Allen P. AdAmson
Managing Director, New York Office
Landor Associates
Allen Adamson, managing director of Landor Associates’ New York office, is also author of BrandSimple: How the
Best Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed and the forthcoming BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the
Digital World (September 2008). In his new book, Mr. Adamson explains how the ever-evolving digital marketplace
has magnified the basic principles of building a powerful brand. Mr. Adamson has partnered with an array of clients,
including Diageo, Sephora, GE, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Pfizer, and Verizon. He is a sought-after industry
commentator, appearing on CNBC, Fox Business Network, and the Today Show, and quoted in the New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, and USA Today. Mr. Adamson received a BS degree from the Newhouse
School of Communications at Syracuse University and an MBA from the Stern School of Business, NYU.
dAvid Agus
Director, Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
David Agus leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers dedicated to the development and use of proteomic
technologies to guide doctors in making health-care decisions tailored to individual needs. The center grew out of
earlier clinical projects, which revealed striking differences between the aggressiveness of prostate cancer in certain
patients and their ability to respond to treatment, at Cedars-Sinai, where Dr. Agus serves as an attending physician
in oncology. He also serves as research director of the Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center and director of the
Sumner Redstone Prostate Cancer Research Program at Cedars-Sinai, and associate professor of medicine and
molecular pharmacology at UCLA. Dr. Agus’ earlier appointments include attending physician and head of the
laboratory of tumor biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He co-founded Navigenics,
a health-care technology and wellness company, which uses state-of-the-art genetic testing to develop personalized
preventive medicine.
RyAn P. Allis
Co-founder and CEO
iContact
Ryan Allis is co-founder and CEO of iContact, the leading provider of e-mail marketing software. Mr. Allis has built
North Carolina-based iContact to its current size of 95 employees, 25,000 customers, and $15 million in annual sales.
He is the author of the book Zero to One Million: How I Built a Company To $1 Million in Sales and How You Can Too
(McGraw-Hill), which reached No. 1 on Amazon’s business bestseller list.
stewARt AlsoP
Partner
Alsop Louie Partners
Stewart Alsop is a partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital fund focused on helping entrepreneurs start
companies. He was a general partner with New Enterprise Associates (NEA) through 2004 and led that firm’s
investments in companies such as TiVo, Portola Communications (sold to Netscape), Glu Mobile, and Xfire. During
that time, he also wrote a column for FORTUNE. Before joining NEA, Mr. Alsop was editor in chief of Info World,
a weekly newspaper for information-technology professionals. He also published PC Letter, a fortnightly newsletter
for computer industry insiders, and produced the Agenda and Demo conferences for executives of companies in the
computer industry. Before 1985, he served in several executive editorial positions at business and trade magazines,
including Inc. magazine. Mr. Alsop graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles.
