Who’s Coming

What kind of community has no members?

We want to make sure you all know who’s showing up to the Web Community Forum, Seattle 2007: Community Building in the Age of Facebook.

When you sign up, I’ll shoot you an e-mail (or you can just be ahead of the game, and send it to jason (at) webcommunityforum.com right away) asking for your pic and your bio. I’ll be throwing it up here, along with all the other cool people we’re looking forward to hanging out with this December.

ps. This list excludes our speakers. That list is HERE.

Attendees

Eric Weaver ( President, Brand Dialogue )

One of the original Web 1.0 pioneers, marketer ERIC WEAVER has helped build some of the biggest brands in the US and abroad, including BMW, Brita, the Clinton Administration, Clorox, Ford, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Foods, Lincoln, Mattel, the Mayo Clinic, MCI, Procter & Gamble, the US Dept of Commerce, and many more. Weaver helped several of these organizations take their first steps into Internet marketing, then went on to senior positions at Young & Rubicam, Foote Cone & Belding, and Hamburg-based Kabel AG. As an online strategist, he led Ford management to embrace online video, and persuaded management at Ford, Mattel, and Taco Bell to pursue the Internet as a new communications and sales channel. His work has been reviewed by industry giants like Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Jack Welch, Jill Barad, and Jerry Yang.

Weaver’s company, Brand Dialogue, is a Marketing 2.0 consultancy, helping businesses build conversation, community and revenue around their customers. He’s a member of the American Institute for Graphic Arts, the American Marketing Association, Ad Club of Seattle, the Seattle Podcasting Network, and the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest. He is also the founder of the Seattle Flickrites, one of the largest social photography groups in the world.

Site: http://www.branddialogue.com

Ellen Petry Leanse ( Founder, 222do )

Facebook app developer and 222do Founder Ellen Petry Leanse has built her career on creating customer loyalty for technology, consumer and membership enterprises.

During her ten years at Apple, Ellen championed product localization and distribution in Apple’s emerging global markets, and—as Apple’s first User Evangelist—pioneered the company¹s first outreach to customer, enthusiast and consultant communities. Her work since then has helped technology and consumer companies mobilize their best customers as advocates, viral marketers and ambassadors of brand value. She has also guided numerous membership organizations, including user associations and social networks, in setting and achieving objectives for growth.

Ellen has tutored in Spanish and English at several Bay Area public schools, worked in Kenya with children¹s and entrepreneurial organizations and is an internationally-ranked competitive indoor rower. Ellen was featured in an Inc. Magazine cover story on successful multitasking entrepreneurs. She lives near San Francisco with her three sons.

Profile: Ellen Leanse

John Haggard ( Vice President Business Development, Passfaces Corp. )

John is a pioneer in the design, development, and delivery of advanced state-of-the-art information security products for 65% of international corporate, government, and educational institutions for over 25 years. He has extensive experience ranging from large mainframe enterprise systems to large Internet distributed systems.

He was a member of an elite team that developed and deployed the world’s first extended user authentication infrastructure for authentication beyond passwords in the mid 1980’s. John served as the ACF2 Development Manager for SKK. Inc., then as Product Owner of the Security, Control, and Audit division of CA (NYSE: CA) until 1994.

Since then John, has led startup companies deploying biometrics and one time passwords servicing international financial institutions. John served as President, COO, and CTO of VASCO Data Security International (Nasdaq: VDSI), bringing that company into the market in 1994. Since 2000, he has served on the board of directors for numerous intellectual property companies in the field of advanced smart card technologies related to authentication and security. John has a BS in Computer Science, from Northern Illinois University.

Sam Whitmore ( Editor, Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey )

Sam Whitmore is the founder and editor of Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey, providing tech media analysis and consulting to tech PR pros and media buyers. Whitmore also hosts a weekly teleconference series featuring prominent tech editors.

A former media columnist for Forbes.com, Whitmore is a frequent public speaker and often is interviewed regarding tech media for print and broadcast. Whitmore spent 14 years at Ziff-Davis Publishing, 12 at PC Week as a reporter, editor, columnist and editor-in-chief. He later served as a company vice-president in business development, and served as an on-camera reporter for Ziff-Davis Television (ZDTV) before leaving to launch Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey in April 1998.

