Joel Maske
Joel is a technology and Internet entrepreneur. In January 2002, Joel founded his third venture, Moogul Networks, to develop market-defining technologies for peer-to-peer knowledge management, information delivery, and collaboration. Prior to Moogul, Joel founded iSyndicate in October 1996, and as the Chairman, President and CEO, steered the company to its position as the leading, global provider of content syndication and infrastructure solutions with 250 employees generating $30 million in annualized revenue. iSyndicate raised $75 million in venture and strategic capital from Microsoft, NBC, and News Corporation, and with Bertelsmann AG, launched iSyndicate Europe, a 50/50 joint-venture company, before it was acquired by YellowBrix, Inc. in August 2001. Prior to iSyndicate, Joel was co-founder and Vice President of GALT Technologies, creator of the Internet's first financial portal, NETworth. Intuit acquired GALT in 1996 and integrated NETworth into its market leading Quicken.com service. Joel holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University and was attending Carnegie Mellon's Graduate School of Business when he co-founded GALT in 1994. Joel’s media and speaking appearances are numerous, including CNN and CNBC; the New York Times’ and Harvard University & Forrester Research’s Technology Summits; and the investment banking technology conferences of Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, and Salomon Smith Barney.

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Peter Simon
Peter has more than 25 years experience with leading media and publishing companies. He served as Director of Content Licensing at The Deal, LLC, where he was responsible for driving the company's content licensing initiatives and negotiating deals with major information vendors. Prior to this, Peter was Vice President of Content Distribution & Alliances for The Gale Group where he managed the company's content distribution business and partnerships with over 60 partners. Peter began his career with Reed-Elsevier PLC Group, where he held several key management positions, including Executive Vice President of Business Development & Database Publishing at Reed Reference, and Vice President of Business Development for a business unit of Lexis-Nexis. Peter is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), Content Division. Peter has a BA in English Literature from City College of New York and a M.S. in Library Science from Columbia University.

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Alan McCutchen
Alan has more than sixteen years of software architecture and development experience. Most recently Alan served as CTO at Digital Owl, developers of leading digital rights management software. Alan pioneered the patent-pending design and development of PKI-protected document transformation and delivery for Palm OS devices. He managed partnerships with TealPoint Software and Aportis Technologies, providers of leading synchronized Palm OS document readers TealDoc and AportisDoc. By leveraging PDA readers, standard Palm HotSync and Conduit APIs, PKI encryption technology, and adaptive heuristics-based document transformation, Alan was responsible for creating previously unavailable seamless compatibility for Palm OS devices. Alan was also responsible for research on delivery for a wide range of wireless devices including cellular telephones and wireless PDA devices. Prior to DigitalOwl, Alan served as Principal Systems Architect for DataViews Corporation, a leading provider of graphic user interface(GUI) development tools. He was responsible for development of new product functionality. Alan began his career with Harris Corporation in the mid-1980's, where he specialized in user interface development and technology analysis as part of projects for NASA.

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