Tuesday, September 30
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Session A:
Music Industry Innovates into Future - From Digital Downloads and Subscriptions to Digital and Internet Radio
This is the year of the rollout of new music services as well as the arrival of broadband, mobile and wireless. Music is available to the consumer, all over, all the time. Digital radio and Internet radio are emerging. Technology and music seem to have taken that relationship to the next level and the consumer seems to understand and embrace it. In this session, rather than looking at the file-sharing past, we will look to the new technology future. After the lawsuits, after the consolidation, after the first attempts at music subscription, we will in this session, try to evaluate what the new music industry is going to look like. The era of digital music delivery is here, but the details of how the industry will be structured are still confusing. What will digital radio mean? What about all those music channels on satellite and cable? What are the different ways that the consumer will access music in the future? And will they be willing to pay for it at acceptable levels to sustain the industry?
Amanda Marks, Senior Vice President, eLabs, Universal Music Group
Sean Ryan, CEO, Listen.com - Rhapsody
Jim Van Huysse, Executive Director and General Manger, the AOL Radio@ Network, America Online, Inc.
Jeffrey Jury, co-Chief Operations Officer, iBiquity Digital
David Porter, Head of Business Development, Live365, Inc.
Don Teague, Vice-President Sales & Marketing, PaymentOne
Lisa Crane, Managing Partner, Media Venture Advisors, Moderator

Richard Wolpert, Chief Strategy Officer, RealNetworks, Inc., founder, Chance Technologies: Mr. Wolpert serves as Chief Strategy Officer for RealNetworks reporting to Rob Glaser, Chairman and CEO RealNetworks. In this capacity, Mr. Wolpert works closely with Real to develop and execute their strategic goals for digital media and the convergence between the PC and traditional consumer electronics. In addition, Richard Wolpert is the founder of Chance Technologies, a technology development and investment portfolio focused on technologically driven entertainment ventures including RealNetworks, GameSpy, Alliance Entertainment Corp, Broadcast Vision, Universal Audio, Kind of Loud Technologies, and ChanceAV. Mr. Wolpert has also been a pioneer in the digital media industry and he continues to work with companies dedicated to the vision of creating all things digital. Chance has been in existence since 1994 and during this time Mr. Wolpert has also served as President, Disney Online. Mr. Wolpert served as president of Disney Online from 1996-1998, where he was responsible for the business and creative strategy for the company. During his tenure, Mr. Wolpert oversaw all aspects of Disney Online's Internet initiatives including the Web's most popular family Web site, Disney.com, as well as the development and successful operation of The Disney Store Online, Disney's prosperous e-commerce business, and Disney's Daily Blast. From 1984-1994 Mr. Wolpert founded and developed several thriving technology companies including After Hours Software, Bit Jugglers, Mind Over Technology, among others. Many of these companies have since successfully merged with, or were acquired by industry giants such as Adobe Systems, Compaq and Knowledge Universe. Mr. Wolpert began his career at Apple Computer in 1984, where he was involved in the early development of the Macintosh. In addition, Mr. Wolpert is a board member for the LA Chapter of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, where he has contributed and raised significant funds to help fund research and find a cure for the disease including an annual grant at UCLA entitled the Richard and Jenny Wolpert research grant. Mr. Wolpert is also the Founder of the CCFA camps. Mr. Wolpert earned his degree in math and computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He and his wife Jenny and their two daughters live in Westlake Village, Calif.

Don Teague, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for PaymentOne, the Internet's leading end-to-end Payment Service Provider. Teague is responsible for driving overall corporate marketing and brand strategies, as well as business development for the company. Under Teague's leadership, PaymentOne's PhoneBill solution has become the number one payment platform of choice by leading Internet Service and Content Provider customers. He has been instrumental in building the framework for PaymentOne's single source e-payment solution model. Prior to joining PaymentOne, Teague was co-founder and vice president of Sales and Marketing for UptimeOne, an eCommerce application service provider (ASP). He was responsible for taking the company's revenues from zero to $3 million within the first year, and securing major clients such as Hewlett-Packard, 3Com and National Semiconductor, among other Fortune 500 companies. Teague brings more than a decade of experience in senior management marketing, sales and business development roles. Teague attended San Jose State University with a BS in Marketing and Human Performance.

Amanda Marks, Senior Vice President, Universal Music Group’s eLabs: As the Senior Vice President of Universal Music Group’s eLabs, Amanda Marks is responsible for the business development and business affairs departments of eLabs, the division of UMG that is dedicated to exploring and developing new business opportunities and new digital delivery systems for recorded music. eLabs houses advanced technology and business development teams to support all UMG businesses, focusing on emerging technology and convergence platforms for the distribution of music and music related content, including internet, wireless, and TV set-top box systems. eLabs’ efforts also include overseeing the launches of new physical formats such as SACD, DVD-Audio, and DataPlay. Prior to her position at eLabs, Amanda Marks served as the General Manager for Jimmy and Doug’s Farmclub.com where she was responsible for the daily operations of Farmclub.com, including finance, business and legal affairs, business development and human resources. Farmclub.com was a frontrunner in interactive convergence -- an innovative company which integrated a web site, television show and record label. Jimmy and Doug's Farmclub.com was a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Before Farmclub.com, Ms. Marks was with Universal Music Group’s Business & Legal Affairs Department. In this position, she was responsible for helping to formulate UMG’s business and legal affairs policy for the exploitation of sound recordings over the Internet, providing general counseling and business and legal affairs services to several of the UMG record labels, assisting in the label integration process following the Universal – PolyGram merger, and drafting and negotiating agreements for UMG as a whole, the UMG labels and other divisions of UMG. Ms. Marks also served as a liaison with the Recording Industry Association of America on industry-wide Internet issues. Ms. Marks has also served as Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs, for Mercury Records where she was responsible for negotiating and drafting a wide range of agreements, supervising all Internet exploitations of the label’s repertoire of sound recordings and providing general business counseling to the label’s executives and staff. Before joining Mercury Records, Ms. Marks served as General Counsel for Rock-It Cargo USA, Viscount Airlines and their affiliated companies, which provided logistical services for the touring side of the music industry. Previously, Ms. Marks worked as an associate at McKenna & Cuneo in Los Angeles.

