Speaker Biographies

Frank Baillargeon
Maria Bailey, Author and CEO, BSM Media
Pierre Barbeau, CEO, Moblico
Alan Bullock, Associate Director, InfoTrends
Robert Carter, Director of Product Management, Kodak
Andrew Erlichson, CEO, Phanfare
Art Garcia, Senior Mobile, HP
Kevin Gilbert, CEO, Blue Pixel
Jerry Grossman, Editor-In-Chief, Photo Industry
Matthew Growney, Founder & CEO, Isabella Products, Inc
Kyle Hall, CEO, PNI Media
David Haueter, Associate Director, InfoTrends
Jeff Hayes, President, InfoTrends
Rob Hruska, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Newbay
James Joaquin, President & CEO, Xmarks
Yuval Koren, Co-Founder & CPO, Eye-Fi
John Lacagnina, CEO & President, ColorCentric
Rowan Lawson, Director of Worldwide Marketing, Kodak
Ed Lee, Group Director, InfoTrends
Bing Liem, VP, Sales, Fujifilm
Chris MacAskill, CEO & President, SmugMug
Kalle Marsal, Director of Product Management, HP
Kim Miller, VP of Marketing for Retail Publishing Solutions, HP
Gene Ornstead, Director, DTV and Business Development
Gary Pageau, Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives, PMA
Rick Patch, CEO & President, LifePics
Peter Pezaris, CEO, Multiply
Jan Piros, Product Manager, Corel
Anderson Schoenrock, CEO, Scandigital
Rob Shadowens, Senior Buyer & Photo Communications
Kirk Sidley, President, N&S Photo
Rafael Soltero, General Manager, Marketing Support Division, Noritsu Koki
Mike Sonders, Product Management, MotionDSP
Serge Timacheff, Fencing Photos, US Fencing
Dr. Sean Varah, President & CEO, MotionDSP
Erik Weitzman, Senior Director of Products and Services Strategy, Shutterfly
JP Wollersheim, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Laura Yecies, CEO, Sharpcast



 

Maria Bailey,
Author and Radio and TV Personality, BSM Media
Maria Bailey brings an unique voice to today’s moms.
She is an award-winning author, radio talk show host, nationally known speaker and the foremost authority on marketing to moms. Each month she speaks to over 11 million moms on TV, radio, print and online. She is the host of The Balancing Act on Lifetime TV and the WE-Women’s Entertainment Network for Women. On radio, Maria is host of Mom Talk Radio the first nationally syndicated radio show for moms and Co-host of Good Day with Doug Stephan, the #7 ranked morning talk show in America. Online Maria is the Founder of BlueSuitMom.com, the award-winning Website for executive working mothers and Co-Founder of Newbaby.com, the largest resource of online video for moms. Her Mom Talk Moments are carried on Nestle’s Verybestbaby.com and she serves as the Work/Life BalanceExpert on Johnson and Johnson’s Baby.com. Maria’s articles can be found in Orange County Family, Hybrid Mom among other magazines.
Professionally, Maria is CEO of BSM Media, a full service marketing and media firm that specializes in marketing to mothers. The client list includes Precious Moments, Hewlett-Packard, Disney, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros., Tahitian Noni International and Chrysler. She has been an invited speaker to nearly half of the top 100 consumer brands. Her book, “Marketing to Moms: Getting Your Share of the Trillion Dollar Market” (Prima) was the first to examine the buying power of mothers and the most effective marketing initiatives to tap the $2.1 trillion market. In “Trillion Dollar Moms: Marketing to a New Generation of Mothers” (Dearborn) Maria focuses on the emergence of Gen X and Gen Y mothers and compares them to the Boomer mom segment. Her upcoming book, “Mom 2.0” will examine reaching moms with new technologies, such as blogs, podcast and social networking.
 

