Speakers in Marketplaces 2010

Rich Abronson co-founded Gumiyo in 2006, an early entrant in the field of mobile classifieds and mobile marketing solutions. With over three years of experience in implementing mobile business solutions for newspapers, marketing agencies, automotive dealers, and local retailers; Mr. Abronson brings practical knowledge surrounding the intersection of the mobile and traditional advertising spaces. As VP of Marketing for Gumiyo, Rich spends his time evangelizing mobile and working with partners to implement, market, and monetize mobile solutions in their respective industries.

Sam founded Loopt to improve the way friends communicate. His primary responsibility within Loopt is driving the product vision, assembling a passionate team to realize that vision and making sure people have fun while they're at it. Sam studied computer science at Stanford University, focusing on security and machine learning. He also helped build an autonomous helicopter navigation system while in school.

A listings management veteran, Jeff Beard is responsible for leading Localeze’s long-term strategic vision while driving growth, new-product and business development. In 2005, Jeff led an initiative focused on building information products targeted at the local search industry. From this initiative, Localeze was created. Localeze has quickly become the the largest business listings identity manager for local search. Prior to Localeze, Jeff served as vice president of corporate development at TARGUSinfo, where he led the company through its acquisition of Amacai, now a wholly-owned subsidiary of TARGUSinfo. Jeff was a key player in Amacai’s 2001 launch and was primarily responsible for the operation and management of all business units. Prio

Luke is the Founder and President of Associated Content. Prior to his career in online media, Luke was a school teacher and administrator. In 2000, Luke joined the executive management team at team at WAND, Inc. WAND is a leading developer of online directory, search and advertising taxonomies and technologies. WAND's ontology-driven search applications power some of the world's largest business-to-business and business-to-consumer online directory and search platforms, many used by Fortune 500 companies. Luke is recognized for his expertise in social media, online advertising models and digital media collection and distribution strategies.

Ethan works on business strategy, sales, and marketing at Redbeacon. Prior to Redbeacon, he was a Product Manager at Google where he was responsible for launching and managing the Google Video product outside the United States prior to the YouTube acquisition. He also was Google's first Product Manager for the fast growing Southeast Asian emerging markets, and a Product Manager on Google Image Search, the top image search product in the world.

Before joining Google, Ethan worked in a number of internet strategy and marketing roles at The Clorox Company, Buy.com, and McKinsey & Company. Ethan graduated with Honors from Harvard Business School and Magna Cum Laude from Duke University, where he earned a BA in Economics and Public Poli

Alec is the CEO “Chief Mobilizer” at MoVoxx. Prior to MoVoxx, Alec founded inFreeDA – mobile advertiser-sponsored directory assistance service that delivered ads with laser-precise geographical, behavioral and category targeting. Backed by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Alec led a mobile expert team that grew industry-first free 411 nationwide mobile subscriber base and revenue streams from partnerships with interactive agencies, pay-per-call platforms, online ad networks and digital brands. inFreeda was acquired by AT&T (NYSE: T) at the end of 2006. Before inFreeDA, Alec worked at JPMorgan Global Investment Banking within the media and telecommunications leveraged finance group in New York and executed debt financings for entities such a

Sean is the Chief Operating Officer for Reply.com, a leading online marketplace for locally-targeted traffic and leads. He leads the sales, service, and business development activities across all vertical markets, including automotive, real estate, home improvement, and insurance. For the past twelve years, Sean has held key executive management positions with a number of leading online marketing companies, including Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Internet Pictures Corporation (iPIX), Vice President of Sales for Homestore (now Move.com), and President of Connecting Neighbors. Sean holds a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, a Masters in economics from Cambridge University, and a B.A. in economics and political science

As Executive Vice President of AOL Ventures, Local & Mapping, Jon Brod is responsible for the company’s global innovation efforts including investing in promising start-ups with exceptional leaders, incubating and supporting employee-originated innovations, and growing recent acquisitions of early-stage companies, as well as our local initiatives including Patch.com. Included in AOL Ventures are acquisitions such as Patch, Bebo, Truveo and Userplane as well as investments such as Kayak and Brightcove. Brod has more than 15 years experience as a senior executive with media and technology companies, both at the start-up and Fortune 500 levels.

