The coveted MIXX Awards is judged by an independent panel of highly acclaimed representatives of the entire interactive advertising ecosystem - brand marketers with direct control over many of the largest advertising budgets in the country, major media company executives and advertising agency experts who create campaigns for the world's most powerful brands. The intense scrutiny of the judging process ensures that the winning campaigns truly reflect the industry's best work. With two intensive phases of judging by some of the most demanding marketing executives, winning a MIXX Award is the highest recognition in Interactive.

In Phase One of the judging process, the screening board - comprised of several dozen senior marketing and agency professionals - will evaluate and score each campaign. Finalists for each category will be determined.

In Phase Two, the elite judging panel will convene in New York City for an intensive sequestering and internal debate - focusing on the finalists. The winners in each category will be selected.

The 2008 MIXX Awards judging panel includes:

Heidi Browning - Senior Vice President, Client Solutions, FOX Interactive Media
Marty Cooke - Chief Creative Officer, SS+K
Mark D'Arcy - Chief Creative Officer, Time Warner Global Media Group
Jane Grenier - Vice President, CondeNet
Cheryl Guerin - VP, Global Digital Marketing, MasterCard Worldwide
Jenny Howell - Manager of Interactive Marketing, American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
Carole Irgang - Senior Vice President, Integrated Marketing Communications, Kraft Foods
Carol Kruse - Vice President, Global Interactive Marketing, The Coca-Cola Company
Wonya Lucas - Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Discovery Communications
Jean-Philippe Maheu - Chief Digital Officer, Ogilvy North America
Tim Murphy - Senior Director Digital Marketing, Anheuser-Busch
Hans Neubert - Executive Creative Director, Avenue A|Razorfish
Michael Prieve - Chief Creative Officer, Doremus New York
Suzie Reider - Director of Advertising, YouTube
David Roman - VP, WW Marketing Communications, Personal Systems Group, Hewlett-Packard Company
Alan Schulman - Senior Vice President, Executive Creative Director, Executive Director of User Experience, imc2
Debbie Jo Severin - VP - Marketing, Covad Communications Group, Inc.
Baba Shetty, EVP, Chief Media Officer, Hill Holliday
David Sturman - Chief Technology Officer, Massive (a Microsoft company)
Lauren Wiener - Senior Vice President, Meredith Interactive Media
Joanne Zaiac - President, Digitas New York

The 2008 MIXX Awards Pre-Screening Committee:

Kevyn Lloyd Aiken - Executive Director, Marketing, Vogue
Michele Azan - SVP, Advertising, Snagajob.com
Cass Baker - SVP, Leapfrog Online
Doug Bandes - VP, Sales, Broadband Enterprises, LLC
Russell K. Banz - VP, New Media, Bonneville International
Sean Behr - VP, Product Management, Adap.tv
Wendi S. Berger - VP, Advertising Sales, Kaboose Inc.
Adam Berrey - SVP, Marketing & Strategy, Brightcove, Inc.
Jennifer Black - VP, Marketing, Local.com
Allison Bodenmann - EVP, National Sales Sponsorships, WorldNow
Alisa Bowen - SVP, Global Head of Consumer Publishing, Reuters Media
Shayne Bryant - Group Manager, Advertising and Branding, Idearc Media
Peter Burch - SVP, Marketing & Sales, QualityHealth.com
Biff Burns - VP, Marketing, ContextWeb (operator of the ADSDAQ Exchange)
Joe Casale - President & CEO, Casale Media Inc.
Becky Churilla - Director of Marketing, PointRoll
Ran Cohen - VP, Product Planning, Eyeblaster
Paul Condolora - SVP, Digital Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media, Turner Broadcasting, Inc.
David Cooperstein - Chief Marketing Officer, Burst Media
Chuck Cordray - VP & General Manager, Hearst Magazines Digital Media
Sarah Covey Mitchell - EVP, Marketing & Business Operations, Active Response Group
Michelle Cox - Director of Marketing, Metacafe
Carolyn Crafts - VP, Marketing, Cars.com
Colin Crawford - EVP, Interactive, IDG Communications, Inc.
Douglas Dicconson - VP, Market Development, R I P E D I G I T A L
Stephen DiMarco - Chief Marketing Officer, Compete
Nancy Dunn - VP, Advertising Strategy, ClipSyndicate
Kate Durocher - Director of CPG Pre-Sales, WebMD
Michelle Eule - Managing Director, New York, Dynamic Logic
Bryan Everett - SVP, Sales & Business Development, Kontera
Bernard Gershon - SVP & General Manager, Corporate Strategy, Business Development & Technology, The Walt Disney Company
Joe Gillespie - Executive Vice President, CNET
Jill Glassman - Director, Sales Marketing, WeatherBug
Emeli Gomez - VP, Marketing, Univision Online
Larry Grossman - CEO, Media Encounters Inc.
Federico Grosso - SVP, Business Development, Blinkx
Eric Hadley - Chief Marketing Officer, Heavy.com
Mike Hammer - VP, Digital Media Sales, AMCtv.com & WEtv.com
Ben Hanna - VP, Marketing, Business.com - an R.H. Donnelley Company
Todd Haskell - VP, Digital Sales & Operations, The New York Times/NYTimes.com
Jim Hoos - VP, Advertising Sales, National Geographic Digital Media
Jennifer Juckett - VP, Marketing, VMIX
Jayant Kadambi - CEO, YuMe
Jodi Kahn - President, RDA Interactive, Reader's Digest Association
Jeffrey R. Kamikow - President, Sales & Operations, Seevast
Amanda Kanaga - SVP, Digital, Time Inc. Media Group
Joelle Kaufman - VP, Media Operations & Marketing, Adify Corporation
Melissa Lederer - SVP, Marketing, Q Interactive
Tim Mahlman - VP, Network Sales, Yahoo!
Rick Marroquin - Chief Marketing Officer, Batanga, Inc.
Kirsten Matetich - Partner Engagement Manager, East Region, Microsoft
Sean McDonnell - Executive Director, Boston.com
Ramsey McGrory - VP, Corporate Partnerships, Yahoo!
Paul McLenaghan - Senior Director of Business Development, TARGUSinfo
Manny Miravete - VP, U.S. Hispanic Sales, MySpace
Patty Mitchell - SVP, Consumer Media, Move Inc.
Talib Morgan - CEO & Founder, Actuan
Brian Morrissey - Digital Editor, Adweek
Vikki Neil - VP, Business Development, Scripps Networks
Derek Netelenbos - VP, Online Advertising Sales, Whitepages.com
Tony Nethercutt - VP, Sales, AdMob
Lisa Parente - VP, Marketing, Millward Brown
Rachel Pasqua - Director, Mobile Marketing, iCrossing
Borja Perez - VP, Digital Media, NBC Telemundo
James Piper - SVP, Sales & General Manager, West Coast, Vibrant Media, Inc.
Aaron Radin - SVP, Sales & Business Development, CBS Television Stations Digital Media Group
Steven Rosenblatt - VP, Advertising Sales, Quattro Wireless
Michael Shehan - CEO, SpotXchange, LLC & Booyah Networks, Inc.
Lora Shildt - Director of Events, IMPAQT
Eddie Smith - VP, Marketing & Business Development, SocialMedia Networks
Andrew Snyder - VP, Ad Sales & Business Development, Associated Content
Peter Spande - VP, Sales East, Federated Media Publishing
Mindy A. Spire - Director, Sales Development, World Wrestling Entertainment
Michael Sprouse - Chief Marketing Officer, Epic Advertising
JB Sugar - VP, Ad Sales, Southern Progress Digital (Division of Time Inc.)
Michael Sullivan - SVP, Marketing & Media Services, Aptimus, Inc. (An Apollo Group Company)
Omar Tawakol - CEO, BlueKai
Sherri Valenti - VP, Marketing, 24/7 Real Media
Jason Valentzas - VP, Consumer Marketing, truTV
Ian Wallin - VP, Digital Ad Sales, TV Guide
Rip Warendorf - SVP, Worldwide Sales, Zango, Inc. (Zango, Platrium, SmartShopper)
Jeff Webber - SVP & Publisher, USATODAY.com
Peter Weingard - VP, Marketing, About.com
Debbie Wogan - VP, Sales, iVillage, Inc.
Stephanie Wyand - Director of Marketing, Permission Data, LLC

With over 15 years of marketing and advertising experience, Heidi brings a valuable mix of client and agency know-how to the Fox Interactive Media team. A seasoned veteran of both the interactive and traditional advertising business, she has worked with leading companies and clients across a variety of industry categories including entertainment, telecom, financial services, consumer packaged goods, automotive and educational services.

