Peter Blacklow is the president of WorldWinner, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and EVP of GSN Digital.  In this role, he oversees the online games businesses of WorldWinner.com, Teagames.com and GSN.com.

Prior to joining WorldWinner, Peter served as senior vice president of marketing at Monster, the largest global careers Web site, where he was responsible for managing a $100+ million budget.  He negotiated and activated the company's U.S. Olympics sponsorship, oversaw five Super Bowl commercials, and helped Monster become a top 20 most visited Web destination.  Before his time at Monster, Peter spent five years at Converse, Inc., where he ran their $100 million basketball business unit globally.

Peter is a graduate of Harvard University and has received numerous awards and distinctions, including being named one of the top "Marketers of the Year" by Promo magazine.  In addition, Peter serves as a board member of eSkill.com and GuildCafe, and acts as an advisor to SimplyHired.com, Go2 Media and iCache.com.

KEITH BOESKY, Principal, Boesky & Company

JILL BRAFF, SVP,Worldwide Marketing & GM of the Americas, Glu Mobile

MIKE BRESLIN, VP, Global Marketing, I-play

Known throughout the technology and music industries as being "part ambassador and part evangelist," Cohen was instrumental in crafting the licensing agreements upon which the Rhapsody subscription service and the iTunes Music Store were built.

In his previous role as Senior Vice President of Digital Development & Distribution for EMI Music (home of artists including Coldplay and the Rolling Stones), Cohen led next-generation digital business development worldwide for this "big four" record company, which includes labels such as Capitol, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis.  During that time, EMI led the industry by embracing and exploiting new technologies and business models such as digital downloads and online music subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio.

In addition to seeking out, evaluating and executing business opportunities for the company on a global basis, Cohen served as both a strategist and key decision-maker for EMI's global new media and anti-piracy efforts. He worked to establish company-wide digital policies, which have provided EMI's artists and labels a substantial advantage in the digital music arena.

Prior to his role at EMI, Cohen served as Executive Vice President of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded and served as Chairman of the groundbreaking Webnoize conferences.

Cohen also led two highly successful new media consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and various other entertainment, technology and new media organizations. Cohen also held senior management positions at both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media.

A 30-year industry veteran, Cohen was recently elected Chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas board, and currently chairs MidemNet, an international music/technology conference convened in Cannes each year.  Cohen also serves on the NARAS (Grammy) Los Angeles chapter Board of Governors as well as the national Trustee Board, the Board of Directors for the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund, co-chairs the new media arm of the T.J. Martell Foundation, and lends his time and talents to music & technology education efforts such as the Grammy In The Schools Program.

MARK DONOVAN, CMO & Senior Analyst, M:Metrics

Before joining M:Metrics, Donovan worked for RealNetworks, where he helped define new business opportunities for mobile operators, handset manufacturers and content providers worldwide and brought mobile technologies and services to market. As director of mobile strategy and later director of mobile services, Donovan helped RealNetworks become the leading global supplier of infrastructure for the delivery of audio and video to mobile phones. He also led the team that launched North America's first commercial mobile video services.  

Prior to RealNetworks, Donovan was a principal in a technology start-up and also served as director of UWired, a University of Washington program that has become an international model for effective uses of technology in higher education. Donovan also led development of the award-winning Catalyst Project, which reinvented the way that innovations in teaching and technology are cultivated, promoted and supported.  

Donovan has more than a decade of experience conducting survey research, data analysis, and modeling for the academic, public, and private sectors. Throughout his career he has been a prolific author and speaker on new media and mobility.  

Donovan holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, a master's degree in public policy from San Diego State University and a bachelor's degree in business and entrepreneurship from Loyola Marymount University.

Ranah Edelin is VP of The Sims Internet Group, the team that manages all of the online businesses for The Sims Label.  The Sims Label is one of the 4 big divisions of EA and The Sims is the best-selling PC game franchise of all time, having sold over 100 million units since its launch in 2000.   

The Sims Internet Group manages the core thesims2.com site (a huge community site and virtual item exchange for The Sims players) as well as two new online-only services.  One of the services is a creativity community focused on karaoke and movie mashups (using the company he co-founded called SingShot as the base) called The Sims On Stage and the other is a casual games site currently in private beta called The Sims Carnival where people can play, create, and share casual games. 

Prior to joining EA, Ranah was co-founder and CEO of SingShot Media, the online karaoke website that he co-founded in 2006 and that EA acquired in 2007.  

Before starting SingShot, Ranah was at RealNetworks/Listen.com and was part of the core executive team that built the Rhapsody digital music service. Ranah was VP/GM of Business Development, Corporate Development, and International at Listen.com/ RealNetworks. He was responsible for all content licensing and distribution deals for the Rhapsody digital music service. Specifically, Ranah was responsible for Rhapsody being the first company to get on-demand subscription licenses from all five major record labels and for signing strategic partnerships with companies like Best Buy and Comcast. Ranah also served as the business lead in RealNetworks' acquisition of Listen.com. 

