Dean DeBiase, Chairman and CEO of Entertainment Promotions, to be Opening Keynote Speaker for Daily Deal Media Conference

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Dean DeBiase, Chairman and CEO of Entertainment Promotions, to be Opening Keynote Speaker for Daily Deal Media Conference Daily Deal Media has announced the opening keynote speaker and session lineup for the 2011 Daily Deal Media Conference: Retail Revolution which takes place September 8-9 at the Chicago Hilton.   Chairman and CEO of Entertainment Publications, Dean DeBiase, will deliver the opening keynote on September 8 from 9:00-9:30 a.m. CDT, discussing emerging growth companies in the daily deal industry and the embedding of entrepreneurial-grade talent into multi-national corporations.   Dean has served as chief executive for more than a dozen private and public corporations and Fortune 500 subsidiaries, including as CEO of TNS Media, a roll-up of advertising, marketing, entertainment, digital media and social networking insights and analytics groups he orchestrated and which was acquired by WPP.     He has also served as CEO of Autoweb, which he took public, built into one of the top web brands and merged with Autobytel to create the largest Internet automotive marketing services group, and as CEO of The Imagination Network, a social media games company that was acquired by AOL and that was ranked as the number one games and entertainment brand by comScore.   Most recently, Dean was CEO of Reboot Partners, a growth management and board advisement group that helps CEOs tackle their most challenging issues and seize emerging market opportunities.   Headquartered in Troy, Michigan, Entertainment Publications is a leading provider of promotions and discounts. Best known for the popular Entertainment® book and savings site, Entertainment.com, the company helps people get more for their money by providing them with billions of dollars in discounts every year. TripAlertz.com Joins Daily Deal Media Conference as Gold Sponsor Daily Deal Media is pleased to announce TripAlertz.com as a Gold Sponsor for the upcoming Daily Deal Media Conference. Chairman and CEO of TripAlertz, Mark T. Donohue will also be joining as part of the Venture Capital panel on day two.   In 2001, Mark was the sole founder of Expansion Capital Partners, LLC, a pioneer in Cleantech venture capital investing, which manages over $100,000,000. He has served as Chairman Emeritus since June of 2008.   In June 2008, he was appointed Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Babson College, which offers the number-one rated entrepreneurship education. In January of 2011, he was honored as one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by the organization Trust Across America.    Since the fall of 2010, Mark has served as CEO of TripAlertz.com, which offers large “private-sale” discounts on getaway travel, as the company sells the excess inventory of 3.0-4.0+ star hotels and resorts.   Beyond its B2C initiatives, TripAlertz has a rapidly scaling B2B offering through TA Travel Services. The B2B business allows collective buying sites to solve problems that prevent them from offering compelling “private sale” travel deals that beat public sites like Expedia. TA Travel Services aggregates the buying of many collective buying sites, so that together, they can offer truly great deals. The company has already aggregated about 5,000,000 customers.   The New York Times, Budget Travel and MSNBC.com state: “TripAlertz is the Groupon for travel.” Local Offer Network Joins Daily Deal Media Conference as a Silver Sponsor Local Offer Network will be joining the Daily Deal Media Conference as a Silver Sponsor with CEO Dan Hess participating in the Subscriber Acquisition Strategies, Emerging Markets and the Platforms & White Labels panel discussions.   Local Offer Network (LON) creates new competitive advantages in the fast-growing group buying market. LON products and services include a web-wide distribution network that allows publishers to tap new revenue streams, and group buying sites to achieve instant audience scale; VoucherPro™, an offer creation platform that enables the rapid creation new daily deal advertising products; and Dealradar.com, a convenient deal-shopping tool for consumers in 97 markets in four countries.   Dan Hess, CEO has a 20-year track record of building successful technology-enabled businesses and products. Most recently Dan was President of Thought Motor, an interactive strategy consultancy. Previously he was VP Marketing & Strategy at Tribune Interactive. In 1999 he joined comScore(NASDAQ: SCOR) as part of the original executive team that drove the company from startup to $60MM in revenue. Prior to comScore Dan held sales, marketing and operations positions at Information Resources, Inc., including SVP of the firm’s e-commerce division in 1998. 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