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Digital Hollywood Spring, March, 2006
Speaker
Kimberly King-Burns, President & COO, Greenbridge Media Holdings Inc.
Kimberly King-Burns is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Gree nbridge Media, Inc., a subsidiary of Greenbridge Capital Group, Inc. Prior to co-founding Greenbridge Media, Inc., King-Burns was the Managing Partner of convergenz/solutions, a Los Angeles-based new media brokerage and technology marketing consultancy with expertise spanning traditional media including music, film, cable, television and advertising as well as new media technologies including Internet, mobile, VOD, and e-government. King-Burns is frequently invited to speak at new media conferences around the country to underscore the development and use of the Internet around the world as a social, educational and cultural tool, based on her continuing economic development work with multicultural programs in general ... and community technology workshops in empowerment zones around the United States and overseas in particular. Before launching convergenz/solutions in 1995, King-Burns headed up the high technology and corporate communications groups at Golin/Harris Los Angeles, Shandwick Los Angeles and Porter/Novelli Communications. Her top accounts included Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Canon Computer Systems, Inc. and LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation. Before working with Golin/Harris, King-Burns' broad experience included the hands-on development and marketing of CD-ROM interactive entertainment and the Full Service Network video-on-demand trial in the early 1990s as marketing manager with Time Warner Interactive Group. King-Burns came to Time Warner Interactive from PolyGram Records' distribution arm, where she was active in market research roles in New York City and Los Angeles. Her ongoing analysis and coverage of retail new media trends has been published by way of regular contributions to Billboard Magazine, SN Magazine (Fairchild Group of Publications), Video Business Magazine, Perfect Vision, and Computer Life (U.S. and U.K. editions), and her monthly column "Wild West: Hollywood and Technology" was featured for several years in Ziff-Davis' Computer Life U.K. King-Burns is presently active in Women In Technology International [WITI], the Interactive Television Alliance, the Minority & Media Telecommunications Council and Bahamas Film Commission. She serves on the advisory boards of the FAME Renaissance Business Enterprise Center and VIC Network, and was active in the launch of the Getty Information Institute's DigitalExperience laboratory. She co-produced the first Hollywood Film Festival, remains active with Hollywood Black Film Festival's InfoTainment Conference; consults with the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute on Hispano-Hollywood initiatives; and regularly co-produces the annual Asia-specific Global Leadership Forums in tandem with University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. King-Burns was raised on Harbour Island, Bahamas, and has since launched several Bahamian and Caribbean community portals online. King-Burns is also executive director of the not-for-profit Briland Modem Fund, a community development foundation. In addition to the top-rated Briland Modem at www.briland.com, King-Burns developed CaribeNetwork.com and NetworkBahamas.com, IT and digital media business development, information and education B2B resources for Bahamas and Caribbean region.
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