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Stanford's MediaX and Accel Partners have organized this 14th Symposium to explore and highlight emerging trends and potential obstacles surrounding the Future of Advertising in Digital Media. This Symposium brings together the Stanford research community, high-technology business leaders, and entrepreneurs who are collectively driving developments in this rapidly changing arena.

SPEAKERS

This year's speakers include:

Sir Martin Sorrell, Founder & CEO, WPP

Martin Sorrell is chief executive and architect of WPP, one of the world's largest communications services groups.

WPP companies provide clients with advertising; media investment management; information; insight & consultancy; public relations & public affairs; branding & identity, healthcare and specialist communications. Collectively, WPP employs 97,000 people in more than 2,000 offices in 106 countries.

WPP's major brands include advertising agencies JWT, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, Y&R, Grey Worldwide and The Voluntarily United Group of Creative Agencies; global media investment management companies MindShare, Mediaedge:cia and MediaCom; market research companies Millward Brown, Research International, KMR Group and proprietary diagnostic tools for managing brands, BrandAsset® Valuator and BRANDZ; the direct, customer relationship and interactive marketing networks OgilvyOne Worldwide, Wunderman,

141 Worldwide and Grey Direct; public relations & public affairs firms Hill & Knowlton, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Burson-Marsteller, Cohn & Wolfe and GCI; global healthcare companies CommonHealth, Sudler & Hennessey,Ogilvy Healthworld and Grey Healthcare Group; and global branding and identity firms Landor, Enterprise IG, Fitch and G2 Worldwide. WPP's specialist communications group includes firms that provide sales promotions, web communications and hi-tech marketing.

Clients include more than 330 of the Fortune Global 500, over half of the NASDAQ 100 and over 30 of the Fortune e-50.

Beth Comstock, President, NBCU Integrated Media

Beth Comstock, president, NBC Universal Integrated Media, is charged with executive oversight of television ad sales and leads the Digital Media team, driving the company’s digital strategy, business, content, and distribution efforts. In addition, she oversees marketing and research and is focused on deepening connections with consumers and developing a more comprehensive set of opportunities for marketers across all of the NBCU properties and on multiple platforms. Comstock reports to Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal.

In 2006, NBC Universal added the iVillage Properties, which includes the women's community site, iVillage.com, to its portfolio. Comstock and the Digital Media team helped expand the consumer experience by adding broadband, mobile and other digital extensions to NBC Universal programs and networks. In addition, the Company has recently launched a number of new digital media businesses ranging from new broadband services to the nbbc video marketplace.

Before returning to NBCU in December 2005, Comstock served as General Electric's chief marketing officer. In that role, she oversaw marketing and sales development, and was responsible for cross-business growth programs, including GE's ecomagination environmental effort and the Imagination Breakthrough innovation initiative. Comstock also led GE’s integrated communications, including the successful imagination at work brand campaign.

Comstock has been a GE company officer since 1998, when she was named GE’s vice president of Corporate Communications. Previously, she served as senior vice president of Communications at NBC, and as vice president of NBC News Communications. Before that, she held a succession of publicity positions at CBS Entertainment, Turner Broadcasting, and NBC, beginning in 1986. She began her career with a television news service and in local cable programming in Virginia.

Comstock serves as a Trustee of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. She is the recipient of a 2006 Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications and a 2005 Aiming High Award from Legal Momentum.

Business Week named her an Innovator and B2B Magazine named her Marketer of the Year. She has been included in Pink Magazine’s Top 15 Women in Business and Hollywood Reporter’s Power 100 Women in Entertainment, and was named a Rising Star in Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women issue.

A native of Virginia, Comstock is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. She and her husband have two daughters.

Neil Ashe, CEO, CNET Networks

Neil Ashe, Chief Executive Officer, joined CNET Networks in 2002, as Senior Vice-President, Corporate Strategy and Development. In 2005, Mr. Ashe assumed the role of Executive Vice-President and his responsibilities expanded to included day-to-day management of the Community and Lifestyle, Business, Channel and International divisions.

