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The Digiday Publishing Summit | March 25-27, 2012 | Montage Deer Valley, Park City, UT

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Speakers Include:

	*Brian Atwood, VP, National Sales, AOL Premium Formats & Pictela* Brian Atwood oversees revenue growth for Premium Format advertising, an extension of the Project Devil initiative, as well as all third-party and publisher relationships for Pictela. In this position, he focuses on delivering value to advertisers and publishers through Pictela's consumer-centric, interactive ad formats and increasing their adoption across AOL, the Advertising.com network and premium publishers. Since joining AOL in 2008, he has also worked in sales positions focusing on Advertising.com network business, as well as leading a regional sales team covering the central U.S. Prior to AOL, Brian held sales roles at Omniture for five years, focusing on strategic accounts.
	*Michael Bayle, SVP and GM, ESPN Mobile* A former Yahoo! and Microsoft executive, Michael Bayle develops and manages all aspects of ESPN's mobile strategy and execution, including content production, programming and publishing on every ESPN Mobile platform. He reports to John Kosner, SVP and GM of ESPN Digital and Print Media. Most recently, Michael was VP of Monetization and Marketing at Amobee, a leading mobile marketing developer, where he led global ad operations, North American business and market development and strategic partnerships. Prior to Amobee, he was Senior Director of Global Mobile Monetization at Yahoo!, where he launched Yahoo's mobile advertising business, while building a global team that created mobile campaigns for Fortune 500 partners in 29 markets. Bayle also held business development positions at Yahoo!, Microsoft and International Data Group (IDG). Michael is also co-founder of Drink Exchange, a monthly global internet networking event.
	*Daniel Bernstein, VP, Head of Business Development, Meebo* Daniel Bernstein is VP, Head of Business Development and Emerging Revenue at Meebo, a consumer Internet company that organizes the web around people, and helps build out their Interest graph for easy, faster access to relevant info on the web. Daniel oversees the company's business development and emerging revenue strategies, and leads the business development, partnership management, performance ad sales, emerging revenue and technical account management teams. He is responsible for developing monetization opportunities outside of brand advertising and for driving Meebo's partnership network beyond its existing 8,000 publishers. He has been integral in the development of Meebo's direct response advertising business, which now includes 25 of the top 100 display advertising buyers, including Levi's, Groupon and Norwegian Cruise Line. Prior to Meebo, Daniel worked in client services at Bite Communications, a global communications consultancy.
	*Deanna Brown, CEO, Federated Media* Deanna Brown is Federated Media's CEO and is responsible for overseeing all strategic business goals and day-to-day operations for the company. Prior to joining Federated Media in 2009, she served as President at Scripps Networks Digital, where she led the charge on bringing Scripps more fully into the digital space. In 1995 she co-founded CondeNet, the digital division of publisher CondeNast. She has also held VP and General Manager titles at Yahoo and AOL, and founded other successful media companies including Powerful Media/Inside.com (acquired by Primedia) and Gaming Industry News (acquired by Ziff Davis). Brown began her career as a founding member of a small L.A. advertising agency.
	*Mike Dodge, President/GM, AtomicOnline* Mike Dodge serves as the chief executive of Evolve Media Corp.'s publishing unit, AtomicOnline, with a portfolio of over 120 owned and operated and affiliated websites. These websites roll-up under four branded demographic hubs: CraveOnline.com, SheKnows.com, GameRevolution.com, and theFashionSpot.com reaching over 40 million men, women and teens each month. Mike oversees a team of 100 employees and 280 contractors and freelancers responsible for editorial, operations, business development, marketing, sale and product development. He was formerly GM for the Home & Real Estate Division of Internet Brands Inc. where he oversaw the division's expansion from three to 12 major web properties and tripled revenue to over $20 million. He also served as CMO for Zensys Inc., a Cisco & Intel-backed wireless technology company, and held management positions with McKinsey & Co. and Proctor & Gamble.
	*Anthony Dunaif, SVP, Syndication and Strategic Partnerships, Healthination* Prior to joining HealthiNation, Tony was Chief Marketing Officer of Inform Technologies, where he led sales and marketing, business development, customer/partner support and management, and public relations functions. He joined Inform from Internet Broadcasting, a leading provider of digital publishing solutions for media publishers and advertisers. As General Manager of its Media Network and SVP of Market Development, Tony was responsible for growing major external relationships as well as developing and executing strategies around the company's mobile initiatives. Tony also worked at online video platform Brightcove and held several senior posts throughout his 12-year tenure at MTV Networks.
