Nicholas Saber is currently serving as the President of CrossTech Media, LLC. CrossTech Media, LLC educates businesses and organizations on upcoming technology trends, and how they relate to you. Through Webinars, online thought leadership, conference and education, CrossTech Media, LLC. provides you insights that make business sense. CrossTech Media, LLC. runs over 30 events domestically and 5 internationally.
Prior to that, Nicholas served as COO of Exgenex since its inception in 1993. Exgenex is a full services event and lead management organization providing technology tools, marketing analysis and solutions to the event industry. Before launching Exgenex, Nicholas served as a managing consultant at Coopers and Lybrand, where he sold and managed IT Systems, IS projects, and business reengineering projects for Fortune 1000 companies.
Nicholas received his B.A. from Babson College.
Stephen was formerly President of CrossTech Partners and CEO of New Marketing Labs, which merged with The Pulse Network in the spring of 2011. Earlier in his career he was a managing director at Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) – one of the fastest growing public IT Services companies. CTP became the leading IT consulting and systems integration firm focused on the deployment of client-server based business applications for Fortune 500 clients. Over the past 5 years, Stephen has played a leading advisory role in 4 major M&A transactions ranging from $30M to $450M in Digital Media and IT. He currently guest lectures in the entrepreneurship program at Babson College. Stephen received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and B.A. from Harvard University.
Chris Brogan consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft, and more, on the future of business communications, and social software technologies. He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com], is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. He has over 11 years experience in online community, social media, and related technologies.
Chris is president of Human Business Works, an online education and community company for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs. His first project there, 501 Mission Place, helps nonprofits and charities learn how to grow their capabilities. Chris is also Entrepreneur in Residence at CrossTech Ventures, where he’s working to develop New Marketing Labs and The Pulse Network, among other projects.
Chris is also the cofounder of the PodCamp new media conference series, exploring the use of new media community tools to extend and build value.
He has 16 years of enterprise telecommunications and wireless experience prior to all this.
Joe Sorge is an entrepreneur and a small business owner. He owns and operates a hospitality group in Milwaukee, WI with his partner and wife Angie and has recently launched Kitchen Table Companies (http://kitchentablecompanies.com) with Chris Brogan. Joe has also authored two books on Social Media for small business: #TwitterWorks and #FoursquareWorks.
Recently, Joe’s innovation with various social media tools like Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, and YouTube has earned him national recognition by CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Times, The Travel Channel and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Michael Minichello is a Restaurant Professional with 25 plus years experience. He started in the industry working for his Parents at the Washington Tap a small local bar in Quincy, MA. It was here that he quickly learned the culture of making your guests part of the family. His Parent’s would also take Michael and his two Sisters to a different restaurant for dinner every Sunday. From watching them build their business and the exposure to the hospitality world his passion for the industry was born. Over his career there have been very few positions that Michael has not held. He started washing pots and pans in a prep room, where he learned the fine art of shucking oysters for Rockefeller and making buckets of melon balls for garnish, basically any tedious task that the cooks didn’t want to do. Eventually he became a line cook and went on to The Culinary Institute of America. After graduation he held many FOH and BOH Management positions, some for independent companies (Barrett Family Restaurants and DePasquale Ventures) and some for large corporate organizations (Rare Hospitality and Legal Seafoods). Over time Michael has been fortunate to work with some of the best Executives in the industry. Whether it is helping develop a concept, turn one around, or just finding and building successful teams, he hopes to “make the restaurant world a better place today than is was yesterday and today it is pretty darn good.”
The Pulse Network is a video powered campaign and event platform. Our capabilities span the entire digital marketing lifecycle, from strategy, content creation and industry events, to digital distribution, presence management, and community growth solutions.
With our state of the art video production studio, over 20 years of experience delivering online and offline marketing programs such as the Inbound Marketing Summit, unique social media and analytics capabilities, and a highly skilled team of strategists, programmers, on-air talent and syndication specialists, TPN has become the partner of choice for numerous B2B and consumer brands.
The Pulse Network team is constantly searching for the most compelling and engaging content to bring directly to you. Whether it's articles, videos, photos or conversations, The Pulse Network staff wants to share the best content out there with you.
TPN builds and helps marketers reach highly targeted communities of interest via our full range of digital marketing solutions and unique Content Performance Index. Our focus on data analysis ensures that all participants (users, influencers, brand partners) all benefit. And via our multi-layer content model, we allow organizations to tap the full potential of expert, curated, filtered and user-generated content to drive engagement – among community members and between brands and their customers in natural, meaningful ways. The result: better experiences, increased word of mouth, greater awareness, and accelerated lead generation and conversions.