Pierre Barbeau
Chief Executive Officer, Moblico
Mr. Barbeau has become a recognized thought leader for the mobile industry. His roadmap to this intellectual intersection is marked by his vision in pioneering integrated direct marketing services, driving the first camera phone to market in the US, contributing to associations such as PMA and I3A in numerous leadership roles, serving on advisory boards for industry intellectual partners and technology contributers, such as several of the industry’s most innovative companies. Over the past 14 years, he has served as General Manager for Sprint Picture Mail and as Vice President of Sales and Development at STI. As an industry leader and a co-founder of Moblico, he is frequently asked to speak at industry events and is often featured in the national media and publications. This juxtaposition of expertise, accomplishments and experiences have culminated in the establishment of Moblico.
 

Alan Bullock
Associate Director, InfoTrends Inc.
As Associate Director of the Internet Imaging Trends service, Alan Bullock focuses on the online photo services market, as well as wireless imaging and the camera phone market, in addition to other technologies combining images and the Internet or intranets. He produces market forecasts, conducts end-user studies, and identifies industry trends. Alan joins InfoTrends after nearly twenty-five years with Eastman Kodak Company and its photofinishing subsidiary, Qualex Inc. In his last position, as Minilab Operations Manager for Kodak's Americas Region, he worked closely with equipment manufacturers such as Noritsu and KIS/Photo-Me and national and regional retailers such as Rite Aid, CVS, Albertsons, Best Buy and Wegmans to implement digital and traditional photo printing and related services. He has been involved in the sales and marketing of digital cameras and inkjet, laser, and thermal dye printers.

Robert Carter
Senior Director of Product Management, KODAK Gallery
As Senior Director of Product Management for KODAK Gallery, Robert is responsible for developing the company’s roadmap and overseeing delivery of new products and services.  Carter and his team also focus on leveraging new technologies to broaden Gallery’s reach and connectivity to social networking sites, community channels and mobile platforms.  He also manages the development of commerce APIs that are used by partner sites offering Gallery products to their users.
Prior to his arrival at KODAK Gallery, Robert held various positions in Product Development and Management at companies such as Salesforce.com, Gap Inc., Amazon.com and Microsoft among others.
Robert holds a Master of Science in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Andrew Erlichson
CEO, member of the Board, Phanfare
Prior to Phanfare, Andrew Erlichson was CEO & co-founder of Flashbase, which was acquired by DoubleClick in 2000. At DoubleClick, he was Vice President of Technology for the Research and Development Group. He has worked at Mips Computer Systems, Silicon Graphics and BlackRock Financial Management. Andrew Erlichson received his AB from Dartmouth College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Art Garcia
Senior Mobile Strategist & Portfolio lead, HP
Art Garcia has an extensive and broad-based mobile & wireless background. His current role is within HP’s Imaging & Printing Group as the senior mobile marketing strategist & portfolio lead. This role includes leadership and delivery of the pan-business unit mobile solution strategy, mobile product portfolio management, and program management.
Art’s mobile applications have generated significant user downloads and have been recognized as an “Innovative Digital Product” by DIMA at PMA, spring 2009. The 2009 HP Circle Awards have recognized his mobile applications as “Best in Show” and best in the category of “Best User Interface Experience.”
Art has spoken at multiple industry conferences including Future Image’s “6Sight, the Future of Digital Imaging”, UCLA’s “Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortia”.
His past roles have included future product strategy development, America’s region business development for handheld computing devices and enterprise servers, printer product management, mobile device channel development, WW marketing communications for B2B/B2C eCommerce solutions, the management of strategic alliances.

