Special Event
The Complete Track
Monday, May 5th - Wednesday, May 7th
Launch, Disruption & Innovation at Digital Hollywood


I. Monday, May 5th
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
I. Venture and Private Equity Consortium Dinner at Digital Hollywood
The ETC - Studio Executive VIP Dinner & "First Look - VC - Company Launch


ETC Board Members from Disney, Fox, NBC Universal, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros

"Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium Committee
Advisory Committee Members
Sun Jen Yung, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
Isaac Palmer, Managing Director, Fortress Investment Group
Michael J. Hirshland, General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
David Britts, General Partner, ComVentures
Paul Vais, Partner, Apax Partners
John Hull, General Partner, OVP Venture Partners
Fred Wilson, Managing Partner of Union Square Venture
Harold Vogel, President, Vogel Capital Management
Mark Stevens, Partner, Fenwick & West
David Feinleib, Director, Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV)
Jay MacDonald, Partner, Digital Media & Technology, DeSilva & Phillips LLC
Keith Bencher, Vice President, Strategy & Development, CNET Games & Entertainment
Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier, founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech Venture Consulting
Arthur C. Chang, President, Tipping Point Partners, LLC
Allison Goldberg, Director, Time Warner Investments
Drew Marcus, Vice Chairman, Media & Telecom Group, Deutsche Bank Securities
Ariel Eckstein, Executive Director, Strategic Transactions and Development, AOL
David O. Higley, founder, Higley & Company LLC
Peter Levin, President, Bellrock Media / Co-owner, Chicago Rush / Partner, Palisades Baseball
Michael Aleles, Principal, TerraSur Investments
Allen Z. Sussman, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Jerry Panzer, Partner, Transaction Services Group, KPMG
Lori Einheiber, Manager, Transaction Services Group, KPMG
Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Oris Capital
Roy A. Salter, Principal, The Salter Group
Mike Buckley, Director of Strategic Investments, Intel Capital, Intel Corporation
Deric Emry, General Partner, ABS Capital Partners
David Yuan, Vice President, Technology Crossover Ventures
Mark T. Mondello, Managing Director, Duff & Phelps, LLC
Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
David Hutkin, 1st Vice President, ICB Entertainment Finance
Janice Roberts, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
Peg Jackson, Managing Director, NeoCarta Ventures
Chris Fralic, Director, First Round Capital
Jeff Allen, Managing Director, Rocket Ventures
Gregory Chou, Associate, Norwest Venture Partners
Brian J. Marler, Vice President, Media, Sports & Entertainment Group, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Ajay Chopra, Partner, Trinity Ventures
Austin Noronha, Strategic Technology Partnerships, Sony Electronics
Greg Foster, Turner New Media Ventures, Turner Broadcasting
Mark S. Chasan, Chairman & CEO, Transformative Capital, Inc.
Gary Little, General Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
John Bautista, Partner, Orrick
Larry Marcus, General Partner, Walden VC
Donald Karl, Partner, Perkins Coie
Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc.
Stefan Abbruzzese, Senior Managing Director, Global Media Communications, GE Commercial Finance
Harshul Sanghi, Investment Manager, Motorola Ventures
Matthieu Coppet, Global Media Strategist, UBS
Connie Koch, Executive Director, Keiretsu Forum Southern California
Seth R. Page, Partner, Corporate Finance Partners - CFP Americas LLC
Matthew J. Schultz, Managing Director, Head of Internet and Digital Media Investment Banking, Merrill Lynch
Chi-Hua Chien, Associate, Accel Partners
Sergio Monsalve, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
Tolman Geffs, Managing Director, The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.,
Robert Hoffer, Managing Director, Newforth Partners
Chad A. Burns, Director, Transaction Services, KPMG
Satya Patel, Partner, Battery Ventures
Roger Lee, Partner, Battery Ventures

