Media & Telecom Conference
Building Relationships for Growth
Thursday, December 4, 2008 •
8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.* •
Waldorf=Astoria Hotel ▪ New York City
REGISTRATION FORM | CONFERENCE DETAILS
Keynote Speaker
Wall Street Journal and D: All Things Digital
Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology Columnist
Walt Mossberg is the author and creator of the weekly Personal Technology column in The Wall Street Journal, which has appeared every Thursday since 1991.
He currently co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.
On television, Mr. Mossberg is a regular technology commentator for the CNBC network, where he appears every Thursday on the mid-day Power Lunch program. He is also a regular contributor to Dow Jones Video on the Web.
Sports Panel
YES Network, LLC
Tracy Dolgin, President and CEO
Tracy Dolgin, named president and CEO of the YES Network in September 2004, is responsible for all aspects of operations for YES, the most-watched regional sports network in the country for the past five years. Prior to joining YES, Dolgin served as managing director and co-head of Houlihan Lokey’s Media, Sports and Entertainment Group. Earlier, in May 2000, Dolgin was named president of FOX Sports Net, the country’s first national, regional and local supplier of sports programming, which consisted of 21 regional sports channels. Dolgin came to FOX Sports Net from parent company FOX/Liberty Cable, where he served as chief operating officer, responsible for the operations of FOX Sports Net, the FX cable channel, and investments in various other cable channels.
Before joining FOX/Liberty, Dolgin led FOX Sports’ ground-breaking marketing efforts as executive vice president of marketing. He joined FOX Sports at the News Corporation division’s December 1993 inception. Dolgin came to FOX Sports from his position as executive vice president of marketing, FOX Broadcasting Company, where he managed all FOX marketing activities, including promotion, advertising and publicity.
Previously, Dolgin was senior vice president of marketing at HBO Video. He received a bachelor’s degree in industrial-labor relations from Cornell University, and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University.
NBA
Adam Silver, Deputy Commissioner and COO
Adam Silver became NBA Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer in July 2006 after his appointment was unanimously approved by the NBA Board of Governors. He assumed his role as the league’s second-in-command following more than eight years as President and COO, NBA.
Mr. Silver has been instrumental in many league accomplishments including playing a key role in the negotiations of the league’s last two television agreements, the last three collective bargaining agreements with the NBA Players Association, the development of the WNBA and NBA Development League, the partnership with Turner Broadcasting to jointly manage the NBA’s digital assets, the partnership with the NCAA on a wide-ranging initiative aimed at enhancing youth basketball programs in the U.S. and the creation of NBA China as a separately-incorporated operating entity.
During Mr. Silver's tenure, the NBA has seen rapid expansion of its digital activities launching NBA TV and developing the NBA.com Network of team and league web sites. Silver also oversees the NBA’s and WNBA’s game telecasts, which are carried in 215 countries in 41 languages. Also under Mr. Silver’s supervision are the Global Merchandising Group, Global Media Properties and Marketing Partnerships divisions which have seen record growth during his tenure.
Mr. Silver joined the NBA in 1992 and previously served under Commissioner Stern as Special Assistant to the Commissioner; NBA Chief of Staff; Senior Vice President and COO, NBA; and President and COO, NBA.
Verizon
Terry Denson, VP Content/ Acquisition/ Strategy
As Vice President, Content and Programming, Terry Denson oversees the FiOS, Broadband, Mobile and Multi-screen content strategy and acquisition.
Denson served most recently as Vice President of Programming for Insight Communications, the ninth largest cable operator in the country, where he led the acquisition of programming, in addition to the development of analog, digital, video-on-demand, high definition TV, Broadband and interactive content strategies. Previously, as Director of Business Development for the Affiliate Sales and Marketing department of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International, he negotiated affiliation agreements, managed the sales and distribution of multiple video services, and directed analyses of trends in the market. As general attorney for ABC, he managed numerous content rights and distribution issues.
