  John W. Madigan
Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Tribune Company |
John W. Madigan joined Tribune as vice president and chief financial officer in 1975. Prior to joining Tribune, he was an audit manager at Arthur Andersen & Co., vice president with Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, and later a vice president with Salomon Brothers. He is also a past chairman of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and The Commercial Club of Chicago. He serves as a trustee of Northwestern University, Rush University Medical Center, The Paley Center for Media, The Hoover Institution (retired), and The Associated Press (retired). |
 Eric Mandl
Global Head of the Software Banking Practice
UBS |
With nearly fifteen years of investment banking experience, Eric Mandl has executed notable transactions, such as acting as: advisor to IBM on its acquisition of Netezza, financing advisor to Symantec on its inaugural investment grade bond, sdvisor to IBM on its purchase of iLog SA, advisor to Red Hat on its purchase of Qumranet, advisor to TeleLogic on its sale to IBM, advisor to KKR on its purchase of Flextronics Software Systems, financing advisor to GTCR on its purchase of the auto claims processing business out of ADP, advisor to IBM on its purchases of Daksh and PwC, and advisor to Red Hat, EMC, Xerox, Accenture, VMware, HP, Dell, Microsoft, Nuance, Citrix, EDS and BMC. |
 Salih Memecan
Cartoonist |
Salih Memecan is a prominent Turkish cartoonist. His political cartoon strip, titled Bizimcity, and his comic cartoon strip, titled Sizinkiler, is printed daily by Sabah newspaper. In addition, the animated version of Bizimcity airs daily on the primetime news program on ATV. Memecan also submits weekly cartoons to Aktuel, news magazine. His cartoons have appeared in major US newspapers, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. |
 Edward H. Meyer
Chairman, Ocean Road Advisors, Inc.
Retired Chairman, CEO and President, Grey Global Group |
Edward H. Meyer is the chairman, chief executive officer, and chief investment officer of Ocean Road Advisors, an investment management company. From 1972 to 2006, he served as chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Grey Global Group, building it into one of the world’s largest communications services groups. He is a director of HARMAN, Ethan Allen, National CineMedia, Retail Opportunity Investments Corp, and the Jim Pattison Group. He is also a trustee of the New York University Langone Medical Center, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. |
 Raita Nakashima
General Manager,
Global Sales Operationsand Business Development, Google, Inc. |
Raita Nakashima is general manager for business and legal affairs for the corporate strategy division at WOWOW INC., the leading company in satellite broadcasting and the number one premium pay channel in Japan. Prior to this he was deputy general manager for WOWOW’s media strategy division and before that, deputy general manager of the programming division. He received his MA in journalism from Doshisha University. |
 Steven Newhouse
Chairman
Advance.net |
Steve Newhouse is the chairman of Advance.net, the holding company for Advance Publications’ national and local Internet efforts. Advance Publications is made up of a newspaper group with twenty-six daily newspapers and numerous weekly newspapers, American City Business Journals, Condé Nast Publications, Parade Publications, Fairchild Publications, and a cable television company. Since 1993, Newhouse has worked in a variety of corporate jobs, with an emphasis on publishing on the Internet. He was involved in the launch of New Jersey Online (nj.com) one of the first newspaper-related Web sites to appear on the Web. |
 Edward N. Ney
Chairman Emeritus
Young & Rubicam Advertising |
Edward Ney is a businessman and former diplomat, and currently holds the title of chairman emeritus at Young & Rubicam. He is widely regarded as one of businesses' leading advertising counselors and strategic marketers. In 1989, President Bush appointed Ney US Ambassador to Canada. He served until July 1992, during which time he played a key role in efforts to expand the US-Canada Free Trade Agreement to include Mexico. Prior to his diplomatic service, Ney was for many years chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Young & Rubicam, Inc., one of the world’s largest advertising companies. |
 Paul W. Noglows
Managing Director
MESA—Media & Entertainment Strategy Advisors |
Paul Noglows has spent his entire career at the crossroads of research, finance, media, and the Internet as a director of research, analyst, journalist, and an investor. He is currently a managing director at investment banking boutique MESA—Media & Entertainment Strategy Advisors, where he leads the firm’s “thought-leadership” efforts through a blog, social media, and conferences. He also introduces investment banking opportunities to the firm and, in some cases, executes the same. He is also currently an active limited partner in a number of innovative start-ups. |
 Katherine Oliver
Commissioner
Katherine Oliver is the commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, which consists of the Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting; NYC Media; and the Office of Digital Coordination. Commissioner Oliver was appointed commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting on August 1, 2002, and has been the president of NYC Media since April 2009. She has also worked to diversify the city’s entertainment industry through career panels, educational initiatives and community outreach. |
 Bruce L. Paisner
President and Chief Executive Officer
International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
Bruce L. Paisner is a television executive and producer who, over the course of his career, has become a leading spokesperson and advocate for television industry issues around the world. He is currently employed as advisor to the chief executive officer of Hearst Corporation and serves on the boards of Hearst’s Cosmopolitan TV Channels in Spain, Latin America, and Canada. He is also president and chief executive officer of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which recognizes excellence in international television programming with The International Emmy® Award. |
