Gail Becker 

Chair, Canada, Latin America & U.S. Western Region
Edelman

Gail Becker is chair of Canada, Latin America and the U.S. Western Region at Edelman. Throughout her tenure, Becker has served as strategic counsel on a broad range of clients including Warner Bros., Starbucks, Microsoft and Symantec. She joined Edelman after serving as vice president of communications at Warner Home Entertainment where she was charged with spearheading the global public relations launch of the DVD format on behalf of Warner Bros. and Time Warner. Prior to joining Warner, Becker was West Coast correspondent and bureau chief for the Medical News Network operating from Los Angeles. Before returning to Los Angeles in 1994, Becker received a political appointment in the first Clinton administration to serve as director of communications for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Donna Shalala. Prior to that post, she served as a member of the national press staff and as the primary on-site satellite producer for candidates Bill Clinton and Al Gore during their ’92 presidential campaign. Becker began her career as an on-air broadcast journalist in local news and then as a correspondent in Washington, D.C. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California Los Angeles and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University. Becker currently serves as Chair of Edelman’s Global Women’s Executive Network (GWEN), is a board member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and volunteers her time and expertise to help a number of deserving organizations including Cedar Sinai’s Good Beginnings where she helps parents cope with infant loss or illness and the new Museum of the Holocaust in Los Angeles.

Frank A. Bennack Jr.

Chief Executive Officer, Hearst Corporation
Chairman, The Paley Center for Media

Frank A. Bennack, Jr. is the chief executive officer of Hearst Corporation, one of the nation’s largest private companies engaged in a broad range of publishing, broadcasting, cable networking and diversified communications activities. He is in his second tenure as CEO, and in his first, served as Hearst’s CEO for more than twenty-three years. He is also presently vice chairman of the Hearst Board of Directors and chairman of the corporation’s Executive Committee. Bennack is also a director of Hearst Corporation and a trustee of The Hearst Family Trust established under the Will of William Randolph Hearst. In addition, he sits on a number of corporate committees and The Hearst Foundation boards, where he has served for more than twenty-five years. After his first tenure as president and CEO began in 1979, Bennack directed the company through an unprecedented period of growth, increasing revenues sevenfold and growing earnings to thirteen times what they had been, through investments, acquisitions, and start-ups. Today, the company comprises some 200 separate businesses with approximately 20,000 employees. Under his leadership, the company launched—with ABC—three leading cable networks, A&E, History, and Lifetime, and it invested in the ESPN family of networks. On his watch, Hearst acquired eleven newspapers, including two of the nation’s largest, the Houston Chronicle and the San Francisco Chronicle, two trade publishing companies, three major consumer magazines, a television production operation, various syndication and distribution businesses, and multiple television stations. Bennack also led the company into expanded investments outside of the U.S. During his tenure, Hearst has launched such magazines as Country Living; O, The Oprah Magazine; Marie Claire; and SmartMoney. Bennack was instrumental in the decision to create what today is Hearst Television Inc., one of the nation’s largest non-network owned television station groups, which operates twenty-nine television stations. In 2009, he directed a merger between Hearst Broadcasting and Hearst-Argyle Television, resulting in Hearst-Argyle becoming a wholly-owned private subsidiary of Hearst Corporation. Bennack was an original board member of Hearst-Argyle Television, and before being named chairman in 2008, was presiding director. Hearst folded its television holdings into Hearst-Argyle Television in 1997, forming a public company. Prior to his first tenure as chief executive, Bennack served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of the corporation and, before that, as vice president and general manager of the Hearst Newspaper Group. He also served in a variety of management posts, including a seven year tenure (1967-1974) as publisher and editor of the San Antonio Light.

Jim Berk

Chief Executive Officer
Participant Media

Jim Berk is chief executive officer of Participant Media, a Los Angeles-based entertainment company that focuses on socially relevant, commercially viable feature films, documentaries and television, as well as publishing and digital media. Berk is responsible for leading the company’s day to day operations, content, overall strategy and expanding the company's reach beyond motion pictures into other forms of entertainment, extending the brand identity, enhancing social action and advocacy capabilities and overseeing all media investments and acquisitions. During his tenure, Participant expanded its reach from a pure film company to an integrated media entity. In 2007, Participant made an equity investment in Summit Entertainment, a leading independent film production, distribution and worldwide foreign sales company, with which Participant has a non-exclusive worldwide distribution agreement, and Me to We, a Toronto-based social enterprise promoting a socially responsible, globally-focused approach to living for young people who want to help change the world through their daily choices. In 2008, Participant teamed with Imagenation Abu Dhabi to create a fund to finance 15-18 feature films over a five-year period. In 2009 Participant launched TakePart.com, a social action website and the hub of an extensive network of cause-related sites with content covering a broad array of social issues, combined with ways for individuals to take action. Prior to Participant, Berk was chairman and CEO of Gryphon Colleges Corporation, where he was responsible for the formation, platform acquisition and establishment of a private company operating for-profit post education schools.