The Goal: The Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium at Digital Hollywood" will take on tremendous importance within our future events. Since the companies participating in this consortium represent the backbone of the future of our entire industry, it will be critical to bring the leadership together on a regular basis. The intent of the "Consortium" is to create an future-looking group of industry executives and creative partners to help shape the future of the technology and strategic thinking and investment behind the PC, Consumer Electronics, entertainment and mobile industries. The Consortium group will meet at Digital Hollywood events, including Building Blocks, Digital Hollywood Europe in London and in Los Angeles. Our next dinner will take place at this event

Tuesday, May 6th
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Launch, Disruption & Innovation at Digital Hollywood
Companies will be selected to present innovative company products and business plans - from startups to established companies - presenters are based on innovation and disruption to the established business model. This session is part of the Venture, Private Equity and M&A Consortium
Hosted by:
Hassan Miah, Managing Director, Oris Capital
Art Chang, founder and CEO, Tipping Point Partners
Presentations by:
Federico Grosso, Senior Vice President, Business Development, blinkx
Michael Hoydich, co-founder, uvLayer, division of unknown vector
Jonathan Strietzel, co-founder, Big Stage
Sean Darwish, CTO/CSO, Broadramp
Ed Zylka, CEO, tvCompass Inc.
Iain Scholnick, CEO and President, ImageSpan

For Further Speaker Infomation - Click on highlighed Names to see their LinkedIn Profile


Art Chang is the founder and CEO of Tipping Point Partners, an angel-stage venture capital firm. Tipping Point Partners is an active partner with the founders of companies that enable the relationship between audiences and their passions, via the Internet and mobile. Tipping Point Partners advises, invests in, and serves in management roles for startup companies and new divisions of established companies. Tipping Point Partners also makes connections to business partners and capital. And Tipping Point Partners helps accelerate expansion of U.S. Internet and mobile companies in Asia. Current portfolio companies include Haystack Media, the web-based service that facilitates the creation and syndication of personalized, branded music channels for music industry professionals and avid amateurs; Mobile Commons, a mobile information services company that allows customers to design, manage and launch SMS-based marketing, information, and interactive game applications; I Do Now I Don’t, a community/auction site for the 53% of Americans whose marriages have ended; PlaySpan, a communications and P2P trading platform for MMORPGs; Casebook, an enterprise social network for social services agencies; and Unzippd, a real estate social network built around a comprehensive listings service. Art also currently serves as the CEO of haystack.com.

Hassan Miah is an investor and entrepreneur focused on strategic investments in digital media, software and technology. He currently is the Chairman of MyPRGenie, the CEO of urfilez.com, and on the board of Four Spots and AllSmacktalk.com. Hassan formerly worked for Intel Capital, where he led worldwide digital media investments. Previously, Mr. Miah was the CEO of Xing Technology, the Company that created the first consumer MP3 recording software. He is the former head of New Media for Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of Hollywood’s leading entertainment and talent agencies. Before joining CAA, Mr. Miah was a Management Consulting Partner for KPMG LLP, specializing in digital media and technology. Mr. Miah is a CPA and received a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Michigan and a M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.




Federico Grosso, Senior Vice President, Business Development, blinkx: Federico Grosso, senior vice president of Business Development at blinkx, has more than nine years of international experience in digital media. From December 1997 to August 2004, he held several positions within Yahoo!, including the start-up of Yahoo! Italia and the European Commercial Team. After seven successful years, Federico joined blinkx in December 2004, leading the business development strategy for North America and Europe. In this role, Federico has created long-term partnerships with global media companies such as Reuters, MTV Networks, Sky News and Lycos. Federico received his BA in Political Sciences from the University of Torino, Italy, specialising in Communication and Digital Media Publishing. He also completed the Emerging Leaders Programme in General Management at the London Business School

