July’s roundtable focused on “The Real Time Web” and the various companies and people that are building on top of the constant flow of live information. From the dissementaion of information to managing the flow of information to leveraging it to build a brand and interact with people and companies.

Hot Potato: Is a service that is focused on connecting friends and fans around live events, in real time.

Participant: Saadiq Rodgers-King

Hapnin.com: Is a hyper-local, time-sensitive, events platform. We help you find things to do that are close to you, going on right now. Our mission is to connect you with the awesome things that are “hapnin” in your neighborhood and hopefully turn some of you couch potatoes out there into go-getters.

Participant: Gergory Schnese

Blurts:  Is a voice annotation utility that allows users to enhance any social post (photo, video, SMS, tweet, written comment) by tagging it with up to a 30 second spoken story, anecdote, narration or voice-over.

Participant: Jeff Stier

StockTwits: Is an open, community-powered idea and information service for investments. Users can eavesdrop on traders and investors, or contribute to the conversation and build their reputation as savvy market wizards. The service takes financial related data and structures it by stock, user, reputation, etc.

Participant: Philip Pearlman

SocialBomb: Provides the infrastructure for your social, mobile, real-time applications.

Participant: Adam Simon

Fanfeedr: Is a real-time personalized sports feed. Pick your favorite teams and players, and they will give you the most-up-to-date collection of news, video, tweets, scores and information about them. They are indexing over 3,000 sources and matching them against more than 50,000 athletes, 4,000 sports teams, including 1,700 colleges and universities across 15 sports.

Participant: Ty Ahmad-Taylor

Hootsuite: Helps organizations use the social web to launch marketing campaigns, identify and grow audience, and distribute targeted messages across multiple channels.

Participant: Dario Meli

WorldLiveMobile: Brings you the best of your world in real-time with the best free iPhone apps.

Participant: Dan Goldman

June’s PluggedIn Roundtable focused on “Trans Media” and how content is intersecting and distributed among platforms  from mobile, video, television, real time,  ans social media. The ability to access the content you need on multiple platforms is more comprehensive than ever before and it’s time that we took a step back and examine how this has happened so quickly and how we think it will play out in the future.

Catch Media: Catch Media has developed Play Anywhere® a business-to-business registry, routing, tracking and clearinghouse platform. Developed by digital pioneers who brought the convenience of mass market photo sharing to the Internet. Play Anywhere® provides convenience for the consumer and profitability to industry partners. With key relationships with the major and independent record labels as well as backing by leading broadcast companies and Hollywood talent agencies, Catch Media will begin a global rollout of the Play Anywhere® platform in mid 2010.

Attending Mark Segall

Critical Media: Critical Media Inc., founded in 2002* and run by a team out of the leading text syndication company Screaming Media, (now a part of Dow Jones, Inc.) is a company at the forefront of real-time broadcast video capture, search, syndication and information services. Dedicated to making broadcast video search as ubiquitous as text search, the Company provides tools and services to content consumers, providers, distributors and advertisers that leverage its real-time media capture infrastructure. Every day, our media capture infrastructure, the largest in the world, processes in real time over 10,000 hours of broadcast content on 4 continents, making every minute of it discoverable and monetizable within 60 seconds of airtime.

Attending: Sean Morgan

Triplay: TriPlay is a mobile life company – the only media delivery platform and services suite for sharing personal digital content across multiple devices. TriPlay’s patent protected media delivery platform was built from the ground up as the first truly cross-platform integrated messaging system, empowering users to send and receive media anywhere in the world, from any online device.

Attending: Tamir Koch

LiveU: Founded in 2006 by industry leaders in the area of wireless telecommunications, LiveU creates, develops and markets real-time video technologies and solutions that enable video broadcasters to uplink and transmit live instantly, anywhere, and at anytime.

Attending: Ariel Galinsky

May’s PluggedIn Roundtable focused on “Digital Content” and will cover topics ranging from distribution, consumption, property rights, and challenges.

