Nader Anvari, Chief Marketing Officer, Digilabs
Maria Bailey, Marketing to Moms, BSM Media
C. Teo Balbach, Principal, Mercury Capital Partners
Geoff Baum, Director of Photoshop Express, Adobe Systems
Mike Bevans, Co-Founder, Swiss Picture Bank
Brent Bowyer, Executive Director, IPI
Bryan Calkins, Chief Executive Officer, Cognisign
Jon Finegold, COO, Frame Media
Jean-Francois Rucine, KIS USA
Carlos Garcia, Founder & CEO, Scrapblog
Kevin Gilbert, CEO & Co-Founder, Blue Pixel
Mitch Goldstone, President & CEO, ScanMyPhotos.com
Joellyn Gray, Director of Marketing, Fujifilm
William Heuer, Senior Vice President, Casio
Jef Holove, CEO, Eye-Fi, Inc
Jeff Housenbold, President & CEO, Shutterfly
Mike Kaltschnee, VP Business Development, Flashfoto Inc
John Lacagina, Sr. President & CEO, ColorCentric Corporation
Tanguy Leborgne, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Pinnacle Data Systems
Denise MacDonnell, Senior Director of Product Management, Corel Corporation
Doug Mack, Vice President of Consumer and Hosted Solutions, Adobe Systems
Kalle Marsal, Director, HP
Graham McFarland, Founder & CEO, Express Digital
Michael Moore, CEO, Founder & Partner, Visan RocketLife
Frank Muscatello, VP of Sales, PanDigital
Carlton Osborne, CEO, Printroom.com
Andy Patrick, CEO, Livebooks
Peter Pezaris, CEO, Multiply
Jonathan Sposato, CEO, picnik
Hans Streng, CEO, Geotate
Lisa Walker, President, I3A
Eric Weitzman, Director of Product Strategy, Shutterfly



Maria T. Bailey
Marketing to Moms, BSM Media

Maria T. Bailey is an award-winning author, host of Mom Talk Radio, co-host of the “Good Day” with Doug Stephan show, nationally known speaker and the foremost marketing authority on marketing to moms. Her company, BSM Media is a full service marketing and media firm. She is the author of “Marketing to Moms: Getting Your Share of the Trillion Dollar Market”, “The Women’s Home Based Business Book of Answers”, “Trillion Dollar Moms: Marketing to a New Generation of Mothers” & “Mom 3.0 – Leveraging Emerging Technologies and Media to Market With Moms.

C. Teo Balbach
Principal, Mercury Capital Partners

Principal of Mercury Capital Partners II and Mercury Capital Partners III. After college in 1991 he was a research associate in the Harvard Economics department for Department Chairman Dale Jorgenson. From 1992 to 1995 Mr. Balbach worked as a programmer-analyst for Kenan Systems, which developed expert systems, custom software systems, and telecommunications billing systems. Mr. Balbach worked as a Program Manager for Microsoft and participated in shipping Windows NT 4.0. After business school, Mr. Balbach worked for Reciprocal, a SoftBank Group company and a pioneer in Digital Rights Management and secure digital media distribution over the Internet. Mr. Balbach joined Mercury Capital Partners in 2001 and he specializes in digital media. Mr. Balbach received his BA in economics from Harvard University (Magna Cum Laude) in 1991 and his MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth in 1997.

Geoff Baum
Director, Digital Imaging, Adobe

Geoff Baum is Director of Photoshop.com and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Adobe Systems, where he leads the company's product management and marketing efforts for Photoshop.com, Premiere Express, and Photoshop Express.

Since joining Adobe Systems, Baum has worked on a variety of seed projects, developing products for both the enterprise and consumer markets. Prior to his work at Adobe, Geoff was a co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures, a venture capital investment bank that raised capital for and directly invested in high tech startup companies.

Before Garage Technology Ventures, Baum worked at Forbes magazine, where he served as the economics editor and a columnist for Forbes ASAP, a Forbes publication that focused on the business of high technology. Baum has a BA and an MA from Stanford and an MS from UC Davis.

Michael Bevans
Co-Founder, Swiss Picture Bank

A professional photographer since 1992, Michael began digital imaging as a photographer for Cornell University’s Digital Imaging Consortium, where he was one of two photographers responsible for the digitization of the collection at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. In 2000, Michael worked with Academic Imaging Associates, Inc. as a digital archiving consultant, designing and installing digital imaging reproduction systems and training photography staff at fine art institutions, libraries and museums including the Library of the Military Academy of West Point, New York State Library, the Special Collections Department of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s Archive of American Art. Michael is one of the cofounders of Swiss Picturebank AG where he applies his photography and archiving experience to design solutions for the long term preservation of our personal histories.

