Seb Bishop

President and CMO

MIVA

Seb Bishop is President and CMO of MIVA, the global online advertising network.

In 2000 Bishop cofounded Espotting, the company that pioneered search marketing and pay-per-click advertising in the U.K. He successfully expanded the business across Europe before merging with U.S.-based FindWhat.com in 2004.

An Internet and media visionary, Bishop now leads the overall strategic and creative direction of MIVA, developing and launching innovative new advertising channels such as pay-per-call and pay-per-text and forming strategic partnerships with some of the world’s largest and most respected brands.

Under Bishop’s leadership, the company has won a string of industry awards including “Most Dynamic U.K. Media Company” at the Media Momentum Awards and “Fastest growing IT company” in the Europe’s 500 Awards.

One of the youngest presidents of a NASDAQ-listed company at 32, Bishop has also been the recipient of numerous personal accolades recognizing his achievements in the new-media and advertising industries, including the Financial Times’ “Top 50” Creative Businesses, Campaign Magazine's “A List” and “Faces to Watch,” Media Week’s ”30 Under 30,” and Media & Marketing Europe’s “40 Under 40.”

Gary Fascilla

President

Metro Directories

Gary Fascilla has worked in the Yellow Page business from sales and publishing to distribution.

He began working in the industry in 1989 with Valley Yellow Pages, the fourth-largest independent directory in the nation. For five years, Fascilla worked as a sales executive, manager and area sales manager specializing in start-up phone directories.

In 1994, he joined two partners and formed Pacific West Yellow Pages. In 1999, Fascilla helped start Local Directory, which published one Cobb and two Cherokee County phone directories over two years. Seeing the need to expand to other areas of Atlanta, he formed Metro Directories.

Jim Greiner

VP and GM

MapQuest

Jim Greiner, who has been with MapQuest since 1999, is the leading force behind the company’s vision of remaining the primary resource to help people find places.

Before becoming vice president and GM in 2005, Greiner was instrumental in MapQuest’s brand strategy, advertising, PR and all other direct, promotional and trade marketing activities. His other roles at MapQuest included product management, business development and ad sales.

Greiner previously led the US WEST Internet Division’s (now Qwest Communications) entry into the Web and applications hosting business lines. He also worked for two New York City business development consulting firms, managing Fortune 100 domestic and international corporate accounts.

Greiner holds an M.B.A. from University of Colorado, Boulder, and a B.S. from Syracuse University.

Jean-Pacal Lion
Vice-President, Marketing
Yellow Pages Group

Jean-Pascal Lion is Vice President, Marketing of Yellow Pages Group since June 2006. He was Vice President, Electronic Directories since December 2002.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Lion was Vice President - Local Markets, at Sympatico-Lycos Inc., Canada’s leading network of Internet media properties. He headed the team which made YellowPages.ca™ the number one online directory in Canada.

Mr. Lion joined Bell Canada from Le Groupe Vidéotron Ltée., where he developed significant expertise in planning, managing and executing content development strategies in new media. His marketing and managerial experience helped further BCE’s growth in the interactive and online media markets. Under his leadership, the Sympatico web site emerged as the leading French language portal in Quebec.

Mr. Lion holds an MBA from Concordia University's John Molson School of Business in Montreal and a degree from France's École Supérieure de Commerce de Bordeaux.

Caroline Little

CEO and Publisher

Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive

Caroline Little is CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, which operates WashingtonPost.com, Newsweek.com, Slate and Budget Travel Online. 

Little joined WPNI in 1997 as general counsel and went on to serve as chief operating officer and president. She became CEO and publisher in January 2004. Little serves as chair of the advisory board for The Posse Foundation D.C. branch. She also serves as vice chair of the Online Publishers Association and on the board of the American Press Institute. Little is a trustee of Grinnell College and of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co.

Before joining WPNI, Little was deputy general counsel at U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly and Fast Company. She also served as an associate at the law firm of Arnold & Porter.

Little received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she graduated with honors.

Dan Marriott

CEO

Pronto.com (IAC/InterActiveCorp)

Dan Marriott is the founding CEO behind Pronto.com, an IAC/InterActiveCorp operating business in the online comparison shopping space. Under his leadership, Pronto.com entered the market offering the most comprehensive product search available on the Web.

Launched in beta in January 2006, Pronto.com offers consumers the ability to compare prices on 45 million products directly from 50,000 merchants in an unbiased and easy to use display.

Before founding Pronto.com, Marriott spent three years in various management roles within IAC corporate, including senior vice president of interactive development and senior vice president of strategic planning.  

Marriott had previously spent four years with Ticketmaster-Citysearch, which was IAC’s first Internet investment, beginning as vice president, marketing in 1997. He went on to become executive vice president, corporate strategy and development for Ticketmaster and president of Citysearch.