Digital content is everywhere and it is truly what makes the Internet valuable. Whether it be books, magazines, newspaper, video, music, or photos everyone is looking to increase their discuribution channels and find ways to generate revenue.

5Min: 5min Media is the leading syndication platform for broadband instructional, knowledge and lifestyle videos. Our library includes tens of thousands of videos across 20 categories and 140 subcategories, which are professionally produced and brand-safe.

Attending: Tal Simantov

Amie Street: Is the first online music community designed to discover and promote independent artists. Amie Street helps increase exposure and revenue for new artists through an innovative, demand-driven pricing model based on recommendations by, and rewards for, members who endorse their favorite music on the site.

Attending: Elias Roman

Breaking Media: is a network of websites, e-newsletters, events and social media channels for influential, affluent business communities. This site aims to answer any questions you might have about the company or our brands—Above the Law, Dealbreaker, Fashionista and Going Concern—and the ways we can help you connect with the communities around these brands. It’s also a place where we share some thoughts on the rapidly changing media and marketing landscape.

Attending: Jonah Bloom

Critical Media: Is at the forefront of real-time broadcast video capture, search, syndication and information services. Dedicated to making broadcast video search as ubiquitous as text search, the Company provides tools and services to content consumers, providers, distributors and advertisers that leverage its real-time media capture infrastructure. Every day, our media capture infrastructure, the largest in the world, processes in real time over 10,000 hours of broadcast content on 4 continents, making every minute of it discoverable and monetizable within 60 seconds of airtime.

Attending: Ion Puspurica

WatchMojo: Informs and entertains you through the medium of video, covering both popular culture topics and socially relevant themes that interest you personally, professionally and socially. They help individuals and businesses by promoting the people, places and things that capture the essence of success.

Attending: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan

Outside.in: Is the leading hyperlocal content and advertising platform used by millions of consumers and thousands of local bloggers and publishers each month. Outside.in monitors all the news, blogs, and discussions on the web and dynamically maps them to more than 50,000 neighborhoods in the US.

Attending: Camilla Cho

April’s Roundtable is focsuing on “Mobile Apps” and the new ecosystem that has been created with smartphones. Ranging from the most popular iPhone to Android and Blackberry mobile apps are more popular and essential to big companies. How are they created, how do they make money, how do they market themselves.

Rhino Mobile: Combining a revolutionary digital distribution engine with a unique service structure that unites advertisers, programmers and developers under a single label, Rhino Mobile is poised to take its place at the forefront of the rapidly expanding mobile marketing industry. With an ever-growing user base and unparalleled access to consumers through our patent-pending software, Rhino Mobile can specifically custom tailor a campaign to reach any area, any market, any individual with the click of a button.

Attending: Pablo Arenas

Buzzd: Buzzd is your source for real-time ratings of places around you. Find the hottest spots using the buzzdmeter, share updates with your friends and earn great rewards.

Attending: Nihal Mehta

rmbrME: rmbrME lets you send your rmbrME vCard–a one-stop electronic business card that has your photo and contact information, plus links to your company website, social networks and blogs. Your contacts can view your rmbrME vCard on their smartphone and save your contact information directly to their address book.

Attending: Gabe Zichermann

Snac: Snac, Inc. is a mobile software and services company that has developed and deployed into Beta a mobile widget service that was selected as a Top 10 Mobile Application of 2009. The service helps companies connect more frequently, quickly and effectively with their mobile consumers. It accomplishes this by providing end-users with sub-second access to top web services and content via a personalized iPhone-like widget dashboard. The service is unique in the speed and simplicity of its user experience, its ability to run on hundreds of mass-market phones as well as smartphones, and its ability to be tailored to meet the needs of the company’s media and consumer services partners.

