Brian Zisk - Executive Producer

Brian Zisk is a serial entrepreneur specializing in digital media, web broadcasting and distribution technologies. He is a founder of BuzzMakers, Inc., which produces the SF MusicTech Summit and the Future of Money & Technology Summit. Additionally, Brian is a Co-Founder and Technologies Director of the Future of Music Coalition and a Board Member and/or Strategic Advisor for a wide variety of tech companies and non-profits. Brian was previously a founder of The Green Witch Internet Radio which was sold to CMGI (NASDAQ: CMGI) at the turn of the millennium. He is active in many influential computer-mediated forums, is quoted and published extensively in the media, frequently appears on panels and at industry events domestically and abroad, and is an expert at frenzy whipping, brand awareness, and in creating new business models. He is married to Shoshana Zisk.

Shoshana Zisk - Co-Producer

Shoshana Zisk is an entertainment lawyer with a wide range of experience in the music industry. Her recent industry experience includes Interim Chief Operating Officer for In Ticketing, Business & Legal Affairs for George Clinton and his musical groups Parliament, Funkadelic and The P-Funk Allstars, and General Manager of Clinton's independent record label The C Kunspyruzy. Her previous positions include Business & Legal Affairs at BMG U.S. Latin, the Copyright Department at Motown, and A&R Administration for Island Records. Shoshana is currently the CEO of Kiddie Village, which creates award-winning childrens videos and music. She is a member of the California, New York, and Florida Bars. She earned a bachelor degree in Classical Piano Performance and Juris Doctorate (cum Laude) from the University of Miami. Shoshana was recently the Musical Director for "Rent: The Musical" in Hollywood, California presented by Jerica Productions in Spring 2011.

Melissa Tinitigan - Production Coordinator

Melissa Tinitigan is a freelance event planner and the production coordinator for the SF MusicTech Summit. Prior to working on the SF MusicTech Summit, she handled advertising and operations for media and tech companies: Inside Network, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, and hi5 networks. Melissa has also written about business and tourism for The Japan Times, the oldest and largest English newspaper in Japan, leading projects in Norway and in Thailand. She studied Management & Communications at the Ateneo De Manila University in the Philippines. Her passions include travel, writing, and exotic cuisines.

Cassandra Phillipps - Production Manager
Founder, WebWallflower Events, LLC

Cassandra has been a startup event producer for over four years, working on and producing numerous conferences, including Inside Social Apps, SF MusicTech Summit, Unleashed Conference, Startup Exit Seminars, and many more. She is the creator and executive producer of FailCon, the first conference ever to openly discuss entrepreneurial failures and what we can learn from them, hailed by NBC, NPR, KQED, and Wired Magazine as an incredible success! She'll be taking FailCon on the road this year, starting with Paris in September, back in SF in October, and onward from there. Cassandra has a B.A in Human Development from the University of Chicago. In her (rare) free time, she enjoys board games, comic books, and building costumes for various parties and events.
Follow her on twitter @webwallflower

Todd Tate - Community Architect

As the Community Architect, Todd has cultivated sponsors, attendees and panelists since the inaugural Summit. Todd is a Web and social media strategy consultant who gets his hands dirty doing custom Wordpress production and viral app development for bands and brands (including working for all-time classic hip-hop duo "Blackalicious"). Previously, Todd was COO and Co-founder of Angry Coffee, which launched the first publicly-available web-based interface to Napster and Napster-like networks just as the Internet emerged as a musical force. Todd studied jazz composition and arranging at San Jose State, and went on to log many hours as an audio engineer, earning engineering credits for a Grammy-nominated recording. Todd will be soon be back to performing live as a singer-songwriter with his acts Life Love Misery and Sayla Dobro.