Alicia Navarro

Alicia Navarro is CEO & Founder of Skimlinks. Alicia evolved the business over many years, starting with a social decision-making tool Skimbit.com, then after building Skimlinks as an internal monetization tool, launched it as a stand-alone commercial platform to help other businesses monetize their editorial and user-generated content. Her ability to make tough intuitive decisions to guide her company to success makes Alicia a well-regarded entrepreneur in the tech startup community. Prior to Skimlinks, Alicia worked for 10 years in web and mobile application product management for the likes of IBM, Vodafone, Optus and Fairfax Media. She has a Bachelor of Information Technology from University of Technology, Sydney, and managed to win the University Medal for graduating at the top of her Computing Sciences faculty. Alicia's ideal food adventure would be blue cheese & champagne in France, oysters in her Sydney home, and paella in the Balearics.

Pete Neumann

Mr. Neumann has continuously held senior positions Internet ventures, all on the cutting edge of advertising delivery and user experience. His former ventures include the following:

1. Go2Net—the 12th most visited portal on the Web—here he increased ad revenues from $300,000/year to over $15,000,000/year by leveraging paid search/click based revenues.

2. FindWhat.com/MIVA—during his time at FindWhat.com, Mr. Neumann headed up both Business Development and Corporate Development. During that time the company’s top line revenues grew from less than $1,000,000/year to over $192,000,000/year—largely due to growth in the company’s distribution network for which he was solely responsible.

3. Most recently, Mr. Neumann served as president and COO at LoyalTV, a startup video testimonial site, which allows users to post comments about their experiences with products and brands. Additionally, LoyalTV provides a private-labeled offering to Harley-Davidson dealerships across the nation.

4. Currently, Mr. Neumann serves as the SVP of Operations at Findology Interactive Media where he oversees Business Development, Sales, and Operations.

Mike O'neil

Mike O'Neil is the Founder and President of the world's first Social Media and LinkedIn training company, Integrated Alliances. Mike is a true pioneer in the mix of social media, LinkedIn, networking and web-based business applications.

Mike recently co-authored an amazing LinkedIn book entitled Rock The World with your Online Presence and he uses material from the book in his presentations.

His credentials help assure you are getting the very best talent for your audience. Mike is PLUGGED IN!

LinkedIn – joined 2004, ranked #26 of 55,000,000 globally, 27,000 connections, 300 group sessions Other Platforms – 27,000 Twitter Followers, 3,000 Facebook Friends

Mike is equal parts speaker, trainer, business sales consultant and entertainer who delivers leading edge business insight and training with a high energy "rock and roll" style. He presents the most basic to the most advanced material ensuring that everyone feels included and well served.

Mike’s expertise includes LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogging, others. He sprinkles his presentations with specific tips and action items that attendees can take and use right away.

Mike has a particular knack for technology and is highly sought after to train and speak in the technology industry. A 20-year Sales Engineering veteran, Mike has taught sales teams how to sell technology products and customers how to use often-complex products in business.

He has been involved in corporate and sales training since 1984. In addition, Mike is often featured and quoted in print and on-line media. Mike often pairs up with IA executive/trainer Lori Ruff. This “duet” approach to speaking and training puts audiences on the edge of their seat and keeps them there.

Heather Paulson

CEO and President of Paulson Management Group, Heather started her career as a web developer and website designer and founded EOMI a web development and design company in 1996. She was previously the Director of marketing services for Partner centric where Partner Centric received recognition as one of Promotion Worlds Top 10 SEO companies in the United States with SEO services under the direction of Ms Paulson. Ms Paulson has held the position of Vice president of Galasource as well as has held the position of Director of online marketing for Global Scholar an ignition backed start up out of Seattle Wa. Ms Paulson was hired by Microsoft's ISEM team to develop their internal best practice strategies as well as to teach the iSEM team the PPC segmentation and clustering methods Ms Paulson developed and utilizes for paid search strategies.

Ms Paulson in 2006 introduced to the affiliate community ARM (Affiliate relationship management) a process for identifying and grouping affiliates for more streamlined communications within a large affiliate program which she introduced at eComXpo. Ms Paulson identified this process when she held the position of Affiliate Marketing Director at X10 Wireless technologies where in 2005 she increased the companies 3 affiliate network programs into a 300% sales increase with in months of hire, and increased the paid search channels sales by more then 260%. Heather has years of experience initiating and managing online lead generation, retail sales and CPM e business model strategies for many Fortune 500 e retailers with management experience of media budgets over $20 Million annually. Including the education, finance, retail, beauty, and health verticals. Ms Paulson has worked as a consultant and or contractor on hundreds of e business accounts. Ms Paulson has been in the Affiliate marketing space both as an affiliate as well as an affiliate manager since 1998 and has established many relationships in the affiliate and search industry!

Tamara Pester

Tamara Pester works as an attorney whose practice focuses on business law, and she has particular interest and expertise in FTC compliance, intellectual property law including trademark protection, technology law and software licensing, business contracts, mergers and acquisitions, as well as FDA laws including food and drug law labeling and marketing.

Tamara Pester launched her Denver business law firm in 2006, after having gained experience as an associate at a large firm and as in-house legal counsel for several major corporations, including: SchlumbergerSema (formerly LHS Communication Systems, Inc.) and First Data Corporation. She graduated B.A. cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in history and a minor in business administration. She received her J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law, and she was an editorial staff member of the Law Review.

Admitted to practice law in Colorado in 1998 and in Georgia in 1999, Tamara Pester is an active member of the Colorado Bar Association and the Georgia Bar Association.

Katja Persnal

A seasoned PR, sales and marketing professional with e-commerce experience, Presnal is an editor and founder of SkimbacoLifestyle.com and SkimbacoHome.com. She writes about home decorating at Lifetime TV Network’s website for moms, LifetimeMoms.com. She is part of Hanes Comfort Crew and was one of Wal-Mart’s Elevenmoms and has experience of brand evangelist communities as a blogger. Presnal was named as one of the 50 most powerful and influential women in social media already in 2008 and continues to be named in Top 20 Moms to Follow on Twitter.

Pete Prestipino

Pete Prestipino is the Editor-In-Chief of Website Magazine, a print and online trade publication for Internet business professionals focusing on search engine optimization, online advertising, online marketing, Web design and application development.

Prestipino is a long-time Internet marketer with over ten years of experience in Internet publishing and advertising management

Shai Pritz

Shai Pritz is the CEO and co-founder of UniqueLeads.com. Uniqueleads.com is an affiliate network that specializes in matching the right ads to the right audience. Shai has been a leader in the online marketing industry for over 12 years. Starting out as an affiliate himself doing PPC, SEO, Email & Display, Shai has a unique perspective to see both sides of the business. By understanding what he wanted in an affiliate network himself, he was able to build Uniqueleads.com into one of the best networks running today. Shai is an active presenter and speaker concerning affiliate marketing strategies at many industry wide events including AffiliateConvention, OMMA, and Leadscon.com. Shai is also a founding member of OLGA (Online Lead Generation Association).