As CEO and President of Matchbin, Reed Brown has served as President since November 2004. Reed brings over 25 years of experience leading Engineering and Operations' teams with industry leading technology companies. Prior to joining Matchbin, he was the Vice President of Research and Development at Iomega for 7 years. He spent 15 years at Hewlett Packard in various leadership positions and was the Director of Manufacturing at Quantum Corporation. Reed has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University and a Master's in Business Administration.

Jim has been working to crack the local Internet nut for the last 13 years, leading product strategies and Internet revenue-generating initiatives for Yahoo’s CPL lead generation, Yahoo Search Marketing, BrandsDirect, CarsDirect.com and SBC Interactive Media, publisher of SmartPages.com. Jim authored the geo-targeting strategy for Yahoo resulting in its acquisition of WhereOnEarth and the establishment of the Y-Geo team. He has also co-authored 5 patents on geo-relevancy and lead generation.

Craig Donato is the founder and CEO of Oodle, the fastest growing classifieds service in the US with over 10M monthly visitors. Oodle is reinventing classifieds by offering a trusted, social experience to consumers and a targeted, pay-for-performance business model to local advertisers. Through the Company’s 200 partners, including Facebook and MySpace, the Oodle Network combines broad reach with engaged local usage.

Prior to starting Oodle, Craig was CEO of Grand Central an internet service for business-to-business integration. Before Grand Central, Craig was a senior vice president at Excite@Home where he oversaw both the Excite Search and Community business units and managed Network Programming. Craig holds an M.B.A. from Stanfo

Jennifer is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Center’d, a local search and discovery company that organizes and distributes content based on SentimentAnalysis™. During her tenure at Center’d Jennifer has secured strategic partnerships with leading brands, launched new web, social and mobile products, and grown the company’s network audience to more than 1 million visitors.

Jaan Janes is the CEO of Pulse 360. Janes has more than two decades of business strategy and advertising experience. He joined Pulse 360 in 2007 as Senior Vice President of Business Development with primary responsibility for distribution of the Pulse 360 sponsored links ad network. Prior to Pulse 360, Janes worked at AOL where he was responsible for developing and selling strategic marketing programs for top advertisers, including Verizon Wireless and Coca-Cola Company. Janes also worked on the sales development team at AOL, creating the business strategy for advertising sales in programming areas including news, sports, and weather, with partners such as CNN.com and TIME.com.

Scott Jampol is the Sr. Director of Consumer Marketing for OpenTable, responsible for diner acquisition and engagement. He is responsible for marketing the emerging mobile products for OpenTable, including its successful iPhone application and mobile-optimized web site, m.opentable.com. Prior to OpenTable, Scott was the Director of Marketing for Yahoo! Travel. Before that, he was a senior associate with Prophet Brand Strategy in both San Francisco and New York, advising startups and Fortune 500 companies on their brand-driven business strategies. Scott holds a BS from Bucknell University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Jordan is CEO of Eventful, the leading digital service connecting consumers with entertainment and local events. Over 15 million people use Eventful to discover what’s happening and decide what to do; from movies and concerts to sports and kids events. Before joining Eventful, Jordan served as the COO of Client Shop, Inc., which was ranked as the fastest growing privately-held company in San Diego by San Diego Business Journal.

Previously, Jordan was a general manager within eBay’s North American operations where he built and managed three of eBay’s largest business units - including consumer electronics, computers and business-to-business, successfully growing each business unit to over $1.5 billion in annual gross merchandise vol

Krista Glotzbach is the Vice President of Marketing for Vast.com, a vertical search and advertising company. In charge of market positioning, communications and channel development for Vast, Krista helps the company deliver its innovative pay-for-performance platform to over 20 million unique visitors each month via publisher partners such as Kelley Blue Book, Yahoo Travel, and AOL Autos. Prior to Vast, Krista served as a partner at Alkali, a marketing consulting firm that ushers consumer Internet startups into the proverbial “tornado.” Before Alkali, Krista spent 10 years at Trilogy in roles ranging from VP of marketing communications to GM of the technology practice. Krista graduated from Stanford University.

Mr. Hagopian is responsible for driving LocalAdXchange's daily operations including agency and advertising relationships, new publisher development, as well as general sales, marketing and product development. LocalAdXchange is the leading yield optimization and ad relevance exchange for local directory search across mobile and desktop properties. Craig has more than 20 years of consumer technology sales and marketing in the hardware and service sectors across the personal computer, wireless and broadband Internet industries.