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Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller is a General Partner at Spark Capital, having led Spark’s investments in Twistbox Entertainment (acquired by Mandalay Media), Xoova, and Next New Networks.
Dennis was most recently a Managing Director of Constellation Ventures, the venture investment arm of Bear Stearns in New York. He also served on the Board of Directors of Capital IQ (acquired by McGraw Hill ). Prior to serving at Constellation Ventures, Dennis held executive positions at various media companies. From 1998 to 2000, he was EVP of Lionsgate Entertainment, earlier was EVP of Sony Pictures Entertainment and from 1990-1995, was EVP of Turner Network Television, with responsibility for production, business affairs and original programming for the TNT Network. Dennis holds a Juris Doctorate from Boalt Law School at the University of California at Berkeley.
Jo Ann Ross
Jo Ann Ross was named President, network sales, CBS Television Network, in October 2002. As the network’s chief sales executive, she is responsible for all sales for CBS Entertainment, Sports, Daytime, News and Late Night, as well as within the CBS Interactive Group.
Jo Ann was previously EVP of sales for CBS since September 1998, having played a major role in creating new ways to sell Network programming, including reality, scripted, news and late-night genres. A 15-year CBS veteran, she joined CBS in 1992 as CP of Olympic sales, in charge of network sales for the Lillehammer Winter Olympics in 1994 and the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998. Prior to joining CBS, Jo Ann was with the ABC Network for three years, where she was a prime account executive. Ross has been one of Hollywood Reporter‘s “100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment” for three years running, was named the Women in Sports and Entertainment Woman of the Year in 2005, and in September 2002 was named one of Advertising Age‘s “Media Mavens,” an annual compilation of the industry’s top media stars.
EconAds: The Economics of Online Advertising
EconAds is a half-day seminar focused on the key strategic issues driving the economics of online advertising to be held on June 3 at New World Stages in New York City.
We will look broadly at the marketplace to see what disruptions lie ahead and where the investors are focused and where M&A activity is heating up. The program is specifically targeted towards leading media, advertising and investment executives and is designed to promote knowledge sharing and encourage networking.
We’ll ask the big questions like how to reach an audience increasingly fragmented across so many channels and connect those to the questions and tough calls facing marketing and media leadership. Our topics and panelists taken together with an active and engaged audience will surface the trends and patterns that matter most to charting the waters of the opportunities and economics of online advertising.
We’ve added our confirmed speakers and final program:
Confirmed Speakers
- Douglas Anmuth, SVP & Senior Research Analyst, Lehman Brothers
- Samir Arora, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Glam Media
- Lynda Clarizio, President, Platform-A & EVP, AOL
- Paula Drum, VP of Marketing, Digital Solutions Group, H&R Block
- Russ Fradin, Co-founder & President, Adify
- Peter Horan, CEO, Goodmail Systems; Former CEO, IAC Media & Advertising
- Bruce Jaffe, Former Corporate VP, Corporate Development, Microsoft
- Lance Maerov, SVP, Corporate Development, WPP
- Dennis Miller, General Partner, Spark Capital
- Dave Morgan, Founder, TACODA
- Nancy Peretsman, Managing Director, Allen & Co
- Jo Ann Ross, President, Network Sales, CBS
- Penry Price, VP, Ad Sales, North America, Google
- Michael Rubenstein, Director, Ad Exchange, Google; Former VP & GM, DoubleClick
- Adam Shlachter, Group Director, MEC Interaction
- Greg Smith, COO, Neo@Ogilvy North America
- Mike Walrath, SVP, Yahoo Advertiser Marketplace Group; Former CEO, Right Media
- Cyril Zimmermann, Founder & CEO, Hi-Media
