Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from Digital Hollywood Spring, 2006 For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Tuesday, August 15 10:45 AM - Noon Track II: Launch at Building Blocks - Part I Companies will be selected to present company products and business plans. This session is part of the Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium. Presentations by: I. vMix Media Inc.: Presentation by: Greg Kostello, CEO of vMix Media Inc. II. FilmLoop, Inc.: Kyle Mashima, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, FilmLoop III. Narrowstep™ Inc.: Presentation by: Carolyn Wall, President, Narrowstep, North America IV. Exavio, Presentation by: Michael Moone, President and CEO, Exavio V. Gas Station TV: Presentation by: Adam Bleibtreu, President, Gas Station TV VI. Rights Group, LLC: Presentation by: Jed Alpert, CEO of Rights Group, LLC Co-Hosts: Peg Jackson, Managing Director, NeoCarta Ventures, Arthur C. Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC Peg Jackson, Managing Director, NeoCarta Ventures: Peg Jackson joined NeoCarta Ventures in May 2000. Her responsibilities include making investments in the technology sector and managing the portfolio. She is on the board of several companies, including DataSynapse, Silverpop, Cendura and Zoom. Prior to joining NeoCarta Ventures, Peg Jackson was Vice-President of Business Development at NBC. She joined NBC in 1996, where her primary responsibilities included making investments in Internet and Interactive TV companies. In addition she managed a production group that developed NBC’s interactive TV programming. Prior to NBC, Jackson worked in the business development group at Reuters New Media, Inc., where she managed new acquisition and joint venture projects. Jackson was also employed as a Media Analyst for the Toronto Dominion Bank. Jackson received a BA in Economics from Georgetown University and an MBA from New York University. Arthur C. Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC, a media and entertainment advisory firm that helps creative managers and entrepreneurs make bet-the-company decisions on issues such as starting-up, financing, and buy-vs-sell decisions, particularly for companies where technology and the Internet play a significant role in determining success or failure. Tipping Point Partners also incubates new companies that will make investments in media and entertainment. Art has over 20 years of experience in start-up company settings, including a Chinese-language e-commerce company; an international television distribution business; and a $2.3 billion public real estate development. Prior to Tipping Point Partners, Art was Chief Operating Officer of GT Advisory Co., LLC, where he formed and managed software and services businesses that leveraged the law firm's capabilities. GT Advisory is a subsidiary of Greenberg Traurig, the fourth largest U.S. law firm, with the largest and the only international entertainment law practice in the U.S. Art joined GT Advisory from the New York City Investment Fund, a $100 million venture capital fund organized by Henry Kravis and Jerry Speyer, where he provided advice on investments in distributed computing, enterprise software, and digital media. Prior to that, Art was an investment banker with experience on over $1 billion of diverse private equity and M&A transactions in power generation, real estate, equipment lease finance, biotech and technology. In 1997, Art co-founded Venture Downtown, the annual venture capital conference in New York City. Art began his career in architecture and real estate development, where he worked on over 50 residential, commercial and public projects totaling over $350 million in construction, including a $100 million project for I.M. Pei. Art volunteers on the Board of the Brooklyn Public Library Foundation, the supporting organization for the fourth largest public library system in the U.S. and on Yale's Alumni Schools Committee, where he interviews undergraduate applicants to Yale University. Art received his M.B.A. in finance from New York University and his B.A. in women's studies with a concentration in art history from Yale. Art lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Allison Thrush, a private equity professional, and their two boys. Company Descriptions: I. vMix Media Inc: vMix is the answer for the participation generation. More than a convenient medium to upload and view consumer-generated videos on the Web, vMix sets itself apart by powerfully combining branded content and licensed music to enable users to effortlessly create compelling video mash-ups and slide shows. vMix technology provides the creative tools for content creators to mix photo slide shows, videos and customizable community pages and make them easily accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. From its inception, vMix has screened out objectionable content and pornography. Created by executives from Universal Music Group, Fox