Tuesday, September 26 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Session B: Internet Radio - Redefining Through Personalization Everything that is great about the Internet, personalization technology and entertainment emerges in the application, Internet Radio. While in many respects it sounds like radio, it’s content is like radio and even it’s interface looks like a radio dial, except what it really is, is a radio killer. Internet radio permits total personalization in an unlimited content entertainment environment. There’s no downside to it. As user technology improves, it simply permits the greater access to what the consumer wants with greater interactive involvement and ease. Ultimately, this is a winning strategy for both the record industry and the technology industry - the creation of a massively satisfied user base. Colleen Andersen, VP Marketing, MongoMusic David Bean, Vice President of Programming, MusicMatch Thomas Sulzer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moodlogic Mark Tucker, CEO, President and Co-Founder, HitHive, Inc. Zack Zalon, General Manager, Radio Free Virgin Brad Porteus, VP MTVi Radio, The MTVi Group Eric Rhoads, President and CEO, RadioCentral and CEO of Streamline Publishing, Moderator Colleen Andersen, Vice President of Strategic Marketing for MongoMusic.com was formerly the Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development for Sony Music. During her tenure at Sony Music, Andersen was responsible for strategic opportunities in the areas of multimedia, Internet, and non-traditional retail channels. She also held product management positions, where she successfully created and executed marketing plans for Ozzy Osbourne and Celine Dion and was a member of their website development team. Prior to Sony, Andersen worked for 10 years in the music industry in marketing management and business development roles. Andersen has held positions at Rhino Records and EMI-Capitol where she created promotional opportunities for their catalogs, focusing on the internet and new technologies. She moved to the business side of the music industry after spending 10 years on the talent side of the industry where she worked as a professional musician and vocalist. This experience helped Andersen to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the issues and opportunities for record companies, musicians, consumers and technology companies with the convergence of music into the digital space. As a result, Andersen has been a presenter at the RedHerring NDA and Demo conferences. Thomas Sulzer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moodlogic: Tom is a visionary and passionate entrepreneur with more than 15 years in general management, strategic marketing, and technology management in both startups and Fortune 500 companies. Just prior to founding MoodLogic, Tom led a successful repositioning and restructuring of the $150 million Concord and Movado Watch companies, effectively quadrupling the company’s stock value. Previously, he co-founded TBN, a provider of online financial data and charting software for Swiss financial institutions. Tom also controls a private equity firm in Switzerland, and serves on the board of several European companies. Tom started his career as a systems control engineer in robotics. He quickly moved up to lead an industrial automation business unit of a European Fortune 500 conglomerate, Tom has a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has completed several executive programs at IMI and Wharton Business School. Tom is an alumnus of the Young Presidents Organization. Mark Tucker, CEO, President and Co-Founder, HitHive, Inc.: Mark Tucker is an expert at identifying and developing emerging markets. He launched HitHive, Inc. in November of 1999 after becoming frustrated with digital music access on the Internet. Tucker's hardly a stranger to the Internet; he started his 20-year career in the technology industry by writing software programs at the ripe old age of 12. With that auspicious beginning, Tucker went on to start four businesses, which pioneered technology practices that are commonplace in virtually every e-commerce venture. At age 18, Tucker started a software distribution company where he developed third party distribution systems. Early in his 20's, Tucker formed a software trading company which dealt in complex derivatives trading systems. Tucker's most recent venture included some of the most significant firsts in online e-commerce innovation. Tucker co-founded Azzaz.com, one of the first department stores on the Internet. While CTO at Azzaz.com, Tucker implemented a zero inventory model, created the first personal shopping assistant and launched one of the first customer loyalty programs. Azzaz.com was sold to theglobe.com in 1999 for $25 million dollars. Digital music is Tucker's latest target. He enjoys the challenge of developing viable business models that bring together emerging technologies with new distribution channels to benefit consumers. With HitHive, Tucker sees a future that includes music lovers easily accessing their digital music collections through current and next generation web-enabled