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Keynote Speakers
(as of 8/18/05)
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George
Burnett
President,
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Dex Media, Inc.
George Burnett
joined Dex Media as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
upon consummation of the Dex East Acquisition. He served as President
and Chief Executive Officer of Qwest Dex from February 2001 until
September 2003 and as of March 2004, serves as a Director and
Chairman of the Yellow Pages Integrated Media Association, YPIMA.
He joined Qwest as Chief Marketing Officer in August 2000. In
2000, he served as President and CEO of the Mass Market Retail
Group of American Electric Power. Prior to holding that position,
he spent six years at AT&T as President of Local Services,
General Manager of two market segments and General Manager of
Card and Operator Services. In addition, he worked for 14 years
at D’Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles, a worldwide advertising
agency. Mr. Burnett received an A.B. from Dartmouth College and
an M.B.A. from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School.
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Katherine
J. Harless
President,
Verizon Information Services
Vice Chair, YPA
Katherine
J. (Kathy) Harless has been president of Verizon Information Services
(VIS), the nation’s most advanced provider of yellow pages
and related shopping information, since 2000. VIS publishes more
than 1,100 SuperPages yellow pages directories in 38 states and
operates the nation’s number-one Internet yellow pages,
SuperPages.com, which now provides access to merchandise information,
shopping sites, product comparisons and eBay auctions. VIS also
offers listings, maps, driving directions and an assortment of
consumer services over cell phones through SuperPages On the Go,
which is available through Verizon Wireless and through other
carriers. VIS is also the largest publisher of Hispanic directories
in the U.S.
Prior to being
named VIS president, Harless served as president of GTE Airfone,
where she directed overall operations, including the expansion
of air-to-ground public telecommunications services in the United
States and other countries.
Harless began
her GTE career in 1973 in her hometown of San Angelo, Texas, carrying
out assignments of increasing responsibility in finance, sales,
marketing and operations before being named regional president
for GTE Telephone Operations in Texas and New Mexico in 1994.
She serves
on the board of directors for the Yellow Pages Association, the
Toro Company and the Verizon Foundation. She also serves on the
advisory board of the University of Texas McCombs School of Business
and is a member of the Committee of 200 and Leadership America.
Harless earned
a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of
Texas at Austin.
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Charles
Stubbs
President and Chief Executive Officer
YellowPages.com LLC
Charles Stubbs
is President and CEO of Pasadena, California-based YellowPages.com,
a joint venture between SBC Yellow Pages and BellSouth Advertising
and Publishing. The venture, announced in November of 2004, will
combine SBC SMARTpages.com, BellSouth® RealPages.com and YellowPages.com
under one intuitive brand – YellowPages.com in 2005. Mr.
Stubbs, will lead a company aimed at providing a leading Internet
Yellow Pages distribution network to SBC, BellSouth and YellowPages.com
local and national advertisers. The YellowPages.com distribution
network will provide more than 70 million monthly searches to
advertisers.
Prior to being
named President and CEO of YellowPages.com, Mr. Stubbs served
as President of BellSouth IntelliVentures, the electronic media
division of BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Group, which
produced substantial advertiser and revenue growth for RealPages.com,
from 2001 until 2004. From 1996 to 1999 Mr. Stubbs worked with
BellSouth as a key leader in the launch of RealPages.com.
Before leading
the BellSouth RealPages.com team, Mr. Stubbs was Executive Vice
President of Infospace, a Bellevue, Washington-based diversified
technology and services company that develops and markets Internet
and wireless solutions for a wide range of customers including
consumers, merchants, wireless operators, content brands, and
financial institutions. In this role, Mr. Stubbs was responsible
for the company’s wireline division, including advertising
and licensing revenue. Mr. Stubbs succeeded in leading significant
increases in revenues, while reducing operating expenses.
Mr. Stubbs
earned an M.B.A from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and
an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.
Charles and
his wife Debbie are the proud parents of two daughters.
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Marc Tellier
President and Chief Executive Officer
Yellow Pages Group
Marc P. Tellier
is President and CEO of Yellow Pages Group, Canada’s largest
directories publisher. He was previously President and CEO of
Bell ActiMedia, a company acquired through the most important
leveraged buyout in Canadian history. As head of Yellow Pages
Group, Mr. Tellier completed the largest-ever initial public offering
in the income trust sector in Canada.
Prior to his
current position, Mr. Tellier was an officer of Bell Canada and
served as Senior Vice President - Partnership Development. He
was responsible for the launch of the first telco commercial high-speed
Internet service in North America. He also served as President
and Chief Executive Officer of Sympatico-Lycos, Canada's leading
Internet properties.
Marc P. Tellier
began his career at Bell Canada in 1990 after graduating from
the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor's degree in Economics.
In less than a decade, he has become a key player in the expansion
and transformation of the Canadian communications and media industries.
In 2000, Mr.
Tellier was honoured for his leadership, vision, innovation, achievements
and impact by being named one of Canada's Top Forty under Forty™.
Mr. Tellier is a member of the board of directors of the Yellow
Pages Association (YPA). He is president of the 2004-2005 Quebec
Arthritis Society fund raising campaign for the small and medium-sized
enterprises. He was also involved in the Banff Film Festival as
a member of the Governor's Council and in United Way for the Greater
Montreal Area.
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Joe Walsh
President and Chief Executive Officer
Yellow Book USA
Joe Walsh is the President
and CEO of Yellow Book USA, the nation’s oldest and largest
independent publisher of yellow pages. Joe entered the yellow
pages business in 1982 when he co-founded IYP Publishing, a company
he later sold to DataNational. He served as Vice President of
Sales for DataNational until joining Yellow Book in 1987.
Under his leadership
and vision, Yellow Book USA has experienced unprecedented growth,
making it one of the largest yellow pages publishers in the nation.
With approximately 900 directories and a circulation of over 100
million, Yellow Book products are achieving tremendous success
in markets from coast to coast and are supported by a national
branding campaign that has raised their awareness.
Joe was awarded
Ernst and Young’s “Master Entrepreneur of the Year”
award in New York, he’s been featured in Forbes Magazine’s
“Entrepreneurs - Up and Comers” and was featured on
the front page of the Wall Street Journal in April of 2004,
in an article titled, “Yellow Book USA Grabs Business from
Baby Bells with Cheap Ads”. He was an ADM board member for
two years.
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