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Sharon Bailey Romano
Email Marketing Director, Marketing & Audience Development
Hearst Digital Media

Sharon is the Email Marketing Director at Hearst Magazines Digital Media and has been in publishing for over 13 years with email marketing being her primary focus for over 5 years. Currently she oversees email marketing for 15+ magazines and their corresponding websites, and several stand-alone sites.

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Ellen Brady
Senior Director, Audience Marketing
TechWeb

Ellen Brady is a seasoned marketing professional with over 20 years experience in all facets of multi-channel Audience Marketing. In her most current role as Senior Director, Audience Marketing Director for TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, Ms. Brady combines her deep knowledge of online, email, and direct marketing with CRM and database segmentation skills to lead new customer acquisition and member retention strategy.

Ms. Brady has held a range of strategic audience marketing positions including most recently Director of Emedia, where she utilized her skills to oversee outbound communications and drive participant behavior for TechWeb’s Webcast, Virtual Events, magazine subscriptions and online performance based marketing programs. Ms. Brady’s experience also includes leadership positions driving audience for both Consumer and B2B publications.

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Damian Borichevsky
VP, Professional Services
Datran Media

In his role as Vice President of Professional Services for Datran Media, Damian Borichevsky champions the delivery of services to the company’s world class roster of advertisers, publishers and agency clients. Mr. Borichevsky brings substantial I/T, business consulting, digital marketing and leadership experience to his role directing a large professional service team responsible for unparalleled client success. Prior to joining Datran Media, Mr. Borichevsky spent nearly a decade at Dell. Prior to Dell, he served in roles at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and several small internet start-ups where his responsibilities ranged from development and service team management to strategic client success and growth initiatives.

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Philip Charles-Pierre
Vice President, Digital Media
Guideposts

Philip Charles-Pierre combines 10 years of business strategy and online marketing focused primarily on building and growing new businesses across the online travel and media space. He is currently vice president for digital media at Guideposts Publishing, where he is responsible for the strategy, implementation and overall P&L of Guideposts’ digital initiatives. Previously, Philip worked at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, where he was responsible for its award-winning Loyalty programs. Prior to Starwood, Philip was an executive at Travelocity, where he managed the Travelocity Partner NetworkSM and was responsible for the P&L of the group and Travelocity’s overall white-label/strategic partnerships business. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Masters in Philosophy of Religion from Harvard University.

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David Fales
Managing Director
Ambro.com

David Fales is Managing Director of Ambro.com, a leading media consulting and training resource founded by Dan Ambrose. David has more than ten years’ experience in both B2B and B2C online publishing of media brands in addition to deep experience in print publishing. At iVillage.com, one of the hottest web start-ups ever, David managed the highly successful integrated sponsorship program with Ford Motor Company, a $5 million, 2-year program making heavy use of email publishing.

David’s has hands-on expertise at generating revenue from email publishing in addition to experience with a broad range if online content monetization opportunities, with special attention to best practices for media brands. He brings a wealth of experience from senior positions with Hearst, Ziff David, IDG, iVillage.com, works with one of the leading financial publishing ad networks, and is an experienced presenter in the media field.

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Karthik Krishnan
Director Interactive Media & Sales Management
Reed Business Interactive

Karthik Krishnan is a seasoned Online Media professional with strong experiences in online strategy, sales management, audience & business development, and technology. He is currently the Director – Interactive Media and Sales Management at Reed Business Interactive and is responsible for improving the financial performance and audience engagement of Reed’s 44 core online brands such as Broadcasting&Cable, Multichannel News, and JCK. For the past 2 years, his brands have been growing revenue at ~2.5 times the industry average while page views are up 25+% YOY.

Prior to joining Reed, Karthik was a Principal at Agilone, a marketing analytics firm. He was responsible for building a relationship marketing practice aimed at maximizing profits by identifying opportunities, and implementing best practices across the customer lifecycle: Acquisition, Development, Retention and Service. He was also with Rodale, publisher – healthy active living magazines and books for over 8 years

He serves on two non-profit boards – NY Public Allies and East River Development Alliance. He was actively involved with the Bill Clinton Foundation. Some of the non-profit initiatives he has worked on include – developing Harlem (New York City) into a business and tourist destination, and Doubling agricultural production in India.