Kevin Gilbert
CEO, Blue Pixel
Kevin T Gilbert is an award-winning photojournalist, teacher, entrepreneur, and digital photography evangelist based in Annapolis, Maryland.
For over 25 years, Kevin has been shooting news and features of the world, from the White House to halls of Capitol Hill, Super Bowls to Superpower Summits, from the mud of the Kentucky horse tracks to the back lot sets of TV’s biggest reality shows.
Kevin has been elected 6 times as President of the White House News Photographers Association and won over 40 awards in the annual Eyes of History photo contests. During his time on the streets of DC, he has photographed four sitting Presidents, as well as two fictional Presidents during a stint shooting on The West Wing television show for NBC.
In 1997, Kevin hooked up with reality television super producer Mark Burnett, and has shot over 20 television productions including The Apprentice, Eco-Challenge, The Contender, Rock Star INXS, and others. He complimented his reality television work, becoming the first contract still photographer Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and TLC.
Kevin has shot over one million digital files since his early days in digital on the Presidential campaign in 1996. He has shot in 55 countries and shot and tested over 100 digital cameras.
A leading voice for the power and emotion of photography, Kevin is the CEO and founder, of Blue Pixel, one of the country’s digital creative groups, and consults for the biggest names in retail, computers, software and camera manufacturing.
Whether he is with The Donald, The President, The cranky reality TV star, or just The kid selling shoe shines on the streets of Hanoi, Kevin can always be found having fun with cameras, helping others to achieve success in photography, chasing the light, and enjoying the moment, one frame at a time.
 

Jerry Grossman
Editor-in-Chief, Photo Industry
Jerry Grossman has been in the marketing/advertising arena for over 25 years, and involved in the imaging industry since 1988.
He began in the advertising business, working at DMB&B, Ammirati & Puris and Scali, McCabe Sloves, on a variety of packaged goods and consumer electronics accounts, including the Nikon account. He joined Nikon as director of advertising in 1993 and held successive marketing positions at Nikon, including Vice President of Internet Development, where he launched Nikon’s original websites, Nikonusa.com and NikonNet, among the first photo sharing sites on the web. Following this, he was named Vice President of Marketing for all consumer products, where he was responsible for bringing Nikon from the analog to the digital world.
An avid photo enthusiast, Jerry acquired Photo Industry Reporter with Alan Levine in April 2005, with the goal of creating an indispensable publication for the photo industry. Currently, Photo Industry Reporter is the leading trade publication in the imaging industry. The companion website, photoreporter.com, was launched in October 2005.
Jerry also created Demystifying Digital magazine, a quarterly insert in USA Today dedicated to making sense of today’s technology, as well as demystifyingdigital.com, a consumer targeted website that offers reviews and helpful hints to “all things digital.” The site was launched in 2007, and has become a premiere destination in the CE space.
Jerry serves as editor in chief for Photo Industry Reporter and photoreporter.com and is editorial director of Demystifying Digital magazine and demystifyingdigital.com
In January 2009, Jerry was elected President of the PhotoImaging Manufacturer’s and Distributor’s Association (PMDA), and has since spearheaded the charge to re-invent this 70 year-old association. In February, the PMDA launched the PMDA/Soldier’s Angel’s Portraits of Love Project, with the goal of sending 10,000 portraits of US Soldier’s families to deployed soldiers during the 2009 Holiday Season.

Matthew Growney
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Isabella Products, Inc.
Matthew is Founder & CEO of Isabella Products, a revolutionary new company focused on delivering mobile Internet devices and services. Matthew has become a successful entrepreneur and investor for his understanding of the consumer marketplace. In October 2007, he launched Rudyard Partners, a venture capital firm, to create and deliver new consumer products and businesses to the global marketplace. He is focused on the monetization of old and new media and its interface with various combinations of bits and atoms. Prior to creating Rudyard, Matthew was Co-Founder & Managing Director of Motorola Ventures (MV), the VC arm of Motorola.

Kyle Hall
Chief Executive Officer, Director, PNI Media
Kyle Hall is the CEO of PNI, the leading innovator of Online Digital Media solutions for retailers such as Costco, Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart CA and CVS/pharmacy.
Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Mr. Hall had a natural talent for sports. His pursuit of a sports career led him to The University of Western Ontario whereby he studied Science while also starring in Football and Track. Upon receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology, Mr. Hall was drafted to play professional football in the Canadian Football League. He played for six years with the Ottawa Rough Riders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Mr. Hall “retired” from football in 1993 to pursue a career in the high tech industry. Over the next few years Mr. Hall led the sales and marketing for innovative imaging companies including Telepix Imaging, MGI Software and Corel Corporation.
In September 2000, Mr. Hall was given an opportunity to join a small, dynamic technology company, PNI. Since joining the company, Mr. Hall has been responsible for the foresight and vision, as well as the sales and marketing of the online image printing and messaging services which have been central to the success of PNI.
On October 1, 2008, Mr. Hall assumed the role of CEO of PNI. In this role he actively leads all key management and strategic decisions at PNI and plays an important role in the development of new products and services. A significant portion of his time is devoted to meeting with customers and staying in contact with clients and investors around the world.
Mr. Hall joined PNI's Board of Directors in March 2009.
Mr. Hall’s vision and business development acumen has positioned PNI as the leader in providing retailers with online image printing, kiosk and messaging services.


