Speakers
Digital Book World’s speakers represent the best in the business, industry wide—from booksellers and librarians to editors, publicists and CEOs. What they share in common is their dedication to making the publishing industry—and the culture of reading—thrive in an increasingly online world.
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Keynote Speakers
Ken Auletta
Annals of Communications writer for the New Yorker magazine and author of Googled: The End of the World As We Know It
Judith Curr
President and Publisher, Atria Publishing Group
Seth Godin
Author/Founder, squidoo.com
Russ Grandinetti
Senior Vice President, Kindle, Amazon
Matt Greenfield
Managing Partner, Rethink Education
Walter Isaacson
President and CEO, Aspen Institute
Hilary Mason
CEO and Founder, Fast Forward Labs
Keith Moerer
Director of iBooks Store, Apple, Inc.
Brian Murray
President and CEO, HarperCollins Publishers
Joe Pulizzi
Founder, Content Marketing Institute
James Robinson
Director,News Analytics, The New York Times
Linda Zecher
President and CEO, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Digital Book World Speakers
Ana Maria Allessi
Vice President Digital Innovation & Publisher, HarperAudio
CJ Alvarado
CEO, Snippet, Inc.
Pavan Arora
Chief Innovation Officer, Aptara
Craig Bauer
SVP Operations, Macmillan Science & Education
Paul Belfanti
Director of Content Architecture, Pearson
Coretta Bell Sexton
Senior Business Development Manager, LibreDigital, an RR Donnelley Company
Peter Borland
VP & Editorial Director, Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Micah Bowers
Founder and CEO, Bluefire Productions
Evelyn Bridge
eCommerce Marketing Director, F+W, a Content + eCommerce Company
Ken Brooks
SVP, Global Supply Chain Management, McGraw-Hill Education
David Burleigh
Director of Marketing & Communication, OverDrive, Inc.
Michael Cader
Founder, Publishers Marketplace
Mark Cameron
Co-Founder and Director, Booktrack
Carlo Carrenho
Founding Partner, PublishNews
Matt Cavnar
Co-Founder, Vook
Rick Chapman
Managing Editor/Author, Softletter
Devereux Chatillon
Partner, Chatillon Weiss LLP
Rachel Chou
Chief Marketing Officer, Open Road Integrated Media
John Clinton
Director of Digital Video, Penguin Random House
Michele Cobb
President, Audio Publishers Association
Dave Cramer
Senior Digital Publishing Technology Specialist, Hachette Book Group
Gareth Cuddy
Founder and CEO, ePubDirect
Mary Cummings
Editorial Director, ePubDirect
Jeff Dodes
Executive Vice President, Marketing & Digital Media Strategy, St. Martins
Sara Domville
President, F+W, a Content + eCommerce Company
Jim Donnelly
Director of Content, MediaMiser
Andrew Dorward
Director, BookGenie451
Dan Dube
Senior Consultant, Manipal Digital
Simon Dunlop
Co-Founder, Bookmate
Kerry Dyer
Publisher and Chief Advertising Officer, U.S. News & World Report
Amanda Edmonds
Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google
Barry Eisler
Author, The Detachment
Joseph Esposito
President, Processed Media
Johnjoe Farragher
CEO and Founder, Defined Learning
Kristin Fassler
VP, Director of Marketing, Penguin Random House
Greg Ferguson
Editorial Director, Full Fathom Five
Andrea Fleck-Nisbet
Executive Director, Digital Publishing, Workman Publishing
Sue Fleming
Vice President, Executive Director Content and Programming, Simon & Schuster Digital
Kevin Franco
Co-Founder & CEO, Enthrill
Keith Fretz
Associate Producer, Scholastic, Inc.
Caitlin Friedman
Vice President, Marketing & Brand Management, Scholastic, Inc.