Attending: Mark Caron

Medialets: Medialets develops technologies that enable mobile application developers to measure their audience and monetize their mobile applications with rich media advertising. The company offers a rich media advertising and analytics platform for applications built for the iPhone and Android, with support for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm Pre devices coming in 2010. Medialets allows brands to create targeted advertising campaigns leveraging the interactive capabilities unique to these devices in an environment that provides complete measurability whether a user is online or offline.

Attending: Eric Litman

Thumbplay: Thumbplay is defining the mobile entertainment experience for U.S. consumers and is the nation’s largest and fastest-growing provider of mobile content. Thumbplay features licensed music, video and games from some of the world’s largest entertainment companies, including: EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Pictures Television, as well as several independent labels and artists and video game companies.

Thumbplay Music – which launched in private beta on January 7, 2010 and in public beta on March 4, 2010 – is a cloud-based music service that provides unlimited access to more than 8 million songs under license from every major record label and more than 25,000 indie labels. The mobile app is currently available on BlackBerry and Android smartphones and PCs/Macs. It will be available on iPhone within the first half of 2010.

Attending: Chris Phenner

GuerillaApps: GuerillaApps is a boutique iPhone app developer. Their apps include Sagatiba, Broken Meters, Body Sushi and Mitsubishifma cross platform, mobile social app developer. They are a small team of creative minds with a fanatical passion to craft elegant, fun and innovative applications. They work with leading ad agencies and brands to deliver engaging interactive campaigns.

Attending: Raviv Turner

Eyedip: Eyedip is mobile entertainment company that specializes in the development, marketing and distribution of software and applications.

Attending: Steven Fleisher

WorldLiveMobile: WorldLive Mobile offers the best free iPhone apps to keep up with your favorite music artists and Hollywood stars.

Attending: Dan Goldman

March’s Roundtable focuses on the $64,000 question:

How are companies making money via social media?

The conversation will revolve around topics such as social media campaigns, social media marketing, revenue models, ROI, partnerships, etc., and will include opinions from startups, founders, investors and industry executives.

Postling: Postling helps businesses get the most out of social media with the least amount of effort by enabling them to manage all of their social media accounts in one place.

Attending: David Lifson, CEO

rmbrME: rmbrME lets you send your rmbrME vCard–a one-stop electronic business card that has your photo and contact information, plus links to your company website, social networks and blogs. Your contacts can view your rmbrME vCard on their smartphone and save your contact information directly to their address book.

Attending: Gabe Zichermann, CEO

Ripple6: Ripple6™ helps marketers and publishers implement their business strategy through social media. The company provides an enterprise white label social media platform to create consumer engagements and relationships, enable social marketing, generate consumer insights, and facilitate commerce and collaboration. It is easily customized to incorporate a brand’s look and feel for integration into an existing web site or to create an entirely new site.

Attending: Rich Ullman, SVP Marketing

Amplify: Amplify is a free service that makes it easy to spark conversation about any web page, paragraph, sentence, image or video you find on the web. Instead of just creating a short URL, Amplify lets you engage in conversation with people you share your online findings with.

Attending: Eric Goldstein, CEO & Founder

Six Apart: Six Apart connects marketers and bloggers to a massive audience through its powerful social media platform that builds communities and activates brand advocates across the web.

Attending: Andrew  Boer, VP Revenue Managment

MediaMath: MediaMath’s automated buying platform provides advertising agencies with access to tens of billions of impressions daily, and a simple workflow that manages the powerful analytics and rich data necessary to make best use of them. Headquartered in New York, the company was founded in 2007 by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs, marketers, technologists, and quants.

Attending: Rick Greenberg, VP Account

MyStudiyo: MyStudiyo is the place to create professional looking quizzes for your website, or blog. It takes just a few minutes to make a quiz and seconds to add it to your site. Any quiz you make is hosted on our site and is available to play for free anytime. It was founded by a group of Israeli – American entrepreneur-engineers. Our challenge was to deliver a complex next-generation engine that would flexibly drive a suite of business and marketing tools. It also had to be really EZ to use.

