Revenue Bootcamp Conference
July 10, 2009
Mountain View, California

Chris Anderson
Editor in Chief, Wired magazine
Chris Anderson took the helm of Wired in 2001 and has led the magazine to nine National Magazine Award nominations since, winning the prestigious top prize for general excellence in 2005, 2007 and 2009. He is the author of The New York Times best-seller, The Long Tail, which is based on an influential 2004 article published in Wired, and runs a blog on the subject at www.longtail.com. Anderson will publish his next book, FREE: The Future of Radical Price, in July 2009. He is also founder of Booktour.com, a free online service that connects authors on tour with potential audiences. He was named in April 2007 to the “Time 100,” the news magazine’s list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world. He previously was at The Economist, where he served as U.S. business editor, Asia business editor and technology editor. Anderson’s media career began at the two premier science journals, Nature and Science, where he served in several editorial capacities. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from George Washington University and studied Quantum Mechanics and Science Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

Samir Arora
Chairman and CEO, Glam Media
Samir Arora co-founded Glam Media, the recognized leader of vertical networks which enable brand advertisers to reach targeted and niche audiences online. Previously, Arora was chairman and CEO of Netobjects, Inc. where he drove the creation of the first web site building product NetObjects Fusion. Arora also currently serves as chairman of Information Capital LLC, a venture-capital fund based in Woodside, Calif.

Neil Chase
Vice President for Author Services, Federated Media
Neil Chase is Vice President for Author Services at Federated Media in San Francisco. His team manages relationships with more than 100 independent publishers. He has worked as an editor at The New York Times, MarketWatch, The Arizona Republic and The San Francisco Examiner and was an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Noelle Chun
Noelle Chun is a recent graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she focused on magazines, online media and East Asian history. Since the age of 16, she’s worked in wide variety of newsrooms, which include Newsweek.com, Honolulu magazine, The Honolulu Advertiser (Hawaii’s Gannett outlet), KHON Channel 2 News, and WNUR radio. To learn more about Noelle please visit her LinkedIn or follow her on Twitter at @noelleee.

Joyce Chung
Joyce Chung has over 10 years of operating experience in technology companies and 10 years of venture capital investing experience. She was a founding partner of Cardinal Venture Capital, a $125 million early stage venture fund. At Cardinal, Joyce was responsible for investments in Chipcon (acquired by Texas Instruments), Mobilygen, Valista, and Zilliant. She continues to co-manage the current Cardinal portfolio. Prior to forming Cardinal Venture Capital, Joyce managed venture investments for Adobe Ventures. Her portfolio companies included Vignette (Nasdaq: VIGN), DigitalThink, Digimarc (Nasdaq: DMRC), and Virage. Joyce also held operating roles at Adobe Systems, Sony Corporation, and Cambridge Technology Group. She received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Joyce is active at the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and is on the board of the Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA), Chair of the Northern California chapter of AMITA and Member of the Executive Council of Astia.

Anita Cohen-Williams
Founder & CEO, MySearchGuru
Anita Cohen-Williams is the owner of MySearchGuru, a web marketing and organic search engine optimization firm that increases a web site's visibility in the search engines. Our techniques include doing targeted keyword research, meta tag development, social media optimization (SMO), submission to all relevant search engines and directories, inbound links, and ghost blogging. We have been doing organic SEO since 1999. Anita has a number of blog and has been blogging since 2002. Her archaeology blog was written up in Archaeology Magazine. She is currenty the Meetup.com organizer in San Diego for the SEO Meetup, and the Social Media Marketing Meetup, and the Assistant Organizer for the San Diego Small Business and Entrepreneurs Meetups. Ms. Cohen-Williams has a Masters in Library Science and was a reference librarian for over 12 years.She is now a cybrarian, and helps others find information on the Web. In addition, she is very active in social media websites including Twitter, Facebook, and Ning.

