Speakers' Bios
Gary Angel is president and co-founder of Semphonic, one of the largest web analytic consultancies in the United States. He's responsible for leading Semphonic's development of web analytics for web marketing professionals. He helps companies like WebMD, Intuit, American Express and Charles Schwab maximize their web channel marketing through intelligent use of enterprise web analytics. A frequent speaker on web analytics at events like eMetrics, VisCon, Searchnomics and Engage, Gary has published articles on web and SEM analytics in ADOTAS, DM News, American Demographics, CRM Guru, CRM Buyer, IMediaConnection, Business Geographics and Business Insurance.
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Max Brantley has been editor of the Arkansas Times since 1992. He worked almost 19 years before that as a reporter, city editor and political columnist for the daily Arkansas Gazette.
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Jen Chan has been with NOW Magazine since 2001 and took on the Interactive Manager position in 2004. She oversees day-to-day nowtoronto.com operations, including online advertising as well as developing other content initiatives. She actively represents NOW on the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada's Ad Ops council, setting country-wide policies and standards, and is a member of AdMonsters.
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Carol Flagg is a managing partner in HITECH Answers and founder of Pivotal Solution Group. Before going out on her own in 2008, Carol was the advertising director for many years for The Austin Chronicle. She resides outside of Phoenix, Ariz.
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Jason Joyce is the digital media director for Isthmus, an AAN member paper based in Madison, Wis.
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Janine Kahn is the web editor and a blogger for OC Weekly. Before joining the paper in May, 2007, she was an education blogger for the Los Angeles Times, where she helped build and customize the School Me! blog. While attending the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, she was a section editor and reporter for Annenberg's Online Journalism Review.
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Tim Keck is the publisher of The Stranger and the president of Index, which also owns the Portland Mercury. Keck and Weekly Alibi Publisher Emeritus Chris Johnson co-founded The Onion in 1988 while they were students at the University of Wisconsin; they sold it to colleagues the following year.
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Bob Kilpatrick is director of digital development for Seven Days in Burlington, Vt.
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Dave Morgan is executive vice president of global advertising strategy for AOL, where he focuses on advertising strategy and partnerships. Prior to joining AOL, Morgan served as CEO and chairman of TACODA, a company he founded in 2001 and AOL acquired in Sept. 2007. Morgan has been an online advertising pioneer. In 1995 he founded Real Media, Inc., one of the first online ad networks and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media, serving as its chairman and CEO until 2001. Morgan also has served as general counsel and director of new media ventures for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, where he helped launch more than a dozen new media businesses in the early 1990s. Previously, he was an associate in the corporate department of the Philadelphia-based law firm of Duane Morris. Morgan is a frequent speaker, writer, and commentator on advertising issues and is active in public policy issues relating to advertising and privacy. He is involved in a number of industry trade groups and holds board positions with both the Internet Advertising Bureau and the digital marketing board of the Direct Marketing Association.
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Dave Schmall is publisher of Creative Loafing Media in Atlanta. Since 1991, he has held a variety of titles in sales, marketing and business development, and has served as publisher with several media companies. He began honing his media chops as advertising director at City Pages (Minneapolis). Before moving to Atlanta to head up Creative Loafing, he consulted for Knight Ridder Online, worked as publisher at Sacramento News & Review, helped his friends launch The Rake magazine in Minneapolis, and helped launch and operate Quick, a free commuter daily published by the Dallas Morning News. Over the past several years, his expertise has been launching new publications and emerging media platforms to reach 18-34 year-old adults. Dave is also the president and founder of a Schmall World, a loosely defined and dysfunctional movement of drunkards and madmen seeking world domination.
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Jason Schwartz is the founder of Robber Baron Music, a digital music label, where he ensures artists are provided with a forward thinking approach to online marketing and distribution. Jason is primarily interested in marketing through online social communities, alternative monetization strategies for the music industry, and developing industry shifting web applications. Formerly a consultant in the digital media and entertainment industry, Jason provided innovative approaches to the Internet's power to market, generate momentum for artists, and monetize content. Jason provided new solutions at Island Def Jam Records in media diversification and piracy. Additionally he assisted the launch of Viacom's BET Interactive mobile platform. Jason graduated from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.
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Andrew Sullivan is the president of eLine Communications, an internet solutions provider that blends e-commerce, community and rich content systems to create interactive transaction environments that improve operational efficiencies and the user experience. Examples include AT&T's HomeTown network, CBS's MarketWatch.com, IDG Books Worldwide (Dummies Series, Websters, Frommers Travel), the University of San Francisco, and Louis Vuitton's eLuxory.com.
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Molly Zanone is director of new media for Contemporary Media, Inc.,
publishers of Memphis magazine, The Memphis Flyer, and Memphis Parent,
supervising all web products for the company. Molly has been with CMI for over 15 years, and has held several
positions including (among others) delivery driver, receptionist,
circulation manager for Memphis magazine, classifieds manager for the
Flyer, and most recently marketing/promotions director for CMI.
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