The goal was to enhance any web site by transforming content into engaging & interactive fun. We aimed for our tools to be very DIY (do it yourself). We wanted the results to be fresh online marketing that is fun, sticky, & friendly.

Attending: Gili Torovezky, VP Marketing,BD and Client Services

adMarketplace: adMarketplace brings the power of Search to the Content Space. Since 2003, adMarketplace has delivered proven Pay Per Click traffic to over 100,000 advertisers – while maximizing yield for more than 250,000 web properties.

The adMarketplace platform delivers customers from unique Pay-Per-Click inventory with Return on Ad Spend (RoAS) metrics that compare favorably with Search Engine traffic. The adMarketplace platform is offered as a managed service or via web services integration to large advertisers and agencies or as a self-serve service to small and medium sized advertisers.

Attending: Adam Epstein, President & COO

BigFuel: Big Fuel is a marketing and communications company that takes brands from Content to Commerce  . A unique approach using social media and branded content to deliver measurable (and guaranteed) consumer engagement.  We work with major brands like MySpace, FOX, AOL, Yahoo, NBC Universal, Neutrogena, Kimberly-Clark, Alcon, Poly-Fil, The United States Department of Justice, Stetson, Fisher Price, Chevrolet and Colgate-Palmolive.

Attending: Mike McGraw, COO & Managing Partner

For the month of January we took a somewhat different approach to the intimate roundtable format as we opened things up a bit and invited over 20 startups aloong with industry executives to participate in PluggedIn.

PluggedIn is the new brand and name for the Founders Roundtable as we have morphed into a company that produces summits and brings together hundreds of people to learn, network, and hopefully make deals from our events. The Founders Roundtable has been a huge success and  it has created a great basis for intimate networking in which people can actually get to know one over a 2 hour period as opposed to most events where it seems like your speed dating.

PluggedIn NYC has over 20 companies from Israel, California, NY, DC, and Canada present and I am happy to say that they all left happy and content.

TweetMixxCrunchBase Information on Mixx

Arkadium: Arkadium creates game software for consumer brands, ad agencies, casino operators and online gamers. The company’s growing library of over 200 game engines are developed using Adobe Flash, do not require a download, operate on 99% of all computers and can be customized to meet any client’s specific needs. Arkadium’s games reach millions of people across all demographics through some of the most popular online destinations and corporate branded Web sites.

Attending: Kenny Rosenblatt, CEO & Founder
CrunchBase Information on Arkadium

Conduit Labs: Conduit Labs’ are the creators of Loudcrowd. Loudcrowd is a music community that allows users to actively engage with and discover new music through play. Loudcrowd is developed by Conduit Labs, a social entertainment company founded by industry veterans in web startups and social gaming.

Attending: Josh Hubball, VP Business Development

Twitter: jhubball
CrunchBase Information on Conduitlabs

Muse Games: Muse Games brings 3D, multiplayer games right to your web browser. Muse games feature competitive and cooperative multi-player. Current products include fast-paced action in Extreme Sledding, turn-based strategy in Elementia, and customizable avatars and real-time chat in The Apartments.

Attending: Sean Pfitzenmaier, Co-founder

Twitter: SeanPfitz
CrunchBase Information on Social Sauce

OMGPOP: OMGPOP (formerly known as iminlikewithyou) is a free online multiplayer game site that specializes in social games. The site has generated over 50 million plays for popular games like blockles, draw my thing and balloono.

Attending: Dan Porter, CEO
CrunchBase Information on Iminlikewithyou

Three Screen Games: Three Screen Games is producing social games across all three screens (pc-mobile-tv). Their first game, released this August, will be FanGamb, short for Fantasy Gambling. FanGamb is a new online game for sports fans that creates a competition between friends to see who the best sports bettor is.

Attending: Justin Goldman

Mojiva: Mojiva is a young and dynamic startup company with a mission to help monetize all mobile content across the globe. All of Mojiva’s products and solutions are built with simplicity in mind. We believe that the less time you spend managing, the more time you can spend selling. Mojiva is simple. Mobile. Advertising.

