Melinda's grandmother told her she was disruptive with her first business, age 5. She is an entrepreneur, proven C-level executive and award winning journalist who has mastered just every job in news, across TV, radio, print and web. My career spans The Times of London, BBC, ABC News, MSNBC, Financial Times, CNBC and Capitol News Connection, the news agency she founded 9 years ago as its CEO. She's driven ratings, revenue and results.

Craig is an innovator and 'hands on' technologist and brings deep product development and strategy to NewsiT. Craig excels at building and running technical teams, managing full lifecycle product development, providing hands on development and user experience design, and pragmatic leadership in lean/agile development methodologies. Craig is a founder of multiple start-ups, including Upthought, Bracketeers, Barrel of Jobs.

Matt is a 20-year expert in digital advertising, social media and technology, and has sold or managed teams selling $2.5bn in digital / mobile ad revenue in past 13 years. His career spans Sesame Workshop, Hulu, NBC, CNET and AOL, where he led the 160-strong sales team and handled $1bn in sales revenue. In 2009 the AOL team was ranked #1 for quality sales by 200+ agency executives. He has founded 4 companies.

David is an enterprise data architect and expert in predictive markets, SEO, SoA and analytics, who has driven results at Plum Choice, State St. Bank, Pzifer, Paine Webber, Gartner Group, ProFlowers and DoubleClick.

Bruce is a seasoned media executive, most recently the top news executive in the Publishing Division of Media General Inc. He was a regional publisher, where he led the transition of a group of daily and weekly newspapers to digital media.