Conference Hound Advisory Board

Anil H.P. Pereira CEO at Verious

Anil Pereira is an Internet entrepreneur and executive, currently leading his 4th startup, Verious. Anil also serves as a senior advisor to a number of high-growth companies including Conference Hound, FNBox, Penango, JT Wines and FloorPlanOnline. During the course of his 20-year marketing career, he has served as Founder & CEO of SecondSpace (now DataSphere); EVP and General Manager at VeriSign; SVP, New Businesses and International at Classmates.com; Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition Partners; and Vice President at American Express Company. Anil has served as a board member or advisor to over 15 high-profile startups in the high tech arena and has been a keynote speaker at a number of conferences including the GSM World Congress in Cannes and the Digital Trust Symposium in Silicon Valley. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and a BMgt degree from the University of Lethbridge.

Gregory T. Stern CEO at Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners

Greg Stern is a founding partner and CEO of BSSP, one of the largest independently owned advertising agencies in the United States. He has over 26 years of advertising and marketing experience, both domestically and internationally. In 2003, Greg led BSSP's acquisition of SF Interactive, a leading digital marketing agency, adding to the agency's credentials as a digitally savvy agency. Since its founding in 1993, BSSP has grown from a 3-person start-up with no clients to its current $190 million in capitalized billings, working with clients such as MINI Cooper, Columbia Sportswear, Epson, LucasArts, Priceline, Converse, Sun Microsystems, Diageo, and Coca-Cola. Prior to co-founding BSSP, Greg served as Group Account Director at Goody Silverstein & Partners and worked in Account Management at Ogilvy & Mather. Greg holds a B.A. from Brown University and he lives in Mill Valley, CA.

Gregory Raifman CEO at Dragon Media

Entrepreneur and Internet Visionary, Private Equity, Venture and Impact Investor, Board Director and Advisor. Serial entrepeneur specializing in high-tech companies, with a particularly keen interest in online advertising/media. Industry veteran from the early days of the Web.

Former CEO of Mediaplex, led $1B+ IPO.

David Smith CEO at Mediasmith

David Smith is an internationally-recognized expert in the areas of new media application, media strategy, media planning and metrics. As a veteran in the area of advertising media management, his experience is drawn from the creation of the first-generation advertising technology to dealing with today’s issues surrounding metrics in the digital marketplace. At the forefront of new metrics applications, David’s advisory board and industry committee involvement has included the 4A’s, ARF, comScore Media Metrix, Quantcast, IAB, I-COM and Online Publishers Association, where he works to establish and refine standards in metrics, business practices and financial issues for interactive advertising.

David is consistently called upon by the press as a resource for publications such as Fortune, Businessweek, Mediaweekand authors thought pieces on an ongoing basis for publishers including iMedia Connection and Fast Company. He is also a regular speaker at various 4A’s, iMedia, ad:tech, IAB, I-COM and OMMA events. With a number of awards to his name, including an Effie, David was also awarded one of the first-ever ad:tech Industry Achievement Awards. This accolade recognized his long-term dedication and consistent outstanding service to the digital marketing industry. David has a BA from the University of Washington. He is an avid guitar player and a gourmet Chinese cook.

Andrea Facini SVP, Global Product & Innovation, Active Network

Andrea Facini is the SVP, Global Product & Innovation at Active Network, Inc. In this position, Andrea is in charge of Product management, Business Analysis, UX, Product Design, Content, SEO, UX Research & Analytics and Media Services teams.

Prior to Active Network, Andrea was the VP, Global User Experience & Content at Monster Worldwide, Inc. where he was charged with making Monster's family of sites best-in-class products for job seekers, recruiting customers and consumer advertisers.

Since 1996, Andrea has worked for the largest digital media organizations including Italian publisher La Repubblica, CNN and Scripps Networks Interactive.

From 1999 to 2006, Andrea led the transformation of the journalist-centric TV organization into a multichannel, digitally focused news organization, growing CNN.com audience from 9M to 34M unique visitors per month and making it the #1 online destination for News and Information.

During his tenure at Scripps Networks Interactive, Andrea oversaw the Product Design & User Experience teams who established the vision for Scripps Networks Digital online properties and integrated a seamless consumer experience.

His work has received worldwide recognition and dozens of awards including several Webby Awards, a Peabody Award, a National Press Foundation Award, and Communication Arts.