Chris Holt

Bio: Chris is a systems engineer and a polyglottic rapid prototypist. He uses a fine balance of efficiency, time to completion, and scale to develop straight-forward solutions for complex problems. Chris likes to enjoy life, which is why he works at OMGPOP, an online real-time multiplayer gaming company with over 25million users. Before OMGPOP, Chris helped build the infrastructure at M5 Networks, enabling thousands of clients all over the world to have a higher level of service for their outsourced enterprise-class phone service.

Marvin Avilez

Bio: As Chief Operating Officer of Social Amp, Marvin contributes 15+ years of software, strategy, operations and new media expertise to Social Amp from a host of roles at companies including Macromedia, Apple, Oracle and RespondTV. Marvin has logged 14 years in the Marine Corps Reserve and served around the globe as a counterintelligence (CI) specialist.

Julie Blitzer

Bio: Julie Blitzer is a User Experience Designer at AppNexus, one of New York\\\'s most successful startups that is reshaping the display advertising industry. She previously was the User Experience Lead for Advomatic, where she worked with non-profits and good causes. Julie is an alumna and the Co-Director of the NYC Chapter of New Leaders Council, a fellowship for young professionals interested in civic engagement. Past speaking appearances include SXSW Interactive 2010 & 2011, Netroots Nation, IPDI\\\'s Politics Online, YDA\\\'s Biennial Convention and Organizing 2.0. Julie has a B.A. in Government from Claremont McKenna College, where she wrote her thesis on the relationship between technology and political campaigns.

Deborah Jackson

Bio:

CEO and Founder of JumpThru, a company that accelerates the founding and success of women-owned companies that use the internet to offer new products and services to women. www.jumpthru.net JumpThru offers a subscription eletter about technology with visuals and videos, www.mytechletter.com. Co-Founder of Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) the first startup accelerator and mentorship-driven program designed for women-founded companies in mobile technology.

Former Investment Banker for over 21 years having started at Goldman Sachs in 1980 after Columbia Business School. Left Goldman voluntarily to found boutique firm and served as first President. Launched new lines of business at Lazard Freres and also Shattuck Hammond Partners. At SHP started health care technology practice focusing on software and Internet in 1998.

Member of New York New Media in late 1990\'s (angel investing group). Member of Golden Seeds, angel investing group since 2009. Investments range from SAS cloud company to Golden Seeds Fund 2.

Profiled in the book Beyond 85 Broads. Selected as one of CVC 30 Columbia Venture Community\'s \"30 Columbians who have accomplished the most interesting things in the technology, entrepreneurship, and venture industries\" www.columbia.vc served as a Judge for various start up competitions including Start Up Weekend NY, Technovation, Columbia Social Entrepreneurs and Vatortv.

Paul Murphy

Bio: Paul leads Aviary\'s business team, joining from Microsoft where he was Chief of Staff for the Office Division. Previously, Paul led Microsoft\'s consumer and online international business development team - responsible for the majority of Microsoft’s online equity and non-equity alliances outside the US. Paul spent several years living and working in the UK and India, where he led technology and strategy teams for Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Paul co-founded and led engineering efforts for a content management startup. He studied computer engineering at Virginia Tech, and received his MBA from IE Business School in Madrid.

Murat Aktihanoglu

Bio: Murat Aktihanoglu is a technology entrepreneur and the founder and Managing Director of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in New York City. He is also the founder of Entrepreneurs Roundtable, an organization which holds monthly meetings connecting investors with promising startups through introductions and short pitches in New York City, Turkey and Japan: http://eroundtable.net He is also the co-author of the book “Location-Aware Applications”, published by Manning Publications: http://manning.com/ferraro He is a board member at Turkish American Business Forum: http://forum.org . He is the co-founder of Turkish Founders Club: http://turkishfoundersclub.com. He is an advisor at StandardStart: http://www.standardstart.com ,Girls In Tech: http://girlsintechnyc.com and Turkish Women’s International Network: http://www.turkishwin.com Murat holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and a BS in Electrics and Electronics from Bilkent University. He is a frequent speaker at technology and entrepreneurship conferences and panels, such as Mobile Marketing Association Forum, Monaco Media Forum, Ultra Light Startups, Siggraph, New York Entrepreneur Week, etc. http://holoscape.com

Taylor Davidson

Bio: Taylor Davidson is a Senior Associate at kbs+p Ventures, the thematic early-stage venture investment arm of the advertising agency kbs+p. He is an advisor to a range of early-stage ventures and a mentor with Launch Pad Ignition, a New Orleans-based TechStars accelerator. Over 6,000 entrepreneurs have downloaded one of his Excel template financial models for startups.

