Speakers
Conference Chair
David Lipsey
Principal, Media & Entertainment | Optimity Advisors
David Lipsey is a well-known industry founder and contributor to DAM projects. He has 25 years of experience in the diversified media and entertainment sectors, including newspapers, trade, education and technical publishing, magazines, commercial printing, syndication services, cable, broadcast and studio work. He is widely known as an innovative thought ...Presenters
Ben Ackerman
Senior Manager, Service Planning | Sony Electronics
Ben Ackerman is Senior Manager of Service Planning for Digital Reading at Sony Electronics. He is responsible for creating new solutions to improve operations and customer experience at Sony's Reader Store. Reader Store is Sony's one stop shop for eBooks on Sony's Reader line of digital reading devices as well ...
Jitin Agarwal
Venture Leader - assetSERV | Cognizant | Media and Entertainment
Jitin Agarwal is the Venture CEO of assetSERV a new breed of products built by Cognizant. Jitin brings with him nearly 20 years of experience in Digital Asset Management, Product and Program Management with tier 1 technology companies like Microsoft and Gartner. Jitin has successfully lead startups both within large ...
Graham Allan
Senior Director, Consulting | Cognizant Technology Solutions
Graham Allan has spent almost 20 years in digital media and entertainment technology, leading DAM and file-based transformation for several top M&E companies – from strategy & business case development to product/partner selection, systems deployment and organizational design/development. 15 of those years were spent driving DAM and infrastructure software ...
Tracy Askam
VP Rich Media Solutions | HP Autonomy
As VP of Rich Media Solutions for Autonomy, an HP company, Tracy Askam is responsible for the development and execution of marketing strategy for Rich Media Solutions and products including rich media management, digital asset management, broadcast monitoring, rich media analytics, video search and media monitoring.Tracy Askam joined Interwoven ...
Lisette Azar
Photo Coordinator | CBS
Lisette M. Azar, Photo Coordinator, CBS West Coast Photography oversees the digital traffic coming in and out of the department, and operates the digital set up during live events such as the GRAMMYs, Peoples’ Choice Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards. She also serves as the liaison between the ...
Jason Bright
President & CTO | MediaBeacon, Inc.
Jason Bright, Founder & CTO of MediaBeacon Inc., has established himself as successful entrepreneur and technical visionary over the last 2 decades. After receiving a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, he continued on as the Principals for the Minnesota's Supercomputer Institute and later as a Fore ...
Richard Buchanan
Vice President & General Manager, Content Services | Comcast Media Center (CMC)
Richard Buchanan is Vice President & General Manager of Content Services for the Comcast Media Center (CMC), a Business unit of Comcast Cable. In this role, Buchanan oversees the CMC’s services for content providers, including its linear and live event television origination business, emerging services, such as VOD and ETV, ...
Rich Carroll
Technical Consultant | IO Integration, Inc.
Richard Carroll has nearly 20 years experience in the creative technology industry. Mr. Carroll has embraced the challenges inherent in this constantly evolving and highly competitive field by mastering the languages spoken in the technology, creative, and corporate offices – and serving as interpreter. His expertise spans print and web ...
Jon Christian
AVP, Digital Asset Management Practice Lead | Cognizant
Jon Christian is AVP, Digital Asset Management Practice Lead within Cognizant’s Information, Media and Entertainment (IME) practice, a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. Jon leads the Media Asset Management (MAM) practice for Cognizant IME.Based on his extensive experience with enterprise MAM solution engagements for ...
Jeff Cornelius, Ph.D.
District Sales Manager | HP Autonomy
Dr. Jeff Cornelius began his career at Autonomy in 1999. Throughout his tenure he has facilitated corporate growth in every fiscal quarter since his start and has been instrumental in positioning Autonomy as the industry leader in Meaning Based Information Management. Jeff is currently Vice President positioning meaning ...
Rob Corrao
COO | LAC Group
Rob Corrao, chief operating officer, LAC Group, is responsible for hands-on leadership and oversight of business operations and development across LAC's service lines. Mr. Corrao works in tandem with LAC's executive team to refine operations, process, sales and marketing methodologies, and to generate new product strategy.Mr. Corrao more than 20 ...
Eric Courville
Director of Marketing & Alliances, | North Plains Systems
Eric brings more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and business development and a solid track record at improving top line growth. Prior to North Plains, Eric was co-founder and COO at Futurestate IT and VM6 Software, Inc. Prior to Futurestate IT and VM6 Software, Eric had executive ...
Lauren Dohr
Optimity Advisors | Manager
Lauren excels in analyzing and mapping all aspects of information interactions and workflow. Industries include manufacturing, print, broadcast media and entertainment, education, not-for-profit organizations, and legal. Balancing a technical background with a consultative approach, Lauren works using the best practices of content management, taxonomy development and information architecture for businesses ...