Managing editor Christy Andrade joined SWMS in August 2005 after five years at CNET and ZDNet as an audio and video producer, with specializations in both enterprise and consumer technology.

Profile: Sam Whitmore

Sean O’Driscoll ( General Manager, Microsoft )

Sean O’Driscoll first joined Microsoft Corporation in 1992 as part of the worldwide sales organization. During his early years in the company, he held several positions responsible for the recruitment, development and engagement of Microsoft Partners. As part of these responsibilities, Sean was accountable for developing business alliances with many of our largest Independent Software Venders, including Great Plains Software, Siebel Systems and Computer Associates to name a few.

In 1998, Sean joined Microsoft’s professional services organization and helped establish Microsoft’s first support and consulting business focused on global ISV, System Integration, and OEM partners.

In January, 2003 he re-joined Customer Service and Support as Director of MVP and Technical Communities. In his current capacity as General Manager, Community Support and MVP, Sean is responsible for developing community based support models and leading the worldwide MVP program designed to award and recognize amazing individuals in technical communities around the globe who share a passion for technology and the spirit of community.

Sean, graduated from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon with degrees in Business Administration and Philosophy and now lives just outside Seattle, Washington with his wife Kari, and two daughters, Erin and Lauren.

Sean blogs about Web 2.0 at his site http://communitygrouptherapy.com/

Mari Smith ( Relationship & Lifestyle Specialist, MariSmith.com )

Mari is a Relationship and Lifestyle Specialist. Canadian by birth, Scottish by heritage, Mari came to San Diego, CA in ‘99 for a vacation… and never left. She soon met her husband, and went on to become a highly successful “serial entrepreneur.”

A former coach with T. Harv Eker, Mari has studied with many masters in the personal and professional development arenas. She has been online for 8 years and has authored many e-books and e-courses. Mari also offers Internet Marketing Consulting for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

She runs her own coaching and consulting business entirely from the road, traveling the US and Canada in a motorhome with her husband, while vlogging at TyandMari.com.

Mari is a self-confessed Facebook fanatic and recently launched an online class at Facebook Fortunes to teach others—who don’t quite “get” Facebook—how to use the platform for strategic business purposes.

Profile: http://profile.to/marismith

Iris Kao ( Designer, Iris Kao Design )

Before I am a freelance designer, I…
Interned at Horton Lantz and Low,
Studied at Art Institute of Seattle,
Learned Japanese at Okazaki, Japan (岡崎市),
Worked as an electrical engineer.

When I find some free time, I…
Read,
Write,
Photograph, Volunteer,
Do hand craft projects,
Research the market (ie. bargain-hunting),
Walk.

Chris McCoy ( CEO, YourSports )

Chris started YourSports with the belief that sports are more than a game and the open web can highlight that for the rest of the world. As the CEO, Chris leads the business development, operation, and product strategies for the company. Previous to YourSports, Chris started two successful ventures while an undergraduate at the University of Washington–PitchSmarter.com and the non-profit I Love Baseball Foundation (ilovebaseball.org).

Before college, Chris served DECA (deca.org) as its student National President. He then went on to play briefly for the UW baseball team, before diving into the world of entrepreneurship and sports media, eventually leading him to founding YourSports.

Blake Cahill ( VP Marketing, Visible Technologies )

Vice President of Corporate Marketing
VisibleTechnologies

Blake Cahill is responsible for executing marketing strategies, thought leadership, and analyst relations to increase market and customer awareness for revenue growth. Prior to joining the company, Blake was the Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at SafeHarbor Technology Corporation, a Seattle based web-services firm, where he successfully reignited customer acquisition and retention programs, oversaw the launch of a new brand identity and significantly raised the profile of the firm with the analyst and media communities.