Ranah has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Brown University. He also received a Japanese government scholarship to study at Nagoya University and is a Japanese language speaker. 

Eric is a 30-year veteran of the game, consumer online, and wireless data industries, serving in capacities ranging from game designer to executive.

Since 2002, Eric is or has been a board member of, advisor or consultant to AOL, AT&T Wireless, Centerscore, Digital Chocolate, Electronic Arts, In-Fusio, Gaia Online, Juice Wireless, Kayak (dba Blaze), LimeLife, Meredith, Mforma (dba Hands-On Mobile), Moloon, Openwave, PaymentOne, Reaxion, Thumbplay, Unplugged, Vindigo, Warner Music, and two US venture capital firms.

Eric was most recently the President and Co-Founder of Unplugged, for which he secured distribution with four of the five largest North American carriers. Previously, he served as President and Founder of Crossover Technologies, one of the first consumer online companies, for which he secured AOL, BMG, Discovery Channel, Intel, Microsoft, Prodigy (IBM/Sears/CBS joint venture), Random House, Sony, Time Warner, and Viacom as clients and distribution partners; and, prior to that, as President of West End Games, the adventure game company for which he published, among 40+ titles, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, and Junta. His award-winning games include Paranoia, Tales of the Arabian Nights, The Tom Peters Business School in a Box, and MadMaze, the first online game to draw one million players. He is a three-time winner of the Origins Award for Best Role-Playing Game and a two-time winner of the Game Designers Guild Select Award.

Eric is a regular speaker at the major North American games, wireless and online conferences, including CTIA, MECCA, Internet World, The Conference Board, DMW, GDC, GDC Mobile, MES, AGC, MGC, LA Games Conference, and E3, and has served as a programs advisor or advisory board member for the latter six conferences. He was previously a board member for the New York New Media Association and New York University’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications.

Goslin joined the VR Studio in 1996, when it was part of Walt Disney Imagineering, to work on virtual reality attractions for theme parks. Over the next several years, he was technical lead on a series of projects that were developed for DisneyQuest; a chain of "super arcades" featuring Virtual Reality rides and games such as "Alladin's Magic Carpet VR Adventure" and "Hercules in the Underworld" which opened in 1998, and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for Buccaneer Gold" which won the award for Outstanding Attraction from the Themed Entertainment Association in 2001.

Before joining Disney, Goslin was a researcher for The Institute for Simulation and Training in Orlando, Florida where he worked with psychologists from the U.S. Army to evaluate Virtual Reality as a means for training soldiers to perform dangerous tasks. During that time, he collaborated with Jacki Morie on "Virtopia", one of the first examples of Virtual Reality as artwork, which premiered at the Florida Film Festival in 1993.

Goslin holds a bachelor of science degree from Duke University and a master of science degree in computer science from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where under the guidance of the legendary Dr. Fred Brooks, he led a research team whose goal was to push the limits of what was possible in creating immersive virtual worlds.

BRENT HURLEY, Strategic Partner Development, YouTube

As executive vice president, marketing, ad sales and business development, Sulake Corporation and president, North America, Sulake Inc., Teemu Huuhtanen is instrumental in leading the continued growth of one of world’s most popular online social networking and gaming communities for teens, Habbo.com, Sulake’s top property. 

Since its launch in 2000, Habbo has grown to more than 8 million unique monthly users worldwide, and has been launched in 32 countries on six continents. Its highly-trafficked North American sites, headed by Huuhtanen, receive over 1.6 million unique users per month.   

In 2003 Huuhtanen was named vice president, sales for Sulake, overseeing sales at the company’s headquarters in Finland. He has been an industry leader in developing new immersive advertising opportunities and creating interactive branding techniques that maximize the opportunities offered by social networking and the gaming environment.   

Prior to joining Habbo, Huuhtanen spent several years in senior posts for international digital entertainment start-up companies.  

American Venture Magazine named him one of the “Top 40 Under 40” executives to watch in the technology industry for 2007.   

Huuhtanen is based at Sulake’s North American headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif. 

GEOFF KEIGHLEY, Host/Executive Producer, Spike TV's G

In addition to his written work that started when he was a 14-year-old teenager writing out of his bedroom in Toronto, Keighley’s hard-core gamer roots give him unique insight into what gamers want to see on television.  In 2005 he began hosting Game Head for SpikeTV, a weekly newsmagazine that has become #1 rated videogame show on television, now in its fourth season.  Serving as host, co-producer and head writer of ths how, Keighley’s hard-hitting interviews and insider access have helped Game Head emerge as a blockbuster hit on digital platforms. Episodes of the show have reached the #1 paid download status on Microsoft’s Xbox Live TV Marketplace, eclipsing hits like South Park. 

