Stephen Baker The NPD Group, Inc. Vice President		Stephen Baker is the vice president of industry analysis for The NPD Group, a leading provider of market information. He is also the company's primary hardware analyst. Baker was recently ranked as the fifth most influential industry analyst by Adweek Magazines' Technology Marketing. He has been extensively quoted in trade publications such as News.Com, TWICE and CE Visions, as well as business and news publications including Investors Business Daily, Business Week, The Boston Globe, The San Jose Mercury News and The Los Angeles Times. He has presented and served on panels at industry events such as Comdex, RetailVision and E3. Steve has also appeared on the Today Show, CNBC, Fox News and CNNfn. Baker joined NPD when it acquired PC Data Inc. in March 2001. At PC Data, Baker was the principal computer hardware analyst and director of the overall hardware point-of-sale (POS) business. Prior to joining PC Data, he was senior analyst in the distribution channels service at International Data Corporation (IDC). Baker began his career at Staples in 1986, helping to open the first office superstore in the United States and serving in various capacities in the merchandising group for nearly 9 years. Baker received his MBA from Northeastern University and a BSFS from Georgetown University.

Todd Bernhard Computer Link Magazine Contributing Writer		Building on his Computer Engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Mr. Bernhard rose through the ranks at Sun Microsystems during its heyday, from 1988 to 2004, working as a Sales and Technical Trainer, Product Marketing Manager, and Evangelist. During that time period, Mr. Bernhard participated as an exhibitor, attendee, and journalist at many CES, COMDEX, and other tradeshows. Mr. Bernhard's writings have been published in PocketPC Magazine, The HP Palmtop Paper, and Computer Link Magazine. http://www.techny.com/columnists.cfm?person=100

Danny Briere TeleChoice, Inc. Chief Executive Officer		Danny Briere is one of the original modern-day telecom strategists, having advised carriers, vendors, regulators, startups, and governments for more than 20 years. A long-time contributing editor for Network World and columnist and contributor to other leading publications such as Telephony, Telecommunications Magazine, and others, Briere is recognized as one of the most creative and innovative telecom strategists in the industry today. He is respected for his insight into competitive strategies and tactics, industry paradigm shifts, end user requirements, and service and equipment capabilities. Danny's ability to identify noteworthy, new, industry trends, well before the industry as a whole recognizes them, has led to early exploitation of opportunities in wireless networking, home networking, DSL, PON, VoIP, VoD, IPTV, and network-hosted applications. Since founding TeleChoice in 1985, Danny has been intricately involved in some of the largest telecommunications projects in the industry worldwide. As CEO, Danny focuses on strategic positioning issues for customers including mergers and acquisitions, business strategy development, and business development. He frequently appears as an expert guest for industry analysis and commentary at major business and industry events and regularly consults with the leading Wall Street financial brokerage houses, and leading venture capitalist firms. Danny serves on several advisory boards for equipment and carrier ventures. In addition, he is quoted regularly in publications such as USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times. Danny serves on several advisory boards for equipment and carrier ventures, and is a contributing editor and columnist in the industry publication, Network World. In addition, he is quoted regularly in publications such as USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times. He is the co-author with Pat Hurley of Wireless Hacks and Mods for Dummies, HDTV for Dummies, Smart Homes for Dummies, Windows XP Media Center for Dummies, Wireless Home Networking for Dummies, Home Theater for Dummies, Smart Homes for Dummies, Internet Telephony for Dummies -- all by John Wiley & Sons -- as well as Long Distance Services: A Buyer's Guide (Artech House Materials Science Library), Virtual Networks - A Buyer's Guide (Artech/Horizon House) and A Buyer's Guide to Long Distance Services (Telecom Publishing Group). He is also the editor for The Guide to Frame Relay Networking: How to Evaluate, Implement, and Maintain a Frame Relay Network (Flatiron Publishing, Inc.). In addition to his corporate Board duties, Danny also serves on several non-profit advisory boards. He is a member of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Health Communications Advisory Board, which communicates health advisories and disease control programs to the public; a member of the Advisory Board of the Northstar Foundation, which provides assistance dog placement services for children witih autism; and a member of the judging staff for the Connecticut Invention Convention, held annually across the State of Connecticut to promote inventiveness and "thinking outside the box" strategies in children. Danny earned his Master's in Business Administration from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1985, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in telecommunications Policy at Duke University. He has a wife who is a brain researcher, and two sets of twins who keep him busy with debugging computer games and PS3s.

