Paolo Cellini
Executive Vice President
Seat Pagine Gialle

Paolo Cellini is executive vice president of the Internet Division and of Business Sales at Seat, the leading Italian Yellow pages directory publisher. He is also a director of Europages.

Previously, he was CEO of Buffetti, Italy’s largest office supply distributor; vice president, Europe, Middle East and Africa of Disney Internet Group (London) and Disney Interactive Group (Paris); CEO of AOL/Time Warner in Mobile Services (Tel Aviv); and program manager at Microsoft. He was also a senior advisor to Hutchison 3G Mobile Venture in Europe (London) and to the European Commission for Research and Development in Advanced Telecommunications and Media (Bruxelles/Luxembourg).

Cellini has been a passionate basketball player, coach and teams organizer. He has a degree in political science and economics and a postgraduate degree in international economics.

Sieg Fischer

President and CEO

Valley Yellow Pages

Sieg Fischer is president and CEO of Valley Yellow Pages, a company that he and two partners started some 20 years ago. Valley Yellow Pages has since grown to be one of the largest independent publishers in the United States. Fischer has been in the industry for more than 40 years. He is the current chairman of the board of the Association of Directory Publishers. In 2006 he was awarded the association’s highest honor, the Wil Lewis Award, for his many contributions to ADP and the independent directory publishing industry.

Before starting Valley Yellow Pages in 1985, Fischer spent 20 years with Pacific Telesis/PacTel-Publishing/Pacific Bell, during which time he served as vice president of sales;  director of publishing; general manager of sales, Oakland; district manager, special assignment; district manager, sales control and support; manager, public relations/advertising; manager, Yellow Pages sales;  manager, corporate general administration; sales manager, Yellow Pages; manager, Pacific Telephone Corporate General Administration; and sales representative. 

Isaiah (Ike) Harris, Jr.
President, Advertising & Publishing Group
BellSouth Corp.

Isaiah “Ike” Harris is president of BellSouth’s Advertising & Publishing Group. The group is responsible for the marketing and publishing of The Real White and Yellow Pages® from BellSouth and includes BellSouth Advertising & Publishing Corp., The Berry Co., Stevens Graphics and IntelliVentures. Harris resides on the board of YELLOWPAGES.COM, a recent acquisition of BellSouth that serves as BellSouth’s online directory Yellow Pages site. He also has responsibility for BellSouth Shanghai Center, which provides telecommunications services in Shanghai, China.

Before his direct role overseeing advertising and publishing, Harris served as president of BellSouth Enterprises for BellSouth Corp. in Atlanta, Georgia. He was responsible for BellSouth’s European and Latin American operations, and BellSouth’s Advertising and Publishing Company. He is also co-chairman of BellSouth’s Diversity Council.

Before the BellSouth Enterprises role, Harris served three years as president of BellSouth Consumer Services, with responsibility for the strategic marketing, sales and customer service direction of BellSouth’s largest customer unit. Harris joined BellSouth in 1997 as BellSouth Telecommunications’ chief financial officer and assumed the role of corporate VP of finance before moving to Consumer Services.

Stuart McKelvey
CEO
TMP Directional Marketing

Stuart McKelvey is literally the next generation of Yellow Pages: His father founded the first Yellow Pages agency — Telephone Marketing Programs — in 1967. McKelvey grew up in and around the business. He joined the company full time as TMP Worldwide added recruitment services and the job site Monster.com to its Yellow Pages core business. In 1998, after gaining online marketing experience at interactive pioneer Monster, McKelvey returned to Yellow Pages as president of TMP Worldwide Directional Marketing. In this role, he initiated the delivery of interactive advertising solutions specific to TMP’s unique Yellow Pages client base.

McKelvey was president of TMP Worldwide’s Directional Marketing business unit when it was sold by parent company Monster Worldwide to senior management and a private equity firm in June 2005. With the sale came a company name change — TMP Directional Marketing — and McKelvey was named as the new company’s CEO. His vision includes leading this new company with even greater focus. At the helm of TMPDM, McKelvey shares his renewed dedication to the local search potential of the core Yellow Pages business and to identifying and expanding the highly synergistic Interactive opportunities.

McKelvey is a board member of the Association of Directory Marketing and Certified Audit Circulations. He is based in the New York office.

Dennis Payne
President and CEO
AT&T Directory Operations

Dennis Payne is president and chief executive officer of AT&T Yellow Pages, responsible for all functions of the $3.7 billion business — the largest print and online Yellow Pages operation in the world. 

The company publishes 750 Yellow Pages titles and offers advertisers placement on a leading Internet Yellow Pages Network with YELLOWPAGES.COM.

Payne has 32 years of experience in the directory business. He led the formation of a joint venture between AT&T and BellSouth, which then purchased YELLOWPAGES.COM. The companies combined all local content and traffic into one network under the intuitive YELLOWPAGES.COM brand. 

He was appointed president of AT&T Yellow Pages in 2001. Previously, he served in senior sales and marketing positions. He began his career as a directory sales representative in 1974. 

Payne earned his master’s degree in business administration from St. Louis University and his Bachelor of Science in business administration from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.