Jonathan Askin

Bio: Jonathan Askin joined Brooklyn Law School in 2008 with more than a decade of experience in the communications industry in both the public and private sectors. He provided legal and policy counsel and strategic advice for companies that build and develop networks and Internet applications. A sought-after expert in the field of Internet law, he played a key role in the tech task force of President Barack Obama’s election campaign. He has also served as president and general counsel for the Association for Local Telecommunications Services and was a senior attorney at the Federal Communications Commission. Professor Askin clerked for Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court and practiced as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He previously taught as an adjunct at Brooklyn Law School and is a board member of many industry groups, serving as chair of VON Coalition, executive director of Video on the Net Alliance, and president of Global IP Alliance. At Rutgers Law School he was Notes and Comments Editor for the Rutgers Law Review.

Sumit Shukla

Bio: Sumit Shukla is currently a Startup Evangelist for Microsoft in New York. In this role he works with the growing startup ecosystem in New York—including startups, accelerators and incubators, and investors—to identify opportunities where Microsoft can add value and grow this ecosystem. Prior to this role, Sumit worked in online advertising sales, product management and software development for startups and large corporations. Sumit holds a Bachelor in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Jon Chu

Bio: Jon Chu is a mobile strategist whose focus is on mobile platforms and emerging mobile technologies. Jon has been advising individual entrepreneurs and served as an consultant to startups. An tech geek at heart, passionate about mobile and enjoys speaking about technology with people in different industries. Jon is formally from Goldman Sachs where he worked there for 10+ years as a global mobile product manager and mobile engineering. A mentor at Startup Weekend and is fluent in Chinese.

Aurelie Guerrieri

Bio: Aurelie has almost 10 years of experience in mobile and digital media. She currently heads up Corporate Development at SendMe, the largest subscription mobile content publisher in the US. There, she is responsible for international expansion, as well as new business initiatives. She joined SendMe over 2 years ago as Head of Marketing. Previously, she was a Vice-President & General Manager at QuinStreet, a $300+ M online marketing company (QNST). She started her career in strategy management consulting with McKinsey. She graduated with an MSc, Chemistry, in Paris, and an MBA, in Montreal. Aurelie also serves as an advisor for Zinch and DealMeet. At Women In Wireless, Aurelie is Co-Chair, International and Local Chapters. In this role, she helps facilitate Women in Wireless\' global expansion.

Clay Hebert

Bio: Clay Hebert helps brands identify, engage and lead their tribes.

After a decade at Accenture, the world’s largest consulting firm, Clay escaped corporate America and attended the most selective and unique MBA program in the country, a six month journey working directly with Seth Godin and eight other amazing people.

In 2009, Clay founded Tribes Win, where he helps brands improve marketing, storytelling, engagement, innovation and sales. Clay also founded Spindows, a video speed-networking platform for large organizations and WorkHacks, personal and corporate productivity coaching and consulting.

He has been quoted in publications as large as Forbes and The New York Times and as small as the Eau Claire Leader Telegram and has given talks at NYU, Georgia Tech and numerous corporate conferences and workshops.

Mike Fraietta

Bio: Mike Fraietta has served as Chief Listener and Community Manager for two successful startups, Filtrbox (TechStars) and Jive Software (IPO). Mike specializes in using mobile and social technologies in the workplace in order to crowd-source ideas, enable efficient collaboration and catapult companies out of the industrial mentality of the 20th century. He currently has an intrepreneurial position as Enterprise Community Manager for News Corporation where he reviews new technologies affecting the media landscape.

