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Advisors
 Conference Chair  Mike ShatzkinFounder & CEO The Idea Logical Company Mike Shatzkin is founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company. In his more than 40 years in publishing, he has played almost all the roles: bookstore clerk, author, agent, production director, sales and marketing director, and, for the past 30 years, consultant. His client list has included most of the major publishers in the United States and many outside the US, as well as a variety of publisher suppliers and trading partners, particularly in the new technology area. Since co-organizing the first "Electronic Publishing and Rights" Conference in the early 1990s, Mike has been speaking and writing about digital change. Mike has spearheaded similar efforts with the Book Industry Study Group, organizing the last two Making Information Pay programs, one looking at the extent of experimentation and innovation in publishing and the other at shifting sales channels.
Advisory Board
 Tracey Armstrong President and Chief Executive Officer Copyright Clearance Center Tracey Armstrong is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Copyright Clearance Center. With over 20 years experience in rights management and with CCC, she has led the transformation of the company’s global copyright licensing solutions to meet the needs of today’s digital publishing world, distributing over $1 billion to rightsholders. Ms. Armstrong works with publishers, authors, universities, businesses and industry associations around the world, addressing copyright concerns and establishing international alliances. She holds an MBA from Northeastern University and serves on the Board of Advisors at the University of Maryland University College Center for Intellectual Property and Harborlight Community Partners. Blog: www.copyright.com  Ken BrooksSr. Vice President, Global Production and Manufacturing Services Cengage Learning Mr. Brooks is senior vice president, global production and manufacturing services at Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning) where his responsibilities include the development, production, and manufacturing of textbooks and reference content in print and digital formats across the Academic and Professional Group, Gale, and International divisions of Cengage Learning. Prior to his position at Cengage Learning, Ken was president and founder of Publishing Dimensions, a digital content services company focused in the eBook and digital strategy space. He was formerly Vice President of Digital Content at Barnes & Noble, Inc. and has held executive positions in Operations, Production, and Finance at Bantam Doubleday Dell, and Simon & Schuster. Twitter: @kenbrooks
As President of information and database publisher R.R. Bowker, Cairns led all strategic planning activities and managed the launch 10 new internet products. At his direction, the company acquired six companies that further broadened the revenue base and accelerated revenues derived from the internet and services. His work experience includes senior roles in the Entertainment, Media & Communications practice at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and he started his career at Macmillan, Inc after receiving an MBA from Georgetown University.  Peter Clifton Founder, President & CEO FiledBy Peter Clifton, the Founder, President and CEO of FiledBy, has more than 25 years experience in the publishing, media and technology industries. Most recently, Peter was President and CEO of several Ingram Book Group companies including Ingram International, Ingram Library Services, Ingram Periodicals and Tennessee Book Company. Prior to Ingram, he was the founding CEO of PubEasy.com, the book industry customer service and transaction portal. Peter was Director of Publicity and Director of New Media Development at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. as well as Vice President of New Media at HarperCollins Publishers, and the Vice President of Business Development at SEGASoft in Redwood City, CA, a SEGA of America subsidiary. Peter has a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Massachusetts. Website: www.filedby.com  Richard Curtis President, Richard Curtis Associates, Inc. President, E-Reads Richard Curtis, president of Richard Curtis Associates, Inc., is a leading New York literary agent; founder of E-Reads, an electronic book publisher; and a well-known author advocate. He is also the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction including several books about the publishing industry. His interest in emerging media and technology has enabled him to help authors anticipate trends in publishing and multimedia. He has lectured extensively and conducted panels and seminars devoted to raising consciousness in the author and agent community about the future of communications. He was president of the Association of Authors' Representatives. His popular blog about publishing appears regularly on www.ereads.com. Joseph J. Esposito is an independent consultant providing strategy assessment and interim management to the information industries. He has served as an executive at Simon & Schuster and Random House, as President of Merriam-Webster, and CEO of Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he was responsible for the launch of the first Internet service of its kind.  