Anastasia Goodstein
Founder and Editor-In-Chief, Ypulse
Anastasia Goodstein is an award-winning blogger and often-quoted expert on American tweens, teens and early twenty-somethings. She has worked in media for the past 15 years and has helped launch youth oriented web and television properties for brands including Oxygen, AOL andCurrent TV. She will never forget her roots having begun her career in the non-profit youth media space at Teen Voices. Anastasia was one of the first graduates of the Medill School of Journalism's new media program at Northwestern University, where she earned an MSJ in 1999. Her first book about teens and technology, Totally Wired: What Teens & Tweens Are Really Doing Online, was published by St. Martin's Press.

Paul Graham
Partner, Y Combinator
Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first ASP, which in 1998 became Yahoo! Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.

Will Harvey
Co-Founder and Chairman, IMVU
Will (avatar “Will”) Harvey co-founded IMVU in April 2004 and served as President and CEO from its inception to November, 2007. Prior to IMVU, Will founded two other companies: There.com, which makes the virtual world used by MTV and other consumer brands, and Sandcastle, a networking tools company acquired by Adobe Systems. In high school and college, Will wrote some of the early top selling video games and creativity products. At age 16, Will wrote Music Construction Set, the world’s first word processor for music, published by Electronic Arts. Will holds five patents on networking, search and computer graphics.

Scott Hintz
Co-Founder, TripIt
TripIt co-founder Scott Hintz brings years of travel, strategy and technology experience to the TripIt team. At TripIt, Scott helps us partner with other companies to spread TripIt love around the web. He's also the guy we all look at when people ask "How is TripIt going to make money?" Prior to TripIt, Scott was Senior Vice President, Product for Hotwire and led the Product Management, Business Development and Travel Relationships teams. Scott received a B.S. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Guy Kawasaki
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures and a columnist for Forbes.com. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. where he was one of the individuals responsible for the success of the Macintosh computer. Guy is the author of eight books including Revenue Bootcamp, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Sagar Kamdar
Product Manager, Google
Sagar Kamdar is the Product Manager for Google Webmaster Central, the Google suite of products designed for and aimed at helping website owners with search engine optimization. Prior to joining Google in 2007, Sagar was Director of Development for Business Intelligence & Analytics at Oracle. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Cornell.

Tim Kendall
Director of Monetization, Facebook
Tim Kendall is the Director of Monetization at Facebook, where he oversees Facebook Ads — the company’s direct response advertising solution. Prior to Facebook, Tim worked at Amazon.com as a Product Manager for the Amazon Kindle. He has also worked in technology private equity and venture capital for JPMorgan Partners and Garage Technology Ventures. Tim has been involved in venture investments in several companies, including Pandora, ProfitLogic, and NetConversions — a behavioral targeting company acquired by aQuantive. Tim has been a contributing writer to Forbes magazine on a variety of high technology topics. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University.

David Kopp
Senior Director, North American Ad Products, Yahoo!
In his role as senior director of North American Ad Products, David Kopp leads the team defining and developing Yahoo!’s display advertising solutions for advertisers. His marketing career spans over 16 years, including leadership roles in both client-side consumer marketing with Disney and the last 12 years concentrated on Internet advertising, including both search and display advertising solutions. Kopp began his career leading marketing for a division of The Walt Disney Company. Kopp graduated magna cum laude with a concentration in Literature from Harvard University.

Alice Lankester
Former Vice President of Marketing, Photobucket.com
Alice Lankester was vice president of marketing at Photobucket.com, a division of Fox Interactive Media and one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites in the world with over 80M unique users/month. Alice has worked in technology marketing for over 20 years for companies in Silicon Valley and Europe.

Charlene Li
Founder, Altimeter Group
Charlene Li is an independent thought leader on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive media, and marketing. She has a blog, The Altimeter that discusses these topics. She is also the co-author of the business bestseller, Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies, published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008. Charlene is one of the most frequently-quoted industry analysts and has appeared on 60 Minutes, The McNeil NewsHour, ABC News, CNN, and CNBC. She is also frequently quoted by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USAToday, Reuters, and The Associated Press. She is a much-sought after public speaker and has presented frequently at top technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo, SXSW, and adTech. Most recently, Charlene was a Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. She joined Forrester in 1999, after spending five years in online and newspaper publishing with the San Jose Mercury News and Community Newspaper Company. She was also a consultant with Monitor Group in Boston and Amsterdam. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and received a magna cum laude degree from Harvard College.