A graduate of Harvard University, Denson holds a J.D. degree from Georgetown University.
Velocity Interactive Group
Jon Miller, Partner
Jon is a digital media veteran known for his strategic and operational expertise, and is a founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group. From 2002 to 2006, Jon served as Chairman and CEO of AOL. He was brought in to architect an industry-defining turnaround. He restructured the company's core business lines and focused the company on online advertising, including completing the highly successful 2004 acquisition of Advertising.com.
Through his leadership, AOL delivered record annual profit growth of 21 percent and increased its online advertising growth, the centerpiece of the new business model, by 46 percent. Previously, Jon was CEO and President of USA Information and Services, now IACI and Expedia (the company split in two in 2005). Through both acquisitions and migrating business models to become digitally focused, USA/IACI built industry-leading positions in such areas as online travel, ticketing, and electronic retailing. Prior to USA/IACI, Jon was Managing Director of Nickelodeon International, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks.
Jon received his B.A. with honors from Harvard College. He serves on the Board of the American Film Institute and serves as a trustee of both Emerson College and WNYC Public Radio in New York. Board positions include Idearc Media, Premier Exhibitions, as well as several others.
DIRECTV
Eric Shanks, Executive Vice President
Eric Shanks is the Executive Vice President of DIRECTV Entertainment for DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading satellite television service provider. Eric oversees business activities related to the development of DIRECTV’s original entertainment, interactive programming and advertising sales.
In his role, Eric supports DIRECTV’s goal to provide customers with the best television experience by developing innovative content and services that are compelling and distinct. The latest advances include the development of NASCAR HotPass, DIRECTV’s exclusive NASCAR package, and the addition of the NFL RedZone feature to DIRECTV’s exclusive NFL SUNDAY TICKET™ package.
Prior to joining DIRECTV, Eric, a five-time Emmy award winner, served as a producer at FOX SPORTS and as vice president of Enhanced Programming for FOX Television Networks. His accomplishments there included producing live coverage of NFL Europe and “The Best Damn SportsShow Period” for FOX Sports Net, as well as launching Sky Sport 1 and 2 for the Sky Italia platform in Italy. Eric was also responsible for overseeing the development and creation of interactive television that complemented FOX’s sports, news and entertainment programming. He joined FOX SPORTS in 1994 for the network's inaugural season of NFL coverage.
Eric began his sports television career as a broadcast associate at CBS Sports in 1993. He currently resides in California and is based at DIRECTV’s El Segundo, Calif. headquarters.
Regulatory Panel
FCC
Kevin Martin, Chairman
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. possessions.
Bingham McCutchen
Andrew D. Lipman, Partner
Bingham McCutchen LLP provides legal services in areas of corporate, finance and litigation law. Its practice areas include antitrust and trade regulation, banking and secured lending, bioscience, broker-dealer litigation, commercial technology, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. In addition, the firm focuses on employee benefits, energy, environmental, financial restructuring, real estate, institutional finance, intellectual property, international trade law, investment management, intellectual property, private equity, tax, venture capital, and white-collar crime and business regulation. Through Bingham Consulting Group, the firm focuses on business and government relations strategies; Bingham Legg Advisers provides investment management and trust administration; and Bingham Strategic Advisors advises on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and business restructuring. Bingham McCutchen was formed as a result of merger between Bingham Dana and McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enerson in 2002. The firm is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Hartford, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, East Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, Washington D.C., Singapore and London.
Company Presentations
2e2 Group
Terry Burt, CEO
2e2 is a leading IT managed services and solutions provider in the UK and Netherlands. 2e2 services large and medium-sized organizations and helps customers to reduce costs and create business advantage through a range of proven solutions and high-quality managed services. 2e2 is focused upon: managed services, unified communications, software & consulting, and technology solutions.