Seth Earley
President | Earley & Associates
Seth has been implementing content management and knowledge management projects for over 12 years and has been in the technology field for 20 + years. He is founder of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He is former adjunct professor at ...
Scott Frankel
President | Circle-S Studios, Berkeley, CA
Founding partner of Circle-S Studios, Scott is a computer graphics expert with more than 20 years of experience working in visual effects, motions graphics, and scientific visualization. With work in emerging visualization technologies, all-digital planetarium shows, and feature films, such as Minority Report, the Matrix Sequels, Synecdoche New York, Planet ...
Sharon Gerweck
System Software Specialist | Oakland County, MI
Sharon Gerweck has 18 years experience in the Information Technology field. She has worked in organizations that have a 24x7 business model and supports many high-availability systems in a multi-county public safety consortium. Sharon is a server administrator who has worked on all facets of data management such as large data ...
Christopher Grakal
Vice President of Photography and Digital Asset Management | Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Christopher Grakal is vice president of the Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) Image Management group. Grakal oversees day-to-day oversight of the company’s Image Management Production and Digital Asset Management areas, which provide traditional and digital photographic production, editing, research distribution, and archiving services to TBS, Inc. networks and businesses, ...
Irina Guseva
Analyst | The Real Story Group
Irina Guseva is a senior analyst covering technology across the enterprise information landscape including web content & experience management and digital asset management. Irina has more than 15 years of experience in content technologies, starting her career as a journalist working in print, TV, and radio. She has been a ...
Thomas E. Haynes
Department Manager Visual Asset Management | Chrysler Group LLC
Tom Haynes is the Department Manager of Visual Asset Management at Chrysler Group LLC. For much of the latter half of his 30 year career at Chrysler, Tom has been involved with digital asset management projects. In previous positions at Chrysler, Mr. Haynes worked in the areas of ...
Aaron Holm
Strategic Advisor | Industrial Color
Aaron Holm has been at the forefront of digital media and technology innovation throughout his career in animation, audio engineering, broadcast television, software development, and digital asset management. A recognized expert in digital imaging, he is a seasoned entrepreneur with a history of building successful technology organizations, developing complex, distributed ...
John Horodyski
Principal | DAM Education
John Horodyski is Principal at DAM Education (www.dameducation.com) offering DAM training and education from basic entry level to high level strategic offerings. He consults on metadata and taxonomy design as well as teaches a graduate online course at San José State University in Digital Asset Management. John came from Electronic ...
Kyle Hufford
Sr. Asset Manager / Technical Specialist | Quiksilver, Inc
Kyle Hufford (Digital Kyle) is a branding focused technologist and digital media enthusiast in Southern California. He held numerous positions at the world's leading outdoor sports lifestyle company, Quiksilver Inc. (ZQK) - based in Huntington Beach, CA. ranging from technical specialist, multimedia manager, and Director of Media Services. He serves ...
Nadya Ichinomiya
Project Manager | Sony Pictures Entertainment
Nadya was raised amid the clatter of multiple perspectives. A provenance which includes a Japanese father, a German mother and a childhood shuttling between Kobe, Guetersloh, London, Chicago and L.A., she’s no stranger to cognitive dissonance.With a Business degree from USC, Nadya cut her corporate teeth with IBM, working in ...
Elizabeth Keathley
Board Member | DAM Foundation
Elizabeth Ferguson Keathley is Supervisor of UPS's Digital Asset Management team and head of the DAM Foundation's HR committee.Previous to her work at UPS, she worked as a Preservation Field Services officer for the Southeastern Library Network, helping libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions meet preservation and access challenges. She ...
Michael Kochman
Creative Director, Turner Image Management Group | Turner Broadcasting
Michael Kochman is creative director of the Turner Image Management group for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS,Inc). In this capacity, he works directly with marketing and PR departments to conceive, develop, produce and implement photography to advertise and promote entertainment, news and sports programming for each Turner network and ...
Reshma Kumar
Senior Manager, Visual Design | Symantec
Reshma Kumar is the Senior Manager of Visual Design for the Corporate Marketing and Communications Group at Symantec. Reshma manages a team of designers responsible for the visual design of the Symantec Enterprise and Corporate sites on the desktop and mobile. Reshma was instrumental in bringing onboard and putting in ...Eddie Lee
Director, Digital Media Initiatives | Warner Bros. Technical Operations
Eddie Lee is responsible for systems implementations for various initiatives across Warner Bros. Technical Operations that serve to support and improve digital media servicing at the Studio. Such initiatives include aggregating and centralizing disparate sources of data, enabling data transformation pipelines, creation of reusable data access services, and ...
