Will Arnett

Will Arnett has been an extremely busy man of late. He will next be seen on the Warner Brothers and Legendary western action film Jonah Hex based off the DC comic of the same name. In the film, which is set to release in June, Arnett will star opposite Megan Fox, Josh Brolin and John Malkovich. He will also return to television this fall on Fox’s much anticipated new comedy series “Running Wilde” opposite Kerri Russell. He will star and write for the series alongside writer/director Mitch Hurwitz.

Arnett was most recently seen starring in the Walt Disney Pictures’ romantic comedy When in Rome opposite Kristen Bell and in G-Force, a combination live action/CG film from Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, opposite Penelope Cruz, Nicholas Cage, Steve Buscemi, and Zach Galifianakis.  In addition, last year he voiced a character in the hugely successful Dreamworks 3-D animated adventure film, Monsters vs. Aliens, alongside Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen, which opened number one at the box office.  He also starred in the basketball comedy Semi Pro opposite Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson, and lent his voice to the hugely successful animated comedy Horton Hears a Who. In 2007, he was seen opposite Will Ferrell and his wife Amy Poehler in the figure skating comedy Blades of Glory, and also co-starred opposite Will Forte in The Brothers Solomon.

Arnett earned his first Emmy nomination in 2006 for his work on the critically acclaimed Fox sitcom “Arrested Development,” where he portrayed “Gob Bluth,” for three seasons.  From time to time, Arnett guest stars on NBC’s “30 Rock” playing ‘Devon Banks.’ Last year he earned his second Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series” for this role. 

Jason Bateman

Actor, Producer, and Director Jason Bateman was honored with a Golden Globe Award in 2004 for Best Actor in a Comedy Series and earned an Emmy Award nomination and two Screen Actor’s Guild nominations for his irreverent portrayal of ‘Michael Bluth’ in the Mitch Hurwitz created, multi-award winning comedy series, Arrested Development. Since then, Bateman has attained “leading man” status on the big screen while returning to his roots in television by continuing to produce, write and develop projects for the small screen.

While Bateman’s starring role in the Emmy Award-winning FOX comedy series Arrested Development brought a newfound appreciation with the public, it also caught the attention of the motion picture industry and reinvigorated their interest in Bateman. Since the show ended in 2006, Bateman has secured one major film role after the next.

In August 2010, Bateman will star with Jennifer Aniston in the Mandate Pictures romantic comedy film, The Switch, in which he plays the lead role ‘Wally,’ the best friend keeping a life-changing secret from Aniston’s ‘Kassie.’ Following The Switch is the Universal and Working Title comedy Paul directed by Greg Mottola and written by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. Paul follows two British comic books geeks who have a super natural encounter while road tripping across the United States. Bateman co-stars as ‘Agent Lorenzo Zoil.’

In 2011, Bateman will co-star as ‘Nick’ in the Warner Brothers’ ensemble comedy “Horrible Bosses” alongside Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Charlie Day and Jason Sudekis. Horrible Bosses follows three friends who conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness. Horrible Bosses is directed by Seth Gordon and will be released July 29^th, 2011.

Also in 2011, Bateman will be seen opposite Ryan Reynolds in the Universal Pictures comedy, The Change Up, as a responsible family man who switches bodies with his lazy best friend. The Change Up will begin production in October 2010 and will be directed by David Dobkin.

Bateman is also producing and starring in a film for Universal based on his own original idea called The Remarkable Fellows, which Joe Carnahan is writing and directing (Bateman partnered with Carnahan again after working together on the feature Smoking Aces for Universal in 2006). The film is an action comedy about two elite “revenge specialists” who are hired by the most powerful and wealthy people all over the world to exact revenge on those who have wronged them. The film is currently in development.