Yoni Bloch

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Interlude

Yoni Bloch is a successful Israeli musician and performer. As an avid believer and early adopter of the Internet, Bloch first entered the public's eye in 2003, with the debut of his first album over the Internet. Since then, he has been able to successfully launch various creative online initiatives and constantly strives to find innovative ways to promote and deliver music through innovative means.

Aryeh B. Bourkoff

Vice Chairman, Head of Investment Banking Americas
UBS

Aryeh is currently vice chairman and head of investment banking, Americas. Before becoming head of investment banking Americas, he was joint-global head of technology, media, and telecommunications. He moved over to the investment banking division after being the head of the media and communications research group, specializing in coverage of the cable, satellite and entertainment sectors from a full capital structure perspective. Prior to joining UBS in 1999, Bourkoff was the senior cable and telecommunications high yield research analyst at CIBC World Markets Corp. Formerly, he was also a member of the high yield research group at Smith Barney. Bourkoff has covered media and communications for fifteen years, during which time he has cultivated extensive industry expertise and strong relationships with leaders across both sectors.

Joseph Calabrese

Partner
O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Joseph Calabrese is a partner in O'Melveny & Myers' Century City office, chair of the firm's Southern California Transaction Practice, and chair of its Entertainment, Sports and Media Practice -- which Chambers has awarded its prestigious "Award of Excellence" in Media and Entertainment for an unprecedented three out of the last four years. A trusted business counselor, advisor and strategist, Calabrese represents leaders in the entertainment, sports and media industries, including Legendary Pictures, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the International Olympic Committee, in all aspects of their business. Calabrese regularly provides advice to American companies doing business overseas, and to global media companies seeking to establish or expand their presence in the United States. Calabrese is regularly recognized by leading publications, including The Hollywood Reporter, Chambers, Legal 500, the Los Angeles Business Journal, Variety and Best Lawyers, as "simply one of the best" and most "influential" and "creative" entertainment lawyers in the industry.  The Century City Bar Association selected him as the 2009 Entertainment Lawyer of the Year.  Calabrese is actively involved in a number of professional, civic, and philanthropic organizations, including serving as the immediate past chair and as a current member of the executive committee of the Constitutional Rights Foundation. HE is a member of the Cornell Law School Advisory Council and is an arbitrator for the Independent Film & Television Alliance.

Lorea Canales

Journalist, Novelist

Lorea Canales is a novelist, journalist and lawyer from Mexico. Canales worked in antitrust and electorate law in Washington DC and Mexico, before joining Mexico City’s largest newspaper, Reforma, as a legal correspondent in 1997. Canales taught law at ITAM University in Mexico City in 2000. That year, she moved to New York, covering 9/11, among other news for magazines and newspapers in Mexico. She has published in some of the most prestigious publications in Latin America including El Universal, Cambio, and Travesías. From 2003-2006 she edited for the New York Times Syndicate- their Spanish language news service. In 2006, she worked for Felipe Calderon’s successful presidential campaign in Mexico. In 2010, Canales received a masters in fine arts from New York University. Her translation of Carol Ann Duffy's poems will be published this fall by Bajo la Luna. Her first novel, Apenas Marta, will be published this September by Random House. Canales received her masters degree in law from Georgetown University in 1995.

Juan Luis Cebrian

Chief Executive Officer
Grupo Prisa

Juan Luis Cebrián is the CEO and chairman of the executive committee of the Spanish media group Prisa, as well as vice president of Prisa TV and chairman of the daily newspaper El País. Prisa is the largest group in education, communication, media and entertainment fields in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking worlds, present in 22 Latin American countries. Cebrián was managing editor and deputy editor-in-chief of Madrid dailies Pueblo and Informaciones, to be later appointed head of the news services of Spanish public television (TVE). In January 1976, he became the founding editor-in-chief of El País, which has been the leading paper for more than three decades not only in Spain but in the whole Spanish-speaking market. From 1986 to1988, he was also president of the International Press Institute (IPI). In October 1988, he took over as chief executive officer of El País and Grupo Prisa. He was named chairman of the executive committee of the board of Prisa in December 2008, and recently appointed chairman of El País. He is a graduate from the Official School of Journalism and from the Complutense University of Madrid. He also studied Philosophy. Cebrián is a steady member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 1996 and has authored numerous books both of fiction and essays.

Peter Chernin

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Chernin Entertainment & The Chernin Group

Peter Chernin currently owns and runs Chernin Entertainment and The Chernin Group, which he founded in 2009. Prior to this, Chernin served as president and chief operating officer of News Corporation, and chairman and chief executive officer of the Fox Group, where he oversaw the global operations of the company’s film, television, satellite, cable, and digital media businesses. Prior to his president and COO post at News Corporation, he headed Twentieth Century Fox Filmed Entertainment and, earlier, the Fox Broadcasting Company. He has also had oversight of Fox’s tremendous growth in sports, cable and general entertainment television programming, and distribution in the US and internationally. Prior to joining News Corporation, Chernin served as president and chief operating officer of Lorimar Film Entertainment. Earlier, he was executive vice president, programming and marketing for Showtime/The Movie Channel Inc. Previously, Chernin was in television production and book publishing. He sits on the Boards of American Express and Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is also chairman of Malaria No More, a non-profit dedicated to ending deaths due to Malaria.

