Founder, Constant Contact. Randy has been passionate about the small business market for over 15 years, and most notably he founded and bootstrapped Constant Contact (Nasdaq:CTCT), the leading email marketing service for small business and a pioneer in delivering software-as-a-service. An experienced entrepreneur, he has also teamed with a number of companies, including Intuit and IBM, in targeting small businesses.

Principal, Bantam Group. For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor and active director with numerous companies, public and private. Joe has served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change and has served as personal advisor to numerous company presidents. He is currently a member of CommonAngels and a Managing Partner of Brookwood Partners, and was previously a principal in Walnut Venture Associates, all investment groups for early stage companies.

Vice President Product Management, Litle & Co. Jason has a long history of product innovation for privately funded and public companies including Lycos. He currently runs product strategy for Litle & Co who was recently named the fastest growing company in the US by Inc. Magazine.

Joe Chernov is the VP of communications and associate VP of marketing for BzzAgent, an international word-of-mouth media network. He also chairs the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s Member Ethics Advisory Panel and has twice presented to the FTC about the Commission’s forthcoming Advertising Guidelines. Joe is a member of the Haub School of Business (St. Joseph’s University) Thought Leaders Panel, and has lectured on marketing and communications at many of the country’s premier business schools, including Fuqua (Duke), Johnson (Cornell) and Stern (NYU). Under Joe’s marketing leadership, BzzAgent has been featured on Good Morning America, the CBS Evening News, NPR, the BBC, the Wall Street Journal and virtually every business and advertising trade publication. He appeared on the cover of the textbook, Marketing: Real People; Real Choices (Prentice Hall) and authored a chapter for a forthcoming marketing textbook published by McGraw-Hill.

Founder and principal of Ellis Strategies, Inc., a strategic communications firm in Boston, MA. Matt is an award winning journalist with 20+ years of experience in television news including positions as News Director for WBZ-TV in Boston, Head Writer for Good Morning America, News Director for WPRI-TV in Providence and Executive Producer for WCBS-TV in New York. Matt has been honored with an Emmy Award from the New England Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a George Foster Peabody Award from the University of Georgia and he has been recognized for excellence by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Associated Press.