Speakers

Terry Bean
Founder
Motor City Connect

Terry’s passion is helping others succeed. He is known as many things: a relationship builder, a social media expert, a connector, but most importantly he brings people together.
 
Terry is the founder of the fastest growing networking group in Detroit, Motor City Connect. He is also the driving force behind Networked Inc., a company that provides training on the concepts and benefits of online and real world networking to numerous sales teams, groups and professionals.  Terry is one of the 20 most connected LinkedIn members in Detroit, has consulted with the Relationship Networking Industry Association to set standards and metrics and is a columnist for The National Networker. He is a sought after keynote speaker and trainer on the topics of social media, networking and building winning business teams.

Chris Brogan
President
New Marketing Labs

Chris Brogan is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency, as well as the home of the New Marketing Summit conferences and New Marketing Bootcamp educational events. He helps large and mid-sized businesses understand how to use social media tools like blogging, social networks,community platforms, and more to build business value for marketers, sales organizations, and internal collaboration in general.

Chris is a ten-year veteran of using social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at [chrisbrogan.com], a blog in the top 20 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati.

Ken Burbary
VP of Digital Marketing
Big Communications

As a professional web marketer and technologist, Ken has 14 years of online marketing & advertising experience, including a deep background in interactive and new media. He works with companies to create successful online initiatives that will further their brand objectives, improve customer service by building strong digital relationships with their customers, and increase sales.

Right now Ken heads up the Digital marketing practice at BIG Communications, a healthcare marketing company. In his current position at BIG Communications, he works with healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical brands to help clients communicate with their core audiences more effectively. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for Campbell Ewald, a nationally focused advertising & marketing agency, working on integrated marketing campaigns for fortune 500 brands such as General Motors, Chevrolet, Michelin, Farmers Insurance and Alltel.

Scott Monty
Digital & Multimedia Communications Manager
Ford

Scott is a marketing and communications professional focused on the digital industry – specifically on social media. His career spans a number of industries such as healthcare, pharma, biotech, travel, automotive, tech, and communications, and includes a wide range of clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

Scott is currently the head of social media for Ford Motor Company, where he holds the title Global Digital & Multimedia Communications Manager. While his role is based in the Corporate Communications area, he is a strategic advisor on all social media activities across the company. From blogger relations to marketing support to customer service to internal communications and more, social media touches many facets of Ford business, and Scott is there to ensure it is consistent across all of them.

Marcel Lebrun
CEO
Radian 6

As Chief Executive Officer of Radian6, Marcel brings with him years of leadership with various technology start-ups. A serial entrepreneur, he has raised over $100 million in financing, completed an IPO on the Nasdaq and TSX, and headed up an acquisition by a publicly traded company.

Prior to joining Radian6, Marcel was vice-president of technology consulting at IPTV solutions firm, Mariner Partners. He has also served as chief executive officer and general manager of SalesBridge Canada Corp., and vice-president, fixed solutions division (FSD) of Paris-based, Alcatel, a leading provider of communications solutions to telecommunication carriers. In 1998, Marcel co-founded and was president and CEO of ImagicTV Inc. a start-up company that quickly became the worldwide market leader in IPTV video software solutions. Marcel began his career at NBTel (Aliant Inc.) holding various positions in engineering, planning and marketing.

Amber Naslund
Director of Community
Radian 6

Amber Naslund is a social media and marketing upstart, and the Director of Community for Radian6, where she's responsible for client engagement,community building, and helping companies tap the potential of online reputation management, customer engagement, and social media monitoring. She's spent the last decade or so raising over $60mm for non-profit organizations, building brands for companies large and small, and messing with all things online.

Amber blogs at Altitude Branding, focusing on brand building and social media marketing for business. She's also an author of Radian6's PowerShift blog, a contributor to the popular Marketing Profs Daily Fix blog, and she keeps her personal blog at Innacurate Reality.

Shannon Paul
Social Media Specialist
PEAK6 Investments Online

Shannon Paul previously worked in New Media with the NHL Detroit Red Wings as a creator of web-based content and is responsible fostering relationships across the social web for the organization and the members of the team. Shannon began her career as an intern with the NBA Detroit Pistons Community Relations department before making her way back into the sports industry in her current position. Her professional background is in traditional public relations but her interest in social media communications dates back to her time as a student when she created an independent study program aimed at building and exploring the impact of blogs on mass communication.

In 2008 she launched the Very Official Blog where she continues to write about PR, marketing and social media communications. Shannon Paul has been named one of Chris Brogan's Top 8 Marketing Bloggers to Watch in 2009.

Adrian Pittman
Partner
Module

Adrian has more than 15 years of high-tech marketing and brand development experience partnering with Fortune 500 companies on both the domestic and international fronts. He directed web-based design and messaging initiatives for Apple, Nissan and Infiniti for TBWA/Chiat/Day in Los Angeles, and Dish Network for Publicis in Seattle. With BBDO, he co-directed the launch of Daimler/Chrysler's web-based campaign for their brand's introduction into Eastern Europe. He also served as marketing director for several investments groups to facilitate their strategic branded launches in the US and abroad.

Adrian also serves in an advisory capacity for a selection of marketing panels and technology startups.

Damian Rintelmann
Dir. Interactive Bus. Dev.
Hart Associates

In nearly 10 years of working on the Internet and in telecommunications, Damian has worked with numerous memorable brands like General Motors, Proctor & Gamble, Coca-Cola and more. Technology moves at light speed these days, but Damian moves faster. How else could he have scored a hat trick at Joe Louis Arena?

Oz Sultan
Principal
New Social Economy

Oz has been at the helm of new media initiatives for the past 15 years working with numerous fortune 1000 companies. Oz led emerging technology at Transworld entertainment; portions of MS Messenger; MS Eshop and MS Hailstorm. At Sapient he led emerging technology for their digital agency practice. Recently oz developed a suite of Web 2.0 and social media products for the Economist and EIU.

Oz advises a number of entertainment and social media startups. He also runs the NYC NextWeb social media gatherings and Lunch 2.0's on the East Coast.

Jeremy Tanner
Head Facilitator
Startup Weekend / Boulder
Ambassador

@Penguin on Twitter, but Jeremy to his mother and the law. A geek, startup junkie and party crasher from Detroit, now based out of Boulder. Likes: clean air, motorcycles, mountains, vibrant downtowns and suede shoes; Hates: Artificial grape flavor, smog, and anything in blister packaging.

Jeremy consults / speaks on social tools and strategy. Drawing attention, teaching folks to listen, helping marketing and PR folks figure out what time it is. The internet didn’t make you awesome; it just exposed your awesomeness to the world. He helps expose your awesome.

Charlie Wollborg
Founding Partner /
Chief Troublemaker
Curve Detroit

Charlie opened the doors on Curve Detroit Advertising, Marketing & Design after being thrown out of several well respected ad agencies. As a writer, designer and strategist, he has delivered blue sky ideas and bottom line results for blue chip local and national clients including: Saturn, Mazda, Boyne, Sanders Candy and Blue Cross. 

He is a sought after keynote speaker for his lively presentations on branding, marketing and social networking. He helps smart companies stay on top of what's new, what's now and what's next in the world of business.