Amy Brenneman

Amy Brenneman has a degree in Comparative Religion from Harvard University.  She is a founding member of the award-winning Cornerstone Theater Company.  Theater credits include:  Romeo & Juliet, The Oresteia, Three Sisters, Sincerity Forever, St. Joan of the Stockyards (Yale Rep), God’s Heart (Lincoln Center) and A Nervous Smile (Williamstown Theater Festival).  Film credits include:  "Casper", "Bye Bye Love", "Heat", "Daylight", "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her", "Jane Austen Book Club" and "Mother & Child".  Television credits include:  NYPD Blue (2 Emmy noms), Judging Amy (3 Emmy noms, 3 Golden Globe noms, winner of three TV Guide awards for Best Actress).  Amy was co-creator, executive producer and star of Judging Amy. Amy currently stars in the ABC series Private Practice.

Daphne Brogdon

Daphne Brogdon is the talent and inspiration behind CoolMom.com, a website and daily video series that looks at the humorous side of motherhood. Daphne used to go anywhere for a job, but now that she is a mom she is glad to have a gig close to home. She is a host of TV Guide Channel's weekly series, The Fashion Team, a fun romp through celebrity fashion. In her segment, "Fashion Mommy Must Haves," she focuses on fashion stories that relate to the mom perspective. She also makes fun of how famous people dress every week in Star Magazine's "Worst of the Week." Daphne is a contributor to CNN Headline's Showbiz Tonight, Pregnancy Magazine and the host of FOX's web show 24 Inside. She's also been seen on Dr. Phil, The Oprah Winfrey Show and is a regular panelist on Momversation.com.

As a stand-up comic, she has performed at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas, the Improv in Hollywood, the Comedy Store in Hollywood as well as synagogues and weddings, countless laundromats, dive bars, and rooms she wasn't sure what they were, but there was a mic.

Daphne is from Culver City, CA where her father John Carl's foray into local politics (Mayor pro tem of Culver City) gave her an interest in politics early on. Daphne is married to Mark Peel, Executive Chef and owner of Campanile Restaurant and co-founder of La Brea Bakery. They have a toddler, Vivien, an infant son Rex, and Mark has three children of his own. They reside in Los Angeles.

Dan Bucatinsky

Dan Bucatinsky was the writer, producer and star of the indie, romantic comedy All Over the Guy.  More recently, he was Co-Executive Producer of the NBC dramedy, “Lipstick Jungle” and continues to write original pilots and films.

In 2003, Dan partnered up with Lisa Kudrow to start Is Or Isn't Entertainment, a company best known for its emmy-nominated HBO series “THE COMEBACK” starring Kudrow as Valerie Cherish.  In addition to Executive Producing, Bucatinsky played Valerie’s publicist, Billy Stanton.  Is Or Isn’t continues to receive attention for its critically acclaimed and award-winning web series, Web Therapy, starring Kudrow as an incompetent therapist, and co-starring Bucatinsky as a devoted client.  The third season of the Lexus sponsored web series has just premiered and is available on iTunes – along with the hilarious new Web Therapy iPhone app.  And in an unprecedented move, Showtime has recently agreed to license ten half-hour episodes comprised of actual webisodes, due out in early 2011.

Bucatinsky and Kudrow partnered with UKs Wall to Wall Productions to bring the hit, genealogy docu-series “WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE” to American Television.  The show premiered in March on NBC to impressive ratings and reviews and has just been renewed for a second season.

Dan is a regular writer/performer in the acclaimed reading series "Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine".  He's included in the collection of essays published under the same name by St. Martin's Press – recently in paperback.

As an actor, Bucatinsky has appeared on dozens of television programs, most recently on "Grey's Anatomy", "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "CSI Miami".  He's also appeared on the big screen opposite Diane Lane in Under the Tuscan Sun, as well as Bounce and The Opposite of Sex – both directed by his husband of 17 years, filmmaker Don Roos, with whom he lives with their two children, Eliza and Jonah. 



Kiran Chetry

Kiran Chetry anchors American Morning with John Roberts. Since joining CNN's flagship morning program in April 2007, Chetry has covered several breaking news stories both in the field and at the helm of the anchor desk including the Haiti earthquake, the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, the assassination of former Pakistani President Benazhair Bhutto, the Michael Jackson Memorial, the San Diego Wildfires and the attempted nightclub bombings in London.   In addition, Chetry was one of the few journalists to interview Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and the rest of the “Miracle on the Hudson” flight crew shortly after their heroic landing on the Hudson River.

Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, Chetry reported live from various political events including the New Hampshire Primaries and from Washington, DC the morning of the inauguration of President Barack Obama.  During the campaign, Chetry interviewed several of the candidates including now President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Governors Mitt Romney and Bill Richardson and Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Her anchoring into the early morning hours, along with John Roberts, following election night won the program a National Headliner Award.  She has also reported for the series Children of War, which examined how American children cope with their parents' deployments in Iraq and has also reported for a week-long special series "The War At Home" exploring the struggles of American soldiers after they return home from the wars in Iraq and Afganistan.  Chetry's reporting during the foiled London bomb attack in 2007 earned American Morning a Daytime Emmy nomination.

Chetry joined CNN in February 2007 and immediately began anchoring various CNN programs including American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360º, Paula Zahn Now and CNN Newsroom. Previously, Chetry was the anchor of Fox & Friends First and Fox & Friends Weekend for the Fox News Channel. She has covered major breaking news stories including reports from the field during the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, the invasion of Baghdad and Hurricane Katrina.

Chetry began her journalism career at News 21 in Rockville, Md., in 1995 before moving to WICU-TV in Erie, Penn., to become an anchor and health reporter. At WICU-TV, she earned the Best Enterprise Reporting award from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association in 1997 for "Young and Hooked," a series about teen smoking. She then served as a morning anchor and reporter for KXTV in Sacramento, Calif., before joining Fox News in 2001.

Chetry received her bachelor of arts in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland.

Howard Friedman

Howard Friedman is Senior Vice President Marketing and is responsible for business management and marketing in the Cheese Business Unit.  Kraft Cheese is a $4.5MM business and has responsibility for all marketing related functions to include communication, product innovation and customer marketing.

Howard has been with Kraft for 12 years.  Prior to his current assignment he has held positions of increasing leadership responsibility in Marketing on Post Cereals, Handi Snacks, Jell-O, Tassimo, and our Powdered Beverages business. Howard’s accomplishments have been recognized by a variety of internal and external organizations.  He has been sited as one of Ad Age’s Marketing 50 in 2006.  Prior to joining Kraft, Howard spent 5.5 years in the Army as Captain in the First Corp Support Command supporting the 82^nd Airborne Division where he was recognized for superior leadership on several occasions.  

Howard holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dickinson College and his Masters of Business Administration from the Stern School of Business at New York University. 



Seth Green

If you’ve gone to the movies or watched television in the last twenty-five years, you already know Seth Green’s work.  Green co-starred in Disney's holiday feature, “Old Dogs.”  Green portrayed Craig, Robin Williams and John Travolta’s overeager junior executive just itching to make his mark in business, especially to his two mentors.  He is the star of Disney’s 2011 release, “Mars Needs Moms,” which was shot in performance capture for Robert Zemeckis’ company.  Improbably, Green plays a 9-year old boy in “Mars” with Joan Cusack as his mother.  Green and Matthew Senreich created/executive produce and with their staff, write and direct the Emmy-winning “Robot Chicken,” their stop-motion animation sketch comedy show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.  Green provides multiple voices each week to the pop culture parody show.  The “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II” special earned Green an Outstanding Voiceover Emmy nomination and 2009 Annie Awards for writing and best animated TV show.  Green won the 2008 Annie Award for directing the first “Robot Chicken: Star Wars” special and both specials were Emmy-nominated.  Green, Senreich and Tom Root executive produce and Green voices the villain for “Titan Maximum,” their new Adult Swim show.   The trio are creating /writing a new animated series for Fox.  Green also voices Chris Griffin on “Family Guy,” the hit Fox animated series. 