studios, Apple Computer and Netscape, vMix, a pioneer in online video sharing and thought leader in the changing social networking landscape, is poised to be the undisputed leader in the consumer-generated content space. For more information, visit, http://www.vmix.com Presentation by: Greg Kostello, CEO of vMix Media Inc. II. FilmLoop is a free photocasting network. FilmLoop lets you to share photos, broadcast photos, and find photos with the greatest of ease. Instead of showing photos on a web page or including them as email attachments, FilmLoop presents pictures in a "Loop" on your desktop. All you need to do is drag your pictures to the Loop, and everyone who subscribes to the Loop will see them. They can also drag in pictures, and you'll see them. Think: "drag and drop to anyone's desktop." Plus, you can browse thousands of Loops created by our extensive network of professional photo editors. Enjoy amazing, super sharp photos from some of the world's finest photographers, along with full story captions, delivered right to your desktop. Watch "news magazine" style Loops on news, sport, entertainment, humor and more. Loops update automatically every day! FilmLoop is a located in Palo Alto, California. Founders worked for companies like Apple, Adobe, and Classmates.com Presentation by: Kyle Mashima, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, FilmLoop: As FilmLoop’s chief executive officer and co-founder, Kyle Mashima is responsible for defining and leading the company’s strategic direction. With more than 22 years of desktop software experience, Kyle can certainly be classified as an industry veteran. Before FilmLoop, Kyle worked for Adobe Systems Inc. – first as general manager for Adobe’s Consumer Software Division, where he coordinated the development and shipment of more than 30 million copies of PhotoDeluxe, and ultimately as Adobe’s vice president for strategic development, where he drove corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions and alliances. It was at Adobe that he met Prescott Lee, and over bi-weekly breakfasts at Hobee’s in Palo Alto, CA. that the two cooked up FilmLoop’s ground-breaking Visual Communications Network. Kyle cut his industry teeth at Apple, Claris and several start ups after receiving his bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and his master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University. But his wife will tell you that his steady hand on the company’s rudder really comes from many hours of piloting his collection of radio-controlled electric model airplanes. III. Narrowstep™ Inc. (OTC BB: NRWS) is a leading global provider of broadband TV services (TV over IP). Narrowstep’s offering empowers content owners, such as national broadcast/cable networks, niche program producers, and small start-up businesses, with a cost-effective platform to manage sophisticated commercial video and audio channels over the Internet. The Narrowstep system, telvOS ™ (Television Operating System™), is the most comprehensive solution that controls all aspects from encoding to playout, all from an easy-to-use, centrally-operated, web-based solution. To learn more, visit www.narrowstep.com. Presentation by: Carolyn Wall, President, Narrowstep, North America: As President of Narrowstep, North America, Carolyn Wall is responsible for the overall operations of the company, including finance, sales, operations, and marketing in the North American market. A frequent speaker at industry events, Carolyn Wall offers insight into media challenges and audience delivery. With Wall’s particular insight into repurposing content and an understanding of developing successful revenue streams that go beyond a reliance on traditional advertising, Narrowstep now powers over 80 channels and serves clients all over the world since the founding in 2002. During her 11 years at News Corporation, Wall was Publisher of New York magazine, Executive Vice President of Murdoch Magazines, and Vice President/General Manager of New York television station FOX 5. As Publisher of Newsweek, Wall led strategic initiatives to develop and extend the brand. IV. Exavio: Exavio, Inc. provides technology solutions that ease the time- and money-wasting data bottlenecks that currently limit or slow down creative and research professionals using storage area networks. The company has created a SAN accelerator platform utilizing solid state memory along with proprietary caching and buffering algorithms to provide performance gains of two to five times over existing SANs. Exavio is initially focused on the digital content creation market, specifically HD and film post production. These customers very often work on uncompressed high-definition or in digital intermediate (2K or 4K resolution) formats. These high resolution formats are more demanding than ever of a facility’s network and storage resources, resulting in costly workflow disruptions and over provisioning. With the ExaMax 9000 SAN Accelerator, the company