Jack Barrette, CEO and Founder, WEGO Health
Jack Barrette is CEO and founder of WEGO Health, the first web site to empower health activists in their mission to help others through the health social web. Previously, he was Category Development Officer for Lifestyle, Health & Medicine at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for guiding Yahoo! strategy for meeting the needs of healthcare consumers and the pharmaceutical, healthcare and healthy lifestyle companies that market to them. Prior to Yahoo!, Jack founded pharma strategy firm Mt. Vernon Partners; acted as COO of pharma sponsored online patient education company HealthBanks; and founded interactive healthcare marketing company Echo Strategies Group (a pioneer in internet health marketing and technology sold to Omnicom in 1997 and taken public as part of Agency.com in 1999). Jack lives in Back Bay with his wife Kelly, an art dealer, and believes fervently in the health benefits of red wine.
Deborah Breen, Director of Medical Market Development, EBSCO Publishing
At EBSCO Ms. Breen is focused on the use and integration of evidence-based medical content throughout the continuum of care across vertical and horizontal market segments.
Ms. Breen has a diverse background that includes senior level roles in product management, systems engineering, and marketing communications. With over 17 years of experience, she has worked extensively in the healthcare technology market and has a strong knowledge of integration, implementation and change management. While serving as Medical Marketing Director for Vedant Healthcare she established and managed marketing and development partnerships with EMR vendors including Cerner, McKesson and Siemens and worked with clients such as Baylor University Medical Center, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Integris Health. Later she worked with medical equipment manufacturers including iCad, Inc. and Electrolyzer Corporation to develop and conduct market studies in order to inform product development efforts.
She is a member of Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development (SHSMD), The NationalAssociation of Female Executives (NAFE), and served as a judge for the 2007 and 2008 Strategic Healthcare Communications eHealthcare Leadership Awards. In 2007 she was appointed to the URAC Health Website Accreditation Committee where she continues to play an active role.
Danny Ezrol, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development
Danny Ezrol is a thought-leader in the area of health care consumerism and transparency and has more than 15 years of management consulting and industry experience.
In his role at HealthGrades, Mr. Ezrol is at the forefront of the convergence of health care consumerism and the use of outcomes-based quality data. Mr. Ezrol works with major employers, benefit consultants, health plans and TPA’s to incorporate outcomes-based health care quality information into their organization’s broader health care cost-containment strategies. He is also responsible for HealthGrades’ Content Licensing strategy which includes the use of HealthGrades data and tools in conjunction with media companies, portals and member-based organizations.
Prior to joining HealthGrades, Mr. Ezrol was a founding member of ICG Commerce, a consulting and business process outsourcing firm with responsibility for their HR consulting practice. Prior to ICG Commerce, he was a consultant to Fortune 500 clients with IBM Global Services with a focus on business process optimization and cost savings realization. He holds an MBA and BS from the State University of New York.
Mr. Ezrol has spoken at industry association conferences including America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the National Conference on Healthcare Consumerism, the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), National Association of Healthcare Underwriters (NAHU), Managed Care Executive Group (MCEG) and the Society of Professional Benefit Administrators (SPBA). Mr. Ezrol has been selected as a member of Guidepoint Global Advisors’ Network of Healthcare Advisors and is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Colorado Association of Healthcare Executives.
Richard D. Forman, Managing Partner, Health Venture Group, LLC
In addition to being managing partner Health Venture Group, LLC, Richard Forman also serves as a board member of the New York Angels (newyorkangels.com), a member led and managed investment group focused primarily on technology based ventures in the Northeast United States. Previously, Mr. Forman was President and CEO of Register.com, Inc. (NASDAQ-RCOM) through June of 2003. During his tenure as CEO of Register.com, Inc., Mr. Forman led the Company through explosive growth and change including:
- Grew the employee base from 9 to over 500 employees
- Increased annual revenue from under $1mm to over $115mm
- Successfully completed three (3) acquisitions, including one cross-border EU based acquisition
- Received the Ernst &anp; Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Winner in 2002 and a Finalist in 2000)
- Raised over $150mm through a series of private and public (IPO) offerings of preferred and common stock
- Generated $100mm in cumulative operating cash flows and achieved 12 quarters of positive operating cash flow
From August 1987 to October 1990, Mr. Forman was a consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., where he helped implement numerous business development and technology strategies. Mr. Forman is a 1987 Cum Laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Management and Technology Program, and earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering. He also obtained a Masters Degree from New York University's Real Estate Institute in 1995. Currently, he sits on the Board of Overseers of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania and is the Chairman of the Dean’s New York Advisory Council.