David Haueter
Associate Director, InfoTrends
David Haueter is Associate Director of InfoTrends’ Photo Printing Trends and Photo Merchandise Trends services. His responsibilities include product coverage, trend analysis, primary market research, and gathering forecast data for the photo print and photo merchandise markets. Prior to joining InfoTrends, Mr. Haueter acted as Principal Analyst for the Digital Documents & Imaging group at Gartner. In this role, he focused on digital camera, photo printing, inkjet printer, and multifunction product markets. Mr. Haueter has also held several marketing positions with Sharp Electronics Corporation where he worked for six years. Mr. Haueter began his career at Xerox Business Services where he worked in various positions, including Account Executive and Site Manager. Mr. Haueter received a B.A. in English from Nyack College and also an MBA in Marketing from Pace University. In his spare time, Mr. Haueter is an avid photographer and has had his photos published in several automotive publications.

Jeff Hayes
President, InfoTrends Inc
Jeff Hayes has conducted numerous strategic market and product planning assignments for leading firms in the consumer imaging, office equipment, and production printing industries. Prior to joining InfoTrends, Hayes was the Director of Electronic Imaging Consulting at BIS Strategic Decisions. With experience in defining new business opportunities and applications for consumer electronics, document solutions, and related services, Hayes has provided research and analysis for Adobe Systems, Canon, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett Packard, IBM, International Paper, Lexmark, Ricoh, Sony, Toshiba, Xerox and other industry leaders. Hayes has extensive experience conducting primary research on customer requirements, determining the market potential for new printing and imaging products, and managing large, research-intensive projects. Mr. Hayes graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts.

Rob Hruska
Senior Product Manager, NewBay Software
Rob Hruska is the Sr. Product Marketing Manager at NewBay Software - the leader in digital lifestyle solutions for operators - and is responsible for product positioning, global product marketing and communications. Rob develops partnerships with wireless and converged network operators, as well as social media companies, to develop world-class cloud-centered software products and services. He has been with NewBay since May, 2008. Prior to joining NewBay, Rob spent 8 years as a product manager at Rhapsody and RealNetworks building cutting-edge mobile media applications and services in the Seattle area. Rob studied Industrial Design at Western Washington University.

James Joaquin
President & CEO, Xmarks Inc.
Chairman, Pixelpipe Inc.
Director, Ritz Interactive, Inc.
Former CEO, Ofoto A Kodak Company
James Joaquin is a seasoned entrepreneur with 25 years of experience building and growing consumer technology companies. As a Macintosh programmer in the 1980’s, James co-founded Clearview Software while still a computer science student at Brown University. The applications company was acquired by Apple’s Claris division and James later spent six years with Apple in engineering, product marketing, and business development management roles.
James also co-founded When.com, an Internet calendar and events service that was acquired by America Online, and was a founding investor, President and CEO of Ofoto, the leading online photo sharing and printing service. James led the Ofoto team from the company’s early beginnings through the successful sale to the Eastman Kodak Company. James then ran Ofoto as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodak, expanding the service beyond the United States into Europe, China, and Japan.
More recently James served as a Venture Partner at Bridgescale, a growth equity investment firm. Currently James is the President & CEO of Xmarks, a web guide that helps consumers discover the best sites on the Internet. James also serves on the board of Ritz Interactive and is the Chairman of Pixelpipe, a social web gateway enabling consumers to effortlessly share media across a multitude of web social networks, photo and video services.

