Me Ra Koh

Me Ra Koh loves cameras, kids, and empowering women: she spends her life bringing them together. She is the regular photo expert contributor for The Nate Berkus Show on NBC, and her work and photo-recipes have also been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Lifetime Television, and VH1. She is the author of the bestselling book, Your Baby in Pictures; The New Parents’ Guide to Photographing Your Baby’s First Year (Amphoto, 2011).  Her CONFIDENCE Workshops for women have sold out nationwide for the last four years, empowering women to take their creative passion and fly. Me Ra is proud to be one of the SONY Artisans of Imagery, as well as host her annual SOAR! Scholarship Program for aspiring women photographers. She often shares with her audiences how she did not find photography, but photography found her. And then it healed her. She brings her inspiring story to EVO this year.

Twitter: twitter.com/merakoh

Blog: www.merakoh.com/blog/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/MeRa-Koh/209564791813

Miles Ludwig

Miles Ludwig
Vice-President & Executive Producer, Digital Media, Sesame Workshop

Miles Ludwig oversees creative and production for interactive and digital initiatives and has led the design and development of interactive educational experiences and educational software titles for every significant technology-based platform of the last 15 years, including product lines for Mattel, V-Tech, Hasbro, Electronic Arts, Jakks Pacific, Scholastic, Nintendo, and Sony. Miles leads the team that was recently awarded an Emmy (2009), a Webby (2010) and a Peabody award (2010) for the Sesame Street website, sesamestreet.org. He was previously the Creative Director of Elias Arts’ Sound Intelligence Group, and the co-founder of Kirt Gunn & Associates, Inc. (KGA), an interactive advertising agency. At KGA, he led a team that created cross-platform campaigns for Diageo, LVMH, Ford, and Volvo. Miles was educated at Brown University and New York University.

Twitter: twitter.com/sesamestreet

Facebook: facebook.com/sesamestreet

Molly O’Donnell

As the Director of Marketing Communications, Molly O’Donnell drives the strategy, planning and integration for Kinect for Xbox 360 campaigns that help drive awareness, increase consumer engagement and ultimately build the Xbox brand.

With her personal passion to unleash the power of fun of games and entertainment for everyone in the household, Molly admits that Kinect for Xbox 360 is what she has been waiting for since she started working on the first Xbox.   She now has what she calls a “marketing dream job” in helping bring Kinect to life for consumers (in particular Moms) around the world. Since launching Kinect in November 2010, Xbox has sold more than 10 million around the world, and recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest consumer electronics device sold.

Molly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana.  She is married and has a very active eight year old daughter who is thrilled to be an unofficial game tester, and loves to show her friends how “you are the controller” with Kinect.

Twitter: twitter.com/xbox

Blog: xbox.com

Facebook: facebook.com/Xbox

Jason Pollock

Jason Pollock is the director of the award winning documentary ‘The Youngest Candidate,’ which he produced with David Letterman’s company Worldwide Pants and Oscar winner Lawrence Bender. Pollock has worked as a digital producer for a number of celebrities & organizations including Ashton Kutcher, Michael Moore and Rock The Vote. He was ranked in the top 140 most influential pages on Twitter in a report in the NY Times and was also listed by PC Magazine as one of the ‘Top 100 People to Follow On Twitter.’ Jason lives in Los Angeles where he is developing his next movie and working as a digital producer.

Twitter: twitter.com/Jason_Pollock

Blog: JasonPollock.TV

Facebook: facebook.com/JasonPollockTV

Jon Sinclair

As vice president of development and creative services at Harpo Studios, Jonathon Sinclair works to create and promote new shows, series and specials that continue Harpo’s legacy as the most successful production company in daytime talk and expand its content across other platforms. In his role, Sinclair has served as part of the team that developed syndication’s newest hit talk show, “The Dr. Oz Show,” and is also working to launch the upcoming “Nate Berkus Show” this fall. Based at Harpo Studios headquarters in Chicago, he is also responsible for the creative services team that produces episodic promotions and marketing materials for both “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “The Dr. Oz Show.”