            Between film roles, Green and Senreich debuted their series, “Sweet J Presents,” on Sony’s Screenblast.  The duo created/executive produced twelve webisodes utilizing stop-motion photography and, you guessed it, action figures.  They were ahead of their time as everyone was still on dial-up internet access back then.  It eventually led to “Robot Chicken,” which began airing in February, 2005 to record ratings on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. It’s the highest rated show on Adult Swim and has also enjoyed great success internationally.  Pretty amazing for something that began as an animated short so Green could avoid talking about himself on a talk show.

Teri Hatcher

Teri Hatcher has delivered memorable performances in movies, television, and on stage, since 1990. She starred as Lois in the ABC series "Lois and Clark” and her film credits include: Christopher Guest's "The Big Picture" "Soapdish", "Spy Kids", "Tomorrow Never Dies" and “Coraline”, where she voiced all three mothers. On stage, she has portrayed Sally Bowles in the Sam Mendes-directed touring company of "Caberet" in 1999, receiving critical acclaim and standing ovations from Los Angeles to Boston.

In 2005 she was awarded a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award for Best Actress in a Comedy for her work in the hit ABC series "Desperate Housewives".  In 2006 she wrote her first book, a funny and inspirational look at a woman finding balance between family, career and self, titled "Burnt Toast and Other Philosophies of Life." It remained on the New York Times best seller list for 4 weeks. Teri currently is in the 6th season of filming "Desperate Housewives”.

Teri is soon launching the co-created web site "GetHatched.com" with Disney's Family.com. It is a joint venture she hopes will meet the needs of modern women by offering solutions in a candid and original insights with the humorous perspective she's garnered through years of experience. She has also been writing and blogging articles for Glamour UK magazine, Newsweek and more.

Charles Hunter

Charles Hunter co-founded UK cross-platform production company Mudlark -  by bringing together his experience as a television producer with Mudlark's experts in games, the web and digital arts. Mudlark's projects range from pervasive/locative games, Alternative Reality Games, virtual world experiences and social media narratives to television programmes - working with arts and media organisations and brands.  Originally a journalist, Charles worked as a researcher, film-maker and producer for the BBC and Channel 4 before forming his own TV production company and then Mudlark,  where he is Commercial Director as well as the producer of the much- talked about Such Tweet Sorrow,  Mudlark’s Twitter Production of Romeo and Juliet with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Such Tweet Sorrow stormed social media for five weeks this Spring, attracting thousands of followers for six Twitter account-holders who had the same names as characters in Shakepeare's Romeo and Juliet. As their tweets, links and uploads unfolded it became clear that they were also experiencing a narrative very similar to Shakespeare's, but set in modern day Britain and taking place in real time. Produced by Mudlark in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and funded by 4ip (the UK TV broadcaster Channel 4's digital investment vehicle) , Such Tweet Sorrow featured six professional RSC actors following the briefs of two writers and a senior RSC director. Cast and crew experienced an unprecedented level of engagement with followers, who started blogs to try to save characters from their inevitable deaths and admitted tears and addiction. Mudlark call it "pervasive theatre".

Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of twelve books. She is also co-host of "Left, Right & Center," public radio's popular political roundtable program, and is a frequent guest on television shows such as Charlie Rose, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry King Live, Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The Rachel Maddow Show.

In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet.  In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people, and in 2009 she was named to the Financial Times’ list of 50 people who shaped the decade. 

Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.



Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis, author of the BusinessWeek best-seller What Would Google Do?, teaches journalism at the City University of New York, where he runs the New Business Models for News Project. He writes about media and technology in his blog, Buzzmachine, and in the Guardian. He appears on the podcasts This Week in Google and the Guardian's MediaTalkUSA. Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; president and creative  director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications (parent of Condé Nast); TV critic of TV Guide and People; Sunday editor of the New York Daily News; and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He is at work on a new book, Public Parts, about the benefits of publicness, due early next year. 

