Following our 2011 sold-out event in NYC during CE Week, CEA Line Shows is moving in 2012 to bigger and much more flexible exhibit space – offering even more options for you to display your mid-year innovations to New York’s biggest audience of journalists, analysts, retailers, distributors and market leaders.

Once again CEA Line Shows will serve as the host site for CE Week in New York, June 25-29. In 2011 over 5,000 members of the trade attended one of 17 CE Week events. Find out more about exhibiting in 2012 by contacting: Eric Schwartz, 1 (267) 879-216, eschwartz@napco.com.

Audience

The Media By The Numbers

• Media/Analysts: 640

Karin Klein currently focuses on business development and corporate development at Bloomberg L.P. She puts over fifteen years of operating and venture capital experience to work by assessing acquisition opportunities, crafting strategy and forming new partnerships for Bloomberg.

Before joining Bloomberg, Ms. Klein was a Vice President at Softbank where she sourced new investment opportunities and worked closely with portfolio companies to help them build their businesses. Ms. Klein oversaw the firm’s review of new investments and provided post-investment assistance to portfolio companies and their management teams, with a particular focus on business development.

Prior to Softbank, Ms. Klein worked with the MC Group and Knowledge Universe, where she conducted strategic reviews of new investments in the media, education and technology sectors and partnered with management teams to develop and implement operating and growth plans.

Ms. Klein first developed her passion for building businesses when she co-founded an educational training program for children.

Ms. Klein graduated on the Director’s List with an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, and she has undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania – a B.S. from The Wharton School and a B.A. from the Annenberg School of Communications. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Ms. Klein currently serves on the board of Buddy Media and the advisory board for O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo New York and mentors for TechStars and First Growth. She also enjoys speaking and serving as a judge at conferences focusing on online media and entrepreneurship.

Joanna Stern
Reviews Editor
This is My Next

Joanna Stern is a technology journalist who tends to like gadgets more than people. At any given point in time, her small New York City studio apartment is filled with a myriad of laptops, tablets, and phones. She is currently working with some of the best tech writers around to build a brand new consumer technology website, but before that she was the Reviews Editor at Engadget.  She has written for The New York Times, Men’s Fitness, Gizmodo, and other popular technology outlets. Joanna appears regularly as a contributor on ABC News’ “Tech This Out,” but has also been featured on CNN, MSNBC, and other local broadcast outlets.

John Wiseman was raised in post-Oil Boom Oklahoma, then pulled a reverse-Manifest Destiny by heading east to Cornell University. After moving to NYC, John cut his teeth working for NBC, Focus Features, Killer Films, and handled marketing partnerships for several Broadway productions before joining Thrillist in 2006 to lead the marketing team. John also oversees marketing for JackThreads, Thrillist’s members-only online shopping club, as well as Thrillist Rewards, Thrillist’s burgeoning deal platform. He is also a partner in The Whiskey Brooklyn, a subterranean whiskey bar in the Williamsburg neighborhood of North Brooklyn.

John Gaudiosi
Sr. Content Advisor, 3D Gaming Summit™ & Co-Founder
Gamerlive.TV

John Gaudiosi has been covering videogames for the past 17 years for outlets like The Washington Post, CNET, Wired Magazine and CBS.com. He has focused on the convergence of entertainment and videogames for outlets like Video Business, Home Media Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Gamerlive.TV and is also a freelance game columnist for Reuters and writes for outlets like Playboy Magazine, NVISION Magazine, GamePro Magazine, Official PlayStation Magazine, EGM Now, Maxim.com, AOL GameDaily.com, GeForce.com, and Yahoo! Games. John also serves as the video game expert for NBC in Washington D.C. John was named one of the Top 50 Game Journalists in the world by Next-Gen.biz in 2007. He is the co-author of Scholastic Books¹ How to Get into Videogames, Prima

Publishing¹s Madden: Twenty Years of Videogame Football and Electronic Arts: The Official History.

Pastore is responsible for the commissioning, production and development of original 3D content for the network, as well as serving as a key contributor to the network’s strategic planning, direction and operation. Since 2008, he served as Director of Production and Development at Discovery Channel, where he executive-produced numerous successful series including DIRTY JOBS, AMERICAN LOGGERS, SWAMP LOGGERS, OUT OF THE WILD: THE ALASKA EXPERIMENT, GHOST LAB, SWORDS: LIFE ON THE LINE and DUAL SURVIVAL. Before that, Pastore worked with Original Productions, where he was heavily involved in Discovery Channel’s hit series DEADLIEST CATCH, as well as other popular programs, and is a two-time Emmy Award nominee for his work on DIRTY JOBS and DEADLIEST CATCH. Pastore received a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies and English Literature, as well as a Master of Arts in English Literature, from University of Rochester.

Chris Chinnock
President
Insight Media

Chris Chinnock is the founder and president of Insight Media, a display industry publishing and consulting company he founded in 1998. Insight Media provides technology, market and product intelligence, through monthly and yearly display technology reports, custom consulting, conferences and 3D training and education. In partnership with Brawn Consulting, in 2011 Mr. Chinnock created Insight Media University, the first independent All-In-One educational resource for AV, IT, Digital Signage and Display industries.

Mr. Chinnock is recognized as an authority on the display industry and has been invited to deliver display technology presentations to technical and trade organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia, and is routinely consulted by brokers, analysts, members of the international press corps, and companies entering or repositioning themselves in the industry, or wishing consulting services on display technology, the display industry, or display and component sourcing.

Insight Media has a roster of over 1,000 companies that subscribe to various services, including custom consulting, on a worldwide basis. Mr. Chinnock takes an active role in all of these activities.

Prior to the formation of Insight Media, Mr. Chinnock spent 15 years in a variety of engineering, management and business development positions at companies such as General Dynamics, MIT Lincoln Labs, Honeywell Electro-Optics, GE AstroSpace and Barnes Engineering. This was followed by 5 years as a freelance journalist and consultant prior to starting Insight Media.

Mr. Chinnock holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Colorado.

Kenneth R. Lowe, P.Eng, C.Eng, MIET
Vice President & Co-Founder
VIZIO

After graduating from Middlesex University in London, England Mr. Lowe held R&D Engineering jobs at GEC Radio & Television and Decca Radio & TV before being offered a Design Engineer post in the TV Design Laboratory at the Philips. Mr. Lowe spent the next decade in Engineering with Electrohome Data Displays as a Project Engineer and Group Leader at Philips Electronic Display Division responsible for the company¹s highest Quality and Reliable large screen Monochrome Monitor. In 1992 Mr. Lowe joined William Wang at MAG InnoVision and at Princeton Graphic Systems where they produced the large screen Monitors for Gateway. In 2002 they decided to create their own Flat-Panel Display Company, VIZIO with fellow Co-Founder Laynie Newsome.

Since the start of VIZIO in 2003, Lowe, as leader of the Engineering Department, has orchestrated the performance improvements such as Smooth Motion that have helped VIZIOs¹ meteoric rise to the #1 LCD-selling Television Display company in the U.S.