Brent Bowyer
Executive Director, Independent Photo Imagers (IPI)

Brent is the Executive Director of Independent Photo Imagers (IPI), the nation’s largest group of independently owned and operated businesses providing image capture and image archiving products and services. Founded in 1982, IPI today has 655 members and 885 locations in all 50 United States, Mexico, Australia, and Canada.

Brent assumed the role of Executive Director of IPI in 2002 after serving on its Board of Directors and as an officer beginning in 1995.

A CPA by profession, Brent has owned and operated several specialty retail businesses over his career and is the prior franchisor of a mid-Atlantic group of one-hour photofinishers and portrait studios.

Brent received his undergraduate education from Georgia Institute of Technology and West Virginia University and a MBA from the University of Missouri. He has been an instructor of various accounting courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Jon Finegold
Co-founder / Chief Operating Officer, Frame Media, Inc.

Jon Finegold is an Internet entrepreneur with a passion for new technologies, particularly those technologies that help connect people. Finegold founded ontri.com, an online community that connects triathletes and marathoners which has become a premiere web site in its category. He led marketing and business development for uLocate Communications, a leader in wireless location based services with their innovative GPS buddy finder application, and while at uLocate led the market entry of where.com an online community for sharing photos from camera phones. Finegold also led marketing and business development at OpenAir, a leading application service provider for professional services businesses and Taral Networks, an early player in picture messaging technology for mobile phones. Finegold holds a B.S. from Allegheny College in mathematics and an M.S. from M.I.T. graduating from its pioneering Sloan Fellows in Innovation and Global Leadership program.

Mitch Goldstone
President & CEO, ScanMyPhotos.com

Mitch Goldstone, president and CEO of ScanMyPhotos.com is a well-known leader in the photo imaging industry. His retail and Ecommerce photo imaging company, based in Irvine, Calif. It was founded in 1990 and is regularly profiled in the national media for its innovations and entrepreneurial creativity to help picture-takers save and share their generations of photo memories. ScanMyPhotos.com has digitally preserved more than 9-million pictures and was most recently profiled in The New York Times by Personal Tech columnist, David Pogue. Goldstone is a longtime member of PMA and IPI and is a regular speaker at photo industry conferences and at the International Consumer Electronics Show. He can be reached at Goldstone@ScanMyPhotos.com

Bill Heuer
Vice President – Head of Casio’s Digital Imaging Division, Casio America Inc.

Bill Heuer is a seasoned marketing and business development leader with broad experience in the consumer products. He is Vice President and head of Casio’s Digital Imaging Division. Prior to joining Casio America Inc. he founded Heuer & Associates a consulting firm actively working with consumer related companies. In his hands-on management roles such as President of Kyocera Optics maker of Yashica, Contax/Zeiss, and Kyocera film and digital products, he dramatically turned around a troubled business with his innovative marketing and product planning. Bill was a member of Kyocera’s North American board, which was responsible for Kyocera’s semi-conductor packaging, cellular phone, printer, specialty ceramic, and solar business in addition to the Optical business that he was directly responsible for. With strengths in Marketing and Product Management, Bill has made important contributions to the growth through successful new product development and technology commercialization at Ansco, Bell & Howell, and several other companies.

Bill started his career in the financial area where he was controller of Bell & Howell’s International business and corporate assistant treasurer. He moved into product management and marketing early in his career when he had an opportunity to move to Japan to run a manufacturing operations. He was the only American to run a Japanese plant in Japan for a Japanese company. He also owned his own plastic injection molding business. He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with an MBA, and received his BS in Economics at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Jef Holve
Eye-Fi's, President & CEO

Jef Holove is Eye-Fi's president and chief executive officer, joining Eye-Fi in September 2007.

Prior to this, Holove was vice president and general manager at Logitech, Inc. where he most recently led the audio and interactive entertainment business units. He managed business strategy, marketing and engineering for multiple product portfolios, as well as developed new categories and bolstered market positions for the company in the fast-moving digital music, PC audio, and gaming markets.
Holove joined Logitech via the acquisition of Labtec, Inc, where he served as Vice President of Marketing. He also worked for Insight, Inc. He received a bachelor's degree in Communications from Purdue University.