Attending: Dave Gwozdz, CEO
CrunchBase Information on Mojiva

Medialets:  Medialets was founded in June 2008, Medialets develops technologies that enable mobile application developers to measure their audience and monetize their applications through advertising. The company offers a rich media advertising and analytics platform for applications built for the iPhone and Android, with support for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm Pre devices coming in 2009. Medialets allows brands to create targeted advertising campaigns leveraging the interactive capabilities unique to these devices in an environment that provides complete measurability whether a user is currently online or offline.

Attending: Eric Litman, Chairman & CEO
Twitter: @medialets / @ericlitman
CrunchBase Information on Medialets

Snac :  Snac is a free mobile app that gives users faster, easier access to content they want most. From Facebook and Twitter to Gmail and Flickr, Snac delivers the latest news, sports, weather, email, social network updates and more via “Snacs” that are stored in a unique, live dashboard that serves up information at a glance. Snac supports nearly 300 phones, from low-cost, feature handsets, to the latest smart devices, enabling anyone to keep connected. Snac provides custom versions of the service that let companies connect with their mobile consumers every day.

Attending: Kevin King, VP Product & Operations
CrunchBase Information on Snac

MeetMoi: meetMoi is the first location-based mobile dating service available across all major carriers in the United States. It works on all devices that can access the Internet. meetMoi changes the way online singles connect by matching up users who are in the same place at the same time in the real world. It is available at no cost to sign up and $9.99/month for subscription service. meetMoi is based in New York and backed by venture capital firms Acadia Woods Partners and ETF Venture Funds.

Attending: Andrew Weinreich, CEO / Alex Harrington, President
Twitter: @meetmoi / @alex_h
CrunchBase Information on Meetmoi

Xtify: Xtify’s mission is to revolutionize location based services by proving websites with location data derived independently of the wireless operators. The software is designed to allow users to determine with whom they share their location information. Web applications can utilize Xtify’s free location lookups, or take advantage of the Company’s proprietary layer of business logic API’s. The Company is based in New York and backed by venture capital firms Acadia Woods Partners and ETF Venture Funds. Xtify works worldwide on most BlackBerry, Android, Windows and Symbian devices.

Attending: Josh Rochlin, CEO
Twitter: @xtify
CrunchBase Information on Xtify

Centrl: Centrl is a location-based social network that lets you share your location with friends, discover the world around you, and learn about money-saving offers. Access Centrl from the web or download our free mobile application for the iPhone, Blackberry or Android.

Attending: Murat Aktihanoglu, CEO
Twitter: @centrl / @muratny
CrunchBase Information on Centrl

FlyScreen : Flyscreen is a dynamic mobile platform that provides always-on access and streaming content to the mobile phoneʼs sleep screen for the billion dollar mobile internet market. FlyScreen’s presence on this unique phone real estate gives users zero click access to the content they use most. FlyScreen eliminates unnecessary clicking and navigating, is extremely customizable and can support a broad range of web services.

Attending: Justin Oberman, SVP Product & marketing Strategy
Twitter: @flyscreen / @justinoberman
CrunchBase Information on Cellogic

BarvoTV : Sonia Barlow, Manager Emerging Media

Sonia Barlow is a mobile marketing professional with 5+ years of experience producing and managing mobile content for companies like Bravo (NBC/Universal), the Tribeca Film Festival, and Alltel Wireless. She started her mobile career at Alltel Wireless (now Verizon) where she launched Alltel’s first streaming video application with MobiTV, as well as Alltel’s ringbacks platform. Currently she manages mobile content and emerging media initiatives at Bravo.

Twitter: @soniabarlow

Time Inc : John Paris, Director Mobile Products

John Paris, Director of Mobile Products for Time Inc., is responsible for executing mobile products and services for Time Inc. brands through design, development, introduction and end stage management.

