Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from Digital Hollywood Spring, 2006 For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Wednesday, August 16 10:45 AM - Noon Track II: Launch at Building Blocks - Part III 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. RallyPoint: Presentation by: Jeff Allen, CEO, RallyPoint and Managing Director, Rocket Ventures II. TurnHere, Inc.: Presentation by: Brad Inman, Founder and CEO, TurnHere III. MESoft, Inc.: Presentation by: Mark Kapczynski, co-founder & CEO, MESoft IV. Magnify Networks: Presentation by: Steve Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify Networks V. Mediazone: Presentation by: Michelle M. Wu, Ph. D, Chief Executive Officer, Mediazone, US VI. NBOR Corporation: Presenation by: Denny Jaeger, CEO & co-founder, NBOR Corporation Co-Hosts: Keith Bencher, Vice President, Strategy & Development, CNET Games & Entertainment Peter Levin, President, Bellrock Media / Co-owner, Chicago Rush / Partner, Palisades Baseball Keith Bencher, Vice President, Strategy & Development, CNET Games & Entertainment: Keith Bencher is responsible for managing strategy and development for CNET’s Games & Entertainment business unit, which consists of GameSpot, TV.com, MP3.com and Metacritic.com. In this capacity, he oversees all strategic partnerships, business development, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments, and finance and planning for CNET Games & Entertainment. Prior to joining CNET Games & Entertainment in 2002, Keith managed international corporate development for CNET, assisting in establishing, managing and expanding CNET’s international presence in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Keith joined ZDNet in 1999 (which was acquired by CNET Networks in 2000) as part of its corporate development group. Prior to joining ZDNet, Keith was an Associate with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in its Technology Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Peter Levin, President, Bellrock Media, Inc.: Levin is a veteran of the entertainment and sports industries. Beginning his career in the mailroom at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Levin worked directly for the chairman and co-founder of the agency, Michael S. Ovitz, in the Corporate Advisory Group working with clients such as Matsushita Electric Industry Company, Sony, Nike, Coca-Cola and Credit Lyonnais amongst others. In 1996, Levin joined The Walt Disney Company in the Corporate and Strategic Planning Groups and later joined Disney Online as a senior producer. Leaving Disney in 1998, Levin became managing director of investment and consulting vehicle, Lynx Technologies. Lynx’s investments included Applied Semantics (sold to Google 4/03), Gamespy Industries (sold to IGN 12/03) and Ask.com (sold to IAC 3/05). Prior to his position at Bellrock, Levin was co-founder, and remains a partner with Quattro Media. Levin serves on the Board of Directors of Double Fusion, Phonebites, GamearraY and the Arena Football League. He is also on the Advisory Boards of Impact Mobile, MESoft, and The East/West Sport Summit. Levin is founder & co-owner of the Chicago Rush of the Arena Football League and a partner in Palisades Baseball, which owns and operates three Minor League Baseball franchises. Presentations By: RallyPoint allows television viewers to "configure their own TV" to get the real-time information they want – and to connect to friends – while they are watching the broadcast. RallyPoint’s unique platform allows third-party service providers to reach television viewers without having to integrate with broadcasters and cable companies. Presentation by: Jeff Allen, CEO, RallyPoint and Managing Director, Rocket Ventures TurnHere, Inc. is a digital media company with a unique mission. TurnHere produces professional digital videos, accessible on the Internet, which convey authentic experiences of places and leisure activities in cities and neighborhoods around the world. Each TurnHere digital film is driven by an individual filmmaker’s vision, translated into compelling storytelling, engaging narrators, insider perspective and high entertainment value. Every film that carries the TurnHere brand has met rigorous content, production and technical standards. TurnHere’s consumer Web site is designed to assist both travelers and locals in exploring cities, neighborhoods and destinations. Site content is also licensed and distributed across the Web to a variety of partners. In addition to its Web site business unit, TurnHere, Inc. also operates a commercial film production unit that draws upon the talents of the company’s filmmaker network for a broad range of private clients. Presentation by: Brad Inman, Founder and CEO, TurnHere: Bradley J. Inman is an entrepreneur, journalist and technology expert. TurnHere is the most recent company to be founded by Mr. Inman, famous for highly-successful Internet content businesses including Inman News and Homegain.com which he sold in 2005 to Classified Ventures. Through TurnHere.com, Mr. Inman has harnessed the rampant consumer acceptance of Internet video technology and is tapping a rich vein of new and creative filmmakers who operate in a new, low-cost, technology-rich environment. He is the founder and publisher of Inman News which delivers real-time real estate stories via the Internet to more than 50,000 newspapers and Web sites. Real Estate Connect, Inman's twice-yearly conference, attracts 1000 top executives from both technology and real estate. Mr. Inman has been a visiting fellow