DOMAINfest New York: Meet The Experts

Adam Epstein serves as President and COO and is responsible for managing day-to-day business operations. Adam joined adMarketplace in November 2003 and was tapped to become President and COO in June 2006. Prior to joining adMarketplace, Adam launched Fancast.com. Trained as an attorney, Adam clerked for a US District Court judge and was an attorney with Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York. Adam graduated from Columbia University and the University of Michigan Law School.

Adam Weiss, Vice President Network Development at LinkShare, leads four distinct, yet related, teams: Publisher Business Development, Publisher Account Management, Network Quality, and Publisher Support. Responsibilities include securing new partnerships while insuring the quality of the LinkShare Network in the US and Canada. Adam has 10+ years experience in online advertising with a specific focus on the Publisher side of the business and has been with LinkShare for six years. Adam earned a BA degree in History at SUNY Buffalo and a MS degree in Internet Technology for E-Commerce at Pace University.

Andrew Allemann is editor of the popular DomainNameWire.com news site. Domain Name Wire was the first blog covering the business of domain names and has been online since 2005. A recognized expert on domains, Andrew has been involved in the domain industry since 1997. He has been quoted in The New York Times online, Sydney Morning Herald, eWeek, and numerous other publications. Andrew graduated with highest honors from The University of Texas with a degree in finance. He has launched numerous startups in Austin as well as worked in the software and telecom industries.

Craig Snyder is the General Manager of Oversee.net’s Registrar and Aftermarket division. He is responsible for management and growth of the company’s SnapNames and Moniker business units. Craig was CEO of Internet REIT and has held senior leadership positions at internet companies Marchex, InfoSpace and Go2Net. Prior to his technology career, Craig was a Managing Director at Citibank and a Territory Director at the Pepsi Cola Company. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.

Dan Ho is the General Manager of Domains for Adknowledge, one of the largest privately-owned ad networks in the United States. In this role, Dan oversees day-to-day operations of domain monetization and traffic quality. AdKnowledge monetizes domains using zero, one, and two click implementations. Prior to Adknowledge, Dan was part of Yahoo’s Domain Channel team, where he worked on keyword optimization and international scalability. Dan was also an Associate with Focus Ventures, a Palo Alto venture firm where he worked on investments in networking and Internet technology. Dan studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley and has an MBA from Stanford University.

David Asplund is an account executive at Zco Corporation, which develops industrial-strength backend applications and apps for all major mobile platforms. He was recently a featured speaker on the topic of Mobile Applications at the National GeoDomain Expo. He has worked to advance mobile strategies for successful geodomains, such as NewOrleans.com, Saratoga.com, Lake George.com, Albany.com and GlensFalls.com. In addition to building software, Zco assists their customers with digital marketing techniques, including Search Engine Optimization, Mobile Websites, Video Marketing, and iAd Development.

David Mason is Senior Vice President of AOL Content Platforms. He joined the company when AOL acquired StudioNow, which he co-founded in 2007 and developed into the world's largest web-based video creation platform.  A veteran technology entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer, he started one of the first Internet bookstores in 1994, which became Buy.com.  David graduated with Honors from Sewanee,The University of the South with a Bachelor's degree in History and also completed courses at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

Elliot Silver is the founder of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a domain acquisition, sales, and monetization company, and Silver Internet Ventures, LLC, a web development company, primarily focused on developing geographic domain names.  Some domain names and websites owned by Silver's companies include Burbank.com, Lowell.com, Bahamas.co, Newburyport.com, Torah.com, NassauHotels.com, DogWalker.com, and many others. Silver is also the publisher of  ElliotsBlog.com, an award-winning domain investment blog. Silver holds a BA from Muhlenberg College and a MS in Direct & Interactive Marketing from NYU.

Frank Langston is Co-President of RootOrange where he focuses on product development and domain owner services.  Root Orange splits domain names by geography to enable a different business in every city to take advantage of the same premium domain.  Before Root Orange, Frank handled monetization of Vehicle IP’s intellectual property portfolio and managed Mr. Pride, a chain of full-service car washes.  His experience spurred him to co-found Root Orange with the purpose of providing small businesses with the power of premium domain names at affordable rates. Frank received his B.A. from Princeton University.

