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Henri Asseily
CTO, Telnic Ltd.

Henri Asseily is Chief Strategist and CTO for Telnic Limited, the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel domain. Prior to his position at Telnic, Henri co-founded Shopzilla, Inc. (formerly BizRate.com) in 1996, which under his tenure became the largest shopping search engine and one of the first companies relying on data-driven online marketing. Shopzilla was acquired by Scripps in 2005 for $569M.

He graduated in the The Wharton School MBA class of 1996 from the University of Pennsylvania and also holds a BA in Mathematics and Economics from the same institution. His hobbies include kitesurfing, skiing and snowboarding around the world. He lives in multiple countries, which is why he finds his .tel so useful!

Ms DeMarse is a financial services industry expert with extensive experience in financial information and technology. She led the investment team that identified the opportunity presented by CreditCards.com, and is uniquely qualified to create a winning vision and strategy for the company, and to oversee its execution. She is recognized for developing and leading high profile businesses and is an industry spokesperson. Her previous roles include leadership positions in prestigious companies, including Hoover's Inc., Bloomberg LP and Citibank. Most recently, she served as President, CEO and Board Member of Bankrate, Inc. Ms DeMarse serves on the Boards of ZipRealty, Edgar-Online, and All-Star Directories.

A member of The Committee of 200, Ms DeMarse is a cum laude graduate of Wellesley College, where she was a Wellesley Scholar, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School with an emphasis in marketing.

Dean DeBiase is CEO of TNS Media, the leader in measuring the ability of marketing and media to influence and engage consumers. Having built industry leading consumer and business services companies in media, advertising, entertainment, technology and Internet industries, DeBiase is one of the pre-eminent voices in the advancement of the innovation economy today.

He is known as a new media innovator who takes companies to the next level of market leadership. With a focus on strategically profitable growth, DeBiase has led private and public corporations through diverse value-creation phases, including expansion, turnaround, M&A and IPO. He has been the CEO of Fortune 500 subsidiaries and independent companies, including Autoweb, Imagination Network and World Play Entertainment; and has served in various executive, officer and director roles at AT&T, AOL, Zenith LG and FedEx. As chairman of Startup Partners, DeBiase has also served in corporate director, industry board and interim operating roles, including CEO of Fathom Online, FreeDrive and CatchTV.

A frequent speaker, media guest and industry spokesperson, DeBiase has shared his insights through numerous outlets, including co-authoring the best-selling book, The Big Moo, a unique collection of thinking from some of the world's most innovative leaders; co-founding thinkremarkable.com, a network of best-selling authors, speakers and bloggers; as well as speaking at numerous universities.

Acknowledged for his industry-shaping leadership-through development of next generation services and ventures-DeBiase's organizations have been recognized for producing award winning products, brands, trademarks, marketing, media, programming, technologies, software, patents and IP.

Sharon Gillenwater is an experienced marketing strategist with an eclectic background in journalism, business analysis, sales and marketing strategy. Born and raised in San Diego, California, she worked for seven years as a writer before earning a master's degree combining international relations and business from the University of California, San Diego.

After heading up sales and marketing for a San Francisco-based localization firm (now part of Lionbridge), she started her own consulting firm, San Francisco Group in 2000, creating content, marketing strategies and programs for companies such as PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, Sun Microsystems, Lockheed Martin, Cisco, NetApp, Symantec, Adobe, Barclay's Global Investors and Ernst & Young.

In 2008, Sharon decided to "productize" a CXO research methodology that she had been piloting with Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems and Boardroom Insiders was born. Celebrating its first anniversary in October 2009, Boardroom Insiders provides executive profile subscriptions, relationship mapping, custom research and consulting services to enterprise companies looking to better reach and engage C-level customers.

Sharon takes great pride in her team's responsiveness, solution-oriented mindset and quality of content. As one of her longtime clients recently said, "Boardroom Insiders is the type of secret weapon that everyone wished they had in their arsenal."

Andrew T. Greenberg is CEO of GF Data Resources and a managing director of Fairmount Partners, a private investment bank in the Philadelphia area. Prior to joining Fairmount, Andy was a managing director in charge of M&A groups at Brown Brothers Harriman and Commerce Capital Markets. Before his move to investment banking, he was Pennsylvania's Secretary of Commerce -- the youngest in the history of the Commonwealth. Andy has an A.B. from Brown University and a J.D. from Harvard University. He began his career as a corporate lawyer with Drinker Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia.

Janice heads the Health Content Advisors division of ICG. Janice is a respected thought leader in the economics of publishing and has been actively involved in creating and marketing electronic information products for over twenty years. She has held senior-level product management and content development positions in pioneering information companies, including Individual, Inc., Dialog Information Services (now part of Thomson Scientific) and DeepCanyon, a Hewlett-Packard company.

After receiving her MBA from the University of Chicago in 1985, she began her career in online publishing at Dialog where she built a collection of M&A and financial database products, published a series of business and intellectual property CD-ROM titles, and was responsible for licensing content from dozens of publishers. At Individual, Inc., she managed content development and publisher relations for online news and pharmaceutical business intelligence products from PJB, Adis, IMS, and Windhover.

In 1995, Janice launched a consulting practice that specialized in strategic marketing, product positioning, and channel partner strategies for B2B, scientific, and medical publishers. She has consulted as part of the Shore Communications network and with GrandView Insight. Clients include major publishing firms, including Thomson, Reed Elsevier, D&B, McGraw-Hill, Hewlett-Packard, as well as many smaller publishing and technology firms.

Janice is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has published reports on channel strategy The Channel Partner Handbook, 2004) and publisher revenue models (How Publishers Can Profit from Contextual Advertising Models, 2003), both published by Shore Communications, Inc. Janice served as program chair for ICG's Health Content conference.

Russell Perkins, Founder and Managing Director. Russell has over 20 years experience in all facets of the database publishing industry. Most recently, Russell was President/CEO of Dorland Healthcare Information, a venture capital-backed database information company serving the healthcare industry. Prior to that, Russell was Vice President of what is now a division of Incisive Media.

Previous to that, Russell was Group President at North American Publishing Company, where he was responsible for development and launch of its of media information and graphic arts industry databases. Russell has also been a staff consultant at AT&T, and an editor at Thomas Publishing Company.

Russell is also the founder Morgan-Rand, Inc. a publishing and consultancy firm serving the yellow pages and specialty directory markets. Morgan-Rand produced the Report on Directory Publishing, a monthly newsletter, and the National Directory Conference, both of which were sold to SIMBA Information, now a unit of MarketResearch.com, and re-acquired in 2003. Russell is the author of Directory Publishing: A Practical Guide, which is now in its fifth edition, and InfoCommerce: Internet Strategies for Database Publishers.