Dan McGraw
President and Founder | Seven Dials Media
Dan is a media workflow, content and digital asset management specialist. Dan's clients include McDonald’s Corporation, Caterpillar, Logitech, Warner Bros, DDB, Y&R, CP+B, McCann-Erickson as well as some of the leading film and post production companies in the US and UK. A frequent speaker at industry events, Dan helps companies ...
Ben Masek
Senior Vice President, Digital Media Group | Sony Pictures Technologies
Ben joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as an early member of the digital media initiative in 2003, a group he has been leading since 2008. Ben has been involved in the early design and architecting of digital media systems, which now encompass the Digital Media Group (DMG) and manage digital ...
Stacey McKeever
Digital Asset Manager | Rubin Postaer and Associates
Stacey McKeever’s career as a librarian spans 20 years with 14 of those years immersed in digital asset management beginning with an eight-year stint at Disney Online, a division of the Disney Interactive Media Group (formerly known as Walt Disney Internet Group) and then six years at Herbalife International as ...
Ralf Menikheim
General Manager Production Services & Process Integration | McCann Worldgroup Deutschland
Ralf is responsible for the entire Studio Services at McCann Worldgroup Germany. He handles complex international business for Global Clients with the support of DAM Systems. His past experience has been with well-known Agency Networks across various industries but particularly within the automotive sector. ...
Veda Narayanan
Director IT, Creative & Product Development | Disney Consumer Products
Veda Narayanan is the Director of Creative & Product Development Applications at Disney Consumer Products. Veda is a seasoned Business Technology professional with over 20 years of experience in Information Technology. In his current role, Veda provides leadership and direction for Portals, Content Management, Enterprise Search, Product Development, Process Management, ...
Paul Nicholson
SVP Production & Technology | Showtime Networks Inc.
As Senior Vice President, Production & Technology for SHOWTIME NETWORKS INC., Paul Nicholson oversees two distinct production disciplines. On the print side, Mr. Nicholson oversees Showtime’s production management, print buying, pre-press studio & retouching services departments. On the broadcast side he manages Showtime’s RED POST audio/video edit facility, the company’s ...
Jeffrey Odell
Project Manager, Information Systems | Lucasfilm Entertainment Company
Jeff Odell is a Project Manager for Lucasfilm Information Systems, where he is involved in several different asset management systems spanning feature film production, visual effects, episodic tv, video game production, brand management, and reuse and sharing of assets across these areas.Jeff's first entertainment industry job was in high school, ...
Nish Patel
CEO | ConceptShare Inc.
Nish is the CEO of ConceptShare Inc, a collaboration tool that makes it dead simple, quick and easy to share, communicate and collaborate on creative work. He spends his time at ConceptShare driving the overall strategy of the company, as well as working closely with lead customers and the company’s ...
Tim Padilla
Independent Consultant
Known as a leader in the design, development, marketing, and delivery of enterprise technology solutions for the Media and Entertainment industry. Proven ability to identify transformational opportunities in the acquisition, storage and distribution of media assets and the related business processes, and to deliver supporting solutions. Characterized as a talented strategist, capital thought ...
John Phillips
Sr. Manager, Enterprise Taxonomy & Site Search | Guitar Center
John Phillips has been with Guitar Center for over 12 months as the Sr. Manager, Enterprise Taxonomy & Site Search, overseeing site search and both ecommerce and ERP taxonomies.Prior to Guitar Center, John has worked at Business.com, CampusExplorer.com, Dexknows.com, and the Universal Music Group. John has degrees from UC Riverside, ...
Jason Salyards
Product Line Manager | Harris Automation and Digital Asset Management
Jason Salyards is Product Line Manager for Harris Automation and Digital Asset Management. His product responsibilities include the ADC and D-Series automation product lines, as well as direct involvement in the ongoing development of Harris’ asset management products. Jason has over 23 years of experience in the broadcast ...
Kim Schroeder
Adjunct Faculty, School of Library and Information Science | Wayne State University
Kim Schroeder has consulted and taught in the arena of digital collections for nearly 20 years. She worked with Digital Asset Management systems before the phrase existed and this combined with her archival and marketing research background had led her to deeply analyze the larger digital management implications. ...
Jeff Sedlik
President & CEO | PLUS Coalition
Jeff Sedlik is a photographer, director, educator, publisher, and consultant. A leading expert on image licensing, copyright and the business of photography, Sedlik is President of the PLUS Coalition, and past National President of the APA. Recognition: 2005 IPC Photography Industry Leadership Award. 2006 PhotoMedia Photography Person of the Year. ...