Blake has more than 15 years of executive management experiences leading marketing, sales, product management, and customer support organizations both domestically and internationally in a variety of technology, consumer, and telecommunications companies such as AT&T, Belgacom, Qwest, SBC, and ServiceMaster.com. Through these diverse experiences Blake has witnessed the intersection that drives businesses and their results are uniquely conjoined to “listening to the customer” and he has developed some insights about the intersections of customer experience, brands, and technology. Blake holds bachelor’s degrees in political science, history, and business from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

Sharon Baerny ( Marketing Maven, We Know Words )

As the owner of marketing communications firm We Know Words, Sharon has a talented team of copywriters who create compelling copy for clients ranging from the high-tech behemoth requiring whitepapers to the small lifestyle business that wants simply to be found—and noticed—on Google.

As part of that team, Sharon finds her sweet spot in enewsletters, Web content and email marketing. She hopes to add blogging soon as a service to clients, writing blogs that will help them boost their SEO results. Last year she was president of the Seattle Direct Marketing Association. This year she’s in charge of getting the SDMA up and…blogging. She’s admittedly a novice on Facebook and anxious to learn how businesses can benefit from it so she can pass that knowledge along to clients.

She puts her marcom insight out into the world via her shiny new blog, Sharon’s Marketing Missive

Clay Newton ( Experience Director, Bank of America )

The core tenants of Clay Newton’s practice are user experience advocacy and designing platform agnostic solutions with keen attention to rich interaction and usability. Clay’s technology career has in many ways mapped to the flux inherent in the evolution of baseline technologies and internet-based/enabled business models.

Clay has designed and developed user-centric solutions in a broad range of markets including:

- Boutique storefronts and shopping portals
- Secure content distribution
- Webcasting / e-Learning
- Online Video Production
- Highly configurable facilities management
- Real-time operations
- Business Intelligence tools
- Personal data analysis
- Personal finance
- Data security systems

In 2005, he joined Bank of America as a VP of Interaction Design. In the summer of 2006, Clay became Authenticated Interaction Design Manager, leading the Research and Development group. Q1 2007, Clay became Enterprise Experience Director for Innovation in eCommerce.

Profile: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=519472562

Robyn Tippins ( PM Dev Tools, Yahoo! Platforms )

Robyn Tippins is a social media consultant with almost 10 years experience in the online media field. From her early days marketing her own small business using forums and email lists, to blogging, podcasting, vlogging and video game immersion, she’s often used social networking to engage and communicate. In her current role, Robyn works to make the developer experience on Yahoo! platforms as painless as possible.

Robyn has blogged for blog networks and corporations, podcasted for small and large businesses, worked closely with social networking sites, and advised Fortune 500 companies on making their sites connect well with their community. Her podcasts feature some of the web’s most interesting and well-known Web 2.0 experts in fields such as VoIP, Technology, Open Source, Marketing, Social Networking, Video Games and Blogging.

She finds her greatest joys in moments away from her computers, spending time with her husband and four children, aged 2 to 9. She and her family reside in Northern California.

Josh Ledgard ( Director, Telligent Systems)
Josh Ledgard is a Director at Telligent Systems, a software technology and services company that helps clients build social web experience around their brands. Prior to working at Telligent he spent 7 years at Microsoft shipping the Visual Studio product line and leading several significant customer connection launches including product feedback, shared source, and online support forum support initiatives. At Telligent he has a passion for designing a products that help companies engage in conversations with their customers.

Josh graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Computer Engineering and currently resides in Sammamish WA in an area otherwise known as the “East East Side of Seattle”. You can learn more about Josh by checking out his blog.

Mark McLaren ( Owner, McBuzz Communications LLC )

Mark McLaren owns McBuzz Communications LLC, a marketing communications consultancy offering online marketing, website development, search engine optimization, business blogs, Google AdWords and Google Analytics consulting.

Recently relocated to Seattle and new to Facebook, Mark can’t wait to rub elbows with the amazing talent participating in Seattle 2007: Community Building in the Age of Facebook event.

