Gary Arlen

Gary Arlen is President of Arlen Communications LLC, a Washington-area research and consulting firm specializing in converging media, telecommunications and information services. Arlen’s primary focus is on what he calls “interspecies breeding”: the development of new applications and services that are enabled by digital, broadband and interactive media platforms. Among his current ventures are projects involving interactive content, including marketing and advertising, and their relationships to distribution technology.  

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Robert Bell
Robert Bell serves as the Executive Director of both the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) and World Teleport Association (WTA), where he is responsible for the programs, finances and operations of the organizations.  Mr. Bell has led business development missions to cities in Asia and the US; authored articles in Asia-Pacific Broadcasting, Satellite News, Satellite Executive Briefing, The Municipal Journal of Telecommunications Policy, Telecommunica­tions and Asian Communications; andappeared in segments of ABC World News and The Discovery Channel.  He is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry conferences including SATELLITE and NAB.  He also authors WTA's research reports including How to Buy Satellite Capacity, What Customers Want, Satellite Operator Benchmarks and Sizing the Teleport Market. 

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Rick Ducey
Expertise: Cross-platform media ecosystems; business models and strategies; competition and market assessment; product roadmap innovation; consumer and audience insights.

Rick Ducey is the chief strategy officer for BIA/Kelsey assisting the firm and its clients with strategic planning and implementation across its research, advisory services, consulting and conference divisions. As local media's place in the online and mobile worlds has only recently emerged into a $5 billion category, Rick has plotted BIA/Kelsey's course and helped position the company and its clients on the global frontier. With his insight and leadership, BIA/Kelsey has developed a superior reputation as a specialized consultancy serving local media clients worldwide.

Rick co-founded and led a technology company that developed a patent-pending Internet Protocol-based public alert and warning system (that he co-invented) used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of the integrated presidential and national alerting solution. He's led a number of software and technology research and development initiatives in digital television; radio and smartphone media solutions designed to be market changers.

With more than 30 years of experience, including management positions, inside private industry and associations, Rick is a sought-out expert for his coverage and analysis of how disruptive technologies; emerging competition; shifting consumer demographics and media usage trends are driving changes in the media ecosystem and what C-level executives must do to be successful. Rick received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, M.S. from Syracuse University and B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Rick has led strategic consulting projects and assisted industries and individual corporations with innovative thinking and revenue models; strategic research; market assessment; and designing and implementing digital strategies. He is known as a practical technology strategist who can design and manage implementation at the tactical level.

As a media strategist and technologist, Rick frequently has spoken internationally at major industry and corporate events and consulted with major media and Fortune 500 companies including Google, Microsoft; Dell; Time Warner; NBCU/Comcast; Gannett; and Yahoo. He has also been recognized in academia as the 2011 Shapiro Fellow at George Washington University, where he teaches entrepreneurship in new media. Rick has also designed and taught innovative courses while on the faculties of Michigan State University; George Mason University; George Washington University; and the University of Maryland. He has published over sixty referred scholarly and industry articles and papers and serves on editorial boards of leading academic journals in the telecommunications and media fields.

His personal interests include scuba diving (Rick's an instructor trainer with several scuba agencies); whitewater kayaking; and running. He volunteers as a lead emergency response instructor trainer for his local Community Emergency Response Team run by the Montgomery County (Maryland) Fire Rescue Service.

Carter Holland
Carter Holland is executive vice president of worldwide marketing at NewTek, responsible for the company's global brand image and integrated marketing efforts. He drives the company's corporate and product positioning, branding and identity, public relations, demand generation campaigns and global market penetration to ensure strong customer growth and revenue performance. Prior to NewTek, Carter held a range of marketing leadership positions at Avid Technology, where from 2000 to 2007, he implemented organic and M&A growth strategies that doubled the company's revenues to just under $1 billion annually. As VP of corporate marketing from 2008 to 2011, he led the successful consolidation of the Pro Tools, M-Audio, Sibelius, Pinnacle and Avid brands into a new corporate identity for the company. Before Avid, Carter was a management consultant specializing in change management strategy, organizational research, and communication programs for Fortune 100 and 500 companies. He's contributed articles to Billboard Magazine, is an active member of the internationally acclaimed The CMO Club, currently serves on the Program Advisory Board for the National Association of Broadcasters, and is also a professional recording and performing musician.

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Ben Kozuch

Ben Kozuch is Co-founder of Future Media Concepts, Inc. Future Media Concepts has grown to be the nation's premier digital media training organization for TV, film, video, graphics and web professionals with branches nationwide and internationally. Prior to FMC, Ben Kozuch was President and Founder of Multimedia Productions, Inc., a video production company that specialized in producing video and audio training materials for universities and corporate trainers.