Jane Friedman
Publisher, Scratch magazine
Jared Friedman
Co-founder & CTO, Scribd
Alyson Forbes
Advertising Director, Hachette Book Group
Ashleigh Gardner
Head of Content, Wattpad
Neal Goff
President, Egremont Associates LLC
Ashley Gordon
Vice President, Content and New Media, indiCo
Karen Grantham
VP Sales – Americas, Digimafia/Ninestars
Jeremy Greenfield
Contributors Editor, TheStreet.com
Romil Gupta
Product Head, OpenPage Interactive Books and Connected Classroom Solutions, Excelsoft
Lynda Hammes
Publisher, Foreign Affairs magazine
Hannah Harlow
Assistant Director of Marketing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Laura Hazard Owen
Book Publishing Reporter, GigaOM
Ted Hill
President, THA Consulting
Ellie Hirschhorn
EVP, Chief Digital Officer, Simon & Schuster
Daniel Houghton
Executive Director, NC2 Media/Lonely Planet
Peter Hudson
Founder and CEO, BitLit Media
Christine Hung
Associate Director of Marketing, Penguin Random House
Sara Ittelson
Director, Business Development, Knewton, Inc
Brittyne Jackson
Product Manager, LibreDigital, an RR Donnelley Company
Neil Jaffe
President-Chief Strategy Officer, Booksource
Jess Johns
Director of Operations, The Idea Logical Company
Rick Joyce
Chief Marketing Officer, Perseus Books Group
Bill Kasdorf
VP, Apex Content Solutions
Apex CoVantage
Peter Kaufman
Founder/President, Intelligent Television
Chris Kenneally
Director, Business Development & Author Relations, Copyright Clearance Center
Sanders Kleinfeld
Director of Publishing Technology, O'Reilly Media
Brady Kroupa
Director of Product for ebooks, Blurb
Chris Kubica
Founder/President, neverend media
Paul Labay
Vice President, Digital Delivery, Global Education, Wiley
Jay Lauf
President and Publisher, Quartz
Ralph Lazaro
VP of Digital Products, Findaway World
Erica Lazzaro
General Counsel and Director of Publisher Services, OverDrive, Inc.
Thomas Leliveld
Founder and CEO, Blloon
Annie Lowrey
Journalist, New York Magazine
Barry Lynn
Director, Open Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, New America Foundation
Phil Madans
Executive Director, Digital Publishing Technology, Hachette Book Group
Nathan Maharaj
Director of Merchandising, Kobo
Clancy Marshall
Vice President of Learning Platforms, Pearson
Georgia McBride
Founder, GMMG
Peter McCarthy
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, The Logical Marketing Agency
Bill McCoy
Executive Director
IDPF
Thad McIlroy
President, The Future of Publishing, Inc.
Scott Mebus
Head of Video and Television, Fast Company
Tom Mercer
Digital Library Business Development, 3M
Peter Meyers
Content Strategist & Author
Thomas Minkus
VP Emerging Media & English Language Markets, Frankfurt Book Fair
Heather Myers
Founder and Strategic Lead , Spark No. 9
Mary Ann Naples
SVP/Publisher, Rodale Books
Edward Nawotka
Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives
Adrian Norman
VP Marketing and New Products, Simon & Schuster
Jonathan Nowell
President, Nielsen Book
David Nussbaum
Chairman & CEO, F+W, a Content + eCommerce Company
Chris Palma
Strategic Partnerships, Play Books, Google
Liz Pelletier
Publisher, Entangled Publishing, LLC
Mike Perlis
President & CEO, Forbes Media
Jason Pinter
Founder and Publisher, Polis Books
John Prabhu
VP, Solutions Architect, SPi Global
Dominique Raccah
CEO/Publisher, Sourcebooks
Chantal Restivo-Alessi
Chief Digital Officer, HarperCollins Publishers
Tyler Ruse
General Manager, LibreDigital, an RR Donnelley Company
Josh Schanker
Founder/President, BookBub
Evan Schnittman
EVP, Chief Marketing & Sales Officer, Hachette Book Group
Phil Sexton
Publisher & Community Leader, Writer's Digest
Eric Shanfelt
SVP, eMedia
HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Lorraine Shanley
President, Market Partners International
Matt Shatz
Chief Revenue Officer, Oyster
Mike Shatzkin
Founder/CEO, The Idea Logical Company
Neal Shenoy
Co-Founder and CEO/Founding Partner, Speakaboos/[212] MEDIA
Jason Singer
Co-Founder and CEO, Curriculet
Amit Srivastavaa
Head of Consulting and Solution Design, Excelsoft
Doug Stambaugh
VP, Global eBook Market Development & Strategy
Simon & Schuster
Jonathan Stolper
SVP, Nielsen Book, The Nielsen Company
Michael Tamblyn
President and Chief Content Officer, Kobo
Professor John B. Thompson
Author of: Books in the Digital Age and Merchants of Culture
Tom Thompson
Vice President, Group Director, Verso Advertising
Angela Tribelli
Chief Marketing Officer, HarperCollins Publishers
Marcello Vena
Founder and Managing Partner, All Brain
Heidi Vincent
Vice President of Marketing, National Geographic Books
David Vinjamuri
Contributor, Forbes
Len Vlahos
Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group
Robin Warner
Managing Director, DeSilva & Phillips LLC
Dana Beth WeinBerg, PH.D.
Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Data Analytics & Applied Social Research, Queens College - CUNY
Andrew Weinstein
VP of Content Acquisition, Scribd
John Wheeler
Senior Vice President, Content Technology, Lumina Datamatics
Alex White
CEO & Co-Founder, Next Big Sound/Next Big Book
David Wilk
Owner, Booktrix
Mark Witkowski
VP of New Practices & Technology, Jouve North America
Lucas Wittmann
Associate Publisher and Executive Editor, Regan Arts
Ira Wolfman
President, POE Communications
Marcus Woodburn
Vice President, Digital Products, Ingram Content Group Inc.
Steven Zacharius
Chairman, President and CEO, Kensington Publishing Corp.
Launch Kids Speakers
Ashley Andersen Zantop
Chief Content Officer, Capstone
Morgan Baden
Senior Director of Social Media, Scholastic, Inc.
Warren Buckleitner
Editor and Founder, Children's Technology Review
Michael Cader
Founder, Publishers Marketplace
Devereux Chatillon
Partner, Chatillon Weiss LLP
Morgan Leigh Davies
Editor-in-Chief, Big Bang Press
Lanie Davis
Director of e-Publishing, Alloy Entertainment
Taylor Foley
Digital Product Manager, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Ashleigh Gardner
Head of Content, Wattpad
Marjan Ghara
Founder & CEO, BiblioNasium
Neal Goff
President, Egremont Associates LLC
Maia Haag
Co-Founder and President, I See Me! Inc.
Lexa Hillyer
Co-Founder, Paper Lantern Lit
Wandy Hoh
Co-Founder, CEO, MeeGenius
Kartik Hosanagar
Co-Founder, SmartyPAL
Eric Huang
Development Director, IP and Brand Development, Made in Me
Susan Katz
President and Publisher, HarperCollins Children's Books
David Kleeman
SVP, Insights Programs and PlayVangelist, PlayCollective
Maris Kreizman
Publishing Community Manager, Kickstarter
Kim Lauber
Director of Marketing, Random House Children's Books
Justin Leites
Vice President for Games, Amplify
Barbara Marcus
President and Publishers, Children's Division, Penguin Random House
Peter McCarthy
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, The Logical Marketing Agency
Suzanne Murphy
VP, Publisher, Disney Publishing Worldwide
Kari Ness Riedel
Founder, Bookopolis
Jonathan Nowell
President, Nielsen Book
Lauren Oliver
Co-Founder, Paper Lantern Lit
Chris Palma
Strategic Partnerships, Play Books, Google
Dominique Raccah
CEO/Publisher, Sourcebooks
Lorraine Shanley
President, Market Partners International
Mike Shatzkin
Founder/CEO, The Idea Logical Company
Neal Shenoy
Co-Founder and CEO/Founding Partner, Speakaboos/[212] MEDIA
Adam Wilson
Senior Editor, Gallery Books
DBW Workshop Speakers
Andrew Campana
Business Development Manager, Copyright Clearance Center
Jay Diskey
Executive Director, Association of American Publishers’ PreK-12 Learning Group
Cathy Ferrara
Director, Mobile Solutions, Scholastic Education
Nathan Maharaj
Director of Merchandising, Kobo
Thad McIlroy
President, The Future of Publishing, Inc.
