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David Carter, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Awareness
David provides the overall technology direction of Awareness and consults with our customers to align their internet strategy with their corporate objectives. David founded WebPartz Inc. which was acquired by iUpload in March of 2003. Prior to forming WebPartz, he spent 11 years at Microsoft where he had held various positions including Manager of Internet Strategy, Marketing Manager Knowledge Management, Content Management, and eCommerce products. In each of these roles he worked closely with large corporations rolling out the Microsoft platform and developing a business strategy. His last role was as Internet Strategy Manager where he oversaw sections of microsoft.com and Microsoft Canada's Intranet. Rate this Speaker |
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Barry Libert, Chairman, Mzinga
As the Chairman of Mzinga, Barry Libert uses his more than 25 years of executive and company leadership experience and his status as an acclaimed industry speaker and visionary to further awareness of the importance of social media in helping enterprises to solve business needs and remain competitive in a rapidly changing world. The founder and CEO of one of Mzinga's predecessor companies, Shared Insights, Mr. Libert was one of the first in the industry to recognize and promote the value of communities and Web 2.0 technologies in enabling enterprises to communicate and collaborate. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book "We Are Smarter Than Me". He has also co-founded and sold two successful businesses. Mr. Libert is a graduate of Tufts and holds an MBA from Columbia. Rate this Speaker |
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David Needle, West Coast Bureau Chief, Internetnews.com
David Needle is West Coast Bureau Chief for InternetNews.com based in San Francisco. His main areas of coverage are Web 2.0, Search and Mobile. Dave is a veteran Silicon Valley reporter, having covered numerous product launches dating back to the first IBM PC and Apple's Mac. He's also written about hundreds of startups and established tech companies and covers major industry events. In his spare time, Dave's a big NBA fan and runs a 3on3 basketball league on the weekend. Rate this Speaker |
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Connie Bensen, Community Manager, Network Solutions
Connie Bensen is a key voice amongst Community Managers. Her blog is recognized as a leading resource for those involved in community building. She is presently working with Network Solutions. She also provides Community Manager training & mentorship to those interested in building community. She recently served as a Community Manager for ACDSee. Her initiative and motivation in exploring & employing social media tools & concepts brought them a new niche market that is growing exponentially. During this time she created a vibrant niche community with her sister.
She blogs at ConnieBensen.com, MarketingTwo.com, & SolutionsArePower.com. She is also the editor of Personal Branding Magazine. Prior to joining ACD Systems, Bensen spent 7 years on the brick and mortar side of community building - public library administration, marketing & PR. Rate this Speaker |
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Darin Wolter, Senior Vice President, Sales - Western Region, Marketwire
Darin Wolter is Marketwire’s senior vice president western region sales. Formerly a sales executive with Thomson Financial’s Corporate Group (Thomson), Darin leads Marketwire’s sales efforts in the western region of the US. While at Thomson, he held key sales management positions including vice president and most recently, managing director of Thomson’s Outbound Sales group – the organization responsible for taking the company’s website hosting, webcasting and online communications services to market. Darin also was responsible for managing the sales component of Thomson’s relationship with PR Newswire. He earned his BA in English from Miami University of Ohio in 1995. Rate this Speaker |
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Francois Gossieaux, Partner, Beeline Labs
Francois Gossieaux is a co-founder and partner at Beeline Labs, a marketing Innovation firm and President of Corante, a social media publishing company. Prior to Beeline Labs and Corante he was consulting on marketing and social media, involved with BlogBridge, and the founder of Synopia, Inc., a product innovation focused software startup. Before that he spent 5 years leading marketing, product management and strategy at eRoom Technology, a collaboration software company which was sold to Documentum in 2002. Francois has a long history with online and marketing – having implemented an Intranet for a large multinational in the early 90's; and being the organizer of the first large scale virtual event – InterAct'96 – with Time Magazine and Infoworld. He has used blogs for grassroots political and environmental activities, and is currently blogging at emergencemarketing.com and for the Marketing 2.0 blog (www.marketingtwo.com) Rate this Speaker |
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Mark Yolton, Senior Vice President, SAP Community Network, SAP
Responsible for the SAP Developer Network (SDN), the ecosystem of developers, enterprise architects, sys admins, and (SI and ISV) partners that surrounds and extends the core SAP environment. SDN is online at http://sdn.sap.com/. Also responsible for the Business Process Expert (BPX) community at SAP. Together, these virtual communities exceed one million members, are extremely active, growing fast, influential, and are examples of Web 2.0 and social networking best practices for the enterprise (Enterprise 2.0). Also responsible for community events including SAP TechEd (four major events on three continents) and SAP Tech Tour (50 events on six continents). Together, these events attract ~30,000 community members to connect, collaborate, and co-innovate with SAP. Previously: Senior Director of Oracle Web Marketing, with responsibility for Oracle.com and prior to that with PeopleSoft.com and previousl Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for Sun Microsystems. Rate this Speaker |
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Robin Carey, CEO, Social Media Today
Robin Fray Carey is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Media Today, LLC, founded in 2007. Social Media Today LLC helps global organizations create purpose-built, B2B social communities designed to achieve specific, measurable corporate goals by engaging exactly the customers and prospects they most want to reach.