Mr. Kozuch holds an M.B.A. in International Business from the European School of Management in Paris.

Ben@fmctraining.com

Russel Myerson

Executive Vice President, The CW Television Network

Russell Myerson is executive vice president of the CW Television Network, a joint venture of CBS and Warner Bros. He has been with the CW since its inception in 2006 and is the General Manager of the CW PLUS division. In his role, Myerson created and deployed a 24/7 broadcast TV distribution platform that provides network and first-run syndicated programming across parts of 43 states on an advertiser supported basis. The CW PLUS debut encompassed the largest simultaneous launch of digital television multicast channels in the nation's history. Under his leadership Myerson has assembled dozens of strategic distribution partnerships while at the same time built numerous alliances with major national and regional advertisers. The CW launch was the third television network launch Myerson has directed.

In 1997 Myerson spearheaded the launch of an ancillary 24/7 basic cable network for "The WB Television Network", a unit of Warner Bros. which was built on a technology platform called "IP store-and-forward." The WB's "100+" cable network forged key business relationships with cable MSO's and broadcasters and delivered strong ratings deliveries on locally branded channels. This concept was awarded a technical Emmy award in 2005 from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for "Pioneering Development of Locally Integrated and Branded Content."

Myerson was also the first member of the senior executive team that launched Game Show Network in 1994, a 24/7 basic cable network which was a joint venture of Sony Pictures Entertainment and United Video. Myerson's purview at Game Show Network included all content and on-air marketing and while there he led the charge in the creation of interactive entertainment both on-air and online. He also initiated the launch of the first web version of "Wheel of Fortune."

Myerson is the former chairman and chief executive officer of NATPE International, the National Association of Television Program Executives.

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Will Richmond

Will Richmond is president and founder of Broadband Directions LLC (www.broadbanddirections.com), a market intelligence, consulting and publishing firm specializing in broadband-delivered video. Will is editor and publisher of VideoNuze, a widely-followed online publication which provides daily industry analyses and news aggregation for broadband video decision-makers available at www.videonuze.com. Will also organizes the "VideoSchmooze" event series for industry executives.

Will has worked in the broadband, cable TV, content and technology industries for 20 years. He is an acknowledged thought-leader in the fast-growing broadband video area whose insights are sought out by C-level executives, venture capitalists, journalists and others.

Earlier in his career, Will worked at Continental Cablevision (then the 3rd largest cable operator), where he was VP Business Development and part of the founding team of Continental's pioneering broadband Internet access service "Highway1". Subsequently he served as VP Business Development for CMGI's iCast and for Narad Networks. He was also the founder of PoliticalWag.com, a popular political discussion/community site.

Will serves on the board of directors of the CTAM New York and CTAM New England chapters and the board of trustees of American Public Television. Will has a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Contact information:
Will Richmond
wrichmond@videonuze.com
+1-617-699-4459

Philip Segal

As President and Executive Producer, Original Productions, Phil Segal has operating responsibility for the company's hundreds of hours of original programming. Segal integrates Original Productions' business, creative development and production entities for all of its programming including: HISTORY'S top rated Emmy® nominated Ice Road Truckers and prime-time Emmy ® and PGA winner The Deadliest Catch on Discovery. Programming under Segal's purview includes: IRT: Deadliest Roads and Ax Men on HISTORY, Wild Justice for the National Geographic Channel, Black Gold on truTV; Swords: Life On the Line for Discovery and Coal and 1,000 Ways to Die for Spike TV. The 2010 break-out hit sensation Storage Wars, now in its second season on A&E, is currently in production with spin-off series in major US cities. New in 2011 include Whisker Wars, which premiered on IFC in August and the fall debut of Around the World in 80 Ways for HISTORY and American Hoggers for A&E.

Segal also oversees the development of scripted projects for the company. Original Productions' first full-length feature The Deadliest Sea, based on the runaway hit The Deadliest Catch, premiered on Discovery in 2009.

Prior to joining Original Productions in 2005, Segal spent three years as Executive Vice President of Bunim-Murray Productions, creators and producers of MTV's The Real World and E! Entertainment's The Simple Life. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Programming and Production for Tribune Entertainment, Segal supervised more than 150 hours of scripted programming that encompassed Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, BeastMaster, Mutant X, Earth: Final Conflict and Adventure Inc.

From 1990 to 1996, Segal was Executive Vice President of Amblin Television at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. He was responsible for the creation of seaQuest DSV starring Roy Scheider on NBC and Earth 2. Additionally, Segal oversaw production of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and the Stephen Hawking documentary A Brief History of Time, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. During his tenure at Amblin, Segal also worked with John Wells on the creation of NBC's award winning series ER.

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