Hui Tam is the Senior Director of Partner Relations for Adknowledge, one of the largest privately-owned ad networks in the United States.  Hui has over 10 years of internet experience, and started her internet career at GoTo.com/Overture Services, Inc. in 1999.  She helped pioneer the domain and error space from the publisher side and worked directly with many key domain owners, parking companies and ISPs.  Prior to joining Adknowledge, she served as Director of North America Business Development and Partnerships Group at Yahoo where she led the Domain and Error Channel’s account management team.  Hui earned a BS degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Southern California.

Jeff Kupietzky is Chief Executive Officer and President of Oversee.net.  Jeff joined Oversee as Executive Vice President, leading the growth of the domain services division, expanding into the aftermarket business, and building Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest. Prior to that, Jeff spent 10 years in executive positions in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies, including Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle). He has an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University.

John Berryhill, Ph.D., Esq. has represented domain name registrants and trademark claimants in numerous UDRP proceedings and federal court proceedings.  John has been a long-time advocate for the rights of domain registrants in ICANN working groups and task forces relating to intellectual property and other domain policy issues, and is a representative in the Registrar Constituency.  Having earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, John maintains a “nerds-eye-view” of issues affecting technology and media companies interested in securing and defending their rights in cyberspace.

Monte Cahn is the Founder of Moniker.com, a top 10 registrar and the leading provider of domain brokerage, appraisal, and escrow services for over 10 years. He has more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare, high-technology and Internet fields. Monte has also owned several businesses and significantly contributed to the successful initial public offerings of Pyxis Corporation and MedicaLogic, Inc. Monte graduated from University of Kentucky with degrees in marketing, biology, and business administration.

Peter Celeste heads Oversee's Monetization Services division, responsible for operations of DomainSponsor, Oversee's Owned and Operated portfolio, and the company's International expansion efforts. Prior to joining Oversee in 2008, Peter was GM of MyCorporation, an online incorporation business in Intuit's small business division. He was also Regional General Manager for Yahoo!'s Search and Search Marketing business in the Americas, a regionally-based organization providing search services in five countries to more than 50 distribution partners and nearly 20,000 marketers. Prior to Yahoo! Search and Search Marketing, Peter spent five years in sales management. He received his MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management.

Reed Shelly has been with Oversee.net for three years and currently heads up the Business Development, Sales and Account Management efforts for their Emerging Businesses division. His responsibilities include Oversee's flagship lead generation website, Lowfares.com, as well as all their efforts in new web site build out. Reed began his online management career at Overture and continued with Yahoo! Search marketing after the acquisition. Previous to his career in the internet space, Reed worked extensively in traditional media, first working as a Television Development Executive at Fox Studios, and then continuing on as a Development Executive, Supervising Producer, Story Editor and Writer. 

Roderick “Roddy” Moon is a Senior Vice President in the Media Investment Banking Group at Jefferies and leads the firm's east coast digital media efforts.  With over 13 years of experience in investment banking and private equity, Roddy specializes in the digital media, e-commerce, and interactive content & services sectors where he focuses on providing M&A advisory and capital markets services to high-growth companies.  Prior to joining Jefferies, he was a Vice President at Allen & Company where he was responsible for M&A and private placement transactions for digital media and traditional media companies, including the sale of NexTag to Providence Equity.  Previously, Roddy has held positions with the Financial Sponsors Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch, TenX Capital Partners, and GE Equity. He received an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BA with honors from Harvard University.

Todd Greene is Oversee.net's Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary responsible for all legal, policy and compliance matters for Oversee and its operating companies. He previously served as General Counsel for all of Oversee's domain-related businesses. Prior to joining Oversee, Todd was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Bingham McCutchen LLP specializing in M&A transactions, venture capital and debt financings, and general corporate work. He has represented a large number of private equity firms and public and private companies across a number of different industries and in all stages of development. Prior to joining Bingham, Todd practiced law at two other national law firms in New York City. Todd has a B.S. from Cornell University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Tom Rusling, Business Development at MediaWhiz, has ten years of online experience, including web entrepreneur, Marketing Director (SkyAuction.com), and seven years of progressive search marketing, link building, online reputation management, and strategy consulting experience.  He has worked with an array of VC startup and established companies, including Turner Broadcasting, Conductor, ThisNext.com, Text Link Ads, and Kaplan, Inc.  Tom combines in-depth knowledge of online marketing along with the business strategy insights honed through his MBA studies at the University of Rochester Simon School to provide businesses with key guidance on strategic approaches to traffic generation, site monetization, and conversion/usability enhancement.