Prior to Social Media Today, Ms. Carey founded and managed Custom Publishing Group, a content publishing and sales development company that collaborated with publishers and their clients to produce printed and online articles, web conferences, and pod-casts.
CPG’s seventeen-year history of working with marketing executives, most recently with BusinessWeek magazine, provided Robin with strong insight into the most efficient use of communications tools on topics ranging from enterprise software to CRM, corporate compliance to corporate volunteering, from business energy needs to business risk management. Rate this Speaker |
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Edward Moran, Director of Product Innovation, Deloitte Services LP
Ed is a Global TMT subject matter expert for Technology, and he provides TMT companies with consultative assistance in securing financing, strategic planning, product innovation, market segmentation, competitive positioning, and industry analysis.
Ed also is also a Tri-State leader of the venture capital practice, and leads the Nanotechnology Industry Practice and Convergence teams in New York.
Ed is a member of the National Academies’ National Nanotech Initiative (NNI) Review Committee, which was chartered by Congress to evaluate the National Nanotechnology Initiative program. Specifically, Ed and the committee have been asked by Congress to evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the multi-agency NNI program, to recommend new or revised goals and metrics, to analyze the relative position of the United States in this growing field, and to analyze the impact of nanotechnology on the U.S. economy.
Ed is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Selection Advisory Committee, and the Nanotech Working Group of the US Council for International Business. Rate this Speaker |
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Dr. Jim McGee, Director, New Shoreham Consulting
For over 30 years, I've helped executives and organizations become more effective by making better use of information and communications technology. I've attacked these problems as an entrepreneur, senior executive, professor, author, blogger, speaker, systems developer, designer, and consultant. Today, I work with senior executives in organizations to formulate, structure, and solve problems in the effective use of information technology in complex knowledge work settings. Previously he was the Founding Partners of Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Fellow at Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation.
Senior technology consultant Andersen Consulting, Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Electronic Commerce at Kellogg School of Management. He holds a Doctor’s Degrees in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, MBA is in Strategy, Harvard Business School and Undergraduate degree in Statistics from Princeton University. Rate this Speaker |
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Scott Wilder, GM - Online Communities at Small Business Division, Intuit
Scott K. Wilder is the GM for Intuit`s Small Business Online Communities. Before joining Intuit, Scott was the VP of Marketing and Product Development at KBToys and eToys, the director of Internet services at Borders.com and Apple Computer, and has held senior management positions at American Express and Silicon Graphics. Scott worked on the following online communities: eWorld at Apple, Borders Cafe at Borders.com, KBToys Community at KBToys.com. Scott also is a board member of the Word of Mouth Association (WOMMA) and the Society of New Communications. He received graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University, New York University and Georgetown University.
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Sean O'Driscoll, Ex GM MVP Program, Microsoft
Sean O'Driscoll is the Ex-Global Manager for CSS and the MVP Award Program at Microsoft Corporation. As the Global Director, Sean was responsible for the worldwide team that identifies, awards, and engages over 3500 MVPs spanning over 90 Microsoft technologies and in over 90 countries. Sean is a 15 year Microsoft veteran who recently left to form his own strategy consulting business focused on Social Media, community and influencer initiatives. In his most recent role at Microsoft, he was the general manager of community support services, where for the past 5 years he was responsible for leading the Web 2.0 strategy across Help and Support, focused on influencer engagement, user generated content, and integration with customer listening systems.