Benjamin Chia elemental8 Chief Creative Officer / Partner		Benjamin Chia, IDSA is the Partner and Chief Creative Officer of elemental8, formerly designafairs USA. He is an experienced and multi-faceted industrial designer capable in all phases of the design process. As a partner and CCO, he mentors and manages the creative staff and develops new business potentials. Benjamin was a design manager at designafairs USA, and then took over the ownership of designafairs USA with his partner Stephen Hooper. Prior to that he was at Pentagram Design as senior industrial designer / project lead since the inception of its San Francisco ID team in 1996. Before Pentagram, Benjamin worked with a number of other leading design firms in US and Asia. Some of his client experience includes: Siemens, HP, Dell, Netgear, Microsoft, Intel, 3com, Gateway, SGI, Nike, Motorola, LG, Samsung, Toshiba, Acer, Compal, Hannstar, and the White House. He is fluent in English and Chinese, facilitating cooperation with international clients and efficiently manages the project to completion. Benjami

Steve Ewing Ewing Design Group President/CEO		Summary: Steven Ewing is the founder and president of Ewing Design Group, a top Southern California medical device, equipment, and consumer product design firm. Mr. Ewing consults with business leaders to help them establish brand identity and brand trust through better products. His philosophy is: "Design gives products emotional appeal, appealing products build strong brands, and strong brands build market share. Design is the only way for a company to make their products different and better than the competition. In today's global marketplace, brand differentiation strategies are crucial to sustainability." Seeing his most critical role as that of an advocate, Ewing's clients not only use his services to implement their product design goals, but to shape future branding goals as well. Past clients have included Stanley, Belkin, IBM, Steelcase, LEGO and Hewlett Packard. Mr. Ewing has been featured speaking about design on PBS and ABC Television, published in international design books and magazines, won international design awards and regularly mentors design students from his alma mater, Cal State Long Beach. Ewing Design Group is a past winner of the 2001 CES Innovations Design & Engineering Showcase Award for the BELKIN Gold Series Mobile Power Cord. Most recently, his firm was a 2007 INDEX: AWARD Top Nominee for the Cybertech MAT Tourniquet, which also won a Gold IDEA2006 Industrial Design Excellence Award from the IDSA.

Lee Goldberg EN-Genius Network Senior Editor		Lee is a senior technology editor at analogZONE.com, an on-line magazine which provides information on technologies, design practices, and products for electronics engineers. He currently edits networkZONE, a section devoted to networking and communication technology, and i/oZONE, which covers interface and interconnect technologies in chip-to-chip, board-to-board, and box-to-box applications. He also edits the green-tech ZONE, a section which covers issues related to technology and the environment. Lee Brings 20+ years of experience in the electronics industry to his second career as a journalist. in 1994, He joined Electronic Design magazine and spent five years there as the communication technology editor. He then joined ChipCenter, an on-line engineering magazine, where also covered communications and networking technology before joining analogZONE.com in March of 2002. His avocation is exploring relationships between technology, society, and the environment. With hands-on experience in alternate energy and energy conservation technologies, Mr. Goldberg has been covering environmental issues within the design community since 1996. His latest book, "Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - A Commonsense Guide To Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management" was recently published by Newnes Press. Lee has also published work in EE Times, Communication Systems Design, IEEE Computer magazine, Wireless Systems Design, New Telecom Quarterly, IEEE Technology & Society, The Princeton Packet, the IrDA Newsletter, and Aviation Art Gallery. Lee, his wife Catherine, and his daughter Anwyn currently reside in the outskirts of Princeton NJ, where they masquerade as a typical suburban family.

Rob Hephner Mouse Consulting President/CEO		Rob Hephner is a modern day Renaissance man, his background includes work as a professional musician, mobile electronics installer, salesman, and as a national training and sales executive. With expertise at the national, regional, and specialist levels of retail as well as experience in the manufacturing and distribution realm, Rob knows how to help people bridge the gap between new technology and understanding. With a 20-year history in automotive electronics including 8 years as the Editorial Director of Car Sound & Performance and Automedia magazines he has also learned the ability to see things from many different angles and levels of appreciation.