Bunim/Murray Productions
Gil Goldschein, COO
Bunim-Murray Productions (BMP) is a leading independent producer of innovative entertainment content. The company is widely credited with creating the reality television genre with its hit series The Real World (renewed for its 22nd season on MTV). BMP continued to innovate with the first reality game show, Road Rules, in 1995; the first reality sitcom, The Simple Life, in 2003; and the first reality soap opera, Starting Over, in 2003. Bunim-Murray’s current programming includes The Bad Girls Club (Oxygen), Keeping up with the Kardashians (E! Entertainment), The Real World/Road Rules Challenge (MTV), The Supreme Court of Comedy (DirecTV), Living Lohan (E! Entertainment), the 6th season of Project Runway, the upcoming Models of the Runway, and Old Skool with Terry and Gita (upcoming on VH1). Other recently aired Bunim-Murray series include America’s Psychic Challenge (Lifetime), Murder (Spike) and Dr. Steve-O (USA). Launched in 2006 to better reach the Digital Generation, Bunim-Murray’s M Theory Entertainment is a spin-off entity focusing on new media initiatives. In 2007 Bunim-Murray launched BMP Films, a film division, which premiered its first documentary, Autism: The Musical, at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, and its first scripted film Pedro, at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Autism: The Musical premiered to rave reviews on HBO on March 25, 2008 and won 2 Primetime EMMY awards. Bunim-Murray Productions has also recently announced the formation of M Music, a music management division, with its first band, A Cursive Memory, signing with Vagrant Records. Bunim-Murray Productions is based in Van Nuys, CA. It was founded in 1987 by Jonathan Murray and the late Mary-Ellis Bunim.
Cogent Communications
Dave Schaeffer,
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Cogent Communications is a multinational, Tier 1 facilities-based ISP, operating one of the largest capacity IP networks in existence with lit capacities ranging from 80 to 240 Gigabits per second. Cogent specializes in providing businesses with high speed Internet access and point-to-point transport services. Cogent’s facilities-based, all-optical IP network backbone provides IP services in over 110 markets located in North America and Europe. Since Cogent’s inception, Cogent has unleashed the benefits of IP technology, building one of the largest and highest capacity IP networks in existence. This network enables Cogent to offer large bandwidth connections at highly competitive prices. Cogent also offers superior customer support by virtue of its end-to-end control of service delivery and network monitoring.
Community Newspaper Holdings
Donna Barrett, President and CEO
Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. is a local news and information company based in Birmingham, AL. CNHI owns 90 daily newspapers, 44 weeklies, 4 television stations, and 64 magazines. It has operations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.
CyrusOne
David Ferdman, President and CEO
CyrusOne is a leader in high availability, high density data center services, providing colocation and implementation services for customers in the healthcare, energy and financial industries. The Company helps businesses optimize returns on technology investments while ensuring application availability, data security and superior IT performance. CyrusOne was recently acquired by ABRY Partners, a Boston-based private equity investment firm with $25 billion of leveraged transactions and other private equity and mezzanine investments, representing investments in more than 450 media and communications properties.
FiberNet Telecom Group
Jon A. DeLuca, President and CEO
FiberNet provides complex interconnection services, as well as sophisticated networking and infrastructure solutions. With integrated colocation facilities, diverse transport routes and protocol conversion services, FiberNet provides comprehensive broadband interconnectivity for the exchange of traffic, for and between multiple IP-centric and TDM-based networks. Availius, a subsidiary of FiberNet, is an intellectual capital and resource company that leverages FiberNet's expertise, physical assets and implementation capabilities to solve network and infrastructure needs.
First Communications
Joe Morris, CFO and COO
First Communications is a leading facilities-based telecommunications provider specializing in advanced data and voice services for commercial customers as well as residential voice service. Over the past eight years, First Communications has become one of the largest Integrated Telecommunications companies in the Midwest, including metropolitan areas such as Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Columbus and Detroit.