Website: mcbuzz.com
Blog: mcbuzz.com/web-marketing-blog

Warren Sukernek ( Sr. Strategist, VML )
Warren is a senior strategist with VML, a top 20 Interactive Marketing Agency, part of the Wunderman Network, in Seattle. He helps guide strategy and planning to product development, marketing communications, relationship management and marketing problems in general working with Seattle clients as well as VML’s other national clients. Warren has over 15 years of client and agency dynamic online experience in e-commerce, community, content management solutions, consumer focused webinars, demand generation, blogging, and email based RM campaigns. He often finds himself at the intersection of marketing and technology, because that’s where the fun is.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and received his MBA from Boston University. A noted expert on Baby Boomer marketing, Warren has spoken at numerous conferences including Seattle Direct Marketing Association, the Catalog Conference and Niche Cruise Marketing Association.

Theresa Azevedo ( Associate Director, GME, Kaiser Permanente-Northern California )

Theresa Azevedo joined Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2006, as Associate Institutional Director of Graduate Medical Education. Previously, Theresa was the President of a VA nonprofit medical research corporation and Director of a medical education consortium.

With over 15 years leadership experience in nonprofit corporation management, marketing, strategic planning, compliance, and fiscal and program development, Theresa is well-suited to lead the development of Kaiser’s new medical training programs including the development of new marketing strategies, faculty development, and overseeing regulatory compliance. Living in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area, Theresa enjoys hiking, water and snow skiing, cycling, and gardening.

Matt Savarino ( Web Monkey, Geohelper )
Matt is the Developer of Action Sports, Snow Reports and other FB apps, Matt has been creating Web sites for 10 years. He is currently the lead Web developer for K2 Sports in Seattle, and he has previously managed the development for EXPN, Scott USA, Alpinestars, Hyperlite, Blackbox (Zero/Fallen/Mystery) and more action sports companies.

Matt is looking to talk with other app developers about identity management and new strategies for distributed apps with different functionality among multiple platforms.

Projects: http://savarino.net/projects

Katlen Tillman ( Senior Account Supervisor, Edelman PR )
Katlen is a senior account supervisor at Edelman Interactive Solutions (EIS), digital agency within Edelman PR. With an interactive background that spans across a decade, Katlen represents and supports clients in digital strategy efforts and activities within the digital and social media space.

Through the years, by working in-house for companies such as American Funds - a Capital Group Company, Classmates Online, T-Mobile, and more recently at Starbucks, she has successfully helped businesses develop their online presence through effective and innovative Web site strategies, digital marketing strategies, and online advertising
campaigns.

Achievements include developing the pioneering Web brand guidelines and strategy for American Funds and the Capital Group Company family of Web sites, driving the evolution of social networking features and functionality for Classmates Online, leading online advertising programs that consistently placed T-Mobile at the top in the category within
e-commerce activities through cost-per acquisition and awareness campaigns, and spearheading award-winning Web work for Starbucks seasonal promotion initiatives.

Katlen can often be found behind the computer screen, but when she is not she can be seen behind the wheel of a MINI Cooper whizzing around Seattle, making her way to coffee shops while listening to independent and electronic music. Also, Katlen believes it is imperative she keep up her Portuguese since maintaining her first language is helpful for her trips back to Brazil to visit family.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=554061211

Jude O’Reilley ( Director, Trusera )
Jude is responsible for product management and marketing at Trusera, an invitation-only network of people that care about their health. Jude joined Trusera with more than 10 years of Internet sales, marketing and product management experience.

He began his career at Gartner Group, where he was a top-ranked presenter at Internet and networking security events worldwide. At Gartner, Jude was responsible for coverage of more than fifteen companies before leaving to lead the Product Marketing organization at Aventail Corporation, an internet security firm. While at Aventail he was responsible for more than thirty product launches and was awarded a patent for his contributions to new Internet technologies.

He helped create the Aventail.Net managed service business, and later joined a managed services company that acquired that line of business. He grew sales in his region more than 25 times over two years of selling to Fortune 100 companies. Jude has a BA with High Honors in History from Swarthmore College.

You can find his Facebook Profile here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=505630899

Bill Johnston ( Director of Community & Research, Forum One Communications )

I’ve been active in the online community space since 1999. I came to Forum One from Autodesk, where he served as the Online Strategy Manager, with responsibilities including a portfolio of online communities and blogs. Previously I oversaw user experience tasks at TechRepublic.com.

