Stephen Pia, Founder and Media Sales Trainer of COACH MEdia, was one of the highest-rated sales presenters at Mags U last year. He brings 16 years of media sales experience, including 10 years at Ziff-Davis Media. Stephen has excelled at selling, managing sales teams, creating selling organizations, and coaching sales professionals to higher levels of performance at companies such as Time Inc., Google, CMP Media and IDG. www.coachmediapros.com
Art Miller has worked as a consultant and sales trainer throughout the U.S., Canada and other countries for clients such as Condé Nast, Field & Stream, Golf Digest, Hearst Publications, International Data Group, Magazine Publishers of America, Meredith Publications, Money, Newsweek, Outside, Primedia, Rogers Media and Simmons Research.
Joe Pulizzi, a thought-leader, speaker, writer and evangelist for content marketing, is Founder and Chief Content Officer for Junta42, the go-to site for content marketing and custom publishing. He is co-author of Get Content Get Customers (McGraw-Hill), which serves as the "how-to" handbook for content marketing. Previously, Joe was Vice President of Custom Media for Penton Media, Inc., the largest independent business-to-business publisher in North America. www.junta42.com
Speaker: Serving as second at the helm of the flagship magazine for one of the world’s most trusted brands, Victoria Pope, Managing Editor, National Geographic is well-versed in the challenges of magazine journalism–from managing creative people, to expanding delivery platforms in a difficult economy, to delivering the uncompromising vision and quality for which National Geographic is celebrated. Before assuming her current post, Pope was Executive Editor for U.S News and World Report, a publication with which she spent more than a decade as a foreign correspondent in Germany, Austria, Poland, and Russia. www.ngm.com
Lou Ann Sabatier, Principal of Sabatier Consulting, has 28 years of experience in publishing. She works with consumer, trade, non-profit, association, custom and corporate publishers worldwide and covers all the key disciplines of print and Internet publishing. www.sabatierconsulting.com
Michael Gold is a content strategist and editorial consultant for magazines, newsletters, books and websites. His firm, West Gold Editorial, develops launch and repositioning plans, critiques existing publications and sites, revamps staff structure and processes and provides management advice. Mr. Gold's recent projects include the launch of Afar, an experiential travel magazine that will debut this summer. Mr. Gold is also an Academic Director of Stanford University’s annual Publishing on the web workshop. www.westgoldeditorial.com
Irene Fu is Web Development Manager for Business Information Group. Don Lange is Senior Vice President for the Cornerstone Group of Companies.
Speakers: Kenneth R. Wilson Award winner Morella Aguirre is the Editor-in-Chief of Salon Magazine and the Online Editor of salon52.ca. Rolf Lockwood is Vice President Editorial at Newcom Business Media Inc., Publisher of Today's Trucking, highwaySTAR, and Transport Routier magazines, among others, as well as todaystrucking.com. www.salon52.ca, www.todaystrucking.com
Marco Beghetto is the senior editor of Today's Trucking magazine, a contributing editor on highwaySTAR; and is the editorial driving force
behind todaystrucking.com, which has won a Gold or Silver KRW in each of the four years since the inception of the website category in 2005.
Speakers: Vesna Moore is Director of Circulation for the Business Information Group. James Zammit, Director of Audience Development at QMP Media Inc., currently serves as the Circulation Management Association of Canada’s Director of Sponsorship.
Speaker: Christian Raquin, a Consultant/Facilitator at Sales Factor Enterprises, has more than 30 years of business management experience. His career in retail operation, high technology sales & marketing, as well as training and development, has provided him with a unique breadth and depth of skills and knowledge. He has experience in media buying and has provided training to Quebecor, Torstar, MultiMedia Nova and the Business Information Group. www.salesfactor.ca
Tim Peel, Vice President, CCAB-A Division of BPA Worldwide. www.bpaww.com
Garth Atkinson is the President of Pickering, Ontario-based Publication Partners Limited which provides audit compliance and circulation services to trade and special interest publications. Garth founded Publication Partners Limited to serve the circulation needs of savvy publishers who want to make their circulation coverage part of their selling edge. www.publicationpartners.com
Jim Louderback joined Revision3 as the CEO in July 2007. Jim has spent 16 years in various media and technology management roles, including leading editorial and lab efforts for PC Week, and being on the launch team for ZDTV/TechTV - the first 24 hour cable network devoted to technology. He most recently served as Senior Vice President and Editorial Director for Ziff Davis Media's Consumer group, along with being Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine. Prior to jumping into the media world, Jim built computer systems for Fortune 500 companies, managed the ticketing and ground operations for regional airlines and attended various institutions of higher learning in the Northeast. He has a Math degree from UVM, and an MBA from NYU's Stern School. www.revision3.com
Gail J. Cohen is editor of Canadian Lawyer, which has won many KRW awards and a variety of others, including a National Magazine Award. Ann Meredith Brown edits Design Edge Canada, which won CSME's 2008 Trade Magazine of the Year award. She’ll be presenting alongside the magazine’s art director, Michael Hewis. www.designedgecanada.com
Speaker: As President and Founder of Ignite Excellence, a training and development company specializing in influential verbal and kinetic communications, Suzanne Stevens challenges each individual in their perception and ability to communicate with influence. www.igniteexcellence.com
Greg Hughes is the Creative Director of Hotsos, a vibrant, young design and publishing studio, working behind the scenes for many of Canada's top companies. He is known for his no-nonsense style of teaching. www.hotsos.ca
Speaker: Ina Saltz is an art director, designer, design critic, photographer and professor (of Electronic Design and Multimedia at The City College of New York) specializing in typography and magazine design. Ina is on the design faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and is a contributing writer/editor for a three-volume reference work, Classics of Graphic Design, to be published by Phaidon in 2010.