Heidi's team's mission is to provide centralized marketing support that enables the Branded Sales team to deliver strategic, innovative and measurable solutions to clients and agencies for campaigns across Fox Interactive Media's properties. In her role, Heidi oversees five functional areas including Client Development, Consumer Insights, Creative Services, Marketing Communications, and Trade Marketing. Through the integration of research, strategy, creative and technology, Heidi and her team develop immersive marketing experiences to reach FIM's highly sought-after influencer audience.

Prior to joining Fox, Heidi was Executive Director of Media at Omnicom's Organic, Inc., a digital marketing agency.

Heidi holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder in International Affairs.

In 2000 Marty Cooke joined SS+K as Chief Creative Officer.

He oversees all creative development and design work at the agency, including the recent 'Change' campaign for Delta Air Lines. He also worked with msnbc.com to create their first-ever brand campaign 'A Fuller Spectrum of News' and helped the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Nike sell over 70 million yellow wristbands to create a national movement towards putting cancer on the national agenda. In addition, he has worked with SS+K clients CREDO, Environmental Defense Fund, Qwest Telecommunications, Song, The New York Knicks, Time Warner Cable, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

Marty worked for over twenty years as an award-winning copywriter and creative director at some of the most famous advertising agencies in the country. After learning his craft at legendary shops like Doyle Dane Bernach and Scali McCabe Sloves, Marty joined Chiat/Day where he became the only person to be Creative Director of three Chiat/Day offices [New York, London + Toronto]. While there he helped client Coca-Cola conceive and launch Fruitopia, a product Time magazine would later call one of the top ten product launches of the year.

Born in Columbia, Tennessee, and featured in the book The Copy Book. How 32 of the World's Best Advertising Writers Write Their Advertising, Marty currently lives in SoHo with his wife and two children.

In this role, an industry first, he partners with industry leading advertisers to create ideas that leverage the assets of Time Warner against their biggest marketing challenges.

Prior to joining the Global Media Group, Mr. D'Arcy worked for over 15 years as a writer and creative director in some of the largest and smallest advertising agencies in the world.

Over the years, he has created award-winning campaigns for many clients including Sony Electronics, Nissan, Merck, Qantas, Virgin Atlantic Airways, M&M?s, and the Fire Department Museum of New York.

Mr. D'Arcy is a member of the Ad Council's creative review committee, a juror for the 48th Annual Clio Awards, and author of the best selling children's book "Why the Chickens Crossed the Road".

Jane Grenier is a veteran of 20+ years of marketing experience, most recently as publisher of Flip.com, the CondeNet website for the creation of flipbooks, which are multimedia digital scrapbooks. In spring of this year, Flip converted to a distributed content business model, with Flipbook Creator applications currently on both Facebook and MySpace. Jane's CondeNet responsibilities have expanded to include developing marketer opportunities within the company's growing social media universe. Jane is also at the helm of NutritionData.com, a relatively recent CondeNet acquisition that enables users to access a rich mine of more than a million data points of information about the nutritional content of foods.

In her previous print career, Jane was Associate Publisher, Marketing for the highly successful launch of Teen Vogue, and she still works on teen-targeted business for CondeNet through Flip.com, TeenVogue.com and YM.com. Prior to Teen Vogue's launch, Jane spent five years at Gourmet, where she often worked closely with colleagues at Epicurious.com on some of the first successful integrated advertiser programs. Previous magazine experience includes stints at Esquire, Vogue and Details, among others. Jane began her career on the client side, working for noted French footwear maker Charles Jourdan.

Jane lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her husband Jean-Marie, a ceramic sculptor.

Cheryl Guerin has been with MasterCard eight years and is currently responsible for both the Promotions and Interactive Marketing functions within the Americas Marketing group.

Cheryl oversees the development of integrated promotional programs and manages MasterCard's Interactive presence to support the brand and drive card usage. Under Cheryl's leadership, MasterCard has delivered many successful large scale national promotions, including integrated partner programs with Major League Baseball and Universal Studios. In addition, Cheryl was responsible for redefining MasterCard's consumer web presence with the launch of priceless.com in 2006. The site leverages MasterCard's award winning advertising campaign and brand positioning to deliver exclusive content, priceless experiences and value to MasterCard's partners.

