- Sean Branagan, CEO & eVangelist
Digital
Vertical Marketing
Sean is CEO & eVangelist of Digital Vertical, a search and social
media firm headquartered in Syracuse, providing services for companies
in targeted vertical markets nationwide.
A graduate of Syracuse University's
Newhouse School, he is founder and President of Communigration, Inc.,
a technology marketing firm, and has served as Senior Director of Marketing
for a $125 million national Internet services company headquartered
in Boston.
Sean’s experience with the Internet and World Wide Web began
in 1993 at a national super computing center. Since then he has engaged
in online strategy, interactive marketing and website production for
dozens of organizations, including Bulova, the DuPont Registry, Global
Marine Systems, Ltd. (UK), Lighthouse International, Time-Warner/Road
Runner, Welch-Allyn, and Wilton-Armetale.
- Glen Chwala, Black Belt
Central New York Technology
Development Organization (TDO)
- Donna Herlihy
NY Family
Business Center
- Tom Huegel and Sam Serianni, Senior Partners
Wireless
Business Group
- David L. Nocilly
Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC
David L. Nocilly of Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC,
is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience preparing and
prosecuting patent, trademark, and copyright applications, in the U.S.
and overseas, for electromechanical, biomedical, and mechanical inventions.
He counsels inventors and assists companies with intellectual property
strategies. Mr. Nocilly is a member of the Onondaga County and New York
State Bar Associations and an adjunct professor at Syracuse University
College of Law. He is a graduate of Cornell University (B.S., Biology,
1991) and Syracuse University College of Law (J.D., summa cum laude,
2000).
- Jeffrey M. Stanton, Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs
Syracuse University School
of Information Studies
Jeffrey is the Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Programs in the
School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Stanton’s research
focuses on organizational behavior and technology, with his most recent
projects examining how behavior affects information security and privacy
in organizations. He is the author with Dr. Kathryn Stam of the book, The
Visible Employee: Using Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance to Protect
Information Assets – Without Compromising Employee Privacy or Trust. Stanton
has also published articles in Computers and Security, Communications of
the ACM, Computers in Human Behavior, the International Journal of Human-Computer
Interaction, Information Technology and People, the Journal of Information
Systems Education, the Journal of Digital Information, Surveillance and
Society as well as Behaviour & Information Technology. Dr. Stanton
is associate editor at the journal Human Resource Management. His research
has been supported through 15 grants and supplements including the National
Science Foundation’s CAREER award. Dr. Stanton’s background also includes
more than a decade of experience in business – both in established firms
and start-up companies. Program
- Jim Stapleton,
National
Grid and representative of NYSERDA
- Experts from the Center for Information Security, Assurance and Trust
