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Patricia Gottesman
Principal
Gottesman LLC

Gottesman advises media and technology companies on profitable growth strategies in both the content and distribution arenas as principal of her own consulting firm, Patricia Gottesman LLC. Her client roster includes the largest US cable MSO, as well as a variety of online, TV and print content and distribution brands. Gottesman also advises domestic and international technology start-ups on business and product strategy.

Over a 28-year career with Cablevision Systems Corporation, Gottesman created and managed the Optimum TV, iODigital TV, Optimum Online Broadband and Optimum Voice consumer and business products with P&L responsibility for a $5 billion revenue business. During Gottesman’stenure, Cablevision’s Optimum brands achieved the highest domestic and international product penetrations and share for TV, broadband and voice products in the cable, satellite and telecom industries.

Gottesman received the 2007 NCTA Vanguard award, the cable industry’s highest award for Marketing Excellence. Other career acknowledgements include: 2007 Advertising Age Woman to Watch; 2006 CableWorld’sMost Powerful Women in Cable (#9;) 2006 Multichannel News/WICT Wonder Woman; 2006 CTAM National Summit Chair; two NATAS Emmy Awards for Interactive Television (2003,2004;) multiple CTAM Mark Awards.

Gottesman is a Managing Director with the Golden Seeds angel investors’ forum, investing in entrepreneurs of female-owned and/or managed start-up businesses.

Michael Quigley
VP, Business Development & Multi-Platform Distribution
Turner Broadcasting System

Michael Quigley is vice president of business development & multi-platform distribution for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., focusing on initiatives such as TV Everywhere, Interactive Television, Connected Devices, Content Search & Navigation and traditional digital businesses - which include broadband syndication, gaming, and electronic sell-through. Quigley is based in Atlanta and reports to Jeremy Legg, senior vice president of business development & multi-platform distribution.

Within his role, Quigley evaluates new IP video distribution technologies, develops advance video products, cultivates partnerships with consumer electronic manufacturers, and develops associated new business models with both internal and external constituencies.  He also serves as the primary liaison between Business Development and Animation, Young Adults, & Kids Media. Most recently, Quigley was executive director of business development.

Since joining Turner in 2006, Quigley has been responsible for developing and executing all non-linear platform distribution for the Turner properties across broadband and interactive television.  He has served as a leader in the TV Everywhere effort - which spans across technology platform initiatives to advertising models to new distribution technologies - as well as in the distribution of Turner’s first Interactive Television application.

Prior to joining Turner, Quigley was the vice president of business development and strategy for DMX MUSIC.  In this role, he was responsible for the distribution of DMX MUSIC’s Asia Pacific pay TV music channels, execution of the company’s digital music business plan and the sale of the company to a private investor group.  Before DMX MUSIC, Quigley served as director of business development for Liberty Digital, Inc., and as manager of strategic planning for Time Warner, Inc. 

Quigley earned a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Rice University and a masters of business administration from Stanford University. 

Turner Network Sales (TNS), a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), is responsible for the sales and marketing of Turner Broadcasting’s 10 domestic basic cable networks – TBS, CNN, Headline News, TNT, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, CNN International, CNN en Español, Boomerang and truTV – to cable and satellite affiliates and special markets throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.

Michael Bishara
SVP
HBO Broadband

Michael Bishara is senior vice president, HBO Broadband, for Home Box Office, responsible for the overall strategy and development of broadband products.  He was named to this position in March 2007.  
Previously, he was vice president, Product Development, responsible for all new product developments and their deployment.

Bishara began his career at HBO in 1998 as a Marketing manager.  That same year he was promoted to director, Marketing and Programming, where he was responsible for HBO and Cinemax marketing and packaging to the C-Band satellite market.

In 1999, he moved to Interactive Ventures, where he was responsible for online business development and e-commerce. Under Bishara, Interactive Ventures launched the HBO.com store, HBO’s first integrated e-commerce consumer site.  He later was promoted to vice president, Interactive Ventures, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic planning for HBO’s consumer websites – HBO.com and Cinemax.com. In March 2003, Bishara’s responsibilities were shifted to the rollout of HBO On Demand and Cinemax On Demand, the company’s two SVOD services.

Before joining HBO, Bishara was a Marketing manager for Time Inc., responsible for retail marketing strategies at Time Magazine. He also worked at AT&T in the Advanced Network Solutions area.

Bishara holds a BA in Sociology and a MBA in Marketing Management from the University at Buffalo.