is improving real-time performance of storage area networks, making high definition and digital intermediate workflows more affordable, manageable and flexible. Exavio Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Clara, California with engineering and sales offices in Beijing, China. For more information, please visit www.exavio.com.. Presentation by: Michael Moone, President and CEO Mr. Michael Moone was most recently president and CEO of Alloptic, Inc., where he was instrumental in driving the company to a leadership position in the fiber networking industry. As Group Vice President of the Consumer Line of Business for Cisco Systems, Moone helped to found the Internet Home Alliance division and was responsible for driving strategic alliances and par tnerships. Moone worked with Exavio's founders as CEO of V- Bits and negotiated its acquisition by Cisco in 1999. In 1997 Moone led the successful IPO of Faroudja Laboratories and in 1994 helped establish HealthRider, Inc., as one of Fortune 100's fastest growing companies as well as its acquisition by Icon Health and Fitness. Prior to that Moone honed his executive management and marketing skills at such noted companies as Atari and Milton Bradley. Moone received degrees in Economics and Political Science from Xavier University. V: Gas Station TV: GSTV is an IP-based digital television network offering ABC programming; local news, sports, weather and traffic; original content and advertising. GSTV also carries Amber Alerts and select PSAs as part of its programming. GSTV is building a national digital media network with compelling programming and unique advertising opportunities for the marketplace, and an unrivaled gas retailer consumer entertainment experience. Content programmed for a highly desirable, captive audience on the network can be specifically tailored to geography and time of day. GSTV has secured pre-eminent partnerships with ABC, the number one television network; Murphy Oil USA, Inc., the premier "big box" gas retailer in the nation; Gilbarco, the world’s largest manufacturer of gas retailer equipment and technology; and Delphi Display Systems, the market leader in outdoor digital video display systems. With full motion video and audio, GSTV is a proven tool for enhancing the customer experience and increasing the revenue stream for participating gas retailers. Please visit www.gstv.com for more information. Presentation by: Adam Bleibtreu, President, Gas Station TV: Adam Bleibtreu is president of Gas Station TV where he provides design, execution and integration expertise to the company. He is the foremost authority in narrowcasting and IPTV networks. His 25 years of experience in advertising, media and marketing include the design, implementation, and integration of the first digital networks in themed restaurants, shopping malls and conventions centers in the United States. As a senior marketing executive he helped to guide the launch of a television network, and consumer products that have generated over $500 million in annual sales. Some of his recent work includes building the Convention Center TV Network in the busiest convention center in the US, the Las Vegas Convention Center. He was also the VP of New Media for the Hollywood & Highland project; a mixed use facility in Los Angeles that includes the Academy Award Theater, a 450 room hotel and 400,00 square feet of retail space. He was responsible for not only the Network, but also generating over $25 million in guarantied revenue from media sales fro the project. Bleibtreu also served as the initial VP of Creative Services for the WB Television Network, where he supported the launch of both the Network and its shows. Prior to the WB, for five years Mr. Bleibtreu served as the Director of Advertising for LA Gear, where he led the advertising and media efforts, which supported over $1 billion of sales. He holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Southern California. VI. Rights Group, LLC: Rights Group, LLC provides mobile marketing solutions for the political and advocacy markets with a clear value proposition: locate supporters and convert supporters into activists. The proprietary Rights Group solution employs a deceptively simple process that converts support to action in as few as two steps — resulting in calls to legislators, mobilization for protests, rapid radio response support for political campaigns, and disaster relief contributions. Presentation by: Jed Alpert, is CEO of Rights Group, LLC, a mobile entertainment and marketing company with clients including Visa International, Samsung, Pepsi, and Collegehumor.com. Its Politxt division is the leading provider mobile services to campaigns and advocacy organizations including People for the American Way, SEIU and the ACLU. He was previously President of Sunshine Amalgamedia, Inc., a technology-driven entertainment company with operating divisions in interactive content, including Interactive TV; exhibition (Sunshine Theater