Before joining Microsoft, O'Driscoll graduated from Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR (1992) with degrees in Business and Philosophy. Rate this Speaker |
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Chris Carfi, Co-Founder, Cerado
Chris had the opportunity to work on a bunch of cool things over the years including heading up a killer team that developed information management and data visualization systems for the Indy Car circuit, developing advanced underwriting systems to help financial institutions better manage their financial risk, and being one of the original members of the board of directors for RosettaNet, the premier standards body for process integration across the electronics industry. As co-founder of Cerado, we work with companies to help them to understand what their customers are thinking (by doing crazy things like going out and having conversations with those customers). We also help our clients understand what their competitors are doing, so they can thwart them at every turn. Most of our customers turn to us for services such as Win/Loss Analysis and Competitive Intelligence. Chris has spent the last six or so years working with organizations to help them better connect with their customers at a real, non-synthetic level. Hence the interests in things like blogs, wikis, and social networks. Rate this Speaker |
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Colin Browning, Director of Business Development, Mzinga
Colin's team builds relationships with key agency partners to bring social media to leading brands through indirect channels. Colin has been successfully directing the online marketing efforts of leading brands for over 15 years by leveraging innovative methods for engaging online audiences. Prior to Mzinga, Colin led the business development efforts at Prospero Technologies, where he also served as the official Mad Scientist of the company’s Social Media Labs.
Earlier in his career, Colin led the online marketing efforts at InfoUSA’s OneSource, where he developed paid search strategies and technologies to track website traffic. Colin holds a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Bates College and is an alumnus of the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Rate this Speaker |
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Darius Miranda, Customer Content & B2B Social Media Manager, Wells Fargo
Darius is Customer Content & B2B Social Media Manager for Wells Fargo Bank, Wholesale Internet & Treasury Solutions. He joined Wells Fargo in 2005. He manages customer support content, demos and tutorials on the Commercial Electronic Office® (CEO®) Portal. In the B2B social media space, he manages a customer blog and online community for CEO Portal customers. Rate this Speaker |
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Daya Baran, President, WebGuild
A chance meeting in university with Bill Gates, co-Founder of Microsoft, sparked an interest in the Web for me that still continues today. Mr. Gates talked about Gopher and how one day it will connect the entire universe. I was fascinated and believed that Microsoft was the company that was going to own the Web. I invested every penny I had in MSFT and before long had to take time off university to manage my portfolio. I learned everything I could about Microsoft, its technology, and how Wall Street valued tech companies. I became a sales person for a tech focused fund and took the sales from $0 to $181 million in nine months. Within a year with assets of over $1 billion, the company was acquired. I continued to invest in emerging Silicon Valley tech companies such as Juniper, Exodus, Infospace, Brocade, and Webex. Later, I started a series of startups in online money management, storage, and music recommendation but they were ahead of their time and never got much market traction. Today, I run the WebGuild whose mission is to organize information and services for Web professionals. I am a great believer in the power of the Web, its ability to empower and positively impact people, and make the world a better place. Rate this Speaker |
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Gary Stein, Director of Strategy, Ammo Marketing
Gary joined Ammo Marketing in 2006 as Director of Strategy. Previously, he was the Senior Advertising Analyst at Jupiter Research, and prior to that, Senior Strategist at Red Sky Interactive. In fact, Gary has been involved in next-generation marketing and advertising since 1994, when someone installed NCSA Mosaic on his Macintosh and he began to explore the Web. Shortly thereafter, Gary developed one of the first industry conferences focused on interactive marketing.
Throughout his career, Gary has worked with some of the biggest brands in consumer marketing (P&G, Nike, Lands’ End, HP, Playstation, and more) as well as a few tiny little start ups with a lot of heart and a great need for guidance.
Gary has frequently appeared in the media, providing analysis and insight into the world of marketing, including the New York Times, The Wall St. Journal and spots on NPR, CNN and BNN. Currently, Gary writes the “CMO” column for the online marketing journal ClickZ, which appears every other Monday. Rate this Speaker |
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LaSandra Brill, Manager, Web & Social Media Marketing, Cisco
LaSandra Brill is a social media enthusiast, avid blogger and marketing innovator. As Manager of the Service Provider Web & Social Media Marketing group, LaSandra Brill shapes Cisco’s marketing strategy to include a mix of social media marketing techniques leveraging web 2.0 technologies. LaSandra is an Ezine expert author and authors a blog, Marketing in a Web 2.0 World, where she explores how marketing is changing for B2B companies with the rise of social media and Web 2.0. She has ten years of technology marketing, communications, and web strategy experience. Before joining Cisco, she held marketing management positions at Mirapoint and AppStream.