Adriana Cisneros

Vice Chairman and Director of Strategy
Cisneros Group of Companies

Adriana Cisneros is vice chairman and director of strategy of the Cisneros Group of Companies, one of the largest privately held media, entertainment, telecommunications and consumer products organizations in the world. The Cisneros Group wholly owns or controls companies ranging from broadcast television and television production to consumer products and real estate. The Group sells TV programming and other media content on five continents and in over 90 countries. Its media and entertainment holdings include Venevisión, the leading television network in Venezuela; Venevision International, a global Spanish-language entertainment company; and Venevision Productions, a producer and supplier of top-tier telenovelas for North American and world audiences. Cisneros is the granddaughter of the Group’s founder, Diego Cisneros, and daughter of the chairman, Gustavo Cisneros. She works closely with her father in managing operations and in developing strategy for the Group as a whole. As a third-generation leader of the Cisneros Group, she is overseeing its transformation from a pan-regional Latin American enterprise to one increasingly focused on opportunities in the U.S. Hispanic and global markets. Cisneros is currently the CEO of Tropicalia, a Cisneros Group real estate project in the Dominican Republic. Tropicalia is a luxury eco-resort, intended to be one of the Caribbean’s most exclusive destinations. She is also president of the Fundación Cisneros, founded by Gustavo Cisneros and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. The Fundación Cisneros is committed to enriching education in Latin America and to increasing awareness of Latin America’s contributions to world culture. Adriana is focused on improving educational infrastructure and directs three programs: Actualización de Maestros en Educación (AME) a teacher-training program, Piensa en Arte, and Cl@se an educational Spanish language panregional TV channel. Cisneros is director of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy’s), and a member of the International Council and of the Latin American and Caribbean Fund at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has recently become a board member of P.S. 1 at MoMA, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Latin American Program Advisory Board, and the Georgetown University Latin American Board. In 2011, she was elected as a Term Member of the Council of Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the Inter-American Culture & Development Foundation (ICDF), a non-profit initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank. Past board affiliations include Aid for AIDS and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Cisneros received a master’s degree in journalism from New York University in 2005, a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University in 2002, and is a graduate of the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) and an Alumni of Harvard Business School.

Barry Diller

Chairman and Senior Executive
IAC

Barry Diller is the chairman and senior executive of IAC and the chairman and senior executive of Expedia, Inc. From 1995 to late 2010, Mr. Diller served as the chairman and the chief executive officer of IAC and from May 2002 to August 2003, he also served as chairman and CEO of Vivendi Universal Entertainment. Before assuming his present position at IAC, Mr. Diller had served as chairman and CEO of QVC, Inc. and Fox, Inc. Prior to joining Fox, Inc., he served for ten years as chairman of Paramount Pictures Corporation. Earlier, Mr. Diller was vice president of Prime Time Television for ABC Entertainment. Mr. Diller serves on the boards of The Washington Post Company and The Coca-Cola Company. He is a trustee of New York University and serves on the Executive Board for the Medical Sciences at UCLA, the Board of Conservation International and the Board of Councilors for the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. Mr. Diller is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Marcel Fenez

Global Leader, Entertainment and Media Practice
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Marcel Fenez was responsible for initially establishing the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Hong Kong entertainment, media, and communications group in 1995. Since 1998 he has been the Asia Pacific leader of PwC’s entertainment and media practice and in 2007 he was appointed the global leader. From 2001-2007, he led PricewaterhouseCoopers’ enlarged technology, infocom, and entertainment (TICE) practice in Hong Kong and Mainland China comprising of over 1000 professionals. Since 2005, he has been the leader of the TICE practice throughout Asia Pacific. As a resident of Hong Kong for more than twenty-two years, Fenez has extensive experience working with companies in all sectors of the entertainment and media industries throughout Asia. Fenez has worked with many major local media companies including Shaw Brothers, TVB, Sing Tao Group, and Celestial Pictures as well as the Asia Pacific operations of multinationals including MTV, The Interpublic Group, Sony, Time Warner, Walt Disney, NBC Universal, and Universal Music. Fenez is a regular contributor to global and regional media and events on issues relating to the development of entertainment, media, and the ongoing convergence resulting from new technologies. Since 2001, he has been the elected chairman of CASBAA, the association for digital multichannel television, content, platforms, advertising and video delivery across Asia.

Tom Freston

Principal
Firefly3

Tom Freston is a principal of Firefly3, an investment and consultancy firm focusing on the media and entertainment industries. He is the former chief executive officer of Viacom Inc., where he also served as chief operating officer. For 17 years, Freston was chairman and chief executive officer of MTV Networks, (MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, Comedy Central, and other networks). Prior to that he ran a textile business in Afghanistan and India. Currently, he is chairman of the ONE Campaign, an anti-poverty advocacy group and serves on the boards of the American Museum of Natural History, DreamWorks Animation, Product (Red) and Moby Media in Afghanistan. Freston consults Oprah Winfrey and others in the media and entertainment industries. He also serves as a trustee of The Asia Society and was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 2011.

