Category Archives: Featured Guests

Learn more about the executives, academics and entrepreneurs who have come to our events and shared their expertise with our members.

David Rogers: Executive Director of Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership

For our first event of 2011 we wanted to get off on the right foot for a big year ahead by inviting two great featured guests: David Rogers, Executive Director of Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership and … Continue reading

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Jack Welde: CEO of Smartling

For our first event of 2011 we wanted to get off on the right foot for a big year ahead by inviting two great featured guests: Jack Welde, founder and CEO of Smartling, and David Rogers, Executive Director of Columbia … Continue reading

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Frans Vermeulen: VP of Client and Business Services at FreeWheel

For our last event of 2010 we wanted to have a featured guest from one of the hottest industries in NYC. The online video market is just exploding and our members really want to learn how this new content channel … Continue reading

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Neil Capel: Founder and CEO of Sailthru

As we do at every happy hour we look for entrepreneurs and digital media execs who are willing to come join us and talk to our members. This month we figured that we’d train the spotlight on one of the … Continue reading

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Jacob Brody: Founder and CEO of Standard Start

We know that a lot of our members are working at startups or are looking to launch their own ventures. To help answer some of the most vexing questions about getting from an idea to a business we thought of … Continue reading

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New York Gaming Meetup: Bringing MBAs Together with Gaming Industry Experts

In an ongoing effort to add new members with specific industry expertise we decided this month to replace our standard operating procedure of one featured guest and instead partnered with the New York Gaming Meetup for one combined event. With … Continue reading

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Kate Herbert: Director of Services for DoubleClick Advertising Exchange at Google

If you’re part of the digital media scene in NYC then you should probably know as much as possible about the online advertising industry. You’re either part of the ad development and delivery chain or you run a business that … Continue reading

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Oz Sultan: Freelance Digital Strategist and Social Media Consultant

While there is no shortage of freelance digital media consultants in NYC, there are certainly none like Oz Sultan. Although we had only met once before, when he was invited to be a featured guest at our upcoming event he … Continue reading

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Steve Ennen: President and Chief Intelligence Officer at Social Strategy1

Despite that fact that we’re based in NYC and many of our members are fellow Columbia B-School alums, we felt that working at Wharton Business School wasn’t something we should hold against this month’s featured guest. We were just happy … Continue reading

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Dana Farbo: President of Imano and Acrossair

You don’t need to have the latest and greatest smartphone to know that mobile technology and mobile marketing and mobile commerce and mobile everything is going to dominate our lives for the foreseeable future. So when we were putting together … Continue reading

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