Mr. Ashe has led the company's content expansion strategy, including numerous acquisitions to develop its existing products and expand into new categories which attract new audience and customer segments. During his tenure, the company has acquired MP3.com, Webshots, Chowhound, Urban Baby and China-based ZOL, PC Home and X-Car. This strategy has resulted in new product development, audience growth and revenue streams for the company. In addition, Mr. Ashe is a key spokesperson to both the investment and advertising communities and has been instrumental in CNET Networks' growth and success.

His broad-based expertise in all facets of the business, together with his outstanding management and leadership skills, are valuable assets that serve the company well as it continues to be an important player in the developing media landscape.

Prior to joining CNET Networks, Mr. Ashe founded and served as chief executive officer of several start-up companies in the Internet, business-to-business, electronic-marketplaces, and financial-services industries. From 1996 through 1999, he served as managing director of Crest Communications Holdings LLC, a private equity-investment firm. From 1990 through 1994, he held positions in the Mergers and Acquisitions group of Smith Barney, Inc.

Mr. Ashe holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Georgetown University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and three children.

David Kenny, CEO, Digitas

As chairman and CEO of Digitas Inc., David Kenny has led the company to become one of the industry’s leading marketing services organizations. Digitas Inc. is the parent company of three successful digital and direct marketing companies: Digitas, Medical Broadcasting Company and Modem Media. The agencies of Digitas Inc. help blue-chip global brands develop, engage and profit from their customers through digital, direct and indirect relationships. Driving accountable and measurable relationship engines, they are known for the marriage of art (creativity and insight) and science (analytics, measurement and strategy).

A former senior partner at Bain & Company, the global strategic consulting firm, David holds a B.S. from the General Motors Institute (Kettering University) and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is a board member for Teach For America and a director of The Corporate Executive Board.

Sheryl Sandberg, VP Online Sales & Operations, Google

Sheryl Sandberg joined Google in 2001 and is currently the Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations. In this role, Sheryl is responsible for online sales of Google's advertising and publishing products. She also runs sales operations and support for Google's consumer products and for Google Book Search. In addition, Sheryl serves on the board of the Google Foundation/Google.org and directs the Google Grants program, which provides free advertising to non-profit organizations worldwide.

Prior to joining Google, Sheryl was the Chief of Staff for the United States Treasury Department, where she helped lead its work on forgiving debt in the developing world. Before that, Sheryl was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and an economist with The World Bank, where she worked on eradicating leprosy in India. Sheryl currently serves on the boards of The Ad Council and Leadership Public Schools.

Sheryl received a B.A. summa cum laude in Economics from Harvard University, and was awarded the John H. Williams Prize as the top graduating student in economics. She was a Baker and Ford Scholar at Harvard Business School, where she also earned an MBA with highest distinction.

Reid Hoffman, Founder & Chairman, LinkedIn

Reid was LinkedIn’s founding CEO for the first four years before moving to his role as Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. While CEO, Reid built the company to over 9 million members and profitability. He now drives product and business strategy for LinkedIn.

Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal. At PayPal, Reid was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. Currently, in addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy.

Mark Jung, Former COO, Fox Interactive Media

Mark Jung has spent the last 17 years as a successful internet CEO and entrepreneur. Most recently, Mark was the Chief Operating Officer of Fox Interactive Media and was responsible for the day-to-day operations of all of its properties including MySpace, IGN Entertainment, FoxSports.com, Scout Media, and AmericanIdol.com. Prior to Fox Interactive Media, Mark was the co-founder and CEO of IGN Entertainment, a leading Internet media and services company for videogaming and other forms of digital entertainment. Mark led IGN’s sale to NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox Interactive Media, for $650 million in October 2005. Prior to joining IGN, Mark was the co-founder and CEO of Worldtalk Corporation, an Internet security company that he took public in 1996 and that has since merged with Tumbleweed Communications. Mark holds an MBA from Stanford Business School (’87) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He is an active member of the Golden Gate Chapter of YPO.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, VP Asia-Pacific & Latin America Operations, Google

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is Google's Vice President for Asia-Pacific & Latin America Operations. In this role, she is responsible for all of Google's sales operations in these regions. Sukhinder also oversees the company's local search and channel initiatives globally.

