Pulvermedia's VP of Content and Community Carl Ford Announces the Creation of the VON Advisory Board

BOSTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- FALL VON -- Pulvermedia's Vice President of Content and Community Carl Ford today announced the creation of the VON Advisory Board. This new assembly features the industry's preeminent thought leaders, who are each working with Pulvermedia to help identify, create, and launch new conferences and expositions that will be produced, marketed and managed by Pulvermedia.

"The point of the Advisory Board is to seek guidance from the some of the most respected people in the industry, and turn this advice into events that can lead their respective markets," said Carl Ford, VP of Content and Community at Pulvermedia. "We've reached a new phase in the evolution of VON: a decade ago, VON was about connecting people over the PSTN with Internet voice -- but today, IP has reached a point where it has taken over the PSTN. So we're no longer talking about the technology -- but rather -- how the technology has changed all forms of communication and entertainment. Our new advisory board assembles the key players who represent the spectrum of Internet services and solutions. They'll help us maintain the thought leadership of VON, and expand it into the related markets that have been created through the enablement that IP technology has ushered in."

    The inaugural members of the VON Advisory board include:
    1.  David Aronoff, General Partner, IDG Ventures
    2.  Anand Chandrasekher, Sr. Vice President & GM, Ultra Mobility Group,
        Intel Corporation
    3.  Matt Collier, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Lifesize
        Communications
    4.  John Dix, Editor in Chief, Network World
    5.  Christopher Fine, Vice President, Global Technology Division, Goldman,
        Sachs & Company
    6.  Charles Hoffman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Covad
        Communications
    7.  Thomas Howe, CEO, Thomas Howe Company
    8.  Veli-Pekka Kivimaki, Senior Project Manager, Nokia
    9.  Dan Klein, Senior Associate, Vesbridge Partners
    10. Martine Lapierre, Carriers Group / Executive Management Team & VP
        Competitive Transformation, Chief Marketing Office, Alcatel-Lucent
    11. Charley Lax, Managing General Partner, GrandBanks Capital
    12. John Macario, President, Savatar, Inc.
    13. David S. Marshak, Program Director and Senior Product Manager, Unified
        Communications & Collaboration (UC2), IBM Lotus Software
    14. Fanny Mlinarsky, President, octoScope, Inc.
    15. Doug Mohney, Editor in Chief, VON Magazine
    16. John Morgan, VP of Product Management and Development, Synchronoss
        Technologies
    17. Hunter Newby, Chief Strategy Officer, Telx
    18. Adrian Scrase, VP, European Telecommunications Standards Institute
        (ETSI)
    19. Stephen Smith, CEO, Ampersand, Inc.
    20. Joe Varello, VP of Digital Voice Product Management, Cablevision

"Each member elected to our Advisory Board has a long and distinguished connection to VON, and they know the caliber of content we're striving to maintain," concluded Carl Ford. "These thought leaders will not only ensure that VON reflects the marketplace as it exists today -- but they'll provide the broad view that helps VON continue to forecast and address where the industry heads in the future."

About Pulvermedia:

Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company, Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com.

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