devices. When he's not guiding the good ship HitHive, Tucker spends time with his wife, Betsy and new son, Max. And when he's not doing that, he's contemplating the next technology convergence. Zack Zalon, General Manager, Radio Free Virgin: Zack Zalon, formerly of the Factory Network and Jimmy and Doug’s Farmclub.com, has been appointed General Manager of Radio Free Virgin, one of the first online investments by Richard Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group. Radio Free Virgin (www.radiofreevirgin.com), which launches its new format in September 2000, transforms a personal computer into a high quality digital radio tuner with superior sound quality, multi-channel programming, interactivity and the innovative and irreverent style that has come to be associated with Virgin. The Radio Free Virgin player is a downloadable application – not a pop-up window or Web page—which fits unobtrusively on the user’s desktop. It is available for download free of charge at www.radiofreevirgin.com. Brad Porteus, VP MTVi Radio, The MTVi Group, is responsible for the growth and development of MTVi’s Internet radio properties including radio.sonicnet and MTVi Radio -- a business-to-business radio services initiative providing radio services to 3rd parties. Porteus has been building Internet radio businesses since the fall of 1997, where, as general manager of one of the industry’s Internet radio pioneers -- Imagine Radio -- he focused on product development, business development and consumer marketing. Porteus began his career in sports marketing and management in the merchandising department of the then start-up San Jose Sharks of the NHL. Porteus then moved on to become general manager and vice president of operations for a start-up professional roller hockey team named the San Jose Rhinos Porteus, an economics major at Duke University, received an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 1997. Eric Rhoads, President and CEO, RadioCentral: It should be of little surprise that Eric Rhoads, who began his career in radio at the age of 14, would ascend to the position of founder, CEO and innovator of RadioCentral. Eric has proven himself to be one of the world’s foremost experts on radio broadcasting, and now Internet radio. As a pioneer in the radio industry, he has repeatedly demonstrated not only his ability to forecast trends, but to impact the way those trends manifest. While working as Music Director, Eric saw the need for improved industry measures and developed many innovative research techniques, which are today considered standards. As Program Consultant, he cracked the codes and brought stations to new rating heights. His programming prowess was well known and well deserved -- Rhoads programmed 25 winning stations in only two years’ time Eric began his radio career working as a deejay in Indiana and Michigan. From there, he got his big break when he helped launch Y-100, a now legendary station in Miami, FL. Eric was then the youngest major market radio talent in America. Eric owned his first three radio stations at age 25, in Salt Lake City and New Orleans. After selling these stations in 1986, he founded Streamline Communications Corporation, a company that manufactured remote radio studios for stations across the world. In 1989, Eric founded Streamline Media, which publishes Radio Ink, a leading radio industry trade publication. As the Internet represented a new direction for radio, it was only fitting that Eric be involved. In 1999, he founded e-Radio magazine, the first publication dedicated to the convergence of radio and Internet. The same year, he founded the Radio Ink Internet Conference, which took place in Silicon Valley to a sell-out crowd of over 600. The conference is now held twice yearly. In addition to emceeing his bi-annual Radio Ink Conference, Eric is a sought after speaker for professional leadership forums and trade conferences. Most recently, Eric addressed a targeted group of financial analysts and technology press at the Annual Streaming Media Sector Analyst Forum sponsored by the newly formed Streaming Media Alliance. As one of the foremost broadcast experts, industry professionals constantly rely on Eric’s knowledge and expertise. Under Eric’s guidance, Streamline Media now publishes Streaming, the first magazine solely dedicated to audio and radio streaming via the Internet. Eric published his first book, Blast From the Past: A 75 Year Photo History of Radio in 1997 and has been published in the Columbia University Media Studies Journal. Eric is on the board of directors of the Bayless Scholarship Foundation, The Radio Hall of Fame, The Broadcast Education Association, the Way-FM Radio Network and the National Association of College Broadcasters. In November 1999, Eric founded RadioCentral, an Internet radio network of custom radio stations for the Web’s leading destination sites. The company was funded in January 2000. While many in the industry have been reluctant to embrace new technologies, Eric has been a forerunner and champion for Internet radio and has made it his mission to avail others in the industry to the power of the Internet as a way to expand listenership.