Ramez Mikdashi
Manager and Head of Content Partnerships, Amplify Learning, Inc.
Dave Ream
Chief Consultant, Leverage Technologies
Renée Register
Author/Instructor, The Essential Guide to Metadata for Books/Digital Book World University
Andrew Rhomberg
Founder, Jellybooks
David Rust
Senior Publishing Executive, Sandhill Consulting Group, LLC
Patricia Simoes
Senior Manager of Publisher Operations, Kobo
Joshua Tallent
Chief eBook Architect, Firebrand Technologies
Dana Beth WeinBerg, PH.D.
Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Data Analytics & Applied Social Research, Queens College - CUNY
Digital Publishing Tech Training Speakers
Richard Harrington, PMP
President and Founder, RHED Pixel
Jay Nelson
Author and Publisher, The Skinny Books
Lesa Snider
Author/Speaker, Photoshop: The Missing Manual/iPhoto: The Missing Manual
Luisa Winters
Certified Instructor, Future Media Concepts
Conference Council
Mike Shatzkin
Conference Council Chair
Founder/CEO, The Idea Logical Company
David Bowers
SVP, Sales Strategy & Operations
Hachette Book Group
Micah Bowers
Founder & CEO, Bluefire Productions
Michael Cader
Founder, Publishers Marketplace
Carlo Carrenho
Founding Partner, PublishNews
Matt Cavnar
Co-Founder, Vook
Andrew Clurman
President/COO, Active Interest Media
Laura Dail
Founder & Agent, Laura Dail Agency
Jacqueline Deval
VP/Publisher, Hearst Books
Hearst Magazines
Jeff Dodes
Executive Vice President, Marketing & Digital Media Strategy
St. Martin's Press
Joseph Esposito
President, Processed Media
Andrea Fleck-Nisbet
Executive Director, Digital Publishing
Workman Publishing
Deborah Forte
EVP/President
Scholastic Inc/Scholastic Media
Neal Goff
President, Egremont Associates LLC
Jeremy Greenfield
Contributors Editor, TheStreet.com
Michael Healey
Executive Director, Author and Publisher Relations
Copyright Clearance Center
David Hirsch
Managing Partner, Metamorphic Ventures LLC
Theresa Horner
VP, Digital Content
Nook Media
Lindy Humphreys
Sr. Director, Digital Assets & Technology
Abrams
Leslie Hulse
SVP, Digital Business Development
HarperCollins Publishers
John Ingram
Chairman & CEO
Ingram Content Group
Rick Joyce
Chief Marketing Officer, Perseus Book Group
Bill Kasdorf
VP, Apex Content Solutions
Apex CoVantage
Sanj Kharbanda
VP, Digital Strategy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Arthur Klebanoff
CEO, Rosetta Books
Ron Martinez
Founder, Aerbook
Peter McCarthy
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, The Logical Marketing Agency
Bill McCoy
Executive Director
IDPF
Ken Michaels
Global COO, Macmillan Science and Education
Mary Ann Naples
VP/Publisher, Rodale Books
David Nussbaum
Chairman & CEO, F+W, a Content + eCommerce Company
Don Pazour
CEO, Access Intelligence
Joe Pulizzi
Founder, Content Marketing Institute
Dominique Raccah
CEO/Publisher, Sourcebooks
Andrew Rhomberg
Founder, Jellybooks
Andrew Savikas
CEO, Safari Books Online
Phil Sexton
Publisher & Community Leader, Writer's Digest
Eric Shanfelt
SVP, eMedia
HarperCollins Christian Publishing
Lorraine Shanley
President, Market Partners International
Doug Stambaugh
VP, Global eBook Market Development & Strategy
Simon & Schuster
Julie Trelstad
Director of Digital Rights, Writers House
Marcello Vena
Founder and Managing Partner, All Brain
Len Vlahos
Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group
Nina von Moltke
SVP, Digital Publishing Development
Random House
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