International
Digital Publishing Forum:
Digital Book 2008
Speakers
(as of 5/6/08)
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Mikio Amaya, President & CEO, Papyless Co Ltd.
Mikio Amaya is the
President and CEO of PAPYLESS Co Ltd. in Tokyo. He received a Master’s
in Engineering at Kanazawa University in Japan in 1974. He began his
career at Fujitsu Ltd., a computer company in Japan, in 1974. He left
Fujitsu and founded PAPYLESS Co Ltd., in 1995. He started selling
eBooks through a computer network for the first time in the world.
PAPYLESS has been
the number one retailer for PC eBooks and in the mobile eBook market in
Japan. PAPYLESS offers 68,000 eBook titles from over 400 publishing
companies. The number of visitors to PAPYLESS sites is up to 4,800,000
people monthly, and a page view is up to more than 43,000,000 people
monthly.
PAPYLESS provides
distribution for authors and publishers into the eBook market for the
mobile phone and PCs. PAPYLESS also operates as a wholesaler and
provides platforms for business partners seeking to open a retailer web
site for eBooks for both mobile phones and PCs.
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Peter Balis,
Director Online Sales,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Peter Balis is Director
of Online Sales for John Wiley and Sons. He previously worked for IDG
books which was acquired by John Wiley and sons in 2001, Peter oversees
the North American online sales department, which manages Amazon.com and
other key retailers. Peter is also responsible for North American eBook
sales and marketing across all channels.
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Mark Beilby, Co-founder, Apollo Mobile
Mark Beilby, 47, is a co-founder
of Apollo Mobile, the company which is bringing the Re4ctor mobile
publishing system to market.
Having gained a First Class
Honours BA degree in Modern History and an M Litt at Oriel College,
Oxford University, Mark taught Modern History at Balliol and Oriel
Colleges, Oxford University. Between 1982 and 1985 he worked as a
researcher, writer, and executive producer for White City Films (a BBC
subsidiary), Video Arts (which was Sir Antony Jay and John Cleese's
production company) and the American Program Bureau.
He began his financial career as
a Corporate Finance analyst at Morgan Stanley, specialising in the
media industry in 1986, before becoming a media equity analyst
conducting research into the media industry and giving investment
advice. He was rated the number 1 European Media Analyst for 9 years by
Institutional Investor magazine and Reuters surveys. After 6 years at
UBS Warburg and 8 years at Deutsche Bank he joined JP Morgan as Managing
Director for European Media in 2003. In January 2006 he joined Dresdner
Kleinwort as Managing Director and head of the European media and new
media team. Mark has advised the European media community in many ways,
including serving on the committee in 2007 that reviewed the BBC's
licence fees. Apollo
Mobile was co-founded by Mark in 2007
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Nick Bogaty, Sr. Business Development
Manager, Adobe Systems
Incorporated
Nick Bogaty is Senior
Business Development Manager responsible for business development
for the digital publishing group at Adobe Systems, Inc. Nick's
responsibilities at Adobe cover Adobe Digital Editions, a free
client software for reading EPUB and PDF digital publications,
Adobe's DRM solutions for protecting digital publications, and
authoring software including Adobe InDesign CS3 export to EPUB.
Prior to Adobe, Nick was
Executive Director of the IDPF and oversaw the creation and
approval of the three specifications which comprise the EPUB file
format for digital reflowable books. Nick is based in New York
City.
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Dawn Bruno, International Trade Specialist, US Department of Commerce
Dawn Bruno is an International Trade Specialist for the New York City branch
of the U.S. Commercial Service, an export promotion agency within the U.S.
Department of Commerce. Dawn serves as the Global Publishing Team Leader,
managing over 20 publishing specialists worldwide who provide export
assistance to U.S. publishers.
Dawn joined the U.S. Commercial Service in Washington DC in 2001. Dawn has
served a temporary assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile and has
conducted worldwide marketing and communications training programs in
multiple Embassies and Consulates.
Dawn holds a Masters Degree in International Affairs from American
University and a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude in English Literature from the
University of Florida.
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Garth Conboy, President, eBook Technologies, Inc.
