Unintentional Entrepreneur: New York

The New York workshop is part of a five-city tour (Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C.) for Unintentional Entrepreneurs; providing an opportunity to learn from veteran entrepreneurs, network with local small business owners, and gain insight in the following areas:

SPEAKERS:

David Berkowitz is Director of Emerging Media & Client Strategy for 360i, the digital marketing agency, where he develops social media and mobile programs for marketers spanning the media & entertainment, retail, travel, and CPG industries. He writes a weekly column for MediaPost, with over 200 published to date, and contributes to Ad Age’s Digital Next blog and 360i’s Digital Connections, along with his own MarketersStudio.com. He has spoken at nearly 100 events including Digital Hollywood, Web 2.0 Expo, Blog World Expo, ad:Tech, and iMedia

Mitch Stoller :A founding partner of Group SJR, Mitch Stoller set out on his own after 15 years in the public relations, market research and advertising worlds.  At both large firms, such as PR giant Burson-Marsteller, and boutiques, like ad agency SS+K, he learned the ropes and what he believed worked and didn’t work. 

Today, Mitch’s firm has over 20 employees and offices in New York and Los Angeles. A truly integrated agency, SJR handles market research for multinational like Nokia, Nestle-Purina and Frito-Lay, public relations for BillShrink.com, Intelius, and RecycleBank and branding for New York University Langone Medical Center, the League of Conservation Voters and MIT. 

A graduate of Princeton University, Mitch lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Shashi Bellamkonda works at the heart of Web hosting company, Network Solutions, as their first-ever 'Social Media Swami'. In this leadership role he has helped Network Solutions aggressively move into the online space to actively listen to and interact with its customers. This push paid off when Network Solutions won the 2008 SNCR Excellence in New Communications Award for Online Reputation Management and the 2009 a Gold Quill Award of Excellence in Social Media from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).