Andy Thomas

Andy is responsible for Garlik’s distribution partnerships. He has over 20 years of business development and commercial experience and has previously worked at Sun Microsystems and latterly Capgemini where he was Business Development Director within their Retail & Consumer Products sector.

Dick Hardt

A pioneer in the Internet sector and open source software community, Dick has been active in software development for over two decades.

Prior to founding Sxip Identity, Dick founded ActiveState in 1997. Under his leadership as CEO, ActiveState became a leader in open source programming languages and anti-spam software and was acquired by UK-based software company, Sophos in 2003.

His first commercial software work started in 1986 at Consumers Software where he ported one of the first LAN email packages, the Network Courier, to Windows 1.03. He later joined Paradigm Development, which did software consulting for firms such as Aldus, Adobe and Microsoft. In 1993 Dick connected Paradigm to the Internet and later founded hip Communications, which became one of the larger web development and hosting companies in western Canada. While running hip, Dick led the port of Perl 5 to the Windows platform, which resulted in an interest in open source software. hip was sold to a NASDAQ company.

As a successful entrepreneur and technology expert, Dick is very involved in the technology community giving keynotes at numerous conferences across the globe. A small sampling includes: Web 2.0, the Next Web, ETech, Burton Group Catalyst, Digital ID World, Kuppinger Cole European Identity, Highland Forum, TTI/Vanguard Identity and Trust, W3C, NSA Identity Protection and Management, and the O’Reilly Open Source Conference.

Dick is an active participant in the OpenID community. He co-authored the OpenID 2.0 specification and OpenID Attribute Exchange, is a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, and is the Treasurer, co-chair of the marketing committee, as well as on the membership committee.

Dick is also very active in the Vancouver community and is on the board of the Vancouver Enterprise Forum. He previously was on the board of the BC Technology Industry Association and Ludicorp, creators of Flickr. He is a Business in Vancouver Top 40 Under 40 award recipient. Dick has also demonstrated leadership in funding the Major Projects Fund for the BC Technology Social Venture Partners, a charitable foundation to support groups serving children, women at risk and people living in Vancouver’s downtown eastside.

Luke Razzell

Luke has been known as a blogger (at www.weaverluke.com), thinker and speaker in the field of Digital Identity since 2004. He was a founder member of the Microsoft-led .Identity Gang. thinktank, and wrote the original Wikipedia article on Digital Identity. Luke co-founded the Identity Society discussion forum (www.identitysociety.org) in 2006 with Verizon’s John Madelin, and was a panellist and speaker on digital identity for eTribes Mashup, New Media Knowledge and Digital Identity Forum events in 2007.

In 2007, Luke co-founded i-together Ltd and currently serves as its CEO and User Experience/User Interface lead. i-together developed the Facebook application Blog Friends.a social blog recommendation service that reached 27,000 users and thirteen of the world’s top 100 bloggers (Technorati). In 2008, i-together soft-launched Buzzspotr.com, a service most easily described as "Twitter for location". Luke was responsible for the UX and UI architecture and design for both services, working in close collaboration with both i-together’s team and its user community.

Luke is currently consulting for Flow Interactive and Digital Alchemy on UX projects.

Simon Willison

Simon Willison is a consultant on client- and server-side Web development and a co-creator of the Django Web framework. Simon’s interests include OpenID, unobtrusive JavaScript and rapid application development. Before going freelance Simon worked on Yahoo!’s Technology Development team, and prior to that at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas. Simon maintains a popular Web development weblog at http://simonwillison.net/

Wendy Grossman

Wendy M. Grossman is a freelance writer and member of the advisory councils of the Open Rights Group and Privacy International. She covers Internet and technology-related topics for the Guardian, Scientific American, and many other publications. She is author of several books of which the best known is net.wars, and also writes a column by that name.

Ivan Pope

Ivan Pope is CEO of Snipperoo, a company devoted to web-widgets, web-based content storage devices with a variety of applications. Throughout the early stages of internet commercialization in the 1980’s, this visionary entrepreneur was involved in a variety of innovations in website design and build, domain name registration, web-based newsletters, and even came up with the ‘cyber café’.