John was a CNN Radio news anchor in 1999 when he first became interested in the potential of handheld devices to deliver news and information.  Shifting gears after 15 years in broadcast news, John led design and development of the first CNN Mobile products and services.

Since joining Time Inc. in 2006, John has introduced a series of Time Inc. brands into the mobile space, including TIME, People, Sports Illustrated, CNNMoney and InStyle.

Twitter: @JohnParis

JumpTap: Evan Krauss, SVP Advertising Sales & Biz Dev

Evan Krauss is JumpTap’s Global Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales & Business Development. Prior to joining JumpTap, Mr. Krauss served as President and CEO of Cuts, Inc a critically acclaimed online video editing service. Before Cuts, Evan spent six and half years at Yahoo! in a number of senior management roles including ad sales and general management of Yahoo’s mobile efforts.

Since 1995, Mr. Krauss has built and managed some of the earliest and most successful Internet advertising teams at Excite, AOL, and Looksmart. Throughout his career, he has been directly responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and the creation of new Internet advertising products and models.

Millennial Media: Ethan Ross, VP Sales

Ethan Ross joined Millennial Media in December 2008 as Vice President of Sales, bringing more than ten years of sales and business development leadership, including experience in digital and entertainment industries. In his role at Millennial Media, Ethan oversees a sales team responsible for generating revenue from agencies and brands for mobile display from several verticals including CPG, Auto, Telecom, Pharmaceutical, Travel & Entertainment among others. Ethan comes to Millennial Media from Track Entertainment where he served as VP, Sales & Business Development. Track is an Entertainment/Marketing agency that owns several consumer destination sites including www.clubplanet.com, www.nochelatina.com, &www.wantickets.com.

Before Track, Ethan held senior roles in several online ventures including MusicVision and UGO.com (recently sold to Hearst Interactive).

Vaux les Ventures: Miles Spencer, Venture capitalist

Miles Spencer is a prolific angel investor, new media entrepreneur and explorer.

He is best known for his role as co-host and co-creator of MoneyHunt, a reality based show where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of experts. MoneyHunt was distributed to PBS stations in the US beginning 1997 and overseas beginning 1999.

Spencer’s investing career has centered on consumer products, media, online and mobile activities under the name Vaux les Ventures. Past and present portfolio companies have included Register.com, Operative, Cellufun, Retail Sense, Mojiva, and Trust Cloud.

Greenhill SAVP: Steve Brotman, Managing Director

Steve Brotman is a Managing Director of Greenhill & Co, and co-founder and co-head of Greenhill SAVP. Prior to founding SAVP in 1998, Steve was the founder, CEO and Chairman of AdOne Classified Network, one of the nation’s leading classified ad web sites which was acquired by Hearst, Scripps and Advance-Newhouse.

Steve currently serves on the boards of Mobile Commons, ReachForce, Critical Mention and Knovel (Observer) and has previously served on the boards of Medidata (Observer), DataSynapse (Observer) and UGO (acquired by Hearst in 2007).

Twitter: @stevebrotman

Tweetmixx: Tweetmixx is a byproduct of Mixx and allows one to focus on the subject matters they are interested in, by finding the relevant links on Twitter.

Attending: Chris McGill, CEO
Twitter: @tweetmixx
CrunchBase Information on Mixx

Stocktwits: StockTwits is an open, community-powered idea and information service for investments. Users can eavesdrop on traders and investors, or contribute to the conversation and build their reputation as savvy market wizards. The service takes financial related data – using Twitter as the content production platform – and structures it by stock, user, reputation, etc.

Attending: Philip Pearlman, Angel investor and Director of Community
Twitter: @ppearlman
CrunchBase Information on Stocktwits

TweetPhoto: TweetPhoto is a photo sharing platform for the real-time web. It allows you to share photos on Twitter, Facebook and through your favorite desktop and mobile clients.

