Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Media Summit 2010 Bloomberg BusinessWeek Thursday, March 11 10:45 AM - Noon Session B: Media, Entertainment, Technology and Money: Funds, Mergers, Acquisitions, Takeovers and Targets The VC and strategic investment community has always led the way in recognizing the newest opportunities in the technology and entertainment space. In this era of economic flux, boom and bust, there are as many interpretations of value, opportunity and investment as there are investors and analysts in the industry. In this session, we bring together a number of the formative players in the Media, Entertainment, Technology finance world who have played a part in the investments, mergers, acquisitions and takeovers over the past few years. At the moment there is more money chasing fewer ready resources, but as the market predictably shakes out, how the relationship between the traditional and new media companies settles will create a fascinating foundation for the next step in growth for our industry. Are we building toward another bubble or are we laying the groundwork for a period of hypergrowth in the convergence space? Media companies are making nine and ten figure bets in this new arms race and what the future holds is anyone’s guess. Allison Goldberg, Managing Director & Group Vice President, Time Warner Investments Richard J. Bressler, Managing Director, Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. Robert C. Raciti, Ph.D., CEO, Raciti Capital Advisors, former, SVP, GE Capital’s Media, Communications, & Entertainment (MCE) Urs Cete, Principal and CFO, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) Imran Khan, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Paul H. Lee, Senior Vice President, Peacock Equity Fund, Moderator Richard J. Bressler is a Managing Director of Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. Prior to joining Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. in 2006, Mr. Bressler was employed by Viacom, Inc. from May 2001 through 2005 as the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with responsibility for managing all strategic, financial, business development, and technology functions. Prior to that, Mr. Bressler served in various capacities with Time Warner Inc., including as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Digital Media. He also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Time Warner Inc. from March 1995 to June 1999. Prior to joining Time Inc. in 1988, Mr. Bressler was a partner with the accounting firm of Ernst & Young since 1979. Mr. Bressler is currently a Director of Univision Communications, Inc., Warner Music Group Corp., Gartner, Inc., The Nielsen Company and American Media, Inc., Inc. In addition, Mr. Bressler is a member of the J.P. Morgan Chase National Advisory Board. Mr. Bressler holds a B.B.A. from Adelphi University. Allison Goldberg, Managing Director & Group Vice President: Allison is Managing Director & Group Vice President of Time Warner Investments, where she is focused on equity investments in companies that directly enhance Time Warner's ability to meet specific strategic goals, including the delivery of new services, enhancement of an existing product, entry or expansion into a key strategic market, completion of a strategic partnership, and critical research and development. Prior to joining Time Warner in July 2001, Allison was an Associate at Groupe Arnault, investing in and managing new media and technology equity investments for the private holding company of the Chairman of LVMH. Previously, she worked in the Global Media Group, Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley where she worked on transactions for Time Warner, Viacom and Liberty Media. Allison serves as an active observer on the boards of several portfolio companies including Meebo, ScanScout, SiTV, Trion World Networks, and Everyday Health. Previous investments include Adify (sold to Cox) and MediaVast (sold to Getty Images). Allison currently serves on the board of the New York Private Equity Network (“NYPEN”), and co-founded the NYPEN Women’s Forum. Allison graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Economics. Urs Cete is Principal and CFO at Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). Before joining BDMI he worked for the corporate controlling & strategy department of global media company Bertelsmann, where he was in charge of group controlling and group strategy. Mr. Cete currently serves on the boards of Mojiva, a mobile Advertising Startup based in New York, and Blue Lion Mobile, producers of the mobile social messenger Qeep based in Germany. Paul Lee, Senior Vice President, Peacock Equity Fund: Paul is a founding member and Senior Vice President at the Peacock Equity Fund, a joint venture between NBC Universal and GE Capital. Paul’s current Board and Observer seats include 4INFO, Greystripe, and Everyzing. Paul first started in digital media as a cofounding employee of Click2Asia, a venture-backed online media company. While at Click2Asia, Paul headed corporate development and played a pivotal role in the acquisition and integration of North America’s largest online Asian media retailer. Paul entered the venture industry when he joined GE Capital’s Technology Finance business. Paul leveraged his digital media experience and oversaw the growth of the digital media portfolio. His portfolio included Brightcove, OpenPeak, Danger, and several later-stage media companies. Paul received a dual undergraduate degree in Mathematical Methods in Social Sciences (MMSS) and Economics from Northwestern University. In his free time, Paul enjoys competitive BBQ (dry rub only) and practicing mixed martial arts. He hopes to one day to see his beloved Chicago Cubs win the World Series. Robert C. Raciti, Ph.D. is the CEO of Raciti Capital Advisors, a private equity portfolio with holdings in the technology, media, and entertainment sectors. Previously, he was a senior vice president with GE Capital’s Media, Communications, & Entertainment (MCE) group where he provided industry insights to customers, financial sponsors, and internal teams that originate and underwrite transactions. Dr. Raciti’s thought leadership enabled the MCE group to amass a $ 4 billion communication portfolio with zero write-offs for six years. Over the past 9 years at GE, he participated in over 600 transactions of which over 90 were funded, representing $ 8 billion in funded deal volume. Additionally, Dr. Raciti is a regular speaker as the major industry conferences and his thought leadership has been profiled in business and industry publications including: The Wall Street Journal; Communications Lending Review; Television Business Report; Broadcast & Cable. Dr. Raciti has over 23 years of experience in the Finance, Information Technology, Telecommunications, and Engineering fields. He holds a Ph.D. in information systems from Nova Southeastern University's School of Computer and Information Sciences, an MBA in finance and marketing from Fordham University, and a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College (cum laude). Imran Khan is a Managing Director and the Head of Global Internet Research at J.P. Morgan. In addition to his Internet coverage, Mr. Khan is responsible for covering U.S. diversified Media and Entertainment companies. Mr. Khan has been consistently ranked as one of the top Internet analysts by independent third-party surveys, including #1 in the Institutional Investor Alpha Magazine Survey in 2008, and #2 the Institutional Investor All American Research Poll every year since 2005. He is the author of several widely read research reports, including The Rise of Ad Networks, Large Cap Courtship and Consolidation, and Nothing But Net (which has been JPM’s most-accessed research report in 2006, 2007 and 2008). Mr. Khan has spoken at various industry conferences and has appeared on financial television networks such as CNBC and Bloomberg. In addition, he is one of the youngest Managing Directors at J.P. Morgan, having been promoted to MD at age 29. Mr. Khan came to J.P. Morgan in 2004 after three years at Fulcrum Global Partners, where he was a Managing Director in Equity Research covering Internet and Software. Prior to Fulcrum, Mr. Khan worked as an investment banker at ING covering Telecom. Before ING, he worked for Wild Blue, a satellite start-up company.