Jason Hirschhorn

CEO
The ReDEF Group

Jason Hirschhorn (@JasonHirschhorn), a media and technology entrepreneur, is the curator of Media ReDEFined (@MediaReDEF), a free daily news feed covering the changing world of media, communications, entertainment, marketing and technology. The former president of MySpace, Hirschhorn has also served as president of Sling Media, chief digital officer at MTV Networks and is on the board of directors of MGM Studios.

Razmig Hovaghimian

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Viki

ViKi is an international video site for the best of world TV and movies, translated into over 150 languages by a community of avid fans. With over 1 billion videos viewed and 125 million words translated, ViKi uniquely brings entertainment to new audiences and unlocks massive new markets for content owners. Razmig Hovaghimian is the co-founder and CEO of ViKi.com, prior to which he was a Senior Vice President at NBC Universal, leading production partnerships and slate finance. He is also the co-founder, board member and joint patent holder of Embrace, a $25 infant incubator for the developing world. He earned his MBA from Stanford University, and his BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley, graduating magna cum laude.

Victor Koo

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Youku

Victor Koo is the Founder and CEO of Youku (NYSE: YOKU). Youku is the leading internet television company in China with the mission to become the primary source of video content for the Chinese population across any internet-enabled device. Youku is ranked #1 in the online video category according to Comscore, CR Nielsen and Google Adplanner and the #3 website in China in terms of user time spent according to iResearch. Youku syndicates online video content from over 2500 partners and also serves as a major media and advertising platform for over 400 leading advertisers. The company also produces web-based movie, TV series and variety shows under the Youku Original brand and hosts the leading user-generated video platform in China. Before Youku, Koo was previously president of Sohu.com Inc., a leading internet portal in China. Before becoming president, he also held other senior positions within Sohu since 1999, such as chief operating officer and chief financial officer. Besides running the portal and search businesses, Koo was instrumental in Sohu’s major acquisitions and strategic partnerships such as Beijing 2008 Olympics, NBA/Yao Ming, Disney and News Corp. He joined Sohu from Richina Group, a private equity investment firm based in China where he held numerous senior positions since 1994. As vice president of Richina Capital, Koo appraised and developed direct investment projects in a variety of industries, but with a special focus in the media and entertainment sector. Previously, he also worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company in San Francisco and for Procter & Gamble International in Hong Kong. Koo was a Regent’s Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree with Phi Beta Kappa. He also graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business with a MBA degree, where he won a fellowship from the Center for East Asian Studies. He has also studied at the University of New South Wales at Sydney and at Beijing University.

Scott Kurnit

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
AdKeeper

Scott Kurnit is the founder, chairman, and CEO of AdKeeper. He also serves on the Boards of Appssavvy, Brightcove, Dotomi, Goodmail, Mashlogic, OpenSky, SendMe Mobile, and The Paley Center for Media. He is an advisor to About, Appssavvy, Black Arrow, Mashery, and SmartBrief. Kurnit founded and served as chairman and CEO of About, Inc. as it grew to a public market value of $1.7 billion and was the fifth largest of all Web properties. He has worked at the highest levels of Warner, Viacom, News Corp., PBS, IBM, and MCI companies.

Isaac Lee

President of News
Univision Networks

Isaac Lee, 39, is the president of news at Univision Networks. Born in Bogotá, Colombia to Jewish immigrants, for the past 10 years he has been a resident of the United States and has dedicated himself to chronicle the ascent of the U.S. Hispanic population. Lee began his career as a journalist at Cambio16, a newsmagazine founded in Spain. He then went on to work for TV newscasters QAP and CMI. At the age of 25, Lee was appointed editor of Cromos, Latin America’s oldest magazine, and at 26 he was named editor-in-chief of Semana, Colombia's most prestigious news magazine. While at Semana, Lee launched Soho, a men's lifestyle magazine that became the country's most successful publication. Lee then served as founding partner and editor in chief of PODER, a business magazine focused on the US Hispanic market, with pan-regional editions. Lee also founded LOFT, a magazine aimed at US Hispanics, which earned the Folio Award for Best Lifestyle Magazine in 2006, and served as editor-in-chief of Hispanic Magazine, the most widely distributed monthly publication for the Hispanic Market. In 2008 Lee produced his first documentary, "INSIDE: FARC Hostage Rescue," for National Geographic Channel International and NatGeo US. Lee also produced the award winning feature film, "Paraiso Travel," an Immigration story based on the novel of the same name by acclaimed writer Jorge Franco. In December, Lee was named President of News at Univision Networks. Lee has a Masters in Journalism from the Universidad de Los Andes. He is a member of the Georgetown Leadership Seminar and has attended advanced negotiation seminars at Harvard, and online publishing at Stanford.

