| Mariana Danilovic - Managing Director and Founder, Hollywood Portfolio, LLC. |
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Mariana Danilovic is the Managing Director
and founder of Hollywood Portfolio, LLC, an entertainment marketing and
production company that focuses on selecting and developing a unique
portfolio of film & TV products for optimal representation of Fortune 500
corporate brands in Hollywood. Ms. Danilovic is also a co-Founder with Mr.
Randall A. Smith and co-Managing Director of Mission Malibu Ventures that
focuses on LBO, turn-around, and funding of both private and public
companies in digital media, technology, and medical devices areas. Ms.
Danilovic serves as a Managing Director of TechSpotter, a premier venture
and private equity investment marketplace founded by its President, Jack
Burns, that focuses on technology, medical devices, digital media, and
consumer ventures.
Prior to founding Hollywood Portfolio, LLC, Mariana Danilovic was the CEO of WITI (Women in Technology International). WITI is the first and only international for profit organization dedicated solely to advancing women through access to technology, capital, and business development opportunities. WITI’s primary source of revenues is sponsorship from some of the top tier Fortune 500 companies, including Dell, Raytheon, Texas Instruments, Visa International, Ely Lily, Daimler-Chrysler, GE Capital, IBM, Intel, and many others. Prior to WITI, Ms. Danilovic was the CEO of Digital Media X LLC (DMX), which she founded in 2000. DMX provided venture, later stage private equity, and business development services to technology, TV, film, video gaming, music, and digital media and convergence companies. In 1997 Ms. Danilovic founded and directed the Digital Media Group at KPMG LLP. This practice developed numerous "cutting-edge" entertainment companies, including Market Wire, Tonos, DEN, Thirsty, Enband, mySMART, WalkThisWay, FirstLook.com, E-Poll, CatchTV, and QSTV. Intel, Cox and Hewlett-Packard are some of the strategic investors in these ventures. The practice successfully facilitated the sale of The Well to the Salon prior to its initial public offering. The companies Ms. Danilovic developed at KPMG LLP received first round institutional funding from such well-known venture capital firms as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Hummer-Winblad, Constellation Partners, Softbank and North Star Ventures. Prior to joining KPMG, Ms. Danilovic headed business development for Peter Guber’s Mandalay Entertainment. She was also part of the manageent team of the $60 million fund at Sony Pictures Entertainment that made investments in media and digital media companies worldwide.Ms. Danilovic earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from University of California at San Diego. Ms. Danilovic served on the Board of Directors of the Zone Club, served on the Board of Directors of the California Culture Net, Board of Directors of VIC, and was a member of the former Los Angeles Mayor Riordan's Digital Coast Roundtable. |
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| Lori Schwartz - VP, Director of Emerging Media, Interpublic Emerging Media Lab |
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As Vice President and Director of the Interpublic Emerging Media Lab, a center for marketing innovation location in Los Angeles, Lori provides consultation and solution recommendations for the latest in broadband, wireless and emerging media solutions. She has produced a number of broadband solutions for Sony Pictures, Microsoft, GSN, General Motors, Reebok, Nautica and Park Place Entertainment among others. Prior to serving as Director of the Lab, Lori served as the interactie/new media producer at McCann Worldgroup, providing interactive expertise for the agency’s Los Angeles client base. She worked with clients to create original content solutions across multiple channels. Lori also facilitated partnerships with entertainment, sports and other content providers, and served as the agency representative on all issues pertaining to emerging media. An active member of the marketing and entertainment industries, Lori has led a project for the American Film Institute's Digital Content Lab and also serves on the Board of Governors for the Producers Guild of America’s New Media Council and has recently joined the foundation board for Women in Film. She is an executive committee member of the Interactive Peer Group for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and participates in a number of advanced advertising standardizations groups. When she is not working with clients, Lori can be found on stage in Hollywood performing with a number of improvisational comedy theaters. |
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| Mike Terpin - Chairman & CEO, The Terpin Group |
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Michael Terpin has more than 20 years senior management experience in public relations. Prior to founding Terpin Communications Group in 1990, Terpin served as president of Canyon Studios Public Relations and Avatar Communications, two of the earliest technology PR firms in California. Terpin also served as PR director at Clarkson University (NY) and at the University of Redlands (CA). In addition to being responsible for Terpin Communications Group's vision and corporate management, Terpin has supervised many of the Firm's largest accounts, including Alpine Electronics, America Online, EarthLink, Fujitsu, JBL, Jupiter Communications, Knight-Ridder, Memorex, NATPE, Nikkei Business Publications, Playboy, Silicon Graphics and Xoom.com. Terpin has also been a pioneer in the use of technology in public relations, beginning with email updates to journalists in 1992, launching the agency’s website in 1994, and offering online marketing services in 1995. Terpin also founded Internet Wire (originally gina.com), the nation's third-largest press release newswire, in 1994 and still serves as its chairman of the board. Internet Wire has more than 3,000 clients (including 3M, American Airlines, Amgen, Bayer, Best Western, IBM, Lucent, Microsoft, Pfizer, PBS, Taco Bell, Volvo, USA Networks and Wal-Mart), offices in six cities, and $25 million in top-tier venture capital backing (Blue Chip, Hummer-Winblad, Sequoia Capital). Michael is a frequent speaker at leading technology and marketing conferences, including CES, COMDEX, Digital Hollywood, E3, Internet World, NAB, Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), Red Herring Hollywood, and Streaming Media. He has been profiled in PRWeek and O'Dwyer's PR Report, and has been a guest columnist for O'Dwyer's PR Daily. Terpin is the only PR executive to be twice named to the Los Angeles Business Journal's list of the most influential technology leaders. He was a finalist in the 2000 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Terpin holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Buffalo and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Newspaper Journalism and English Literature from Syracuse University. He is on the Board of Advisors of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where he was inducted into the School’s prestigious “Wall of Fame” in October 2000. He is particularly active in advising the Newhouse School’s Public Relations department, which is currently ranked #2 in the US academically and #1 by the 2002 US News & World Report poll of industry professionals, which also ranked the School #1 in the US in newspaper journalism and in broadcast journalism. |
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