Using his extensive experience in business startup and development, Ivan founded Snipperoo in 2006, and has earned his reputation as a prolific blogger and authority on the subject of web widgets. Otherwise known as ‘Mr. Widget’, he organised the first European Widget Conference, ‘Widgety Goodness’, held in December 2007. Ivan is a graduate of Goldsmiths’ College, London, and has a Masters in Fine Arts from Brighton University.

Nick Brown

Nick Brown has been in the broadcast and digital media business for many years. He was fortunate to be involved in 4 of the most significant evolutionary steps of television; The launch of satellite and multi-channel television with both BSB, then Sky. The transition from analogue to digital TV. The introduction of interactive services — the ubiquitous ‘red-button’, and most recently, the development of webTV platforms,

Unfortunately, he thinks he could have got a royal flush with the switch from black and white to colour, but he wasn’t old enough! He has worked with most of the broadcasters in the UK and acts as a consultant for BARB. He lives in Sussex with his partner and 4 children.

Will McInnes

MD - Nixon McInnes

Will McInnes is evangelical about all things Social Media, but more importantly he is an inspiring translator.

Will monitors the early adopter activity online and translates the concepts for marketers desperate to know how to apply these new online techniques. Will engages with his audience drawing on their experience, questions and ideas. At speaking events Will has cajoled and motivated delegates from: The BBC, Lloyds TSB, Fat Face, Zurich Financial, O2 and Vodafone.

Peter Miles

After retiring at a youthful 33 from the hectic lifestyle of a Roadie with acts such as Tina Turner, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John and Stevie Wonder, Peter went on to establish and sell a series of companies in the entertainment market.

He founded Subtv in 2003 and installed a national screen network within student union bars throughout the UK. The business now has 97 of the top 110 university student unions signed up to the service which gives the business a reach of over 1.65m 18-24 yr olds across the UK.

The Company now includes online channels as well as content production, and events management departments. The vision is for the company to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for clients trying to develop meaningful connections with this Youth demographic. Peter is CEO of Subtv and is passionate about how the audience can be best served by an integrated communication and marketing strategy that transcends channels. Relevant and engaging are two words which he may well have worn thin with overuse (there are others).

He is truly excited by the prospects of the next 10 years in this industry which, since he is about to turn 52, is a surprise by itself.

Joe Drumgoole

CEO and founder PutPlace.com

PutPlace.com is an online service that helps home users secure, organise and share their digital content. He is an industry veteran with over 20 years experience build software products and services for sale and has headed up product development teams at several successful irish startups including Cape Clear and CR2.

He has also punched the clock at BigCo development organisations such as Oracle, Nomura and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Ave Wrigley

Ave Wrigley is Head of Technology at ITN ON, and has worked for ITN since 1999. ITN is the largest independent UK TV News production company, and ITN ON deals with ITN’s output on all non-broadcast media; web, mobile, interactive TV and radio, and is one of the leading suppliers of video content to mobile operators, web portals, search sites, broadcasters, newspapers, etc., including: Vodafone, 3, T-Mobile, O2, Orange, The Telegraph, The Mirror, Yahoo, MSN, Virgin Media YouTube, Blinkx, MySpace, Bebo, Facebook, Channel 4, ITV, IRN and also runs a leading news website (http://itn.co.uk/) which provides a groundbreaking video news service. Prior to ITN, Ave worked in speech and natural language research for Canon, ETL (Japan), Surrey University, and Bristol University.

Rob Hinchcliffe

Rob Hinchcliffe has been messing about on the internet since the mid-90s. In 2003 he founded the capital-centric blog Londonist, which he edited for two years. In those slightly manic 24 months Londonist became one of the most widely read blogs in the country, was nominated for a number of awards (and even won a couple), and was voted one of the top 10 most influential blogs in the UK. Rob left Londonist in 2006 to take over as Editor of Yahoo UK News, but after 18 months at the big purple Y! he decided it was time to get back to the excitement of the startup environment and joined the user-generated reviews site www.Qype.com where he works as their UK Community Manager. From time to time Rob also pontificates about the web for various online and offline publications. You can find his personal blog over at www.robhinchcliffe.co.uk where he writes about connecting the Web to what he laughingly refers to as ’real life’.

