From Past Time to Prime Time:
Leveraging Social Networks for Commercial Value
Social networks have moved beyond casual communications between friends and family and now provide professionals and enterprises opportunities to realize meaningful economic value. We will explore the evolution of the social net and the emergence of business models using social networks as platforms for generating revenue.
Saturday, October 9, 2010 |
Cost:
$40 on-line registration fee $50 at-the-door. $10 for students with full-time student ID and free for Caltech students (must show ID at door). Caltech students can now register online. On-line Registration closes at 5:00 pm on Thursday, October 7, 2010. There are no refunds for no-shows.
Social networks have moved beyond casual communications between friends and family and now provide professionals and enterprises opportunities to realize meaningful economic value. We will explore the evolution of the social net and the emergence of business models using social networks as platforms for generating revenue.
Keynote Speaker
Mark Suster
Partner
GRP Partners
www.grpvc.com
Mark joined GRP Partners in 2007 after having worked with GRP for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Most recently Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com (NASDAQ: CRM) following its acquisition of Koral,where Mark was Founder and CEO. Prior to Koral, Mark was Founder and CEO of BuildOnline, the largest independent global content collaboration company focused on the engineering and construction sectors, which was acquired by SWORD Group (PARIS: SWP). Earlier in his career, Mark spent nearly ten years working for Accenture in Europe, Japan and the U.S.
Mark received a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He grew up in the US and is also a citizen of the UK.
In the current portfolio, Mark sits on the Boards of Ad.ly, Bedrock, Burstly, GumGum and Ring Revenue and is a Board Observer of Qualys.
Follow Mark on Twitter https://twitter.com/msuster
Read Mark’s Blog Both Sides of the Table about Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice.
Panel Moderator
Kevin D. DeBré
Partner
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP
www.stubbsalderton.com
Kevin is a partner with Stubbs Alderton and Markiles, LLP, a corporate, securities, M&A and intellectual property law firm in the Los Angeles area, where he leads the firm’s intellectual property and technology transactions practice. His focus is advising companies engaged in building businesses based upon technology or intellectual property. As a business lawyer, a registered patent lawyer and a former engineer, Kevin works with clients to transform technology conception to commercialization. His clients include software companies, mobile commerce businesses, semiconductor design firms, e-commerce enterprises, electronics and hardware manufacturers, media companies, content publishers and medical device developers. Kevin’s experience as an Internet lawyer dates back to 1995 when he represented Cisco Systems, Inc. and a year later when he was the principal technology lawyer for Geocities. Kevin has been selected among his peers as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
Kevin is a contributing author of several treatises on intellectual property and licensing. Kevin has been quoted in numerous high-tech industry publications and has appeared on Bloomberg TV. Kevin is the founder and Chair of the Licensing Committee of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Section.
Prior to joining Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP, Kevin was a partner in leading international law firms, including Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, LLP, where he headed the firm’s technology transactions practice in Southern California. After law school, Kevin served as a judicial law clerk for Hon. John G. Davies, United States District Court for the Central District of California. Kevin received his J.D. degree from University of California, Hastings College of the Law and B.S. degree from University of California, Davis.
Panelists
Sean Moriarty
Entrepreneur in Residence
Mayfield Fund
www.mayfield.com
Formerly:
President & Chief Executive Officer, Ticketmaster Entertainment
Sean Moriarty is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Ticketmaster, the world’s largest live entertainment ticketing and marketing company.
Prior to serving as President & CEO, Sean served Ticketmaster in several roles of increasing responsibility, including Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Product & Technology.
Prior to Ticketmaster, Sean was part of the technology team at Citysearch, where his roles included Executive Vice President of Technology and Vice President of Internet Systems. Sean is a former Board member of Points.com, the operator of the world’s leading reward management portal, and iLike, a social music discovery service with over 30 million registered users.
Sean is currently an entrepreneur in residence at Mayfield Fund, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. He serves on the Board of Directors of Freedom Communications, a diversified media company headquartered in Irvine, CA as well as the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, a San Francisco based startup backed by Sequoia Capital.