Prior to joining Google, Sukhinder was Co-founder and Senior Vice President of Business Development for Yodlee.com Inc., a leading solutions provider to the global financial services industry. From 1999 to 2003, she was responsible for building Yodlee's client base and revenues, signing agreements with companies such as Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Bank of America, Wachovia, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AOL. For her work at Yodlee and in the industry, Sukhinder has been profiled in publications including Business Week Online, Canada Post, and Innovation Nation, a book profiling Canadian business leaders (Jossey-Bass, 2002).

Prior to joining Yodlee, Sukhinder worked in strategy and business development in Silicon Valley for leading e-commerce providers Amazon.com, and Junglee Corporation, and in New York and London with investment bank Merrill Lynch as well as pay television provider British Sky Broadcasting.

Sukhinder is a graduate of the Ivey School of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Omar Hamoui, CEO, AdMob

Omar Hamoui is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the mobile industry. After earning a degree in Computer Science at UCLA and prior to founding AdMob, Omar founded and ran several companies in mobile software and services. At the time, he was frustrated by the lack of available options when it came to promoting and monetizing his products. Omar realized that mobile service and content firms needed better ways to advertise and make money on the mobile Web. Omar created AdMob to solve this problem. Today, at 29, Omar is running one of the fastest growing, most innovative companies in the mobile world.

Brian Lent, Co-Founder & CEO, Medio Systems

Lent co-founded Medio Systems in 2004 from his role as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Previously the founding CEO of Intelligent Results, a business analytics software company, Lent also held senior technical and marketing management positions at Amazon.com, where he led efforts in data mining, data warehousing, CRM, and e-commerce search engines. Lent was a principal and Director of Applications at Junglee, later an Amazon acquisition, where he pioneered new internet database technologies. As an NSF and Department of Defense ONR Fellow, he held research and development positions at IBM Almaden Research Center and Silicon Graphics.

At Stanford, Lent was a co-founder of the MIDAS (Mining Data At Stanford) group, the lab that spawned the Google crawler and search engine. He has contributed to several professional publications and is a patent holder on the topic of data mining, information retrieval and database systems. Lent sits on a number of technology advisory boards in the areas of search, advertising and customer analytics. Lent holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Nevada Reno, and an MS and PhD Candidacy in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Samir Arora, Founder & CEO, Glam Media

Samir Arora is the Chairman of Information Capital LLC, a venture capital fund. Information Capital, based in Woodside, California, invests in leading-edge big idea companies in consumer publishing, media & technology that help change the lives of millions of people.

Over the last 20 years, Arora has been focused on 3 things- building & launching emotive consumer brands; identifying and developing solutions that cross the chasm and change the lives of millions of people; and building and leading passionate teams of people to achieve success to create wealth.

Arora is currently leading the team at Glam Media, Inc.- a privately held company in Silicon Valley and New York. Prior to that, Arora was the Chairman of Emode/Tickle, Inc, which was sold to Monster in June, 2004 Tickle was a leading consumer website with over 42 million registered users (72% women) that grew in 5 years to a Media Metrix ranked top-20 destination site.

Prior to Tickle, Arora was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NetObjects, Inc, since its inception in November 1995 to 2001. An industry veteran, Arora has more than ten years of experience as chairman and chief executive officer including running a NASDAQ public traded company, and over 20 years of management experience in computers, software, communication, entertainment and enterprise markets

Arora was recognized by CNET as Web Innovator of the Year, as someone who has "helped shape the Web, create the term 'Web Site' and create the first Web Site building product" and also was named IIA's Entrepreneur of the Year.