Ty Amell

Bio: Ty is the CEO of StackMob and founded the company in January 2010. He brings a wide range of product and engineering expertise, including building scalable distributed systems and monetizing mobile applications. Prior to StackMob, Ty managed mobile, API, and frontend teams at imeem. Building out imeem’s popular mobile applications to over 1.2 million users, Ty learned first hand the pain behind writing apps and what it takes to grow them. imeem is where Ty and original co-founder Will Palmeri first had the idea of starting StackMob.

Reshma Saujani

Bio: Reshma Saujani is the Deputy Advocate for Special Initiatives at the New York City Office of the Public Advocate and Executive Director of The Fund for Public Advocacy, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Her role as Deputy Advocate and Executive Director is to promote civic engagement and government accountability while spearheading public projects that focus on spurring citywide job and economic growth, small businesses, public empowerment, environment- friendly infrastructures, and social/technology innovations that vastly improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.

Prior to her Deputy Advocate appointment, she ran for Congress in New York’s 14th Congressional District after resigning her General Counsel position at an investment firm to focus full-time on public service and community building.

As the daughter of refugees who fled the violence of Idi Amin\'s Uganda for the freedom of the United States, she has a personal interest in ensuring a political voice and economic opportunity for all Americans.

Reshma has worked to increase political participation among young voters across the nation. She has provided free legal counsel to immigrants in Queens, and her pro bono work as an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell included asylum cases to ensure representation for the most vulnerable defendants in New York City. Reshma is currently writing a book entitled Women Who Don’t Wait in Line, which is will be released in 2013 by Amazon Publishing.

Reshma earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois, an M.P.P. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Reshma is currently a Research Fellow at Yale Law School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the Advisory Board for the Startup Foundation and Yale’s Women’s Campaign School.

Justin Michaglia

Bio: Justin is Creative HTML5 Engineer for Medialets, the most widely deployed rich media ad platform for mobile, enabling high-impact campaigns for the world\'s leading brands, agencies and publishers. In his role at Medialets, Justin pushes the boundaries of HTML5 on a daily basis, finding creative solutions for rich interactions and visually compelling designs. Also an educator, Justin has taught Javascript at General Assembly in his spare time. He lives in NYC\'s East Village and, when not coding, can be found watching or playing hockey.

Cherie Meyer

Bio: Cherie focuses on machine learning based algorithms for optimized social media publishing at SocialFlow in New York. Before joining the NY tech startup world, she worked on physical modeling problems in fluid dynamics and coastal geology. Cherie received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and loves all things big data and predictive modeling.

Marc Weil

Bio: Marc is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in Software Engineering. He comes to CloudMine as its CTO and founder after a year at Oracle doing enterprise-level iOS application development and brief stint at RJMetrics working on their business intelligence and analytics platform. He was also an engineer at Apple in the Mac OS X Platform Experience group prior to Oracle, has worked on many freelance iOS projects, and ran a profitable company at the venerable age of 14. Marc is obsessed with functional programming and system architecture and enjoys world travel and delicious exotic coffee. Technical specialties include the following: Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, and non-web Ruby dev), Objective-C/Cocoa Touch/iOS, Javascript/jQuery, CSS, HTML, MySQL, MongoDB, CouchDB, Java, Scala, PHP, and everything Linux.

Joshua Keay

Bio: Joshua is President and Co-founder of Spontaneously, a TechStars company. Previously founder of Magnetism Studios, a product development studio based in NYC with a focus on iPhone apps. Studied Industrial Design at Massachusetts College of Art.

Lara Mehanna

Bio: Lara has 15 years in online and mobile experience in product management/marketing, strategy, business development, and market development roles. After spending 3.5 years at Jumptap, one of the largest mobile ad networks, building and increasing the value of the network, she recently took on GM of Mobile for DataXu, a demand side (DSP) and demand management platform (DMP) that optimizes the buy side for online, mobile, video, and social. She is responsible for growing the mobile revenue and ensuring that the platform is flexible and extensive to meet the needs of mobile advertisers and publishers. Her extensive knowledge of the mobile industry and mobile players is key to her building and converging the mobile eco-system with other channels within the DSP. Before moving into mobile, Lara spent 2 years building online marketing solutions for small businesses at Network Solutions and 8 years running the search product team at AOL.

