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Dalton Caldwell founded imeem in 2004 and serves as the company’s chief executive officer.

Dalton is responsible for driving imeem’s strategic vision and overall product direction. Under his guidance, imeem has become the world’s leading social music service with more than 26 million people visiting the site each month.

Dalton graduated from Stanford University with dual degrees in Psychology and Symbolic Systems.

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Steve Patrizi leads the advertising sales and operations organization for LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with over 42 million members. His team works with the world's most widely recognized brands and advertising agencies to help them connect with LinkedIn’s audience of affluent, influential, and ambitious professionals.

Recognized as an innovator and visionary in both the Internet and career industries, Taylor has reinvented the way job hunters seek employment. His "monster idea," conceived at the dawn of the World Wide Web, quickly became one of the first dot-com companies (454th registered domain on the Web) and has since become the world's leading online career site. Today, the Monster global network consists of local content and language sites in over 30 countries and serves nearly 30 million unique visitors monthly.

Michael considers himself a student of social media and community building. He has worked for major brands in Silicon Valley (HP, Yahoo! and Intel) and was instrumental in driving social media programs and campaigns emphasizing authenticity and long-term relationship building.

Randy has been providing Internet and emerging media strategy and solutions for clients, products and brands for over 15 years.

Jack is the Managing Director responsible for Online Marketing at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (PwC), a 30,000-person professional services firm. He brings 25 years of communications and digital experience to this role.

Christopher is responsible for setting General Motors’ communications strategy in the emerging social media that make up “Web 2.0” (blogs, microblogging, wikis, podcasting, user-generated video networks, social networks, and others).

Richard is a veteran Internet executive whose media experience includes leadership roles across the media spectrum: as a client, at an agency, as a publisher, and with an advertising network. As CEO of Technorati, he oversaw the acquisitions of BlogCritics.org and the AdEngage self serve advertising platform and the launch of Technorati Media which now reaches an audience of more than 65 million. Prior to Technorati, he worked as an M&A and strategy consultant for several Internet properties and investment firms, and also served as SVP of Corporate Development for Exponential Interactive, Tribal Fusion’s parent company.

Mihir Shah is vice president of RockYou’s Ad Network. Mihir is responsible for all operations of the largest ad network in the social media space.

Before joining RockYou, Mihir founded CookEatShare.com, a vertical social network catering to home cooks and professional chefs. Prior to this role, Mihir served as Vice President and General Manager for Direct Selling Solutions at QuinStreet, the largest performance marketing firm in the country. Earlier in his career, Mihir was the President and CEO of Liquid Software, a Sutter Hill Ventures backed enterprise application integrator.

As the Group Director, Worldwide Interactive Marketing at The Coca-Cola Company, Michael is responsible for increasing the understanding, testing, adoption and effective use of Digital Marketing and Emerging Media amongst its marketers throughout the world. 
Prior to working for The Coca-Cola Company, he worked with Johnson & Johnson in various Sales and Marketing roles primarily focused on eCommerce and Interactive Marketing development for nine years.  There, he led their iMarketing Center of Excellence and focused on developing an incoming pipeline of emerging media opportunities and on creating a community for marketers to test, learn and share experiences.

David Rice drives overall product strategy and leads development of new features and functionality that advance Metacafe’s leadership position as an innovator in the rapidly evolving online video industry.  David also manages the company’s content operations function, helping deliver an exceptional entertainment experience and integrated media business.

 As Advertising Manager for MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Donna Goff contributes a wealth of experience in the fields of advertising, marketing and public relations.

Jesse Goranson is SVP, Mobile Media for The Nielsen Company’s online division, overseeing Nielsen’s relationships with the largest internet advertisers, including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL, as well as the leading social networks Facebook and MySpace.  In this capacity, he works with these clients and their advertisers to properly understand the role of internet advertising within the larger media context.  Most recently, Mr. Goranson has concentrated heavily on understanding measurement in the social networking sphere, culminating in Nielsen’s recently announced strategic alliance with Facebook, which he led.

Michelle Murray works in Anaheim, CA and heads up the US marketing department at Contiki Vacations.  In this position she oversees all direct consumer and trade marketing initiatives including strategy development, public relations, budgeting, branding, social media, partnerships, campaign management and content creation.

John oversees the online sales channel and operations of Google's AdWords advertising program for local and classified businesses in North America. He guides industry strategy and leads multiple account teams focused on helping advertisers in the social networking space develop and grow successful online marketing campaigns.

Before joining Google, John was a practicing attorney. He litigated civil and criminal cases on behalf of corporations and individuals in state and federal courts.

John earned a BS from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lauren Coberly is Director of Worldwide Marketing for Kodak Direct, Eastman Kodak’s online consumer business.  In this role, Lauren is responsible for developing and overseeing the online marketing strategy and activities in the Americas and EAMER regions.  In addition to determining critical marketing investments, Lauren helps lead the next generation of thinking around online practices and ways to incorporate key marketing trends and emerging media.

John heads up the 360° Digital Influence team - Ogilvy PR’s global,  digital word of mouth marketing practice designed to manage brands at a time when anyone can be an influencer and we are all influenced in new ways.  His team has developed and executed social media strategy for clients as diverse as Intel, Lenovo, Kraft, Unilever all the way to the federal government. The team’s focus is on engaging through conversations, outreach to new influencers and word of mouth marketing. John is a Web 1.0 graduate. As Creative Director at Discovery Communications, he transformed a single web site into 14 Web communities and services  from DiscoveryKids.com to Animalplanet.com and more. In the early nineties, when interactive television was imminent, John headed up the creative studio for the joint ITV venture between Viacom and AT&T.

As chair of Levick Strategic Communications' Digital Media Practice, Dallas Lawrence leads a team that provides high-profile corporate, government, and non-profit clients with effective online reputation management, crisis response and social media engagement programs. Mr. Lawrence’s expertise lies in integrating both offline and online efforts into coordinated outreach programs that bulletproof reputations online and ultimately help clients win in the Court of Public Opinion. Before joining Levick, he was Vice President for Communications and New Media at the National Association of Manufacturers, where he leveraged emerging technologies to advance the agenda of the association’s 11,000 members.