Owen Van Natta, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook

Owen Van Natta is the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, where he is responsible for business, operational and financial strategy. Owen joined Facebook from Amazon.com where he was Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development. At Amazon.com, he drove strategic business initiatives, vertical expansion strategies, and long-term partnering strategies and development programs such as sales and negotiations training. Owen was also part of the founding team of A9.com and responsible for the workings of the Internet site itself but Amazon.com product search and sponsored link advertising. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Ashwin Navin, President, COO & Co-Founder, BitTorrent

Ashwin Navin is the President, Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc. He hails from Yahoo! where he was an influential member of the companys Corporate Development group. He possesses extensive experience in structuring and negotiating acquisitions, partnerships and alliances in the tech industry. While at Yahoo!, Ashwin was responsible for M&A, divestitures and company strategy in the U.S. and key global markets such as India and Korea. Before Yahoo!, Ashwin worked with Wall Street powerhouses Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch as an investment banker and research analyst. Ashwin earned a dual B.A. from Claremont McKenna in Government and Economics.

Erick Hachenburg, CEO, Metacafe

Erick Hachenburg joined Metacafe, one of the leading online video sites worldwide, as CEO in February 2007. Prior to joining Metacafe, Hachenburg was Electronic Art’s senior vice president of global online publishing and managing director of EA China. In this role, he developed and led EA’s key strategic initiatives, including the company’s entry into the digital distribution of retail games, as well as the rapid expansion of EA's Pogo casual games platform and business. He also established EA’s online production, operations and publishing capabilities in Asia. Hachenburg joined EA following the company’s 2001 acquisition of Pogo.com, the industry leader in the casual games market that Hachenburg founded and built to nearly 1.5 million subscribers. Hachenburg began his career as an intellectual property attorney at Fenwick & West. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois.

Jonathan Epstein, CEO, DoubleFusion

Epstein brings more than 20 years of high-technology media and marketing experience to Double Fusion, and a track record of launching and building the most successful media properties that reach the gaming audience, on a worldwide basis. As CEO of Double Fusion, Epstein is responsible for providing the strategic vision and direction for the company, and for ensuring the execution of the company against its core business plan.

Prior to joining Double Fusion, Epstein served as co-head of the digital media group of United Talent Agency, overseeing a wide range of transactions in the gaming, mobile, Internet and advertising technology markets and serving as a consultant to a number of leading media startups. Prior to UTA, Epstein served as executive vice president and general manager, media division, for IGN Entertainment, which was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2005. Epstein came to IGN with the sale of GameSpy Industries, where he served as president; while at GameSpy, Epstein established the company as a major media player and developed the companies significant subscription and middleware businesses. Before GameSpy, Epstein was the founding president and CEO of GameSpot.com, where with the other co-founders he reshaped the way by which gamers get their information. GameSpot was acquired by ZDNet (and subsequently, CNET) after which time Epstein served as EVP, International, overseeing the management and rollout of GameSpot and ZDNet sites around the world.

Epstein holds a degree in physical sciences from Harvard College.

Tony Kypreos, Former Group EVP, Business Development & Innovation, T-Mobile International

Tony Kypreos held the position of Group Executive Vice President - Business Development & Innovation at T-Mobile International, where he lead business units reporting to the Group CEO. His group’s responsibilities included upstream development for core propositions / key differentiators, new business models, roadmap priorities and the European Product Creation Centre.

Prior to T-Mobile, Tony spent 4 years as a partner in a US/Europe venturing company achieving 2 successful start-up exits and a turnaround asset sale in Europe within Internet and Mobile entertainment sectors.

Previously he was the European Vice President - Strategic Services at Omnicom Group (Agency.com), an agency specializing in multiple digital channels: Mobile, Digital TV and Internet.

His prior experience also includes 9 years international consumer packaged goods marketing as Marketing Controller at Nestlé SA (Carnation, Coffee-mate, Nesquik), and Senior Brand Manager at Diageo PLC.