Yuval Koren
Chief Product Officer (Founder), Eye-Fi
Yuval brings more than a decade of system design and leadership experience to his current role, having delivered successful products into the high-performance computing and carrier-class networking markets. Prior to co-founding Eye-Fi, he was a technical leader within the carrier-class routing group at Cisco Systems. Yuval joined Cisco as part of its acquisition of Growth Networks, where his focus was on the line card interface for Growth’s terabit scale, multiservice switch fabric.
Previously, Yuval was involved in the development of two generations of scaleable server systems at Silicon Graphics. He was the lead verification engineer for the Origin routing fabric and the SPIDER routing ASIC upon which it was based.
Yuval received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master’s in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a Stanford Graduate Fellow. He holds several patents in computer system architecture.
 

John M. Lacagnina
Founder, President & CEO, ColorCentric Corp.
Mr. Lacagnina is founder and President & CEO of ColorCentric Corp.
ColorCentric is a leading provider of a digital printing operating system (DPOS) and digital production system (DPS) that enables its’ customers to deliver over 200 different printed products from their unique content in a quantity of one under their brand.
The ColorCentric software/hardware platform allows their customers to leverage their own brand, customer base and supply chain to provide incremental revenue at high margins with virtually no investment.
The mission of ColorCentric is to be the back-end provider for any printed product such that their customer can both focus on their strengths while leveraging their brand to provide additional products through their supply chain.
Before ColorCentric, Mr. Lacagnina co-founded and was President and CEO of Electronic Demand Publishing, Inc. (EDP) in 1992. Mr. Lacagnina led its’ growth to a multi-national document management company with 5 manufacturing facilities in the USA and 1 in Europe. Kinko’s acquired Electronic Demand Publishing in March 1997 and changed its name to Corporate Document Solutions, a division of Kinko's.
Prior to founding EDP, Mr. Lacagnina founded Entire, Inc. Entire developed the “worlds first” Postscript RIP and still provides print server solutions today. Mr. Lacagnina also founded Quality Measurements Systems and Excel Information Systems. Quality Measurements Systems was also awarded with the “worlds’ first” for the design and development of the worlds’ first portable digital micrometer in 1976. He has over 34 years experience in the computer industry and 22 years in the digital printing business. He holds patents in color xerography, digital measurement systems and digital laser measuring devices.
Mr. Lacagnina graduated with a BS degree Electrical Engineering, Cum laude, from Rochester Institute of Technology, where he served on the Board of Trustees from 1986 -1995, and was president of the 85,000 member National Alumni Association. Mr. Lacagnina currently serves on the boards of other high-technology companies and has presented at many international conferences on document management and demand printing technologies. In 2001, Mr. Lacagnina was selected as one of twenty “Innovators” of Upstate New York to be part of the “Upstate Alliance for Innovation”.


Rowan Lawson
Director Worldwide Marketing, Retail Systems Solutions, Consumer Digital Group Eastman Kodak Company
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Rowan Lawson studied Industrial Engineering with a focus on Physics, Industrial Chemistry and Computing, and in 1988 joined Kodak Australia Pty. Ltd. Rowan joined Kodak’s Digital & Applied Imaging division in 1996 and established the consumer CD-Recordable media and hardware business for the Greater Asia region, achieving number one market share across the region. In 1999 Rowan became the Asia Pacific Regional General Business Manager, and in 2000, he became Worldwide Marketing Manager, CD-Recordable products. In 2002 he became the Director of Worldwide Product Marketing for Kodak’s digital businesses. In 2004 he was the General Manager for Home Printing Systems and in 2006 he became the Director of Worldwide Marketing for the Kodak’s Retail Systems Solutions group, responsible for Kodak’s Picture Kiosk. In 2008 he launched Kodak’s Adaptive Picture Exchange dry lab system, to rave reviews.

Ed Lee
Group Director, InfoTrends
Ed Lee is the Group Director of InfoTrends' Worldwide Consumer Imaging Services. In this role, he oversees the company's coverage of all activities in areas related to consumer imaging and digital photography, including digital cameras, camera phones, photo software, photo printing, and online photo services. Each service produces annual forecasts and industry trends analysis reports and conducts numerous primary end-user research studies throughout the year. Mr. Lee has extensive imaging industry experience, particularly in the areas of digital photography and electronic printing, which he acquired through tenures with Lyra Research, Xerox Corporation, and Eastman Kodak Company.