Nancy Greengold, MD, MBA, Vice President and Medical Director, Hearst Business Media
At Hearst Business Media (HBM), an operating division of The Hearst Corporation, Nancy Greengold, a board-certified internist, is engaged in business development activities with the HBM management group and works closely with 2 of the HBM healthcare properties, First DataBank and Zynx Health. Nancy is also Associate Director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
Nancy was one of the co-founders of Zynx Health and worked with the company from 1996 to 2002 when it was a subsidiary of Cedars-Sinai Health System. Prior to joining Hearst, Nancy was VP of Clinical Decision Support for Wolters Kluwer Health where she was involved with the development of clinical information and decision support tools.
Scott Heimes, Senior Vice President, Consumer Solutions, OptumHealth
Mr. Heimes is the senior vice president of Consumer Solutions at OptumHealth, where he leads OptumHealth’s direct-to-consumer media and e-commerce businesses; its interactive health management solutions; and Carrot, the company’s consumer engagement services agency. Previously, Mr. Heimes was group manager of interactive marketing for Target Corporation, where he oversaw marketing strategy and execution for Target’s interactive brand initiatives. Other leadership positions held by Mr. Heimes include president of interactive agency Virtucom Content Solutions, chief content officer for e-catalog services company Pacifiq Technologies, vice president of business development for a live event production consulting company called Event Think, and editor-in-chief of Presentations magazine. He holds degrees in business administration and English literature from the University of St. Thomas.
Helen Hoart, President, StayWell Consumer Health Publishing
Helen Hoart is president of StayWell Consumer Health Publishing, which has a strategic business alliance with Harvard Medical School to market Harvard’s six consumer health newsletters, including the Harvard Health Letter, Harvard Women’s Health Watch and Harvard Heart Letter and its more than 50 condition-specific health reports.
Before joining StayWell, Helen ran R.L. Polk’s newsletter division where she headed marketing and business functions for a variety of consumer publications, including the highly regarded Kovels on Antiques and Collectibles.
She has also held leadership in many other publishing companies, including working for the legendary Ken Callaway at Capitol Publications. She started her career on the editorial side of the business covering Congress and the White House for news services.
She served on the board of the Newsletter and Electronic Publishers Association (now the Specialized Information Publishers Association) from 1996-2001 and was elected president in 1999. She served as president of the Specialized Information Publishers Foundation from 2006-2007.
In 2006, she was given the Founder’s Award from the Hudson Valley Direct Marketing Association in recognition for her outstanding contributions to the field of consumer marketing.
In 2007, she was inducted into the SIPA Hall of Fame.
Thomas C. Johnsrud, Executive Vice President, Trigram America
Mr. Johnsrud is an executive with over 20 years of leadership experience in a wide variety of health care settings with skills in operations, personnel management, performance/quality improvement and business development. With an exceptional ability to apply change management strategies, Mr. Johnsrud’s operational knowledge and financial expertise have greatly contributed to his success in business development across many levels of health care.
Past experience includes Executive Director/Administrator positions in a number of skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities across the United States and director positions in several acute care tertiary and acute rehabilitation hospitals in the Chicago area. He joined Joint Commission Resources, the consulting division of The Joint Commission, in 2004, where he had most of the responsibility for the domestic consulting operations as well as involvement with international consultant management. He was then promoted to Director of Accreditation Operations for The Joint Commission, responsible for overseeing the accreditation division’s planning, monitoring and financial functions, and was responsible for preparing and managing the division’s $90 million budget.