Howard Marks

Chief Executive Officer
Gamezee

Howard Marks is the co-founder and CEO of Gamzee, a social mobile games company formed in 2011. He is formerly the SVP of strategic planning and head of the Acclaim Studio for Playdom, a wholly owned division of The Walt Disney Company. Marks joined Playdom as part of the Acclaim Games acquisition in May 2010. Marks was the founder and CEO of Acclaim Games, a publisher of online games. Previously, Marks was the co-founder of Activision and chairman of Activision Studios from 1991 until 1997. As an entrepreneur, with over 25 years in the technology industry, Marks built several successful companies from their infancy. As co-founder, former board member and executive vice president of video game giant Activision, he and a partner took control and in 1991, turned the ailing company into the video game industry leader. As a games industry expert, Marks built one of the largest and most successful games studios in the industry selling millions of games. After Activision, Marks took a break from the games industry and founded eMind. As CEO of eMind, Marks delivered online learning and compliance management to the top tier financial service corporations. eMind was sold in 2005 to The Washington Post Company. Marks has a bachelor of science in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He is bilingual and is a triple national of the U.S., United Kingdom, and France.

Marissa Mayer

Vice President, Location and Local Services
Google

Marissa Mayer leads the product management and engineering efforts of Google’s local, mobile, and contextual discovery products including Google Maps, Google Maps for Mobile, Local Search, Google Earth, Street View, Latitude and more. During her 12 years at Google, Mayer led product management and design efforts for Google search for more than a decade and has also helmed images, news, books, products, toolbar, and iGoogle. She started at Google in 1999 as Google’s 20th employee and first woman engineer. Her contributions and leadership have been recognized by numerous publications. Fortune magazine has listed her for the past 3 years on their annual Most Powerful Women’s list, and she was the youngest ever to appear on the list. In 2011, she was also recognized on Forbes Most Powerful Women's list. She has also been honored by the New York Women in Communications, Inc. with a Matrix Award, by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader, and by Glamour Magazine as Woman of the Year. Mayer serves on the board of various non-profits, including the Smithsonian National Design Museum, the New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems and her M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence.

Matt Michelsen

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
The Backplane

Matt Michelsen is an energetic entrepreneur who has built multiple companies in finance, retail, and media. He currently is engaged in a disruptive tech company that aims to redefine the online social fabric of users, The Backplane. Michelsen currently serves as CEO and co-founder of The Backplane, which powers one of the largest digital footprints in existence: Lady Gaga's social media community (www.littlemonsters.com). As the founder and principal of Embarcadero Securities, Michelsen built a client base of over 250 hedge funds and played an instrumental role in developing all aspects of Embarcadero's services, becoming one of the most connected people in US finance. He also founded UNX, which provides advanced electronic trading technology solutions to buy-side institutions and broker-dealers through its open architecture platform, Catalyst® Portal. Michelsen is also chairman of Gunnar Optiks, which Karl Zeiss has made a strategic investment in. Michelsen was previously an Airborne Ranger in the U.S. Army, and received a B.S. from the University of Rhode Island.

Jonathan F. Miller

Chief Digital Officer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Digital Media Group
News Corporation

Jon Miller is chief digital officer, and chairman and CEO, Digital Media Group for News Corporation, a role in which he drives the company’s overall digital strategy in conjunction with various operational heads, while also directly overseeing all of News Corp.’s standalone digital businesses. Prior to News Corporation, Miller was a founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group, an investment firm focusing on digital media and the consumer Internet space. Previously, Miller was chairman and CEO of AOL from 2002 to 2006. Earlier in his career, Miller was CEO and president of USA Information and Services -- now IACI and Expedia -- and also served as managing director of Nickelodeon International, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks. From 1987-1993, Miller was vice president, programming and co-general manager of NBA Entertainment, where he was responsible for league-wide brand management and programming. Miller is a member of the board of directors of the American Film Institute and Live Nation Entertainment, and is also a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He serves on the board of trustees of Emerson College and WNYC Public Radio in New York. Miller resides in New York and holds a B.A. from Harvard College.

Pat Mitchell

President and Chief Executive Officer
The Paley Center for Media

Pat Mitchell is the president and chief executive officer of the Paley Center for Media in New York and Los Angeles. She led the transition of renaming the 30 year old institution (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) and further evolving and strengthening the mission to convene the forums and produce the programs that explore the role of media in every aspect of life and society. Using the lens of media to better understand the past, explore the present and imagine the future, the Paley Center offers the largest collection of radio, television and digital content available for public use and viewing, and offers a year round schedule of programs celebrating the best of media, past and present, as well as high level forums for global media and technology leaders. Ms. Mitchell’s diverse media experiences as an award winning producer and journalist, well known television personality and media executive prepared her to lead the Paley Center to a new level of importance during these transformative times of change in the media landscape. Immediately prior to her current leadership position, Mitchell was the president and chief executive officer at Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Under her tenure, Mitchell rejuvenated the National Program Service, oversaw the development of many new projects, including a new primetime documentary series, launch of the a new channel for children, the first public media and commercial partnership, and helped to raised the two billion dollars needed for the digital conversion of the 352 public television stations. She also established the PBS Foundation to work with local stations to create an endowment for programming and special initiatives and convened the first commission to draft a digital strategy for public service media. From 1990-2000, Mitchell was an executive in charge of original productions for Ted Turner’s cable networks, overseeing as Executive Producer more than 400 hours of documentaries and specials a year. During her tenure as President of Turner Original Productions and CNN Productions, the programs produced under her direction were awarded 37 Emmy Awards, 5 Peabody Awards, and 2 Academy Award nominations. In the mid-'80s, Mitchell founded and ran an independent production company specializing in programs produced for and about women, and she was the first American woman to host, produce, and own her own national television series, Woman to Woman, which was nationally syndicated and won the EMMY for Best Talk program in 1984. The series was also seen on LIFETIME cable channel and Mitchell produced and hosted Woman to Woman segments for NBC’s TODAY program from 1985-89. Ms. Mitchell is an active advocate for women, serving on the boards of VDAY, a global movement to end violence against women. the board of Women without Borders, and the US Afghan Women’s Council as well as being a member of Harvard University’s Women’s Leadership Board and is on NBC Universal’s Women’s Advisory Council. She is also a member of the International Women’s Forum and Chairs the Jordan River Foundation US Board. Her other philanthropic commitments include being the founding Chair of Global Green USA, President Mikhail Gorbachev’s global environmental organization, a public Trustee of the Mayo Clinics, a member of the Acumen Fund Board and the Vice Chair of the Sundance Institute Board. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Director on the corporate board of AOL. She is married to Atlanta businessman Scott Seydel, and together they have six children and ten grandchildren.

