SPEAKERS
Pierre Bouvard
Senior Vice President Sales
TRA
Mr. Bouvard has 20 years of experience in media and market research creating new entertainment brands with significant audience growth. Pierre has had senior leadership roles in sales, marketing and operating. Pierre's board experience includes Adify Inc. which sold to Cox Enterprises for $300MM in 2008. Mr. Bouvard currently serves SVP Sales at TRA, a division of TiVo Inc. TRA is an TV audience measurement service which merges television set top viewing with consumer product usage of Automotive, CPG and Pharma. Pierre has advised a number startups and venture funded companies. Mr. Bouvard currently advises Colligent, a social media audience affinity service, and Vadio, a digital music video application.
Scott Burnell
Global Lead, Business Development & Partner Management
Ford Motor Company
Scott Burnell leads business development and partner management efforts for the mobile industry at Ford Motor Company. Most recently Scott facilitated the creation and launch of the Ford Developer Program, the first developer ecosystem for in-vehicle connectivity open to all global app developers. By creating partnerships with mobile apps publishers and developers, wireless network operators, and handset device manufacturers Scott drives Ford's in-vehicle connectivity initiatives.
Eric Klinker
Chief Executive Officer
BitTorrent
Eric Klinker is the Chief Executive Officer of BitTorrent, Inc. bringing close to two decades worth of networking experience as a technologist and innovator. Eric joins BitTorrent from his previous post as CTO and Vice President of Engineering at Internap, a leading provider of network optimization and content delivery solutions. Previously, Eric worked at netVmg, Excite@Home and the Naval Research Laboratory. Eric holds a 's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a master's degree in EE from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
James McQuivey, Ph.D.
Vice President and Principal Analyst
Forrester Research
James is a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research and the leading analyst tracking the development of digital disruption. He develops consumer models to help companies understand the power of digital consumers and strategy models to help companies in every industry prepare to serve those newly empowered consumers. His travels to meet with clients have sent him to Oslo, San Diego, Barcelona, Anchorage, and nearly everywhere else on the planet. No matter the locale he can be found imploring clients to think and act like digital disruptors.
Anthony Wood
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Roku
A pioneer and innovator in TV and digital media, Anthony Wood is the founder and chief executive officer of Roku, a name that means "six" in Japanese to represent his sixth company. In the early days of Roku, Anthony also served as the vice president of Internet TV at Netflix, where he developed what is known today as the Roku streaming player, originally designed as the first video player to ever stream Netflix. Today, Roku players offer the most extensive collection of streaming entertainment to the TV with more than 800 channels featuring movies, TV shows, live sports, news, music, casual games and more.
