Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, May 4-7, 2009 Monday, May 4th 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM - Money, Media, Entertainment & Technology Media & Entertainment Valuation Symposium Hosted by: Media Valuation Partners Larry Gerbrandt, Principal, Media Valuation Partners, Moderator Jeffrey Logsdon, Managing Director, BMO Capital Markets Marty Pompadur, co-founder Metan Development Group James C. Roberts III, Esq., Partner, Global Capital Law Group PC Seth Shapiro, Principal, News Amsterdam LLC Marty Pompadur, founder, Metan Development Group LLC: Entertainment industry veteran, Marty Pompadur joined ABC in 1960, holding various positions including General Manager of the Television Network, Vice President of the Broadcast Division and President of the Leisure Activities Group. His 17 year tenure at the company culminated with the distinction as the youngest person ever appointed as a member of the ABC Board of Directors. He joined News Corp as Executive Vice President, President of Eastern and Central Europe, and a member of the Executive Management Committee in 1998. Two years later, he was appointed Chairman of News Corp Europe. In November 2008, he stepped down as a full time employee of News Corporation to become an advisor to News Corporation, enabling him to pursue other business interests. Mr. Pompadur is a principal owner of Caribbean International News Corporation, which publishes El Vocero, a Spanish language daily newspaper in Puerto Rico; the principal owner of Montana Coffee, a company in the wholesale coffee business in Russia; an investor in Talent Partners, a U.S. payroll company; an investor in Seatwave, a London-based ticket reseller; and the Media Advisor to the Dubai based Millennium TMT Fund. He currently serves as director of Nexstar Broadcasting Group, News Out of Home B.V., Balkan Bulgarian, RP Coffee Ventures, and Sky Italia. Larry Gerbrandt, Principal, Media Valuation Partners: A leading media and entertainment executive, research analyst and consultant for more than 25 years, he has focused on the economic and strategic implications of the intersection between traditional media and emerging content delivery technologies. As principal of Media Valuation Partners he oversees the firm’s valuation, strategic consulting, market research and litigation support engagements advising clients on the economics of media and content. Prior to launching MVP he was SVP/general manager of Nielsen Analytics, a division of The Nielsen Company, focusing on emerging media technology economics and conducting primary research on consumer adoption of new media platforms. He was also at Kagan World Media (now SNL Kagan) for nearly 20 years. In 2000, after Kagan’s sale to Primedia, he became COO and led its integration into Primedia’s MediaCentral division. His background also includes experience in film and video production, commercial photography, cable TV system operations and magazine publishing. Over the course of his career Mr. Gerbrandt has worked on some of the largest and most notable valuation and litigation support assignments in the film and entertainment industry, including serving as Disney’s valuation expert in the Katzenberg v. Disney case and on behalf of Dick Wolf in Wolf v. NBC Universal. Major valuation assignments have included MGM/UA, The Weinstein Co., Carolco, The Learning Channel, Tempo TV, The Litchfield Theaters, The Health Channel, Mind Extension University, among many others. While at Kagan he launched more than 25 newsletters and databook products, including The Economics of Basic Cable Networks, Cable Network Investor, TV Program Investor, VOD Investor and Streaming Media Investor. During his Nielsen tenured he authored several ground-breaking analyses on consumer adoption of emerging media platforms and the economic implications of these usage shifts, including Benchmarking The Digital Household and The Economics of On-Demand Programming. Seth Shapiro is a two-time Emmy® Award winner, and a recognized leader in the profitable application of new technology to emerging business models. Shapiro has managed digital media initiatives for and with partners including Disney, DIRECTV, TiVo, HBO, STARZ, CBS, NBC, FOX, ESPN, the NFL, MLB, Microsoft, Wink, Cendant, Jones Intercable and ACTV. He is Principal of New Amsterdam Media LLC. SVP Strategy of the Opportunity Management Company and a partner at Media Valuation Partners. As a consultant, Shapiro has worked with media clients including Showtime, Time Warner Cable, Sun Microsystems, CompleteTV, DigisoftTV, Goldman Sachs, Endemol and SVT. Most recently, he is co-founder and CEO of ARC: The A&R Channel, a Comcast On Demand channel available in 15,000,000 US cable homes. As Head of Production at DIRECTV Advanced Services, Shapiro managed over 20 service launches across four platforms, led production on DIRECTV/TiVo, designed the groundbreaking NFL DVR Highlights On Demand Service and was a key contributor to the 2002 DIRECTV/TiVo Master Agreement. Shapiro is a member of OVP Venture Partners' Technology Advisory Group, the IP Media Conference/SATCON Advisory Board, the Television Academy's Blue Ribbon Emmy Committee and the Producer's Guild. He is a magna cum laude graduate of NYU and was Adelbert Alumni Scholar at Case Western Reserve and the Cleveland Institute of Music.