Steve Coast

Steve Coast is the founder of OpenStreetMap, a collaborative map of the world made by people like you. Steve has worked in many heavy lifting computing applications before co-founding a web consultancy firm with Nick Black in 2006. In 2008 this became CloudMade after investment by Sunstone Capital. Steve lives on planes and in airports and is most easily contacted by email.

Richard Vahrman

Richard Vahrman is the founder of Brighton start-up LocoMatrix, which has developed a system for playing outdoor games using a mobile phone and GPS. The original aim of LocoMatrix was to encourage youngsters to go outside and become the players in adventures, rather than manipulating characters around a screen. But such is the interest in the platform (with its open source tool kit), that uses from advertising to education to tourism are currently being investigated.

Originally a biologist, Richard was a truck driver and jazz musician before settling down to real work in bioengineering with Prof. Heinz Wolff, first for the Medical Research Council and later at Brunel University and the European Space Agency. Richard has always been interested in the concept of location, former projects including the monitoring of divers to the tracking of supermarket trolleys.

Tim Warr

Tim is Technology Consultant, specialising in location data and software and has over 13 years’ experience in the industry. He started applying geospatial technologies in environmental applications, before moving on to local government, data providers and the web mapping industry.

Some of the projects Tim has been involved in include web mapping for local government, new address data products, implementing spatial web services and developing commercial web mapping applications. Tim’s current role is Senior Technician Account Manager at Multimap (a Microsoft company) where he provides technical advice, on location technologies, to a wide variety of companies. Tim is a geographer (and proud of it!).

Andrew Grill

Based in London, Andrew is an experienced Senior Telecoms Executive, Business Developer and Marketer with over 20 years experience in the ICT industry. He has a specific focus on mobile advertising, mobile location and fixed mobile convergence, and is currently General Manager, Sales & Business Development for leading location services provider, Seeker Wireless.

Since joining Seeker, Andrew has secured contracts with operators such as Vodafone to utilise Seeker’s unique approach to location for fixed mobile substitution, and is currently focused on new opportunities for location based advertising. He is a regular conference presenter and also provides opinion and thought leadership for a range of publications on issues related to location and mobile advertising. He maintains a popular blog on these subjects at www.london-calling.org.uk

Judy Gibbons

Judy Gibbons has over 25 years experience in the computer industry with a focus on software, digital media, online advertising & Consumer Internet. She currently serves as non-executive Chairman of Refresh Mobile, is a member of the Board of Directors at Autoquake and is a board advisor to WeeWorld, Kayak & Spreadshirt. Judy also served on the main board of 02, the European mobile network operator, until its purchase by Telefonica.

Before joining Accel, Judy was Corporate Vice President of MSN Global Sales and Marketing at Microsoft managing the business across 40 markets worldwide. She joined Microsoft in 1994 to launch MSN in the UK and went on to manage MSN Europe. Later she ran MSN International additionally covering South America, Asia-Pacific and Japan and then MSN Worldwide including US Sales & Marketing.

Prior to Microsoft Judy held various product development and marketing positions at Hewlett Packard, where she spent two years in Silicon Valley, and at Apple Computer where she was involved in the company’s early work in interactive multimedia and the Apple Newton PDA.

Judy has been ranked among the top 20 most influential European business women by the Wall Street Journal Europe for two successive years, as one of Time magazine’s five "People to Watch in International Business" and received the Women’s Leadership Award at Microsoft.

Judy holds an honors degree in Engineering and has undertaken executive education programs at Harvard Business School and London Business School.

Chris Seth

Managing Director Pizco Europe

Piczo empowers young people to express themselves, build personal communities, and share ideas and experiences with their friends in a more personal online environment. Piczo’s creative tool set allows its members free range to publish digital content without requiring any technical know-how. With over 28 million registered users Piczo is the largest teen community in Europe, and has offices in San Francisco, New York, and London.

Chris has over 16 years experience in the digital, media and advertising sectors, having launched and managed businesses for BBDO, Time Out and the International Herald Tribune. In addition to his responsibilities at Piczo, Chris advises a number of early stage companies on business and marketing strategy in Europe. Chris is a graduate of Southampton University and holds a joint honours degree in French and Spanish.

Andrew Scott

Founder & CEO Rummble

Rummble is an award winning mobile technology company which operates the consumer “Rummble” service, a location based discovery tool and social search platform which learns, enabling users to find people and places nearby which they will like.