LaSandra holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Management from San Jose State University. You can view her LinkedIn profile here:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/lasandrabrill. Rate this Speaker |
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Lauren Coberly, Director of Worldwide Marketing, Kodak Direct
Lauren Coberly is Director of Worldwide Marketing for Kodak Direct, Eastman Kodak’s online consumer business. In this role, Lauren is responsible for developing and executing the online marketing strategy and activities in the Americas and EAMER regions. This includes management of the company’s current SEM/SEO efforts and defining the next generation of thinking around these and other online practices.
Before Kodak, Lauren managed Market Development and Public Relations for Hewlett-Packard’s consumer direct business. With HP, Lauren strategically built out and grew marketing and online sales through key partner programs and managed the P&L for this significant piece of the business. Lauren was with HP for 8 years, during which time she also played a pivotal role in integrating key ecommerce marketing programs during the HP/Compaq merger. Rate this Speaker |
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Liz Miller, Vice President, Programs & Operations, CMO Council
Liz Miller oversees the daily operations of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and its special interest networks including the Coalition to Leverage and Optimize Sales Effectiveness (CLOSE), the Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME), and the BPM Forum and its interest groups, the Competitive Strategy Roundtable, GREEN and Software Economics Council. With the CMO Council, Miller has overseen the development of research ranging from customer loyalty and affinity focused “Profitability From Customer Affinity” initiative to the development of the CLOSE community and the benchmark research on sales and marketing alignment in Closing the Gap: The Sales and Marketing Alignment Imperative. Miller was also part of the team to develop the CMO Council’s Individualized Relationship Marketing (IRM) Center, launched along with the Council’s acclaimed Power of Personalization research. Rate this Speaker |
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Matt Warburton, Director, Community Management, Yahoo!
Matt is currently Director of Community Management for Yahoo– supporting products such as Groups, Messenger, Profiles, and Mail. Matt’s team is responsible for community input/advisory panels, product blogs, community events, and engagement programs. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Matt spent 8 years working for eBay. While at eBay, Matt managed several components of eBay’s Community Management team – input programs, events, and forums. Rate this Speaker |
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Michael Brito, Social Media Strategist, Intel
Michael Brito is a Social Media Strategist for Intel Corporation focusing on the consumer segment. He blogs, communicates and builds relationships with other people. He uses Twitter actively. He believes that marketing is good; and if you love your customers they'll love you back and tell other people about it. He believes that business results are critical but should not be the driving force behind connecting with people. He believes in being real, authentic and human. He believes that consumers are real people with real passions; and that marketers should start treating them that way. He is a recovering direct marketer and has worked for companies such as Sony Electronics, Hewlett Packard and Yahoo! He is on the Interim Board of Directors for the Social Media Club; an adviser for Izea; a member of the Blog Council and sometimes even blogs there. He is also the founder of Conversations Matter (yet another blog about social media). Rate this Speaker |
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Mike Walsh, CEO, Leverage Software
As a pioneer in Online Communities, Mr. Walsh has been instrumental in developing enterprise business solutions for social networking including sales lead generation, word of mouth marketing, employee recruitment and performance solutions, alumni networks, and corporate and media brand building. Prior to founding Leverage Software, Mr. Walsh was co-founder and Vice President of Sales at mvion and Vice President of Sales and Business Development for ProjectArena which develops professional services automation applications to improve productivity and profitability of services organizations. Mr. Walsh holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and MBAs from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and Columbia University. Mike was hit by lightning in a cemetery during high school, which has nothing to do with his career, but makes for a pretty good story over a beer. Rate this Speaker |
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Naomi Cooper, Vice President of Marketing, 1-800-DENTIST
As Vice President of Marketing for 1-800-DENTIST, Naomi oversees a variety of properties, including 1-800-DENTIST, Patient Activator® and GoAskFred.com. Since joining the company in December of 2000, she has been instrumental in developing the creative vision that drives the organization's business-to-business and business-to-consumer marketing strategies. Naomi leads a talented creative staff responsible for developing the innovative marketing approaches that have enabled the company to expand its customer base, maintain the strength of its many brands, and forge key strategic partnerships with thought leaders and industry experts. Rate this Speaker |