Prior to joining Harpo, Sinclair was a writer and producer of special projects at WDTN-TV in Dayton, OH where he was awarded a Regional Emmy and Iris Award. He is also the recipient of multiple Telly Awards.

Twitter: twitter.com/jonnysinc

Andrea Wishom

Andrea Wishom is a Senior Supervising Producer and 17 year veteran of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the number one daytime talk show for the past 24 seasons. She’s produced some of the shows most high profile interviews and highly rated large scale productions (Wildest Dreams Come True, Welcome Home Olympic Athletes, Oprah’s After Oscar Party) In that time she’s also worked on Primetime Specials – “Oprah’s Legends Ball” “Oprah’s Primetime Oscar Special 2010″ and “Christmas at The White House.” Aside from producing memorable and top quality programs for Season 25 (the farewell season of The Oprah Winfrey Show), she also oversees high profile bookings, including headliners, newsmakers, celebrities, best-selling authors and top selling artists. On Sunday nights you might catch a glimpse of her on OWN in the docu-series “Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes.” She considers herself a fan of blogs and is always looking for new ways to combine her love of social media with her television experience. Prior to joining Harpo, she attended The University of California at Berkeley and spent a summer at the famed Radcliffe Publishing Course in Cambridge Massachusetts. Andrea lives with her husband and three children in the Kenwood/Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. She too has a dog, a cocker spaniel named Webster.

Twitter: twitter.com/hydeparkmom

Blog: oprah.com

Maya Bisineer

Maya Bisineer is an entrepreneur and technologist. She is the founder of MeMeTales, a publishing platform and reader app for children’s stories.

Twitter: twitter.com/thinkmaya

Blog: thinkmaya.com

Facebook: facebook.com/thinkmaya

Helen Jane Hearn

Passion: Helen Jane Hearn inspires creative yet practical entertaining at HJEntertains.com. Dayjob: Running Maplevine, a design consultancy. Freetime: Cheesewhizzes, a national cheese club and bocce.

Twitter: twitter.com/HJEntertains

Blog: helenjane.com

Rachael Herrscher

Rachael Herrscher the co-founder of evo Conference and is also the founder of TodaysMama.com, an online media and publishing company founded in 2004. TodaysMama produces regional reference guides for mothers and families and has a presence in 27 markets across the U.S.  Rachael oversees general business operations, new market development, partnerships, and marketing initiatives. Rachael was a finalist for the 2007 Stevie Awards “Best Young Entrepreneur” award, was named one of Utah Business Magazine’s 30 Women to Watch in 2009 and one of the “Top 5 CEO’s you Should Watch on Twitter” by Business Week Magazine. She was also recently featured in the book “UpStarts!: How Gen Y Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business.” Rachael was 1 of 9 women listed in both the 2010 and 2011 v100 as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in Utah to lead a successful startup in the next 5-7 years.

Twitter: twitter.com/todaysmama

Blog: todaysmama.com

Facebook: facebook.com/todaysmama

Jenny Ingram

Jenny Ingram, Jenny On the Spot, isn’t as much “on the spot” as much as she is often IN a spot. Jenny lives near Seattle with her 3 lively kiddos, one equally lively husband, and keeps at least one can of glitter spray in her glove compartment… but not always band aids. She has a passion for coffee, things that sparkle and admits she sometimes snorts when she laughs. Speaking of laughing, she started blogging in 2004. Despite feeling misunderstood and judged by the non-blogging locals, she kept on — because she knew it would be something all the cool kids would be doing! Then in 2008 she discovered a video camera was built into her laptop, and the rest is vlogging history. She is not at all dramatic. In addition to her main blog and review blog, Jenny is an iVillage iVoice, a headline editor with BlogHer.com, and has been a contributing writer here and there and such.

Twitter: twitter.com/jennyonthespot

Blog: jennyonthespot.com

Facebook: facebook.com/jennyontheFB

Jenny Lawson

Jenny is very bewildering. Her personal blog (www.thebloggess.com) is inexplicably popular and has been featured on everything from Forbes to MSNBC (all for ridiculous reasons). She’s been a regular contributor to the online Houston Chronicle since 2006 and also writes a popular parenting column, and a satirical sex column. Her first book “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened” will be published in 2012.

