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Digital Hollywood, Santa Monica
Thursday, June 14th
11:05 AM - 12:20 PM
Track IV:
Expanding the Horizons of Search and Personalization – The Cross Platform Application – Mobile, Broadband, Computer & TV
Collin Bruce, Director of Marketing, Embedded Business Group, Hitachi America Ltd.
Bryan Biniak, CEO, Jacked
Chase Norlin, CEO, Pixsy
Bruce Benson, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
Matthew Huntington, Vice President of Product Marketing, OpenTV Corp.
Steven Kan, Associate and Kauffman Fellow at Clearstone Venture Partners, Moderator

Collin Bruce, director of marketing with the Embedded Business Group of Hitachi America Ltd., leads the company’s marketing efforts for the Hitachi Entier embedded database product in North America. Before joining Hitachi, Bruce spent two years as director of strategic alliances and business marketing at Solid Information Technology, where he played a key role in re-positioning Solid and helping it yield greater revenues. Prior to that, he initiated and cultivated strategic relationships as director of strategic accounts for Communication Intelligence Corp. With more than 25 years of experience, Bruce has held several key positions at companies including Chordiant Software, Amdahl Corp., Santa Cruz Operation, Future International and Memorex where he has driven and executed strategic sales, marketing programs, strategic alliances, and product management. Bruce is an accomplished speaker and has spoken to a number of eBusiness and CRM symposiums. He holds degrees in applied physics and math from Brunel University in London.


Matthew Huntington is Vice President of Product Marketing for OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ GM: OPTV). Mr. Huntington is responsible for managing OpenTV's product strategy, ensuring that the company brings the right products to market at the right time, which both match customer requirements and support OpenTV’s long-term vision for better television. Mr. Huntington has had a distinguished career in both digital television and new media industries. He has over 10 years of experience in developing solutions, services, and products for interactive television, starting with video-on-demand trials in the early 1990s. Mr. Huntington joined OpenTV from Oracle, where he worked with their Interactive Services division as a director of product development. A popular cable, satellite, and technology speaker, Mr. Huntington has the ability to clearly articulate the essence of complex technical issues to general and business audiences. He has written and spoken extensively on interactive television technology and the ability of OpenTV to offer a suite of compelling products and services to network operators throughout the world. Matthew holds a first class honors degree in Computer Software Technology from the University of Bath and is active in several industry groups.

Chase Norlin, Chief Executive Officer, Pixsy Corporation: Mr. Norlin has spent the last 15 years in the emerging technologies and media distribution space. Prior to Pixsy, Mr. Norlin served as Senior Business Development Executive at ValueClick (NASDAQ:VCLK). In this role he focused on publisher distribution and emerging technologies for the ValueClick Media Ad Network and developed distribution opportunities for other divisions including Search and Comparison Shopping. Prior to ValueClick, Mr. Norlin held the position of Senior Business Development Consultant to InfoSpace (NASDAQ:INSP) charged with publisher distribution and emerging applications for the Search division. Previously, Mr. Norlin created Sony's first online photo sharing venture and founded the web's first video sharing company. Mr. Norlin also launched Boeing's (NYSE:BA) online photo and video licensing division while serving as Strategic Consultant to the company. Mr. Norlin received his BA from UC Berkeley and MA from The University of Chicago and occasionally offers technology predictions on his blog at http://vizlog.blogspot.com. Pixsy was recently selected among the AlwaysOn Media Top 100 Companies; and named in Time Magazine’s Top 50 Companies of 2006. Mr. Norlin’s recent speaking engagements include OMMA, iHollywood Forum, AlwaysOn, TheDeal, and Digital Hollywood.

Steven Kan, Associate and Kauffman Fellow at Clearstone Venture Partners: Steven is an Associate and Kauffman Fellow at Clearstone Venture Partners. He joined Clearstone in June 2005. Active in sourcing and evaluating deals, Steven also works with companies across the portfolio on identifying revenue drivers, and developing financial plans and performance metrics, particularly with respect to mobile communications and online media advertising & behavior initiatives. Prior to Clearstone, Steven interned at Redpoint Ventures, where he identified early-stage investment opportunities in Southern California. Steven gained valuable operating experience at Yahoo/Overture, where he managed product and business development initiatives that grew Yahoo's contextual advertising business from a $3 million annual run rate to over $100 million in less than 15 months. He defined the key performance indicators for the contextual advertising business and led a cross-functional team that improved the performance of strategic accounts such as CNN.com, ESPN.com, and WSJ.com.