Thursday, March 8th, 2018

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Session B:  Prague Room A, 3rd Floor

Influencer and Brand - Establishing the Social Conversation, Personal Mission and Collaborative Experience

Katharina Kowalewski, Founder & Owner, Network KO

Greta McAnany, Award-Winning Filmmaker and founder, Blue Fever, Inc.

Roland Hamilton, Chief Revenue Officer, Kin Community

Lisa Tawil, VP of Marketing and Communications, ITVS (Independent Television Service, Funded by Corporation for Public Broadcasting)

Lyle Stevens, Co-Founder & CEO, Mavrck

Katie Lavin, Executive Marketing Strategist

Moderator, Karinna Karsten, CEO, Love TV

Roland Hamilton, Chief Revenue Officer, Kin Community: As Kin Community’s first-ever CRO, Roland Hamilton is focused on accelerating revenue growth and building out Kin’s world class sales organization. Hamilton was previously VP of Sales and Marketing for XO Group, a family of brands that includes The Knot, the #1 wedding brand in the US. In his role at XO Group, he managed a national digital and print ad sales and branded content team working with Fortune 500

clients. Prior to XO Group, he led the US as the Managing Director of digital video site and YouTube competitor Dailymotion (acquired by Vivendi). A proven leader throughout his career, Hamilton has held senior sales and management roles at Beliefnet (a News Corp. company), NBC Internet, DoubleClick and CBS. He’s an active member of the Advertising Club of New York’s i’mPart diversity action committee and an advisory board member of Silicon Valley video machine learning company Vilynx. He lives in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood with his wife and two sons.

Lyle Stevens, Co-Founder & CEO, Mavrck: A self-described data geek and hacker, Lyle Stevens is the co-founder and CEO of Mavrck. Under Lyle’s leadership, Mavrck has secured dozens of Fortune 500 customers, including P&G, Keurig Green Mountain, and Godiva. The company also won the “Innovative Technology of the Year in Sales & Marketing” award by MassTLC, and created a stellar culture of "curious hustlers," earning Entrepreneur’s "25 Best Small Company Cultures" of 2015. Prior to founding Mavrck, Lyle held several management roles at Raytheon, including identity services lead and information technology project manager. He graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Greta McAnany is an award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur. After experiencing extreme gender bias in Hollywood, she co-founded the text message video discovery service for Gen Z/Millennial women: Blue Fever- a Techstars backed company. Previously, Greta graduated (proudly) from USC and began her film career by starting her own production company and producing the feature film Bite Size. It was released on TV, Netflix, Amazon and was featured in People Magazine, The Washington Post and on ABC. After that, Greta co-founded the distribution company X-Factor Films, which sold movies and shows to Fullscreen, Sundance Now and AMC. She is a recipient of film grants from Morgan Freeman and his Rock River Foundation, Chicken & Egg Pictures and the prestigious Thornton Foundation. Beyond her work in film (currently a co-producer for the amazing documentary about the global sanitation crisis Flush Revolution), she has produced award-winning live newscasts and reported as a theatre critic for LA Stage Times, where she interviewed Oscar and Tony-winning writers, directors and actors. Because she believes in giving back (and karma), Greta serves on the Inspired Stars Council for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s non-profit After School All-Stars. She is dedicated to empowering young women through media and is addicted to musical theatre and nachos.