Jim Van Huysse is the General Manager of America Online’s Radio@ Network, AOL’s Arbitron ranked-#1 Internet broadcast network, which includes Radio@AOL, Radio@AOL for Broadband, Radio@Netscape and Spinner. As General Manager, Mr. Van Huysse sets business strategy for the AOL Radio@ Network and leads a diverse team of experts – ranging from programming to network operations and product development. Mr. Van Huysse builds upon his years of prior experience to shape the rapidly growing online radio space, which already boasts one in three online Americans as active listeners. Through his tenure with the company, he has been instrumental in growing the business from 40 stations to over 175 best-of-breed music, news, sports, entertainment, seasonal and celebrity stations, while serving an audience that has grown from 50,000 unique listeners per month to over 1.6 million listeners per week. Mr. Van Huysse had previously served as Director of Audio Programming for AOL, where he was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the launch of the company’s first built-in radio players for the AOL service and Netscape. A true pioneer of the online radio arena, Mr. Van Huysse joined AOL through the acquisition of Spinner.com in 1999, where he served as the Director of Content. Since joining Spinner in 1996 as the company’s first employee, Van Huysse led the Spinner’s audio programming and oversaw the development of its award-winning products. Previously, he had served in various capacities at Oracle Corporation. Mr. Van Huysse holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in English, with a minor in pre-med, from the University of Illinois.

Jeffrey P. Jury, Chief Operations Officer, iBiquity Digital: Jeffrey Jury is responsible for day-to-day operational management for the rollout of iBiquity Digital's HD Radio System, both in the U.S. and international markets. In this capacity, Jury leads a team of business and technical professionals focused on driving the implementation of digital radio in the broadcast, automotive and radio receiver industries. Since joining iBiquity Digital in 1997, Jury has been responsible for leading the company's major strategic initiatives, including building a multi-industry coalition of product development partners, commercializing the technology, and working with radio station groups and receiver manufacturers to bring HD Radio to market. He was also a key participant in the company's various asset acquisition and financing activities which has resulted in iBiquity becoming a leading technology and intellectual property corporation owned by the nation's largest radio broadcasters and other key technology, media and financial corporations. Prior to joining iBiquity Digital, Jury was vice president for digital broadcasting and director of strategic development for Westinghouse Wireless Solutions Company, where he was responsible for establishing new ventures in emerging technologies. Previously, he had held a number of positions at Westinghouse Electric Corporation focusing on business development, strategic analysis and operational performance improvement since 1989. Prior to joining Westinghouse, Jury was involved in operational improvement planning with Touche Ross & Company, and before that, software development with American Management Systems. Jeffrey Jury earned a Bachelor of Science degree in information systems and industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.

Lisa Crane, Managing Partner, Media Venture Advisors. Ms. Crane has a reputation for strategic thinking, branding, and new economy leadership. From charting the course for a groundbreaking online entertainment venture to guiding one of the major television networks through uncharted Internet territory, her success stems from an ability to build and direct profit-oriented management teams. Lisa Crane is the Managing Partner of Media Venture Advisors, an e-consulting firm providing strategic consulting services to leading Internet and entertainment companies. Ms. Crane is the former president and CEO of Soundbreak.com, the interactive online music company. She was Vice President of NBC Interactive and General Manager of NBC.com, the network's flagship entertainment website. Prior to NBC, Ms. Crane served as Vice President of Universal Studios. Education & Affiliations: Lisa Crane holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a bachelor's degree from UCLA. Crane has held seats on the boards of two public companies, and currently sits on the board of advisors of the Digital Media Marketing Organization, Proximity File, Spiderdance, On2.com, The Dial.com and Pulse Entertainment. Ms. Crane is active in the Motion Picture and Television Fund. She is also one of the most popular speakers on the internet conference circuit, having spoken at Internet World, Streaming Media West, emediatainment world, adtech, Ebiz, Digital Hollywood, NAB, the Morgan Stanley/Industry Standard Internet Summit, DDMI, CMJ/Change Music, BandWidth, Digital Coast 1999/2000, Herring on Hollywood, Variety's Internet Summit, Jupiter's PlugIn, Radio & Records, VIC's Industry Breakfast, and many others. Lisa has also taught several classes at major universities on e-business and entertainment, including USC and UCLA.