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Peter Guagenti, Vice President, Client Partner, Razorfish
Peter Guagenti is Vice President, Client Partner at Razorfish. Peter oversees a group of accounts, where he works with clients to create integrated and engaging marketing experiences, backed by clear customer insight and informed through measurement, that meet the goals of their business and their brand. Mr. Guagenti has over 13 years of experience in digital marketing. He has led clients throughout his career to engage in social marketing; starting in the early days of web communities through to today’s social media explosion. Rate this Speaker |
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Rajiv Parikh, CEO, Position2
With 20 years of sales, marketing and entrepreneurial experience, Rajiv is CEO of Position2, a VC-backed search and social media marketing marketing firm. He is Co-Founder and Board Member of Apieron Biosystems. He founded and grew the AltaVista Business Solutions Group to $40 million in revenues. He also led Marketing and Business Development groups at 4Info, Sun Microsystems, NCR, and AT&T. Rajiv has a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. Rajiv is a frequent speaker at industry events on marketing and management. Rate this Speaker |
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Reshma Kumar, Vice President, WebGuild
Reshma is the Vice President of the WebGuild. Reshma is also the User Experience Design Manager for VeriSign where she is responsible for defining the creative online brand of VeriSign's global family of internal and external Web sites. Prior to joining VeriSign, Reshma was at Intel, eBay, and Cisco. Reshma writes for the WebGuild Blog. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Ryerson University, Certificate of Completion in Project Management Mastery from Stanford University, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Information Systems Management at Harvard University. Rate this Speaker |
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Shel Holtz, President, Holtz Communications
Shel Holtz, ABC (Accredited Business Communicator), is principal of Holtz Communication + Technology. His clients have included Intel, Sears, PepsiCo, Petrobras, Aetna, John Deere, Manulife Financial, Hewitt Associates, General Mills, USAA, Applied Materials, Symantec, Raytheon, The World Bank, Petrobras, Amdocs, Disney, FedEx, Freescale Semiconductor, The International Monetary Fund, National Geographic, The American Red Cross and Monsanto.
Before forming Holtz Communication + Technology in February 1996, Shel was senior communications consultant and the communications practice leader for Alexander & Alexander Consulting Group in San Francisco, California. Rate this Speaker |
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Shel Israel, Social Media Strategist, Global Neighbourhoods
I write and speak on social media's impact on business and culture. Some of this is conducted in public and some of it is done for companies and private organizations.
In recent times, I have been an editorial contributor to BusinessWeek, Dow Jones and FastCompany. According to Ad Age, ranks this blog #59 on its Power 150 list . I am co-author, with Robert Scoble, of Naked Conversations--how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers, which has been called a seminal book on business blogging. I am working on a second book on the business uses of Twitter.
I follow social media wherever it takes me. On this site, I've interviewed more than 100 people in 35 countries for my Social Media Global Report. I've talked to a diverse group of people, ranging from Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computers to Wael Abbas, who posts hidden camera videos on YouTube showing acts of Egyptian police brutality. My public talks very often discuss the stories and findings of the SM Global Report.
Since 2005, I've been a featured speaker nearly 50 times in eight countries. More than 10,000 people have seen me speak on social media.
I serve on the board of directors for YourTrumanShow, a video blogging startup and as a senior fellow to the Society for New Media Research. Rate this Speaker |
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Sylvia Marino, Executive Director - Community Operations, Edmunds.com Inc.
Sylvia Marino is the Executive Director of Community Operations for Edmunds, Inc. the premier resource for automotive information. She is responsible for managing all consumer-generated content and interaction including forums, blogs, and reviews on the four Web sites that make up the Edmunds Automotive Network: Edmunds.com, Inside Line, CarSpace and Auto Observer. Additionally, Ms. Marino oversee all tools, technology, strategy, management and policies as it relates to our user-generated content and social media initiatives.
Ms. Marino began working with Edmunds since 1996 when the company launched its online community. Before joining Edmunds as a full-time employee, Ms. Marino was an industry consultant who provided guidance on how to build, manage and maintain online communities for a number of companies including Intuit’s QuickBooks, E*TRADE, CBS SportsLine, Forbes, AOL, The Wall Street Journal and Kaiser Permanente. She has been a keynote and presenter at online community conferences around the world.
Earlier in her career, she worked on Wall Street for houses such as Bear Stearns, Inc. and Oppenheimer. Rate this Speaker |
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