Fusepoint Managed Services
George L. Kerns, President and CEO
Founded in 1999, Fusepoint is a privately held company with offices and data centers in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City. Through a proven record of success Fusepoint has built a loyal customer base and developed solid strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Bell Canada, Microsoft, SUN, Cisco, Dell, Oracle and HP. Fusepoint is a leading provider of managed IT solutions for companies with applications that demand the highest levels of security and availability.
Harlem Globetrotters
Kurt Schneider, CEO
The Harlem Globetrotters are an American icon, synonymous with family entertainment and great basketball skills. The Globetrotters organization represents 83 years of acts of goodwill and a commitment to fans young and old that goes well beyond the game. The Globetrotters have played in 120 countries on six continents, entertaining over 128 million people and crossing barriers between cultures, societies and people from all walks of life. The Globetrotters are evolving into a global entertainment powerhouse, extending beyond their vibrant live event business into new and complementary revenue streams, allowing fans to interact with their beloved Globetrotters on multiple platforms whenever and wherever they want.
High Noon Entertainment
James C. Berger, CEO
High Noon Entertainment is a leading provider of story-driven, unscripted/reality entertainment, scheduled to deliver more than 500 hours of programming for the 2009-10 television season to networks including VH1, History Channel, WE, Food Network, HGTV, Animal Planet, and DIY. Notable series include Rachael Ray’s Vacations (Food Network), Carter Oosterhouse’s Carter Can (HGTV), Warriors (History Channel), and Emergency Vets (Animal Planet). HNE has offices in Los Angeles and Denver and employs more than 250 creatives, all supported by state-of-the-art High Definition facilities.
Hubbard Media Group - ReelzChannel
Stanley E. Hubbard, Chairman and CEO
Hubbard Media Group owns Hubbard Broadcasting and cable channel ReelzChannel, and it has a majority stake in the arts and leisure channel Ovation. Hubbard Broadcasting is a leading television station operator with about a dozen stations in Minnesota, New York and New Mexico. Its portfolio includes ABC affiliate KSTP (Minneapolis/St. Paul) and NBC affiliate WHEC (Rochester, New York). The company also has three radio stations in the Twin Cities market; its Hubbard Radio Network subsidiary produces syndicated programming for about 20 affiliate stations in the upper Midwest.
ReelzChannel.com, the ultimate online destination for true movie fans, is designed to enable fans to find all the latest movie news and information in a fun, entertaining and video-centric format. ReelzChannel.com also enhances the viewers’ overall experience with ReelzChannel® TV and the ReelzChannel brand, while providing a valuable and distinctive platform for cross-promotion with studios and other promotional partners. The website provides fans with the most up-to-the-minute movie news and reviews; detailed information about their favorite movies from production through box office results; in-depth interviews with Hollywood’s brightest stars; behind-the-scenes clips; trailers that connect movie fans to the thing they love most—the movies; and fun, entertaining pop-culture stories about all things movies. ReelzChannel.com strives to create a destination where movie fans can go to get the information they need to make good choices and to explore their passion for movies, wherever they appear—in theaters, on DVD, VOD, and on premium broadcast and cable television channels each week.
Managed Data Holdings
Peter Stevenson, CEO
Managed Data Holdings (MDH) was founded in June 2007 by three highly experienced industry executives in conjunction with Great Hill Partners and Catalyst Investors. MDH's strategy is aimed at operation of state-of-the-art data centers across Tier I and Tier II markets in the U.S. to meet the increasing demand for managed hosting, managed services, colocation space and disaster recovery services required by small- and medium-size business customers or divisions of large enterprises. The company's data centers, which are located in Orange County, Calif., and Denver, Colo., are SAS70 Type II compliant and are designed to accommodate the changing power density and cooling needs of the colocation market while maintaining consistent high levels of customer service and support. An integral part of MDH's services portfolio is the technical ability to deliver managed security services, managed storage services, managed load balancing and remote hands services in conjunction with collocation services.