A serial entrepreneur, Andrew ran a successful web development company serving blue chip clients through the dot com years, which sold to CMGroup plc in 2001. Later he co-developed the world’s first online digital video news archive (BritishPathe), founded a ground breaking interactive personal fitness website with Olympian David Morgan (InTraining), built the UK’s first interactive SMS dating service (DinnerDateAuctions) and pioneered Europe’s first location based social software (playtxt).

Loïc Le Meur

Serial entrepreneur & blogger

Loïc is a well-known serial French entrepreneur who created and sold 4 Internet startups, also blogger and vlogger. Loïc’s blog is #1 in France, read by more than 250,000 unique visitors per month, he made hundreds of video podcasts including the only podcast with President Nicolas Sarkozy). Working on his next venture, Loïc is also honorary Chairman at Six Apart, the leading weblog software company and investor in tens of startups such as LinkedIn or Technorati. He also organizes every year one of Europe’s largest web event, LeWeb3, that gathered 1300 participants from 37 Countries in 2006. It is a unique event capable of gathering Internet entrepreneurs, visionaries and politicians such as Nobel Prize Winner Shimon Peres. Loïc also joined President Sarkozy campaign team during the 2007 elections, advising on the Internet, gathered a network of 1000 bloggers for him and launched the Second Life Sarkozy Island. Loïc graduated from the #1 business school in France, HEC.

Loïc served as Executive VP of Six Apart EMEA from 2003 to 2007 and founded and served as CEO for several companies in France, including U-blog, a european blog service in 2003; RapidSite France, the first shared Web hosting company launched in 1997. Rapid Site France was sold to France Telecom and B2L, one of the first Web agencies launched in France in 1996, with clients including Chanel, 20th Century Fox, and Mars, which was sold to BBDO, a leading advertising group. Loïc is also a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He launched the WEF blog in 2004 and has been advising and blogging for the Forum since then.

Ankur Shah

A former Criminal Barrister, Ankur entered the technology sector after a successful stint at the Bar and prior to that had worked under endorsement of the United Nations and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Bringing his knowledge of social dynamics to technology, With his co-founder Gi Fernando, Ankur started Techlightenment to harness, embrace and disrupt social media; working with brands such as SonyBMG, Samsung and MTV.

Under the flagship Socialistics programme, Techlightenment has pioneered a data driven approach to user experience and is at the forefront of developing consumer applications that leverage the social graph to deliver innovative forms of user experience.

Olivier Creiche

As the General Manager of EMEA, Olivier Creiche is responsible for business operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Olivier has rich experience in sales and marketing at such companies as Danone, Pepsico, BBDO and DDB.

He cofounded two companies, one of which was Ublog, a French blogging service acquired by Six Apart in 2004. Olivier joined Six Apart as the Business Development Manager for EMEA in 2004 and took over as General Manager in 2007. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of South Dakota and is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Jerome Touze

Co Founder & Co CEO of WAYN.com.

With over 11.5 million members worldwide, WAYN.com is the largest traveling social community online with members in 193 countries. Jerome has been deeply involved in the latest Web 2.0 technologies and gained invaluable insights into the various means online businesses are emphasizing on their brand awareness and developing a strong user base by using the so called “Self Generated Content Strategies”.

Prior to founding WAYN.com, Jerome was a Consultant in Telecommunications and High Tech at Accenture, working primarily on CRM solutions for major accounts such as British Telecommunications and Microsoft.

Jenny Fielding

An international strategic consultant with achievement in project finance, global strategy, business development, negotiation and contracts focused on emerging growth technology, mobile and media companies. An entrepreneur with a proven track record of conceptualizing, scaling, delivering new products to market and successfully exiting a mobile software start up company.

Amanda George

Founder inspire:

Amanda George has been working as an retail designer since 1984. She worked for a number of premium design consultancy’s including Fitch, Portland Design and Rodney Fitch. Inspire Design Consultancy was founded in 2001 and designs retail environments online and offline with the emphasis, especially for startups and digital businesses, on ‘thinking like a retailer’.