Tony holds a BSc (Hon) in Physics & Electronic Systems, Brunel University (sponsored by British Telecom) and an MBA from the Henley Management College.

Konrad Feldman, CEO, Quantcast

Konrad together with Paul Sutter co-founded Quantcast with a vision to
transform the reach and effectiveness of advertising on the Internet
through the use of science and scalable computing. Konrad brings over 12
years experience in high volume transactional analytics and measurement,
pattern recognition and fraud detection.

Prior to Quantcast, Konrad co-founded Searchspace (now Fortent) the
leading provider of terrorist financing detection and anti-money
laundering software to the world's financial services industry. As CEO
of Searchspace's North American business, Konrad led the establishment
of the business in the US and its rapid growth to market leader. Prior
to Searchspace Konrad was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems
Laboratory at University College London. Konrad has a BSc in Computer
Science from University College London.

Laura Marriott, President, Mobile Marketing Association

Laura Marriott is the president of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), where she is responsible for leading the global association in its charter to drive the adoption of mobile marketing while ensuring consumer privacy and brand integrity. The MMA, with chapters in North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East & Africa, is an action-oriented association designed to clear obstacles to market development, to establish standards and best practices for sustainable growth and to evangelize the mobile channel for use by brands and third party content providers.

In her role, Marriott directs all activities and communications for the global association to the more than 400 world-wide members, representing over forty countries and some of the world’s most recognized brands. She also co-chairs the MMA’s Women In Wireless special interest group, which was established to provide a forum for female industry leaders in the mobile media community and to increase the industry awareness around the success of female executives in the mobile space.

With more than sixteen years of experience in the high-tech industry in the areas of business development, product management and marketing, Marriott has a proven track record of leadership, dedication and the ability to create and execute on programs with measurable results. Prior to joining the MMA, she served as director of marketing for Intrado, where she was responsible for marketing the company’s mobility products and services. Marriott has also previously served as director of business development at Cyneta Networks and Cell-Loc Inc. Marriott graduated from the University of Alberta.

Marriott is currently a columnist for the ClickZ network as well as the Colorado chapter host for MoMeMo (www.momemo.org).

Previous Symposium Speakers have included:
  • Andy Bechtolsheim, Co-Founder, Kealia, Granite Systems, Sun Microsystems; Former VP & GM, Gigabit Systems Group, Cisco; Chief Architect & SVP, Network Systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc
  • Andrew Borgstrom, CEO, T-Systems North America, A Deutsche- Telekom Company
  • Bill Coleman, Co-Founder & former CEO, BEA; Founder & CEO, Cassatt Corporation
  • Diane Greene, President, VMware
  • Jonathan Schwartz, CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc
  • Rob Burgess, Chairman & CEO, Macromedia Inc.
  • Gerry Butters, Group President, Lucent Technologies
  • Mark Cuban, President & Chairman, Broadcast.com
  • Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO, Netflix
  • Dan Rosensweig, Former COO, Yahoo!
  • Michael Fitzpatrick, CEO, E-Tek Dynamics
  • Charles Giancarlo, CTO, Cisco Systems
  • Robert Glaser, Chairman & CEO, RealNetworks
  • William Dally, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Stanford University
  • Hector Garcia-Molina, Leonard Bosack & Sandra K. Lerner Professor in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering; Chairman, Department of Computer Science
  • Teresa Meng, Stanford Professor & CTO, Atheros Communications
  • Paul Metteucci, President & CEO, Mpath Interactive, Inc.
  • David Peterschmidt, President & CEO, Inktomi Corporation
  • Robert Pfeffer, CTO, Nortel Networks
  • Vivek Ragavan, President & COO, Redback Networks Inc
  • Jeremy Allaire, Founder/Chairman & President, Brightcove; Cofounder, Allaire Corp.
  • Greg Ballard, CEO, Sorrent