Al Hernandez fox News Morning Editor		Al Hernandez has been a consumer electronics review for over 10 years working with Pen Computing, Fox News, CNET and other consumer electronic publications.

David Kaiser Spark Design LLC Senior Consultant		David Kaiser is president of Spark Design, a full service product development consultant firm located in central CT. David has over 20 years of consultancy experience. He has over 70 design and utility patents and has been awarded over 20 design awards. He received a BS in Industrial Design in 1972 and a MBM in Business Management in 2000. His responsibilities include program management and client relationships. David, along with the other principals of Spark Design, specializes in creative product design solutions for domestic and international clients. Product categories include consumer products, consumer electronics, medical, and transportation products.

victor lazzaro Studio RED Vice President of Design		Vic has been fascinated with drawing and building things since about the time he started walking, and a career in Industrial Design was a natural choice. He has since been an Industrial Design consultant for 18 years, and currently is the Vice President of Design at Studio RED. In addition to that role, Vic has marketed his own products, the latest of which, the Keyboard Organizer, won numerous "best of show" awards. Over the years Vic has worked at several design consultancy firms on both Coasts, and has designed products ranging from cell phones to large internet servers to ultra light carbon fiber bicycles. In his current role as VP of Design, he manages a team of designers developing products in many industries including consumer electronics, medical/ surgical, laboratory, and high tech. Vic received the Thomas Lamb Memorial Award and graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a B.F.A.degree in Industrial Design.

Stuart Lipoff IP Action Partners Consultant		Stuart Lipoff is the founding partner of IP Action Partners, a technology and management consultancy based in The Boston Area.<br>My practice focus deals with topics in Consumer Electronics, Communications, Information, Technology, E-Business, and Media.<br>I provide clients with engineering design and consulting services based consulting across a wide variety of industries drawing on base of communications industry and technology expertise. Areas of focus include--public and private network voice and data communications, cable television, cellular mobile radio, broadcasting, security systems, image processing, broadband access technology, internet applications, and consumer electronics.

Gary Merson HDGURU Editor-In-Chief		Gary's 30-year career encompasses many aspects of the consumer electronics industry. In addition to covering the industry as a journalist, analyst and product reviewer, he has calibrated HDTVs, managed a chain of retail consumer electronics stores and consulted for TV manufacturers. In 1999, Merson started The HDTV Insider Newsletter, a subscription-based electronic trade publication. In 2005 the HDTV Insider was awarded the DTV Academy Award by the Consumer Electronics Association for Best DTV Journalism. Gary's articles and equipment reviews have appeared in Home Theater, Popular Science, Sound and Vision, Best and many other publications. Gary also produces a website designed to help consumers understand and choose a high definition television. It is at www.hdguru.com

Joseph Palenchar Twice Magazine Senior Editor		Joseph Palenchar is senior editor of TWICE, This Week In Consumer Electronics, the leading business publication for consumer electronics retailers. He has reported on events in the consumer electronics industry for 25 years and was a reporter for two New Jersey daily newspapers, The Paterson News and the Bergen Record. He was also editor of consumer electronics trade publications Autosound & Communications and CARS and has contributed to consumer publications and Web sites, including Stereo Review, and Four Wheeler.

Benjamin Perez Stereomania SA de CV President		Since I was born, I feel the Music inside of me, because my father was a Musician. At the age of 8 I build my first guitar amplifier, helped by an Audio Engineer, my first satisfaction was that this amplifier sounds. Since that time my life has been rounded by audio and video Technology. I grow up playing my guitar in different kind of music groups and dedicated to the professional audio. After that I have been working on the Audio business, first in the home systems, then in car audio and security systems. I was the fist one bringing the car audio's technology to México, it was great success for me and all the people that came after me. My work in that time was focused to the car audio because of the market's demand, but lately the development of new products and technologies guide me to open my action field to another applications like the Home Theatre and Mobile video. In the nearly years when I note that here in México was not exist any publication about Audio, Video, High End and Technologies for the mexican consumers, I decide to start with a very good friend Lic. Juan Marquez () the project of STEREOMANIA Magazine, a publication dedicated to promote new technologies and innovations between the consumers here in Mexico . I think that more than 30 years in this business and more than 25 years attending to CES have bring me the experience to keep going with technology day by day. I know the CES is my strongest tool to go ahead.