Mr. Johnsrud is currently the Executive Vice President of Trigram America, the leading provider of education and implementation strategies for medical travel. Based in the Chicago area, he works directly with employer and provider clients guiding them on strategies to assess their preparedness for implementing benefit options for medical travel. His experience as a former administrator and Joint Commission director have given Mr. Johnsrud first-hand knowledge of the US health care system and expertise in clinical operations and quality management.
Dr. Sundeep Karnik, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Development at Elsevier Health Sciences
At Elsevier Health Sciences Sundeep provides leadership and oversight for strategy and development across all of Elsevier’s businesses, worldwide.
Prior to joining Elsevier, Sundeep was at Medtronic Inc. where he served in Strategy, Business Development and General Management roles.
Sundeep came to Medtronic following four years at McKinsey & Company, where he served several Fortune 500 companies across diverse business sectors as well as functions, but with an emphasis on healthcare – Pharma, Payers and Provider organizations.
Sundeep completed his medical training at the University of Bombay, India. He moved to the United States for post-graduate education; earning Masters’ degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Rehabilitation and Molecular Physiology; and doctoral research in CNS neuronal regeneration before moving to McKinsey.
Gary D. Kennedy, CEO and Chairman, RemedyMD
“Evidence-based medicine is the future...and always will be unless we figure out how to aggregate data from multiple systems into a totally flexible, real-time outcomes reporting system. As long as healthcare delivery organizations try to address this problem through data warehouses, evidence-based medicine will always remain an unrealized dream.”
In addition to serving as CEO and Chairman of RemedyMD, the market leader in the use of predictive informatics to recognize patterns, personalize treatment, and measurably improve healthcare outcomes, Mr. Kennedy is also the founder and managing partner of Double Eagle Ventures LLC, a private venture fund targeting seed stage investments. Kennedy has served as president and CEO of TenFold Corporation, a provider of applications development and infrastructure technologies, and PRC, Inc., a systems integration company. Mr. Kennedy served in various management and executive positions at Oracle Corporation from 1982 until 1990. His positions included National Sales Manager, Senior Vice-President Oracle Corporation and President of Oracle USA. He was one of the first few professional employees of Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Kennedy served as a Marketing Manager for Intel Corporation. Mr. Kennedy holds a B.A. in finance from the University of Utah and a Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Janice McCallum, Managing Director, InfoCommerce Group and Health Content Advisors
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 inaugural Health Content07 conference, and will again chair Health Content08 in November 2008.
She is a member of SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing), Boston KM Forum, and 2008 co-chair of BWIN (Boston Women in Information Network)
“We chose this year’s theme, Incumbents, Innovators, and Intermediaries because it so neatly illustrates the current state of the health content market. Policy shifts and advancements in health IT are providing ample opportunities for innovators to create efficiencies and improvements to professional and consumer healthcare information services. Incumbents have lagged behind in incorporating new technologies into their core publishing properties and are now under the gun to invest in innovations to meet the needs of their customers. New intermediaries that aggregate data, improve access to information, serve as arbiters of quality, and marry content with IT to introduce enhanced content products and services are emerging.
Health Content08 will again serve as the marketplace where these incumbents, innovators, and intermediaries will meet, discuss the most lucrative content opportunities, and identify the best options for collaboration."
