Advisors
Listphile is grateful for the advice and expertise of this esteemed group of colleagues and advisors:
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is the CEO of Morningstar Australia, the Australian subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc, a leading global provider of investment research, Prior to joining Morningstar, Andrew founded Aspect Financial with the objective of providing accurate, affordable investment information to Australian investors and their advisors. Aspect has become the leading information provider for publicly listed Australian and New Zealand companies. In July 2003, Huntleys' Investment Information and Aspect Financial merged their operations to form a new and enlarged equity research and information operation, Aspect Huntley. This combined company was purchased by Morningstar in 2006. Andrew has a BA from Williams College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.
Amy Denmeade
Amy Denmeade has worked for a number of years in business development and strategy roles for large media companies and technology start-ups in Australia and the US. She spent five years working for News Limited, the Australian arm of the News Corporation. She was one of the initial employees of their internet division, News Interactive, in 1995. She also spent three years as General Manager of a non-profit organization, the Inspire Foundation which uses technology to help young people create opportunities for themselves. Amy is currently consulting for the online division of APN News and Media, one of Australia's largest media companies and undertaking study for a Masters in International Studies at Sydney University.
Greg Dotson
Greg Dotson is the CTO of Blurb, a print on demand service that enables anyone to produce bookstore quality books through the Blurb platform. Greg is an internet and software industry veteran who has served in leadership roles at several startup and later stage companies, including as CTO of adam.com (NASDAQ:ADAM), CIO of guru.com, and VP Product Development at Unicru, a company sold to Kronos in 2006 for $150 million. He has a B.A. in Computer Science from Huntingdon College, and worked for several years in the computer aided design industry at Intergraph.
Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake is best known as the co-founder of Flickr, a photo-sharing service developed by Ludicorp in Vancouver and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. She has won many awards, including BusinessWeek's Best Leaders of 2005, Forbes 2005 eGang, Fast Company's Fast 50, and Red Herring's 20 Entrepreneurs under 35. In 2006, She was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people. She sits on the board of Etsy, and advises many startups and new businesses. At Yahoo! she runs the Technology Development group, known for its Hack Yahoo! program, a stimulus to innovation and creativity, and Brickhouse, a rapid development environment for new products.
Susanne Goldstein
Susanne Goldstein is an engineer-designer-filmmaker-business strategist who uses people-centric creative-collaboration to help organizations accelerate their ability to change the world. Her diverse Hollywood, software, dot-com and social sector experience provide her with a unique framework for addressing business and social issues. Susanne specializes in cutting edge technologies, user interface design, social enterprise strategy, business model innovation, and social networks through her consultancy The Accelerator. She has taught graduate course work in interactive product design at The Academy of Art University in San Francisco and currently teaches Social Entrepreneurship at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her blog The Social Age examines cultural trends in the era following the Information Age. Susanne holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School as well as a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an A.B. in Theatre and Film Studies, both from Cornell University.
Tom Jessiman
Tom Jessiman is the founder and CEO of PicksPal.com, a venture backed fantasy sports picks website. He previously helped lead two of the most renowned online sports companies, CBS SportsLine.com and a larger sports portal in Europe. Under his operational direction, CBS SportsLine’s traditional fantasy sports and premium information services became the most popular on the Internet while the European sports portal, which he founded, became Europe’s leading online sports and entertainment portal, with 15 million monthly unique users and revenues of $4 million per month. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Jono Rosen
Jono Rosen is Vice President, Corporate Development & Investments, at Applied Minds, Inc. Previously, Mr. Rosen was a Principal with Shelter Capital Partners, a private technology and media focused investment fund, where he served on the boards of several private companies, and was an associate with the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Rosen has co-authored papers on venture capital including, "Understanding Antidilution Provisions in Convertible Securities" (74 Fordham Law Review, 129 (2005)) and "Effective vs. Nominal Valuations in Venture Capital Investing" (2 New York University Journal of Law and Business, 199 (2005)). Mr. Rosen earned a B.A. in Religion, magna cum laude, from the University of Rochester, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.
Nathan Shedroff
Nathan Shedroff is the chair of the ground-breaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, CA. This program melds the unique principles that design offers business strategy with a vision of the future of business as sustainable, meaningful, and truly innovative—as well as profitable. He is one of the pioneers in experience design, an approach to design that encompasses multiple senses and requirements and explores common characteristics in all media that make experiences successful, as well as related fields, Interaction Design and Information Design. He speaks and teaches internationally and has written extensively on design and business issues, including, Experience Design 1 and maintains a website with resources on Experience Design at www.nathan.com/ed. He’s a serial entrepreneur, works in several media, and consults strategically for companies to build better, more meaningful experiences for their customers. He lives in San Francisco where the climate, culture, and industry make it easy to have an esoteric and amorphous title like Experience Strategist and actually make a living.
Brett Wayn
Brett Wayn is a consultant in digital media whose experience spans startups through to established major players. Brett's media career began in TV as a researcher/producer for the award-winning science and technology TV series "Beyond 2000" ("Beyond Tomorrow" in the US.) Covering tech stories led to an interest in emerging new media and Brett subsequently worked on CD-Rom multimedia titles based on the TV series. He then started up Beyond Online, which was one of the first internet divisions of an Australian television production company. From Beyond, Brett was recruited to run content for AOL Australia and subsequently became the CEO of AOL Australia and thence AOL Japan. After a sabbatical, Brett has done further strategic and operational consulting work for APN News and Media in Australia and New Zealand, MSN in Germany and currently consults to MSN with oversight of international content businesses in Europe. Currently based in San Francisco, Brett is originally from Sydney, Australia and in addition to his new media background, Brett is a qualified (but retired) medical practitioner and a private pilot.