice President, CNET Networks Community
Andreas Stavropoulos, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Moderator

Don Loeb, Vice President, Business Development, Feedburner: As Vice President of Business Development overseeing Strategic Partnerships at FeedBurner, Don Loeb fosters relationships with the largest media companies in the world helping them to leverage the opportunities afforded by syndication. Previously, Don was director of business development for Yahoo!'s Network Products business unit where he helped drive the company's open content syndication and social media efforts. He has also held senior positions at YellowBrix, Inc. and iSyndicate, Inc. where he developed corporate strategy around syndication of audio/video content and assisted with corporate development initiatives and the sale of the company. Don heads up FeedBurner's branch office in San Francisco and, while based on the West Coast, he has often been spotted at opposite ends of the country and world - mysteriously - at the same time. Don received a B.A. degree in Applied Economics from the University of California - Berkeley.


Murgesh Navar,
founder and CEO of Podbridge, brings deep engineering, business-development and entrepreneurial expertise to the development, launch and growth of Podbridge. Prior to founding Podbridge, Murgesh co-founded Audiofeast, a start-up company that developed a consumer audio service for portable devices. His experience at Audiofeast led him to recognize the power of podcasting and the need for a business model to enable advertising in the new medium. Murgesh previously built and led product development teams for a billion-dollar line of workstations at Silicon Graphics, and open platforms for delivering enhanced content and services to television at Liberate Technologies, a joint venture between Netscape and Oracle. He subsequently led Liberate’s penetration of Asia-Pacific markets as the head of Asia Pacific sales and business development. Murgesh holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

Nancy Dunn,
Vice President, Advertising Strategy, ClipSyndicate: Ms. Dunn brings over 10 years of experience in developing revenue and business development strategies on the Internet. Prior to joining ClipSyndicate, Ms. Dunn was with AOL for 7 years where she was most recently Director of Business Strategy and Operations in the Sales Development group. There she developed and led the implementation of AOL’s advertising inventory strategy and helped lead AOL’s transition to a new ad serving system. Ms. Dunn also held account management and strategy positions at AOL. Before joining AOL, Ms. Dunn was with Time Inc. where she launched a commerce system that enabled subscription sales online.

Martin Green, Senior Vice President, CNET Networks Community: Martin is a senor vice president who has been with CNET Networks since 1996 and currently oversees the Community group, which was formed in October, 2005 and is comprised of Webshots, Chow, UrbanBaby and Consumating. As head of CNET Networks' Community business, Martin is focused on helping the company expand its footprint in the lifestyle category, through the acquisition and incubation of businesses that support CNET Networks' strategy to build brands for people and the things they are passionate about. Martin's contributions over the years include working with CNET Networks' shopping services to pioneer the CPC business model in 1997; managing the financial and operating planning process for the company's U.S. business units; running yield management for CNET Networks' online advertising inventory; and advising the CEO, the CFO, and the COO on resource allocation. Martin has also led the integration process for several acquisitions, including mySimon, ZDNet, CNET Channel, and Webshots. Prior to joining CNET Networks, Martin was with Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking group in New York and Menlo Park. He earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen's University, Canada. He also spent a year in Japan at Kwansei Gakuin University, where he learned to speak Japanese. Martin likes delicious food and riding his bike. He lives with his wife, two kids, and a yellow dog in the San Francisco Bay Area.