Garth Conboy is President of eBook
Technologies, Inc. The company operates in the consumer,
enterprise and technologies licensing markets and provides a
broad set of industry proven eBook technologies.
Prior to co-founding ETI, Garth served as the General Manager and Vice
President Software Engineering for the Gemstar eBook Group. In this
position he was responsible for the operation of the division: platform
and server engineering, quality assurance, content acquisition, content
operations, content engineering, and customer support.
Garth led the Platform, Content Tools and Content Engineering groups for
the Gemstar eBook Group. Garth is inventor or co-inventor of seven
issued eBook patents; technologies include: cryptography and secure
content distribution, eBook UI, resource/database dynamic conversion for
cross-platform applications, and optimal paginated document
presentation. Garth previously held the position of Vice President of
Software Engineering at SoftBook Press.
Prior to the eBook effort, Garth founded Pacer Software and served as
its CEO guiding it to a successful acquisition. Following the
acquisition of Pacer Garth served as Engineering Director for NetManage,
a leading supplier of networking and connectivity solutions.
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Scott Cook, Director of Technology, codeMantra
Scott brings over 25 years
of experience working in the publishing industry. His decades of experience
and progressive responsibilities are in every aspect of the publishing
production life cycle — including technology research and advancement,
project management, process review and redesign, book design, print
production management, creative planning, ebooks and web content management.
In previous positions Scott has centered his attention on the development
and implementation of production automation systems for some of the top
publishers in the United States, including Pearson Education, John Wiley &
Sons, and Cengage (formally Thomson Learning). Scott has a passion for all
things technical, and relentlessly pursues better, smarter, more efficient
publishing solutions for bringing product to market in a more timely and
more cost-effective manner.
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Neil DeYoung, Director of
Digital Media, Hachette Book Group USA
Mr. DeYoung is Director of Digital Media for
Hachette Book Group USA. His responsibilities include Digital Business
Development and Strategy, eBook development and strategy as well as
website project management.
Prior to Hachette Book Group
USA, Neil held various positions at Scholastic, Inc. including Corporate
Product Data Manager, Internet Marketing Manager and National Accounts
Sales Coordinator.
Neil is actively involved in
standards development and has participated in IDPF EPUB standards
committees (OPS, OCF) and BISG Search & Discovery Standards.
Neil holds a BA from Hofstra
University and a MS from New York University.
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Willem
Endhoven, VP Marketing and
Business Development, iRex Technologies BV
Willem Endhoven is VP
of Marketing and Business Development of iRex Technologies BV, located at
High Tech Campus 9, 5656AE Eindhoven, the Netherlands (willem.endhoven@irextechnologies.com)
After graduating from the
Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Willem Endhoven (1956)
joined Royal Philip Electronics in 1983 where he held various positions in
logistics and industrial management. He was responsible for project
management and account management in B2B consumer goods business during his
posting in Belgium. From 1995-2000 he was based in Singapore as general
manager for Philips Remote Control Systems in Asia Pacific,
From
2000-2003 Willem Endhoven was responsible for international new business
development and marketing in the Philips Components and Consumer Electronics
divisions. Active in the field on electronic reading since 2003, Willem
Endhoven was from the very first moment involved in the startup of iRex
Technologies (July 2005). “
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Martin Görner, President & CEO, Mobipocket.com
Martin is President and CEO of Mobipocket. As manager and principal software architect of Mobipocket
eBook technologies, Martin led the development of the Mobipocket
eBook file format based on the OPF specification. Mobipocket has developed
the first multi-platform file format supported on all mobile devices and
popularized mobile electronic reading.
Before joining Mobipocket in March 2000, Martin Görner was part of the
Microprocessor architecture team at ST Microelectronics.
Martin Görner has an engineering degree from the “Ecole des Mines de
Paris” and lives in Paris. He enjoys science, foreign languages, judo, and
of course reading eBooks on his Nokia E90 smartphone.
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Leslie Hulse, VP Digital Business Development,
HarperCollins Publishers
Leslie Hulse is the Vice President,
Digital Business Development at HarperCollins Publishers. In this
role, Leslie focuses on crafting partnerships with retailers, search
engines and others to distribute digital content widely for
marketing and commerce, including the launch of Browse Inside on
Booksense.com, BN.com, and the HarperCollins sites. In addition,
she works closely with the HarperMedia staff and other publishers to
drive our ebook, digital audio, and other
digital revenues. Leslie also oversees HC's online consumer
membership programs AuthorTracker, First Look, Invite the Author,
newsletters, and others in development.
