Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, May 4-7, 2009 Wednesday, May 6th 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM Track II: Venture Funding, Investment & Mergers - Leadership in the Entertainment & Technology Space: Broadband, Social Networks, Mobile and Games 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. Jon Chait, Partner, Dace Ventures Matt Turck, Principal, Bloomberg Ventures Richard Wolpert, Managing Director, Mail Room Fund Richard de Silva, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners Yair Landau, Partner, Jerusalem Venture Partners Patricia Nakache, General Partner, Trinity Ventures Clive Ng, Founder & Executive Chairman, China Cablecom Holdings, Ltd. Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S. Inc., Moderator Jon Chait, Partner, Dace Ventures: Jon Chait has over 24 years of experience in building high-growth technology, digital media and service companies as an investor, entrepreneur and former operating executive. Before teaming on founding Dace, Jon was a principal and partner-nominee at Pod Holding (now Pod Venture Partners) in Boston, MA and Stockholm, Sweden, investing in early-stage ICT convergence and consumer ventures. Jon was actively involved with Pod’s existing investments in Peppercoin (sold to Chockstone), ServiceFactory (sold to Birdstep), Corestreet, OzVision and others. Previously he served as managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, a VC seed fund and investment bank. Jon also was CEO and founder of Reality Bytes (sold to Lightpaths), a new media entertainment publisher and leading middleware solutions provider to multimedia PC and video graphics OEM’s. He earlier held engineering, marketing and management positions at Lotus Development Corp., (now IBM/Lotus). Matt Turck, Principal, Bloomberg Ventures: Matt is a Principal with Bloomberg Ventures, an incubator and strategic investment vehicle targeting businesses that are synergistic with Bloomberg L.P.  Prior to joining Bloomberg Ventures in 2008, Matt was a Senior Director at Oracle, where he focused on new product launches in the search, eDiscovery and collaboration spaces.  Matt joined Oracle in 2005 as a result of the acquisition of TripleHop Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise software company that he co-founded and where he served as President & COO.   Matt started his career as an M&A lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.  He holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School and is a graduate of Sciences-Po Paris. Richard Wolpert, Managing Director, Mail Room Fund: Mr. Wolpert served as the Chief Strategy Officer of RealNetworks from 2000-2005. During this time Mr. Wolpert lead RealNetworks' transition from a technology company to a consumer services/digital media company by operating the RealNetworks' Consumer businesses and growing those businesses from a run rate of under $100M to profitable businesses with a run rate of more than $250M in under two years. In addition to his executive responsibilities at RealNetworks, Mr. Wolpert was the key deal person on RealNetworks largest transactions including the $761M settlement with Microsoft, a joint venture with 3 of the world's largest music labels called MusicNet, and the acquisition of Listen.com/Rhapsody. Mr. Wolpert served as president of Disney Online from 1996-1998, where he was responsible for the business and creative strategy for the company. During his tenure, Mr. Wolpert oversaw all aspects of Disney Online's Internet initiatives including the Web's most popular family Web site, Disney.com, as well as the development and successful operation of The Disney Store Online, Disney's prosperous e-commerce business, and Disney's Daily Blast. Mr. Wolpert is the founder of Chance Technologies, Inc., a personal investment portfolio focused on technologically and media driven ventures. Mr. Wolpert has invested in over 30 startup companies over the last 10 years including GameSpy, AudioMill, Kongregate, DataSage, People Support, GameFly, Smilebox,, Universal Audio, AndroMedia, and Three Rings. Chance Technologies, Inc. was formed in 1994. Many of these investments have since successfully produced IPO's, merged with, or were acquired by industry giants. Mr. Wolpert began his career at Apple Computer in 1984, where he was involved in the early development of the Macintosh and while at Apple created and taught the first Macintosh Programming class at Stanford University . Mr. Wolpert is a board member for the LA Chapter of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America where Mr. Wolpert is the Founder of CCFA's camps. Mr. Wolpert also serves on the board of the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television and the Board of Governors of Cedars Sanai Hospital. Mr. Wolpert earned his degree in math and computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard de Silva, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners: Richard is a General Partner at Highland focused on digital media investments with specific experience and interest in online advertising, online media properties, consumer payment systems and consumer media technologies