Advisory Panel
Advisory Panel Members of the WidgetWebExpo Conference:
Steve Bowbrick
David Cushman, Digital Development Director, Bauer Consumer MediaDavid has worked in media for 20 years - in newspapers, magazines, radio, the internet and mobile. His role as Digital Development Director at Bauer Consumer Media (the world’s largest private media company) sees him tackling the new strategic challenges facing us all as we come to terms with a community-dominated, networked world.
Least likely to say: “Relax, it’s business as usual.”
Khris Loux, Founder & CEO, JS-Kit.com
Khris Loux is a founder & CEO of JS-Kit.com, which empowers publishers through their lightweight Comments, Ratings, Scores, Polls, and Navigator features, promoting rich interactivity and community. JS-Kit’s newest widget, Advisor, uses real data from trusted sources on specific web items and services, bringing visibility into critical information needed at the point of a transaction decision. Khris has realized nearly 20 years of achievement in the software industry, specializing in negotiations and business development. Prior to JS-Kit, Khris founded security software firm, Securix, Inc., negotiated its exclusive distribution agreement and eventual merger with DynaSoft AB, and played an instrumental role in the $115m acquisition negotiations with RSA Data Securities. Prior to founding Securix, Khris held key sales and business development positions at Intelligent Electronics, Sybase, and Entre Computers. Khris attended Mount Saint Mary’s College in Maryland, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he is an avid windsurfer.
Keith Teare, President, fotonauts Inc. The EasyNet Group plc: UK. Founded in 1994 as one of the first ISP’s in Europe, Teare was CTO and co-founder. In 2007 it was acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s B Sky B where Teare’s co-founder, David Rowe is still CEO of the division, for around $400million.
RealNames Corporation, founded in Palo Alto in 1998. Teare was founder and CEO. The company created a multi-lingual naming system, with distincy national namespaces, sitting on top of the DNS.
In addition to these 2 very large projects Teare is credited with also being the founder of edgeio corporation; the seed funder of NetNames (the world’s first domain name registrar, created by Ivan Pope); the founder of cScape, a leading UK systems integrator; and co-founder of CYBERIA, the world’s first Internet Cafe.
