John Ehmann

Worldwide Director – WebSphere Commerce, IBM

John is responsible for developing and executing the global commerce sales strategies for the WebSphere Brand. John works with multi-national brands to help them in execute their Web strategies and global expansion. John also leads the IBM effort in China to bring multi-national brands to market via their global enterprise Web strategies.

Prior to Joining IBM, John was the senior vice president of services and strategy for Freeborders, managing director in the etail Business Unit of Scient, and an executive with the Limited and Federated Department Stores.

Rebecca Herold

CISM, CISSP, CISA, CIPP, FLMI

Rebecca Herold is an information privacy, security and compliance consultant, author and instructor. Rebecca has over 16 years of compliance, privacy and information security experience, and assists organizations of all sizes with their information privacy, security and regulatory compliance programs. She specializes in risk assessment, gap analysis, policy content development, awareness and training, strategy development and implementation. Rebecca is also an adjunct professor for the Norwich University Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) program. She holds CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, and FLMI certifications and has a B.S. in Math and Computer Science and an M.A. in Computer Science and Education.

Brian Howe

Brian Howe is one of 8thBridge’s co-founders and was most recently the Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to founding 8thBridge, Brian was the head of marketing for Target.com, where he managed Target’s marketing for its online and direct businesses. During his 6-year tenure at Target, Brian increased online revenue by 1,500 percent and helped Target.com become a top three online retailer. Previously, Brian helped Fingerhut.com expand to become the 4th largest online retailer in North America.

Tom Kersten

National Industry Director, Microsoft Advertising

Tom currently drives the retail, telco, and technology industries advertising strategy for Microsoft’s Advertising Platform and Publishers Group. He is a 10-year Microsoft veteran specializing in the retail industry. During his tenure he has designed strategic campaigns for Best Buy, Kohls, JCPenney, Target, and several other Fortune 500 retailers. Tom began his advertising career at age 5 when he appeared in a Log Cabin Syrup ad campaign!

Scott Litman

Managing Director, Magnet 360

Scott Litman is an entrepreneur and visionary leader who has spent nearly 20 years growing fledgling businesses into industry powerhouses. Litman began early, founding Minneapolis-based Imaginet, Inc. just a year out of college. Since those early days, Litman has had an enduring career of entrepreneurial success.

Litman previously was the CEO and Co-Founder of Imaginet, LLC., a regional leader in web development services. With partners Dan Mallin and Skip Gage, Litman sold the business to WPP Group plc, where he became the North America President of connect@jwt (now known as RMG Connect) , one of the worlds largest providers of digital marketing and communication services.

As the Managing Director of Magnet 360, Scott enjoys the opportunity to advise clients on the best uses of integrated marketing services, working with the network to provide fully integrated solutions and advising Magnet’s network partners on how best to build and grow their businesses. Litman serves on the Board of Directors as well as several advisory boards for nearly a dozen organizations. He is also the co-founder of the Minnesota Cup and GetGo where he contributes his time and experience to make Minnesota a better place to build entrepreneurial ventures.

Dale Nitschke

Former President, Target.com

Dale recently served as President of Target.com of Target Corporation and held a variety of merchandising positions with Target Corporation since 1985, including the senior vice president and general merchandising manager for Marshall Fields.

Steve Papa

Chief Executive Officer, Endeca

Steve founded Endeca in 1999 to use innovative technology to solve a long-standing class of business problems that stem from information overload. He has led Endeca to become one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world, with five consecutive years of more than 100% revenue growth.

Prior to Endeca, he was an early team member of Inktomi, the pioneer in large-scale parallel Web search, and worked at Teradata, the world leader in large -scale structured data warehouses.