I also host the Online Community Roundtable, a professional networking series for online community professionals to share best practices and experiences.

Site: http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com
Site: http://www.onlinecommunityresearch.com

Ariel Stallings ( Marketing Manager, Microsoft )

Ariel Meadow Stallings is an author, blogger, and marketer with ten years of experience using underground media, blogs, and social networks for publicity and marketing.

She currently works as a Marketing Manager in Staffing Marketing at Microsoft, and in her free time consults with authors looking to use social media to promote their books.

You can find her online at arielmeadow.com.

Anne Alberg ( Business Development, Isagenix International )

Anne Alberg is new to the world of online social networking. In the traditional world of networking, she is known as the Networking Diva. Over the last 15 years, Anne has shared her passion and knowledge with numerous business networking organizations and entrepreneurs. This summer she became inspired by what was happening in the world of online business networking.

Anne is currently writing a book called Leveraging the Internet: Using Online Business Networking as a Tool to Grow Your Business. The purpose of the book to inspire solopreneurs to explore online business networking. It will provide a road map on what steps to take to build a powerful online network. It is targeted to the newbie that does not know where to start. Case stories will provide inspiration and encourage readers to think outside of the box around what is possible.

Anne would like to interview industry leaders and successful online business networkers, as she gathers success stories and content for her book. If interested, contact Anne at diva@annealberg.com or 206-227-2663.

Simeon Margolis ( Co-founder, Utterz )

Simeon is co-founder of utterz.com, a mobile mashup blogging service. Utterz allows anyone with any cell phone to instantly share their experiences with voice, video, picture and text mashups that get posted to any site online. Utterz does this for free and without running any client or software on your cell!

Before Utterz, Sim lived and breathed entertainment for nearly a decade in international marketing roles for RCA Records and Island Def Jam Music. Sim also spent time doing communications consulting for major pharma companies and is a recent graduate of Babson College’s Olin Graduate School of Business, specializing in Entrepreneurial Studies. Sim loves utterz feedback. E-mail your utterz reactions to sim@utterz.com.

Facebook Profile: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683610553
Twitter: http://twitter.com/simedia

Chris Furniss ( Social Media Guru, Portent Interactive )

Chris is the co-creator and host of The Weekly Geek, a podcast and blog about video games and other geeky stuff. He is also the lead designer and social media guru for Portent Interactive in Seattle. In his spare time he enjoys playing video games and extreme sport fishing.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=39201033

Joesph Mouhanna (Chief Executive Officer, Entecom )

Prior to Entecom, Joseph spent 18 years at Microsoft in a number of executive research, development, program management and business development positions. While at Microsoft, he started and led some of the most important initiatives in broadband public networks, wireless networks, and home automation. Joseph’s efforts resulted in the mass deployment of DSL, as well as the most common standards in wireless networks and enabling existing homes to be networked through existing phone and powerline wires.

Joseph’s pioneering work helped the home automation industry go mainstream and laid the foundation for what’s now becoming the Digital Life. While at Microsoft, Joseph was Chief Networking Architect for Windows, enabled Microsoft Windows for European and non-European languages, traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia, and managed programs in the Programming Languages division, specifically being part of the team that delivered the industry’s first Object-Oriented Compiler.

Margot Sinclair Savell ( VP, Media Intelligence and Measurement, Weber Shandwick )

Margot Sinclair Savell is a vice president of Media Intelligence and Measurement for traditional and social media at Weber Shandwick in Seattle. Margot leads a team of analysts who review blogs, forums, social media communities and traditional print and broadcast media to measure and evaluate marketing and public relations programs. In her spare time, Margot blogs about Washington state wine: http://www.writeforwine.com/wineblog.

