Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from the last Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Fall 2006 Wednesday, October 25 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Track III: Venture Funding and Leadership 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. David O. Higley, Managing Director & Head of Digital Media Technologies, UBS Investment Bank Mike Buckley, Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. George Zachary, General Partner, Charles River Ventures Roland Van der Meer, co-founder, ComVentures Todd Dagres, founder and General Partner, Spark Capital Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc., Moderator Roland Van der Meer, Partner and Cofounder, ComVentures, invests in technologies and early stage communications companies with the potential to redefine business and economic models, as well as the way in which whole segments of the communications industry operate. Listed 18th on the Forbes Midas List of top 100 technology dealmakers in 2005, he focuses his investments on systems, components and services. Roland's recent investments and board seats include Ambric, Cloudshield, Fabrik, FilmLoop, FyreStorm, OpSource, PacketHop, Quantia and Sensys. Roland was one of the first to spot the digital transmission revolution and funded PairGain. He followed this up by being the only venture investor in Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM), the broadband communications semiconductor company that led the frontier of digital signal processing. Roland was also the initial investor in Arbinet (Nasdaq: ARBX), which created and operates the world's largest market exchange for telecommunications carriers, and Zantaz, the leader in email/file archiving and retrieval. A number of Roland's pioneering companies have been acquired by major communications industry players, including: Chromatis Networks (acquired by Lucent), Confertech (acquired by Frontier), dynamicsoft (acquired by Cisco), Monterey Networks (acquired by Cisco), PairGain (acquired by ADC) and Ascendent Systems (acquired by RIM). He has more than 20 years of experience in the communications industry as an engineer, strategist and investor. Before helping to cofound ComVentures, Roland served as a partner with Partech International, co-founded Communications Ventures, and spent several years with Hambrecht & Quist Venture Partners. Early in his career, he held engineering positions with GTE Labs and Sprint. He holds a BSE from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS from the Wharton School. ComVentures has $1.5B under management. 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: Dave is a Managing Director at UBS and the Global Head of Digital Media, which includes interactive entertainment, wireless content and other media related technologies. Since joining UBS, he successfully built this group into a leading global franchise - with clients throughout Europe, Asia and the US. During his career, David has helped his clients raise over $13 billion in growth capital and advised in over $4 billion in M&A and restructurings. Dave joined UBS in late 2000 from the Prudential Volpe Technology Group (fna Volpe Brown Whelan & Company), where he ran the Group’s Digital Media efforts. Prior to investment banking, Dave was a securities attorney at Thelen Reid & Priest (fna Thelen Marrin Johnson & Bridges), a national law firm based in San Francisco. During that time, Dave was involved in numerous equity and debt offerings and M&A transactions for his clients. Dave has bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California 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. George Zachary, General Partner, Charles River Ventures: George Zachary joined Charles River Ventures in 2004 as a general partner, bringing more than 17 years of operating and investing experience in computing and consumer technology. George’s focus is on building great services and software technology companies. George led CRV’s investments in cRight, GoTV and Odeo, and is on each company’s board of directors. Previously, he was a general partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV). His directorships included: Accrue Software (Nasdaq:ACRU), Andale, Critical Path (Nasdaq: CPTH), Odeo, Ovation Entertainment, Sandcastle (acquired by Adobe, Nasdaq:ADBE), Securify (acquired by Kroll-O’Gara, Nasdaq: KROG), Shutterfly, Supertracks (acquired by Centerspan) and Telebot (acquired by Z-Tel, Nasdaq: ZTEL). Prior to MDV, George led the Nintendo 64 development business at Silicon Graphics, managed sales and marketing for virtual reality pioneer VPL Research, and served as a product marketeer at CATS Software. He is a board advisor at the MIT Sloan School of Business and Stanford BASES. He is also an advisor to X PRIZE. George earned a joint BS from MIT and MIT Sloan School of Business. Todd Dagres is a founder and General Partner of Spark Capital. Mr. Dagres was most recently a General Partner and Executive Committee Member at Battery Ventures, where his investments generated profits of over $1.1 billion to Battery Limited Partners. At Battery, Mr Dagres led the Communications Investment practice while focusing on the Media, Entertainment and Communications Industries. Some of his investments at Battery include: Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM), Qtera (sold to Nortel Networks); XCOM (sold to Level 3 Communications), Redstone (sold to Siemens), and River Delta Networks (sold to Motorola), Arbor Networks, Broadbus Technologies, and Cedar Point Communications. In each of the last three years, Mr. Dagres was named to the Forbes "Midas List," which ranks top venture capitalists who have created the most wealth for their investors. Mr. Dagres has been a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he taught a course entitled: New Enterprise. Mr Dagres’ Entertainment and Media endeavors have included establishing two film and television production companies (Prospect Pictures and Ealing Studios) that together have produced over 10 films and TV shows since 2003. He has been involved in the production of several films including Pretty Persuasion which won entry into the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and has been released by Samuel Goldwyn and Sony. In 2004, Mr. Dagres established the Face of an Angel Foundation. Face of an Angel is a non-profit, charitable foundation dedicated to education, research and treatment in the area of vascular malforma and tumors that cause severe birthmarks and disfigurement in .2% of newborns. He serves on the board of Fellows at Trinity College and on the Board of Trustees at Governor Dummer Academy. Prior to Battery Ventures, Mr. Dagres was Principal and Senior Technology Analyst at Montgomery Securities, Senior Technology Analyst and Vice President at Smith Barney/Robinson Humphrey, Vice President of Communications at the Yankee Group; and, Business Development Manager for Networks and Communications at Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Dagres holds a BS in Psychology from Trinity College, Hartford CT and an MBA from Boston University. 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