Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood Monday, May 5th 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM Track I - Money, Media, Entertainment & Technology VC, Equity, Hedge Funds and Hollywood – From Broadband, Social Media and Mobile Content to the Feature Package Hollywood finance infrastructure is one of the best kept secrets as well as among the most complicated and arcane specialties in the entertainment and media industry. With literally billions of dollars at stake, the largest corporations and banks involved in the process, the financing of Hollywood is also among the most watched, anticipated and envied semi-public spectator sports in the world. The demands of the industry, the never ending need to increase production and take greater risk as well as the corporate dictate to find safe harbor in the investment strategy all at once make for a completely contradictory and almost impossible process. In this session, we will try to make sense of the greater financing strategies of the industry and make note of its current successes as well as it failures. Josh Tanzer, Managing Director, Revolution Partners Robert N. Fried, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Ideation Acquisition Corporation Dan Beldy, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures Roy Salter, Principal, The Salter Group, Moderator Additional speakers to be announced For Further Speaker Infomation - Click on highlighed Names to see their LinkedIn Profile Josh Tanzer, Managing Director, Revolution Partners: Mr. Tanzer has spent the last 20 years working with private companies and fund managers providing assistance in raising capital and merger and acquisition advice. He has produced over $5.0 billion of venture gains for his investors from transactions he has agented  during his career. Mr. Tanzer joined Revolution Partners in January of 2006 from Lazard Freres & Co. where he was a Managing Director. At Lazard, he raised $175 million of private equity capital for Virgin America, the largest amount of private equity raised for a de novo airline. Prior to joining Lazard, Mr. Tanzer started and operated his own firm focused on clients in the technology and digital media industries, Principia Capital Group. Principia was responsible for raising Vonage Holdings’ private equity capital. Principia also sold the wireless data division of Vivendi Universal, Moviso. Before forming Principia, Mr. Tanzer was the Global Head of Private Equity for CSFB's Technology Group (formerly DMG Tech Group) from 1996-2003. The group completed 85 transactions and raised approximately $5.4 billion including many of the most successful transactions for clients and their investors like Verio, Exodus Communications, OpenWave, Commerce One, Interwoven, Datek and others. Mr. Tanzer raised the largest amount of private equity capital for technology companies for the year 1999 (Zhone Communications – $500 million) and 2000 (Datek Online Holdings – $700 million) and raised the largest amount of private equity capital for a Chinese technology company, China Netcom ($300 million). Mr. Tanzer is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA). He received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Denver. Mr. Tanzer currently serves on the Board of P.S. Arts, an arts education program for Title 1 schools in Los Angeles. He also served on the Board of the University of Denver's School of Accountancy and ODC Dance Company. Mr. Tanzer was also a volunteer member of the United States Peace Corps and Big Brothers of New York City. Dan Beldy, Managing Director, Steamboat Ventures: Dan has spent the last 20 years in technology and finance as an investor, entrepreneur and operator. Dan currently serves on the boards of Move Networks, Baynote, Greystripe, and Passenger. Prior to Steamboat, Dan was a co-founder and managing director of Plainview Capital, an innovative family of fundamental value investment funds that leverage a proprietary software platform, Plainview AnalyticsÔ. Before Plainview, Dan was an associate and partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Focusing on early stage software investments, Dan was involved with several successful, growing companies as an investor / advisor / board member including Employease, acquired by ADP (NASDAQ: ADP), Technorati, Starmine, Method Home and Maxion Systems. Early in his career Dan was an officer and an F/A-18 Hornet jet instructor pilot for the U.S. Navy, completing over 275 aircraft carrier landings in tours of duty with the Atlantic Fleet. Dan received a BS in computer science as a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy in 1986, and received an MBA in finance from The Wharton School in 1998. Robert N. Fried, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Ideation Acquisition Corporation: Mr. Fried has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors since our inception. Mr. Fried is a digital media entrepreneur and accomplished film producer. Since 1990, Mr. Fried has served as President of Fried Films, a motion picture production company he founded in 1990. Mr. Fried has produced or served as executive producer for 15 films, including "Man of the Year" and "Collateral." Mr. Fried's films have won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for the Live Action Short Film "Session Man," the ASCAP award for "Collateral," the Christopher Award for "Rudy," and Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe awards for "Winchell." Mr. Fried has founded several digital media companies, such as Spirit EMX, an internet video content company, and Ideation Mobile Media, a mobile advertising company which is unrelated to us other than through Mr. Fried. Mr. Fried has also served as consultant to numerous entities, advising them on studio slate financings, the formation of independent film production companies, computer animation, theatrical production, Internet planning and general strategic planning and business development. He was an investor in and served on the advisory board of WebTV Networks, Inc., which was sold to Microsoft Corporation for $425 million in 1997, and Intermix, Inc., owner of Myspace.com, which Intermix sold to News Corporation for $580 million in 2005. From November 1996 until June 2001, Mr. Fried served as Chairman of WhatsHotNow, Inc., or WHN, an e-commerce service provider to the entertainment and licensed merchandise industries, which he founded in 1996. WHN built and managed e-commerce and direct response commerce operations for major media companies, such as NBC, ABC, Fox, MTV, Comedy Central, Playboy, TV Guide, Sony Pictures, Universal and Paramount. WHN also built and maintained a business-to-business licensed merchandise retail exchange that managed the online product catalogs for over 130 licensee/manufacturers and had over 5,000 retail members. Mr. Fried also served as Chief Executive Officer of WHN from July 1999 until June 2001. From December 1994 until June 1996, Mr. Fried was President and Chief Executive Officer of Savoy Pictures, a unit of Savoy Pictures Entertainment, Inc. Mr. Fried led the turnaround of Savoy's motion picture and television departments, which included marketing, distribution, business affairs, creative development and physical production. Savoy Pictures Entertainment was sold to Silver King Communications, which is now a part of InterActive Corp, in 1996. From 1983 to 1990, Mr. Fried held several executive positions including Executive Vice President in charge of Production for Columbia Pictures, Director of Film Finance and Special Projects for Columbia Pictures and Director of Business Development at Twentieth Century Fox. Mr. Fried holds an M.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Roy Salter, Principal, The Salter Group: Roy Salter is a Principal in The Salter Group, a consulting firm headquartered in Los Angeles with affiliates in New York, Paris and Tokyo. He directs the firm's overall practice and project management efforts. Previously, he was a principal and managing director with the investment bank Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, where he founded and managed the firm's entertainment and media group, and directed analytic, valuation and transactional activities. Prior to Houlihan Lokey, Salter was a vice president with Wells Fargo Capital Markets Inc., providing mezzanine financing and merger-and-acquisition services to select bank clients. Salter is also a founder and manager of Brand Advisors and a founder and board principal of Royalty Review Council, an independent music royalty administration company. He has taught MBA courses at the Anderson School of Business at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the European Media Business School. In addition, he authored a text on the subject of valuing media and entertainment-industry investments. Salter earned a bachelor's degree in business administration at California State University, Northridge, and an MBA at Loyola Marymount University.