Saad Mohseni

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
MOBY Media FZ LLC

Saad Mohseni is the chairman and CEO of MOBY Group. Since 2002, the company has grown into a media entity with interests throughout Afghanistan and the Middle East,  including the world's first pan-regional Persian general entertainment network - a joint venture between and MOBY Group and News Corporation. MOBY employs over 1000 staff across 15 integrated businesses including radio and TV stations, print media, production, creative agencies, technology solutions, and strategic partnerships. Today, it reaches millions of Dari, Farsi, Pashto, and English speaking people in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Gulf and will soon serve other substantial populations across the  Middle East and South Asia. MOBY Group is the world's most prolific producer of Pashto and Dari/Farsi content, including dramas, reality television, game shows, situation comedies, as well as political programming.  Its hard-hitting current affairs news shows, locally produced dramas, and documentaries have received accolades and recognition in the international arena, including two awards at the 2010 Sundance Festival for the moving documentary "Afghan Star." Previously, Mohseni served as a senior economic advisor to the Afghan Government from 2002 to 2004, where he assisted in the development of the Industrial Parks Commission, as well as the High Commission for Investment. He also helped establish the Afghanistan Centre for Policy and Research Studies, one of the nation's best-known think tanks. Earlier this year, he was recognised in the  2011 Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. Mohseni has an extensive background in investment banking, equities, and financial markets in Australia and Europe. Prior to establishing MOBY Group, Mohseni headed the Equities and Corporate Finance Division at one of Australia's leading investment banks.

Leslie Moonves

President and Chief Executive Officer
CBS Corporation

As president and CEO of CBS Corporation, Leslie Moonves oversees all operations of the company, including the CBS Television Network, The CW, CBS Television Stations, CBS Television Studios, CBS Television Distribution Group, Showtime, CBS Radio, CBS Records, CBS Outdoor, Simon & Schuster, CBS Interactive, CBS Consumer Products, CBS Home Entertainment, and CBS Films. Prior to the Viacom separation in 2005, Mr. Moonves served as copresident and co-COO of Viacom and chairman of CBS, overseeing all of Viacom's domestic and international broadcast television operations, its radio division, and its outdoor advertising operations. Previously, he held a variety of executive positions at Warner Bros. Television, Lorimar Television, and Twentieth Century Fox Television. He is a member of The Paley Center for Media’s Board of Trustees.

Dave Morgan

Chief Executive Officer
Simulmedia, Inc.

Dave Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, Inc., a New York City-based start-up building a targeted advertising network for the US television industry. Morgan previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Mr. Morgan served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX). A lawyer by training, he served as general counsel and director of New Media Ventures at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in the early 1990’s. Morgan received a B.A. in Political Science from The Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He serves on the boards of the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) and the American Press Institute (API), and was a long-time member of the executive committee and board of directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He and his wife, writer Lorea Canales, live in Manhattan with their two daughters.

Judy D. Olian

Dean and John E. Anderson Chair in Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management

Judy D. Olian, Ph.D., is the eighth dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management and is the John E. Anderson chair in management. She began her appointment in 2006 after serving more than five years as dean and professor of management at the Smeal College of Business Administration at the Pennsylvania State University. Under her leadership, UCLA Anderson has hired a record number of faculty from the world’s best research institutions, launched new degree and certificate programs, initiated a diverse set of global immersion courses, and developed targeted partnerships, especially in Asia and Latin America. The School’s Board of Visitors has expanded, attracting many prominent business leaders representing diverse functional and global perspectives. Olian served as the chairman of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the premier business accrediting and management thought leadership organization in the world. Olian has been widely published in journals on human resource management, top management team composition, and business alignment of management systems, wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column and hosted a monthly television show on current topics in business. She is a sought-after speaker and has consulted for major corporations. She serves on the advisory boards of Beijing University’s Guanghua School of Business, the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Marymount High School, and Luminous Capital.