at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, lecturer at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and sits on the BRIDGE Housing Board of Directors. MESoft, Inc. is a media technology company, based in Burbank, California, with software that fundamentally improves the way that feature films and television shows are produced, protected, and marketed for maximum profit. MESoft offers unique and innovative software products and delivers them through its industry leading partners in the media and entertainment industry. MESoft’s management team possesses a unique combination of cross-functional media and IT experience, including several years focused on the digital media supply chains. Combining seasoned software development experience with hands-on media production experience, the MESoft team delivers software and services with consistent execution and delivery. Presentation by: Mark Kapczynski, co-founder & CEO, MESoft: Mark Kapczynski is the senior company executive, responsible for MESoft’s strategic direction and profitability. Mr. Kapczynski has over eleven years of computer technology experience and thirteen years of Media & Entertainment experience, most recently as Director for the Worldwide Media and Entertainment Solutions Group for Microsoft Corporation. While at Microsoft, he created the Microsoft Digital Content Solution Strategy/Framework and managed the development of key applications including Video on Demand, Digital Dailies, D-Cinema, and Digital Distribution. Mr. Kapczynski has spoken at such top venues as NAB, IBC, Comdex, Digital Hollywood, FilmIT, and the Cannes Film Festival. He is an SMPTE member, active on the W25 Metadata/Wrapper Technology and N26 File Management and Networking Technology committees. Mediazone is a leading global online broadcaster specializing in sports, entertainment and international programming. Mediazone offers both subscription and pay-per-view access to live and on-demand event broadcasts online, helping consumers stay connected with hard to find, yet highly relevant programming, while providing media owners with a new channel to distribute and monetize their content libraries. The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in China and Europe. Mediazone is a division of MIH Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Naspers (Nasdaq:NPSN). Presentation by: Michelle M. Wu, Ph. D.: Dr. Wu currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Mediazone in the US, as well as the newly consolidated SportsCN and Mediazone initiative in China. Through this entity focused on online entertainment content, she is responsible for managing some major broadband portals, including www.mediazone.com, a leading broadband broadcaster for sports events and other lifestyle content, www.chinaportal.com, the largest video portal for Chinese living overseas, www.KuduClub.com, the largest broadband portal for South African expatriates, and www.mediazone.com.cn, the recently launched broadband distribution site in China. Dr. Wu came to Mediazone with extensive experience in Internet industry. She was the founder, Chairman and CEO of China Internet Group (CIG), a leading incubator for technology companies in China. She also served as CTO, VP of engineering and acting VP of Sales and Marketing at Why Not Creations, a leading online rich media greeting card company with offices in U.S., France, Japan, Germany and Vietnam. She also spent time as Director of Product Management at the Internet Shopping Network, where she managed one of the most popular auction web sites in the world. Prior to that, she was a senior member of research and technical staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. In addition, Dr. Wu was the Founder and served as the President of China-U.S. Technology Association, a non-profit organization in California to promote technology exchange and collaborations between the United States and China. She also served on the advisory board for Siemens Mobile Acceleration (smac) headquartered in Germany. Dr. Wu is regularly invited to speak at various conferences, forums, seminars and other events in US and China, frequently interviewed and quoted by major media in China, maintains a column in one of the most popular magazines in Taiwan, and served as the judge of the national and regional business plan competitions organized by the Chinese government. Dr. Wu holds a B.A. in applied physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and received her M. S. and Ph. D. in physics from Princeton University. Magnify Networks: User-Generated Content is core to the web. Now video is rapidly proving to be the latest and hottest dimension to UGC. But anyone who's tried to FIND a video today has encountered a disappointing avalanche of poor quality. The good stuff is out there. Finding it is a different story. It's about relevance. Magnify solves a critical issue in the emerging User-Generated Video ecosystem. Video needs context, and we believe context comes from community. the Magnify platform empowers websites to launch a sophisticated UGC experience in their existing site, or build on from scratch. Magnify harnesses the collective power of site visitors to validate, review, and tag user-submitted video. And since we accept videos from multiple sites and sources - we provide a unique ability to build out a robust video experience quickly. The result is community-validated video that is gathered from multiple sources, organized around niche verticals, and made 'brand safe' for rich-media advertising. "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.