Thursday, March 8
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Session B:

E-Mail as an Entertainment and E-Commerce Medium
Have you received your first audio enhanced, video, or animated email? If you haven’t, it’s a whole new experience. Email will never be the same. As the technology moves forward, so do the amazing things we can do with it, and the future of email as a broadband entertainment experience is just around the corner. In this session we bring together the companies who are leading the way in technology and content application in the e-mail marketplace. As your community of users grows and becomes more complex, so will your ability to communicate with them.
Don L. Daglow, President, Stormfront Studios
Gad Liwerant, President & CEO, VideoShare
Barak Kassar, founder & CEO, INBOXTV Corporation
David Sokolic, Vice President, Marketing, Gizmoz, Inc.
Scott Gordon, Vice President Marketing, SeeItFirst
Don Kent, CEO,
eCablevision, Moderator
Additional speaker to be announced

Scott Gordon, Vice President of Marketing Mr. Gordon joined SeeItFirst as our Vice President of Marketing. His industry background spans a broad range of experiences from corporate, channel and service marketing to product management and business development. Mr. Gordon previously was VP of Marketing and Business Development at Internet Tools, Inc. (acquired by Axent Technologies AXNT). Prior to that he was VP of Marketing and Business Development at ICSA.net (a Gartner Group affiliate GART). Mr. Gordon has held senior product management positions at McAfee (NETA), Cheyenne Software and Computer Associates (CAI). He holds a BBA in Marketing and MIS from Hofstra University. He also holds an MBA degree. Mr Gordon will be building the marketing department's infrastructure, as well as advancing SeeItFirst's product development, branding, channel and sales support initiatives worldwide.

Don Daglow is president of Stormfront Studios, developers of EA Sports' NASCAR series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, John Madden Football, Discovery Channel's Byzantine: the Betrayal, Creative Wonders' Eagle Eye Mysteries, and the Tony La Russa Baseball series. In 1971 he wrote the first computer baseball game ever created (on a PDP-10 mainframe); in 1976 he wrote the first mainframe role-playing game. In 1981 he designed and programmed the first Sim game, Utopia for Intellivision. Don has led design teams for almost 20 years, as Director of Game Design for Mattel's Intellivision, as a Producer at EA, and as the head of Broderbund's Entertainment & Education division before founding Stormfront Studios in 1988. He holds a BA in Creative Writing (Pomona College) and a Master's in Education (Claremont Graduate School).





David Sokolic
serves as Vice President of Marketing for Gizmoz. David manages the strategic marketing activities, executes strategic alliances, and counsels on positioning and corporate strategy. Sokolic has over six years of experience working in Hi Tech as both a strategy consultant, and in various operational roles. From 1990-1993, Sokolic worked at Braxton Associates, the international strategy-consulting arm of Deloitte Consulting, after which time he moved to Israel and joined HK Catalyst, a venture capital and advisory service and consulting firm. Sokolic then joined on as Product Manager with VocalTec Communications, a pioneer in the IP Telephony market, progressing to Marketing Director with responsibilities for the ISP and Telco markets. David holds a bachelor's degree with honors from the Wharton School.


Don Kent, CEO,
eCablevision, Moderator: Kent has spent almost half of his 26 years in business serving as a COO of startup and pre-IPO companies providing broadband and video services to MDUs and residential customers. In 1983, Kent joined Insight Communications as Executive Vice President and COO, a venture capital start-up company. Through over $500 million in M&A of MDUs and cable television systems, he served on the acquisition team that helped build the company into a multi-billion dollar entity. He had profit and loss responsible for Insight and helped lay the foundation that permitted Insight to go public, (NASDAQ: ICCI), now the 8th largest cable operator in the country. Kent left to become Vice President of Consumer Marketing and Content for People’s Choice TV, now a division of Sprint’s Wireless Broadband group. In this capacity, Kent had marketing responsibility for the company’s digital video and high-speed Internet customers for both MDUs and residential customers. He also established the strategy and management of the SpeedChoice e-commerce and Internet content alliances, and served in the team that helped prepare the company for a buy out at almost twenty times its then current market value. As President and COO of Channelseek, Kent was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company, including product development, business development, marketing, and affiliate relations. Channelseek was a streaming media navigation portal and serves 65% of the US broadband market via contracts with companies including Roadrunner, SprintDSL, and Comcast@Home. After the sale of Channelseek was announced, Kent left to form eCablevision; a broadband consulting practice specializing in broadband applications, ISPs, digital video, wireless, and MDUs. Kent’s BS is from the United States Air Force Academy and his MBA is from the University of Utah. He serves on a variety of boards, including the Cable Yellow Pages (www.cableyellowpages.com), Uvision, HumanizingTechnologies, and the US Internet Industry Association (www.USIIA.org). He writes for numerous magazines, including serving on the Editorial Board and writing a column for Digital Entertainment Magazine and Broadband Magazines.

Gad Liwerant,
President & CEO, VideoShare: In 1999, Liwerant founded VideoShare, a leading video technology company that enables businesses and consumers to create and add streaming media to all their Internet communications.  Prior to VideoShare, Liwerant started Allcam, a comprehensive searchable database of web camera sites on the Internet. Liwerant was also a founder of eBricks, which recently became Citadon.com, the leading platform for the engineering and building industry. Prior to his Internet ventures, Liwerant was a managing partner of Liwerant, Macotela, Serrano Architects, an architectural design and construction company based in Mexico City. He has successfully managed the design and construction of over 100 projects with a combined value of well over $500M. His portfolio includes a diverse mix of residential and non-residential building projects and a wide range of public and private clients, including Grupo Loma/Centex and Liverpool. Liwerant graduated with distinction from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design.

















Barak Kassar
founded and serves as CEO of INBOXTV Corporation---the leading technology company focused on the way people view and share digital media. Barak is a 12-year veteran of traditional and new media. Prior to INBOXTV, he served as a marketing executive at Wink Communications, (NASDAQ: WINK) where he helped build broad industry support for interactive TV by working with companies such as NBC and Time Warner. He holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from UC Davis.