Venture Atlanta – Where Innovative Georgia Companies Meet Investors


	* Registration of $500 thru October 14th

“ The Atlanta CEO Council is pleased to partner with the other founders of this new enterprise for advancing technology investment in Georgia. Our motivation was to unify Georgia’s technology stakeholders around one centralized venture forum. We are proud of our entrepreneur community and their ongoing drive to build businesses in Georgia.”

– Ashish Mistry
President

Atlanta CEO Council

Schedule of Events


2:30 – 4:30	ATDC/Georgia Tech VentureLab (Investor only)
4:00	Registration Table Opens for All Attendees
5:00 – 7:00	Cocktail Party
7:30	VC Dinner (Invitation Only)


7:30 - 8:30	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30	Speaker, Carlos Dominguez, Senior Vice President, Office of the Chairman and CEO, Cisco
9:45 – 10:00	Break
10:00 - 11:30	First round of presenting companies
11:30 – 1:00	Plated Lunch with Keynote Speaker
1:00 - 1:15	Break
1:30 - 2:30	Second Round of Presenting Companies
2:30 – 4:00	Digital Media Panel Featured Speakers: - Stuart Snyder, President and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.'s Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media. - Mike Eckert - Former CEO The Weather Channel and Pathfire, Inc. - Braxton Jarratt - CEO, Clearleap - Jeff Bussgang - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners Moderator: - Greg Foster, General Partner, Noro-Moseley Partners

Speaker Bios

Carlos Dominguez
Senior Vice President, Office of the Chairman and CEO
Cisco

Carlos Dominguez is a Senior Vice President and full-time spokesperson in Cisco’s Office of the Chairman and CEO, John Chambers. His close relationships with worldwide communications providers, including cable, mobile operators and content providers give him a unique perspective on how the Internet is changing, and how technology and trends such as video and social networking are impacting our lives at work and at home.

Dominguez has been with Cisco since 1992. He has played a key role in multiple segments of the company’s business and most recently led its service provider business. From 2004 to 2008, he led Cisco’s Worldwide Service Provider Operations group, playing a key role in building the strategy for the business and doubling service provider sales from $3.7 billion to $7.7 billion. Service providers now represent approximately 46 percent of Cisco’s overall business.

Before becoming a senior vice president, Dominguez was Vice President for U.S. Service Provider Sales, leading the sales teams for all U.S. communications providers. He grew the business from $500 million to over $2.5 billion. Prior to that, he led Cisco’s enterprise line of business in the northeastern United States and established Cisco in a number of strategic markets such as financial services in New York City, media, government and pharmaceuticals.

Prior to joining Cisco, Dominguez held management positions at Timeplex, Inc. in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, and at New Jersey Bell / Bell Atlanticom in Newark, New Jersey.

Recently he was named one of the top 50 Hispanic executives in the United States by Hispanic Engineering and Information Technology magazine. He serves on the Board of Directors of Communities in Schools of New Jersey, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping high risk children in school; NACME (National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering); and the YMCA of Greater New York.

Dominguez was born in Cuba and attended the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez.

Stuart Snyder
President and Chief Operating Officer
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.’s Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media

Stuart Snyder is president and chief operating officer of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.’s Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media. In this capacity, he is responsible for assets including the cable television networks Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Adult Swim; the digital businesses Cartoonnetwork.com, Adultswim.com, Toonami Jetstream, Cartoon Network Video, GameTap and Super Deluxe; and two animation production facilities, Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank and Williams Street Studios in Atlanta. Additionally, Snyder works closely with Turner Broadcasting System International on programming strategies for Cartoon Network Asia Pacific, Cartoon Network Europe, Cartoon Network Latin America & Caribbean and Cartoon Network Japan. Promoted from executive vice president/COO in January 2008, Snyder expanded his role to include executive responsibility of consumer products, domestic advertising sales & marketing of those properties, overseeing staffs based in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. Snyder is based in Atlanta and reports to Philip I. Kent, chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.)

Prior to this appointment, Snyder served as senior vice president and general manager of GameTap, a Turner Broadcasting broadband entertainment network offering subscribers access to more than 900 arcade and console games, as well as original programming, interviews with gaming figures and game trailers. Snyder will continue to oversee day-to-day management of the marketing, programming, development and distribution for the network.

Snyder returned to Turner Broadcasting in 2005 from CINAR Corporation, an animation, live-action and education production/distribution company based in Montreal that he led as president and CEO. He co-founded Turnstile Entertainment, a New York-based company that creates and produces family entertainment programming featuring popular brands. Snyder was president and COO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., the television and sports entertainment franchise; and president of USA Home Entertainment, where he oversaw the marketing and release of the critically acclaimed film Being John Malkovich and was part of the management team that green-lit the Academy Award®-winning film Traffic.

Earlier in his career, Snyder was president and COO of Feld Entertainment, the world’s largest producer of live family entertainment, featuring Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and Disney on Ice. He also led Turner Broadcasting’s home entertainment division as executive vice president and general manager, Domestic Home Video and Non-Theatrical Services, for Turner Home Entertainment (T.H.E.), which during his tenure distributed The Beatles Anthology Series, The Swan Princess, Ken Burns’ Baseball and Gettysburg. Snyder began his professional entertainment career at MGM/UA as head of the Non-Theatrical Division and later moved to its Home Entertainment Division. He currently serves on the board of the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.