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As founder, chairman, and CEO of Forrester Research, George is one of the most influential thought leaders in the world of business and technology. He is a trusted advisor to executives around the globe, providing context and clarity around the digital disruptions that change the way we live and work. George founded Forrester in his basement 30 years ago. He, along with many talented and passionate colleagues, has built the company into one of the world’s most successful independent research and advisory firms with locations in more than 30 countries. George personifies the Forrester experience and the company’s values with direct, honest advice. “When I meet with a client, I have one mission,” George has said. “To tell them something they don’t know.” Throughout his career, George has made provocative, tenacious, and groundbreaking calls about business and technology. These include the birth of client/server computing, the dot-com implosion, the rise of social computing, the transition from IT to BT (business technology), and the extended Internet connecting the physical world of things to the digital world of information. Most recently, he has described the business opportunities presented by the App Internet, the new computing model combining the power of local devices with the scale of the cloud. “As the Web becomes the AM radio of digital, the mobile App Internet will rise,” George has written. “This market will be dominated by two or three ecosystems - semiclosed worlds built on a closely fitting set of apps, phones, tablets, computers, operating systems, and partners.” George has addressed international audiences in a number of prestigious settings including the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland and Dalian, China; the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference; the SBS Seoul Digital Forum; the United Nations’ “The Net World Order: Bridging the Global Digital Divide” conference; the ICT World Forum @CeBIT; Le Web; Cambridge University; The Commonwealth Club of California, and the Churchill Club. He has also lectured at the MIT Sloan School of Management. George’s analysis has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, and numerous other media outlets. You can read George’s latest thinking on his blog, The Counterintuitive CEO, or on Twitter at @gcolony. George is a graduate of Harvard University.

Douglas Valenti has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors since July 1999 and as Chairman since March 2004. Prior to QuinStreet, Douglas Valenti served as a partner at Rosewood Capital, a venture capital firm, for five years; at McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant and engagement manager for three years; at Procter & Gamble in various management roles for three years; and for the U.S. Navy as a nuclear submarine officer for five years. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he graduated with highest honors and was named the Georgia Tech Outstanding Senior in 1982, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Mike Cotoia is a Member Of The Board Of Advisors at Elon University Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, Chief Executive Officer at TECHTARGET INC, and Board Member at TECHTARGET INC and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. He has worked as Vice President (co-founder) at Hospital Rentals of America dba Totally Mobile; Exec VP:Sales Strategy at TECHTARGET INC; and Director of Sales, East at SANZ. Michael attended Babson College between 1989 and 1993 and St Johns High School Shrewsbury.

Price, an Ad Age Media Maven in 2011, has steered one of the nation’s largest independent media agencies through an unprecedented level of change and growth. His first 10+ years in leading new and emerging media at Empower set a foundation for the last 10+ years as CEO where we have achieved record-breaking revenue growth YOY, created new capabilities with the addition of Digital, Word-of-Mouth Marketing and Creative while earning prestigious industry titles including MediaPost’s Media Agency of the Year and most recently Ad Age’s Agency A-List Standout - the first Cincinnati-based agency to ever receive this national recognition. But Price is more than just a media visionary. He’s an engineer of trust - responsible for spearheading the industry’s first fully transparent programmatic buying solution, ClearTrade® He is also very active in his community, both serving as a Board member and mentor with the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative. He is also on the Board of Trustees for ArtsWave, Board of Directors for REDI Cincinnati, sits on the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Board and is the past Board President for Starfire Council.