Michael Hoydich, co-founder, uvLayer, division of unknown vector: Michael is a serial entrepreneur who, along with co-founder Mark Gray, has started and led two different companies from 2004 to 2007: IndustryNext, a technology and design services firm, whose clients include eBay, Sony, NBA, AOL and NBC Universal; and Incognito Digital, an interactive marketing agency whose clients include OKI, Bloomberg, FOX, and Haier. Prior to IndustryNext, Michael served as VP of Sales at Viewpoint Corporation (now Enliven Marketing Technologies Corporation), where co-founded and launched the company’s digital advertising offering and managed its sales force. Michael has extensive experience in the publishing, online advertising, and high technology industries. He has held key positions at XCom (now USWeb), Ziff Davis, GeoCities (now Yahoo!), Wise Ads New Media (now About.com), and iWon (now IAC).

Jonathan Strietzel, Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer, Big Stage
Jonathan Strietzel is co-founder and chief creative officer. He brings 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur in the entertainment and technology industries, including founding Stritz Studios, a boutique special effects studio. He has also invented multiple systems for delivering digital advertising and currently holds a U.S. patent for his work in particle-based advertising. In addition, Jonathan has worked with numerous TV studios and Fortune 500 companies, including developing the highly publicized online clue delivery system for NBC’s “Treasure Hunters.” Jonathan graduated from Chapman University with a Bachelor of Science degree.



Company Description: Big Stage is a privately held media company, currently in Beta, whose breakthrough technology allows users to easily create and integrate a life-like 3-D avatar of themselves, called an @ctor, into everything from famous movie scenes, TV shows and video games, to music videos, short video clips, virtual worlds, still images, user-generated content, instant messages, e-mails, social networks and more – instantly. Big Stage’s life-like avatar creation system stems from advanced stereo reconstruction technology funded by multiple government grants, including the CIA, as part of a nine-year cumulative research project at USC. Big Stage is actively working with studios, interactive entertainment companies, portals, social networks and other partners to create and publish a wide and continually updated selection of unique, proprietary and compelling Big Stage-enabled content and experiences. Big Stage will launch to consumers in the second quarter of 2008.

Sean Darwish, CTO/CSO, Broadramp: Sean Darwish is the Chief Technology Officer and acting VP of Marketing of BroadRamp Inc. He holds a BA in Architectural Design with a major in Digital Media and Computer Design, and numerous professional certifications in computer and information technology including Software Engineering and System Design Certifications. Mr. Darwish has more than 15 years of experience in the management of computer technology design and development and has served as an independent technology consultant for several renowned worldwide corporations including IBM, Datapoint Corporation, Randolph AFB, Jana Corporation, Pyramid Management Group and Tesoro Savings. Mr. Darwish served as executive vice president of Internet Technology and Communication sales and marketing at Total Access Communications where he developed several Internet applications for the delivery of nationwide high-speed Internet access. Mr. Darwish received his pilot training and AF qualifications while stationed in Israel and in the US. His experience in computer design coupled with his career as an aviator played a great role in his application design. Some of his designs were used in enhancing cockpit and avionics designs in several fighter jets and high-performance aircrafts. Mr. Darwish is the designer and founder of several technologies now under development by BroadRamp Inc. Some of these designs are now being considered by companies like Intel and Macromedia for full certification and nationwide sponsorship.

Company Description:
BroadRamp’s Managed Content Delivery Services™ (MCDS™) platform is a one-stop solution to provide encoding/compression, managed hosting, streaming media, and content delivery network distribution services. It is the ideal technology offering a unique approach to both compression (at levels in the 75% to 95% range for both video and audio) and streaming, enabling quick launch, full screen, high definition video with Dolby Surround Sound and no player to download. Players are a hassle and are a source for virus and malware intrusion. Cost is drastically reduced…less than 25% of today’s prices. Short format, long format, any format…MCDS is cost effective and a viable platform for all video content. Through MCDS, consumer’s get it all… availability on their mobile devices, computers, and yes, even on TV. MCDS is “the” revolutionary, disruptive approach to delivering multimedia content – superior user experience, lower total costs, secure content and incremental revenue generation for the content provider.