Bing Liem
Vice President, Sales, Imaging Division, Fujifilm U.S.A., Inc.
Bing Liem is Vice President, Sales, for the Imaging Division of Fujifilm U.S.A., Inc., the photographic imaging systems and services operation of Fujifilm in the U.S. Liem oversees all Retail Imaging Solutions and Professional and Special Markets sales activities.
Since joining Fujifilm in 2006, Liem has played an integral role in cultivating relationships with some of the nation’s most influential imaging professionals, securing Fujifilm’s position as a market leader in the imaging space.
Prior to joining Fujifilm, Liem worked for AgfaPhoto North America, where he served as President and CEO from 2001 in addition to holding various other senior level positions in sales, marketing, and operations during his 22 year career with Agfa.
Liem holds a BA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and lives with his wife and two daughters in Connecticut
 

Kalle Marsal
Director of Product Management, Retail Publishing Solutions, Inkjet and Web Solutions Business, Hewlett-Packard Company
Kalle Marsal is the director of product management for the Retail Publishing Solutions business within HP’s Inkjet and Web Solutions organization. HP Retail Publishing Solutions enable retailers to transform their traditional in-store photo labs into profitable publishing centers by leveraging a broad portfolio of hardware, software, services and product-merchandising assets.
Marsal joined HP in 2002 and has 12 years of marketing, technology entrepreneurship, venture capital and general management experience in digital imaging, telecommunications and other high-technology industries. Marsal is credited with leading the marketing and strategy efforts for HP’s entry into the retail publishing business in 2006, and prior to his current role, he drove strategy and business development for HP’s new business ventures organization, focusing on digital photography, software and services.
Before joining HP, Marsal worked for several years as a general manager and venture capital executive, focusing on wireless technology and high-tech ventures. His past experience also includes serving as a senior consultant for Bain & Company, a major strategy consulting firm, leading consulting teams on projects for many Fortune 500 and early-stage companies in telecommunications and high-tech industries. Additionally, Marsal held several positions in product management, sales and marketing within the bio-tech and medical technology industries.
Marsal has a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was honored as an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree of science in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Kimberly Miller
Vice President, Marketing & Merchandising, Retail Publishing Solutions, HP
Kim Miller is the Vice President, Marketing & Merchandising for HP’s Retail Publishing Solutions business within HP’s Inkjet and Web Solutions organization. HP Retail Publishing Solutions enable retailers to transform their traditional in-store photo labs into profitable publishing centers leveraging a broad portfolio of hardware, software, services and product-merchandising assets.
Miller joined HP in 2006 and prior to her current role, she served as the vice president of marketing for HP’s US direct-to-consumer business. Before joining HP Miller served a variety of roles at Macy’s for 12 years, including the Vice President of Internet Strategy for Macys.com where she was responsible for ongoing site development, marketing and partnership strategies for the site. Miller is also credited with being one of the founding partners of macys.com for Federated Department stores. Prior to Macy’s she help key merchandising positions at Vogue Magazine and Marshall Field’s.
Miller earned her BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania.


Gene Ornstead
Director, DTV and Business Development, ViewSonic Corporation
Gene Ornstead has over 25 years of hi-tech marketing and product management experience and is currently responsible for the development and marketing efforts for Digital Signage solutions and television product lines at ViewSonic. Ornstead oversees the product definition, growth and sales of the company’s LCD TV, LCD video displays and Digital Signage products and solutions.
Prior to joining ViewSonic in 1999, Ornstead was the vice president of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development for CalComp, a Lockheed Martin Company responsible for long and short term product development strategies. In this role, he directed business development strategies, market opportunities, product descriptions and technology requirements in support of the company’s growth plans.
While at Conrac Corporation, Ornstead was directly responsible for the marketing and sales of all video technology products as Director of the division. Ornstead established Conrac as the leading supplier of broadcast video monitors in North America and grew the company’s revenues from $30M to over $60M in two years. Ornstead received a degree in Electronic Engineering from Mt. San Antonio College and a BS in Business from University of LaVerne.