Lisa Kudrow

Kudrow is an Emmy Award-winning actress who rose to stardom as a cast member of the hit NBC sitcom Friends. She began her comedic career as a member of The Groundlings. Her first major television role was Ursula Buffay, the eccentrically silly waitress on Mad About You. This led to her starring role on Friends as Ursula's sister, Phoebe Buffay, a role for which she won an Emmy Award in 1998 for Best Actress In A Comedy Series.

Her film credits include Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, The Opposite of Sex, Hanging Up, Analyze This and its sequel Analyze That. She has also starred in the biopic Wonderland about the late porn star John Holmes.

Kudrow portrayed Valerie Cherish, the main character on the HBO original series, The Comeback. She also served as co-creator, writer and executive producer.  

In the fall of 2003 Lisa formed the production company, Is or Isn't Entertainment with actor/writer Dan Bucatinsky. Is or Isn’t produces the web series Web Therapy in which Lisa stars. Season Three of the critically acclaimed series, which is about a therapist who does sessions with her clients via the internet, launched in April 2010 and can be found at www.lstudio.com. Web Therapy was recently acquired by Showtime Networks.

Tim Kring

Tim Kring is one of the creative community’s original transmedia storyteller, who successfully works across entertainment and information mediums, including viewing screens and delivery devices such as film, TV, broadband, computers, mobile devices and the printed page to engage audiences around the world in narrative and immersive story arcs.  In April, 2010, Kring received the Pioneer Prize at the International Digital Emmy® Awards in Cannes in recognition of his industry-leading creativity in multi-screen storytelling.

From 2001 to 2010, Kring’s key role in the entertainment industry was as creator and executive producer of “Crossing Jordan” and “Heroes,” NBC’s Emmy®-nominated epic saga that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities.  During his work on “Heroes”, Kring connected with both traditional TV and cross-media viewers who watched and followed the “Heroes” characters and plotlines across broadcast TV, cable, online/broadband and mobile devices.  Kring was the first in the television industry to create and offer significant interactive online programming to both engage and build a fan base of an estimated 76 million people around the world during the Fall, Spring as well as traditional Summer re-run season.  

Current projects include Kring’s first book, SHIFT, part of a trilogy entitled THE GATE OF ORPHEUS co-written with New York author Dale Peck.  SHIFT, a Crown Publishing release will debut in mid-August, 2010 in bookstores nationwide.  

Holding the belief that narrative has the power to create and promote positive change in the world, Kring is also working with Nokia to stage an interactive narrative story, code named Project TEVA, which will once again engage ordinary citizens to join forces for good against evil.  The project incorporates charitable social benefits for Room to Read and the Pearson Foundation.  Visit www.conspiracyforgood.com to join this ground-breaking narrative-driven community that will include exciting meet-up activities across London in late summer, 2010.

A prolific and accomplished screenwriter and producer with the ability to seamlessly move between the mediums of television and film storytelling, Kring got his first big break in Hollywood in 1985 writing an episode for “Knight Rider”, which taped its first episode in 1982 and aired for four seasons and was syndicated worldwide.   He then spent the next eleven years writing feature films, including the sequel “Teen Wolf II,” series pilots and made for television movies such as “Bay Coven” and “Falling for You.”

Dani Klein Modisett

Dani Klein Modisett is the creator/producer/director of “Afterbirth…stories you won’t read in a parenting magazine,” the live storytelling show where well known actors and writers perform original, funny stories about how becoming a parent changed them unexpectedly and forever.  An anthology of  a selection of these stories from “Afterbirth…” was published by St. Martin’s Press.

Dani began her career as an actress, where she appeared on Broadway in "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" and in the national tour and Broadway productions of "Twilight of the Golds" by Jonathan Tolins.  On screen, she worked opposite James Caan on the NBC series "Las Vegas" and on several episodes of "Law & Order.   Other credits include, "Wall St.," "The Doors," and "The Out of Towners" opposite John Cleese.  Last year she appeared on The Today Show for the launch of "Afterbirth...." the book and was recently featured on Rosie Radio with Rosie O'Donnell.