Twitter: twitter.com/thebloggess

Blog: thebloggess.com

Jyl Johnson Pattee

Jyl Johnson Pattee is the founder of Mom It Forward, a successful and influential online community of women. She is also the co-founder of the popular Girls’ Night Out (#gno) Twitter parties, and the co-organizer of the evo Conference. Currently, she sits on the Mom Advisory Council for ONE.org and was named one of Parent Magazine’s Top 10 Power Moms.

Through her Mom It Forward company, Jyl provides unique media opportunities to companies and organizations that want to reach influential moms online. She also consults regularly about using social media to extend brand reach to moms and women. Her current client roster includes brands such as Aveda, Microsoft, Universal Orlando Resort and many more.

In a past life, she was an award-winning copywriter and designer of corporate training programs for Fortune 100 companies. Offline, Jyl is married to @TroyPattee; a mom to two boys; loves large amounts of cheese, dancing, and traveling; and lives in the beautiful Rocky Mountains.

Twitter: twitter.com/jylmomIF

Blog: momitforward.com

Facebook: facebook.com/MomItForward

Meredith Sinclair

Meredith Sinclair M.Ed. is chief blogger/vlogger at Hoo-dee-Hoo.com, a site she calls “a shout out to modern motherhood”.
She also blogs at Chicagoparent.com and writes two monthly columns “Fab. Mama”, and “Ditch the Kids” for Chicago Parent Magazine.
She is also a regular on-air contributor at ABC7 Chicago where she shares tips and tricks for Modern Moms.

Meredith has worked with brands such as AMD, The Oprah Store, Goodbite.com, Hallmark, Mercedes Benz  and Gilt Groupe, where she is currently one of Gilt.com’s  “Gilt-y Moms” sharing style tips and treads for moms and children.

More notably, she was cast as one of 8 “racers” taking part in the first ever Twitter fueled Mercedes Benz race to the Super Bowl in Dallas. She has been quoted in the New York Times, The Chicago Sun Times, and Crain’s Business Chicago. Meredith has a Master’s of Education degree from The University of Dayton and now resides with her husband and two boys on Chicago’s North Shore.

Twitter: twitter.com/hoo_dee_hoo

Blog: hoo-dee-hoo.com

DJ Waldow

DJ Waldow, Blue Sky Factory’s director of community, is known to eat, sleep, breathe, and sometimes dream email marketing. With over six years of experience in the email industry and several in the social media world, DJ’s role is to help clients become better marketers through email marketing and social media. Any conversation that involves the cross-pollination of email marketing (Batman) and social media (Robin) gets DJ pumped. Additionally, discussions that help prospects and clients think about ways to incorporate email marketing and social media into their marketing mix are DJ’s strengths. He can be found speaking at industry events, including the Email Evolution Conference, MediaPost’s Email Insider, MarketingProfs, and Social Fresh. Learn more about DJ’s speaking experience. Connect with DJ via Twitter or on the Blue Sky Factory blog.

Twitter: twitter.com/djwaldow

Blog: socialbutterflyguy.com/

Facebook: facebook.com/djwaldow

Heather Whaling

Heather Whaling fuses strategic thinking, strong writing, and creativity to deliver PR, social media and marketing results to businesses and nonprofits. Drawing on a decade of PR agency experience, Heather is president of of Geben Communication, where she helps organizations implement traditional and digital PR strategies. Named one of the top 30 PR experts to follow on Twitter, Heather has been quoted in Inc Magazine, BusinessWeek and Mashable about technology’s impact on communication and business.

Heather co-moderates the popular PR 2.0 chat (#pr20chat on Twitter), a weekly live discussion exploring social media’s influence on public relations. Additionally, Heather manages her own public-relations blog, frequently contributes to industry publications, and presents to organizations about PR and social media strategies and trends.

Twitter: twitter.com/prTini

Blog: prTini.com

Facebook: facebook.com/GebenCommunication