Deb Roy

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Bluefin Labs

Deb Roy is co-founder and CEO of Bluefin Labs, a venture-backed media technology company that provides brands, agencies and media companies with precise, real-time audience engagement data by synchronizing social media commentary with television content. He has over 20 years of research experience in machine intelligence, cognitive science and media convergence combined with a long history of working with Fortune 500 companies to translate research ideas into practice. Roy is also a tenured member of the MIT faculty and director of the Cognitive Machines group at the MIT Media Lab where he pioneered research on modeling human behavior using massive data sets. A native of Canada, Roy received his bachelor of computer engineering from the University of Waterloo and his PhD in cognitive science from MIT. Follow Roy on Twitter @dkroy.

Sheryl Sandberg

Chief Operating Officer
Facebook

Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Facebook. She oversees the firm's business operations including sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy and communications. Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of global online sales and operations at Google, where she built and managed the online sales channels for advertising and publishing and operations for consumer products worldwide. She was also instrumental in launching Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm. Before Google, Sheryl served as chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton where she helped lead the Treasury’s work on forgiving debt in the developing world. Earlier, she was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and an economist with the World Bank. Sheryl received a B.A. summa cum laude in Economics from Harvard University and was awarded the John H. Williams Prize for the top graduating student in economics. She received an MBA with highest distinction from the Harvard Business School. Sheryl serves on the boards of The Walt Disney Company, Starbucks, Women for Women International, Center for Global Development and V-Day. Sheryl was recently named as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune.

Geoffrey K. Sands

Director & Leader, Global Media, Entertainment and Information Practice
McKinsey & Company

Geoffrey Sands is a director of McKinsey & Company and heads its global media, entertainment and information practice in North America. He also co-leads McKinsey’s digital marketing practice. He has over 25 years of experience working with many of the leading marketing, media and entertainment companies. His clients span a wide range of businesses that include: newspaper, magazine and book publishing; broadcast and cable television; internet service providers; recorded music; filmed entertainment; professional publishing; business information services; education; marketing services; video games; consumer electronics; and sports. Sands serves on the board of directors of the Sundance Institute, Thirteen/WNET and the Paley Center for Media. He is also chairman of the board of The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Since 2004, he has been the industry advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Media & Entertainment Governors’ Meetings, and also serves as a member of the Forum’s Council on the Future of Journalism. He received his BA and MBA from Yale University.

Ted Sarandos

Chief Content Officer
Netflix

Ted Sarandos has led content acquisition for Netflix since 2000. With more than 20 years experience in home entertainment, he is recognized in the industry as an innovator in film acquisition and distribution. Sarandos oversees the Beverly Hills office of Netflix with a staff of 75 people who manage the company's content acquisition through relationships with studios, networks, film makers and producers. As Netflix has grown to 12.3 million subscribers by the end of 2009, Sarandos has established Netflix as a successful film distributor within the entertainment industry. During his tenure, the Netflix library has increased from 2,000 to 100,000 titles on DVD and more than 17,000 movies and TV episodes available to watch instantly on the computer and the TV. Sarandos has enabled Netflix to provide the broadest variety of films for consumers as well as offer an alternate distribution method for smaller and independent films that might not otherwise be seen. Sarandos began his home video career managing a metropolitan retail chain from 1983 to 1988. He then moved to video distributor ETD, where he served as Western regional director of sales and operations. Until March 2000, Sarandos was vice president of product and merchandising for Video City, where he negotiated the industry's first DVD revenue sharing agreement and reduced the cost of content from all studios. He is a former chapter president and board member for the Video Software Dealers Association. He also serves on the Film Advisory Board for Tribeca Film Festival, the retail advisory board for the Digital Entertainment Group, FIND Advisory Board and MediaRights.org, as well as a serving as a trustee for International Documentary Association. Ted has been included in Variety's "Global 50," a list of the 50 most influential people in independent film distribution, as well as The Hollywood Reporter's "Indie Power 50." Sarandos lives in Beverly Hills with his wife Nicole and two children, Sarah and Tony.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Founder and Chairman
Joyus