Gary Pageau
Marketing research, industry trends and the photo/imaging industry, PMA
Gary Pageau is Group Executive, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives. His primary responsibilities include overseeing the Association’s editorial department, marketing research unit internet publishing department and new ventures.
The PMA marketing research unit conducts both industry and consumer research in the field of photo/imaging. Published reports include the annual Industry Trends Report (now in three editions) and the annual Consumer Photo Buying Report.

Rick Patch,
President and CEO
Rick is a pioneering software executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in information technology and in building early-stage companies. Rick was a founding member and former President of Micro Decisionware Inc., a successful VC-backed company that was ultimately sold to Sybase Inc. Rick was also a founding partner at Sequel Venture Partners, a venture capital firm with over $400M in assets. As part of Sequel, Rick invested in and built numerous successful Internet and Enterprise software companies. Some examples include MatchLogic (acquired by Excite), Dante (acquired by WebMethods), Service Magic (acquired by IAC), Bid4Vacations (acquired by I.C.E.), and BlueCurve (acquired by Red Hat Inc.).

Peter Pezaris
Founder and CEO
Peter is in charge of all product development and strategic direction of the company. Prior to Multiply, Peter served as CBS SportsLine.com's President of Operations and Product Development where he was responsible for technology and computer operations as well as programming and production. In this role, Peter oversaw the operations of nfl.com, pgatour.com, cbs.sportsline.com, and mvp.com, which serve billions of pages annually to tens of millions of customers. In 2003, Peter was named to the Sports Business Journal's "Forty Under 40" list, which recognizes the most promising young executives in the sports business. Peter joined SportsLine when it acquired DWWC. Prior to DWWC, Peter was a systems and software developer for the investment banking firms of Bankers Trust and Salomon Brothers.

 

Jan Piros
Product Management, Corel
Jan Piros is responsible for product management with Corel's digital media software portfolio. With 20 years in digital media, Jan has extensive experience in video, photo and graphics hardware and software working for companies including Corel, Miro, Canopus (Thompson), Pinnacle and Avid. Through his career in product management, he has been responsible for digital media tools designed for everyone from the everyday family photographer to professional video editors.

Anderson Schoenrock
CEO & Co-founder, ScanDigital
Anderson Schoenrock, CEO & Co-founder of ScanDigital, brings a diverse background in business, management and finance to the company, which specializes in converting old photos and home movies to digital format. Prior to co-founding ScanDigital, he was the Vice President and Co-Founder of a boutique investment banking firm, Zietsman Realty Partners (ZRP). At ZRP, he directly oversaw more than $600 million in transactions and worked with some of the most respected investment firms in the world. After building a successful platform, ZRP was acquired by Jones Lang LaSalle in late 2006. Previously, Anderson held a variety of positions at Lehman Brothers within both the investment banking and private equity divisions. Anderson is a graduate of Dartmouth College with a B.A. in History.

Rob Shadowens
Senior Photo and Communications Buyer, Meijer Inc.
Rob is responsible for Photo Imaging area at Meijer Inc., a 190 store Midwest mass merchant chain. He has had responsibility overseeing the photo imaging area since May, 1991.

Kirk Sidley
President, N &S Photo
Kirk started in the photo business in 1972 with King Size Photo, a retail and wholesale photofinisher. He became CEO in 1981 and sold the business in 1985. In 1985 Kirk founded N & S Photo which became a chain of 7 retail camera stores and one hour labs. Also in 1985 Kirk co-founded Crown Photo Systems which became the largest maker of film sleeving equipment and products in the world. Kirk has served on the PMA Board since 1999 and was President from 2004-2005. He is currently Chairman of the Board of IPI (Independent Photo Imagers) which has 550 members worldwide and over 700 store fronts.