Jeffrey Housenbold
President & CEO, Shutterfly

As Shutterfly’s President & CEO, Jeffrey Housenbold leads the Company’s strategic direction and growth. Jeffrey is a new-media visionary with a successful track record of building online consumer franchises by artfully combining commerce and community. Jeffrey has assembled a talented executive team that oversees the rapid growth of Shutterfly’s global customer base, strategic partnerships, technology platforms and innovative products and services.
Previously, Jeffrey was Vice President of Business Development & Internet Marketing at eBay. At eBay he also held positions as Vice President & General Manager of its Business-to-Consumer Group and Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions. Formerly, Jeffrey held senior management positions with AltaVista, including Vice President & General Manager, and was the Chief Operating Officer of Raging Bull. He also served as Vice President of Corporate Development at WinStar Communications and as Manager and Founder of Accenture’s Media & Entertainment Strategy Group.
Jeffrey earned his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Dean’s Fellow; and his undergraduate degrees, with High Honors in Economics and Business Administration, from Carnegie Mellon University where he was a Presidential Scholar.

Tanguy Leborgne
Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, company: Pinnacle systems Inc

Tanguy Leborgne is Pinnacle Systems’ vice president of world wide marketing He joined Pinnacle in late 2004, was instrumental in transitioning the company to the consumer division of Avid and has played a key role in expanding the depth and breadth of the firm’s consumer product offerings. With more than 15 years of high tech and software marketing experience, he spent 11 years with Adobe Systems in a number of corporate and marketing positions in both the U.S. and Europe. He has also developed extensive strategic and tactical marketing expertise in B2B and B2C firms.

Leborgne has spoken at a number of PC and CE industry conferences and events including Apple Expo seminars, European and international trade events, Business Marketers Association and Silicon Valley AMA.

Doug Mack
Vice President of Consumer and Hosted Solutions, Adobe Systems

As vice president of hosted and consumer solutions. Doug Mack provides leadership for the software services and consumer offerings of Adobe's Creative Solutions Business Unit. Key products in his group include Adobe Scene7 OnDemand, Adobe  Photoshop Elements. Adobe Premiere Elements and the new Photoshop Express and Premiere Express software-as-a-service (SaaS) consumer solutions.
Mack's e-commerce expertise and insight into customer experience trends give him a unique perspective on customer engagement strategies across all touch points. He is an active commentator on such issues as SaaS marketing and pricing strategies. new customer interaction models and online brand experience management.

Prior to joining Adobe. Mack co-founded and was CEO of Scene? provider of the leading on demand rich media platform for e-commerce Web sites such as QVC. Otto UK and Land's End, which was acquired by Adobe in May 200? Mack previously co-founded and led GoodHome.com, an award-winning online home design site and the predecessor to Scene? Prior to Goodhome.com, Mack served as executive vice president of the Broderbund Home Division of Mattel. He also held strategy and business positions at McKinsey & Company and General Electric.

Mack holds a bachelor's degree in finance and management from Boston College. Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information. visit www.adobe.com.

Kalle Marsal
Director of Marketing and Product Management, Retail Publishing Solutions, Hewlett-Packard Company

Kalle Marsal is the director of marketing and product management for the Retail Publishing Solutions group within HP’s Inkjet and Web Solutions global business unit. The Retail Publishing Solutions organization enables retailers to offer their customers in-store digital photo printing, digital publishing, and sharing services.
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. Most recently, Marsal led the marketing and strategy efforts for HP’s entry into the retail photo business. Prior to his current role, Marsal 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.

Graham McFarland
Founder & CEO, ExpressDigital

Graham McFarland is the founder and CEO of ExpressDigital, a software development company focused on enhancing imaging workflows for businesses both large and small. Mr. McFarland has become a well knows spokesperson for the digital imaging segment of the photographic industry and was recently names by Dealerscope Magazine as a member of its “40 under 40” list of top executives.
As an industry pioneer, Mr. McFarland has overseen the growth of ExpressDigital from its inception in 1994 to being recognized as one of Deloitte’s 50 fastest growing technology companies in 2007 and member of the Inc. 5000. he speaks regularly at industry events sponsored by trade groups and manufacturers including the Photo Marketing Association, Professional Photographers of America, Sony, Noritsu and Microsoft.

Mr. McFarland graduated from Texas A&M University with a BBA in Accounting and has earned his CPA designation.


Michael Moore
CEO, Founder, Partner, Visan, Rocketlife

Michael R. Moore, CEO and founding Visan Partner, provides Visan with visionary leadership in technology, business structure and operations. Through his leadership, Visan is gaining worldwide recognition of its RocketLife property. RocketLife provides end to end solutions for the photo-gifting business via Desktop, Kiosk, On-line, and back-room services. Prior to Visan, Mr. Moore served as CEO of Play. In the spring of 2000 Mr. Moore won the National Association of Broadcasters award for most innovative business model for PSMG, a Play spin off. Prior to Play, Mr. Moore founded Progressive Image Technology, a company that engineered equipment widely used in broadcast, cable television, film and special effects creation. Mr. Moore was named by Television and Technology as one of the 10 most influential people shaping Hollywood through his ideas and technologies. Mr. Moore received a number of patents in the field of computer graphics, animation and information science. Mr. Moore has held numerous board seats.