Amanda is an expert in retail design, respected for her strategic thinking and conceptual ability. Clients rely on her retail intuition to create environments that work operationally but most importantly profitable. Retailers Amanda has recently worked with include Marks & Spencer, Asda, Pizza Hut, Littlewoods Shop Direct Group and Sea France and P&O as well as many small and medium enterprises.

Richard Anson

Richard co-founded Reevoo in 2005 after recognising the potential of customer reviews to help shoppers decide what to buy. The business now works with over 50 retailers (including Vodafone, Dixons, Woolworths, Orange and Ann Summers) to increase their on-site conversion. Retailers can also benefit from highly qualified traffic from reevoo.com.

As well as continuing to develop the network of retailers, Reevoo now has a successful consumer website at www.reevoo.com and has extended its services to manufacturers, to help them build better products. Richard was previously senior strategy consultant at KPMG, interim Head of Group Planning at Orange, covering 22 countries, and was on the small deals team at 3i. He has a PhD and MBA.

Adri Kraa

Selected as Head of Shop Online! in January 2005, Adri drives the multi-channel strategy for IKEA UK. He designed the complete e-operating model and successfully launched the online channel ahead of schedule in 2006. Being responsible for the UK’s e-marketing, sales and fulfilment operations he is also instrumental in establishing the global multi-channel concept.

Adri joined IKEA in 2002 to drive the strategy & business planning of the Wholesaler in West Europe, amongst others developing the logistic services to enable e-fulfilment.

Previously, Adri worked for six years as a senior management consultant in the Netherlands. He advised large companies on their service delivery strategies and spearheaded the commercial and competence development of LogicaCMG’s Consulting service. Prior to that, he worked as systems engineer in the European space industry following his Masters in Aerospace Engineering.

Adri also holds an executive MBA from Henley Management College and lives in Cambridge with his family. He regularly speaks at (r)etail conferences on developments in multi-channel retailing.

Lisa Rodwell

Lisa Rodwell is a 14 year marketing industry veteran who has worked at some of the Web’s leading brands and their communities, including Yahoo! and eBay.

Currently, Lisa is the Vice President of sales and marketing at moo.com, a London-based startup backed by Index Ventures, Atlas Venture and The Accelerator Group. MOO prints high-quality customized products for consumers in more than 140 countries worldwide and partners with leading technology companies including Facebook, Flickr and Bebo.

Her early career was at Procter & Gamble where she was a financial analyst and then moved to Ogilvy & Mather/OgivlyOne, where over 7 years she had the opportunity to build off-line businesses using traditional offline and online marketing plans including IBM, American Express, Unilever and Nestlé.

Jason Smith

Jason Smith is a 10 year veteran of service side CPM, CPC and CPO marketing programmes having worked with some of the biggest names in retail to drive traffic and orders in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

In his current role as Commercial Director at SHOP.COM, Jason has been instrumental in expanding the business from a purely CPO model to include CPC and more recently CPM display advertising. SHOP.COM is a US and UK online shopping mall originally created to service the catalogue industry but over the past 5 years has developed more retailer friendly systems allowing expansion of its client base to around 500 advertisers and a consumer base of nearly 3 million visitors every month.

Brent Hoberman

Founder and Executive Chairman mydeco

Brent co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998 with Martha Lane Fox and was CEO and took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. The company floated in March 2000 when the dot-com bubble was at its peak - the IPO was 40 times oversubscribed and the price increase during the process was a record for a UK company. lastminute.com acquired 14 businesses after the IPO to supplement the annual growth of the core brand which was over 100% from 1998 - 2004. In 2005 lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn.

Brent most recently founded another VC-backed internet based startup, mydeco, the online interiors site that will revolutionise the way we shop and design for our homes.

He is a Governor of University of the Arts College, London and a non-executive board director of Guardian Media Group. From January, 2007 he took on the role of Non-Executive Chairman of Wayn.com - a travel and leisure social network with over 10 million members. Brent is also an angel investor in several internet companies including Viagogo and Wayn.com and moveme.com.

Giles Palmer

Giles is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch - a VC backed data company that has built a system to monitor and evaluate text that is published on the web every day. Giles formed the company with £20k and has taken it from inception to launch. They now have a substantial customer base ranging from Banks like Alliance & Leiester and HBOS to Auto manufacturers and even some celebrities. Prior to this Giles was at sky interactive as head of Bus. Dev.