Jay Samit
CEO
SVnetwork
www.SVnetwork.com
A media innovator, Jay Samit has spent the past 25 years pioneering new forms of film, video, and music production and digital distribution. Reaching over 80 million unique consumers every month, the SVnetwork provides the most effective way for brands to reach, engage, and spread messages through a targeted audience of hyper-connected consumers in social media. In his prior jobs, Samit was responsible for the development of new business models for the global digital distribution of music, video, and mobile. As Executive Vice President of Sony Corporation of America, he built and ran their digital initiatives. As Global President of Digital Distribution & Development for EMI, he broke new ground for the music industry with forays into wireless, ringtones, streaming radio, secure P2P and subscription business models. At Universal Studios, Samit built one of the first on-line million member social networks.
Prior to joining corporate America, Samit founded Jasmine Multimedia Publishing. During his leadership, the company created more than 300 software titles, and developed key advances in music and video technologies for Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and IBM. He and his products received numerous awards, including Best of Show Comdex; Best of RetailVision; Best of E3; Multimedia Producer Top 100; and the Newsweek Editor’s Choice Award. Committed to giving back to the community, Samit was invited by President Clinton to lead the White House’s Initiative for Education & Technology, and spearheaded the effort to create Internet access for America’s schools.
Samit’s other charity work ranges from the first Internet Charity Auction to Tsunami Aid (with NBC) and the Concert for Hurricane Relief (with MTV). Active in the technology developer community, Samit nurtures start-up companies and helps take them public in markets around the globe. Samit is on the board and advisory boards of several companies including Digital Containers Inc. and Linked-In.
Andy Wilson
Managing Director
Momentum Venture Management
www.mvmpartners.com
CEO
Reignmakr Inc.
Andy Wilson has a strong record of accomplishment as a senior executive in early stage companies, and brings particular expertise in product development and operations. In addition to his role at Momentum Venture Management, Andy is driving the foundation of a start-up company (Reignmakr) in the relationship capital niche. Prior to founding Momentum Venture Management, he served as Senior Vice President of Global Product Management & General Manager of New Ventures at Overture Services, a Pasadena-based advertising services and marketing company that was acquired by Yahoo! for $1.7 billion. Previously he was President & COO of RiverOne, a high-tech supply chain ASP, where he raised more than $50 million of VC investment, built the management team and grew the organization to more than 150 employees. He spent three years at Bowne & Company (DESI), where he led the Western U.S. region from start-up to $50 million in sales, directed a team of 600 people, and was promoted to Senior Vice President Strategic Operations and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the entire multi-hundred million-dollar business unit.
While with MVM, Andy spearheaded the raising of Momentum’s bridge funds, and has led various portfolio companies through the business planning and capital raising process.
Andy currently serves on the boards of Digital Performance (Chairman), nQueue Inc, Phoenix Energy, and Cyber-Rain. He is a member of the Executive Committee for the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum, and serves on both the Planning Commission and Design Commission for the City of Pasadena. He holds an engineering degree with honors from Dartmouth College, and received his MBA with a concentration in operations and technology management from Harvard Business School.
Jonathan Strauss
Co-Founder
awe.sm
www.awe.sm
Jonathan Strauss is the co-founder and CEO of awe.sm, a startup focussed on taking the guesswork out of social media marketing with quantitative ROI measurement. awe.sm‘s core product is a powerful campaign tracking platform that enables marketers to measure the value of sharing behavior in social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. awe.sm‘s technology is used by a wide range of customers from publishers like Universal Music Group, Playboy, and Zynga to application developers like Gilt Groupe, Plancast, and Topspin Media.
Prior to awe.sm, Jonathan spent four years at Yahoo! working in corporate strategy, business operations, and product management. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelors degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, and is a member of the Board of Governors of the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future.
Producers
Sean Moriarty, Guest Producer
Entrepreneur in Residence
Mayfield Fund
www.mayfield.com
Formerly:
President & Chief Executive Officer, Ticketmaster Entertainment
Andy Wilson
Managing Director
Momentum Venture Management
www.mvmpartners.com
CEO
Reignmakr Inc.
Kevin D. DeBré
Partner
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP
www.stubbsalderton.com
Date
Saturday morning, October 9, 2010
Registration and Continental Breakfast:
8:00 a.m. Baxter Lecture Hall
Program:
9:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Networking:
11:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
Location
Baxter Lecture Hall
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Directions/Maps: Directions to the Forum
Cost
$40 on-line registration fee. $50 at-the-door. $10 for students with full-time student ID (must show at door).
Registrations are taken on-line up to 5:00 p.m., Thursday October 7, 2010. There are no refunds for no-shows.
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