Speaker Bios

Rich Bader

President and Chief Executive Officer, EasyStreet Online Services
Rich and his team at EasyStreet have built Oregon's largest independent Internet and IT services provider by focusing on the needs of local businesses and delivering reliable service day in and day out.
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David Baker

Director of the Office of Web Communications, Oregon State Univerity
David Baker directs the Office of Web Communications at Oregon State University, which manages the OSU home page and top tier family of sites, as well as the overall identity for the university on the Web and on social networks. Baker helped to coordinate the social-media-driven Powered by Orange campaign, which officially launched in September of 2009 and has received industry recognition from Mashable.com, EduStyle and CASE. He previously worked as Web Coordinator at the University of Missouri, and as a New Media Lead at the IT consulting firm Accenture.
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Brent Barton

CTO & Managing Consultant, Solutions IQ
Brent Barton is the CTO and Managing Consultant at Solutions IQ, where he plays a key role in implementing the strategic vision of an Agile organization. He is also highly regarded as a Certified Scrum Trainer and is recognized as an international leader in Agile consulting.
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Phil Belanger

VP of Business Development, Extricom
Phil Belanger is the VP of Business Development for Extricom, manufacturer of a uniquely innovative WLAN system. He is known as "Mr. Wi-Fi". Phil was an early contributor to the 802.11 standard. He was a founder of the Wi-Fi Alliance and served as its Chairman. Phil has held executive positions at several pioneering wireless companies.
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Dylan Boyd

Vice President of Sales & Strategy, eROI, Inc.
Dylan leads business development and strategy in both online and traditional environments for clients of eROI. He has helped to build and grow internet presence strategy for both retail, corporate and web-only customers.
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Ryan Buchanan

President & CEO, eROI
Ryan Buchanan, founder and CEO of eROI, started the company in November 2002. He has eight years of email marketing, web and e-commerce experience and frequently speaks about email marketing, social networking, and web marketing-related issues. He has also been featured in notable industry publications such as the Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, iMedia Connection, DM News, and eMarketer. He has led the growth of eROI from a couple employees at inception to a full team of e-marketing experts, creatives, technical, account, and sales teams.
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Christi Day

Online Spokesperson & Emerging Media Specialist, Southwest Airlines
Christi Day serves as an online Spokesperson for Southwest Airlines, the nation's largest airline in terms of domestic Customers boarded. Christi specializes in Emerging Media and web 2.0.
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Dawn Foster

Online Community Consultant, Fast Wonder
Dawn Foster is a consultant, community manager, event organizer, blogger, podcaster, technology enthusiast and business professional. She provides consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities and has more than 13 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, market research, social media, blogging, podcasting, rss, community building, web 2.0, and open source software.
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Aaron Gray

Principal and Owner, Greater Returns
Aaron Gray, Principal and Owner of Greater Returns, helps companies use web measurement and optimization tools and processes to drive measurable improvements in marketing and business performance. A veteran in the space, Aaron has held key roles at multiple analytics software companies, including Coremetrics and Webtrends, driving measurement and optimization efforts for organizations like AT&T, Bank of America, Alltel, Mastercard, Fujitsu, HSBC, Logitech, Orbitz, American Eagle Outfitters, ThomsonReuters, Internet Broadcasting, Kmart, SkyMall, and more.
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Jason Grigsby

Mobile Specialist, Co-Founder, Cloud Four
Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone
Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street
Journal's Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile
Portland, a local mobile development user group.
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Brian Jaminson

Co-Founder and CEO, Open Sourcery
Brian is a seasoned entrepreneur with many technology-related companies to his credit. He has worked with Linux, open source, and the Internet professionally since 1995. Brian serves on the board of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO) and as President of the Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE).
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Hallie Janssen

Vice President, Anvil Media, Inc.
Janssen currently manages overall client strategy and oversight of the team of search engine marketing (SEM) professionals at Anvil Media, Inc.
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Lance Kidd

CIO, Halton Co.

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Marshall Kirkpatrick

VP of Content Development, ReadWriteWeb
Marshall Kirkpatrick is the VP of Content Development at ReadWriteWeb, a leading blog focused on web technology innovation and its consequences. He has also consulted for companies large and small on the use of social media for establishing leadership in various markets.
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Kent Lewis

President, Anvil Media, Inc.
As President of Anvil Media, Inc., Kent Lewis is responsible for managing operations, marketing and business development to achieve the search engine marketing agency's mission: to be one of the most respected search engine marketing agencies in the world.
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Jay Lyman

Analyst, Enterprise Software, The 451 Group
Jay covers open source software for The 451 Group, focusing on Linux operating systems and distributors, virtualization, databases and other free and open source software created by communities and used by enterprise organizations.
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Brian Massey

Conversion Scientist, Conversion Sciences
With 15 years of online marketing experience, Brian has championed conversion as the key to online marketing success.
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Robert McDowell

Vice President, Information Worker Business Value, Microsoft
Mr. McDowell joined Microsoft in 1990 to establish Microsoft Consulting Services...
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Sean Odom

Senior Network Engineer, 24x7 I.T. Solutions
Sean Odom is a well known technical speaker and instructor who brings 18 years of technical experience to clients throughout Oregon. He is the author of 24 networking, operating systems, and network security books for Cisco and Microsoft.
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James Rice

Creative Director, Ascentium

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Tom Sedory

IT Director of Corporate Responsibility, Nike
For 15 years, Tom has been a part of Nike, leading software research and development for all areas of Nike's "front of the house" including Sales, Retail, Product Creation, and Brand Marketing. Tom's passion for the environment drove him to volunteer time to work with Nike's Corporate Responsibility teams and Facilities to look for IT solutions to environmental challenges.
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Rick Turoczy

Writer, Silicon Florist

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Jim Wasko

, IBM

Raven Zachary

iPhone Strategy & Product Development, Small Society
Raven Zachary is an iPhone advisor who works with investors, startups, and established companies on iPhone strategy and product development. He has directed the launch of two 'Top 20' iPhone applications - Obama '08 for Obama for America and Nearby for Platial. Raven is the founder of iPhoneDevCamp, a not-for-proft iPhone developer conference.
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