Chris co-founded appssavvy, an activity advertising technology company and serves as CEO. His and appssavvy's vision has pioneered a new advertising model focused on people's activity.

The vision of social activity advertising has established Chris as a recognized thought leader. He frequently speaks at industry conferences and forums, including ad:tech, IAB, iMedia and 4A's events, and comments on the latest developments in the social space live on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, or in leading publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and USA Today. For insight into Chris' unique perspective, read The New York Times' Corner Office.

He also serves as co-chair of the IAB Social Media Committee and in 2010 and 2011 was a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award, an achievement which was led by Chris' leadership in driving appssavvy to profitability in less than two years after founding and every subsequent quarter. Today, appssavvy has more than 60 employees in four offices across the U.S. and is recognized as a great place to work by Crain's New York Business' Best Places to Work in NYC - an honor won in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Chris graduated from the University of North Carolina Greensboro with a bachelor's of arts degree in Economics & Marketing and is based in New York City. Follow him on Twitter @chrisappssavvy.

As Co-founder and President of appssavvy, Michael is rethinking the delivery and reception of advertising. Through partnerships and emerging products, Michael and his team have led countless social media companies and large publishers in the creation and evolution of their advertising offering. Additionally, the team has helped brands and agencies navigate the ever-changing landscape of digital advertising by creating effective, yet, simple ways to leverage what people are doing on the Web.

Today, appssavvy is a platform that enables brands to connect with people through social activity. With more than 50 employees and being named one of the best places to work by Crain's New York Business and Advertising Age, appssavvy continues to strengthen its position as a leader in social media marketing.

While leading the Business and Product Development teams, Michael supports appssavvy's platform, which services both clients and partners. Additionally, he is provides thought leadership and recognizes industry trends and marketplace needs. Michael is a member of the Social Media Advertising Consortium, a mentor at Excelerate Labs, contributing author at outlets such as iMedia and MediaPost, and has spoken at many events including ad:tech, digiday, Digital Hollywood, IAB and Adweek Social Media Strategies, to name a few.

Prior to appssavvy, Michael was an early employee at HotJobs.com, before it was sold to Yahoo! He led large-scale sales teams at Yahoo! for seven years and eventually made his way to Freewebs, where he got his start in applications and the social media space.

Michael has a Marketing Degree from Boston College. You can find him at www.about.me/michaelburke and follow him on Twitter @micburke27.

A Board member and angel investor since day one, Paul joined the executive team in 2010 to assume the role of COO. In this position Paul is responsible for overseeing all support departments and the organizational structure of the company, as well as managing the interaction between a variety of the company's internal and external stakeholders. It is his responsibility to ensure that all departments have the information, process and resources they need to continually enhance the products and services for their clients and partners.

Paul Olliver has been in online media since its inception, and in that time has held senior roles with Klipmart, Yahoo!, Overture, and DoubleClick. He has held a variety of roles in his career, and regularly contributes to the industry in the form of articles, panels and events. His most recent role was as CEO of Wider Wake, an angel investment network specializing in digital media advertising, and consequently he brings an holistic and strategic view of the market place to his new role at appssavvy.

He is a UK national and received his MBA from Warwick Business School in England, but has spent most of his adult life abroad, predominantly in Hong Kong, New York, London and various capitals across Europe.

Gary joined appssavvy as its chief revenue officer (CRO) in August 2011. As CRO, he is responsible for leading and managing sales, sales development and partner solutions which drive revenue and completes the customer experience with appssavvy's social activity advertising adtivity platform.

Gary brings a strong media technology background and extensive experience to appssavvy. He joined the company from FOX Sports Media Group where he served as senior vice president of sales leading the interactive organization. During his nearly six years at FOX, Gary was responsible for driving digital advertising and revenue generating and marketing partnerships for the media company's array of digital properties.

Previously, he spent nearly eight years at Microsoft's MSN division as senior director of sales. Gary was responsible for developing and leading MSN's largest regional sales team building advertising agency and direct relationships with brands.

He graduated from Siena College and is based in New York City.

Peter joined appssavvy from Buddy Media, where he was the director of engineering since 2010. He built the engineering team from eight-to-30 technology professionals within a year, and was responsible for managing all five products within the Buddy Media social marketing suite. Prior to Buddy Media, Peter served as vice president of online strategy and client experience at Citi Smith Barney. A veteran in the banking industry, Peter held various leadership positions at Bank of New York Mellon, UBS, Citi and Morgan Stanley.