	*Raymond Faust, VP, National and Emerging Media Sales, Star Tribune* Raymond Faust is responsible for national and emerging media sales at the Star Tribune, including creating and selling multi-platform ad programs to national advertisers and agencies. He joined the Star Tribune in August 2010. Prior to that, he was Advertising Director, Central U.S. with Media Networks Inc. (MNI), a Time Inc. company that sells customized magazine and digital media on a geo-targeted basis. He spent the past eight years with MNI, most recently running the Midwest and Southeast Regions, and was instrumental in leading the company through digital and print sales integration in 2006. Prior to Media Networks, Raymond worked in Chicago at USA Weekend Magazine, published by Gannett, developing major CPG and retail accounts in the Midwest. Previous to that he was Midwest Manager at Hachette Filipacchi for the Special Interest Publications group at Women's Day Magazine.
	*Alex Gardner, VP Network Operations, Casale Media* As VP Network Operations, Alex is responsible for helping a roster of top online publishers increase traffic and maximize earnings using online display. His leadership has played a key role in developing and establishing Casale Media's network, MediaNet, as one of the largest online advertising networks in North America. Prior to joining Casale Media, Alex established himself in the heart of Toronto's financial sector, starting his career at AIM Trimark Investment and then moving on to the TSX Group.
	*Eric Gronemeyer,VP, Western Region Manager, Ad Sales, The Weather Channel Cos.* Eric Gronemeyer is vice president and western region manager for The Weather Channel Cos. in Los Angeles. In this position, he oversees the West Coast sales team and helps match TWCC's unique audience mindset with brand advertisers across television, online, mobile and tablet media.Since joining The Weather Channel in 1999, he has worked with a broad range of major clients and cross-platform deals. Prior to joining The Weather Channel, Eric served as an account executive at HRP and at KSTW-TV (CBS) in Seattle. He also worked in sales at KDVR-TV (FOX) in Denver.
	*Greg Koerner, Chief Marketing Officer, MediaBank* With over two decades of experience in deepening ties between publishers, agencies and advertisers, Greg's role is to foster productive relationships between MediaBank and its client and partner networks across the media management community. Prior to joining MediaBank in 2008, Greg was SVP Regional Sales at Yahoo!, where he ran advertising sales to top agencies and brands throughout the U.S. He came to Yahoo! in 2002 from his role as VP, National Ad Sales at DoubleClick. As one of DoubleClick's first 50 employees, he was pivotal in transforming the fledgling company into the largest ad network in the world. Greg sits on the board of the Ronald McDonald Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana, an organization offering support and care to families impacted by a child's long-term illness.
	*Moritz Loew, Chief Agency Officer, GM of Sales, MSNBC Digital* Moritz Loew is the Chief Agency Officer and General Manager of Sales for MSNBC Digital Networks. He is responsible for generating revenue throughout the MSNBC Digital Network, which is comprised of MSNBC Digital Network owned and operated properties, including MSNBC.com,Today.com, NightlyNews.com, BreakingNews.com, Everyblock.com, NewsVine.com and various premium partner platforms. Moritz is actively involved with helping the next generation of digital leaders through formal and informal mentoring programs, and when he has a spare moment, he is working to bring political advertising into the digital age. Prior to joining MSNBC. com is 2005, Moritz worked at MSN / Microsoft out of Redmond, Wash. While at MSN, he was responsible for building out the first sales model and bringing in clients for keyword-targeted ads on MSN Search in 1999 as the regional lead for the MSN SMB Sales Team. He then went on to become an advertising product planner for MSN Communications, building out the advertising strategy for Hotmail and MSN Messenger. In 2002, he joined MSN's strategic advertising packaging team S.T.A.R.T. as a product manager focusing on the technology, telecommunications, consumer package goods and online education verticals.
	*John LoGioco, SVP, Sales & Business Development for Outbrain* John LoGioco is SVP, Sales & Business Development for Outbrain in New York. John is responsible for creating strategic partnerships for the company across all channels. Prior to joining Outbrain, John held sales and management positions with Time Inc. and Reuters in New York, Los Angeles and South Florida. Working with top brands and advertising agencies, John focused on delivering digital solutions both in the consumer and enterprise sectors. Before crossing over to the sales side, John started his career in the media department of ad agency, Ammirati & Puris in New York.