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is founder and chairman of JOYUS, the web’s first premium video shopping experience online. Prior to founding JOYUS in January 2011, she spent 18 years as a leading consumer internet and media executive at global and early stage companies including Google, Amazon, Yodlee, and News Corporation. Most recently, Singh Cassidy served as CEO and chairman of the board at the leading social commerce site, Polyvore, Inc., and CEO-in-residence with Accel Partners, a leading global consumer internet venture capital firm. At Polyvore, she focused on building the company’s business operations, reaching record advertising revenues and achieving key sales and syndication partnerships with retailers and brands such as Coach, Tory Burch, Nike, Yves St. Laurent, Nordstrom, Victoria Secret, and the New York Times. From 2003 to 2009, Singh Cassidy was a senior executive at Google, Inc., where she grew and scaled several leading businesses including Google Local & Maps, Google Books, Scholar, and Video, and Asia-Pacific & Latin American Operations. As president of Asia Pacific and Latin America, she was responsible for all of Google’s commercial operations in both regions, and built the company’s physical presence from inception to a multi-billion dollar business serving users, advertisers and partners across 40 domains and 103 different countries throughout APAC and Latin America. Previously, Singh Cassidy drove sales and business development with leading internet companies in the consumer and financial services sectors, as co-founder and senior vice president of business development for Yodlee.com Inc., a leading solutions provider to the global financial services industry, and, earlier, in strategy and business development at Amazon.com and at leading British pay TV provider BSkyB, a division of News Corporation. She began her career in investment banking for Merrill Lynch in New York and London. For her work in the Internet industry, Singh Cassidy has been profiled in numerous publications globally, including Fortune, Business Week, Ad Age, Canada Post, India Today, and the book, Innovation Nation, profiling Canada’s most innovative business leaders. Most recently she was named a “Woman to Watch” by Ad Age in 2010, and Fortune in 2008, a TechCrunch Fellow in 2009, and one of the top 100 Women of Influence in the Bay Area in 2010. Singh Cassidy currently serves on the board of Formspring, Inc., and the advisory board of Twitter. She has been a board member of J. Crew Group, Inc., and also serves on the Advisory Board for A Woman’s Nation, with Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress. Singh Cassidy is a graduate of the Ivey School of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and is married with three children.

Anne Sweeney

Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks
President, Disney•ABC Television Group

Anne Sweeney is co-chair, Disney Media Networks, and president, Disney/ABC Television Group, which includes The Walt Disney Company's global entertainment and news television properties, owned television stations group, as well as radio and publishing businesses. She oversees ABC Studios, the ABC owned television stations group, and the ABC television network, which provides entertainment, news and kids programming to viewers via more than 200 affiliated stations across the U.S. She also oversees Disney Channels Worldwide, a portfolio of 94 kid-driven, family inclusive entertainment channels, including Disney Channel, Disney XD, Playhouse Disney, Disney Cinemagic, Hungama, GXT and Radio Disney brands. Additionally, Sweeney's responsibilities include cable networks ABC Family and SOAPnet, the company's equity interest in A&E Television Networks, and Disney's publishing imprint, Hyperion. Sweeney joined The Walt Disney Company in February 1996 as president of Disney Channel and executive vice president of Disney/ABC Cable Networks. Previously she was chairman and CEO of FX Networks, Inc., since 1993. During her tenure there, she presided over the launch of two basic cable networks, entertainment-focused FX and FXM: Movies from Fox, Hollywood's first studio-based movie network. Before joining Fox, Sweeney spent 12 years at Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite in various executive positions, most recently as senior vice president of Program Enterprises. Among many accomplishments, she oversaw Nickelodeon's international expansion, including launching the channel in the United Kingdom, resulting in a joint venture with British Sky Broadcasting.

Susan D. Whiting

Vice Chair
Nielsen

Susan D. Whiting is vice chair of Nielsen. She was appointed to this role in November 2008. She was also named chief diversity officer in October 2010. Sharing the office of the CEO with CEO David Calhoun, she focuses on global client relations, communications and marketing, public and government affairs, corporate social responsibility, and Nielsen’s diversity initiatives. Whiting joined Nielsen Media Research in 1978 as part of the company's management training program. She became president and chief operating officer in 2001, and CEO in 2002. Following the acquisition and integration of the Nielsen company businesses by new owners in 2006, Susan was appointed chairman of Nielsen media research and executive vice president of Nielsen, with marketing and product leadership responsibilities for all global Nielsen business units. Whiting serves as a member of Nielsen’s executive council, and was a recipient of the 2009 Women Who Make a Difference Award from the International Women's Forum. In 2007, Whiting was recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of their “Women to Watch,” and she was named that same year by Crain's New York Business as one of the “100 Most Influential Women in New York City.” She is a vice chair of the Corporate Fund Board of the Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, and sits on the board of directors for MarkMonitor, the Ad Council, and the YMCA of Greater New York. In addition, she is a board trustee of Chicago's Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Whiting is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the International Women’s Forum and the Chicago Women’s Network. She graduated from Denison University and currently serves as trustee of the University.

Lauren Zalaznick

Chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media
NBCUniversal

Lauren Zalaznick was named chairman, NBCUniversal Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media when Comcast and GE completed their transaction in 2011 creating a joint venture consisting of NBCUniversal businesses and Comcast's cable networks, regional sports networks, and certain digital properties. Her expanded new role includes oversight of the cable networks Bravo Media, Oxygen Media, Style, mun2 and PBS Sprout; and the Spanish language broadcaster Telemundo. Additionally, she runs the digital properties iVillage, DailyCandy, Swirl and Fandango, along with the Integrated Strategic Marketing group, which includes the company-wide initiatives Green is Universal, Healthy At NBC Universal and Women At NBCUniversal. Zalaznick arrived at NBC after the network’s acquisition of Universal (in May 2004) where she was the President of the critically acclaimed Universal-owned TRIO network from May 2002 – December 2005. Her first television job was at VH1 in 1994 as vice president, marketing & promotion, but Zalaznick launched her career in film, producing a number of independent feature films including the Cannes and Sundance Festival award-winning films, “Kids,” “Safe,” and “Girls Town.”