Jenny is the Manager of Interactive Marketing for Honda automobiles and Acura. In this role, Jenny guides the online marketing strategy for both brands, including the production of their web sites and the development of interactive advertising campaigns.

Jenny began her career in online marketing in 1996. She worked at several advertising agencies including Ammirati Puris Lintas, Young and Rubicam, and Genex Interactive before joining American Honda Motor Co. in 2002. Her clients included UPS, LEGO, Compaq, Ameritech, Lincoln Mercury and Acura.

Jenny received a BA in Art History from Duke University.

Carole Irgang is Senior Vice President, Integrated Marketing Communications for Kraft Foods. Carole joined Kraft in January 2007 and is responsible for worldwide strategic leadership and oversight of Advertising, Media, Promotions, Packaging and Integrated Marketing Communications. She is focused on ensuring Kraft?s marketing is leading edge and fully optimized to drive brand performance.

Previously, Carole was an Executive Vice President, Global Account Director with Grey Worldwide. During her nearly 20 year career at Grey, she was instrumental in creating business-building campaigns for a variety of consumer brands for clients at Procter & Gamble, 3M, Novartis, Cibavision and ConAgra. Carole also held positions at MediaCom and Young & Rubicam in addition to establishing her own strategic consulting firm, Red Shoes Marketing, prior to joining Kraft.

Carole is on the Board of Directors of the Association of National Advertisers.

Carole earned her BS from the Roy Park School of Communication at Ithaca College.

As Vice President of Global Interactive Marketing for The Coca-Cola Company, Carol Kruse is responsible for developing interactive marketing programs and experiences for key global brands around the world. Under her leadership, the Global Interactive Marketing team is responsible for driving the evolution and implementation of the Coca-Cola global digital marketing technology platform, driving innovation and consumer relationship marketing, building knowledge and capabilities, sharing best practices throughout the Company and creating the performance mindset and metrics to measure the impact of the Company's interactive marketing investments. Carol is also responsible for driving the Company's strategies for emerging digital communications such as mobile and virtual environments.

Carol has more than 17 years of consumer marketing and technology experience including jobs in brand management at The Clorox Company, Vice President of Marketing at Storm Technology, a digital imaging company, and Executive Vice President and co-founder of RocketCash LLC, an online payments and consumer promotions company that Coca-Cola acquired in 2001.

At that time, Carol joined Coca-Cola North America responsible for online advertising, brand websites, consumer relationship marketing, mobile and gaming strategy and implementation and innovation. As VP Interactive Marketing, Carol recently has led the team responsible for developing the "My Coke Rewards" program which debuted in 2006. My Coke Rewards, the largest program ever launched for the Coca-Cola Trademark, is a multiyear, online driven, mega-rewards program that allows consumers to choose from a pool of experiences and rewards.

Carol holds a BS from Pomona College and an MBA from the University of Southern California. Carol, her husband, son and daughter live in Atlanta.

Wonya Lucas provides company-wide brand strategy leadership and coordination across Discovery's global businesses as Chief Marketing Officer. She is responsible for strengthening Discovery's world-class brands and leveraging the company's many assets to increase awareness and expand its worldwide viewer base.

Most recently, Lucas served as General Manager and Executive Vice President of The Weather Channel Networks, where she was responsible for corporate strategy and development, strategic marketing for The Weather Channel and weather.com, and operations and programming The Weather Channel, The Weather Channel HD, Weatherscan, The Weather Channel Radio Network, and newspaper syndication. Before joining The Weather Channel in 2002 as Executive Vice President of Marketing, Lucas was with the Turner Broadcasting System where she held several positions, including Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing for CNN Networks and Vice President of Business Operations and Network Development for TBS, TNT, Turner Classic Movies and Turner South. Her other experience includes brand management for The Coca-Cola Company and The Clorox Company.