	*Tony Mamone, CEO, Zimbio* Tony Mamone is a co-founder and serves as CEO for Zimbio. Prior to starting Zimbio, he was SVP of U.S. Sales and Operations for LookSmart, a public company focused on Internet search and advertising, where he managed a team of over 100 employees responsible for over $120 million in annual revenue. In his five years at LookSmart, he also served as VP of products and general manager of small business sales. In these roles, he managed worldwide sales, marketing, product development, support, operations and business development activities. Prior to joining LookSmart, Tony worked for Mercer Management Consulting advising media and communications clients.
	*David Minkin, Publisher, Breaking Media* David Minkin is co-founder and publisher of Breaking Media, a network of targeted business-to-business websites in the fashion, law and finance industries (Fashionista.com, AboveTheLaw.com and Dealbreaker.com, respectively). Over the course of his previous work at Forbes.com, The Economist Group (CFO.com) and Institutional Investor, he gained extensive experience in both online sales and operations.
	*Erin Pettigrew, Director of Marketing, Gawker Media* Erin Pettigrew is Director of Marketing for Gawker Media, where she delivers innovative advertising products to an audience of over 20 million readers each month. Founded in 2002, Gawker Media is comprised of the eponymous Gawker, gadget sensation Gizmodo, and other properties that are frequently name-checked by major media ranging from The New York Times to Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." Since joining Gawker Media in 2005, Erin has aided in the formation and growth of the company's sales and marketing effort from two to 22 members. She currently directs both the sales marketing and advertising operations teams, two revenue-driving groups that rarely report to a single leader. In her position, Erin concepts, executes and scales ad strategies for blue-chip clients whose needs range from mass market reach to social media integration.
	*Zack Rogers, SVP, Revenue Strategy & Operations, CBS Interactive* Zack Rogers is responsible for media sales strategy and execution across CBS Interactive's network of premium brands and its monthly audience of over 240 million unique users. Zack oversees Ad Operations, Sales Operations, Client Services and Revenue Strategy functions across all digital platforms for CBS, including a focus on emerging marketplaces and ad innovation. As an active member of many industry taskforces, Zack has played a key role in several successful initiatives over the past 12 years to make digital marketing more effective. He served as Co-chair of the IAB and AAAA's "Reinvention Taskforce," and he is a member of the IAB's Ad Ops Council Advisory Board. He has also helped to deliver industry standards in areas ranging from Terms & Conditions to Impression Counting, Impression Exchange, eBusiness and Verification.
	*Paul Rossi, Managing Director & EVP Americas, The Economist* Since 2008, Paul Rossi has been Managing Director and Executive Vice President of The Economist Group for the Americas. He is also responsible for Economist Education, a series of online education courses geared toward global executives; the Ideas People Channel, an online advertising network based on The Economist audience; and Economist Online Fairs, an online fairs business for education, recruitment and business services. Rossi joined The Economist in 1987, managing advertising sales for the Middle East and Africa. In 1990, he opened The Economist's office in Singapore, where he served as Advertising Director in Asia. He became Advertising Director in North America in 1996. In 2000, Paul became Commercial Director of The Economist online, and Publisher of the site in 2003. In January 2005, he was named Publisher of The Economist in North America, responsible for all commercial aspects of The Economist. In 2007, BtoB Media Business named Paul one of its top publishing innovators.
	*Bill Rowley, SVP of Business Development and Publishing, Martini Media* Bill Rowley comes to Martini Media with over 10 years of experience in the digital media space and a law degree from Georgetown. Previously, he served as VP of Business Development at The Huffington Post, as well as Senior Director of Business Development at Yahoo!
	*Todd Sawicki, Chief Revenue Officer, Cheezburger Network* Todd is currently the Chief Revenue Officer for the Cheezburger Network, the independent network of online humor sites including ICanHasCheezburger.com and FAILBlog.org. The Cheezburger Network makes more then 12 million people a month laugh across more then a quarter of a billion page views. Previously, Todd was the VP Marketing/Business Dev at Lookery, where he lead the growth of its ad network to 4 billion impressions per month, leveraging 175 million user targeting profiles for Lookery's next generation social ad and data targeting platform. Todd has also working at online commerce, data, video and gaming startups in his career.
