Speakers

Digital Hub non-Conference 2009 Speaker schedule

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BIOS OF OUR FOUR KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Winston Binch

VP/Managing Director of Interactive
Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Winston is responsible for the management of interactive production and business development. Since his arrival in 2005, Winston has been a principal leader in the build-out of Crispin Porter + Bogusky's internal interactive capabilities enabling the agency to handle large-scale application production, mobile and social media strategy, SEO/SEM, metrics analysis and implementation, interaction and experience design, and technical development responsibilities. Today Interactive is made up of 185 full-time people (20% of the agency) with more than 400 people working within Interactive on an ongoing basis. He oversees interactive for clients such as Volkswagen, Domino's, Microsoft, Zune, Coke Zero, Burger King, and Best Buy.
 
He came to Crispin Porter + Bogusky from R/GA, New York, where he led creative and technical development on sites such as NikeiD.com, NikeGridiron.com, and NikeBasketball.com.
 
Over the last ten years, his work has been recognized by international award shows and publications such as Cannes Cyber Lions, Andys, One Show, Clios, London International Awards, Business Week, and Communication Arts. He enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, playing and listening to music, as well as rapid mountain descents on alpine skis and mountain bikes.

John Batelle

Chairman and Publisher, Federated Media

John Battelle, 42, is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded scores of online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. 

Prior to founding Federated Media, Battelle co-founded and continues to serve as Executive Producer of the Web 2 Summit conference, as well as "band manager" with BoingBoing.net

Previously, Battelle occupied the Bloomberg chair in Business Journalism for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was founder, Chairman, and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to that, he was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures.

Battelle recently wrote The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (Amazon, Penguin/Portfolio), an international bestseller published in more than 25 languages. He created Searchblog , a daily site which covers the intersection of media, technology and the Internet. He is an expert in the field of search and has appeared on many national and international news channels such as BBC World News, CNN, PBS, Discovery Channel, CNBC, etc.

Battelle was a founding Board member of the Online Publishers Association and sits on the board of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, as well as the Board of his children's school.

Battelle was named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" and "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was a finalist in the "Entrepreneur of the Year" competition by Ernst & Young and has recently been named an "Innovator - One of Ten Best Marketers in the Business", by Advertising Age and one of the "Most Important People on The Web" by PCWorld. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

Peter Kim

Senior Partner, Dachis Corporation
http://www.beingpeterkim.com/peterkim.html

Senior Partner at Dachis Corporation in Boston, Peter Kim has - since January 2006 - shared his business thinking on his blog, beingpeterkim.com, now one of the most highly regarded marketing blogs in the world. On Twitter (peterkim), his current followers number more than 10,330.  With his social business design services in big demand and his keynote speeches among the world’s most popular, Peter Kim works with clients ranging from consumer package goods to high technology services, from healthcare and travel to media and utilities.

Considered an expert in the fine art of blogging, Peter Kim says, “I still don’t think blogs are media outlets. Media as historically defined are poorly targeted one-way communication in transport vehicles being replaced by emerging technologies. I see blogs as conversations, two-way dialogue between individuals that were made for technology’s current evolution. Who wants to be a voice that people skip, block, and ignore?”

Formerly an analyst at Forrester Research in Boston, where he focused on the intersection of social technology and marketing strategy, Kim won internal awards while publishing 36 research documents. Before that, he ran international marketing operations at PUMA AG.  Previously, he was part of a strategy network at Razorfish and a research analyst at Coopers & Lybrand focusing on the energy industry.

Kim earned an English degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Bob Gilbreath

Bob Gilbreath is Chief Marketing Strategist at Bridge Worldwide, one of the nation’s largest digital advertising agencies and part of WPP.  Bob leads the Client Service and Strategic Planning teams within the agency.  In this role, he leads a staff of 50 and helps clients create winning digital and relationship management strategies.  Bob leads the relationship with clients including ConAgra Foods, P&G, Kroger, U.S. Bank, and Abbott Nutrition.  His work has been featured in Brandweek, he has spoken at Ad:Tech, and taught classes at NYU and Miami University.  He is currently championing a new industry-wide approach to better connect with consumers called Marketing With Meaning (www.marketingwithmeaning.com).

Bob joined Bridge Worldwide after driving a dramatic turnaround of the Mr. Clean brand at Procter & Gamble.  He successfully launched innovative products including the Magic Eraser.  This innovation helped nearly triple the business in one year.  Bob was recognized by Advertising Age as one of the Top 50 marketers of 2004.

Before joining P&G, Bob was a Corporate Banking Officer at SunTrust.  He received his Masters in Business Administration in marketing from New York University’s Stern School of Business and his undergraduate degree in Economics from Duke University.  Bob lives in Cincinnati with his wife and two daughters.