Frank Muscatello
Vice President of Sales, Pandigital

Frank Muscatello is vice president of sales for Pandigital. He oversees all strategic sales initiatives and is responsible for market development as the company expands from North America into Europe, Asia and South America. Prior to joining Pandigital, Frank was vice president of sales for the consumer products division of Playtex Products, where he played a major role in growing Banana Boat from an entrepreneurial acquisition with $25 million in sales to a nationally-recognized sun care brand with more than $200 million in sales.

Carlton Osborne
Chairman & CEO, Printroom, Inc.

Carlton Osborne is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Printroom, Inc. He assumed these roles in August of 2001 when he, joined by a few friends and colleagues, bought the fledgling business from Lexar Media. Prior to 2001, Printroom was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lexar and Carlton served as Vice President and General Manager of the subsidiary company.

A lawyer by training, Carlton also served as Lexar’s General Counsel and Director of Business Development and Strategic Alliances, where he was responsible for forging partnerships and mergers, and securing acquisitions and investments for Lexar with companies such as Sony Corporation and Olympus. Prior to joining Lexar Media in 1998, he practiced law from 1995 to 1998 as a Corporate Associate at Fenwick & West and Latham & Watkins in venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and public securities offerings.

Since taking Printroom private—without venture funding--Carlton has steadily grown Printroom from a consumer-level photo business into the supplier of online business and printing services to more than 22,000 professional photographers. He also spearheaded the development of the leading fan photography service in the United States with top entertainment and sports clients such as American Idol, Justin Timberlake, Miss America and many MLB, NHL, NBA and NFL teams.

Today Printroom is listed as one of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America, Entrepreneur Magazine’s Hot 500 Fastest Growing Businesses in America and the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies.

Jonathan Sposato
Co-Founder & CEO, Picnik.com

Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur. Prior to Picnik, Jonathan was the founder and CEO of Phatbits, which he sold to Google in 2005. This allowed for the deployment of Google Desktop Gadgets & Sidebar, which was awarded PC Magazine’s "Best Gadgets Platform." Phatbits has since become a key component of Google’s overall desktop applications strategy that continues to reach millions of users daily.
Jonathan was a senior manager in Microsoft’s consumer division and drove the development of award winning consumer software applications including The Magic School Bus series, Xbox 1, threedegrees and MSN Messenger. threedegrees, a teen-focused social application was awarded the "most innovative internet application" from several publications and was touted by Walt Mossberg as "the coolest product from Microsoft."

Jonathan played a strategic role in the shipping of Xbox games such as Halo, Munch’s Odyssey and Fable, as well as PC games including, Age of Empires, Rise of Nations, and many others.

He was also the Microsoft director of MSN User Experience and personally delivered the next level of thought to chairman Bill Gates regarding future of MSN, Messenger, Hotmail, Spaces and MSN Mobile.
When he's not at work, Jonathan can be seen sitting at a bar he owns talking to complete strangers about Picnik and 'web-two-point-oh.'

Lisa Walker
President, I3A

As the President of the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A), Ms. Walker plays a key role in leading the imaging industry on collaborative initiatives focused on driving market growth. Ms. Walker was instrumental in the creation of I3A as the product of the merger of the Digital Imaging Group (DIG) and the Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association (PIMA). Prior to her current role, Ms. Walker served as President and Executive Director of the DIG. During Ms. Walker’s tenure, the DIG grew from its original 9 founding companies to an impressive worldwide consortium of more than 70 corporate members. Ms. Walker’s background includes more than 20 years of product management and marketing in high tech environments, including responsibility for both strategic planning and execution for numerous new product innovations and marketing programs. Prior to joining the DIG, Ms. Walker played a key role at Canon to identify future growth markets and opportunities, conduct technology and feasibility assessment of new product ideas and evaluation of partner opportunities. Ms. Walker holds a BS in marketing and a Master of Business Administration from San Diego State University.

Erik Weitzman
Senior Director, Services, Shutterfly

Erik Weitzman is Senior Director of Services, responsible for managing Shutterfly’s online Share service. 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 subsequent launch of Shutterfly Share Sites.

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 two-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.


 

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