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UPDATE: AmBAR event, April 19, 2007 (more panelists added)

Sun, 04/15/2007 - 23:05 — ileonov
New Frontiers in Marketing and Product Development in the Era of Web 2.0 Innovation
 
Dear Fellow AmBARians,
Do you want to know what it takes to build the most popular social network?  Do you want to know what secrets of product marketing make the difference?  Join us for a panel discussion of the leading industry professionals.  Note that we just added two exciting speakers to the panel (see bellow the list of panelists)!
Also, come and meet AmBAR's special guests: a group of top managers from Ukraine's leading companies: Kyivstar, Interpipe Group, Terrasoft, Khortytsa. 
 
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION:
-        Marketing and Product Management in the Internet era
-        Proliferation of social networking sites, migration of video to the Web, mobile marketing: how it alters the way companies spend their marketing dollars
-        Web 2.0 and the changing market environment: opportunities and challenges
-        New role of product management

 

PANELISTS:
Konstantin Guericke is the CEO of Jaxtr, a social communications company.  Konstantin joined Jaxtr from LinkedIn, where as a co-founder, he led marketing from pre-product to profitability. With a small team, Konstantin created a strong brand, and LinkedIn went from one of more than 30 business networks to the clear leader in social networking for business.  Prior to LinkedIn, Konstantin served as VP of marketing at Presenter.com, VP sales and marketing at Black Sun Interactive and EVP at Caligari. Konstantin's expertise covers marketing, sales, product management, business development and international expansion.  Konstantin has lived, worked and studied in Europe and Asia in addition to the U.S. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University.
 
Tony Siress is the CEO of YOUnite, a company that brings elements of social networking into the corporate world.  Tony has more than 20 years of sales, marketing and business development experience. He started his first company, Personal Touch, in 1985 to help people overcome the difficulties of buying and using early PCs.  He also founded a company called Siress, Inc., where he focused on developing customer applications for small to mid-sized companies. Tony has held various senior sales and marketing managerial positions at companies such as Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Veritas Software.  And he was a co-founder of Tidalwave Technologies, Inc., which was acquired by Veritas Software in 1995.  Tony holds a B.S. in Commerce from Santa Clara University.
 
Jim Fowler is the CEO of Jigsaw,an online directory of more than five million business cards. A veteran sales executive, Jim has spent the last 12 years selling marketing and collaboration software. Jim co-founded Jigsaw after having served as vice president of sales at Digital Impact (DIGI), Paramark and TightLink where he was responsible for building the sales departments from the ground up and implementing key sales strategies and processes.  Jim is a graduate of the University of Сolorado.
 
Jennifer Cooper is the CEO of MixerCast.  MixerCast allows its users to mix their media with legal, professionally created content to make their own channels, movies, music videos, photo galleries, killer ads or personal RSS feeds. Prior to joining Mixercast, Jennifer served as Executive Director of Business Development for Yahoo! Inc., where she designed and launched Yahoo!'s first video subscription service and managed large media industry relationships including ABC/Disney, A&E Networks, Paramount, CBS, Time Warner/HBO and CNN.  Jennifer holds a dual B.S. degree in computer science and marketing from San Francisco State University.
 
Patrina Mack, a Managing Partner of Vision & Execution, consults with emerging technology companies in the U.S., Europe and Israel to optimize consumer adoption and market penetration.  She also works with later stage and mature companies to optimize their product development processes for faster time to revenue.  She authored "After Internet Time: Five New Realities for Product Development."  Patrina holds a BA from UC, Irvine, in Advertising Design.  
 
WHEN
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Registration: 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Program: 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Networking and hors de overs : 8:30 - 10:00 pm
 
WHERE
DLA Piper Rudnick's
2000 University Avenue in East Palo Alto.
 
REGISTRATION
To register for the event, please email your name, company name and title to info@ambarclub.org. We will collect checks and cash only payments at the door. Please pre-register, so that we order enough food!
If you pre-register, the price to attend is $15 an. At the door price is $20.
We look forward to seeing you there.

AmBAR Executive Committee.