Peter is an active member within the New York entrepreneurship community and serves on the Andrew Carnegie Society executive board. Also an avid traveler and a journalistic photographer, Peter has exhibited his photography in New York and Chicago.

Peter graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with honors in Electrical Computer Engineering and Computer Science. You can follow him on twitter @peterpeterwang.

Daugherty arrives at appssavvy from Future US, where he was vice president, Internet development. At Future US, Daugherty steered online strategy and execution, and managed a team of more than 30 employees responsible for building and operating online products in video games, technology, sports, entertainment and music sectors. Through a combination of building, buying, partnering and marketing, he drove growth of the online product portfolio from seven million to 20 million monthly unique users.

Previously, Daugherty was general manager and vice president of business development at Bolt, where he worked with appssavvy's Cunningham. Daugherty is an entrepreneur at his core and previously founded two Internet companies, Gigmania and Pixelfixx, in the music and gaming sectors respectively. Daugherty holds an MBA from Insead in France, where he founded iMEG (Insead Media and Entertainment Group) and is a graduate of Tulane University.

Swenson joins appssavvy from Dulcinea Media where she served as COO and CFO. Previously, Swenson spent three years at 24/7 Real Media, now part of WPP, one of the world's leading communications services group. At 24/7 Real Media, she was responsible for driving the publicly-traded company with 20 offices in 12 countries' Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for the first time. Swenson accomplished the feat in seven months, managing dozens of employees and consultants. In addition, her team's efforts were used as an 'example client' by 24/7 Real Media's auditors when telling their clients about best practices for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Tony Conrad is CEO & co-founder of about.me (acquired by Aol in December 2010). He is also a Founding Venture Partner at True Ventures where he serves on the Board of Directors of Automattic (WordPress), appssavvy, StockTwits, RescueTime, PastFuture (GDGT), KISSmetrics, 20x200, FREEjit, Small Batch (Typekit), WeGame and led True's investment MakerBot & Plancast. Tony also serves as a Special Advisor to AOL Ventures.

Previously, Tony co-founded Sphere which was acquired by AOL in April, 2008. In addition, Tony has served on the Board of Directors for Oddpost (acquired by Yahoo), Iconoculture, MusicNow (acquired by Circuit City), and Centive (acquired by Xactly). Tony also played an active role managing investments in Post Communications (NASDAQ: NTVS), QuinStreet (NASDAQ: QNST), Danger (acquired by Microsoft), Sabrix and Stonyfield Farms (acquired by Groupe Danone).

Jamie McGurk is an investment banker focused on the Technology sector. Within the technology space, Jamie focuses on the communications technology subsector, which comprises mobility & consumer technologies, network infrastructure and enterprise computing. Jamie is based in San Francisco and has over 12 years of professional experience in investment banking and venture investing, primarily in the technology sector.

In addition to appssavvy, Jamie has been an active investor and advisor in many technology start-ups.

He received a BS degree from Marist College and an MBA degree from Georgetown University.

Scott also founded and served as chairman and CEO of About, Inc. as it grew to a public market value of $1.7 billion and was the 5th largest of all Web properties. About invented the forerunner to Google's AdSense in Sprinks (purchased by Google in 2003) and the first family of ad networks in Luna. Kurnit sold About U.S. to Primedia in 2001 for $724 million. About is now owned by the New York Times Company.

Scott has founded four companies, all of which continue operating today. He's a holder of four patents, led the team that embedded the first Web browser into an online service, started the first Pay Per View cable network and co-led the team that implemented the first use of national caller ID. He was also the youngest program director in the PBS system and served as program director for Qube, the world's first fully interactive cable system. He was president of Showtime Event Television when it generated the largest one night gross in the entertainment business and aired the first rock concert (broadcast in 70 countries) from the former Soviet Union.

Scott serves on the Boards of AdKeeper, Appssavvy, Brightcove, Dotomi, OpenSky, SendMe Mobile, and The Paley Center for Media. He is an advisor to About, Black Arrow, Mashery and SmartBrief.

He has been a Filmmaker, TV Director, Station Program Manager, Marketer and CEO. He has worked at the highest levels of Warner, Viacom, News Corp., PBS, IBM, and MCI companies.