Dani started performing her own writing first as a stand up comic which then segued into writing comic shows.   As a writer, Dani contributes to The Los Angeles Times, Parents Magazine, Momlogic.com and Hotmomsclub.com. She has also made several appearances on Jen and Barb, Mom Life.

Dani is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has taught comedy at ULCA for the last decade.  She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two smallish boys. 



Kevin Pollak

Kevin Pollak has captured the attention of audiences worldwide with his range of both dramatic and comedic roles. Over the past two decades, he has appeared in over sixty films, as well as countless television projects, and has established himself as one of the few stand-up comedians to have a successful dramatic film career. In addition to his acting talents, he has also proven himself as both a writer and producer, and most recently, a talk show host.

Pollak became a touring professional stand-up at 20.  In 1988, he landed his first film role in George Lucas’ "Willow," and roles in a string of critically acclaimed films like “A Few Good Men”, “The Usual Suspects” and “Casino”. He was recently seen in the cop comedy “Cop Out”.

Variety named Kevin one of the top 10 hardest working film actors, the criteria of which was that said actors had to have done at least 3 films per year, each year of the 1990's. Kevin made the list.

In  March of 2009, Kevin began hosting his own internet talk show, called Kevin Pollak's Chat Show. Before celebrating the shows 1 year anniversary, it received 3 Streamy Award nominations and won for Best Live Production of a Web Series. Next up, Kevin will begin work this month co-starring with Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson in “The Big Year.”

Ben Silverman

Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning producer Ben Silverman announced a partnership with IAC, led by media mogul Barry Diller, in July 2009 to launch a new company, Electus, which will capitalize on the ever-evolving world of multimedia production and distribution. With Ben as founder and CEO, Electus will unite producers, creators, advertisers and distributors under one roof and produce all forms of content for distribution across a variety of platforms around the world.

Ben is executive producer of  the Emmy Award-winning NBC comedy “The Office” and the  Golden Globe-winning comedy “Ugly Betty,” is co-creator and executive producer of  hit reality show “The Biggest Loser” for NBC as well as an executive producer and co-creator of the critically acclaimed “The Tudors” for Showtime.

Prior to launching the new media venture with IAC, Ben served as Co-Chairman, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios from June 2007. Responsible for directing the efforts of NBC Universal’s television operations, Ben transformed the business model by connecting advertisers and consumers through content in a more profound way. Initiating the first of two Infronts, he rebranded the Upfront and enabled a two way conversation between media companies and advertisers. 

Sree Sreenivasan

Sree Sreenivasan is a tech evangelist and skeptic (he can explain how he's both) specializing in explaining technology to non-techies.

He is a professor and dean of students affairs at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he teaches in the digital media program (he has also been teaching entrepreneurship at the J-school and digital-media marketing for an MBA Master Class at Columbia Business School). He has been on the faculty for 17 years.

He is a contributing editor at DNAinfo.com, a Manhattan-news startup he helped launch in 2009 with Joe Ricketts, the founder of Ameritrade and whose family just bought the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field.

In March 2004, Newsweek magazine named him one of the nation's 20 most influential South Asians; and in 2009 he was named one of AdAge's 25 media people to follow on Twitter and was one of 22 professors named to the "top 100 Twitterers in Academia, by OnlineSchools.org.

Martha Stewart

Business magnate, television host, best selling author and magazine publisher, Martha is an acclaimed media mogul.  And as founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has become one of the most powerful women in the media industry.

Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital,” with Walt Mossberg. It is a major high-tech conference with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and many other leading players in the tech and media industries. The gathering is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and media industries.
 
She and Mossberg are also the co-executive editors of a tech and media Web site, AllThingsD.com (www.allthingsd.com), where her online-only version of the “BoomTown” column appears.

Kara Swisher worked in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau. For many years, she wrote the column, “BoomTown,” which appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also on The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web’s major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper. She has also written a weekly column for the Personal Journal on home issues called “Home Economics.”

Previously, Ms. Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington, D.C. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and her graduate degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

She is also the author of “aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web,” published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, “There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future,” was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books.