Marriott also worked with PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay Division for seven years, managing multiple brands with revenues exceeding more than US$3 billion in retail value.

He received both his B.S. and M.B.A. from the University of Illinois.

Chip Perry
President and Chief Executive Officer
Autotrader.com

Chip Perry is responsible for the overall business and operations of AutoTrader.com. Perry, who was the first employee hired in August 1997 when the company was named AutoConnect, laid the foundation of what today is the world’s largest automotive marketplace.

Prior to joining AutoTrader.com, Perry was Vice President of Corporate Development for the Times Mirror company and Vice President of New Business Development for the Los Angeles Times. At the latter, he launched TimesLink, one of the first major online newspaper services, which later became known as LATimes.com. Early in his career, Perry worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is a Civil Engineering graduate of the University of Virginia and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Justin Post
Internet Analyst
Merrill Lynch

Justin Post is a senior research analyst covering the Internet and Interactive Entertainment industries for Merrill Lynch.  His Internet coverage list includes large-cap. companies such as Amazon, eBay, Expedia, Google, InterActive and Yahoo!, plus a number of small-cap. companies including FTD, Overstock, Priceline and Sabre. 

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 2004, Justin worked as a buyside technology and media analyst at McMorgan and Company.  Prior to McMorgan and Company, Justin was a senior research analyst at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown covering the Internet and Interactive entertainment industries. 

Justin earned his MBA in Finance at Anderson School of Business at UCLA in 1996.

Spencer Rascoff
Chief Financial Officer
Zillow.com

Spencer Rascoff is CFO and Vice President of Marketing at Zillow.com. Prior to joining Zillow.com, Spencer was Vice President of Lodging for Expedia.

In 1999, Spencer co-founded Hotwire.com, a leading Internet travel company, and ran several product lines there. Hotwire was sold to InterActiveCorp in 2003. Before his career at Hotwire, Spencer served as an investment professional at the Texas Pacific Group, a leading private equity firm.

Previously, Spencer worked as an investment banker in the mergers and acquisitions group at Goldman Sachs in New York. He also held other investment positions at Bear Stearns and Allen & Company. Spencer graduated cum laude from Harvard University.

Scott Richman
Vice President and General Manager, Local
AOL Media Networks

Scott Richman is Vice President and General Manager of AOL's Local business and platform.  His properties include CityGuide, AOL Local Search, and  AOL Yellow pages. In this role he oversees AOL's existing and new local products as well as revenue streams and all related initiatives. 
 
AOL is an industry leader in local consumer behavior with properties ranging from CityGuide to MapQuest and Moviefone.  Under Mr. Richmans leadership the company is coordinating a single local strategy to lead the market. This 2.0 product strategy includes search, mapping, user generated content and listings on a common database and platform.
 
Before expanding AOL Local, he managed  AOL CityGuide (formerly DigitalCity.com) – the largest network of local entertainment information on the Web, covering more than 300 cities across the country – and AOL Tickets – the company’s event and concert ticketing solution. 
 
Scott has a long history of product successes at AOL.  He has managed sales integration, promotion and  marketing for AOL's leading online music/entertainment, news, sports and lifestyle properties on the AOL service and the AOL.com Web site.  He and his team work to create integrated marketing, sponsorship and advertising programs with brand marketing partners such as American Express, Burger King, Chevy, Coke, Dell Computers, Toyota, T-Mobile and Verizon, among others. These programs also extend to AOL's portfolio of Web brands including AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), AOL CityGuide, Netscape, Moviefone, CompuServe, ICQ and Winamp. Mr. Richman also works closely with Time Warner sister companies to create cross-platform programs for leading partners
 
Before joining AOL Music in 2001, Mr. Richman served in several capacities at BMG Entertainment, including corporate communications, distribution and most recently in Partnership Marketing, where he was Vice President of the department he started in 1997.

Dan Rubinstein
Product Management Director
Google

Dan Rubinstein joined Google in April 2005 where he led the AdWords Decision Support team and drove the company's revenue forecasting process. In his current role he has responsibility for Google's Small Business product initiatives, including the integration of Google tools into Intuit's Quickbooks.

In the seven years prior to joining Google he was the founding CEO and later VP Marketing & Business Development of Reflectivity, a display device company which was acquired by Texas Instruments in 2006. In those roles, he raised over $58M of venture capital financing, established key manufacturing partner relationships with leading suppliers in Taiwan and Japan, and was responsible for all marketing and joint development activities with projector OEMs including Sony and InFocus.

Previously, he held engineering positions at Xerox PARC, Bell-Northern Research and Siemens focused on automated pattern recognition systems in speech and image processing. He has a Ph.D. in Statistics and M.S. in EE from Stanford University and a B.S. in EE (highest honors) from Princeton University.