Teri Mendelsohn, President, Mendelsohn Consulting, Inc
Teri Mendelsohn is President of Mendelsohn Consulting, Inc., a New York-based practice which specializes in the creation, implementation and launch of online information products. Previously, she was Director of Clinical Markets at Ovid Technologies, a Wolters Kluwer nv company and leading provider of biomedical full-text and citational databases. Also at Ovid, she was Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development. Before that, Ms. Mendelsohn was an Associate in the media practice of the global strategic consulting firm Mitchell Madison Group. At MIT Press, she was Coordinating Editor, Cognitive Science before becoming Assistant Acquisitions Editor, Philosophy. Ms. Mendelsohn received her MBA from Columbia Business School and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Scott B. Meyer, Entrepreneur in Residence, Warburg Pincus LLC
Scott recently joined Warburg Pincus as an Entrepreneur in Residence, working in the Internet practice focusing on investments in the Digital Media space. From 2005-2008, Scott was president and CEO of About.com, a part of The New York Times Company. He spent eight years with The New York Times Company in a number of senior management roles. In addition to his role at About.com, he was the General Manager of the company´s flagship website, The New York Times on the Web (www.nytimes.com). He also served as vice president, strategic planning for The Boston Globe. Before joining The New York Times Company, Scott was with Multex.com (a venture-backed company which was acquired by Reuters in 2003 after a successful IPO in 1999), where he was Vice President and General Manager of its business-to-consumer division. Before beginning his media career, Scott worked in management consulting at The Boston Consulting Group and in investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co. Scott holds an A.B. in Public Policy and American Institutions from Brown University, where he was a winner of the Rouse Prize for Economics and was selected as a White Intern. He also has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
In addition to his role at Warburg Pincus, Scott is a Director of Go2Media (www.go2.com) and an Advisor to Kosmix Corporation (www.kosmix.com).
Tom O’Connor, Managing Director, Berkery Noyes
Tom has over 20 years experience in investment banking and finance. Tom joined Berkery Noyes in 2000 from prior positions for two years at a media buyout fund, controller of a public entertainment company, and an audit manager at Ernst & Young. Tom holds a BS in accounting from State University of New York at Binghamton and an MBA from Fordham University. Tom is also a Certified Public Accountant.
Tom focuses principally on mid-market healthcare M&A transactions and runs the Berkery Noyes healthcare practice. Some of his recent notable transactions include: Sale of Princeton Media Associates to HMP Communications & NACCME; Sale of HCPro Holdings, Inc to Halyard Capital; Sale of CenterWatch/NEIRB, a division of Thomson Healthcare, to Jobson Medical; Sale of HMP Communications to Alta Communications; Sale of Complete Healthcare Communication to MediMedia/Vestar Capital Partners; Sale of American Health Consultants (A Thomson Corporation unit) to The Thompson Group, Current Medicine Group sold to Springer Science+Business (Cinven); Physicians’ Education Resource and Cancer Information Group sold to Providence Equity.
Linda Peitzman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Wolters Kluwer Health
Dr. Peitzman is currently Chief Medical Officer for Wolters Kluwer Health and Executive Vice President of Clinical Development and Informatics for its Clinical Solutions business unit. In these roles she helps direct clinical strategy and oversees the clinical development and informatics for Clinical Solutions products, including structured clinical documentation, coding and reimbursement, evidence based order sets, order set management, evidence based guidelines, clinical decision support, and EMR and clinical systems integration.
From 2000 to the 2006 acquisition of ProVation Medical by Wolters Kluwer, Dr. Peitzman served as Chief Medical Officer for ProVation Medical, where she lead the team of clinicians and coders who defined and developed medical content for the company’s documentation software applications. Prior to joining ProVation she was a practicing physician and a Medical Director with HealthSystemMinnesota/Park Nicollet Clinic, a large, multispecialty integrated care delivery system with hospital facilities and 31 clinic locations.
Russell Perkins, Founder and Managing Director, InfoCommerce Group
Russell Perkins is the founder and managing director of Infocommerce Group Inc., a Philadelphia-based researcher, consultancy and publisher serving the database information industry. Infocommerce Group is also the sponsor of the annual InfoCommerce Conference.
Widely recognized as the preeminent expert on the business of database directory publishing, Russell has over 20 years direct industry experience. He was most recently President and CEO of Dorland Healthcare Information, a venture capital funded healthcare database publisher. Prior to that, he was a Group President at magazine publisher North American Publishing, and previous to that Vice President of a legal news publisher that is now a subsidiary of American Lawyer Media. Russell has also worked at AT&T, and began his career at Thomas Publishing Company. Russell was also the founder of Morgan-Rand, which became widely known in the industry for its consulting and contract database publishing activities.
In addition, Russell is author of two books, Directory Publishing: A Practical Guide, now in its fifth edition, and InfoCommerce: Internet Strategies for Database Publishers. Russell has also served as a director of the organization that is now the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), and the Directory and Database Publishers Forum & Network (DPFN).