KATHARINA BARON KOWALEWSKI IS THE OWNER OF NETWORK KO  AND  AN AWARD WINNING PRODUCER & DIRECTOR.  SHE HAS WORKED FOR CLIENTS SUCH AS MERCEDES-BENZ, SWAROVSKI, VW, SMART, STYLEBOP, INTERVIEW MAGAZINE, OYSTER, VOGUE OR SOHO HOUSE AS A CREATIVE DIRECTOR, EDITOR IN CHIEF, WRITER, PRESENTER, PRODUCER, BRAND AMBASSADOR AND FILMMAKER. KATHARINA ALSO STARRED IN THE MOVIE JOY DE V ALONGSIDE CLAUDIA CARDINALE AND THE FRENCH MOVIE ARLETTY WITH LAETITIA CASTA. SHE STUDIED WITH JACK WALTZER AND SUSAN BATSON FROM THE ACTOR'S STUDIO. KATHARINA HAS DIRECTED & WRITTEN A NUMBER OF SHORT FILMS THAT HAVE BEEN FEATURED AT CANNES, HOFER FILMFESTSPIELE AND ROME INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL. SHE WAS RECENTLY CREATIVE DIRECTOR AND FASHION EDITOR FOR SWAROVSKI MAGAZINE AND THE FACE OF THE GERMAN AND FRENCH CRYSTAL BLOG - SWAROVSKI’S BRAND BLOG THAT CONSISTS OF A VAST NETWORK OF HIGH-PROFILE  CONTRIBUTORS. KATHARINA HOLDS A MBA IN BUSINESS AND COMMUNICATION AND HAS STUDIED AT THE CELSA SORBONNE IN PARIS AND FU BERLIN. HER THESIS PRIME-TIME FOR SCIENCE WAS PUBLISHED WITH SPRINGER RESEARCH. BEING FLUENT IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, POLISH AND SPANISH AND HAVING LIVED IN BERLIN, LONDON. PARIS,  SHE HAS DEVELOPPED AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER TALENTS IN THE ART, FASHION. AND FILM WORLDS. KATHARINA LIVES AND WORKS BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES.

Lisa Tawil is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications at ITVS, where she is responsible for marketing, communications, creative services, engagement, and distribution of all ITVS films. In this role, Lisa has overseen three years of audience growth for the award-winning series Independent Lens, launched Independent Lens's first digital channel Indie Lens Storycast, and led the marketing and creative team to be recognized by Promax, NAMIC, and the Telly's for excellence and multicultural marketing. Hailing from Washington, DC, Lisa joined ITVS in 2013 and was previously with the National Geographic Channel, where she worked on the consumer marketing and media strategy team responsible for both of their cable networks, NGC and Nat Geo WILD, as well as developed the strategy and launched the top three rated series in the channel’s history. Prior to that, she spent several years working at PBS as Assistant Director of Marketing where she led marketing campaign creation and execution for pillar programs such as Ken Burns's National Parks and Show of Force's Circus. Lisa has sat on the judging panels for top industry marketing awards such as Emmys, the Mark Awards, Promax, and the Webby’s. She was also instrumental in leading ITVS’ strategy for institutional recognition of an Institutional Peabody and the Governors Award awarded at the Creative Emmys by the Television Board of Governors. She is a member of WICT, Women in Film, Promax, and NAMIC associations and holds a bachelors degree in communication from James Madison University.

Katie Lavin, Executive Marketing Strategist: Katie Lavin is an experienced brand marketer and digital strategist who leverages her background in integrated marketing campaigns, media partnerships, and content creation to effectively navigate clients through the ever-changing digital landscape. Katie has a breadth of industry experience, servicing clients at several blue chip NY-based agencies and brands. Most recently she served as Vice President, Brand Management at the innovative strategy agency, Giant Spoon. During her time in LA, she was VP of Digital Strategy at ID-PR and Domestic Marketing at 20th Century Fox where she handled strategic and creative development as well as the implementation of paid, owned and earned consumer marketing channels. Preceding Fox, Katie served as Director of Digital Marketing at the leading sports agency, Wasserman Media Group, where she was responsible for cultivating opportunities between new digital partners and brands as well as assisting with finding and capitalizing on undiscovered sports marketing initiatives. Katie is a graduate of Cornell University and holds certifications from the NYU and Harvard University Professional Studies Programs. She is a published author, on the board of the pancreatic cancer charity, Pants Off Racing, and a member of the Cornell Alumni Association, Sphinx Head Honor Society and Delta Gamma.

Karinna Karsten is the Founder and CEO of LOVE TV www.LOVETV.co a new digital media entertainment brand that has been called a sister to VICE. Karinna is also the founder of Sacredlove.com,  an internationally respected relationship expert, media personality, as well as an executive producer of Netflix classic, Sacred Love-Making. She brings credibility and a vast depth of knowledge on the subjects of Love, Sex and Intimacy.