	*Alex Schleifer, GM, Say Media Lab* Prior to joining SAY's Media Lab, Alex co-founded Sideshow together with Adrian Cleave and William Schleifer. Sideshow, a multi-disciplinary digital agency, was acquired by SAY Media in 2011. Also also co-founded UX Magazine, the Webby-nominated digital publication covering user experience and design. At Sideshow, Alex held the positions of lead creative director and CEO. He has over 15 years of experience in brand, product and UX/UI design.
	*Will Schmahl, Director of West Coast Sales, ADTECh* Will Schmahl oversees the strategic sales and management of the West Coast team of ADTECH, a division of AOL Advertising.com Group that provides ad serving and ad management solutions for agencies and publishers to clients across five continents. Will joined ADTECH in 2008, and through the course of his tenure, has been responsible for sales development, revenue management and the overall market share growth. Additionally, he has focused on reseller partnerships and sales in emerging markets in the Asia-Pacific market.
	*Vivek Shah, CEO, Ziff Davis Inc.* Vivek Shah is CEO of Ziff Davis Inc., a leading digital media company in the technology market. Ziff Davis sites, include PCMag.com, ExtremeTech.com and Geek.com. Ziff Davis also operates BuyerBase, the first and only trading desk focused on the tech vertical, and LogicBuy.com. Ziff Davis' B2B group is a leading provider of online research to enterprise buyers and high-quality leads to IT vendors and operates Toolbox.com. Shah was formerly Group President, Digital for Time Inc'.s news, business and sports properties. Previously, he served as President of the Fortune/Money Group. Prior to that, Shah served as President of Digital Publishing of the group, where he oversaw the launch of CNNMoney.com. Shah has been named Online Publisher of the Year and to the Digital Hall of Fame by MIN and Innovator of the Year by BtoB's Media Business. Shah was also named to Folio magazine's Thirty under 30 list and Crain's Forty under 40 list. Shah sits on the board of directors of TheStreet, Inc., Lot18 and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), as well as on the advisory boards of AdSafe Media and Outbrain.
	*John Shankman, Publisher, The Awl* John Shankman is the Publisher of The Awl. Previous stints include Account Director at The Huffington Post, Regional Sales Manager at Federated Media and Account Executive at InfoUSA.
	*Jim Spanfeller, President and CEO, The Spanfeller Media Group* Jim Spanfeller is Founder, President and CEO of The Spanfeller Media Group (SMG), a venture-backed web-based content company. SMG's first website, TheDailyMeal.com, covers all things food. Launched in January 2011, it has already attracted over 1.5 million monthly unique visitors. Prior to SMG, Jim served as the President and CEO of Forbes.com. In this position, he oversaw Forbes Digital, an amalgam of Forbes.com, ForbesTraveler.com, Investopedia.com, RealClearPolitics.com, RealClearMarkets.com, RealClearSports.com, and the Forbes.com Business and Finance Blog Network, which together reached 42 million unique monthly visitors. He was also a member of the Office of the Chairman, along with Steve Forbes and Timothy Forbes. Jim has received numerous industry accolades. Most recently, he accepted the first-ever Founders Award from the IAB for lifetime achievement. Jim is currently Secretary of the Online Publisher's Association (OPA) and is a Chairman Emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He also sits on the boards of Ziff Davis Enterprise Group, MediaSmith LLC and The We Are Family Foundation. In addition to these full board positions Spanfeller serves on the advisory boards of several aspiring web start-ups such as We7, WebMynd, TrustMetrics and Fattail.
	*Eoin Townsend, SVP of Partnerships and Business Development, DoubleVerify* C. Eoin Townsend leads DoubleVerify's partnership and collaboration with ad networks and exchanges. He was previously a senior product, services and business operations executive in the online media industry. Eoin previously led DoubleClick's international business expansion and product development, and has lived in London, Hong Kong and Japan as he supported its global growth. He was also a VP and GM at ChannelAdvisor, the leading software provider that helps retailers world-wide sell more online through search, comparison shopping, marketplace development and RichMedia. Most recently, Eoin was an active consultant, investor and co-founder of MainStreetSocial, a leading brand safe network focused on local government and community publishing and monetization.

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