In 2007, Lucas was named as the "Woman To Watch" by Women in Cable Telecommunications. Previous honors include a listing among the "50 Most Powerful Black Women Leaders in Business" by Black Enterprise magazine a Brand Builders Award at the 2006 Promax & BDA Conference, recognition as a "Women To Watch" in the 2005 Wonder Women of Cable TV Awards, and the Inspiration Award for "Woman of the Year" in the WICT-Atlanta's 2007 Red Letter Awards. Lucas serves on the Board of Directors of the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing and she was the co-chairperson for the 2007 CTAM Summit. She also has served as a board member for WICT, Inc and is a graduate of the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute.

Lucas has served on the board for The Children's Museum of Atlanta and as a member of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation board. She is also a member of the the Women's Forum of Georgia in affiliation with the International Women's Forum. Lucas earned an MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jean-Philippe recently joined Ogilvy as Chief Digital Officer for Ogilvy North America. In this newly created role, Jean-Philippe is charged with accelerating "digital" revenue growth and digital innovation at Ogilvy. Working with the agency's executive team, he is spearheading the definition and implementation of a strategy that will strengthen Ogilvy's market leadership in a world that is increasingly digital. Jean-Philippe also leads digital innovation for Ogilvy clients such as Dove, IBM and Kraft to help them win in this new marketplace. He is also responsible for recruiting and nurturing the best talent and strategic partners across the spectrum of the digital landscape, including mobile marketing, video, gaming, digital media, search and social media.

Jean-Philippe is the former chief executive officer of Razorfish, a leading web professional services firm and played a critical role in growing the company from $1 million in revenue to more than $250 million. He has proven experience leading companies in both high-growth and restructuring periods. He combines seasoned hands-on operational experience, strong strategic insight and proven leadership skills.

Before joining Ogilvy, Jean-Philippe led several early-stage, high-growth companies in the online advertising, targeting and optimization space. He also served as an Adjunct Profession teaching at Columbia Business School's entrepreneurship program.

Jean-Philippe also worked as a management consultant with Gunn Partners and A.T. Kearney. He received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Management Information Systems in Paris, France and an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School Of Management, Northwestern University.

Jean-Philippe is a member of the New York City Investment Fund, a non-for profit organization aimed at promoting entrepreneurship in the NY area, and in his spare time coaches 12-year old boys in the West Side Soccer League. He is also on the board of CoSpirit, a French marketing services company. He frequently speaks at seminars and is often quoted in the press on various digital marketing-related topics.

With 25+ years at Anheuser-Busch, Tim Murphy's roles have included field sales, geographic marketing, brand management, creative development, and now senior director digital marketing. Responsibilities include: Bud TV, development of companies' digital marketing strategies, managing of 45+ websites, lead brand management, media and sports marketing in developing online initiatives, research digital/new technology innovations and their marketing applications, create and develop content and ad campaigns for the digital space.

Hans Neubert is the Executive Creative Director at Avenue A/Razorfish, New York. He is responsible for the overall creative work of the New York office.

For the past 16 years Hans has worked on projects ranging from digital communications and integrated brand programs to packaging, advertising, editorial, retail and print design. His clients have included Steelcase, IBM, Time Warner, Bacardi, Pfizer, Goldman Sachs, MTV, Altoids, Coca-Cola, Hitachi, Johnnie Walker, Mattel, Nickelodeon, Microsoft, Nikon, Sony, Texaco, Citigroup and Dow Jones.

Prior to joining AA/RF Hans was a Managing Director at VSA Partners, an Executive Creative Director at Red Sky Interactive, and a partner at Belk Mignogna Associates, New York.

His work has been published and honored by many design organizations and publications including Communication Arts, I.D. magazine, Graphis, New York Times, Creative Review, AIGA, How Magazine, Print, The Type Directors Club, The New York Art Directors Club, and the American Center for Design.

Michael Prieve was born in Burbank, California and grew up in Ventura County. In 1987, after graduating with honors from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, he joined Wieden + Kennedy in Portland, Oregon. As an Art Director, Michael created advertising for Nike working with such athletes as Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson and Charles Barkley.

In 1992, Michael became the Creative Director for the Nike brand in Asia. In 1994, Michael moved to Amsterdam to became the Creative Director for Wieden + Kennedy in Europe. He was responsible for the management of the office and for the creation of work for clients such as Nike and Coke. In 1996, Michael was the Creative Director for the global Microsoft account. In 1998, Michael moved to New York to become the Creative Director of the Wieden + Kennedy New York office. He was responsible for the management of the office and the creation of work for clients such as Nike, Jordan, ESPN and Calvin Klein.