Attending: Dan Caulfield, Investor
Twitter: @tweetphoto
CrunchBase Information on Tweetphoto

SavvyAuntie: SavvyAuntie.com is the first and only community for Aunts. It enables and empowers Aunts to exchange ideas, get advice, find gifts and connect with other Savvy Aunties.

Attending: Melanie Notkin, Founder & CEO
Twitter: @savvyauntie
CrunchBase Information on Savvyauntie

TweetFeel: TweetFeel gathers real-time Twitter data about whatever search term the user has entered, and then evaluates those tweets for positive and negative feelings. TweetFeel monitors a large and growing set of indicators. The service roams Twitter to uncover any relevant chatter and determine whether that chatter is positive or negative.

Attending: Jean Davis, Co-Founder
Twitter: @tweetfeeldotcom / @JeanMarie50
CrunchBase Information on Tweetfeel

TalkingSocial: TalkingSocial™ is focused on developing and bringing useful and engaging voice related apps to mobile and social media platforms. It is a privately funded startup located in New York City. It’s core service,  Blurts™ app adds the power of voice–texture, tone, emotion and authenticity— to any Twitter conversation. It allows Twitterers to record audio and post to Twitter in text or voice format. Anyone with a mobile phone can quickly create short, 20-second soundbytes or Blurts™ (at anytime from anywhere) that are instantly posted to their Twitter account as voice Tweets.

Attending: Jeffrey Stier, CEO and Founder

Kodak: Eliezer Lubitch: VP Business Development
Eliezer Lubitch is a Vice President at the office of Kodak’s Chief Business Development Officer. Mr. Lubitch joined Eastman Kodak in 2004, as part of the acquisition of Scitex Digital Printing. Mr. Lubitch joined Scitex in 1991 as software engineer, and held various positions in R&D, algorithms research and product management. In 1996, Mr. Lubitch joined the corporate team to lead investments in imaging and information companies. In 1999, Mr. Lubitch joined Scitex America, to develop new markets, strategic accounts and partnerships. Mr. Lubitch has a long and successful track record of identifying technology -driven products and taking them through successful commercialization.
Twitter: @EliLubitch

360i: David Berkowitz, Sr. Director Emerging Media & Innovation
Senior Director of Emerging Media & Innovation for agency 360i. A frequent speaker and media pundit, he has been published hundreds of times in MediaPost, Ad Age, eMarketer, and elsewhere.

Blog: www.marketersstudio.com
Twitter: @dberkowitz

OTX: Tom Harbeck: SVP Strategy & Marketing
Tom is SVP Strategy & Marketing for global consumer research and consulting firm OTX. He’s been the CMO and Creative Director (usually simultaneously) for brand enlightened companies across diverse media and packaged goods categories.

Most recently CMO Applegate Farms, and prior as CMO/ Executive Creative Director of $500MM book and magazine publisher, Rodale. Tom lead strategic marketing and the maverick creative teams of leading cable TV networks (TNT, TBS, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., TV Land, Sundance Channel) for 12 years before joining start-up iFilm to lead  programming/Marketing. Tom’s career started at Atari in 1981, followed by eight plus years in advertising at Chiat/Day and Ogilvy & Mather where he began as an account person and morphed into a commercial producer.

Twitter: @OTXResearch

Roger Ehrenberg, Angel Investor
Roger Ehrenberg is an active NY-based angel investor through IA Capital Partners, LLC, and has made over 30 seed-stage investment since 2005 including TheLadders.com, bit.ly, Buddy Media, Clickable, Covestor, Domdex, Invite Media, Stocktwits, TweetDeck.

Roger spent 17 years on Wall Street in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, leaving in late 2004 to focus full-time on seed-stage investing and incubation. Roger also pens the business and technology blog Information Arbitrage, and is a recognized thought-leader in the areas of hedge funds, regulation and market structure. Roger also runs own quantitative trading firm, Kinetic Trading Strategies.

Blog: www.informationarbitrage.com
Twitter: @infoarbitrage