Rob Robinson Concepts Marketing International Bureau Chief		- 37-year veteran of the CE industry. - Multi-faceted senior management background in sales, marketing, product development & operations (Bose, JBL, harman/kardon, Infinity Systems,. Studer/Revox, AMCO Electronics, HTP/Paramount, Rogersound Labs, D

Klaus Rosburg SONIC Design President		Klaus Rosburg is the founder and principal of SONIC Design, a New York based design studio specializing in the development of consumer products, medical instruments and structural packaging.

Chris Shipley Guidewire Group, Inc. Chairman		Chris Shipley is a leading technology and product analyst. Best known as the executive producer of the DEMO Conferences for IDG Executive Forums, Chris has helped technology companies bring over 1,000 new products to market since 1996. As a founding partner and Global Research Director of Guidewire Group, she analyzes emerging technology companies around the world to identify market opportunities and accelerate products to market. Fortune Small Business Magazine placed Chris on its "Top 10 Minds in Small Business," and the San Jose Business Journal named her a "Woman of Distinction." She has often been cited as a leading influencer by Marketing Computers magazine. Chris has covered personal technology since 1984 and has worked as a writer and editor for a variety of technology and consumer media. She is currently working on a book on the social impact of technology-driven change. Chris holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Literature and Communication Arts and pursues knowledge and understanding relentlessly.

Joel Shore Reference Guide Editor and President		Joel is editor-in-chief of Reference Guide, a professional services firm that develops high-quality custom editorial content for technology companies, publications, retail chains, and other media outlets. He is also a popular speaker at industry events, vendor sales meetings, trade shows, and seminars. Prior to founding Reference Guide, Joel was editor-in-chief of ITworld.com, the IDG Web site for IT executives. But he is best known as the co-founder and longtime award-winning director of the Computer Reseller News (CRN) Test Center. And yes, it was Joel Shore who first had the guts to publish a review calling Microsoft's Office 95, "a hoax." Two years later, he pronounced Office 97 "a triumph." Joel has published hundreds of product reviews, penned several long-running influential opinion columns, and is the author of more than a dozen books on personal computing. He has been a guest on many television and radio shows, has hosted hundreds of Internet Webcasts, and is in demand as an entertaining speaker, known for his in-your-face, contrarian opinions. His on-stage antics at Comdex, PC Expo, and other trade shows are the stuff of legend. He has served on the advisory boards and has acted as session track chair for industry trade shows. Joel also served as senior systems analyst at a major Northeastern bank, as director of point-of-sale systems for two national retail chains, as a programmer/analyst, and as a retail merchandise planner. He holds multiple degrees from the University of Connecticut.

Brian Vogel Brian Vogel Consulting President		Brian Vogel has led companies active in product design and development for nearly 30 years. He is a former Navy Officer and has a mechanical engineering undergraduate degree from Penn State and an MBA fro RPI. He has been an engineer with GE, served as Senior VP with Product Genesis (an engineering design firm), President of Altitude (an industrial design firm), and President of Scientific Generics Inc. (an international technology consulting firm). He now runs his own consulting practice serving as a business coach to the owners and principals of engineering and design firms, called Brian Vogel Consulting. Brian is also a former Executive Vice President of IDSA. He has been a CES Innovations judge several times in past years.

Kenneth Wacks Home Systems Consulting President		Dr. Kenneth Wacks has been a pioneer in establishing the home systems industry and a management advisor to more than 100 clients worldwide. Corporate managers depend on Dr. Wacks to identify business opportunities in emerging markets with clear and practical advice relevant for product development and market positioning. His worldview, insights, and expertise are valued by executives for enabling competent decisions on complex technology issues. Clients seek his help to locate strategic business partners, financing, and new customers. Dr. Wacks serves companies of all sizes from startups to the Fortune 500. The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) chose Dr. Wacks to chair the international committee (ISO/IEC) establishing world standards for home and building automation. In addition, he has written American National Standards in home automation. He contributed to the development of standards for networking home appliances under the auspices of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM). The Co