 William C. Paley
President
2023 LLC |
Bill Paley is president of 2023 LLC, an investment management firm specializing in real estate and emerging technologies. From 1980 to 1984, Paley was president of his own electronic media consulting firm, Paley Communications, which helped develop political applications for the World Wide Web. He is a director of the William S. Paley Foundation and the president of the William C. Paley Foundation. He is also a trustee of The Paley Center for Media. Paley is the son of William S. Paley, founder of CBS. |
 Rodney Parker
Chief Financial Officer
Television New Zealand (TVNZ) |
Rodney Parker is responsible for finance, investment, governance, legal and compliance, and business support functions at TVNZ. Financial responsibilities include corporate reporting, financial management, treasury, funding, and capital management. Investment responsibilities include M&A and capital investment activities. Parker is also a director of Freeview Ltd, the joint venture of free to air television broadcasters which promotes and operates the Free-to-Air digital television service in New Zealand. |
 John Partilla
President of Global Media Sales
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. |
In his current role, John Partilla leads national business development across the Clear Channel Communications’s radio and outdoor businesses and is a member of the company’s operating board. He joined Clear Channel from Time Warner, where he led Time Warner’s Global Media Group in its mission to work with major advertisers and help drive the growth of advertising and marketing revenue across all of Time Warner’s businesses. |
 JB Perrette
President, Digital, and Affiliate Distribution
NBC Universal |
JB Perrette oversees the strategy and execution of NBC Universal’s North American distribution of television and film content for digital customers and platforms across the Internet, wireless, set-top devices, and other emerging platforms. His role includes the management and marketing of television and film digital products including EST (electronic sell-through), VOD (video-on-demand) and certain SVOD (subscription video on demand) offerings. He is also responsible for NBC’s broadcast network distribution to more than 230 affiliates. |
 Marty Pompadur
Global Media Vice Chairman
Macquarie |
Marty Pompadur has over fifty years of media industry experience in the publishing, broadcasting, music publishing, and Internet sectors. He joined Macquarie in April 2010. Previously he was the chairman of News Corp Europe from 2000 to 2008. He was chairman and chief executive officer of RP companies’ various private and public limited partnerships, which operated twelve television stations, twenty-five radio stations, numerous cable television systems, a business magazine publishing company, and other media assets from 1982 to 2007. Pompadur is an investor in Seatwave, a London based ticket reseller, and a board member of Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc. |
 Will Porteous
General Partner
RRE Ventures |
Will Porteous is a general partner with RRE Ventures. Before joining the venture capital industry, he held senior management positions in marketing and product management with SupplyWorks and NetMarket, the e-commerce pioneer now owned by Cendant Corp. He is a director of Data Robotics, Electric Cloud, Hot Potato, Liquid Machines, Peek, and Skyhook Wireless and a former director of Frictionless Commerce (acquired by SAP) and Tacit Networks (acquired by PKTR). He also serves as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia Business School. |
 Sam Powers
Managing Director, Media and Communications Group
UBS |
Sam Powers joined UBS Investment Bank in 1998 and is a managing director in the media and communications group. His primary coverage sectors include cable television providers, cable networks, telecom services, and large media conglomerates such as Viacom and Time Warner. His transaction experience includes mergers and acquisitions, financing and restructuring assignments for Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Adelphia, Virgin Media, Suddenlink, Viacom, CBS, Bresnan Communications, Susquehanna Media, Patriot Media, SureWest Communications, and Sirius Satellite Radio. He has a BA from Yale University. |
 Marvin S. Putnam
Partner
O’Melveny & Myers LLP |
Marvin Putnam is a partner in O’Melveny’s Century City office, a member of the business trial and litigation practice, and the hiring partner for the Century City office. Putnam has represented clients in numerous industries on a range of issues in trial and appellate courts, both federal and state, throughout the country. A principal focus of his work is the representation of the media in defense of their first amendment rights. In this capacity, he has handled numerous defamation actions ranging from the answer to the appellate stages. |
 Chris Ripley
Head of Broadcasting and West Coast Media
UBS |
Chris Ripley has been in the investment banking industry for over twelve years and at UBS since 2001. He has executed a broad array of corporate finance transactions including equity, equity-linked and debt financings, financial restructurings, and buy and sell-side advisory assignments for companies such as Local TV, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Cumulus Media, Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Liberty Corporation, Millennium Radio, The Walt Disney Company, and Telewest Communications. |
 Thomas Rogers
President and Chief Executive Officer
TiVo Inc. |
Tom Rogers is president and chief executive officer of TiVo, the creator of and the leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), with a career that operates at the nexus of where media, technology, advertising, and public policy have come together for more than two decades. Previously, Rogers was chairman and chief executive officer of PRIMEDIA, Inc., which then was the leading targeted media company in the United States. His is also the founder of CNBC. |