Speakers: Gordon T. Hughes II, President & CEO, American Business Media. See TL for biography. Nicholas J. Ferrari, Executive Vice President of Business Development, American Business Media is responsible for the Association’s membership sales efforts. www.americanbusinessmedia.com
Speaker: Stu Schmidt, Vice President, Global Sales & Services for Unisfair, is a 25+ year sales and services veteran, having managed sales forces selling both products and services. His career includes 16 years with Digital Equipment Corporation, two large System Integration companies and OAO Technologies, as well as a Senior Partner and co-founder of a sales process consulting firm. www.unisfair.com
Speaker: Richard Murphy, Senior Vice President of Auditing, BPA Worldwide. www.bpaww.com
Gordon T. Hughes II, President & CEO, American Business Media. See TL for biography. Nicholas J. Ferrari, Executive Vice President of Business Development, American Business Media. See T5 for biography.
Shannon Emmerson is Director of Digital Media for Vancouver-based Canada Wide Media; Shane Schick is Editor-in-Chief of IT World Canada; Kunal Gupta is CEO of Polar Mobile Group, a creator of mobile publishing solutions; and Angela Kryhul is an editor and writer, and principal of Kryhul.com. www.kryhul.com, www.canadawide.com, www.itworldcanada.com, www.polarmobile.com
Michael Cleland joined Maclean Hunter as a freelance artist in 1980 when publications were done in the traditional method of phototypesetting. He spearheaded the conversion to desktop publishing. Today Michael is a freelance Art Director.
Brad Wallans is VP Business Development, Sales at Trade Secret Printing, a freelance analyst for Canadian Printer magazine and president/technical chairperson of the Digital Imaging Association, Canada. www.tradesecret.com
Mark Lewiecki of Adobe Systems, Inc. is the Senior Product Manager for the Adobe PDF Print Engine, the next-generation PDF-native renderer. A native of Toronto, Mark began his career as a typesetter and has worked in the commercial graphics industry since 1981.
Wendy McClung, Executive Vice President, Baxter Publications guided the company’s multi-channel publishing strategy. In 2003 the company developed IDEA, a digital software solution for its publications. www.baxter.net
Daniel Glazerman is the Vice President of Ironstone Media and Vice President of LinkPath Internet Network Corporation. His expertise lies in both print and the progressive world of digital publications. www.ironstonemedia.com, www.linkpath.com
Martin Seto is the Country Manager for Texterity Inc. in Canada. Texterity provides a consultative best practices approach with a reader friendly digital publishing solution using the Published Web Format (PWF) technology. Martin has over 25 years of experience on the publishing and agency side in Canada and the USA. www.texterity.com
Moderator: Jim Hall has been in the publishing business for 25 years, working at Maclean Hunter then Rogers Media where he was President of Rogers Healthcare and Financial Media. Today, Jim owns Keith Communications Inc., a publishing services company with many clients in the healthcare sector. http://www.keithhealthcare.com/
Gordon T. Hughes, II is the president and CEO of American Business Media. He joined the association in 1994 as president, and took on the title of CEO in 2000. Gordon has more than 25 years of advertising experience under his belt. During his tenure at ABM, he has repositioned the association from a traditional publishing group to a global organization of business information providers. Today, ABM is the authoritative voice of business media and information companies.
Gordon has recharged the business information industry's influence in Washington, D.C. Under his leadership, ABM has won major victories before the Postal Rate Commission. In addition, he developed a number of initiatives to raise the visibility and stature of business media. These include the Business Information Network (BIN), an ad tracking system for business media print publications; the prestigious Creative Excellence in Business Advertising (CEBA) Awards; and the Timothy White Award for editorial courage and integrity.
Prior to joining ABM, Gordon was president of the marketing division for the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. He also served as vice president of marketing for CBS Stations Division. While at CBS, he won two Emmy Awards as a producer of major sports and entertainment events, as well as the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Broadcast News Award. Earlier in his career, Gordon was vice president and station manager at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, and director of sales at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles.