Rafael Soltero
General Manager Marketing Support Division of International Sales, Noritsu Koki Co., LTD
Rafael was born and raised in Puerto Rico.  He moved to Rochester, New York in 1979 after completing a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico. In 1990 he completed an MBA in Finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Rafael worked for Eastman Kodak Company for 26 years in various positions including: product, development and marketing and sales of consumer imaging products. In 2005 he joined KIS Photo-ME as VP of Sales and Marketing for the Americas Region. In 2007 he joined the International Sales Division of Noritsu Koki Corporation with a focus on Iberia and Latin America.

Mike Sonders,
Product Management, Motion DSP
Mike has ten years of experience in product and technology management and has launched products at startups and Fortune 500 firms. In 2006, he received his MBA from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, where he won Apple's first annual marketing and technology case competition. He has consulted on product development with companies including LucasArts, Ubisoft, and Aliph.

Sean Varah
CEO, Motion DSP
Sean is CEO and founder of MotionDSP and has worked on both sides of the table in venture capital. Prior to MotionDSP, he was co-founder and COO of Q Media Partners, a television development company which worked with HBO and ABC television. He was integrally involved with Sony Music’s 550 Digital Media Ventures which invested in Keyhole Inc., which was acquired by Google and is now Google Earth.
Sean was also an award-winning composer and Lecturer in Music at Harvard University, where he built Harvard’s first computer music facility. Dr. Varah received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a doctorate from Columbia University.

Erik Weitzman
Senior Director of Products and Services Strategy, Shutterfly
Erik Weitzman is Senior Director of Products and Services Strategy, responsible for evaluating and developing new lines of business for Shutterfly. Erik joined Shutterfly in 1999 and has led development of a broad set of Shutterfly services-including several generations of Shutterfly’s software and upload tools and Shutterfly’s award-winning Collections service. Most recently, Erik developed a strategy for the next generation of online sharing services for Shutterfly, which resulted in the acquisition of Nexo Systems and the creation of Shutterfly’s Share Sites service. Erik managed the launch of Share Sites and helped grow the service to more than one million sites in one year.
Prior to Shutterfly, Erik was a consultant with Bain & Company. Erik began his career working in product development and strategic alliances at Sanyo Electric in Osaka, Japan and is fluent in Japanese.
Erik earned his BA from Harvard College and his MBA from Stanford University. In his free time, Erik enjoys running after his three-year old son and trying to capture him on video with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T100 while his wife takes still pictures with their Nikon D-40.

JP Wollersheim
Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft
JP has been in digital imaging for over 15 years starting at HP (Openpix), Photoloft, Pixami, Telepix / Gretag, Picture.TV, and now at Microsoft where he helps drive consumer photography scenarios across Windows Phones, Windows, & Windows Live.

Laura Yecies
CEO, Sharpcast Inc.
Laura Yecies, Chief Executive Officer at Sharpcast Inc., makers of the award-winning SugarSync online data back-up and storage, syncing and file sharing service, is a consumer software and Internet services industry veteran with two decades of experience leading top consumer brands such as ZoneAlarm, Yahoo and Netscape.

Yecies joined Sharpcast in Q4 2008 to expand the company and initiate an aggressive business and product growth phase. Most recently, Yecies was General Manager of the ZoneAlarm consumer and small business division at Check Point Software, responsible for all facets of business development, marketing, sales, and product. She led key initiatives to drive ZoneAlarm's technology vision and significantly increase brand awareness.

Previously, at Yahoo, Yecies served as General Manager of the Yahoo Mail division. Earlier, Yecies was Vice President of the Netscape browser division at AOL. Prior to Netscape, she was charged with developing the market entry strategy for Informix Software Corp. in Latin America. Additionally, Yecies served as Director of Marketing Programs for the Asia Pacific Latin America region at Gupta Corporation.
Yecies received her M.B.A. from Harvard, plus an M.S.F.S. from Georgetown School of Foreign Service where she graduated with honors in International Business Diplomacy. She received her A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Government from Dartmouth and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has been on staff as a lecturer for International Marketing at Santa Clara University, and serves on the Board of several community non-profit organizations. She has lived in Brazil, Venezuela, England and France and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and French.