He has also held the position of Executive Creative Director at FCB in San Francisco working for Levi Stauss & Co. and Y&R in Irvine working for Land Rover. His interest in bringing a higher level of thinking and execution to an underserved space resulted in a move to Doremus New York in 2006 where he is currently the Chief Creative Officer.

Suzie Reider is the head of advertising sales at YouTube. She was hired as the CMO of YouTube in the summer of 2006. Post Google acquisition she took on responsibility for overseeing YouTube's advertising sales.

Prior to joining YouTube, Suzie was senior vice president and general manager of the Games and Entertainment Division at CNET Networ ks, Inc. which includes GameSpot, TV.com and MP3.com.

Before joining CNET Networks, Suzie spent 14 years with Ziff-Davis publishing where she leveraged her expertise in advertising sales, promotions, events, research and marketing for various computer and video gaming publications.

Suzie received a B.A. in English from Middlebury College. A native of Cambridge, MA she now lives in San Francisco with her husband and two YouTube fan daughters...

Prior to joining HP, David was Vice President of Corporate and International Marketing at NVIDIA. He also held a number of different marketing leadership roles at Apple computer in Europe, Asia Pacific and the USA. His last Apple role was vice president of worldwide advertising.

David is the recent recipient of the Creativity 50 award to honor those most influential creatives in the year 2006 for the work he's done spearheading the HP advertising and marketing campaign. HP has also won the 2006 Advertising Age Campaign of the Year award based on the success of HP's "The Computer is Personal Again" campaign.

David graduated in Architecture and Industrial design from the Queensland University of Technology (Australia) after starting his architectural studies at the Polytechnic of Torino (Italy). He also pursued executive MBA studies at INSEAD in Paris.

David lives in Saratoga, CA with his family, enjoys biking and is an avid skier.

Alan Schulman is Executive Creative Director of imc2 ? one of the nation?s top ten interactive agencies and the largest remaining independent. An industry leader in the development of advertising for new and emerging media platforms, Alan oversees the development of interactive campaigns for such major brand marketers as Procter & Gamble, The Coca-Cola Company, GlaxoSmithKline and Nestle among others. He has been referred to as a "Creative Director of the Future" by Advertising Age's CREATIVITY magazine and was recently named one of 2007's "Online AllStars" by MEDIA Magazine.

Prior to joining imc2, Alan served as Chief Creative Officer of Brand New World ? the New York agency he co-founded to specialize in creative solutions for interactive and emerging media. It was there that Alan produced award-winning interactive campaigns for such national brands as Verizon, Ford, Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson.

Prior to founding Brand New World, Alan was the first Creative executive to serve within a major media services company as Senior Vice President/Creative Director of Universal McCann Futures - the emerging media group of Universal McCann North America. There Alan was responsible for the extension of McCann-Erickson?s traditional advertising into Broadband, Video on Demand and Wireless media for such global brands as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, SONY, L'OREAL, Johnson & Johnson and many others. Prior to joining McCann-Erickson, Alan served within the Interpublic network as Executive Director of the Media & Entertainment Practice for FutureBrand Worldwide, the top 5 Branding Consultancy where he created digital branding programs for such noted online publishers as Terra, MSN, AOL and others.

Alan serves on the Board of Advisors of TiVO, Tremor Media, the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (EMMYS-New Media) and is a member of the New York Marketing & Media Technologies Council. He has served on the AAAA Advanced Television Committee, Interpublic's Convergence and Branded Entertainment Advisory Committees and has been a judge of the YAHOO! Purple Chair Award, the IAB MIXX awards and the OMMA Awards.

Creatively, Alan has been involved in such noted brand launches as TiVO, MSN, XBOX and AOL China among others. He has been a speaker on emerging media for numerous Media and Entertainment-related organizations including the CES, NAB, NATAS, CTAM, iMEDIA, IAB, IRTS, NCTA, MIPCOM, NATPE and the AAAA?s. Alan has won many awards across the branding, advertising, and digital spectrum including One Show, Clio, AICP, AIGA,, ADDY, TELE, and ProMax/BDA. Most recently, he was recently the recipient of the 2006 MIXX Award for Best use of Broadband Video by the Interactive Advertising Bureau as well as internal Global Branding and Marketing Awards from Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble.