Karthik has an MBA from New York University – Stern School of Business. He received the distinction “Stern Scholar” and was inducted to the “Beta Gamma Sigma” honor society. He has a Bachelors in Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology and was conferred the “Student of the Year” and “Best Outgoing Student” awards.

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James Hickey
Creative Director, Digital Media Group
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. (HFM U.S.)

James Hickey serves as Creative Director of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. Digital Group. He is responsible for the editorial and marketing design for 12 websites. Prior to this promotion in September 2008, he was Editorial Director of Women’s Digital, for HFM U.S., where he was responsible for Elle.com, ElleGirl.com, WomansDay.com, PointClickHome.com and Premiere.com. He joined Hachette in February of 2007 as the Creative Director of WomansDay.com. Prior to joining Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., he worked at Forbes.com. Hickey is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Annie Howell
SVP Communications and Public Affairs
Discovery Communications

Annie Howell oversees all communications strategies and media outreach for Planet Green, Discovery Health Channel, Fit TV and two websites (planetgreen.com and treehugger.com). This includes the development of partnership strategies, publicity, multi-faceted communications initiatives and public affairs campaigns for programming and multi-platform assets. Annie was on the team that launched Planet Green.

She was previously Senior Vice President, Communications, in Discovery Communications’ U.S. Networks division, responsible for communications efforts on behalf of the division’s cable networks including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Times Channel, The Science Channel, Fit TV, Military Channel, Discovery Home, and Discovery Kids Channel. Annie managed the U.S. Division talent management unit, the awards unit, communications for the company’s theatrical film unit, Ad Sales, Affiliates Sales & Marketing, the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership and for the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team.

Annie is a 2008 Fellow of the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute. In 2009, CableFAX named her PR Person of the Year and she won a PR Week Award for Best Consumer PR Launch of the Year. She was the recipient of WICT’s 2006 Touchstones of Leadership Communicator Award and was on PR Week Magazine’s list of Who to Watch list for 2008.

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Jeff Lee
Senior Director of Digital Audience
Bonnier Corporation

Jeff Lee is the Senior Director of Digital Audience at Bonnier Corporation, providing leadership in the areas of traffic growth, email marketing, web analytics and online advertising operations. During his tenure with Bonnier, he has established each area of the Digital team as a valuable driver of growth for each Bonnier brand. Prior to his tenure with Bonnier, Jeff established Online Cross Sell and Email Marketing for American Express international, establishing these areas as profitable revenue streams for the company. He holds an MBA from the University of Florida.

Erick Mott
Community Practice Leader
Lyris

Erick Mott brings 25 years of innovation, marketing and communications expertise to his role as community practice leader at Lyris. In previous roles at Habeas, Nokia, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and Philips Electronics, Mott became known as a leader by integrating social media, traditional marketing, and thought leadership to build community, create revenues, and increase market visibility. Having led major business initiatives at leading brands and two of his own startups, Mott is recognized as a customer advocate with diverse expertise. A U.S. patent holder, he also has a BS in Business Administration from Notre Dame de Namur University.

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Jamie Schissler
Strategy Director
Razorfish

Jamie brings over 12 years experience developing integrated communication and data strategies for leading brands such as Visa, T. Rowe Price, 3M, Del Monte, and MGM Mirage. As Strategy Director for Razorfish CRM, Jamie works with agency clients and teams to create, implement, and optimize engaging and profitable brand experiences across social, mobile, web, email, and print channels.

Jamie has held senior roles with leading agencies, marketing service firms, and technology providers. Prior to joining Razorfish, Jamie was Director, Email Marketing for Agency.com where he oversaw email operations, production, and strategy across the agency network, as well as platform management and partner relationships. A frequent writer and speaker on digital marketing, Jamie is a contributor to MediaPost’s Email Insider, and has spoken at events for the DMA, OMMA, MediaPost, MIMA, and AIMS, among others. He holds a BA from Drew University.

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