Edward J. Zylka, Chief Executive Officer, tvCompass Inc. Chicago IL
CEO of tvCompass Inc. a privately held technology start-up focused on monetizing WiFi in the broadband home through the delivery of “over the top” wireless content, applications, and advertising. Ed was founder of Motorola/General Instrument’s SURFboard® cable modem. Motorola’s SURFboard is currently the worldwide market share leader in broadband cable modem products with over 50 million units shipped worldwide. As a Corporate Development executive at General Instrument he assisted with the merger deal leading to the $18B transaction between Motorola Inc. and General Instrument Corp.; in this position he had responsibility for strategic investing focusing on set top software and services, home networking, and semiconductor technologies. He was a co-founder, VP Corporate Development, for Aerocast Inc. a secure broadband streaming media venture of Motorola and Liberty Media. Most recently, Ed was President – 4thpass Inc. (Motorola subsidiary) a mobile Java server software company serving a global customer base of major carriers in China, Europe and the U.S., and GM B2B Software Solutions with Motorola’s mobile devices group.

Company Description:
tvCompass Inc. has developed an innovative second screen interactive TV, content and advertising monetization model for the WiFi connected digital living room. The solution starts with a white label OEM wireless infrastructure platform, content to player -- that works without a PC connection. Based on patented technology, the platform includes client, server and application software, mobile content, and IP connected device designs for the control & interaction of advanced digital home entertainment,. Content support plans for other wireless enabled platforms include dual mode phones, personal media devices, networked TVs, and LCD tablets. The business model empowers partners in the consumer electronics, video service provider and home automation segments to, a) exploit recurring revenue opportunities, b) expand into new product categories and c) acquire new customers. Founded by innovators in consumer electronics, executive leadership represents such global technology and media leaders as Macrovision, Motorola, Research in Motion, OpenTV and General Instrument.

Iain Scholnick, CEO and President, ImageSpan: A visionary and veteran of the Internet and wireless industries, Iain brings more than 18 years of technical and operations experience drive ImageSpan towards its mission of leading the market in licensing and billing automation for media. His experience in entrepreneurial settings and vertical markets include his role at ERUCES, a data security company, where as VP, Business Solutions, he focused on deploying a high volume of data encryption and key management platform into the wireless, healthcare, finance, government and media industries. Previously, as CTO of Livemind, a wireless commerce and technology services company, Iain secured tier 1 venture capital through institutional investors. The architect of Livemind’s product platform, Iain scaled the company infrastructure and engineering operations to 75 employees. Previous to Livemind, Iain was a member of the ClickAction Company (NASDAQ: CLAC) executive team, building an Enterprise Marketing Automation platform.

Company Description:
ImageSpan provides a licensing automation platform running as a managed service and on patent-pending technology. The company gives its clients completely automated control over the licensing and distribution of any digital content or mashup via website, download player, or triggered by any Web services-based event. ImageSpan’s LicenseStream is especially useful for sophisticated Web 2.0 social and advertising network environments which deliver a rich and wide variety of content types to various social groups and targeted demographics, and require a highly scalable and transactional process. These organizations typically use legacy or manual tools and processes to license and settle these transactions resulting in higher transaction costs, lower margins, and lower customer satisfaction rates. LicenseStream enables easy assignment of revenues to multiple parties, while providing quick and efficient registration, rights management and transaction settlement capabilities – all in an automated fashion. The LicenseStream solution results in reduced costs to advertisers, ad agencies, design firms and publishers by facilitating precise management of each rights package. Currently we provide extensive content licensing infrastructure for Omnicom, Sports Illustrated, TAKKLE, Dealer.com and Visible World. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, privately-held ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and the exclusive license automation provider to the PLUS Coalition, the global standards organization for the image licensing industries.