and infrastructure. He invests in early stage companies as well as later stage opportunities including growth equity, venture buyouts, spin-outs and recapitalizations. Richard co-led Highland’s investment in NameMedia in 2005 and has worked closely with NameMedia to build out its media business which now reaches 60 million monthly visitors. Richard serves on the board of Affine Systems, Digg, Metacafe, NameMedia and US SEARCH, and is or has been actively involved in Highland's investments in Fastclick (IPO, sold to ValueClick), Going.com, Quigo (acquired by AOL) and Turbine. Yair Landau, General Partner, Jerusalem Venture Partners: Yair Landau is a key media industry executive and former Vice Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and President of Sony Pictures Digital. Under Mr. Landau's direction, Sony Pictures Imageworks developed into a leading, state-of-the-art digital animation and visual effects company creating computer-generated imaging (CGI) for motion pictures. During the last several years, he grew Sony Online Entertainment into a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games with a subscriber base of over 750,000 active accounts around the globe. At Sony Pictures Digital, Mr. Landau drove the company's expansion into the digital marketplace via Sonypictures.com and the creation of mobile games and personalization products, casual games and video. Mr. Landau's significant experience in the digital content and gaming industries will help guide the portfolio companies he is currently advising, which include Double Fusion, Animation Lab, iContaqt, and Infinite Memories. We believe that his experience and network in the media industry will continue to be extremely valuable to the evolution of the JVP portfolio. Patricia Nakache, General Partner, Trinity Ventures: Since joining Trinity Ventures in 1999, Patricia has focused on funding companies launching innovative business and consumer services. She is particularly interested in Internet-based marketing and information services, vertical marketplaces and alternative advertising solutions. Prior to Trinity Ventures, Patricia worked at McKinsey & Company helping enterprises in technology, financial services and retailing address their strategic and operational issues. Previously, she also contributed to FORTUNE magazine and other publications on management best practices in technology companies. Patricia is a member of the Stanford Business School Trust Investment Committee. Clive Ng, Founder & Executive Chairman, China Cablecom Holdings, Ltd.: Clive Ng has an extensive 20-year background in media. Mr. Ng is a media sector financier and executive who co-founded 88 Holdings LLC as a management company strategically focused on investing in and growing media companies, primarily in Asia. He was instrumental in establishing joint venture partnerships among several major media conglomerates, including United Artists Theatres and Television Broadcasts (TVB) of Hong Kong, in addition to facilitating the U.S. cable company, United International Holdings Inc. (renamed Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA), entrance into the Asian market with his family taking a 20 percent stake in the venture. In addition, he was the Chairman and founder of Asiacontent, one of the first Asian companies to list in the U.S., a founding shareholder of MTV Japan, founder of E*Trade Asia, and co-founder of TVB Superchannel Europe, the leading Chinese broadcaster and Chairman and Director of China Broadband Inc. Joey Tamer, President, S.O.S., Inc.: Joey Tamer is a widely-acclaimed strategic consultant to technology and media CEOs, U.S. and worldwide. Her work helps create wealth for founders and investors of entrepreneurial ventures, and a high return on investment for Fortune 1000 in-house ventures. Her capital strategies drive up her clients’ valuations and profitability. She consults to Fortune 1000 and mid-sized companies, capitalized start-ups, and investment funds. Her clients have included J.P. Morgan Capital, Sony, IBM, Apple, Hearst, Blockbuster, Technicolor, Harper Collins, Discovery Channel, and Time-Warner. Her clients say she is "a brilliant strategist and a practical, down-to-earth, get-it-done person," "invaluable in understanding the competitive landscape and alternative strategies" and that she "cuts right through the noise, giving a clear vision of the future," "protecting us from liability and cutting our costs." Through the emergence of the PC, new media, and the Internet, her clients have been in the business, enterprise and consumer sectors, with companies in technology, hardware and software, media and entertainment, publishing and advertising, distribution, and investment and venture funding. She has worked in the U.S., Europe and China. A strategist, policymaker, dealmaker, and negotiator, her work includes strategies on entry, exit, capitalization, return on investment, growth, positioning, pricing, distribution, risk-assessment, new market and international expansion, due diligence, and intellectual property. She speaks and publishes widely. Her website is www.joeytamer.com and she can be reached at joey @ joeytamer.com, or 310 245 5310.