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Kathy Meis is an entrepreneur, writer and editor with more than twenty-five years of experience in the media and publishing industries. She has worked for such iconic editorial brands as CBS and Forbes, Inc, where she reported directly to Tim Forbes. Kathy served as a founding partner of PubSmart, an author-centric publishing conference held in Charleston, South Carolina. As a frequent blogger and speaker on a wide variety of topics, Kathy has become a sought-after expert on the topic of independent publishing and disruption in the publishing industry. She has spoken at Book Expo America, Women in Media, GrubSteet, PubSmart, AuthorYOU, and IndieRecon, among others.

In the mid-80s, Bublish Board Member Charles Wyke-Smith founded San Francisco-based PRINTZ Electronic Design, an early all-computerized design studio, and has continued to be a pioneer in interactive media development. He has worked in management and consulting roles at Wells Fargo, ESPN Videogames and Benefitfocus, where he was Director of User Experience. Prior to joining Bublish, Charles was Vice President of Strategy at PeopleMatter, focused on development of its human resources HR platform for the services industries. He is also the author of four best-selling web design and development books: Stylin’ with CSS, Codin’ for the Web, Scriptin’ with JavaScript and Ajax, and Visual Stylin’ with CSS3. Wyke-Smith studied Economics at Trent University in England.

Evan Schnittman is a digital thought leader, entrepreneur, and change agent at the cutting edge of content dissemination in the Digital Age. A legacy of successful business transformations through vision, strategy, strong leadership, operational, and financial skills. Several mergers and acquisitions and two startups that have been successfully acquired. Expertise spans the full range of sales, operations and business development functions in the publishing industry – retail, wholesale, licensing, technology, B2C, strategic planning, and M & A. Deep experience in strategic marketing with high-level expertise in value proposition creation to customers and partners and new market development. He has held executive-level positions at Hachette Book Group in New York City, Bloomsbury Publishing in London, UK, and Oxford University Press in New York City.

Jack Liles is a partner at TechCXO Partners where seasoned, C-Suite professionals deliver strategic and functional consulting services for technology-enabled companies. TechCXO Partners serve in interim or fractional executive roles, as C-level coaches, or as functional consultants and trainers, with an emphasis on marketing and sales.

Jeffrey Marks is a managing partner at Alliance Legal Partners. Jeff’s practice focuses on outsourced general and corporate counsel services, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private placement transactions, crowdfunding transactions (Regulation CF and Regulation A+), corporate governance, strategic business counseling, licensing, commercial agreements, real estate syndications and real estate fund formation. Jeff has represented a wide variety of companies ranging from start-ups to middle market companies in various industries, including technology, sports, ecommerce, consumer products, real estate development, gaming, apparel and food and beverage. He has a broad range of experience, having practiced both as an attorney for a major law firm and as in-house counsel to a publicly traded Nasdaq high technology company.

After a book and digital marketing career at iVillage, Random House, Inc. and Abrams, Julia Coblentz joined Barnes & Noble’s NOOK digital division to lead marketing and publisher relations for its industry-disrupting self-publishing platform. Julia has been featured in dozens of panels, webinars and interviews on book and content marketing, and has been a guest lecturer on book marketing at NYU’s publishing program. Julia went on to run the partner marketing program for BN.com and to lead ad sales for Barnes & Noble.com and SparkNotes. She started her marketing consultancy in 2018.

Kevin Eichelberger is the founder and CEO of Blue Acorn, a digital commerce and UX agency. He is an entrepreneurial-minded technologist that leverages his strengths as a strategist, innovator, and leader to drive towards a far-sighted vision. He has been published in Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, The Chicago Tribune, Internet Retail, and various other national business and trade publications. An accomplished presenter and speaker, he has also been a featured presenter at industry events including IRCE, Fashion Digital, Conversion Conference, Opticon, Magento Imagine, Innovate, and DIG South.

Ashley Bennett has more than 15 years of operational and project management expertise working for firms such as Bank of America, Barclays Bank, and MBNA. She has served in various leadership roles such as a Director in Partner and Project Management and Partnership Marketing. She is a strategic planner and critical thinker devoted to delivering quality products and services to her customers. Her laugh is infectious, her advice is honest, and her commitment to her customers unfaltering.

Michael Nolan has more than 25 years of experience in print and digital media writing, acquisition, project management and content development. He was accountable for acquisition and management of 15-20 projects per year—including a number of bestselling books—for Peachpit Press, an imprint of Pearson, the world’s largest educational publisher. Michael is also an entrepreneur, co-founding a San Francisco digital publishing studio with subsequent successful 8-year independent design business.