Ludo Collin

Bio: Ludo launched EachScape in 2009 with a vision of creating the leading mobile platform for application building in an ever evolving environment, with a vision of making it simple and elegant. The company now has leading clients from NBC and CBS to Kellogg\'s and Nivea, and is expanding it\'s reach to new verticals and making the platform accessible to small and mid-size businesses. Before launching EachScape, Ludo built a software business, Starcut, offering a mobile site development platform to leading medias and brands. In less than 18 month he brought the business from zero to a multi-million dollar revenue, more than 200 mobile sites and over 20 clients including The New York Times, NBC, MTV, ABC, BET, Zagat, The Olympics, The Oscars. Before that, Ludo worked at Vindigo the early leader in mobile applications, creator of the ‘Vindigo cityguide’ the first truly broadly accepted mobile application. Vindigo was acquired by For Side. Ludo foray in the mobile world started with smartRay an SMS platform acquired by Lifeminders. He started his career at Oracle Corp in France and went onto launching Oracle’s first line of Internet products in Europe. Ludo holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a post-graduate degree in telecom from French leading engineering school ENST and a master in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Marci Weisler

Bio: Marci Weisler is an accomplished digital executive with over 15 years of experience growing online businesses. She has focused on strategy and execution, business development and mobile initiatives for established companies and startups, including Gilt City (curated local experiences and offers), Gigya (leader in onsite social media), CondeNet (acting director of emerging technologies), Kellogg\'s (launched Girl Scout Cookie Sale locator app), and Tipping Point Partners (digital business incubator, whose portfolio companies include Cookstr and App Orchard). Prior to this, Marci led Time Out North America\'s digital business initiatives, launching online advertising and ad ops, overseeing partnerships, audience development, new platforms and licensing in the US. She has also served on the management teams of innovative startups: Marci led business development and carrier relations at Vindigo, an early leader in mobile applications (including Vindigo city guide, Mapquest mobile and NYTimes), creating extensive distribution partnerships with major media companies and with every major U.S. wireless carrier; worked with major retailers on early e-commerce initiatives while running business development at Flooz.com (online gift currency); spearheaded online development for Muze (entertainment database company); and developed partnerships with major media companies at both Air Media, Inc. (mobile push and messaging, early mobile Web) and at Prodigy Services Company (online service). Marci began her career in the cable business. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Cornell University.

Dani Diaz

Bio: Dani Diaz (@DaniDiaz), is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist where he helps developers understand Microsoft\'s product offerings and strategy. His main focus area is Windows Phone development. Prior to Microsoft, he lead a team of mobile developers for a large consulting company in Philadelphia. He is active in the Philly geek scene and plays around with many different technologies in his spare time.

Alexis Finch

Bio: Alexis is a User Experience Researcher who\'s consulted for Fortune 500 companies on everything from pet food to panty-liners. She\'s been sent around the globe as a drop-shipment solution to cultural conundrums like the meaning of heath vs wellness, and the individual\'s relationship with water. She now works with startups to get them from insight to problem and on to solution. When she\'s not playing with startup puzzles, Alexis creates sketchnotes for GraphiteMind explaining tricky technology topics.

Andy Tider

Bio: As an Interactive Creative Director, Andy has over a decade of experience creating innovative products and marketing strategies for leading-edge brands like Nike, MTV, and PayPal. He is also the Co-Founder of Munchly, a mobile app that allows fans in stadiums to order food & drinks on their phone and have them delivered to their seat - recently mentioned by Forbes as, \"a startup to watch\". His work has been recognized by The ONE Show, Favorite Website Awards (FWA), Applied Arts and the American Design Awards and written about in Forbes, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Yahoo Sports and others. He is focused on creating big ideas that break boundaries, achieve a more effective brand strategy and increase market share - while winning for both the company and the consumer.