As an early adopter of social communities in 1994, she managed community forums for AOL, where she then became an editorial manager. She then started her own PR company, TrackNet Online Research, which helped clients measure the success of their online strategies. At Cox Interactive Media, Margot led quality assurance initiatives for 30 Web sites across the U.S. and led teams on major Web site build-outs, launches and redesigns. As a broadcast, print and online journalist, Margot’s reports appeared on ABC Radio, AP Radio and CBS Television, in addition to the Financial Post, L.A. Times and The New York Times.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=584081519

Marek Wawrzyniak ( Program Manager, Northwestern Mutual )

I am a freelance web producer and internet marketer with a “day job.” My areas of expertise include website production, online marketing, web metrics, and Search Engine Marketing and Optimization, Social Media.

During the day I am program manager in internet marketing working for Northwestern Mutual, responsible for SEO/SEM/Social Media, Lead Generation, and other digital marketing programs.

Outside of work I run www.megabluewave.com :: www.thinkSE.com :: www.thinkthisblog.com :: and spend time on Facebook.

I enjoy sailing, music, blogging, photography, reading books, traveling with my family and playing my bass guitar.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=569991355
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marekw

Joel Postman ( EVP, Eastwick Communications )

Joel Postman, EVP for Emerging Media (and strategic services) for Eastwick Communications in Mountain View, California.

The name for my blog comes from a quote from the late media guru Marshall McLuhan, and is explained here.

We launched our new agency blog in April 2007, after two years-plus blogging on eastwikkers. I haven’t had a chance to put lots of cool, self-aggrandizing stuff on this page yet, but it’s only a matter of time.

Dean Browell ( PR / AE, ND&P )

Dean works as a Public Relations AE with the agency Neathawk Dubuque & Packett (ND&P) and is all-but-dissertation for a PhD in Education, focusing on engaging young adults through technology.

He lives in Roanoke, VA, where he serves on the board of the regional PRSA chapter, a mainstreet community revitalization group and the Chamber-backed young professionals organization NewVaConnects. He digs music, comic books and Kevin Smith movies.

Site: http://www.ndpagency.com/

Wade Rockett ( Content Writer II, Metia )

Wade Rockett is a writer at Metia, a global agency that provides high-tech marketing services and solutions.

Along with creating traditional marketing materials, Wade helps clients plan and implement effective new media communication strategies. He writes about marketing, PR, and the brave new world of social networking at Metia’s New Marketing blog.

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Tassie DeMoney ( Marketing Manager, Healia )
Tassie is the Marketing Manager for Healia. Healia is the premier consumer health search engine for finding high quality and personalized health information on the Web. It serves as an independent, unbiased gateway to the highest quality health information resources.

Shiney Joseph ( Founder and Software Engineer, GL Software )

Terence Lee ( Developer, Healia )
Terence is a Developer for Healia. Healia is the premier consumer health search engine for finding high quality and personalized health information on the Web. It serves as an independent, unbiased gateway to the highest quality health information resources.

Anastasia Uglova ( Political Web Producer, NBC-Universal )
Anastasia is a Political Web Producer for NBC-Universal, and is connected with their Politalk political-debate site.

Christy Whitmore ( Managing Editor, Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey )
Christy is the Managing Editor for Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey, which provides tech media analysis and consulting to tech PR pros and media buyers.

Bernie Albers ( VP of Sales, Federated Media )
Bernie goes way back with Federated Media’s CRO & Publisher Chas Edwards. He started his ad-sales career at Gamespot in the late 1990s, then did stints as a sales manager for ZDNet and CNET Radio. Most recently, he’s been the top new business/salesperson for Portland, OR, ad-agency Babcock & Jenkins.

Tony Audino ( Managing Director, Conenza )
Tony serves as Managing Director for Conenza. Audino has over 25 years of executive and entrepreneurial experience in business software and services. He spent seven years at Microsoft Corporation and since leaving has founded five companies including the Microsoft Alumni Network in 1995, where he currently serves as Chairman. Audino also co-founded and served as Managing Director of Voyager Capital, a Pacific Northwest based venture capital firm with $365 million under management where he sourced and sat on the boards of many companies including Captura Software, acquired by Concur Technologies (NASDAQ:CNQR) and Global Market Insite. In addition to Conenza, he currently sits on the board of The Threshold Group.

Audino’s community involvement includes serving the board of Microsoft Alumni Network Giving Foundation and on the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees for the Fulcrum Foundation, created to ensure that Catholic schools remain excellent and accessible to all.