NYC); television development and production; and feature film production. At Sunshine, Jed developed an innovative syndication sponsorship model commissioning top young directors to make short films for multiple distribution networks with nationally branded sponsorship. Sunshine partners, clients, and customers have included Microsoft, Oracle, Scripps Howard, and others. Additionally, while at Sunshine, he oversaw the production of feature films and developed television. During his tenure practicing law at Rudolph and Beer, and as an associate at Paul Weiss, Alpert’s clients included films such as Slingblade, Hurricane Streets, Sunday, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Cruise, Next Stop Wonderland, Three Seasons, and Star Maps. He represented companies such as Open City Films, Rhino Entertainment and Sonic Net. Further, Alpert produced numerous feature films including Sunday, winner of the 1997 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. He has also served on the board of a number of film festivals and arts organizations, including Genart, The Newport Film Festival and Thread Waxing Space. Jed holds a BA from Connecticut College and a JD from Cardozo School of Law. "Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium" Advisory Committee Members Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director, TD Securities (USA) LLC Isaac Palmer, Managing Director, Fortress Investment Group Michael J. Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners David Britts, General Partner, ComVentures Paul Vais, Partner, Apax Partners John Hull, General Partner, OVP Venture Partners Fred Wilson, Managing Partner of Union Square Venture Harold Vogel, President, Vogel Capital Management Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West David Feinleib, Director, Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV) Jay MacDonald, Partner, Digital Media & Technology, DeSilva & Phillips LLC Keith Bencher, Vice President, Strategy & Development, CNET Games & Entertainment Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier, founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech Venture Consulting Arthur C. Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC Allison Goldberg, Director, Time Warner Investments Drew Marcus, Vice Chairman, Media & Telecom Group, Deutsche Bank Securities Ariel Eckstein, Executive Director, Strategic Transactions and Development, AOL David O. Higley, Managing Director & Head of Digital Media Technologies, UBS Investment Bank Peter Levin, President, Bellrock Media / Co-owner, Chicago Rush / Partner, Palisades Baseball Michael Aleles, Principal, TerraSur Investments Allen Z. Sussman, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP Jerry Panzer, Partner, Transaction Services Group, KPMG Lori Einheiber, Manager, Transaction Services Group, KPMG Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Oris Capital Roy A. Salter, Principal, The Salter Group Mike Buckley, Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation Deric Emry, General Partner, ABS Capital Partners David Yuan, Vice President, Technology Crossover Ventures Mark T. Mondello, Managing Director, Duff & Phelps, LLC Tim Chang, Principal, Gabriel Venture Partners David Hutkin, 1st Vice President, ICB Entertainment Finance Janice Roberts, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund Peg Jackson, Managing Director, NeoCarta Ventures Chris Fralic, Director, First Round Capital Jeff Allen, Managing Director, Rocket Ventures Gregory Chou, Associate, Norwest Venture Partners Brian J. Marler, Vice President, Media, Sports & Entertainment Group, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin Ajay Chopra, Partner, Trinity Ventures Austin Noronha, Strategic Technology Partnerships, Sony Electronics Greg Foster, Turner New Media Ventures, Turner Broadcasting Mark S. Chasan, Chairman & Managing Director, Greenbridge Capital Group, Inc. Peter Y. Levin, President, Bellrock Media Gary Little, General Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures John Bautista, Partner, Orrick Larry Marcus, General Partner, Walden VC Donald Karl, Partner, Perkins Coie Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc. Stefan Abbruzzese, Senior Managing Director, Global Media Communications, GE Commercial Finance Matthieu Coppet, Global Media Strategist, UBS The Goal: The Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium at Digital Hollywood will take on tremendous importance within our future Digital Hollywood and Building Block events. Since the companies participating in this consortium represent the backbone of the future of our entire industry, it will be critical to bring the leadership together on a regular basis. The intent of the "Consortium" is to create an future-looking group of industry executives and creative partners to help shape the future of the technology and strategic thinking and investment behind the PC, Consumer Electronics, entertainment and mobile industries.