Leslie is actively
involved in a number of industry groups including the AAP's Digital
Issues Working Group and the Online Piracy Working Group and the
BISG Digital Standards Committee.
Leslie has worked at HarperCollins for eleven
years in a variety of senior financial and management roles
supporting the strategic growth of our online efforts. Most
recently, she has led the development efforts on
www.harpercollins.com and its sister
sites. In 2004 she was co-leader of the Publishing + Direct to
Consumer team, from which much of HC's online strategy has evolved.
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Peter Kent,
Sr. VP for US Operations, DNAML Pty, Ltd.
Peter Kent has worked in the publishing business for 20 years,
first as an author—he’s written around 50 computer and business books,
including several best sellers—and then as a publisher, as the founder
of a small computer-book company in the late 1990s. He currently works
with DNAML Pty Ltd., of Sydney, Australia, introducing their e-book
technology to U.S. publishers.
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Roland Lange, Strategic Partner Development Manager, Content Partnerships
Group,
Google in support of Google Book Search
Roland Lange is a Strategic Partner Development Manager in the Content
Partnerships group at Google in support of Google Book Search. Mr. Lange is
responsible for signing book publishers of all types in North America and
Canada.With over ten years of trade book publishing
experience, he started with Google in the September 2005 having left a
sales position with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He has also worked for Perseus
and Harcourt Trade, and got his full-time start in book publishing with
Penguin USA. Before his New York experience, he was a part-time intern to
the Editor-in-Chief of Sierra Club Books in San Francisco.
He was also a Vice President of Sales with the start-up
Jungle Media Group, publishers of two National Magazine Award nominated
magazines, MBA Jungle and JD Jungle, and websites for business
and law school students.
He has spoken for Google at numerous book fairs,
including the BEA, Frankfurt, and Cape Town, and many industry panels,
including the AAR and the PMA.
Mr. Lange holds a B.S. from Cornell University and is a
two-time Jeopardy™ winner.
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Erica Lazzaro, General Counsel, OverDrive,
Inc.
Erica manages the legal
affairs for OverDrive including negotiating and drafting licensing
agreements and strategic partnerships for the company’s global technology
and content services. She is actively involved in managing licenses and
policies for Digital Rights Management services, patents, trademarks,
copyrights, and eCommerce matters for the company. Erica has secured
digital distribution rights for the distribution and sale of titles from
dozens of leading book publishers, film and TV network studios, record
labels, and audiobook publishers. Additionally, Erica works with numerous
U.S. and foreign governmental entities to license OverDrive hosted library
services which are in use by over 7,500 libraries domestically and abroad.
An avid eBook reader, Erica is a graduate of Miami University and
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Erica is licensed to practice law in
state and federal courts in Ohio.
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Craig A Miller, Vice President and General Manager, LibreDigital, Divison
of NewStand, Inc.
Mr. Miller’s
responsibilities include management of the LibreDigital Division and
NewsStand corporate business development. He has more than 17 years
experience in strategic product development and marketing in the hi-tech
sector, including seven years in business development management for
Internet-based technology companies. A proven builder and leader of dynamic
teams, his strengths include creating technology solutions for new channels
and applications, concept-to-sale product management and contract sales and
negotiations.
Prior to
NewsStand, Craig was U.S. Director of Marketing and Business Development for
Munich-based DynaPel, which focused on advancing motion enabled MPEG4 CODECs
in the security, video and graphics industry. He served as the Head of
Engineering for STB’s Specialized Technology Division, creating multi-port
graphics cards and video decoders including the TV Guide Channel’s
broadcast-quality MPEG2 board. Craig also served as Analog Device’s Graphics
Products Marketing Manager, and was a key member of Compaq’s Strategic
Technology Development engineering team.
Craig holds
a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the Milwaukee
School of Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Houston Executive
Program.