Primary Wave Music Publishing
Robert Horowitz, COO and Head of Business Development
Primary Wave Music Publishing was founded in January 2006 by veteran music executives Lawrence Mestel, Randy Miller, Devin Lasker, Justin Shukat along with branding and licensing entrepreneur Gregg Hamerschlag. The company acquires culturally important iconic catalogs, which provide numerous opportunities to enhance long-term value while preserving the musical integrity of its artistry. This value enhancement is achieved through tastefully marketing the intellectual property through opportunities for re-uses in film and television and by using the depth of thematic material appealing to the advertising community to strengthen each brand.
Raycom Media
Paul McTear, President and CEO
Raycom Media, Inc. was created in 1996 with the purchase of 12 television stations, two radio stations, and a sports marketing, production, events management, and distribution company. Shortly after this first acquisition, Raycom Media quickly acquired two other companies and began an unheard of growth in the media business. With a strong belief in community, Raycom Media television stations take editorial positions on key community issues. It is the vision of the company that it be involved in the communities its broadcast properties serve. By editorializing on local issues and seeking out divergent points of view, Raycom Media television stations create an atmosphere of community dialog. Raycom Media is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama.
Telx
Eric Shepcaro, CEO and Chairman of the Board
Telx is a world-class leader in providing interconnectivity solutions through their network-neutral and network rich, colocation facilities. With over a dozen facilities in North America, Telx offers cost effective networking solutions for customers to seamlessly access diverse global networks and exchange information in a secure and reliable environment. Over 600 leading telecommunications carriers, ISP’s, content providers and enterprises rely on Telx’s world-class team to support their mission-critical global infrastructure needs and to create a global connectivity marketplace to dramatically expand their business growth opportunities. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City with facilities in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Miami, Phoenix, Charlotte and Weehawken, NJ.
The Araca Group
Mike Rego, Founding Partner
Founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego, and Hank Unger, The Araca Group has grown from a start-up working out of a one room office into an internationally renowned merchandise and production company. The Araca Group solidified its reputation as a leading theatrical production company with the critical acclaimed success of Urinetown: The Musical followed by Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune which starred Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci and the blockbuster musical Wicked on Broadway and throughout the world. Other recent Broadway productions include The Wedding Singer, ‘night, Mother, The Good Body, and Match. Recent Off-Broadway credits include The Vagina Monologues, The Laramie Project, and Debbie Does Dallas. Araca has “pushed the envelope,” by creating not just collectibles but true fashion statements. Araca’s current merchandise roster includes Wicked, Boeing Boeing, and Passing Strange on Broadway; Dickens Unplugged in London; Jersey Boys in Las Vegas and London; as well as Wicked in Chicago, Los Angles, London, Tokyo, Stuttgart and Melbourne.
Viamedia
Jeff Carter, President and CEO
Viamedia is the TV advertising industry’s largest U.S. independent, market-based advertising sales organization. Based in Lexington, Kentucky, Viamedia’s primary focus is on providing competitive cable television providers across the country with dependable, high-quality representation of their advertising inventory. Viamedia and affiliate companies represent over 3.3 million cable households across the United States.
Zayo Group
Ken desGarennes, CFO
Zayo Group provides bandwidth, voice and managed services to carriers, enterprises, SME and government customers over a fiber network that spans 128 markets and 23 states. Carrier customers include telecom, wireless, cable TV, LECs and Internet service providers. Enterprise customers include web-centric businesses, technology companies, government, education, financial services, healthcare providers and SME entities. Zayo’s product set includes private line, Ethernet, wavelength, Internet, SS7, long distance, tandem switching, Operator Services, TDM voice, VoIP, video-conferencing, web hosting, and more. Since May of 2007, Zayo has completed acquisitions of eleven businesses including NTI, Citynet Fiber Network, Memphis Networx, PPL Telcom, Indiana Fiber Works, Onvoy, VoicePipe, Columbia Fiber Solutions and 5 CenturyTel CLEC markets. Zayo was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado.
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