Dion Lim
President & COO, SimplyHired
Dion is the Present and Chief Operating Officer at Simply Hired. He is focused on making sure the Company runs as smooth as possible and secures the best talent. Driving the Company's departmental infrastructure is his top priority to making this job search engine and comprehensive advertising network premium products. Dion is an experienced executive, who brings a mix of entrepreneurial passion and operational excellence to Simply Hired. With a background that spans the Internet and traditional business worlds, he was the co-founder of Epinions.com (now Shopping.com), COO at Chinese portal Sina.com, Director of Biz Dev at Quote.com (now Lycos), co-founder of the “dot-com Petri dish” Round Zero, and marketing executive at Schwab. A graduate of UC Berkeley (1990), Dion got his start at Morgan Stanley and Hambrecht & Quist.

Michael Moritz
VC, Sequoia Capital
Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1986, he worked in a variety of positions at Time Warner and was a Founder of Technologic Partners.

Neil Patel
Quick Sprout blogger
Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 2 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal.

Bill Reichert
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Bill Reichert has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. Since joining Garage in 1998, Bill has focused on early-stage information technology and materials science companies. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank. Bill earned a B.A. at Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He was a founding board member and a Chairman of the Churchill Club, and a Charter Member of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs. Currently he is the Chairman of the Small Fund Roundtable of the VC Taskforce and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Kerri Pollard
General Manager, Commission Junction
As General Manager of Commission Junction, Kerri Pollard is one of the affiliate marketing industry’s most knowledgeable professionals. She has been involved in the industry since nearly its beginning, having joined affiliate marketing solutions provider BeFree in 1999 prior to its acquisition by ValueClick and subsequent merger with Commission Junction in 2003.

Erika Schmale
Erika Schmale is a Virginia native who moved to California after completing her bachelors degree at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. She currently is completing a year of service with Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco as a Lutheran Volunteer Corps member.

Jeremy Schoemaker
Founder, ShoeMoney Media Group
Jeremy “ShoeMoney” Schoemaker is an Internet marketer, web entrepreneur and the founder of ShoeMoney Media Group, a fast-growing firm that develops online businesses from ringtone communities to advertising platforms. In 2004, he founded his first company in the basement of his home and within the year he was earning six figures a month. Today he continues to build highly profitable and popular online entities.

Tim Westergren
Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora
Tim Westergren founded Pandora in January 2000 and now serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. A jazz trained pianist and lifelong musician, Tim has worn many hats as a feature film composer, record producer, audio engineer, and live performer. Tim received his B.A. from Stanford University, where he studied music theory, computer acoustics and recording technology. His years as a working musician have imbued him with a great passion for helping talented emerging artists connect with new fans. In addition to guiding Pandora's overall strategy and vision, Tim now spends most of his time as Pandora's chief evangelist—traveling the country to meet with listeners to collect feedback, research local music, and spread the word of the Music Genome Project.

Xavier Zang
Senior Director of Network Development, Advertising’s Publisher Business Group, Microsoft
Xavier Zang is the Senior Director of Network Development in Microsoft Advertising’s Publisher Business Group. In this role, he has responsibility for risk-managed advertising inventory acquisition, client management and effective packaging of inventory for sale by the field. In this capacity, he maintains senior level relationships with select clients. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Zang was the Executive Vice President of Field Operations at Rapt (acquired by Microsoft in April 2008). In this role, he had responsibility for the company’s market-facing operations including Advisory Services, Business Development, Marketing, Professional Services and Sales. His prior professional experience includes R.B. Webber & Company, Viant Corporation, McKinsey & Company and Accenture. Mr. Zang is a frequent speaker at industry and educational events. He has lectured at the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He earned an MBA with an emphasis in the management of technology from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in Economics and German Literature from University of Notre Dame.