Michael Shattuck
Photography Process Supervisor | New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc
Working for the e-commerce group of New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc for the last four years, we have seen tremendous growth in photography. Our studio currently shoots the global product lines for NB and related brands (Warrior, PF Flyers, Aravon, Dunham, Cobb Hill, and Brine) and we are continuing ...
Steve Simonian
Vice President of Software Engineering | Fox Networks Engineering and Operations
Steve currently leads the software team for Fox Networks Engineering and Operations. The team is responsible for on-air software systems such as FoxBox clock and score graphics, tickers, social media as well as other broadcast type applications. He has also spearheaded a number of digital media initiatives– ...
Barry Snyder
President and Co-founder | MediaMine
Barry Snyder is a respected and recognized entertainment technology thought leader whose executive track record spans more than 25 years, at such companies as Warner Bros. Studios Facilities, Post Logic Studios, and now MediaMine. He is adept at taking iconic, legacy collections and devising new ways to access, revitalize, and ...
Jeff Sotzing
President | Carson Entertainment Group (CEG)
Jeff Sotzing controls the licensing rights to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He is a former producer on the late night show where he worked for over 15 years. CEG creates and markets home video products, sells clips from The Tonight Show library for the broadcast industry, and looks ...
Shaula Stephenson
Digital Archivist | Hammer Museum
Shaula Stephenson is digital archivist at the Hammer Museum and archives assistant at the Skirball Cultural Center. A recent graduate from the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science, she has interned for Mount St. Mary’s College archives, Skirball Cultural Center and the UCLA University archives. Her ...
Jeff Stevens
Vice President of Digital Archives | Warner Bros. Technical Operations
Jeff Stevens serves as Vice President of Digital Archives, Warner Bros. Technical Operations. In this role, Stevens works closely with Warner Bros.’ theatrical, television, and home entertainment groups to determine metadata standards and best practices.He is also responsible for the three million digital assets within the Studio’s digital asset ...
David Sugg
Director, Digital Media Systems | Warner Bros.
David is responsible for all technical as well as operational aspects of WB's MARS system, the Studio's enterprise DAM system. MARS serves as WB's central collection and distribution point for Ad/Pub related digital assets, serving 10 B2B and B2C portals, more than 30 business units and thousands of direct users, ...
Linda Tadic
Executive Director | Audiovisual Archive Network
Linda Tadic is Executive Director of Audiovisual Archive Network (www.archivenetwork.org), an independent non-profit digital library and preservation service for historical sound and moving image collections. She also consults and lectures in the areas of digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, and metadata. Past and current clients are diverse, including ...
Nathanial Taylor
Content Manager | Hasbro
Nate Taylor is an accomplished DAM professional who has deep experience supporting and developing creative services DAM solutions at Hasbro. He has been instrumental in designing robust workflows for engineering toy and game production which drives Hasbro's manufacturing process. Nate is also a knowledgeable leader in the areas of security, ...
Matt Turner
Principal Media Technologist | MarkLogic Corporation
Matt Turner is a Principal Technologist at Mark Logic and leads the design and development of information and analysis applications for customers including LexisNexis, Simon & Schuster and McGraw-Hill. Matt has authored numerous articles on unstructured information, content management and information applications and been a featured speaker at numerous conferences ...
Simon Ward
Director of Strategic Development | Ayzenberg Group
Simon is a leading professional in brand management consultancy and integrated marketing. As Director of Strategic Development at Ayzenberg Group in LA, he helps new clients develop integrated digital and social marketing strategies, including a growing social media moderation and analytics practice. Simon is also an early and leading advocate ...
Blake White
Director, Entertainment, Media & Communications | PricewaterhouseCoopers
Blake is a Director in PricewaterhouseCoopers Entertainment, Media & Communications advisory practice based in San Jose, where he leads the practice’s Digital Transformation advisory services. He previously led PwC’s national initiative in Digital Media Risk Management, and held principal positions in media industry engineering consulting firms, advising clients on: digital ...
Mary Ann Williams
Digital Asset Manager | Guthy-Renker
Mary Ann Williams is an accredited librarian with her Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information. She is currently the Digital Asset Manager at Guthy-Renker, the esteemed direct marketing company of popular products such as Proactiv and Wen. She was previously the ...
JR Yasgur
Vice President, AGGREGATED METADATA | management & operations | Sony Pictures Entertainment
JR Yasgur is the Vice President, Aggregated Metadata Management & Operations (AMMO) at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Ms. Yasgur’s department, AMMO, is the business owner of SPE’s centralized intellectual property / title master system and the studio’s physical and first-generation digital asset management system. AMMO develops, implements, and enforces metadata ...
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