"Infocommerce is the term we use to describe the evolution of the database publishing business, from one focused on presenting users with a fixed (and invariably large) set of information and saying, in effect, “you figure out what to do with it,” to one that provides users with information specifically designed to help them get to answers and actions.
There is no set path to infocommerce – how a publisher evolves his product is a function of both the information and the market served. The core tenet of this evolution, however, is that it moves database content from a passive, reference orientation, to something that is more useful, more integrated and more active. This works to preserve and even increase the relevance and value of the information to the user."
Anne K. Seymour, Assoc. Director, Biomedical Library, University of Pennsylvania
Interim Director, Health Sciences Libraries, 2006 to present, and Associate Director for Information Services, 1997 to present, Biomedical Library, at the University of Pennsylvania. MS, Drexel University, 1988. BA, Brown University, 1983.
Anne has been working in health sciences libraries for over twenty years. At Penn since 1997, Anne is currently serving as acting director of the three health sciences libraries as well as managing the public services functions (reference, instruction, access, and document delivery services) of the Biomedical Library. Since July of 2006, Anne has led, on an interim basis, the programs and staff of the Biomedical, Dental and Veterinary Libraries at Penn. As Associate Director of the Biomedical Library since 1997, outreach to all communities served by the Biomedical Library is Anne’s responsibility and she oversees liaison programs to the schools of medicine and nursing, the clinical enterprise, and the biology department. Prior to Penn, Anne spent seven years at Georgetown University Medical Library as Assistant Director of the Biomedical Academic Computing Center. While pursuing her degree in information science, Anne worked as a graduate assistant at Drexel University and computer laboratory assistant at Hahnemann University Medical Library.
During her career in academic health sciences libraries, Anne has been involved in campus, local, and national activities. While at Penn, Anne has served on the executive board of Librarians Assembly and multiple committees and task forces in the Penn Library. She is active in regional and national library associations, serving as chair of the Philadelphia Regional Chapter of the Medical Library Association (MLA), co-chair of the multiple MLA chapter meeting held in Philadelphia in October of 2003, and member of the National Program Committee for the annual MLA meeting in May of 2007. She has regularly presented at national meetings and published in library journals, most recently as co-editor of a symposium in a 2002 issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association.
Jeremy Shane, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Health Central Network
Jeremy Shane is President and Chief Operating Officer of The HealthCentral Network, overseeing day-to-day operations at the company and responsible for audience growth, user engagement and revenue. Shane joined The HealthCentral Network in January 2006. Prior to joining The HealthCentral Network, he was Co-Founder and CEO of Versify Solutions, LLC, an enterprise software developer focusing on the wholesale power industry. Previously, Shane was a founding member of Power Team, the wholesale power marketing unit of Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC). From 1994 to 1999, Shane led the growth of Power Team’s supply portfolio from a Mid Atlantic concentration to a nationwide presence, and from 2000 to 2004 oversaw development of software to manage Power Team’s energy supplies. During 1991-1992, Shane served in the U.S. Department of Justice focusing on Federal health care policy. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in International Relations.
West Shell III, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Healthline Networks
In April 2005, West joined the Board of Directors and assumed the role of chairman and CEO of Healthline. Prior to joining Healthline, West served as CEO and president of Sapias, a leading provider of mobile workforce management solutions for large enterprise customers such as Time Warner, ServiceMaster, and Hudson News. From 1997 to 2001, as chairman and CEO of Netcentives, West created one of the most powerful e-marketing companies, managing over 50 million consumer relationships on behalf of more than 200 blue chip customers in 10 countries. Within three years the company was generating over $70 million in revenues. West successfully led an IPO and, during his tenure, raised more than $150 million in private and public funds from leading investors to a $3 billion market capitalization. West earlier co-founded and served as managing partner of Pacific Marketing Group, one of the largest independent marketing agencies on the West coast, which he sold to D'arcy, Masius, Benton and Bowles. West has also held various product management and marketing positions at Atari, Coopervision, Grey Advertising (P&G) and Johnson & Johnson. He currently also serves on the boards of California Trout and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. He is happily married with four children and is an avid kayaker, skier and fly fisherman.
