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Digital Hollywood, May 3-6, 2010 Tuesday, May 4th
SuperSessions 12:30 PM 1:45 PM
Special Presentation - DHFi-7, NuVIS-3 Demos at Digital Hollywood Breakthroughs in Entertainment and Technology Hosted by: Art Chang, founder and CEO, Tipping Point
Presentations by: Daren Tsui, CEO and co-founder, MSpot Ryan Massie, Executive Vice President, Products and Content, Clicker.com Vladimir Edelman, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, EnvIO Networks Noora Guldemond, Head Sales & Marketing, Metaio Inc. Dirk Brown, CEO of Pandoodle
Daren Tsui is Ceo and co-founder of mobile entertainment company mSpot, Inc., which provides 10 major North American wireless carriers the technology to deliver music, movies, radio and TV to more than six million mobile customers. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, mSpot has been profitable since 2006. Daren was named to the 2008 RCR Wireless Movers and Shakers list, and mSpot ranked 40th on the 2009 Inc 500 list of Fastest-Growing Companies. A veteran of four start-ups, Daren was most recently president and co-founder of SkyGo, a pioneer in mobile Internet ad- serving that was acquired by Enpocket in 2003. Enpocket was in turn acquired by Nokia Corp. last year and will serve as the foundation of the manufacturers mobile-ad business under Ovi. mSpot is a mobile entertainment company that delivers movies, music, radio and TV to more than six million mobile customers across 10 wireless carriers. mSpot is the first mobile entertainment company in North America to offer full-length features films and full-format radio service to mobile devices. The popularity of mSpot products is due to its technology and content strong partnerships with Paramount Studios and Universal Studios Home, (Disney, Universal, and Warner Brothers), as well as all four of the major music labels (Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal), and broadcast companies, including ABC, CBS, ClearChannel, Fox Sports, NPR.
Ryan Massie, Executive Vice President, Products and Content, Clicker.com: Ryan manages all things product and content for Clicker. Prior to Clicker, Ryan ran vertical search product development at Ask.com, where he launched and managed AskCity, Mobile, News, Maps, and various cross-company initiatives for Interactive Corp (IAC). Prior to Ask, Ryan held business and product management positions with CareerBuilder.com and ChoicePoint. Ryan graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Psychology and he earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
Vladimir Edelman is Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for EnvIO Networks. Prior to joining envIO Networks Mr. Edelman served as Chief Marketing Officer for iconmobile GMBH, one of the largest mobile marketing agencies in the world, and part of the WPP group of companies. While at iconmobile Mr. Edelman was responsible for new business, product development, and integration with WPP agencies. Prior to iconmobile, Mr. Edelman founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Ansible, a worldwide mobile communication services company and a joint venture of Interpublic Group and Velti PLC. Mr. Edelman joined Ansible from Soapbox Mobile, a leading provider of full-service mobile marketing solutions, where he served as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Soapbox Mobile, he served as vice president and general manager of ESPN Mobile Publishing Worldwide, where he managed all aspects of ESPN's domestic and international wireless publishing business, including application licensing, video, wireless Internet, games, and messaging products to carriers. Prior to joining ESPN, Mr. Edelman served as vice president and general manager for Vulcan Sports Media. Mr. Edelman's experience also includes executive positions at CBS, FOX, and MSNBC. Mr. Edelman holds an M.S. in financial journalism from Boston University, and his written work has appeared in Playboy, SPY, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly and Psychology Today.
Noora Guldemond is the Head Sales & Marketing at Metaio Inc. Noora joined metaio GmbH in 2007, after which she was involved in the development of metaios sales within Europe and has been extensively involved with the companys pioneering outreach in the space. Today Noora serves as Head of Sales & Marketing at the San Francisco office of metaio, Inc. where she is responsible for North America. She has been a leader in the evangelism of augmented reality for three years, speaking at Inside Mobile, Interactive Advertising Bureaus MIXX Con, Podi Digital Printing Initiative, The Economist Media Convergence Forum, and chaired the workshop Manufacturing the Future: Use of Mixed and Augmented Reality in Design and Manufacturing at ISMAR 2009. metaio, Inc., As one of the leading providers for professional cutting-edge Augmented Reality software, metaio has produced: wordwides first Browser Plug-In, first adoption of AR in Live-Marketing and the first fully integrated AR mobile application. With over 300 renown clients and partners as; Adidas, Bertelsmann, LEGO Popular Science, Universal Orlando Resort, Volkswagen etc. metaio serves various industries with its products and services; industrial, marketing, retail and e-commerce.
Dirk Brown, CEO of Pandoodle: Dr. Brown is CEO of Pandoodle, a new, under-the-radar, pre-funding entertainment startup that creates personalized, branded animation over the Internet, enabling consumers to build custom avatars on the fly and put themselves in the center of the action of their favorite animated movie, television show or video game. Pandoodle animations enable content providers to monetize their product with customized avatars, creating additional revenue streams for games, social networks and film. Dr. Brown is a seasoned executive with a strong track record of developing, marketing, and licensing disruptive, proprietary technologies. Prior to co-founding Pandoodle, he was CEO of Neoconix, a venture capital-funded electronics technology company serving Fortune 100 customers with worldwide sales and manufacturing. He was previously Executive Vice President of Operations and Marketing at High Connection Density (HCD), with P&L responsibility for all of the company's product lines, and a Member of Technical Staff at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Dr. Brown holds over 25 patents, has written over 30 technical papers and journal articles, and is an active member in a number of professional societies. He holds an M.B.A. from San Jose State, a Ph.D. (Materials Science) and M.Eng. (Applied Physics) from Cornell University, and an Applied Physics/Electrical Engineering degree from Queen's University in Canada
Art Chang, founder and CEO, Tipping Point: It's hard to believe that I've spent 25 years with emerging growth companies, especially the past 10 years in the New York City venture capital community. I founded Tipping Point Partners in 2005 to bring my experience as an entrepreneur and investor to helping other entrepreneurs find and realize their next big idea. We especially like companies that have figured out that data captures and empowers the connection between people and the stuff they are passionate about. Tipping Point Partners works for startup companies and new divisions of established companies, generally as hands-on management and board members and occasionally as investor. In 2008, I helped start Cookstr.com, where I serve in the lead finance and operations role, in addition to my responsibilities at the Tipping Point companies. I worked on about $1.5 billion in private investment and M&A transactions, including enterprise software, grid computing, interactive television, power generation, biotech, real estate private equity, and legal services. I admit to being addict to the speed/punishment of the startup life, I was a founder or manager in eight start-ups, including e-commerce, television, online music and real estate and spent six years in government. I started my career in architecture, ending with the architect I.M. Pei. One of my favorite jobs was waiting tables in college. I volunteer as an advisor to the Catherine B. Reynolds Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship at New York University, served on the Board and Executive Committee of the Brooklyn Public Library Foundation and spent 8 years on the Board of Safe Horizon. I also interview undergraduate applicants to Yale University. I received my MBA from New York University and my BA from Yale in womens studies with an art history concentration. I'm a licensed securities broker, securities principal and financial operations principal. I live in Brooklyn with my wife, Allison Thrush, a private equity professional, and my two fun-loving boys. I was born in Atlanta, Georgia.