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Steve Potash, CEO, OverDrive
Steve Potash is President and CEO of OverDrive, Inc., a company he founded
in Cleveland, Ohio in 1986. Under his leadership, OverDrive has become the
leading provider of digital book technologies and Digital Rights Management
solutions for publishers, retailers and libraries. OverDrive is a key
technology supplier and distributor of eBook and download audio book for
hundreds of US and foreign publishers, online retailers, and major public
libraries. Current customers include Microsoft Corporation, Time Warner,
Adobe Systems, HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill and dozens of leading libraries
coast-to-coast including Cleveland Public, New York Public and King County
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Matt Shatz,
Vice President, Digital, Random
House
Matt Shatz is Vice President, Digital for Random House. In that role he
oversees the company’s corporate digital efforts including Insight, Random
House’s new search and browse engine for book content, e-books,
print-on-demand and online subscriptions. Previously, Mr. Shatz has worked
in a variety of digital media and online commerce strategy roles at Booz
Allen Hamilton, American Express and a start up interactive TV company
called World Theatre.
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Michael
Smith, Executive Director, International Digital Publishing Forum
Michael Smith is Executive Director of the International
Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Michael aims to help advance the interests
of publishers, technologists, and readers by evangelizing the adoption of
IDPF standards for electronic reading applications and products. Michael has
over 20 years of book publishing and print production expertise. Prior to
joining the IDPF, Michael was employed by Toronto based romance publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. where he managed eBook and book production
servicing North America, UK and Australian markets.
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Malle
Vallik, Director Digital Content & Interactivity, Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
Malle Vallik
is the Director of Digital Content & Interactivity for the Internet and
Digital Division of Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. Her current focus is on
establishing Harlequin as a leader in digital publishing for women. Her
responsibilities include eBooks, downloadable audio and other digital
content along with continuing to build Harlequin’s strong relationship with
its consumer via social media including eHarlequin.com’s community.
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Randall Walker, MD, President, WRT Live Ink Reading Technologies
Randall Walker, MD, is a
physician, clinical investigator, and medical professor who applied the same
principles of multidisciplinary teamwork that are now required to solve
complex medical problems to the challenge of improving human reading
comprehension. Over the past 10 years, he has assembled and led a team of
experts in visual science, cognitive science, natural language computation,
and educational technology to develop and validate Live Ink®, a new
“visual-syntactic” paradigm in text presentation. Publishing peer-reviewed
scientific research proving that Live Ink® improves reading comprehension
across a wide range of ages and abilities, Dr. Walker’s team has received
two Innovation Research Awards from the US Department of Education and the
Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational
Publishers. Dr. Walker has also been awarded US and global patents for the
Live Ink® method, which is now featured in online textbooks by major
educational publishers, and is also available, on-demand, as a web-based,
personal reading tool.
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Andrew Weinstein,
Vice President and General Manager, Retail Solutions,
Ingram Digital Group.
Andrew Weinstein joined Ingram Digital Ventures,
a predecessor company to IDG,
in September 2005. Previously, Mr. Weinstein
spent 5-years at Lightning Source Inc., most
recently as Vice President of Channel and
Publisher Development. In that role he had
responsibility for all aspects of Lightning
Source’s eBook business. In addition, he managed
the business development and operational
relationships for Lightning Source’s key print
on demand distribution customers, including
Amazon, B&N, Ingram Book Group,
NACSCORP and Baker &
Taylor. Mr. Weinstein came to Lightning Source
through the acquisition of the company he
co-founded JNMedia, Inc., a leading developer of
publishing technology. JNMedia, Inc.’s
EPODIUM technology,
Electronic Publishing On Demand In Unlimited
Media, helped publishers create a platform to
multi-purpose book content for print,
electronic, and online/offline marketing uses.
Before co-founding JNMedia, Inc., Mr.
Weinstein was an Associate Director at
BMG Direct, the
world’s largest direct mail music club, where he
managed the financial/marketing analytical
group. In this capacity, he developed many of
the analytical models used to evaluate the music
club membership’s purchasing trends and to
forecast their contribution to the business more
accurately. In addition, he actively contributed
to and managed the development, measurement, and
deployment of all new online initiatives.
Mr. Weinstein received his B.A. in Economics
from Brandeis University and his M.B.A. in
Finance and Marketing from New York University’s
Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
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