Romi mahajan
Chief Marketing Officer
Ascentium Corp.
Romi Mahajan is chief marketing officer of Ascentium Corp. Before joining Ascentium, he spent seven-plus years at
Microsoft, where his last role was as director of technical audience and platform marketing. Mr. Mahajan is widely
published in the areas of technology, politics, economics, and sociology.
Vish makhijani
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Yahoo! Search Group
Vish Makhijani is a seasoned search executive with more than eight years in the industry, leading consumer and
advertiser search businesses on a global scale. His areas of responsibility include the core Yahoo! Web Search products
and vertical destinations: Yahoo! Travel, Local, Shopping, and Personals. Previously he was vice president of Yahoo!
Search Marketing International and International Monetization. Earlier he was vice president and general manager of
Yahoo’s consumer international search business. Before joining Yahoo!, Mr. Makhijani was vice president and general
manager of Inktomi. Under his leadership, the Inktomi web search business experienced continued growth, gained
significant traction for its paid inclusion programs, and made innovative technology enhancements to its search
technology. Before his role in web search, Mr. Makhijani headed Inktomi’s investor relations program. Before joining
Inktomi, Mr. Makhijani was with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the company’s New York Metro and Silicon Valley
practices.
om malik
Founder, Giga Omni Media, Inc.
Executive Editor, GigaOM.com
Om Malik has more than 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news. Most notably,
he was a writer at Red Herring, then went on to be part of the founding team of Forbes.com as a senior editor.
Most recently, he was a senior writer for Business 2.0 magazine, where he covered telecom and broadband stories.
His contributions have been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and MIT Technology Review. Mr.
Malik is the author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist. He is also the recipient of many industry
awards, including Excellence in Journalism from the SPJ and the Gold Award from the American Society of Business
Publication Editors, both in 2001. He is the founder of Giga Omni Media, the company behind popular blogs such as
GigaOM, New TeeVee, Web WorkerDaily, Earth2Tech, and OStatic.
sean maloney
Executive Vice President
General Manager, Sales and Marketing Group
Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Intel Corp.
Sean Maloney, who joined Intel in 1982, began his career in the company’s European headquarters where he served
nine years, first as Intel UK’s manager of applications engineering, then as country manager of Intel UK and director
of marketing for Intel Europe. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Maloney served as technical assistant to the company’s
chairman and chief executive, Dr. Andrew S. Grove. Mr. Maloney moved to Hong Kong in 1995 to manage Intel’s sales
and marketing activities in Asia Pacific, and returned to the U.S. in 1998 to become head of Intel’s worldwide sales
organization. He was promoted to senior vice president in 1999 and executive vice president in 2001. He took over as
head of Intel Communications Group later that year and became co-manager (with David Perlmutter) of the Mobility
Group in 2004. Mr. Maloney was appointed chief sales and marketing officer in 2006. He is a director of the National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Inc.
