2009 Speakers
Lloyd Braun
Co-owner of BermanBraun
Lloyd Braun is co-owner with Gail Berman of the Santa Monica based media company BermanBraun. Founded in early 2007, BermanBraun has three divisions - television, digital media and feature film - and has entered into separate strategic alliances with NBC, Microsoft and Pepsi to create and distribute creative content for television and the Internet.
In February 2009, BermanBraun launched WONDERWALL - the primary celebrity destination on the MSN network. BermanBraun is presently producing 2 network series for the 2009/2010 season, including MERCY on NBC and ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE on CBS. The company also produces shows for MTV, Spike, Discovery and History Channel, among others.
Prior to working at BermanBraun, Braun served as head of the Yahoo! Media Group, Chairman of ABC Entertainment Television Group, and Chairman and President of Brillstein-Grey Entertainment.
Douglas Scott
President of OgilvyEntertainment
Douglas Scott is the President of OgilvyEntertainment, where he has, since June 2006, been developing and producing brand funded entertainment for clients, including IBM, Cisco, Unilever and BP.
Prior to joining Ogilvy, Doug was co-founder of MATTER, where he developed and produced high visibility integrated marketing programs for Sean Combs, Ford Motor Company and Blender magazine. Prior to MATTER, Doug was Executive Vice President, Marketing and Branded Entertainment Creative Director at Hypnotic; EVP, Sales & Marketing and General Manager of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX); President and COO of ArtView; and Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Red Herring Magazine.
Jennifer Kavanagh
Vice President of Digital & New Media, Oxygen Media
As Vice President of Digital & New Media at Oxygen, Jennifer Kavanagh is responsible for Oxygen's digital initiatives on all existing and emerging platforms. Kavanagh currently oversees Oxygen's suite of digital assets including Oxygen.com, a hub for Generation O featuring editorial content that focuses on everything from television to fashion, and includes an interactive offering around games and social media. The website recently saw the premiere of Oxygen's first web based series, "Mommywood," based on the book of the same title by Tori Spelling.
Kavanagh is responsible for optimizing sponsorship opportunities online as part of Oxygen's Super 360 offerings, which extends on-air advertising sponsorships into relevant content on NBC Universal's female focused properties, including custom editorial on www.oxygen.com.
Before joining Oxygen, Kavanagh was Director of Client Services at NETexponent where she was responsible for leading strategic marketing initiatives online for clients including the New York Times, Verizon and Financial Times.
Steve Wax
Managing Partner at Campfire
Steve Wax is Managing Partner at Campfire. There, with his partners, Gregg Hale and Mike Monello, the producers of The Blair Witch Project, and Jeremiah Rosen, a former member of Wieden & Kennedy, Steve has created numerous marketing projects for brand and entertainment clients via interactive storytelling.
Campfire campaigns include True Blood for HBO, MyHome2.0 for Verizon, Audi's Art of the Heist (Creativity Magazine's campaign of the year), and Sega Beta-7 (winner of the Yahoo! Big Idea Chair, a silver Andy, a One Show Gold Pencil, and multiple Clios).
Previously, Wax worked for Francis Coppola's American Zoetrope and was a founding member of the landmark San Francisco film collective, Cine Manifest. Wax founded Chelsea Pictures in 1987, a film and commercial production company which is still thriving, and pioneered the use of feature and documentary directors in commercial production.
David-Michel Davies
Executive Director, The Webby Awards / International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences / Chairman of Internet Week New York
Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by The New York Times and "one of the most prestigious awards in the world" by the BBC, The Webby Awards is the leading international honors for Web and mobile sites, interactive advertising, and online film and video.
Davies became executive director of The Webby Awards in 2005 after spending three years as a new media consultant in Paris. In his current position, Davies has overseen a period of major growth for The Webby Awards. Last year's Webby Awards received a record nearly 10,000 from over 60 countries and was capped by a sold-out ceremony featuring industry luminaries such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Jimmy Fallon, Lisa Kudrow, Sarah Silverman and Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone.
Gillian Reagan
Reporter at the New York Observer
Gillian Reagan is the New York Observer's new media, technology and culture reporter who has written about everything from Facebook holdouts to IKEA-sponsored Web shows. She has a Master's in magazine journalism from New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and currently resides in Brooklyn.
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