Dr. Rishi Sikka, Chief Medical Officer, Praxeon
Dr. Sikka is the Chief Medical Officer of Praxeon. He also serves as medical director in the emergency department at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois. Dr. Sikka has an extensive clinical and business background. He previously served as an attending in the emergency department at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and an assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. He has also served as a consultant to several health care organizations including Medco Health Solutions, HealthBenchmarks and Sg2. Dr. Sikka's research interests are in the fields of cost-effectiveness analysis and health outcomes research. In particular, his work focuses on the use of medical and pharmacy claims data to determine quality of care, physician efficiency and patient compliance with therapeutic regimns. Dr. Sikka's work has been published in several major journals including The Journal of Managed Care and Annals of Emergency Medicine. His work has also been presented both nationally and internationally.
"The current challenge is to unlock the value of all of the existing content, material and experiential information that is already out there. The solution - whether you are a consumer, clinician or payer - is to identify the specific content to your specific circumstance and being - right at the point of need."
Carolyn Wong Simpkins, MD, PhD, Business Development Manager, BMJ Point of Care
Dr. Simpkins is a board-certified internist who manages and develops new partnerships and projects in the U.S. for London-based BMJ Publishing Group, publisher for the British Medical Association, and creator of rigorous evidence-based medicine products such as Clinical Evidence. Previously, she served as a Clinical Editor for BMJ's new product, PointofCare. Prior to joining BMJ, she had worked in various arenas, including practicing and teaching general internal medicine, and working as a health policy aide for the U.S. House of Representatives. She served as founding medical director for a free medical clinic in Charleston, South Carolina, where she is based.
Nina Sossamon-Pogue, Vice President of Media, BenefitFocus
Nina Sossamon-Pogue, an Emmy award-winning television news anchor, is Vice President of Media for Benefitfocus, the parent company to icyou. With a background in investigative reporting, Nina was a popular on-air talent before joining icyou. Prior to that, she served as press secretary to Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards. Nina graduated from Lousiana State University and is a former member of the United States Gymnastics Team.
Megan St. John, Managing Director, InfoCommerce Group
A veteran of the publishing and information business, Megan has run operations for both large and small companies across a wide array of industry specialties and formats. At present she is Managing Director at the InfoCommerce Group (ICG). While the ICG practice covers the whole range of business information, the company's roots and legacy began in the world of data publishing, a fast growing and high value segment of today's information world. For ICG clients, Megan leads engagements focusing on areas such as product development and evolution, market positioning, due diligence and overall corporate strategy.
Megan is the former president of Simba Information, Inc., once recognized as the leading authority for market intelligence and forecasts in the media and publishing industries. Simba is now a unit of Market Research Group LLC.
Prior to Simba, Megan was publisher of PBI Media's Electronic Commerce Group. PBI Media, now renamed Access Intelligence, publishes magazines, newsletters and directories for the aviation, defense, energy and communications industries.
Benjamin Wolin, Co-founder & CEO, Waterfront Media
Benjamin Wolin is the co-founder and CEO of Waterfront Media. Waterfront Media is a leading online subscription-based publisher of self-help products including the #1 New York Times Best Seller The South Beach Diet. Waterfront Media currently boasts 300,000 paid subscribers. More than 4.4 million people receive newsletters from Waterfront's leading authorities.
Wolin oversees Waterfront Media's operations, finance, contracts, technology and product development.
Prior to founding Waterfront Media, Wolin served as the Vice President of Production & Technology for Beliefnet, Inc. As Beliefnet's first employee, Wolin was responsible for product development, Beliefnet's technology infrastructure, and day-to-day operations of the site. Wolin supervised a department of 17 developers, project managers, and network administrators. In addition, Wolin helped raise $27 million and was responsible for the management of 8 email newsletter products across 5 million subscriptions.
In addition to Beliefnet, Wolin built and managed sites for PBS, Tribune Interactive, Warner Bros, and A&E. He has served as the Technology Director for the media arts company Global Action Project and created and taught at several community technology centers in New York City.