Among his other creative endeavors, Alan is an avid jazz guitarist who has appeared with such noted jazz artists as Anita Baker, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock and Michael Feinstein.

As the Vice President of Marketing for Covad, Debbie Jo Severin is responsible for the management of Covad's brand, advertising and promotions, acquisition and retention marketing, channel marketing, and marcom. As Covad has transformed its business from being a wholesale broadband provider to an integrated voice and data solutions provider, she has managed the national go-to-market plan for Covad's VoIP services and helped grow the retail business to over 38% of Covad's total revenues. An 18-year veteran of the broadband industry, she has also served as VP of Marketing at Valiant Networks and NorthPoint Communications. While at NorthPoint, she launched groundbreaking marketing partnerships with RadioShack and MSN.

After a three-and-a-half year stint teaching mathematics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Debbie Jo has held key management positions with AT&T, Tele-TV, Northpoint, and Covad. She received a Masters Degree in mathematics and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

At Hill Holliday, Baba oversees the work of connecting consumers with brand ideas. As Chief Media Officer he oversees media across all channels, branded entertainment, and all digital marketing capabilities. Prior to Hill Holliday, Baba led interactive marketing at Fallon Worldwide. Before Fallon, Baba was a research director and principal analyst at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Baba has also served on the advisory board of Maven Networks, a start-up broadband video company recently sold to Yahoo! for $160 million.

David Sturman has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry. He was a founding member and Chief Technology Officer of Massive Incorporated where he combined his expertise in graphics and games with his online expertise to create the technology driving video games as a new advertising medium. Microsoft acquired Massive in 2006 and David now leads Microsoft's technology development for in-game advertising. David is a past CTO of Acclaim Entertainment, formerly a leading Developer and Publisher of console video games. While at Acclaim, he led the company's on-line games initiative and instituted a program to coordinate software tool development across five formerly independent game studios. He is also the former Vice President of Technology for MaMaMedia, an award-winning Internet site for children, and served as Director of R&D at Medialab Paris, where he spearheaded the development of 3D real-time computer puppetry and virtual reality software. David was an early computer graphics pioneer at Bell Laboratories and the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab and received a Ph.D. in computer graphics and animation from the MIT Media Lab. He is an adjunct professor for Columbia University where he teaches videogame technology and design.

Lauren Wiener is Senior Vice President of Meredith Interactive Media where she leads the company's digital and emerging media business. In her role, she leads the Home and Family Network, which serves more that 10 million women at every life stage and passion point. Lauren is responsible for all sales and marketing, business development, product development and brand communication for nine premium web sites, including Meredith's flagship brands - Better Homes and Gardens (BHG.com), Ladies Home Journal (LHJ.com) and Parents (Parents.com).

Lauren came to Meredith from Primedia, where she served first as Vice President and General Manager of the American Baby Internet Group, and later as Vice President and General Manager of the Seventeen Internet Group. Prior to that, she spent two years as Senior Director of Business Development for Starmedia Network, Inc., where she helped a start-up grow into the largest Spanish and Portuguese new media company. Lauren has also served as Director of Business Development for MTV Networks and a media consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.

Lauren earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University (Magna Cum Laude) and a Master's of Business Administration from Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. She resides in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters.

As president of Digitas New York, Joanne is responsible for driving the strategy and execution of Digitas services across the office client base (including American Express, IBM, Kraft, Delta, and Samsung). She oversees the development and growth of the NY and Norwalk, CT locations. During her tenure as President, has driven significant expansion and growth of Digitas New York, adding several Fortune 500 clients and recruiting some of the industry's top talent.

Joanne's career as an integrated marketer began in general advertising at Havas Dentsu Marsteller. She then spent 14 years in Direct Marketing at Wunderman Worldwide/Young & Rubicam. She joined Digitas in 1999 to gain more experience in digital marketing.

Joanne serves on the Board of Directors for Junior Achievement New York and on the Advisory Board for SheSpeaks.com. She is also an honored recipient of the Academy of Women Achiever's (YWCA) Women Achiever Award.

Joanne graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in History and Literature, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and three children.