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Digital Hollywood Fall 2006
Thursday, October 26
12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
VoIP and Web Phone Applications: Web 2.0 Implications for Communications, Advertising and Content

Matt Wisk, Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, United Online, Inc.
Dave Weinstein, co-founder, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Casabi
John Harris, Chairman and CTO, Viseon Inc
Scott Faber, Creator/Co-Founder and General Manager, Ether
Thomas Randolph, President, FrameFree® Technologies, Inc., Moderator
Additional speakers to be announced

Matt Wisk – Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer for United Online, Inc.: Mr. Wisk directs the marketing efforts for all of United Online's brands, including the company's leading value-priced Internet services NetZero and Juno Online, and Classmates.com, a leader in online social networking, as corporate executive vice president and chief marketing officer. He brings more than 20 years of marketing experience to United Online. Mr. Wisk was named one of the "Top 100 Marketers of 1999" by Advertising Age and "Grand Marketer of the Year, 2000" by Brandweek; was awarded the Gold Effie Award for Advertising Effectiveness in 2001; and was named a Henry Crown Fellow, Class of 2002, from the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program. Mr. Wisk joins United Online after serving as senior vice president, chief marketing officer at TiVo where he directed TiVo's global marketing efforts. Before joining TiVo, Mr. Wisk was chief marketing officer at Herbalife International, a $1 billion revenue nutrition products company. Prior to joining Herbalife, Mr. Wisk worked at Nokia for nine years, where he moved up through the marketing organization to become vice president, marketing, North and South America, providing leadership, strategic marketing vision, and broad executive management for the international marketing of its mobile phone division. At Nokia, Mr. Wisk was a key executive in the marketing team that helped establish Nokia as a global leader in wireless communications equipment. Under his leadership in both North America and Europe, Nokia grew from having single-digit brand awareness to being the most considered and preferred brand in the category. Prior to Nokia, Mr. Wisk held marketing positions for telecommunications companies, Metrocel Cellular Telephone (now part of Cingular), NEC, and GTE. He received both his MBA and B.A. from Michigan State University.

John Harris is Chairman and CTO of Viseon Inc.. The company, founded in 1993, is a leading developer and manufacturer of patented personal broadband communications solutions. Viseon products have been sold under various brand names around the world including Philips, VTEL, and Gentner. Viseon's mission is to work with carriers to enhance the consumer telephone experience by positioning VoIP as a premium service versus Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), and ultimately replacing the analog telephone by bringing digital telephony quality to the broader public. The Viseon proprietary product, the VisiFone, is the first Digital Home Telephone for VoIP. It has been designed with input from numerous VoIP carriers to deliver consumers all of the benefits of broadband digital telephony on a single device. Features include digital WideBand audio, TV-quality videophone capabilities and on-screen management of VoIP features and preferences. The VisiFone will be available to consumers through VoIP carriers later in 2005.






Dave Weinstein, co-founder, VP of Marketing & Business Development, Casabi: Weinstein has over 25 years experience with a broad range of communications companies in the mobile, landline and the Internet arenas. His roles in these companies have included CEO and Founder as well as Vice President of Marketing, Business Development and Sales. He has co-founded three companies and has been instrumental in a creating value for his companies through IPO, acquisition and technology sale. Weinstein has also successfully raised approximately $40 million in venture capital. Weinstein’s positions include CEO for Zack Systems; Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for First Virtual Communications, Jetstream Communications and Centigram Communications and Vice President of Marketing for Openwave. In addition, Weinstein was a senior consultant at Bain and Company and was one of the first members of Bain’s technology consulting team. Throughout his career, Weinstein has been a leader and an innovator in communications technologies and has the arrows to show for it. He helped bring to market product firsts in many areas including unified messaging, home computer telephony and mobile voice-based portals. Weinstein graduated from Haverford College with Honors in Political Science and Economics and graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar from the MBA program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Weinstein also developed and built out a new retail concept in Palo Alto called Kiki’s Candy Bar. Kiki’s is an event venue wrapped in a candy store. Its client’s include countless happy kids as well as Google, Intuit and Wilson Sonsini.

Scott Faber, Creator/Co-Founder and General Manager, Ether: The idea for Ingenio - to combine the Web and the telephone to create voice-commerce applications -- came to Scott Faber as he was riding in a New York City taxicab listening to a network of drivers chatting on an all-night conference call. He now leads Ingenio's Program Management department and seller community as well as Ingenio's new division, Ether. Prior to Ingenio, Scott was a new-media consultant in Bertelsmann AG's Corporate Executive Program, playing key roles in several of its Internet start-up companies. Scott was part of the core global team that launched BOL, Bertelsmann's e-commerce response to Amazon.com; he also worked in Germany for Bertelsmann, helping to develop BMG's European music-on-demand strategy and launching GameChannel. Before Bertelsmann, Scott worked for Disney Publishing and the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. He received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and is an alumnus of Yale University with undergraduate degrees in English literature and mechanical engineering.

Thomas Randolph, President, FrameFree® Technologies, Inc.: Mr. Randolph is a computer software and multimedia industry visionary with more than 20 years of information technology and IT management experience, including 15 years of developing and managing multimedia software development projects. With deep ties to the technology industry in Japan and US, he has served as special advisor to Fujitsu Limited (1987-1994) and NTT Data (1992-1994). While assisting Fujitsu on various PC, multimedia and Internet projects, Mr. Randolph was asked by Fujitsu to spearhead the development of the FM Towns Multimedia Personal Computer (world’s first multimedia PC system with CD-ROM) in Tokyo. During this time, Mr. Randolph was appointed the board member of Multimedia PC Council (MPC) and helped establish the multimedia hardware and software standards in the U.S., together with Creative Labs, Microsoft Corp. and Bill Gates (1989). During the FM-Towns project, Mr. Randolph and Fujitsu jointly published more than one hundred international multimedia software products in Japan. Most of these titles were the first multimedia software ever created, including SimCity, Ultima Online, Macromedia Director, Battle Chess and more. Using this intense experience in multimedia production, Mr. Randolph established Lanpro Localization Center Corp. and Interactive Artists, LLC in San Francisco to provide localization services and multimedia and interactive music production. In 1995, Mr. Randolph and Interactive Artists co-produced a groundbreaking interactive multimedia concert with Tomoyasu Hotei (a top Rock & Roll artist in Japan) with NTT as the main sponsor. Most of the team for this production was formally involved with the band Grateful Dead. The concert series was a massive hit in Japan and the video album "Cyber City Never Sleeps" remains in the history books as the world's first truly interactively controlled Rock & Roll concert. In 1996, Mr. Randolph was named president and chief executive officer of 7th Level Asia Pacific, Inc., where he opened an office in Tokyo for the distribution of games and educational titles. In 1999, he was named the Special Advisor to the Vice Chairman of Sega America to help launch the Dreamcast game console in the U.S. From 2001, Mr. Randolph focused most of his efforts in China, establishing high level contacts in the Chinese government to help China, Japan and the United States become better high tech partners. In 2002, Mr. Randolph was named CTO of Monolith Limited to help kick start the FrameFree project in Japan and China. In 2003, Mr. Randolph was named the Director of Delphi Holdings Limited with the mission to productize and introduce FrameFree to the global market. In 2004, he assembled a "digital imaging dream team" in San Francisco under FrameFree Technologies, Inc. and is now dedicating all of his time to help make FrameFree a global standard in the digital imaging market. He lives in Taipei and San Francisco.