Besides Game Head, Keighley has had a hand in almost every other videogame-related project on television.  On Comcast’s G4 network he appears every year as the network’s lead anchor for its E3 press conference coverage and interviews the CEOs from companies like Sony and Electronic Arts. For MTV he created the concept and produced (with LivePlanet) “Gears of War: Race to E3” and “Gears of War: Race to Launch,” two high rated specials that took viewers inside the development of the hit Xbox 360 game from Microsoft. This November the Discovery Channel will air a landmark five-hour documentary about videogames from World of Wonder Productions, based on a treatment by Keighley, who also serves as consulting producer.  He has also hosted and co-produced a number of videogame launch specials for SpikeTV, including “Madden NFL 08 Kickoff” featuring a performance by Ozzy Osbourne and “Halo 3: Launched!” featuring a performance by Linkin Park. 

In 2001, Keighley was one of only two journalists -- the other being 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace -- profiled in the Harvard Business School Press book Geeks & Geezers: How Era, Values and Defining Moments Shape Leaders by leadership expert Warren Bennis. He is a magna cum laude graduate in philosophy and business from the University of Southern California.

Krane joined G4 in 2001 prior to the network’s launch.  During his tenure with the network, Krane has shaped G4’s new media strategy and developed applications, content and programming strategies for all of G4’s interactive and new media platforms.  His contributions include developing the network’s Web presence at G4TV.com and guiding programming throughout the network’s non-linear platforms, including VOD, mobile, podcasting and streaming video services.  Krane was also behind the development of G4’s digital download-to-own offering with partners including BitTorrent and DiVX, and recently oversaw the launch of G4’s Wii portal, the very first video broadband portal designed specifically for Nintendo’s Wii game console. 

Prior to joining G4, Krane served as the Director of Internet Services for Pseudo Inc., an online television network.  During his tenure at Pseudo, he was responsible for completely overhauling the company’s content delivery system and Web properties while leading Pseudo’s live internet broadcasting initiatives.  Krane also conceived and produced a number of shows including “AGN Hardware,” a weekly show about computer trends and hardware and hosted “GameTime,” a daily talk show.

Before her current role, Emmi worked in the telecommunications field as a business intelligence manager with a software provider for mobile operators. Prior to that, she worked as a business analyst for a major mobile operator in Finland. 

Emmi holds an MSc in Marketing and studies Social Psychology at the University of Helsinki.

Eric LaVanchy serves as the Director of Gaming for Endemol USA. He is responsible for developing casual games for new and existing Endemol programming, as well as original games across multiple platforms.

With more than 15 years of gaming experience, Eric has developed over 100 interactive and networked games for new media platforms, achieving business and content objectives for dozens of media, sports and consumer brand clients, including 3DO, AC Milan, Anheuser-Busch, Discovery Channel, Electronic Arts, ESPN, Game Show Network and more. His game designs have been featured in publications such as, Newsweek and Advertising Age. Eric is also named on a patent for the development of a massively multiplayer, affinity-based online game in partnership with Electronic Arts.

Prior to joining Endemol USA, Eric was Managing Director for The Ritz Club London Online, the interactive subsidiary company of The Ritz Club and Hotel. He oversaw the launch of the online casino service, with revenues resulting to profitability within six months. He managed a broad array of day-to-day activities including marketing, regulatory compliance, and customer care, and also led the development of multiple new product and platform applications for The Ritz Club London Online.

In 1997, Eric co-founded Bottle Rocket, an Internet game development company, and served as Vice-President of Creative Development. Eric was promoted to Chief Creative Officer when Bottle Rocket was acquired in August 2000 by ACTV, now part of OpenTV. At ACTV, Eric’s focus returned to interactive television and cross-platform application development.

Eric has also held positions AT&T’s new media research and development group, Downtown Digital. Eric was responsible for designing and producing game, entertainment and e-commerce applications for the Web and interactive television, including the first Web-based version of Wheel of Fortune for Sony Online. He also pioneered the play-based advertising genre with the creation of Two Minute Warning, the first Web-based advergame, developed in partnership with the National Football League and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.

Eric attended the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch Graduate School for the Arts (Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television). He holds a B.S.C. from The Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University, where he also served on the Alumni Board of Visitors.

CHRIS PETROVIC, VP, Digital Media, Playboy Media Group

Mr. Petrovic is a new media veteran, having started his career in the digital media arena in the late 90’s.  He has held executive management positions in a variety of corporate settings, from start-ups to publicly traded companies to venture capital firms. 

Petrovic currently serves as Vice President of Digital Media for Playboy Media Group.  In this role, he is responsible for developing and managing strategic and business development initiatives for all divisions the group, including Playboy Mobile, Playboy Online, Playboy Radio and Playboy TV. 

