Shawna Fennell

Shawna is the founder and CEO of 1 Choice 4 Your Store.com, an authorized Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Developer. She has been building Yahoo! Stores since 2000 when she started her first store as a single mom with two children working out of her living room. Today she has an office with over 25 employees dedicated to helping Yahoo! store owners build, grow and succeed with their Yahoo! stores.

Jeff Ferguson

Jeff Ferguson is currently the Senior Director of Online Marketing for Local.com where he controls all online acquisition and retention via online media, search engine marketing, affiliate, and e-mail marketing. A veteran in online marketing since 1995, Ferguson has lead the online marketing efforts for Fortune 500 companies such as Hilton Hotels, Kimberly-Clark, InterActiveCorp, and Experian.

Matt Frary

Matt Frary is CEO and Founder of SmarterChaos.com, an online ad agency that focuses on performance campaigns and multi-channel distribution for major brands. Matt is also an original Founder of one of the top 30 online Ad Networks in the US called ROIRocket.com, and a frequent speaker and influencer in the Affiliate Marketing and Online Marketing arena. Matt has an MBA from #1 International Business School in the world, Thunderbird Graduate School, an education in marketing and business from the University of Colorado, with a strong focus in Russian and Finance. Matt enjoys working with internet start ups to realize their positive ROI quickly and is a passionate and serial entrepreneur.

Kathryn Gorges

President of Marketing Possibility, Kathryn Gorges is at the forefront of the trend toward blending social media with core business strategy. With a renaissance background in fashion design, economics, philosophy, and high-tech marketing, she has become known for her sixth sense for authenticity and her ability to illuminate the vision and value at the heart of the client's business. The core of her business is her knack for leveraging that ability into increased profits and quality customer relationships for her clients.  As a popular speaker and consultant throughout Silicon Valley, she specializes in branding and social media strategy for small to mid-size corporations.

Jim Hedger

Jim Hedger is a writer and broadcaster specializing in organic SEO and search marketing. Jim works as an independent SEO and search marketing consultant. He is also a writer, WebmasterRadio.FM show host and interviewer. Jim has been involved in the SEO field since the days of the dinosaurs. He felt like he lost a personal friend the day Disney went "ol' Yeller" on Infoseek. Over the course of his career, Jim has shared drinks with Jeeves the Butler, tossed sticks to that sock-puppet dog from Pets.com and walked away from staring contest with Googlebot confidently declaring a tie. When not traveling between conferences, Jim lives with a perpetually annoyed cat named Hypertext and can often be seen riding around Toronto on a very fast red bike.

Kevin Houchin

Kevin E. Houchin is a lawyer, graphic designer, husband, father and distinguished creative spirit. In his law practice, Houchin & Associates P.C., Kevin advises creative people on how to maximize creativity, build businesses, and protect intellectual property. His ideal client relationship is one that sparks a long-term creative collaboration which enables him to play the role of business and life coach, in addition to attorney and marketing consultant.

A tireless advocate for the creative entrepreneurial business community, Kevin regularly speaks for micro to mid-size businesses, continuing legal education and law school audiences. He is the co-author of the FTC Toolkit, www.sitecompliant.com. He is also the author of Fuel the Spark: 5 Guiding Values for Success in Law & Life and the forthcoming book, The Secrets of Creative Business. He writes regularly for the leading business journal in Northern Colorado, lawyerist.com, cuttingedgelaw.com, and blogs compulsively.

His latest creative venture is the The Space Between Center for Creative Spirit in Business, a unique mentorship program designed to equip, inspire, and position lawyers and other entrepreneurs to attract and serve their ideal clients in the information age. From vital flat-fee billing schedules to advanced internet marketing strategies, no subject is left uncovered in this groundbreaking mastermind programs.

A native Iowan, Kevin lives with his wife and their three children in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Lena Siara Huang

Lena Siara Huang is Sr. eCommerce Manager at Marriott International, Inc., a leading lodging company with more than 3,300 lodging properties in 70 countries and territories. Based in Washington D.C., Lena is responsible for the growth and expansion of Marriott's global affiliate programs and online partnerships.

Lena was born and raised in Germany and has worked and lived throughout Europe, The Americas and Asia-Pacific. This experience has given her a full understanding of best practices in managing and optimizing international partner relationships, and implementing online programs across various countries.

Prior to joining Marriott in 2008, Lena worked at Rosetta Stone and Bertelsmann in various areas of online and direct marketing. Lena holds a graduate degree in Business Administration with specialization in International Marketing and Global Cultures.

Tara Jacobsen

Tara has been marketing obsessed for YEARS! In the .com heyday she worked at Digital Chainsaw as the Executive Producer of Web Design and Development and since then has owned a marketing company with a brief dip into real estate for a couple of years. As president of Marketing Artfully, she has successfully helped many entrepreneurs develop a plan for marketing and business success that focuses on client contact, systems for success and lead generation. Tara is also an accomplished business speaker, trainer and coach with classes that include Business Marketing Planning, Social Networking Success, Blogging for Business and more!

Corey Johnson

Corey joined Carmichael Lynch in 2001 and set about building one of the strongest and most strategically driven media departments in the country.

Corey’s experience includes a spectrum of Clients during his career – from technology to package goods. Over the course of his career he’s driven insightful and innovative media strategy for Harley-Davidson, Fujitsu, Ericsson, Lawson Software, Tyco, American Standard, A.G. Edwards, Brown-Forman, Subaru and Northwest Airlines, among others. 

In 2007, the Carmichael Media department evolved to be more focused on the consumer , rebranding in name and philosophy to Consumer Engagement.

Since that time, the group has expanded to include more audience development professionals, and an analytics practice that helps measure and optimize marketing efforts from end to end.