Noah Genner CEO BookNet Canada A product of independent bookselling, software and business development, with a weakness for techie-tools, Noah has found himself among like-minded people at BookNet Canada. His software and business development skills were honed at the consumer analytics firm Compusense, while his project management and leadership skills were further developed on software projects supported by Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Noah is the office's bastion of calm with his unflappable patience and clear vision. Website: www.booknetcanada.ca  Jeff Gomez Senior Director of Online Consumer Sales and Marketing Penguin Group USA Jeff Gomez is the Senior Director of Online Consumer Sales and Marketing for Penguin Group USA. He has been involved in electronic books and the world of digital reading since the industry’s beginning in 1999, and he has been a featured speaker and panelist at publishing industry events throughout America. Gomez is also the author of Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age, which was published by Macmillan in November 2007, and which will came out in paperback in July 2009. Jeff Jarvis, the author of What Would Google Do?, called Print is Dead, "A must-read for people who care about reading." Website: www.dontcallhome.com  Mark Gompertz Executive Vice President Digital Publishing Simon & Schuster Gompertz has been Executive Vice President Digital Publishing (Simon & Schuster) since March of 2009. He started his career soon after graduating summa cum laude from Boston University, at The Overlook Press in 1976, where he held a series of jobs over ten years, from Publicity Director to Editor-in-Chief to General Manager. Under his helm, Overlook had its first national bestseller, A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, which went on to sell more than one million copies. After Overlook, Gompertz became Senior Editor at Crown Publishing, where he edited Steven Sondheim’s Into the Woods, and later became Publisher of Avon Trade Paperbacks. In 1993, Gompertz moved to Simon and Schuster to become EVP, Publisher of the Touchstone and Fireside trade paperback imprints, where, in 2002, he had record sales growth. In 2007, he added the duties of overseeing Howard Publishers. He has published a number of books that have become bestsellers including Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, David McCullough’s John Adams, and Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl, among many others.  Ted Hill President THA Consulting With over 25 years experience in the publishing industry, Ted has launched dozens of new businesses and business initiatives. He has held business development positions at leading companies including Pearson, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Vista (now Publishing Technology), and About.com. As a business development consultant with deep knowledge of the publishing and information industries, recent client engagements range from raw startups to America’s largest companies including NetGalley, codeMantra, Harcourt, and Microsoft Corporation. In addition to speaking at industry events on the subject of publishing technology, Ted also sits on the board of directors for the Book Industry Study Group. Website: www.thaconsulting.com  John Ingram Chairman Ingram Content Companies Mr. Ingram is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ingram Industries Inc. He is also Chairman of Ingram Content Group which includes Ingram Book Company, the leading wholesaler and distributor to the book industry; Lightning Source Inc., the leading provider of print on demand services for publishers, and Ingram Digital. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ingram was the President of Ingram Book Company and also held executive positions with Ingram Micro. He was Vice President of Purchasing and Vice President of Management Services at Ingram Micro Europe, and Director of Purchasing for Ingram Micro Inc. He was acting Chief Executive Officer in 1996. Mr. Ingram has been a member of the Ingram Micro Inc. Board of Directors since 1996. Twitter: @draccah  Matt Schwartz Director, Digital Strategy and Business Development Random House Publishing Group Matt Schwartz is the director of digital strategy and business development for Random House Publishing Group. He has spent more than 12 years working in the publishing industry with a focus on e-commerce, online merchandising, and online marketing, both viral and traditional. In addition to having been editorial director for BarnesandNoble.com and director of online marketing for Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, he also was the creator of the ‘90s popular genre portal HorrorNet.com and the owner of Shocklines.com, one of the world’s largest bookstores devoted to genre fiction.  Debbie Stier Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher, HarperStudio Director of Digital Marketing, HarperCollins Debbie Stier currently has two roles at HarperCollins: Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher for HarperStudio and Director of Digital Marketing for the rest of HarperCollins. Her duties at HarperStudio range from assessing and acquiring projects, to devising and executing marketing plans, as well as making sure the trains are all running smoothly with the sales, art and production departments. In her role as the Director of Digital Marketing for HarperCollins, she is responsible for educating and evangelizing digital trends throughout the company. The trends encompass how people communicate, what technologies they are using, how other industries are using technology, and how this all applies to book publishing. She began her career working for a literary agent when submission letters were typed on an electric typewriter with carbon paper – a process that could often take 2 weeks.  Tom Turvey Director, Strategic Partnerships Tom Turvey is Director, Strategic Partnerships, in the Search Services group at Google in support of Google Book Search, Google Scholar, Google News Archive Search, Google Magazines, and other print-based content-related products. Mr. Turvey came to Google having spent nearly 20 years in book publishing, book-based eCommerce, and institutional content licensing. Previous to Google, Mr. Turvey was Vice President, Content & Business Development for ebrary, a publisher-funded content aggregator. Prior to ebrary, Mr. Turvey was the founding Director of the Publisher Relations & Merchandising Analysis group at Barnes & Noble.com. His team’s responsibilities at bn.com included building the vendor relations and merchandising infrastructure, creating relationships and terms of business with all book publishers, and leading all vendor-based negotiations. Turvey also juggled launching the eBook business while at Barnes & Noble.com, having negotiated the deals and supervised the worldwide product launches of eBook platforms, Microsoft Reader, and Adobe eBook Reader. Rich Freese, President, NBNMedia Sponsors
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