Katherine James Schuitemaker ( CEO, Resonance Group )
Katherine is the CEO of the Resonance Group. The Resonance Group is a strategic business and marketing consultancy focused on delivering results for executives in the fast-paced, demanding environment in which technology companies—and their customers—compete and thrive.

Kathi Jones ( Managing Director, Conenza )
Kathi serves as Managing Director for Conenza. Jones has spent over 10 years building operations and human resource programs for small to mid-size technology start-ups. She became Executive Director of the Microsoft Alumni Network in January 2003 and prior to MSA was Vice President of Corporate Services for Aventail Corporation, overseeing the company’s human resources and operations. Prior to that, she was founder and President of KAJ Consulting, providing human resource planning, recruiting, and operational design services to small and mid-size technology companies. Prior roles include Regional Marketing Director for a division of AT &T Media Services, and regional management roles for both Banana Republic and The Gap Corporation.

Jones graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Washington with degrees in English and Communications. Her community interests include serving on the boards of the Female Editorial Board of the Puget Sound Business Journal, and Tully’s Coffee Company. She also founded the female executive networking group, FEMM, and the Worldwide Alumni Roundtable, and is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management and the American Society of Association Executives, and is a guild member for Children’s Hospital in Seattle.

Ned Hayes ( Senior Product Manager, WhitePages.com )

Ned Hayes is Senior Product Manager for User-Generated Content at people search market leader WhitePages.com. He was most recently Director of Consulting for Global PlanIT’s mobile and Web products. Previously, he served as Internet Strategy Lead for Adobe’s Advanced Technology, Mobile and Internet Products Groups and Senior Product Manager for XML at Corel Corporation.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=796630967
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nedhayes

Michael Kim ( CEO, Kim Advisory Capital )

Andrea Negrin ( Marketing Analyst, T-mobile USA )

Ann Warman ( Consultant, brandUNITY Inc )

Michael Walsh ( CEO, Leverage Software )

Laura Sorrell ( Managing Director, Meridian Consulting Group )

Matt Kowalczyk ( Entrepreneur, EXIT 83 Consulting )

Joel Nathanson ( Social Media Program Manager, Wells Fargo )

Doug Olsen ( Technology Director, Cole & Weber United )

Brian Ballard ( Product Manager, MediaNet )

Harvey Deitel ( Chairman, Deitel & Associates, Inc. )

Dave Behn ( Dir of Performance Marketing, Cole & Weber United )

Erik Porter ( Software Developer, Microsoft )

Seth Combs ( Marketing Monster, Monster Cable )

Jim Klar ( Multimedia Marketing Monster, Monster Cable )

Elizabeth Sipple ( Global Web Marketing Manager, Imation )

Kathleen Mulcahy ( Program Manager, Microsoft )

David Barger ( President, LunaWeb Inc. )

Aaron Mohrman ( Founder, Valuative Software )

Marcia Kadanoff ( CEO, Open Marketing )

Jared Ruckle ( Director of Product Marketing, Entellium )

Shasta Brewer ( Marketing Communications Manager, Flow International Corporation )

Doug Thayer ( Web Content Specialist, Flow International Corporation )

Don Schmitt ( Founder, Team Lotto )

Donna Zeiber ( Web Design Manager, PETA Foundation )

John Solaro ( Group Project Manager, Microsoft )

Genevieve Lambert ( Director of Marketing, ACD Systems )

Mark Franklin ( Executive VP, ACD Systems )

Michael Bolognino ( Community Manager, Wetpaint )

Simeon Simeonov ( Technology Partner, Polaris Venture Partners )

Charleen Taylor ( PR/Communications Coord., Washington State University )

Julie Nierenberg ( PM, Microsoft )

Shannon Fowler ( Technical Specialist, The Boeing Company )

Stacy Conner ( Senior Marketer, Portent Interactive )

Marcus Pape ( Creative Director, Core Innovation )

Marcus Charles ( MBA Student, Foster School of Business )

Ricki Bennett ( Vice President, Product Development, COLLEGEdata )

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