Before joining Playboy, Mr. Petrovic served as VP, Business Development for AG Interactive, a division of American Greetings.  Petrovic oversaw all business development efforts across of the division’s digital business units.  Petrovic joined AG Interactive from theglobe.com, where he served as VP, Strategy and Business Development and was responsible for developing and growing the company’s digital and print media businesses.

Petrovic is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and holds a J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles.  He began his new media career as the CEO of an Internet start-up in 1998, and from there went on to become COO and General Counsel of Buzztone, a leading viral marketing agency, before joining the venture capital firm Prime Ventures as their VP of Business Development and Legal Affairs, managing the business development and legal operations of its portfolio companies, including most notably drkoop.com.  

Petrovic is based in Playboy’s Los Angeles office.

Andy Reif is the Commissioner and CEO for the Championship Gaming Series (CGS), the only worldwide professional gaming league.  

Reif serves as chief executive and oversees the establishment of the league and its development in Asia, Australia, North America, South America, and Europe. 

Reif joins CGS from the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour, where he most recently served as chief operating officer. Having run operations at the AVP since 2001, Reif has an established track record in delivering an incredible experience to fans and advertisers while working with an elite level of athletes.  

During his tenure at the AVP, Reif helped professional volleyball become one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S. With a fan growth rate of nearly 50 percent over the last two years of his tenure and television coverage growth from single digit numbers to over 100 hours, the organization dramatically increased revenues (from (US)$1MM to more than (US)$20MM) and secured major sponsors, including Anheuser-Busch, McDonald's, Gatorade, and Microsoft.  

Reif also has a background in motion pictures and television, including senior positions with International Creative Management (ICM) and Paramount Pictures.

BARRY SCHAFFER, President, Promotional Currency

Since founding the company in 2004, Schaffer has facilitated over 800 digital entertainment promotions for brands and retailers. He has also helped content owners and providers to more fully monetize their licensed content by turning it into digital media and taking it out to the promotional market.

A seasoned veteran of the promotional industry, Schaffer has spent the past 20 years working to elevate promotions through the use of digital promotional currencies and fixed priced strategies. Prior to founding Promotional Currency, Schaffer served as Vice President/General Manager for SCA Promotions, the world’s leading provider of promotional risk. While at SCA, Schaffer launched the company’s telecard division (which represented the first digital currency in the promotional marketplace) and built it into a multi-million dollar enterprise by helping clients grow their businesses through the delivery of high-impact promotions at a fixed cost.

When not at work, Schaffer – a top bridge player – can be found playing the national bridge tournament circuit, and enjoying his new role as a grandfather.

Ned has established Digital Media Wire as a leading digital age media company that owns and produces nine annual conferences and provides daily news, information and community to tens of thousands of executives and professionals at entertainment, media and technology companies throughout the world. The advertising, sponsorship, client, partner and subscriber relationships that Ned has brokered make Digital Media Wire one of the best known media and entertainment industry brands to emerge in the digital age.

Ned is responsible for establishing DMW's partnerships with NYU's Stern School of Business, the Consumer Electronics Association and numerous other industry publishers, associations and businesses. Future of Television Forum, which he co-chairs, with NYU's Professor Al Lieberman, is widely considered to be the most prestigious event of its kind, bringing together industry leaders from around the globe twice annually in Los Angeles and New York to network, do deals and discuss the industry's future. He also co-chairs and hosts Digital Music Forum, the industry standard among digital music industry events.

In 2004, Ned created the Billboard Digital Entertainment Conference & Awards, which was acquired from DMW by VNU (now Nielsen) in 2005. Ned continued to be active in the Awards, which he co-chaired with Billboard and Hollywood Reporter President and Publisher John Kilcullen. In 2006, Ned was instrumental in securing an investment from the Consumer Electronics Association, now a partner on two DMW events, Digital Music Forum East and Future of Television Forum. In 2007, Ned established a partnership with Canada's leading media and entertainment event, Canadian Music Week, and chaired, produced and hosted the successful Millennials Canada Youth Marketing event in Toronto.

As Publisher and Executive Editor of DMW since 2000, Ned overseas all content for the site and newsletter, writes a weekly column Digital Media Week in Review and has published two books, Millennials & The Digital Entertainment Age: A Sourcebook for Consumer Marketers and The Digital Entertainment & Media Directory. From 2003 to 2004, he was Editor-in-Chief of Digital Media Law Report.

Before co-founding Digital Media Wire, Ned spent seven years as a corporate and entertainment attorney practicing at several of the leading law firms in the world. Ned is a graduate of Brown University (AB, with honors, 1990) and the University of Texas School of Law (JD, 1994) where he was Chief Articles & Notes Editor of the Texas International Law Journal.