Bob Last

Bob Last is SVP Business Development and one of the founding team at Taptu, an innovative mobile search start-up.

Prior to this, he was the Sales and Marketing Director at Trigenix, the mobile user interface company acquired by Qualcomm in 2004. Before Trigenix, Bob spent many years in telecoms in various Sales and Management roles at Hewlett-Packard.

Bob has a Engineeering degree in Electronics from Bristol University. Bob loves mountain climbing, Indian food, Irish music and his old HP41c calculator.  He dislikes very time consuming search activities - such as fishing, shopping and finding weeds in the garden.

Ged Carroll

Ged Carroll is EMEA lead consultant in the digital strategies group at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide working the agencies clients in the technology, pharmaceutical and consumer brands and also teaches online PR on behalf of e-Consultancy. Ged has over 10 years consumer, media and technology marketing communications experience. He has advised and developed successful brand marketing campaigns for both blue-chip and new-chip organisations. His client experience includes Motorola, Palm and Sony. He joined the Waggener Edstrom in May 2006. Before he joined Waggener Edstrom Ged worked in-house at Yahoo! Europe.

In Ged’s previous role as European PR Manager for Yahoo!, he created and directed pan European consumer PR, buzz marketing and influencer programmes for Yahoo!’s web 2.0 businesses including Yahoo! Search, flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org and Yahoo!360. His Yahoo! ‘Finds of the Year’ campaign was shortlisted for a PR Week Award.

Previously he held positions at The Weber Group Europe, Edelman, Pirate Communications and as an independent consultant on a range of consumer media and technology clients including Aljazeera, Planet Out Partners, InLondon Magazine, Verizon, Ericsson and AOL.

Ged is a member of the CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations), and was nominated for PR Week’s ‘One’s to Watch in 2001’. His personal blog is at renaissancechambara.jp

Kris Mansson

Silobreaker, www.silobreaker.com, is a new search service for news and current affairs that delivers more insightful results to the end user than what traditional search and aggregation engines have been offering so far. Instead of returning just lists of articles matching a search query, Silobreaker finds people, companies, topics, places and keywords; understands how they relate to each other in the news flow, and puts them in context for the user through graphical results in its intuitive user interface.

Before co-founding Elucidon (Silobreaker’s parent), Kristofer spent 15 years in banking and financial services. He was the Managing Director of AIG Financial Products in London and Vice President at Salomon Brothers. His entry into technology, other than that as user, was in the role of acting CEO for an early stage technology project owned by the Boston Consulting Group and OMX in Stockholm. He is a Swedish national but has lived in London since 1989.

Dominic Blackburn

Dominic Blackburn, Head of New Technology i-CD Publishing has been a member of the company’s executive management team since its inception in 1997. He has been instrumental in the development of digital directories across mediums including UK-Info disk, 192.com, and 192.com Business Services. Prior to joining 192.com he worked as IT Director for a number of international, blue-chip companies in the development of data collection tools and digital directories.

Ariela Freed

Ariela has been managing JumpTap’s marketing activities since 2006 both in the United States and in Europe. Prior to JumpTap, Ariela headed up global marketing communications at mBlox, where she helped grow the SMS aggregator into one of the most well known and respected B2B brands in the mobile industry. Her background is firmly rooted in interactive advertising, having worked in media at BBDO and OMD Toronto, where she worked on clients including FedEx, Campbell’s, Scotiabank and launched the first Canadian e-tailers and portals in the 90s.

Jeff Kelisky

Jeff Kelisky is Multimap’s Chief Executive Officer, and is responsible for overall management of Multimap’s operations and strategy. Jeff joined Multimap in April 2000 as Director of Operations and Business Development. He came to Multimap.com after a highly successful stretch as a strategy consultant with A.T. Kearney. Jeff led both strategy and organisational restructuring engagements across Europe and the US in Telecommunications, IT, Banking, and Retail industries.

Prior to AT Kearney, Jeff led the negotiations and restructuring of a privately held cinema group in Paris. A significant share of Jeff’s technology expertise was shaped through a highly successful career working for IBM. Jeff is credited with leading the development of a new digital video-processing venture and building a highly motivated entrepreneurial team from within the different groups inside IBM.